Recommended Reading for behavioral staff and parents.
Start with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, and Daniel Siegel- Adventures in Mindfulness, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Mindful Therapist, by Daniel Siegel
- Mindfulness and the Brain, by Dan Siegel, Jack Kornfield
- The Neurobiology of We: How Relationships, the Mind, and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are, by Daniel Siegel
- Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Optimism, Positive Psychology, Positive Education, Resilience
- Exuberance: The Passion for Life, by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, by Martin Seligman
- Authentic Happiness, by Martin Seligman
- Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being, by Martin Seligman
- The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience, by Martin Seligman
Cognitive / Behavioral
- Parent Management Training (PMT) developed by Alan Kazdin
- The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child, by Alan Kazdin
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
- The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children, by Ross Greene
