Recommended Books
BODY IMAGE/INTUITIVE EATING/HAES
Health at Every Size by Lindo Bacon, PhD
Maintenance Phase Podcast (https://www.maintenancephase.com/)
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach (and the workbook) by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better) and Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About your Weight by Lindo Bacon, PhD
Living with Your Body & Other Things You Hate: How to Let Go of Your Struggle with Body Image Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy by Emily Sandoz, PhD and and Troy DuFrene
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison
The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy and Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture by Caroline Dooner
The DBT Solution for Emotional Eating: A Proven Program to Break the Cycle of Bingeing and Out-of-Control Eating by Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, and Philip C. Masson
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: A Mindful Eating Program to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle by Michelle May, M.D.
Vitamin A to Z by Fiona Sutherland
Befriending Your Body by Ann Saffi Biasetti
BPD AND TRAUMA
The Budda and the Borderline by Kiera Van Gelder
Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha Linehan
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
I Hate You–Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus
Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change by Valerie Porr, M.A.
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder Resources for Books and Publications
BPD AND DBT
The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide by Alex Chapman and Kim Gratz
Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship by Shari Manning, PhD
Article on BPD https://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.org/most-accurate-article-on-bpd-we-have-recently-read-kudos/
ABCT (Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies) DBT Fact Sheet https://www.abct.org/fact-sheets/dialectical-behavior-therapy/
The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation by Alan Fruzzetti
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed by Alex Chapman and Kim Gratz
Chronic illness
How To Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers by Toni Bernhard
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn, preface by Thich Nhat Hanh
Cognitively Challenged Clients And dbt
InsomniA
Goodnight Mind by Colleen E. Carney, PhD
LGBTQ
Transgender Identity & Gender Dysphoria in Children and Youth: A Practical Guide for Families and Professionals by Shallimar Jones, PhD
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E. Pitman, PhD
Mindfulness
The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions by Cedar Koons
The Mindful Way Through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder by Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen
Mindfulness in Plain English by Venerable Henepola Gunaratana
Search Inside Yourself by Chade Meng Tan
MULTICULTURALISM And kids
A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
A Is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
PARENTS
The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult Child in Treatment by Krissy Pozatek, LICSW
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety Revised and Updated Edition: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life - from Toddlers to Teens by Tamar E. Chansky, PhD
Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Tamar E. Chansky, PhD
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child with No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills by Alan E. Kazdin, PhD
Baby’s First Words by Stella Blackstone & Sunny Scribens
This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman, PhD
Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You by Cory Silverberg
What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD by Dawn Huebner, PhD
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents by Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD
Parents (DBT consistent)
The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child’s Disruptive Mood with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills by Matis Miller, LCSW
The Power of Validation: Arming Your Child Against Bullying, Peer Pressure, Addiction, Self-Harm, and Out-of-Control Emotions by Karyn D. Hall PhD and Melissa Cook LPC
Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families by Blaise A. Aguierre
Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship by Shari Y. Manning
The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions by Cedar Koons, LCSW
The Open Your Mind Before You Open Your Mouth videos created by Dr. Fruzzetti and the National Office for Suicide Prevention in Ireland (https://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.org/video-series/)
The Power of Validation by Karen D. Hall
Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors by Pat Harvey ACSW, LCSW-C and Jeanine Penzo LICSW (for parents of kids 5-12)
Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges by Pat Harvey ACSW, LCSW-C and Britt H. Rathbone MSSW, LSCW-C (for parents of teens and young adults)
Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
The Explosive Child by Ross W Green
DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Kids and Caregivers by Carol Lozier
The Joy of Parenting: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years by Lisa Coyne and Amy R. Murrell
The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Sensitive Children Face Challenges and How All Can Thrive by W. Thomas Boyce, MD
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When The World Overwhelms Them by Elaine Aron, PhD
Psychosis
DBT skills book for psychosis: https://www.maggiemullen.com/my-book
RACE and racism
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
radical acceptance
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, PhD
Loving What Is by Byron Katie
Suicide Loss
Shared Together: A Mother's Journey from Grief to Belief by Cathleen Elle
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi K David Levy, LCSW
Emotionally Naked by Anne Moss Rogers and Kim O'brien PhD, LICSW
Diary of a Broken Mind by Anne Moss Rogers
The Forgotten Mourners: Sibling Survivors of Suicide by Magdaline DeSousa
Transforming Traumatic Grief: Six Steps to Move from Grief to Peace after the Sudden or Violent Death of a Loved One by Courtney M Armstrong LPC
If I Could Mend Your Heart by Mary Farr
When It is Darkest by Rory O'Connor
The Wilderness of Suicide Grief by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore, PhD
Why People Die By Suicide by Thomas Joiner
Unfinished Conversations by Robert E. Lesoine with Marilynne Chöphel, MFT
You Won't Always be This Sad by Sheree Fitch
After Suicide Loss, Coping with Your Grief (2nd edition) by Robert Baugher, PhD & John R. Jordan, PhD
Goodnight Mr. Vincent Van Gough by Lindsey Doolittle
Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief when an Adult Brother or Sister Dies by T. J. Wray
Aftermath: Picking Up the Pieces After a Suicide by Gary Roe
Life After Loss: 31 Questions to Help you Break Free of the Pain of Death and Greif by Dr. E. Marcel Jones
I Understand: Pain, Love, and Healing after Suicide by Vonnie Woodrick
The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham
Teens who Cut (for caregivers)
The Teenage Whisperer by Mike Linderman and Gary Brozek
Helping Teens Who Cut, Second Edition: Using DBT Skills to End Self-Injury by Michael Hollander
TRAINING MANUALS
DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents by Jill H. Rathus and Alec L. Miller and Foreword by Marsha M. Linehan
DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets Second Edition by Marsha M. Linehan
Don’t Shoot the Dog: The Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor
The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition: DBT for Self-Help and Individual & Group Treatment Settings by Lane Pederson, Psy.D, LP and Cortney Pederson, MSW, LICSW
The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills by Sonny Jane Wise
DBT for Dummies by Gillian Galen and Blaise Aguirre (available in English and German)
DBT Skills Workbook for Psychosis by Maggie Mullen, LCSW
3rd Wave CBT (for therapists/training)
Doing CBT: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Behaviors, Thoughts, and Emotions by David F. Tolin
Process-Based CBT by Steven C. Hayes (editor), Stefan G. Hofmann (editor)
Mind & Emotions by Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning & Patricia Zurita Ona (workbook)
Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition, edited by Steve Hayes, Victoria Follette & Marsha Linehan
Acceptance and Mindfulness in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Understanding and Applying the New Therapies, edited by James Herbert & Evan Forman