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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, 1999.

This book that will provide insight on what you need to be more effective with your children--and more supportive of yourself.
Parenting Parenting Children With ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach (APA Lifetools). Vincent Monastra, Ph.D., 2004.

The author presents a series of ten lessons that are essential for promoting the success of kids with ADHD. In simple language, he explains the causes of ADHD and how nutrition, medication and certain therapeutic procedures can improve attention, concentration, and behavioral control.
ED When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers. Abigail H. Natenshon, 1999.

Explains to parents and other adults who care about youth how to intervene when they suspect their child has an eating disorder. The book shows how to recognize, confront and conquer the disorder, presenting it as a disease that can be treated successfully.
OCD book What to Do When Your Child has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions. Pinto Wagner, Ph.D., Aureen. 2002.

This book covers the essential facts about OCD, its diagnosis, causes and treatments. It also provides strategies for the challenges of OCD and offers an approach to helping children through school issues.

Beyond Blues Beyond the Blues: A Workbook to Help Teens Overcome Depression. Lisa M. Schab, 2008.

The activities in Beyond the Blues can help you cope with sad and difficult feelings, find new ways to make friends, and deal with conflicts.
Optimistic Child The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience. Martin E.P. Seligman, 2007.

Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their physical health.
out of sync Out of Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder. Carol Stock Kranowitz, 2006.

This book explains sensory processing disorder, how to recognize the symptoms, and how to help those affected. It includes recent research on vision and hearing deficits, motor skill problems, nutrition and picky eaters, ADHA, autism, and other related disorders.
When to Worry

When to Worry: How to Tell if Your Teen Needs Help - and What to Do About it. Lisa Melanie Boesky, 2007.

Helps parents distinguish typical teenage behaviors from those that merit concern. Walks parents through steps they can take to help troubled teens before it's too late.
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