Dr. FONTANETTA’s LIBRARY

*Disclaimer*

Dr. F’s recommendations do not indicate that she agrees with everything that is stated/others’ opinions within these books, but it is helpful to read, digest and form your own opinions by understanding others perspectives.

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Cover of the 10th anniversary edition of the book 'NeuroTribes' by Steve Silberman, featuring an illustration of colorful butterflies and plants.
Book cover titled 'GIFTED CHILDREN & How TRAUMA IMPACTS THEM' by Adam C. Laningham, Dr. Melissa Sadin, and Nathan Levy. Features a green, blue, and red marker, and a simple illustration of three children holding hands.
Book cover for "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" by Roy Richard Grinker. The cover has a dark gray background with colorful polka dots and a white border. The title and author's name are in white text, with some text in italics and yellow.
Cover of the book titled 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman, with a yellow pencil at the bottom and a quote at the bottom.
Book cover titled "Gifted Children" by Ellen Winner, showing a young girl in a fancy dress with a large bow in her hair, holding the edge of her dress, in black and white.
Book cover titled 'Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health' by Micha Frazer-Carroll, featuring a white silhouette of a head surrounded by colorful arrows pointing in various directions.
Book cover titled 'It Didn't Start With You' by Mark Wolynn, featuring illustrations of two human profiles and a DNA helix, with a medallion indicating it won the Nautilus Book Award.
Close-up of a poster with colored lines and text, featuring quotes and a book title about psychiatry and media influence.
Book cover of 'The Patient Will See You Now' by Eric Topol, with a red background and bold black and white text.
Book cover titled "Notes of a Former Caseworker" by Jessica Pryce, focusing on transforming child protective services with a black and white photo strip of a woman and child.
Book cover titled "I See You, Survivor" by Liz Ianelli, with Brett Witter, featuring an orange background, a black and white hand holding a tree, and a quote from Maia Szalavitz at the top.
Cover of a book titled "The Book of Woe: The Dsm and the Unmaking of Psychiatry" by Gary Greenberg, with a quote from Dwight Garner of The New York Times.
Book cover titled 'Consciousness and the Social Brain' by Michael S. A. Graziano, featuring illustration of two colorful, abstract, running dogs.
Book cover titled "Navigating Special Education: A Parent's Guide To Rights And Advocacy" by Dana A. Jonson. Features a yellow road sign that reads "IEP Ahead" and two green signs that say "Know Your Rights" with a left arrow and "Ask for Services" with a right arrow. Illustrates a road with trees and a clear blue sky.
Book cover titled 'What Do You Say? How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home' by William Stixrud, PhD, and Ned Johnson, with a subtitle highlighting advice on communication with children.
Book cover titled "What Every Parent Needs to Know" with shapes in orange circle, pink pentagon, purple square, blue crescent, green triangle, and yellow triangle. Subtitle: "A psychologist's guide to raising happy, nurtured children." Author: Dr. Margot Sunderland.
Book cover for 'Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me' by Anna Mehler Paperny, with bold pink and red text on a yellow background.
Cover of a book titled 'Failing Students or Failing Schools? A Parent's Guide to Reading Instruction and Intervention' by Faith Borkowsky, showing a small child sitting on the floor with arms around their knees, next to several stacked books, in front of a blackboard.
Book cover titled 'The Violence Project' featuring a map of the United States with orange target crosshairs over multiple locations. Top quote by Nicole Hockley, and authors Jillian Peterson and James Densley. Subtitle 'How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic'.
Book cover titled "The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain" by Brock Eide, MD, MA, and Fernette Eide, MD, with a blue background, white and yellow text, and images of four eggs at the bottom, one yellow and three white.
Cover of a book titled "Open When..." by Dr. Julie Smith, with various text phrases about stress, difficult people, and support, and a colorful circle with the text "A Companion for Life's Twists & Turns."
Book cover titled 'Unapologetically ADHD' by Nikki Kinzer, PCC, and Pete D. Wright, with a dark background and minimalistic design featuring a clock and line illustration.
Book cover titled "Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child" by Kelley Coleman, with subtitle "Your Guide to the Essential Systems, Services, and Supports."
Book cover titled "Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies" by Renee Linklater with a foreground illustration of a bird, possibly an eagle, within a circular outline, over a light background.
Book cover titled "Born Under the Gaslight" by Cindy Collins, with foreword by Dr. Sheila S Cohen. The background features a word cloud in a skull shape with terms like 'abandonment,' 'fear,' 'trauma,' 'betrayal,' and 'anxiety.' The top section has a torn paper look with purple text reading "A Memoir of My Descent Into Borderline Personality Disorder."
Cover of the book "Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century," edited by Alice Wong, with colorful geometric shapes and a quote at the top.
Book cover titled "Overcoming School Avoidance" by Jayne Demsky, with a subtitle "What to Do When Your Kid Won't Go to School" and a note "Founder of the School Avoidance Alliance".
Book cover of 'The Reason I Jump' by Naoki Higashida, with an introduction by David Mitchell, featuring blue and yellow butterflies and a silhouette of a boy looking up.
Book cover titled 'be different' with four yellow chicks standing on a wire against a blue sky background, featuring a quote from Temple Grandin.
Book cover of 'Why Gender Matters' by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D., featuring speech bubbles and indicating a second edition.
Book cover of 'Divergent Mind' by Jenara Nerenberg, featuring a colorful abstract profile of a human face made of jagged shapes on a blue gradient background. The subtitle reads, 'Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You.'
A person standing in a dimly lit hallway with blue tones, back turned, wearing a hoodie, with light streaming through a window behind them.
Book cover titled 'The Coddling of the American Mind' by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, with a red background and illustrations of small military-style figures and rockets.
Book cover titled 'Running on Empty No More' by Jonice Webb, PhD, with subtitle 'Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children' and a quote from Harville Hendrix about emotional neglect.
Book cover titled 'Dopamine Nation' with colorful splash background and subtitle 'Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence' by Anna Lembke, MD.
Book cover titled 'Unbroken Brain' by Maia Szalavitz with a subtitle 'A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction.' The cover has colorful bokeh background with the title and author's name prominently displayed.
Book cover titled 'Saving Normal' by Allen Frances, M.D. with a red background and a torn paper effect showing the definition of 'normal' as an insider's revolt against psychiatric diagnosis.
Book cover titled 'The Collapse of Parenting' by Leonard Sax showing a silhouette of two adults and a child walking on a beach at sunset.
Book cover titled 'IF I DON'T MAKE IT, I LOVE YOU: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings', showing a bird's eye view of a school shooting scene with people gathered outside, some lying on the ground, with cars parked nearby, and a palm tree in the foreground.
Book cover titled 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear, featuring a dotted gold-colored word 'Atomic Habits' and text indicating over 25 million copies sold. The cover suggests the book provides easy and proven methods to build good habits and break bad ones.
Book cover of 'The Certainty Illusion' by Timothy Caulfield, featuring a chess pawn casting a shadow of a king.
Book cover for 'Mad House' by Clea Simon, featuring a young child walking on a dark street at night, with the title in bright green and yellow text.
Book cover titled "Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues." The cover features a wooden mannequin sitting with one knee bent and the other leg extended, with its head resting on its hand. The background is a soft blend of light blue and green colors.
Book cover for 'Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty' by Patrick Radden Keefe, featuring a classical column against a black background.
Book cover titled "Unmasking Autism" by Devon Price, PhD, with a subtitle "Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity" and an author note "author of Laziness Does Not Exist" at the bottom.
Book cover titled 'The Whole Brain Child' by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., featuring a white silhouette of a child's head against a teal background with colorful text and a red circle indicating over 1 million copies sold.
Book cover for 'The Death of Truth' by Steven Brill featuring distorted, colorful text and subtitle about social media, internet, and truth.
Book cover titled 'The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture' by Gabor Maté, MD, with Daniel Maté. Bright yellow, orange, and red background with black and white text.
Cover of a book titled "Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality" by Anne Fausto-Sterling. The background is orange with large white and purple text.
Book cover titled "Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines" by Jonathan Mooney, featuring colorful horizontal lines.
Book cover titled "Mind the Science" by Jonathan N. Stea, PhD, with a wooden diffuser emitting vapor or steam against a purple background.
Book cover titled 'Autistic and Black: Our Experiences of Growth, Progress, and Empowerment' by Kala Allen Omeiza, featuring a stylized snail illustration at the bottom.
Book cover titled 'The Knowledge Gap' by Natalie Wexler. It features a stack of papers and books with torn paper in the middle. Blue background.
The book cover for "The End of Gender" features black background with intersecting white gender symbols. Title in red text: "The End of Gender". Subtitle reads, "Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society." Upper right corner contains the author's name, Dr. Debra Soh, along with her titles, and a quote in white text from Eric R. Weinstein, PhD.
Cover of a book titled "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell, with a red background, black and white text, and a pattern of white dots surrounding the subtitle.
Cover of a book titled "Your Special Education Rights: What Your School District Isn’t Telling You" by Jennifer Laviano and Julie Swanson. The cover features an image of a red brick school building and a dark sky background.
Book cover titled 'Torn Apart' by Dorothy Roberts, featuring a torn red paper revealing a black and white photo of two hands holding each other, with a part of a striped sweater visible.
Book cover titled 'A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain' by Sara Manning Peskin, featuring colorful DNA helix graphics along the left side.
Book cover titled "Becoming Unsilenced" with a black and white portrait of a woman with long, wavy hair. Subtitle: "Surviving and Fighting the Troubled Teen Industry." Author: Meg Applegate.
Book cover titled 'How Emotions Are Made' by Lisa Feldman Barrett, featuring a colorful, abstract watercolor illustration of a brain.
Book cover for "Empire of Normality" by Robert Chapman, featuring illustrations of various colorful hummingbirds and birds inside the silhouette of a human head.
Book cover titled "Gifted and Distractable" with a silhouette of a jumping child surrounded by colorful illustrations of a paper airplane, soccer ball, trumpet, speech bubble with a question mark, paint palette with brushes, kite, and atom symbol. The subtitle mentions understanding and supporting twice exceptional children, by Julie F. Skolnick.
Book cover titled 'Why Brains Need Friends' with a subtitle 'The Neuroscience of Social Connection' and author's name 'Ben Rein, PhD', featuring a colorful illustration of a brain hugging itself.
Book cover titled "Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies" by Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, and Lori Holden, with a foreword by Joyce Maguire Pavao, Ed.D.
Book cover with teal background, featuring the title 'The Cure for Everything' by Timothy Caulfield, and an image of a red apple with a leaf.
Book cover titled 'Mind Over Matter' by Dr. Trish Leigh with a red 'X' crossing out the title. Subtitle reads 'Quit Porn and Improve Intimacy Through Neuroscience.'
Cover of a book titled 'Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism' by Barry M. Prizant, PhD, featuring two children jumping joyfully on the beach.
The cover of the book titled "The Neurodiversity Edge" by Maureen Dunne, marked as a National Bestseller, with a butterfly illustration made of colorful squares.
Book cover titled 'The Age of Diagnosis' with an abstract illustration of a human figure in light lines and colorful intersecting lines, and subtitle 'How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sick' by Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan.
Book cover titled 'Decolonizing Therapy' by Jennifer Mullan, PsyD, with a brown background and an image of a tree trunk and a red heart-shaped object.
Book cover titled 'Beyond Borderline' with subtitle 'True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder,' featuring a woman in a gray dress and sandals walking on a gray background with blue lines.
Book cover titled "Hold On to Your Kids" by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., and Gabor Maté, M.D., featuring a sprouting plant.
Book cover titled "The Grieving Child" by Helen Fitzgerald, featuring a hand-drawn illustration of a crying girl with red hair, wearing a red dress, against a purple background.
Cover of the book titled 'How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain' by Jessica McCabe, featuring a stylized diagram of a brain and a yellow badge indicating it is a New York Times bestseller.
Book cover titled 'Over My Head' by Claudia L. Osborn, featuring a blurred portrait of a woman in the background.
Cover of a book titled "Warning Signs" about identifying school shooters, authored by Peter Langman, Ph.D.
Book cover titled 'The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More' by Elaine Taylor-Klaus.
Book cover titled "Help at Any Cost" with subtitle about the troubled-teen industry, author Maia Szalavitz, featuring a dark background with an office chair and a window.
Book cover with the words "Foolproof" repeated multiple times in bold red and black text, with a subtitle "Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity" by Sander van der Linden.
Book cover titled 'Shouting at Leaves' by Jennifer Msumba, featuring an illustrated girl reading under a large autumn tree with orange leaves against an orange background.
Book cover titled 'Family Unfriendly' by Timothy P. Carney, depicting a playground slide on an open grassy field with a cloudy blue sky background.
Book cover titled 'School Shooters' with a subtitle 'Understanding high school, college, and adult perpetrators' by Peter Langman. The cover features a red spiral drawing on the background and a pencil on the left side.
Book cover for 'The Anxious Generation' by Jonathan Haidt, featuring a young girl sitting among yellow and blue balls while looking at her phone.
Book cover of 'The Power of Different' by Gail Saltz, M.D., featuring an abstract illustration of a human profile made of interconnected lines.
Book cover titled 'The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality' by Kathryn Paige Harden, featuring a colorful DNA strand pattern on a white background.
Book cover titled 'Siblings: Brothers and sisters of children with disability' by Kate Strohm, labeled as a revised edition, featuring a blurred black-and-white photo of a child and an adult holding hands outdoors.
Book cover of "Language at the Speed of Sight" by Mark Seidenberg, featuring a quote at the top, the author's name in large blue font, the title in red, and a subtitle in green, with a faint background of related text.
Book cover titled "Raising Trans Kids" by Rebecca Minor, LPCSW, with images of various shoes, including sneakers, dress shoes, and sandals, arranged vertically between the words.
Book cover titled "Digital Madness" by Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D., with a dark background and images of four people looking at their phones.
Book cover titled "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" by Lindsay C. Gibson featuring white paper cutouts of a female, two children, and a male on a wooden surface background.
Cover of the book titled "The Family Firm" by Emily Oster, a bright blue background with a simple illustration of a calendar with checkmarks and a red apple.
Book cover titled 'The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills' by Jesse Singal, with a bold orange background and large black text.
Book cover titled 'Falling Our Future' with subtitle about grades and students, author Joshua R. Eyler, features a photo of a worn yellow pencil with a pink eraser on a light blue background.
Book cover for 'Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters' by Peter Langman, Ph.D., featuring close-up black and white photos of three children's eyes and faces, with the title and author's name.
Book cover of "Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World" by Deborah Reber. The cover features a child lying in the snow making a snow angel, dressed in winter clothes with a red scarf and hat, framed by a red border.
Book cover titled 'Punished by Rewards' by Alfie Kohn, 25th anniversary edition, with subtitle 'The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes'.
Book cover titled 'Free To Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity' by Jack Turban, MD. The background has pink, blue, purple, and white abstract shapes.
Book cover with colored paper strips reading 'Laziness Does Not Exist' by Devon Price, Ph.D.
Book cover titled 'The IEP Checklist: Your Guide to Creating Meaningful and Compliant IEPs, Second Edition' by Clarissa E. Rosas and Kathleen G. Winterman. The cover features an illustration of a woman holding a giant pencil next to a clipboard with a checklist.
Cover of a book titled "IEP Guide for All" with a picture of a teacher and two students in a classroom, discussing. The book is authored by Jennifer Laviano and Julie Swanson and appears to focus on individualized education programs for parents and teachers.
Book cover titled "Indigenous Healing Psychology" by Richard Katz, Ph.D., with indigenous-style patterns in brown, orange, black, and cream colors.
Book cover titled "Talking About BPD" by Rosie Cappuccino, with subtitle "A Stigma-Free Guide to Living a Calmer, Happier Life with Borderline Personality Disorder," featuring colorful text and doodle-like lines on a light background.
Book cover titled 'ADHD 2.0' by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D., with subtitle 'New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction— from Childhood Through Adulthood'
Book cover titled 'Siblings: Brothers and sisters of children with disability' by Kate Strohm, featuring a blurred black-and-white photo of a brother and sister holding hands near the beach with a small brown dog, revised edition.
Book cover titled 'The Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss' by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, featuring three images of a young girl sitting in front of an old chair, with a quote by Isadore Rostenfeld.
The cover of the book titled "Born Extraordinary" by Meg Zucker, featuring colorful confetti and celebratory graphics on a blue background.
Book cover titled 'Love, Sex & Autism' by Candice Christiansen, LCMHC, featuring a quote from Tony Attwood, PhD, about building understanding and connection, with a subtitle about intimacy and neurodivergence.
Book cover titled 'Sincerely, Your Autistic Child' with confetti-like decorations and subtitle about what people on the autism spectrum wish parents knew. Edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, and Morénike Giwa Onaibu.
Book cover of 'The Misfit's Manifesto' by Lidia Yuknavitch, featuring an abstract background with orange, black, white, and colorful paint splashes, and a quote at the top.
Book cover titled 'Special Education Law' by Peter W. D. Wright and Pamela Darr Wright. Illustrates a courtroom scene with a judge and lawyers.
Book cover titled "We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation" by Eric Garcia, featuring a design with cut-out letters filled with multi-colored abstract shapes.
Book cover titled 'Autism Out Loud' with a child jumping into a body of water on a dock, against a blue sky background, by authors Kate Swenson, Carrie Cariello, and Adrian Wood.
Book cover titled "A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children" by Phyllis R. Silverman and Madelyn Kelly, featuring a child sitting on grass flying a pink kite over a calm ocean with a clear sky.
Book cover titled "Magnificent Minds: The New Whole-Child Approach to Autism" by Suzanne Goh, MD, featuring a person with a backpack looking up at colorful, abstract brain-shaped illustrations.
Book cover titled 'Being the Other One' by Kate Strohm with a black and white photo of two children holding hands outdoors.
Book cover titled 'MAD IN AMERICA' with a beige straitjacket image and subtitle about mental illness research