Resources About Mood, Anxiety, and Related Disorders

Books

For understanding anxiety and OCD:

• Freeing Your Child from Anxiety by Tamar Chanksy
• Freeing Your Child from OCD by Tamar Chanksy
   

For understanding self-injury:

• Helping Teens Who Cut by Michael Hollander
• Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self-Injure by Lawrence Shapiro
   

For understanding behaviorism:

• Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor
   

Understanding and coping with BPD and emotional dysregulation:

• Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life For Teens by Sheri Van Dijk
• Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life by Scott Spradlin
• Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul Mason and Randi Kreger
• The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder by Randi Kreger
   

For family and parent conflict influenced by strong emotions:

• Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions by Pat Harvey and Britt Rathbone
• The High Conflict Couple by Alan Fruzzetti
• I’m Right, You’re Wrong, Now What? by Xavier Amador
   

To help younger siblings manage emotions more effectively:

• The Mindful Child by Susan Kaiser Greenland
• Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions by Pat Harvey and Janine Penzo
   

To get some first-person insight into what it is like to have BPD:

• Stronger Than BPD by Debbie Corso
• The Buddha and The Borderline by Kiera Van Gelder
   

Helpful links

• What is DBT?
• About Depression
• About Depressed Children and Teens
• About Self-Injury in Adolescents
• About Teen Suicide
• A Useful Interactive Tool for Understanding Emotions
• Borderline Personality Disorder Information and Support
• TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
• Gender Spectrum
• International OCD Foundation
• Now Matters Now
• Effective Child Therapy
• UCSF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Portal Patient Resources
   

Community collaborations

Our DBT experts provide training and collaborate with many agencies in the Bay Area to increase access for this evidence-based practice:

• We work closely with the Child, Youth, & Family System of Care in the San Francisco Department of Public Health to implement DBT in the county system. If you currently receive care through San Francisco County (i.e., MediCal, Healthy Families, etc.) and are interested in DBT, please email [email protected].
• We also consult with our partners at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. If you are insured under Alameda County MediCal and would like to receive DBT in the East Bay, please call their intake and referral line at (510) 428-8428.
• We have worked closely with Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health in Contra Costa County since 2011. If you currently receive care through Contra Costa MediCal and are interested in DBT, please contact Teresa Gibson at (925) 521-5764 or Betsy Hanna at (925) 521-5767.