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(Few are endorsed 100%, but some usefulness can be obtained from all. "Chew on the meat and spit out the bones" is a useful strategy, as with most readings except the Word of G-d, which is useful & good in its entirely.))
Counseling Skills, Supervision & Training
The Art of the Question (Goldberg) link
Seeing with New Eyes (Powlison) link
Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner link
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Amen) link
Intentional Interviewing and Counseling (Ivey) link
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands (Tripp) link
Helping Skills (Hill & O'Brien) link
Basic Counseling Responses (Leibsohn, Haney & Haney) link
Counseling Sourcebook (Van Ornum) link
Interviewing Strategies for Helpers (Cormier & Cormier) link
Teaching Psychological Skills (Larson, (ed.)) - out of print at this time; keep trying! link
Supervision & Training: Model, Dilemmas, and Challenges (Kaslow) link pb: link
Becoming an Effective Supervisor: A Workbook for Counselors and Psychotherapists (Campbell) link
Supervision of Pastoral Care (Steere) link
Supervising Counselors and Therapists (Stollenberg & Delworth) link
Supervision in the Helping Professions (Jacobs) link
Teaching Counselors and Therapists (Eriksen & McAuliffe) link
Christian Counseling (Collins) link
Motivational Interviewing, 2nd ed. link
Motivating Clients in Therapy: Values, Love, and the Real Relationship (Rappaport) link
Encouragement (Crabb) link
Compassion Therapy (Kottler) link
How to Live Right When Your Life Goes Wrong (Vernick) link Anything by Vernick is well worth reading.
How to Find Selfless Joy in a Me-First World (Vernick) link Ditto.
Getting Over the Blues: A Women's Guide to Fighting Depression (Vernick) link
Ethics in Psychology (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel) link
Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, 2nd ed. (Miller) link
Treating Alcohol and Drug Problems in Psychotherapy Practice: Doing What Works (Washton & Zweben) link
Postmodernism/Constructive/Positive Psychology and Therapy
Conversation Language and Possibilities: A Postmodern Approach to Therapy (Anderson) link
Understanding Experience: Postmodernism and Psychotherapy (Frie) link
Constructive Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide link
A Primer of Positive Psychology link
Positive Psychological Assessment link
Positive Psychology in Practice link
An Introduction to Positive Psychology link
Handbook of Positive Psychology link
A Psychology of Human Strengths
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Counseling Internship
Learning from Mistakes in Clinical Practice (Dillon) link
The Internship, Practicum, and Field Placement Handbook: A Guide for the Helping Professions, 2nd ed. (Baird) link
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands (Tripp) link
Group Facilitation & Counseling
Brief Group Counseling: Integrating Individual and Group Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches (Scott & Stradling) link
Brief Group Treatment: Practical Training for Therapists and Counselors (Shapiro et. al.) link
Comprehensive Group Work: What it Means and How to Teach It (Conyne, Wilson & Ward) link
Small Groups in Counseling and Therapy (Posthuma) link
Failures in Group Work: How We Can Learn from Our Mistakes (Conyne) link
Advanced Group Counseling (Kottler) link
Group Counseling (Jacobs) link
Creative Counseling Techniques (Jacobs) link
Basic Counseling Responses in Groups (Leibsohn, Haney & Haney) link
Evolution of a Group: Student Video and Workbook (Corey, Corey & Haynes) link
Groups: Process and Practice (Corey & Corey) link
Psychoeducational Groups (Brown) link
Group Work: A Counseling Specialty (Gladding) link
Effective Support Groups (Miller) link
The Support Group Manual: A Session-By-Session Guide (Schiff) link
The Art of Facilitation (Hunter, Bailey & Taylor) link
The Courage to Lead: Start Your Own Support Group--Mental Illness & Addictions (Carlson & Nicklaus) link
Counseling & Physiology
Addictions (Welch) link
Blame It on the Brain? (Welch) - Useful, easy to understand; a great resource and book to read link
Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple
link
Instant Psychopharmacology link
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Amen) link
Healing ADD (Amen) link
Healing Anxiety and Depression (Amen & Routh) link
Sex on the Brain (Amen) pb link hc link
Preventing Alzheimer's: Ways to Help Prevent, Delay, Detect, and Even Halt Alzheimer's Disease and Other Forms of Memory Loss (Shankle & Amen) pb link
Healing the Hardware of the Soul (Amen) link
Don't Shoot Yourself in the Foot (Amen) link
New Skills for Frazzled Parents: The Instruction Manual That Should Have Come With Your Child (Amen)
link
Life-Dominating Issues: Addictions in General & Chemical Addictions
From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs (Weil & Rosen) link
Quantity: Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change: Selecting and Planning Interventions (Connors, Donovan, & DiClemente) link
Illegal Drugs: A Complete Guide to their History, Chemistry, Use, and Abuse (Gahlinger) link
A Path to Sobriety (Siluk) link
Last Call (Hedblom) link
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (Kuhn, Schwartzweider, & Wilson) link
The Wellness-Recovery Connection (Newport) link
Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice, 4th ed. (Stevens & Smith) link
Handbook of Addictive Disorders (Coombs, ed.) link
Uppers, Downers, & All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs (Inaba & Cohen) link
Handbook of Addictive Disorders (Coombs, ed.) link
Chemical Dependency Treatment Planner link
Alcohol Problems and Alcoholism (Royce & Scratchley) link
Ethics for Addictions Professionals (Royce) link
Addictive Behavior (Welch & Shogren) Note: You'll need to find it used. link
Alcoholism and Other Drug Problems, 2nd ed. (Royce & Scratchley) link
Managing Addictions (Bishop) link
Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations (Flores) link
Changing for Good (Prochaska) link
Group Treatment for Substance Abuse (Velasquez, Maurer, Crouch, & DiClemente) link
Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction (Jay & Jay) link
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda (Perrott) link
Critical Thinking for Addiction Professionals (Teleff) link
Addiction and Mood Disorders (Daley & Douaihy) link
Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem Workbook (Daley & Marlatt) link
Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem Therapist Guide (Daley & Marlatt) link
Integrated Treatment for Mood and Substance Use Disorders link
Forgive for Good link
Practitioner's Guide to Evidence-Based Psychotherapy link
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: Where Practice and Research Meet link
Substance Abuse Treatment and Criminal Offenders link
Addictions Treatment Planner, 2nd ed. link
Addictions Treatment Homework Planner (Finley & Lenz) link
Life-Dominating Issues: Pathological/Compulsive Gambling & Gambling Addiction
A Day at a Time: Gambler's Anonymous (Anonymous) link
Best Possible Odds link
Gambling Addiction Patient Workbook (Perkinson) link
Counseling Problem Gamblers and Their Familes (Ciarrocchi) link
Understanding and Treating the Pathological Gambler (Ladoucer, et. al.) link
Psychodynamics and Psychology of Compulsive Gambling link
Pathological Gambling: Etiology, Comorbidity, and Treatment (Petry) link
Pathological Gambling: A Guide to Treatment (Grant & Potenza, eds.) link
Life-Dominating Issues: Bipolar Disorders
Relapse Prevention in Bipolar Disorder: A Treatment Manual and Workbook for Therapist and Client (Sorenson) link
Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life (Spradlin) link
Life-Dominating Issues: Co-Occurring (Dual) Disorders: Mental Health & Addictions Diagnoses
Dual Disorders (Daley & Moss) link
The Dual Disorders Recovery Book (Anonymous) link
Dual Disorders Workbook (Daley) link
Dual Disorders Recovery Sourcebook (Ortman) link
The Twelve Steps and Dual Disorders (Samples & Hamilton) link
Integrated Treatment for Dual Disorders (Mueser, Drake, Noordsy & Fox) link
Dual Disorders: An Integrated Approach to Treatment (Watkins, Lewellen, & Barrett) link
Life-Dominating Issues: Sexual Addictions
Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse (Langberg) link
False Intimacy (Schaumberg) link
Out of the Shadows (Carnes) 1568380593 link
Contrary to Love (Carnes) link
Facing the Shadows: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery (Carnes) link
In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior (Carnes) link
Desires in Conflict (Dallas) link
Don't Call it Love (Carnes) link
Every Man's Battle (Arterburn & Stoeker) Caution: Has some really good material, but assumes men have an uncontrollable drive which must be satisfied by their sexual partner - a dangerous and irresponsible position that takes responsibility from the man! link
Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality (Nicolosi) link
At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry (Gallagher) link
Bible and Homosexual Practice (Gagnon) link
Out of Egypt (Howard) link
Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic (Moberly) link
Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth (Satinover) link
Homosexual Agenda (Sears & Osten) link
Life-Dominating Issues: Anger Management
Angry All the Time link
Anger Disorders: Definition, Diagnosis, and Treatment (Kassinove) link
Beyond Anger link
Anger Management (Kassinove & Tafrate) link
Anger Management Sourcebook (Schiraldi & Kerr) link
Anger Workbook (Minirth) link
Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook link
Life-Dominating Issues: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, incl. Scrupulosity
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD (Clark) link
Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals (Osborn) link
Brain Lock link
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (Penzel) link
Stop Obsessing! (Foa) link
The Imp of the Mind (Baer) link
Understanding Scrupulosity link
A Thousand Frightening Fantasies (Van Ornum) - just gone out ot print; keep trying! link
The Boy Who Could Not Stop Washing link
Getting Control (Baer) link
OCD Workbook link
Doubting Disease link
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (Swinson, et. al.) link
Life-Dominating Issues: Anxiety and Depression
Depression: A Stubborn Darkness - A Light for the Path (Welch) link
Getting Over the Blues: A Woman's Guide to Fighting Depression (Vernick) link
When Words Are Not Enough: The Women's Prescription for Depression and Anxiety (Raskin) link
New Light on Depression (Biebel & Koenig) link
Unmasking Male Depression (Hart) link
Anxiety Treatment and Homework Planner link
Depression Treatment and Homework Planner link
Depression: A Stubborn Darkness (Welch) link
Unveiling Depression in Women (Hart & Hart-Weber) link
Beating the Blues (Thase & Lang) link
On the Threshold of Hope (Langberg) link
When People Are Big and God is Small (Welch) - an outstanding work! link
Adrenaline and Stress (Hart) link
Healing Anxiety (Minirth) link
Beyond Anxiety and Phobia link
The Anxiety Cure (Hart) link
Anxiety & Phobia Workbook link
Healing Anxiety & Depression link
Freedom from Depression (Minirth & Meier) link
Worry Workbook (Minirth) link
Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook link
Life-Dominating Issues: Eating Disorders
Love to Eat, Hate to Eat (Fitzpatrick) link
Anatomy of a Food Addiction (Katherine) link
The Body Betrayed: A Deeper Understanding of Women, Eating Disorders, and Treatment (Zerbe) link
Inside Eating Disorder Support Groups (Moe) - 64 pg.; to help teens in particular get on the road to recovery link
Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes (Kole & Bright) link
Life-Dominating Issues: Abuse (Sexual, Physical, etc.)
Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse (Langberg) link
On the Threshold of Hope (Langberg) link
Into Abba's Arms (Wilson) link
Counseling Families and Children
A Homework Manual for Biblical Living: Marital and Family (Mack) link
Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens (Paul Tripp) link
Your Family God's Way (Mack) link
Adolescent in Crisis: A guidebook for Parents, Teachers, Ministers, and Counselors (Rowatt) link
Counseling Problems & Procedures
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM -IV-TR (APA) paperback: link hardcover: link
Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse (Langberg) link
On the Threshold of Hope (Langberg) link
Step by Step: Divine Guidance for Ordinary Christians (Petty) link
The Christian Counselor's Manual (Adams) link
When People Are Big and God is Small (Welch) - an Outstanding work! link
Caring for Souls (Shields & Bredfelt, eds.) link
A Homework Manual for Biblical Living: Personal And Interpersonal (Mack) link
God's Wise Counsel
The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes (Kidner) link
Methods of Biblical Counseling
War of Words (Tripp) link
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands (Tripp) link
Lay Counseling (Tan & Collins) link
Minirth Guide to Christian Counseling (Minirth) link
The Christian Counselor's Manual (Adams) link
Marriage & Family Counseling
Forgiveness is a Choice (Enright) link
Healing Conversations (Guilmartin) link
How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong (Vernick) link
Safe Haven Marriage (Hart) link
Love is Never Enough (Beck) link
Lost in the Middle (Tripp) link
Integrative Family Therapy (Olson) link
A Homework Manual for Biblical Living: Marital and Family (Mack) link
Solving Marriage Problems (Adams) link
Strengthening Your Marriage (Mack) link
Your Family God's Way (Mack) link
Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling (Worthington) link
Before a Bad Goodbye (T. Clinton) link
When Love Dies: How to Save a Hopeless Marriage (Bodner) link
Couples in Treatment (Treat) link
Intimate Allies (Allender) link
Unclaimed Baggage (Frank & Frank) link
Why Marriages Suceed or Fail (Gottman) link
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (Gottman) link
The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically-Based Marital Therapy (Gottman) link
The Couples' Guide to Communication (Gottman) link
The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships (Gottman) link
Pastoral Marital Therapy: A Practical Primer for Ministry to Couples (Treat & Hof) link
Marital Problems: Affairs
Torn Asunder: Recovering from Extramarital Affairs (Carder) link
Torn Asunder: Recovering from Extramarital Affairs Workbook (Carder) link
After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner has been Unfaithful (Spring) link
Surviving an Affair link
Marital Problems: Sexual Issues
Men's Secret Wars (P. Means) link
Living with Your Husband's Secret Wars (M. Means) link
Celebration of Sex (Rosenau) link
Intended for Pleasure (Wheat & Gayle) link
Restoring the Pleasure (Penner & Penner) link
Torn Asunder: Recovering from Extramarital Affairs (Carder & Jaenicke) link
Intimate Issues: Conversations Woman to Woman (Dillow & Pintus) link
Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy (Leiblum & Rosen) link
False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction (Schaumburg) link
Sexual Man (Hart) link
Infertility: Psychological Issues and Counseling Strategies (Leiblum) link
Domestic Violence
Verbally Abusive Relationship (Evans) link
Trauma and Recovery (Herman) link
Dangerous Marriage (McGill & McDill) link
How to Act Right when Your Spouse Acts Wrong (Vernick) link
How to Live Right When Your Life Goes Wrong (Vernick) link
Grieving Children, Adolscents & Teens/Young Adults
Bereavement Support Group Program For Children: Leader Manual and Participant Workbook (Haasl & Marnocha) link
35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child (The Dougy Center) link
When Children Grieve (James) link
The Loss of a Pet (Sife) link
Will I See Fido in Heaven? (Buddemeyer-Porter) - Good to know what this is saying, as you might be asked, but ceck the theology carefully. link
Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates (Kurz)- Good to know what this is saying, as you might be asked, but ceck the theology carefully. link
Grieving Adults & Professional Resources
Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving (McCall) link
Disenfranchised Grief (Doka) link
Treatment of Complicated Mourning (Rando) link
Gift of Tears link
Death & Dying, Life & Living (Corr, Nabe, & Corr) link
The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying (DeSpelder & Strickland) link
When Men Grieve link
Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy (Worden) link
Grief Expressed (Felber) link
The Loss of a Pet (Sife) link
Career and Employment Resources
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007 (Bolles) - Updated every year for over 30 years! link
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2006 (Bolles) link
Graduate Study/APA Resources
Graduate Study in Psychology 2006 (APA) link
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Ed. (APA) link
Mastering APA Style: Student Workbook and Training Guide (APA) link
Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or Ph.D Degree (Peters) link
Graduate Admissions Essays (Asher) link
Getting In (APA) link
Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Counseling and Clinical Psychology (Sayette) link
Faith Integration/Religious Diversity
Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy (Sperry & Shafranske, eds.) link
Casebook for Spiritual Strategy in Counseling and Psychotherapy (Richards & Bergin, eds.) link
Handbook of Psychotherapy and Religious Diversity (Richards & Bergin, eds.) link
Hidden Spring: Spiritual Dimensions of Therapy (Hart) link
Psychological Issues in Biblical Lore: Explorations in the Old Testament (Rabin) link
Infertility: Psychological Issues and Counseling Strategies (Leiblum) link
Deepening Psychotherapy with Men (Rabinowitz & Cochran) link
New Psychotherapy for Traditional Men (Brooks) link
New Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy with Men (Leiblum) link