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Below are some of my favorite other resources for families and schools that I have come across. The list continues to grow!
Recommended Books and Authors
for Parents
Beyond Behaviors
Dr. Mona Delahooke
View Dr. Delahooke’s website here: https://monadelahooke.com
The Explosive Child
Dr. Ross Greene
View Dr. Greene’s website here: www.livesinthebalance.org
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids
and Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings
Dr. Laura Markham
View Dr. Markham’s website here: www.ahaparenting.com
The Body Keeps the Score
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
The Whole-Brain Child
Dr. Dan Siegel
Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control
Heather Forbes and Bryan Post
The 5 Love Languages of Children
Dr. Gary Chapman
Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE
Kim S. Golding and Daniel A. Hughes
Rising Strong
Brené Brown, PhD
Differently Wired
Deborah Reber
Recommended Books and Authors
for Teachers/Professionals
The Impact of Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, MD
Self Care and Resilience
Onward Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
Elena Aguilar
Trauma Stewardship
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk
Rising Strong
Brene’ Brown, PhD
Behavior, Discipline, and Learning
Beyond Behaviors
Dr. Mona Delahooke
Lost at School
Dr. Ross Greene
Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt
Dr. Susan Craig
Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom and
Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation
Kristin Van Marter Souers/ Pete Hall
Helping Traumatized Children Learn (traumasensitiveschools.org)
Massachusetts Advocates for Children
Trauma and Race
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing (The Social Justice Handbook Series)
Anneliese A. Singh PhD
Neurodivergent Students (ASD, ADHD, LD, Gifted) and LGBTQ+ Students
Differently Wired
Deborah Reber
Safe is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students
Michael Sadowski and Kevin Jennings
Executive Function
Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents
Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
Restorative Justice
Using Restorative Circles in Schools
Berit Follestad and Nina Wroldsen
The Restorative Classroom
Belinda Hopkin
System-Wide Practices in Schools
Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students
Eric Rossun PhD and Robert Hull
Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools
Jen Alexander
Unwritten, The Story of a Living System: A Pathway to Enlivening and Transforming Education
Dr. Lori Desautels
Connection over Compliance
Dr. Lori Desautels (to be released in 2021)
The Trauma-Informed School: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide for Administrators and School Personnel
Heather Forbes and Jim Sporleder
Trauma Informed Practices in Early Childhood Education
Nicholson, Perez, and Kurtz
Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset
George Couros and Katie Novak