Bibliotherapy for many types of trauma and disorders:
Adolescent girls – Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
Aging – Another Country, Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders by Mary Pipher
Anorexia– The Anorexia Diaries: A Mother and Daughter’s Triumph Over Teenage Eating Disorders by Linda and Tara Rio
Anxiety/Depression – The Feeling Good Handbook by David M. Burns, MD
Borderline Personality Disorder – I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me by J. Kreisman and H. Straus
Children’s bibliotherapy – the Carnegie Library has a nice list on many topics
Cutting – Cut by Patricia McCormick
Happiness – Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hansen, the neuroscience of rewiring your brain for contentment and calm.
Meth addiction (parent’s perspective) – Beautiful Boy: A Father’s
Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff
Trauma– Getting Past Your Past – by Francine Shapiro about using EMDR to resolve trauma