Book Review – Healing
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An exceptional book on problems and solutions for the US mental health system.
Book Review – Outlive
Synopsis: Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on longevity.
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 – 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 – Science over Stigma
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent resource based on facts, logic, and scientific findings for mental health clinicians and advocates in combating misinformation and educating the public to reduce harmful mental health stigma.
Book Review – Blame It on the Brain?
Len's Star Rating: 1 out of 10. A book with spiritual viewpoints on mental health conditions that contradict medicine and science.
Book Review – A Helping Hand
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on depression and end-of-life issues from a Christian perspective that decreases stigma and provides rational biblical support to people struggling with depression and those who care for them.
Book Review – God’s Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. An encouraging book on addressing emotional problems and life stresses from a Christian perspective.
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 – Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A good workbook on behavioral activation strategies for combatting depression.
Book Review – Activating Happiness
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A good book on behavioral activation and other life strategies for dealing with depression.
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 – 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 – 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.
Book Review – Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think (2nd Edition)
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. The best self-help book on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for adults.