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 – Guiding the Child
Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book that was progressive when published in 1930 as it provided information about new ways of parenting and educating troubled children but is now most useful as a historical reference.
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book when published in 1984 as the first book dedicated to supportive psychotherapy but is now most useful as historical reference.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 – The Not So Big Life
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A well-written, process-oriented self-help book with many exercises to help the reader develop mindfulness and pursue self-actualization.
Book Review – SOS Help for Parents
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent parenting book with a primary focus on behavioral approaches, such as time-outs, in parenting children age 12 and younger.
Book Review – Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A solid parenting book with useful information for parents of young children.
Book Review – No Shame
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A new standard as an important parenting book that addresses the sexual development and expression of kids in our current culture.
Book Review – No-Drama Discipline
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. The best parenting book that has been released since 1998. It has a wealth of ideas for parents with a wonderful mixture of neuroscience, general approaches and specific recommendations.
Book Review – Raising Lions
Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book about dealing with the challenging behavior of children through the lens of interpersonal dynamics, power differentials, and behavioral strategies and plans.
Book Review – The Whole-Brain Child
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A concise read and a very good book that blends parenting strategies with the science of childhood emotional and cognitive development.
Book Review – Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent, approachable book on Ayurvedic medicine and natural remedies for insomnia, obesity and other bodily ailments.
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 – The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. One of the best books on marriage.
Book Review – Between Parent and Child
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. One of the best books on parenting.
Book Review – The Explosive Child
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. The best book on parenting children who struggle with outbursts of anger.
Book Review – How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent book about parenting through empathy and effective communication.
Book Review – The Gift of Therapy
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent book about providing or receiving high-quality psychotherapy.
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.