Addictions
Perfect Daughters: Adult Children of Alcoholics (1989)
Robert J Ackerman
The New Codependancy.
M. Beattie (2009)
Detachment and Enabling (2009)
Rebecca Chaitin and Judith Knowlton
Adult children of alcoholics syndrome: From discovery to recovery (1988)
Wayne Kritsberg
Codependent No More: How to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself (1992)
Brenda Schaeffer
Mindfulness and the 12 Steps (2010)
Therese Jacobs-Stewart
Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction.
Jack Trimpey (1996)
The Complete ACOA: Adult Children of Alcoholics at home, at work, in love. (2002)
Janet G. Woititz
The Intimacy Struggle (1993) (also in French)
Janet G. Woititz
The Addiction Workbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Quitting Alcohol and Drugs.
Patrick Fanning & John Terence O’Neill (1996)
The Enabler: When Helping Harms the Ones You Love.
Angela Miller (1988)
Anger
Act on Life Not on Anger: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger.
George Eifert, Matthew McKay, John Forsyth & Hayes (2006)
Anger is a Choice.
Tim LaHaye & Bob Phillips (1982)
Dr. Weisinger’s Anger Workout Book.
Hendrie Weisinger (1985)
Stop the Anger Now: A Workbook for the Prevention, Containment, and Resolution of Anger.
Ronald Potter-Efron (2001)
Taking Charge of Anger.
W. Robert Nay (2004)
The Anger Control Workbook.
Matthew McKay & Peter Rogers (2000)
The Dance of Anger.
Harriet Lerner (2005)
When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within.
Matthew McKay, Peter Rogers & Judith McKay (2003)
When Anger Hurts Your Kids: A Parents’ Guide.
Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, Kim Paleg & Dana Landis (1996)
When Anger Hurts Your Relationship: 10 Simple Solutions for Couples Who Fight.
Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, Kim Paleg & Dana Landis (1996)
Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
(2004) Kreisman, JJ and Straus, H. John Wiley and Sons
Anxiety
Generalized Anxiety
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders.
George Eifert & John Forsyth (2005)
Managing Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide.
Gillian Butler & Tony Hope (1995)
The Anxiety Book.
Jonathan Davidson (2003)
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (4th Edition) .
Edmund Bourne (2005)
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety.
Forsyth & Eifert (2007)
The Mindfulness Solution.
R. Siegel (2009)
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (5th Edition).
Martha Davis, Elizabeth Eshelman & Matthew McKay (1995)
Worry Control Workbook.
Mary Ellen Copeland (1998)
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (5th ED.)
Bourne, Edmund J. Ph.D. , New Harbinger Publications
Panic and Agoraphobia
An End to Panic: Breakthrough Techniques for Overcoming Panic Disorder (2nd Edition).
Elke Zuercher-White (1997)
Anxiety, Phobias, and Panic: Taking Charge and Conquering Fear (2nd Edition).
Reneau Peurifoy (1992)
Breaking the Panic Cycle: Self-Help for People with Phobias.
Reid Wilson (1987)
Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks.
R. Reid Wilson (1986)
Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic (3rd Edition) (MAP 3).
Michelle Craske & David Barlow (2000)
Overcoming Panic: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques.
Derrick Silove & Vijaya Manicavasagar (2001)
The Agoraphobia Workbook: A Comprehensive Program to End Your Fear of Symptom Attacks.
Alec Pollard & Elke Zuercher-White (2003)
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (3rd Edition).
Edmund Bourne (1995)
Triumph Over Fear.
Jerilyn Ross (1995)
When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life.
David Burns (2006)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors.
A. Matsakis (1996)
Life After Trauma, A Workbook for Healing (2nd Edition).
Rosenblum & Williams
Reclaiming Your Life From a Traumatic Experience (Workbook).
B. Rothman, E. Foa & E. Hembree (2007)
Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse.
Lisa Najavits (2002)
Social Anxiety
10 Simple Solutions to Shyness.
Martin Antony (2004)
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working through Social Anxiety.
Signe Dayhoff (2000)
Dying of Embarrassment.
Barbara Markway, Cheryl Carmin, Alex Pollard & Teresa Flynn (1995)
Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia: A Step-by-Step Guide.
Ron Rapee (1998)
Painfully Shy: How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life.
Barbara Markway & Gregory Markway (2001)
Performance Anxiety: Overcoming Your Fear in the Workplace, Social Situations, Interpersonal Communications, the Performing Arts.
Mitchell Robin & Rochelle Balter (1994)
Shy Children, Phobic Adults: Nature and Treatment of Social Phobia.
Debora Beidel & Samuel Turner, American Psychological Association (1997)
Social Phobia: From Shyness to Stage Fright.
John Marshall (1995)
Taking the Anxiety Out of Tests: A Step-by-Step Guide.
Susan Johnson (1997)
The Hidden Face of Shyness: Understanding and Overcoming Social Anxiety.
Franklin Shneier & Lawrence Welkowitz (1996)
The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook.
Martin Antony & Richard Swinson (2000)
Triumph Over Shyness: Conquering Shyness & Social Anxiety.
Murray Stein & John Walker (2001)
Specific Phobias
Flying Without Fear.
Duanne Brown (1996)
Mastery of Your Phobia.
Michelle Craske, Martin Antony & David Barlow (1995)
Overcoming Specific Phobia: A Hierarchy and Exposure-Based Protocol for the Treatment of All Specific Phobias.
Edmund Bourne (1998)
The Fearless Flyer: How to Fly in Comfort and Without Trepidation.
Cherry Hartman, Julie Huffaker & Nancy Coffelt (1995)
Assertiveness
The Assertiveness Workbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships.
Randy Paterson (2000)
When I Say No, I Feel Guilty.
Manuel Smith (1985)
Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships.
Robert Alberti & Michael Emmons (2001)
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
The BDD Workbook: Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions.
James Claiborn & Cherry Pedrick (2002)
Bullying
Bullying Bosses: A Survivor’s Guide. How to transcend the illusion of the interpersonal. (2005)
Robert Mueller
The bully at work: What you can do to stop the hurt and reclaim your dignity on the job. (2003)
Gary and Ruth Namie
Conversational Skills
Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness.
Alan Garnder (1997)
How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends.
Don Gabor (2001)
Couples
After the Affair.
Janis Abrahms Spring (1996)
Fighting for Your Marriage.
Howard Markman, Scott Stanley & Susan Blumberg (1994)
Getting the Love You Want.
Harville Hendrix (1998)
Getting Past the Affair: A Program to Help You Cope, Heal and Move On – Together or Apart.
Snyder, Baucom & Gordon (2007)
Hold Me Tight.
S. Johnson (2008)
How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It.
Patricia Love & Steven Stosny (2007)
Love Addiction. Pia Melody (2001)
Loving Him Without Losing You.
Beverly Engel (2000)
Obsessive Love.
Susan Forward (1991)
The 5 Love Languages.
G. Chapman (2010)
Passionate Marriage.
David Schnarch (1997)
The Five Love Languages.
Gary Chapman (2004)
The Intimate Enemy.
Dr. George Bach & Peter Wyden (1968)
The Seven Levels of Intimacy.
Matthew Kelly (2005)
Depression
An Unquiet Mind.
Kay Redfield Jamison (1997)
Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression and Anxiety.
Thomas Marra (2004)
Depression Fallout: The Impact of Depression on Couples and What You Can Do to Preserve the Bond.
Anne Sheffield (2003)
Depression: What Families Should Know.
Elaine Fantle Shimberg (1991)
Do You Have a Depressive Illness? How to tell, What to do
Donald Klein & Paul Wender (1990)
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy.
David Burns (1980)
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Steven Hayes (2005)
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think.
Dennis Greenberger & Christine Padesky (1995)
Overcoming Depression (3rd Edition).
Demitri Papolos & Janice Papolos (1997)
Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach to Getting Your Life Back.
Christopher Martell & Michael Addis (2004)
Peaceful Mind: Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Psychology to Overcome Depression.
John Carmona & Paula McQuaid (2004)
Ten Days to Self-Esteem.
David Burns (1992)
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression.
William Knaus & Albert Ellis (2006)
The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression.
Mary Ellen Copeland (2001)
The Feeling Good Handbook.
David Burns (1989)
Understanding Depression.
Donald Klein & Paul Wender (2005)
Winter Blues: Seasonal Affective Disorder – What it is and How to Overcome it.
Norman Rosenthal (1998)
Your Depression Map: Finding the Source of Your Depression and Charting Your Own Recovery.
Randy Paterson (2002)
Bipolar Depression
Bipolar Disorder Demystified.
Lana R. Castle (2003)
The Bipolar Workbook.
Monica Ramirez Basco (2006)
When Someone You Love is Bipolar: Help & Support for You and Your Partner.
Cynthia Last (2009)
Why Am I Still Depressed?
Jim Phelps (2006)
When Someone You Love is Bipolar: Help and Support for You and Your Partner (2009)
Last, Cynthia, Guilford Press
Eating Disorders
Addiction to Perfection.
Marion Woodman (1982)
Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery.
Lindsay Hall & Leigh Cohn (1999)
Overcoming Binge Eating.
Dr. Christopher Fairburn (1995)
Mindfulness
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn (2006)
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.
Jon & Myla Kabat-Zinn (1997)
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn ( 1990)
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety.
John Forsyth (2008)
The Mindfulness Solution.
R. Siegal (2009)
The Miracle of Mindfulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh (1975, 1976)
Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1994)
Women, Food and God.
Roth (2010)
The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Solutions to Everyday Problems
(2010) Siegel, Ron. Guilford Press
Parenting
1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2 to 13 (3rd Edition).
Thomas Phelan (2004)
Becoming the Parent You Want to Be: A sourcebook for Strategies for the First Five Years.
Davis & Keyser (1997)
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child’s Fears, Worries and Phobias.
Tamir Chansky (2004)
Get Out of My Life but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?
Anthony Wolf (1991)
Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents.
Ron Rapee, Susan Spence, Vanessa Cobham & Ann Wignall (2000)
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk (20th Edition).
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish (2004)
Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child.
Katharina Manassis (1996)
Kids are Worth It.
Barbara Coloroso (1995)
Parenting from the Inside Out.
D. Siegal & M. Hartzell (2004)
The Wonder of Boys.
Michael Gurian (1996)
Get Out of My Life but First Can You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall
(2002) Wolf, Anthony. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers
Health
The Wisdom of Menopause.
Christine Northrup (20096)
Too Good for Her Own Good.
Claudio Bepko & Jo-Ann Kreslan (1990)
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom.
Christine Northrup (2006)
Reflections of Moon on Water: Healing Women’s Bodies and Minds Through Traditional Chinese Medicine
(2006) Zhao, Xiaolan, Random House
Inner Beauty: Looking Feeling and Being your Best Through Traditional Chinese Healing
(2011) Zhan, Xiaolan, Random House
Adrenal Fatigue: Twenty-First Century Stress Syndrome
(2001) Wilson, James. Smart Publications
Worry
10 Simple Solutions to Stress: How to Tame Tension and Start Enjoying Your Life.
Claire Michaels (2007)
10 Simple Solutions to Worry.
Kevin Gyoerkoe & Pamela Wiegartz (2006)
The Worry Control Workbook.
Mary Copeland (1998)
Separation and Divorce
Break Up or Break Through.
Dina Bachelor Evan (2001)
Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families. (a book for children)
Brown & Brown (1986)
Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child With an Uncooperative Ex.
Ross & Corcoran (1996)
Mom’s House, Dad’s House.
Isolina Ricci (1980)
Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends.
Dr. Bruce Fischer & Dr. Robert Alberti (2006)
The Journey from Abandonment to Healing.
Susan Anderson (2000)
Splitting: Protecting Yourself while Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder
(2011) Eddy, Bill, and Kreger, Randi, New Harbinger Publications
Law Enforcement
Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement.
Kevin Gilmartin (2002)
I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know.
Ellen Kirschman (2007)
Personal Development
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.
Eckhart Tolle (2005)
Boundaries.
Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend (1992)
Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin.
Anne Katherine (1993)
Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model.
Richard Schwartz (2001)
The Four Agreements.
Don Miguel Ruiz (1997)
Self Matters.
Phillip McGraw (2001)
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (4th Edition).
Martha Davis, Elizabeth Eshelman & Matthew McKay (1997)
The Wisdom of Menopause.
Christine Northrup (2006)
Why People Don’t Heal.
Caroline Myss (1997)
Your Inner Child of the Past.
W.H. Missildine (1982)
Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grownup’s Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents
(2001) Brown, Nina. New Harbinger Publications
Suicide
No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One.
Carla Fine (1997)
Loss and Grief
A Guide for the Bereaved Survivor.
Robert Baugher & Marc Calija (1981)
Grieving for Dummies.
Harvey (2007)
How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies.
Rando (1991)
Widow to Widow: Thoughtful ,Practical Ideas for Rebuilding your Life
(2004) Genevieve Ginsburg, Da Capo Press
Grief for Kids
Badger’s Parting Gifts.
Susan Vorley (1984)
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney.
Judith Viorst (1971)
Psychology Resources on the Internet
Manitoba website with comprehensive list of resources
http://www.contactmb.org
Alcohol Help Center
http://www.alcoholhelpcenter.net
Free, interactive program to help check drinking, provide tools and information to help deal with concerns and provide access to others dealing with drinking problems.
American Psychological Association of America
http://www.apa.org
Information on psychology and general tips for coping with some of life’s day-to-day problems.
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
http://www.adaa.org
Describes the different types of anxiety disorders and provides detailed information about both mediation and various forms of psychological treatment.
Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada
http://www.anxietycanada.ca
Organization devoted to helping people with anxiety disorders.
Anxiety Disorders Association of Manitoba
http://www.adam.mb.ca
Registered self-help charity committed to helping individuals who struggle with anxiety disorders.
Anxieties.com Self-help Website
http://www.anxieties.com
Provides free text-based self-help programs for a variety of anxiety disorders.
Canadian Mental Health Association Manitoba Division
http://www.manitoba.cmha.ca
Assists individuals and families in accessing information on a variety of services and support available in Manitoba.
Canadian Psychological Association
http://www.cpa.ca
Professional organization representing many psychologists in Canada. Provides information about several disorders.
Changeways Clinic
http://www.changeways.com
Provides information on psychological issues and includes free, self-care depression program.
Depression Center
http://www.depressioncenter.net
Offers a free, online 16-session cognitive behavioural therapy course for depression.
Frequently asked questions on Grief and Grieving
www.DavidKessler.org
Healthy Place
http://www.healthyplace.com
Consumer mental health site, providing comprehensive information on psychological disorders and medications.
Healthy Weight Center
http://www.healthyweightcenter.net
Free online programs help to create a healthy weight program.
Manitoba Health
http://www.gov.mb.ca/health
Full listing of Government of Manitoba health resources.
Website on Workplace Bullying
http://www.mobbing.ca
Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba
http://www.depression.mb.ca
Self-help organization helping individuals and families affected by mood disorders.
National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov
Organization devoted to research focused on the understanding, treatment and prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health.
Panic Center
http://www.paniccenter.net
Free, interactive online cognitive behavioural therapy program to help people challenge and overcome their anxiety and panic.
Psych Central
http://www.psychcentral.com
Independent mental health social network created and run by mental health professionals.
Shyness Institute
http.//www.shyness.com
Private treatment center specializing in shyness.
Stop Smoking Center
http://www.stopsmokingcenter.net
Offers 10 free memberships per day (first come, first serve). Helps people create a quit-plan and provides tools for quitting.
Toastmaster’s International
http://www.toastmasters.org
Organization devoted to helping people improve their public speaking skills. Offers public speaking tips.
WebMD
http://www.webmd.com
Consumer information section on medications.
Women’s Health Clinic
http://www.womenshealthclinic.org/
Winnipeg clinic that offers a wide range of health services