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1. Transforming Your Teaching: Practical Classroom Strategies Informed by Cognitive Neuroscience

   Kimberly Carraway

   Successful teaching techniques informed by the latest research about how kids’ brains work.More

2. What Are They Thinking?!: The Straight Facts about the Risk-Taking, Social-Networking, Still-Developing Teen Brain

   Aaron M. White, Scott Swartzwelder

   Groundbreaking developments in adolescent brain research underpin this straightforward guide to understanding—and dealing with—teen behavior.More

3. Pills Are Not for Preschoolers: A Drug-Free Approach for Troubled Kids

   Marilyn Wedge

   “[Wedge’s] encouragement to look anew at the ‘problems’ our children have . . . 
is valuable and expert advice.”—BooklistMore

4. Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power

   Terri Apter

   An essential work for readers seeking compassionate, wise guidance about the powerful relationship between mothers and their sons and daughters.More

5. Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment

   Daniel A. Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Daniel J. Siegel

   An attachment specialist and a clinical psychologist with neurobiology expertise team up to explore the brain science behind parenting.More

6. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

   Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

   The #1 New York Times best-selling guide to reducing hostility and generating goodwill between siblings.More

7. Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood

   Anne Enright

   A San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick
   
   "Much of the book is astonishingly funny; the rest would break your heart." —Colm TóibínMore

8. Kids on Meds: Up-to-Date Information About the Most Commonly Prescribed Psychiatric Medications

   Kevin T. Kalikow, MD

   A popular guide for consumers about all the psychiatric drugs used with kids.More

9. Teaching and the Adolescent Brain: An Educator's Guide

   Jeb Schenck

   Using cognitive neuroscience to rethink traditional teaching methods and strategies.More

10. Addiction Essentials: The Go-To Guide for Clinicians and Patients

    Carlton K. Erickson

    An up-to-date guide to the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of addictions.More

11. The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with Your Family

    Monica McGoldrick

    The godmother of genograms revises her revelatory work that explores how to reconnect with your past and invent a new future.More

12. Suffer the Children: The Case against Labeling and Medicating and an Effective Alternative

    Marilyn Wedge

    A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioral problems without stigmatizing diagnoses.More

13. Anxiety Disorders: The Go-To Guide for Clients and Therapists

    Carolyn Daitch

    A comprehensive and accessible book on anxiety for clients and therapists alike.More

14. Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook

    Daniel A. Hughes

    A practical workbook companion to Attachment-Focused Family Therapy, the best-selling text that brought attachment into the realm of family therapy.More

15. Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain-Based Teaching

    Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

    Establishing the parameters and goals of the new field of mind, brain, and education science.More