This page is a reading list highlighting the best books to read within various categories. I spend many hours reading and researching and this list includes the books I refer to the most. I believe that each one is well worth your time and can provide a greater understanding of the particular topic.

Understanding Bullying

• Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and the New Realities of Girl World by Rosalind Wiseman (2003-06-26)

• Bullying: A Complete Guide to the Support Group Method by George Robinson and Barbara Maines

• Understanding School Bullying: Its Nature and Prevention Strategies by Peter K Smith

Understanding empathy, compassion and love

• Empathy what it is and why it matters by David Howe

• Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential and Endangered by Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D Perry

• Empathy: A Handbook for Revolution by Roman Krznaric

• Roots of Empathy by Mary Gordon

• The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert

• The Compassionate Mind Approach To Postnatal Depression: Using Compassion Focused Therapy to Enhance Mood, Confidence and Bonding by Michelle Cree

• The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships by Michael P Nichols

• Alain de Botton on Love in couples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFCsLSGPLMk

Understanding Trauma

• The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• The Informed Heart by Bruno Bettelheim

• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D Perry and Maia Szalavitz

• Educating Traumatized Children by Bernd Ruf

Understanding Attachment

      Relationship Matters Gordon Neufeld TED TALK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjfpGGOGDCo&t=673s

• The making and breaking of affection bonds by Bowlby

• Principles of Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children by Daniel A Hughes

• Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE to Nurture Confidence and Security in the Troubled Child by Kim S Golding and Daniel A Hughes

• Why Can't My Child Behave?: Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families   By Dr Amber Elliot

Parenting Without Punishment

• Love Bombing: Reset Your Child's Emotional Thermostat by Oliver James

• Parentuality: How to Have an Amazing Relationship with Your Child by Dr Linda Mallory

• Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn

• Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

• 8 Keys to Building Your Best Relationships (8 Keys to Mental Health) by Daniel A Hughes

Forgiveness

• Forgive for Good by Dr Fred Luskin

• The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

• Finding Forgiveness: A 7-Step Program for Letting Go of Anger and Bitterness by Eileen R Borris Dunchunstang

• The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age by Marina Cantacuzino

• Helping Clients Forgive: An Empirical Guide for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope by Robert D Enright and Richard P Fitzgibbons

The Experience of Different Ages in Life

• I am Different from You: How Children Experience Themselves by Peter Selg

• Taking Charge: Your Life Patterns and Their Meaning by Gudrun Burkhard

Psychotherapeutic Aspects of Therapy

• A Living Physiology: Lectures and Essays by Karl Konig

• A Psychology of Human Dignity by Ad Dekkers

Parenting Technique

•  https://www.beginningwell.org/en/introduction/

• Parenting for a Healthy Future (Lifeways) by Dotty Coplen

• Childhood: A Study of the Growing Child by Caroline von Heydebrand

• Beyond the Rainbow Bridge; Nurturing our children from birth to seven by Barabara J Patterson and Pamala Bradely

• The Essence of Waldorf Education by Peter Selg

• A Guide to Child Health: A Holistic Approach to Raising Healthy Children by Michaela Glockler and Wolfgang Goebel

Mind and Body Exercises

• The Quiet Heart: Putting Stress in Its Place by Peter Gruenewald

Sense-able

• Why Cleaning Has Meaning: Bringing Wellbeing Into Your Home by Linda Thomas

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