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Self-Help Library

The Polytechnic Institute of NYU Counseling Center offers a collection of books on a range of topics ranging for getting a good night sleep to overcoming depression to enhancing your personal relationships. NYU-Poly students can borrow books for free! (A small donation is collected as collateral until you return the book). Please stop by the Counseling Center and browse our collection!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counseling Center Self-Help Library

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author

Title

Topic

1

DeLucia

Urban Learners: Serious about college success

 

2

Ferrett

Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond

Acad Success

3

Kanar

The confident student (study skills)

Acad Success

4

Starke

Strategies for college success

Acad Success

 

 

 

 

5

Ackerman

Perfect Daughters: Adult daughters of Alcoholics

Addiction

6

AL-Anon

From Survival to Recovery: Growing up in an alcoholic home

Addiction

7

Coleman & Donley

LifeWork: A Workbook for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Addiction

8

Gold

The Good News about Drugs and Alcohol

Addiction

9

Kirkpatrick

Turnabout: new help for the alcoholic woman

Addiction

10

Kritsberg

The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome: A step-by-step guide to discovery and recovery

Addiction

11

Rosellini & Worden

Taming your turbulent past (adult children of alcoholics)

Addiction

12

Sobell & Sobell

Problem Drinkers: Guided Self-Change Treatment

Addiction

13

Woititz

Adult children of alcoholics

Addiction

14

Young

Caught in the net (internet addiction)

Addiction

 

 

 

 

15

Hallowell & Ratey

Delivered From Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

ADHD/LD

16

Hallowell & Ratey

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

ADHD/LD

17

Kelly & Ramundo

You mean I'm not lazy, stupid, or crazy??

ADHD/LD

18

Kolberg & Nadeau

ADD-friendly ways to organize your life

ADHD/LD

19

Nadeau

Survival Guide for College Students with ADHD/LD.

ADHD/LD

 

 

 

 

20

Bankart

Freeing the Angry Mind: How Men Can Use Mindfulness & Reason to Save Their Lives & Relationships

Anger

21

Childre & Rozman

Transforming Anger

Anger

22

Ellis & Tafrate

How to Control Your Anger Before it Controls You

Anger

23

Freeman

Our Inner World of rage: Understanding and transforming the power of anger

Anger

24

Hanh

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Anger

25

Harbin

Beyond anger: a guide for men

Anger

26

McKay, Rogers, & McKay

When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

Anger

27

Mckay & Rogers

The Anger Control Workbook

Anger

 

 

 

 

28

Arem

Conquering Math Anxiety

Anxiety

29

Beck & Emery

Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective

Anxiety

30

Bourn. & Garano

Coping With Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear, and Worry

Anxiety

31

Bourne

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

Anxiety

32

Ottens

Coping with academic anxiety

Anxiety

33

Rowh

Coping with stress in college

Anxiety

34

Swede & Jaffe

The Panic Attack recovery Book

Anxiety

35

Wilson

Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks

Anxiety

36

Zuecher-White

An End to Panic: Breakthrough Techniques for Overcoming Panic Disorder

Anxiety

 

 

 

 

37

Alberti & Emmons

Your Perfect Right: A Guide to Assertive Living

Assertiveness

38

Katherine

Where to Draw the Line: How to Set up Healthy Boundaries Every Day

Assertiveness

39

Smith

When I say no, I feel guilty

Assertiveness

 

 

 

 

40

Fawcett et al.

New hope for people with bipolar disorder

Bipolar

41

Milkowitz

The bipolar disorder survival guide

Bipolar

 

 

 

 

42

Davidson et al.

Organizations encouraging women in engineering…

Career

43

Bolles

What color is your parachute? (career)

Career

44

Landis

Studying engineering: roadmap to rewarding career

Career

 

 

 

 

45

Bolton

People Skills: How to Assert, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts

Communication

46

Lerner

The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You’re Mad, Hurt,

Communication

 

 

Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate

 

47

McKay, Davis, Fanning,

Messages: The communicatiosn skills book

Communication

 

 

 

 

48

Barron, Montuori, Barron

Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind

Creativity

49

Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Creativity

 

 

 

 

50

Blauner

How I stayed alive when my brain trying to kill me

Depression

51

Burns

Feeling good (2)

Depression

52

Burns

The feeling good handbook

Depression

53

Greenberger & Padesky

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

Depression

54

Jamison

An Unquiet Mind

Depression

55

Lewinsohn

Control Your Depression

Depression

 

 

 

 

56

Ashner & Meyerson

When parents love too much

Family

57

Bradshaw

Bradshaw on: The family

Family

58

Golomb

Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents in their Struggle for Self

Family

59

McGoldrick

You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with your family

Family

60

Miller

Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Family

61

Salk

What Every Child Would Like His Parents to Know

Family

 

 

 

 

62

Borhek

Coming out to parents (gay/lesbian)

GLBT

63

Eichberg

Coming Out: An Act of Love

GLBT

64

Helminiak

What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality.

GLBT

 

 

 

 

65

Colgrove, Bloomfield, & McWilliams

How to Survive the Loss of a Love (2)

Grief

66

Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying

Grief

67

Kubler-Ross

On Death and Dying

Grief

68

Linn

I know how you feel: avoiding cliches of grief

Grief

 

 

 

 

69

Foley & Nechas

Women's encyclopedia of health & emotional healing

Health

70

Pennebaker

Opening up: Healing power of emotions

Health

71

UC Berkeley

Wellness made easy

Health

 

 

 

 

72

Kipnis

Knights Without Armor

Men

 

 

 

 

73

Epstein

Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective

Mindfulness

74

Goldstein & Kornfield

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Mindfulness

75

Hanh

Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Mindfulness

76

Kabat-Zin

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

Mindfulness

77

Tolle

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Mindfulness

 

 

 

 

78

Schackman & Masline

Why does everything have to be perfect?

OCD

79

Schwartz

Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive- Compulsive Behavior

OCD

80

Foa & Wilson

Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions

OCD

 

 

 

 

81

Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Personal Growth

82

Csikszentmihalyi

The evolving Self

Personal Growth

83

Ellis & Harper

A New Guide to Rational Living

Personal Growth

84

Frankel

Man’s Search for Meaning

Personal Growth

85

Gawain

Return to the Garden

Personal Growth

86

Gawain

Living in the Light

Personal Growth

87

Glasser

What are You Doing

Personal Growth

88

May

Freedom and Destiny

Personal Growth

89

Pascal

Jung to Live By

Personal Growth

90

Ruiz

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Personal Growth

91

Seligman

What you can change and what you cant

Personal Growth

92

Spencer

Who Moved My Cheese

Personal Growth

93

Viorst

Necessary Losses

Personal Growth

94

Young & Klosko

Reinventing Your Life

Personal Growth

 

 

 

 

95

Proschaska, Norcross & DiClemente

Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six Stage Program for Overcoming

Positive Psycology

 

 

Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward

 

96

Seligman

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to

Positive Psycology

 

 

Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

 

97

Seligman

Leaned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Positive Psycology

 

 

 

 

98

Sapadin

Beating procrastination and making the grade

Procrastination

99

Covey, Merrill, & Merrill

First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy

Procrastination

 

 

 

 

100

Bancroft

Why Does He Do That: Inside the minds of angry and controlling men

Relationships

101

Forward

When Your lover is a Liar" Healing the wounds of deception and betrayal

Relationships

102

Jottens

Coping with romantic break up

Relationships

103

Kirshenbaum

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help

Relationships

 

 

You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship

 

104

McKay, Fanning, Paleg

Couple skills: Making relationship work

Relationships

105

Raab

Coping with divorce

Relationships

 

 

 

 

106

Hauck

Overcoming the rating game (self esteem)

Self-Esteem

107

McKay & Fanning

Self esteem

Self-Esteem

108

McKay& Fanning

Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing,

Self-Esteem

 

 

Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem

 

109

Sills

Excess baggage: Getting out of your own way

Self-Esteem

 

 

 

 

110

Antony & Swinson

Shyness & social anxiety workbook (2)

Social Anxiety

111

Berent

Beyond shyness

Social Anxiety

112

Burn

Intimate Connections: The New Clinically Tested Program for Overcoming Loneliness

Social Anxiety

113

Hoff

I can see you naked (public speaking)

Social Anxiety

114

Markway et al.

Dying of embarrassment: social anxiety

Social anxiety

115

Rapee

Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia: A Step-by-Step Guide

Social Anxiety

 

 

 

 

116

Bass & Davis

The courage to heal: (child sexual abuse) (2)

Violence/Trauma

117

Bradshaw

Healing the Shame that Binds You

Violence/Trauma

118

Lew

Victims no longer: men recovering from sexual abuse (2)

Violence/Trauma

119

Matsakis

. I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors

Violence/Trauma

120

Pelzer

A Child Called "It": One Child’s Courage to Survive

Violence/Trauma

121

Rosenbloom, Williams, & Watkins

Life after Trauma: A Workbook for Healing

Violence/Trauma

122

Sonkin

Wounded Boys, Heroic Men: A Man’s Guide to Recovering from Child Abuse

Violence/Trauma

123

Warshaw

I never called it rape

Violence/Trauma

124

Wiehe & Richards

Intimate betrayal (acquaintance rape)

Violence/Trauma

 

 

 

 

125

Barbach

For yourself: fulfillment of female sexuality

Women

126

Lerner

The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

Women

127

Lerner

The Dance of Intimacy: A women's guide to courageous acts of change in key relationships

Women

128

Orenstein

School girls: young women, self esteem, & confidence

Women

129

Pipher

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Women

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specifc Concerns

 

130

Grayson & Meilman

Beating the college blues

Adjustment

131

Harpur, Lawlor, Fitzgerald

Succeeding in college with asperger syndrome

Asperger's

132

Lombardo

Sleep to Save Your Life

Sleep

133

Torrey

Surviving schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

134

Wolf

The Beauty Myth

Body Image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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