Important Books to Read for Mental Health Counselor’s and Marriage & Family Therapists

The following list of books was shared with me by a mentor, Tyler Fitzgerald, LMFT.  I hope this list proves as useful to others.

DSM-5: https://amzn.to/2CeTY9J

On Becoming A Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy https://amzn.to/2RLDF9C

Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller  https://amzn.to/2CFoPx9

Co-Dependent No More – Melanie Beatty  https://amzn.to/2RJuIgO

Big Book of A.A. 4th Edition  https://amzn.to/2RLaVh5

Nursing Book of Medications (most current year)  https://amzn.to/2IUkxlI

Theories of Personality  https://amzn.to/2pRnU43

Treatment Planning for Psychotherapy  https://amzn.to/2CHRWjh

Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy – Irvin D. Yalom  https://amzn.to/2CfatTc

On Death and Dying – Elizabeth Kubler Ross  https://amzn.to/2QKGJBm

Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children – Ellen Bass  https://amzn.to/2CdrP2L

Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated – Anthony E. Wolf  https://amzn.to/2CHmf9Q

I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality –Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus  https://amzn.to/2CGhr4q

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder – Paul T. Mason & Randi Kreger  https://amzn.to/2RLTrkU

Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together – Robert A. Bernstein, Robert MacNeil, and Betty DeGeneres  https://amzn.to/2pQa4yU

Making Peace with Your Parents – Howard Bloomfield  https://amzn.to/2CGwomX

How to Survive the Loss of a Love – Melba Colgrove  https://amzn.to/2yeZ7vo

The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment  https://amzn.to/2CFrd75

Adult Children of Alcoholics by Gravitz & Bowden  https://amzn.to/2QOVP9a

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