Book Review – Free Range Kids
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A refreshing, counter-cultural book on promoting independence in children.
Book Review – Raising Good Humans Every Day
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A helpful parenting book on using mindfulness strategies in parenting children.
Book Review – When Worry Works
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A good book that addresses the maladaptive patterns that parents can experience when reacting to anxiety over their adolescent’s academic achievement.
Book Review – Let It Go
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent self-help book on effectively downsizing, decluttering, and dealing with the emotions stirred up in the process.
Book Review – Mental Health and the Church
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book that focuses on reducing mental health stigma in the church and improving church worship environments, primarily for families of children with special needs.
Book Review – I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A first-person account of experiencing and overcoming depression and suicidality as a Christian.
Book Review – The Self-Healing Mind
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. An encouraging book that primarily addresses complementary, natural strategies for improving mental health and depressive symptoms.
Book Review – The Overload Syndrome
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A Christian book that looks at the problems of overconsumption and unrealistic expectations from several different viewpoints and continues to explore the theme of overload and margin that the author introduced in his earlier book Margin.
Book Review – I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A Christian book on anxiety and depression that outlines strategies that predominantly rely on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches.
Book Review – The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A great workbook on acceptance and commitment strategies and exposure and response prevention for teens with OCD.
Book Review – The OCD Workbook for Teens
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent, engaging self-help workbook on research-proven strategies for combatting OCD.
Book Review – Control Your Depression
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A dated yet solid book on strategies and exercises for improving depression that includes an excellent chapter on behavioral activation strategies.
Book Review – Dare to Lead
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on leadership that introduces the concept of vulnerability as the foundation of developing strengths, such as courage, integrity, authenticity and connection.
Book Review – Feeling Good
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on using CBT skills to identify and correct thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Book Review – Margin
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent book that describes the causes of and solutions for overcommitment and burnout.
Book Review – Feeling Great
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An exceptional book on identifying and correcting thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Book Review – Manage Your Depression through Exercise
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A solid book on improving depressive symptoms through physical exercise.
Book Review – The Practice of Supportive Psychotherapy
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A revolutionary book when published in 1984 as the first book dedicated to supportive psychotherapy but is now most useful as historical reference.
Book Review – Doing Supportive Psychotherapy
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent, approachable, and succinct book on supportive psychotherapy, and it might be the only book a clinician needs in getting started doing supportive psychotherapy.
Book Review – Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A solid book on a variety of topics related to the practice of psychiatry.