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 – 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 – Spurgeon’s Sorrows
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book that is both enlightening and lyrical in its exploration of depression through the life and sermons of Charles Spurgeon.
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 – 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book when published in 1984 as the first book dedicated to supportive psychotherapy but is now most useful as historical reference.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.
Book Review – A Guide to Rational Living
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A good book on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), an effective approach to dealing with negative thoughts and emotions.
Book Review – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5)
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. The definitive guide to mental disorders.