Book Recommendations

  • Children’s Books

  • Coping Skills

  • Disability

  • Mental Health

  • Self-Help

Books Related to Occupational Therapy

• Building Bridges through Sensory Integration: by Paula Aquilla, Ellen Yack, Shirley Sutton, and Carol Kranowitz

• Documentation Manual for Occupational Therapy: Writing SOAP Notes by Crystal Gateley and Sherry Borcherding

• Occupational Therapy Goal Bank & Goal Writing by Shannen Marie

• The Out-of-Sync Child by Carol Kranowitz

• Sexuality and Intimacy by Kathryn Ellis

• Trauma, Occupation, and Participation by Amy Lynch, Rachel Ashcraft, and Lisa Tekell

• Willard and Spackman’s Occupational Therapy by Glen Gillen and Catana Brown

All Other Topics

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    Children's Books

    • The ABCs of Inclusion by Beth Leipholt

    • The Boy with Big, Big Feelings by Britney Winn Lee

    • Don’t Feed the Worry Bug by Andi Green

    • Ezra’s Invisible Backpack by Dina Rock and Hannah Cohen

    • Invisible Things by Andy J. Pizza and Sophie Miller

    • Maybe Tomorrow? (A story about loss, healing, and friendship) by Charlotte Agell

    • When Sadness Comes to Call by Eva Eland

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    Coping Skills

    • The Explosive Child by Ross Greene

    • Living Beautifully: With Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chödrön

    • The Orchid and the Dandelion by W. Thomas Boyce List Item

    • Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett

    • Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger

    • Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky

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    Disability

    • The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin

    • A Disability History of the United States by Kim Nielsen

    • Deaf Culture by Irene Leigh, Jean F Andrews, and Raychelle L. Harris

    • Disability Invisibility edited by Alice Wong

    • Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon

    • The Psychosocial Impact of Illness and Disability by Irmo Marini and Mark Stebnicki

    • Spectrum Women by Barb Cook and Michelle Garnett

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    Mental Health

    • Addicted to Unhappiness by Martha Heineman Pieper and William Joseph Pieper

    • Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

    • Disorders of Childhood by Robin Hornik Parritz and Michael Troy

    • Driven to Distraction by Edward Hallowell

    • Food Addiction by Kay Sheppard

    • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. by Bessel van der Kolk

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    Self-Help

    • The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner

    • Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

    • Emotional Intensity and Sensitivity by Imi Lo

    • How to Talk So Children Will Listen & Listen So Children Will Talk

    • This Is Your Brain On Food by Uma Naidoo

    • Why Won’t You Just Apologize? By Dr. Harriet Lerner