Clinical Emergency Needs
If you are considering or contemplating suicide or feel that you may be a danger to yourself or to others, please immediately call 911, notify police or contact emergency.
24 hour Crisis Hotlines
Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
Georgia Crisis Hotline: 1-800-715-4225
Teens in Crisis: 1-800-968-5463
Psychiatric Hospitals
Ridgeview Institute (ages 11-18 and adults): 770-434-4567
Peachford Hospital (ages 4-18 and adults): 770-454-2302
RESOURCES
Mindfulness/Meditation
Atlanta Mindfulness Center www.atlantamindfullness.com
University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society
Southern Darma Retreat Center
BOOKS:
Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zin
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind To Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zin
Arriving at Your Own Door by Jon Kabat-Zin
Dancing with Life by Philip Moffet
ADHD and Learning Concerns for Children
Psychoeducational Testing
www.chadd.org (national resource on ADHD)
Anxiety and Depression
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns, MD
Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns, MD
Anxiety Gone: The Three C’s of Anxiety Recovery by Stanley Hibbs, Ph.D.
Calming your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You From Anxiety, Fear, and Panic by Jeffrey Brantley
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edward J. Bourne
I Don’t Want to Talk About It by Terry Real
Overcoming Depression: A Cognitive Therapy Approach by Mark Gibson, et al.
Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach to Getting your Life Back by Michael E. Addis, Ph.D. and Christopher R. Martell, Ph.D.
CoDependency
Codependent No More: How To Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
Boundaries: When to Say Yes and When to Say No, by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
Grief and Loss
Healing Your Grieving Heart by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Understanding Your Grief by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Healing After Loss by Martha Hickman
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner
Final Conversations: Helping the Living and Dying Talk to Each Other by Maureen P. Keeley, Ph.D. and Julie M. Yingling, Ph.D.
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
Parenting
Parents are Teachers by Wesley Becker, Ph.D.
Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old by Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen
Nurture Shock: New Ways of Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grownups by Leonard Sax, MD, Ph.D.
Get Out of My Life, But First Can You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager by Anthony Wolfe, Ph.D.
Parents, Teens and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.
Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step by Step Guide for Parents by Ronald Rapee, Ph.D. and Ann Wignall
Trauma
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild
Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
The Body Keeps Score: Brain Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk, MD
Reach for the Rainbow: Advanced Healing for Survivors, by Lynne Finney, J.D., MSW
Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children by Nancy J. Napier