Psychology & Psychiatry:

Play Therapy

Written by Virginia M. Axline

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2012
Price: $7.99

"The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published."
NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Here is an intensely practical book that gives specific illustrations of how therapy can be implemented... Read more >

Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A Powerful, Practical Program for Parents of Children and Adolescents
Written by Tamar Chansky, Ph.D.

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2011
Price: $11.99

If you're a parent of one of the more than one million children in this country with obsessive-compulsive disorder, you know how confusing, even frightening, the symptoms of OCD can be. You're terrified of losing your child and angry about the havoc this disorder has wreaked in your family. More than... Read more >

Real Boys
Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
Written by William Pollack
Read by William Pollack

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $9.00

"While it may seem as if we live in a man's world," reports Pollack, "we do not live in a boy's world." Many boys today are struggling either silently, with low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness and isolation, or publicly, by acting out feelings of emotional and social disconnection through anger... Read more >

Put Yourself in Their Shoes
Understanding How Your Children See the World
Written by Barbara Meltz

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $11.99

Wouldn't parenting be easier if you could see into the mind of your child?

Learn to hear what your child can't or won't tell you--and

Understand Behavior
Build Values
Nurture Closeness
Solve Problems

In her popular Boston Globe column "Child Caring," Barbara Meltz has been writing about real-life parenting issues for more than... Read more >

Monsters Under the Bed and Other Childhood Fears
Helping Your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
Written by Stephen W. Garber, Ph.D., Robyn Freedman Spizman and Marianne Daniels Garber

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 13, 2011
Price: $17.99

A step-by-step manual designed to help parents cope with children's fears; this book discusses common fears, how to respond to childhood anxieties, and other ways to deal with frightened children.


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Before It's Too Late
Why Some Kids Get Into Trouble--and What Parents Can Do About It
Written by Stanton Samenow

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $9.99

This is a body of work which gives concerned parents and professionals instructive insight into the personality of "problem children" and gives practical suggestions for taking corrective and remedial steps before it's too late.


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The Uses of Enchantment
The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Written by Bruno Bettelheim

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $13.99

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.

Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The... Read more >

The Beast in the Nursery
On Curiosity and Other Appetites
Written by Adam Phillips

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $9.99

If you are disturbed by the idea that to grow up is to learn to live with disillusionment, if you are fascinated by the perplexity of child-rearing, or if you fear you were more creative as a child, The Beast in the Nursery offers an illuminating and possibly life-changing experience.
     In... Read more >

The Uses of Enchantment
The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Written by Bruno Bettelheim

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $17.00

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.

Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The... Read more >

Trauma-Proofing Your Kids
A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience
Written by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. and Maggie Kline

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $16.95

The number of anxious, depressed, hyperactive and withdrawn children is staggering—and still growing! Millions have experienced bullying, violence (real or in the media), abuse or sexual molestation. Many other kids have been traumatized from more “ordinary” ordeals such as terrifying medical procedures, accidents, loss and divorce. Trauma-Proofing Your Kids sends a... Read more >

The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder -- Third Edition

Written by Demitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $14.99

Since it first appeared on bookshelves, The Bipolar Child has made an indelible mark on the field of psychiatry and has become the resource that families rely upon. Now, with more than 200,000 copies sold, the first book about early-onset bipolar disorder is completely revised and expanded.


Bipolar disorder—manic depression—was once thought... Read more >

The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder -- Third Edition

Written by Demitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $16.99

Since it first appeared on bookshelves, The Bipolar Child has made an indelible mark on the field of psychiatry and has become the resource that families rely upon. Now, with more than 200,000 copies sold, the first book about early-onset bipolar disorder is completely revised and expanded.


Bipolar disorder—manic depression—was once thought... Read more >

The Unhappy Child
What Every Parent Needs to Know
Written by Kenneth N. Condrell

Format: Trade Paperback, 254 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $19.99

There are millions of children in this country who spend most of their days feeling more unhappy than happy, and their parents haven’t a clue as to why. These chronically unhappy children may be on their way to developing a depressive disorder.
In this important and completely accessible book, Dr. Kenneth N... Read more >

Being the Other One
Growing Up with a Brother or Sister Who Has Special Needs
Written by Kate Strohm

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $22.95

When there's a disabled child in the family, how are normally developing siblings affected? According to Kate Strohm, a counselor and health educator, siblings of the disabled face particular emotional challenges that are often overlooked. Able siblings commonly struggle with feelings of isolation, grief, anger, and anxiety—and these and other emotional... Read more >