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Psychology: Self-Help Books

The following is a partial list of self-help psychology books available at Milner Library. The list was prepared with the assistance of Dr. W. Joel Schneider, Assistant Professor in Psychology, and Dr. Carin Ness, Staff Psychologist, Student Counseling Services, at Illinois State University.

Books on this list were selected primarily from The Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Resources in Mental Health by John Norcross, et al. (New York: The Guilford Press). The Authoritative Guide includes books rated highly by mental health practitioners in terms of their utilization of commonly-accepted clinical/counseling theories and practices. The Authoritative Guide is available at Milner Library on Floor 5 at RA 790.6 .A94 2003.

Titles on this list appear alphabetically. For a list of self-help books organized by topic, see Self-Help Books: Subject Guide.

Anger Workbook
Floor 3 Shelves BF 575 .A5 B55 1994

Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
Floor 5 Shelves RC 531 .B67 2005

Asserting Yourself:
A Practical Guide for Positive Change
Floor 3 Shelves BF 575 .A85 B68 2004

Body Burden: Living in the Shadow of Barbie
Floor 3 Shelves BF 697.5 .B63 H36 2000

Body Image Workbook:
An 8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks

Floor 3 Shelves BF 697.5 .B63 C38 1997

Boundaries Face to Face:
How to Have That Difficult Conversation You've Been Avoiding

Floor 3 Shelves BV 4597.532 .C58 C59 2003

Boundaries:
When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

Floor 3 Shelves BJ 1581 .2 .C52 1992

Boundaries:
Where You End and I Begin

Floor 3 Shelves BF 469 .K38 2000

Bulimia:
A Guide to Recovery

Floor 5 Shelves RC 552 .B84 H35 1999

Changing for Good
Floor 3 Shelves BF 637 .B4 P65 2002

Control Your Depression
Floor 5 Shelves RC 537 .C68 1992

Do What You Are:
Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type

Floor 3 Shelves BF 698.9. O3 T54 2001

Dying to be Thin:
Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia

Floor 5 Shelves RC 552. A5 S23 2001

Father Hunger:
Fathers, Daughters and Food

Floor 5 Shelves RJ 506 .E18 M35 2004

Feeling Good:
The New Mood Therapy
Floor 5 Shelves RC 537 .B87 1999

Getting Ready to Negotiate:
The Getting to Yes Workbook
Floor 3 Shelves BF 637.N4 F56 1995

Getting to Yes:
Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Floor 3 Shelves BF637.N4 F57 1991

Grief Recovery Handbook:
The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses

Floor 3 Shelves BF 575 .G7 J36 1998

Helping Children Grieve When Someone They Love Dies
Floor 3 Shelves BF 723.D3 H86 2002

How to Communicate:
The Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Personal and Professional Relationships
Floor 3 Shelves BF 637 .C45 M25 1995

How to Control Your Anger Before it Controls You
Floor 3 Shelves BF 575 .A5 E435 1998

It's Not About Food:
Change Your Mind; Change Your Life; End Your Obsession with Food and Weight

Floor 5 Shelves RC 552.E18 N67 1999

Learned Optimism
Floor 3 Shelves BJ 1477 .S45 1998

Letting Go of Anger:
The 10 Most Common Anger Styles and What to do About Them
Floor 3 Shelves BF 575.A5 P685 1995

Living with Anxiety:
A Clinically Tested Step-by-step Plan for Drug-Free Management

Floor 3 Shelves BF 575.A6 M65 2001

Making Peace with Food:
Freeing Yourself from the Diet-Weight Obsession

Floor 5 Shelves RM 222.2 .K33 2002

Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic:
Client Workbook for Agoraphobia

Floor 5 Shelves RC 531 .B29 1989

Mind Over Mood:
Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

Floor 5 Shelves RC 489 .C63 G743 1995

OCD Workbook:
Your Guide to Breaking Free From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Floor 5 Shelves RC 533 .H95 1999

On Children and Death:
How Children and Their Parents Can and Do Cope with Death

Floor 3 Shelves BF 723 .D3 K82 1997

Reinventing Your Life:
The Breakthrough Program To End Negative Behavior … and Feel Great Again

Floor 5 Shelves RC 455.4 .S43 Y68 1994

Relaxation Response
Floor 5 Shelves RA 785 .B48 2001

Shyness:
What It Is, What to Do About It
Floor 3 Shelves BF 575 .B3 Z55 1989

Stick Up for Yourself!:
Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Postive Self-Esteem

Floor 3 Shelves BF 575.A85 K38 1999

Stop Obsessing!:
How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions

Floor 5 Shelves RC 533 .F6 2001

Trust After Trauma:
A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them

Floor 5 Shelves RC 552 .P67 M369 1998

Victims No Longer:
The Classic Guide for Men Recovering From Sexual Child Abuse

Floor 4 Shelves HV 6570.2 .L48 2004

Volcano in My Tummy:
Helping Children to Handle Anger
Floor 3 Shelves BF 723 .A4 P83 1996

Wasted:
A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Floor 5 Shelves RC 552 .A5 H67 1999

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Floor 3 Shelves BM 465.P7 K87 2004

When Feeling Bad is Good
Floor 5 Shelves RC 537 .M397 1992

When I Say No, I Feel Guilty:
How to Cope - Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy

Floor 3 Shelves BF575.A85 S63 1975

When Living Hurts
Floor 4 Shelves HV 6546 .G67 2004

Wherever You Go, There You Are:
Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Floor 3 Shelves BL 627 .K33 2005

Working with Groups to Explore Food and Body Connections:
Eating Issues, Body Image, Size Acceptance, Self-Care
Floor 5 Shelves RC 552 .E18 W67 1996

Wounded Boys, Heroic Men:
A Man's Guide to Recovering From Child Abuse

Floor 4 Shelves HV 6626.5 .S68 1998

Your Perfect Right:
Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships

Floor 5 Shelves RC 489.A77 A53 2001

Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design
Floor 3 Shelves BQ 9286 .B65 1999


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