Addiction/Recovery

Assessment & Referrals for Santa Clara County:

1. • Call GATEWAY 1-800-488-9919
   

Meetings (in Santa Clara County):

1. • Narcotics Anonymous http://www.sjna.org/narcotic.htm
   

2. • Alcoholics Anonymous http://www.aasanjose.org/
   

Books:

1. • Sober for Good, Fletcher
   

Children and Divorce

A colleague’s article about talking to your children about divorce:  http://www.mcmanisfaulkner.com/documents/HOWTOTALKTOCHILDRENABOUTDIVORCE.pdf

Domestic Violence/Anger Management

Crisis support:

1. • If you are in need of immediate help call 911
   

2. • National Domestic Violence Hotline
   1-800-799-SAFE
   1-800-787-3224 TDD
   

3. • Support and Services (408) 261-5890
   

Grief/Loss

Local Events & Resources:

1. • Centre for Living with Dying (408) 980 - 9801
   

Books:

1. • On Children and Death, How Children and Their Parents Can and Do Cope with Death, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
   

2. • The Wheel of Life, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
   

3. • Healing Your Grieving Heart For Kids, 100 Practical Ideas, Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
   

4. • The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, A Story of LIfe for All Ages, Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.
   

5. • Water Bugs & Dragonflies, Explaining Death to Young Children, Doris Stickney (religious)
   

Men

Books:

1. • The Measure of a Man, Becoming the Father You Wish Your Father Had Been, Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Ph.D
   

2. • The Seasons of a Man's Life, Levinson, Darrow, Klein, Levinson, McKee
   

Parenting

Local Classes:

1. • YWCA Parent Education 408-395-4011
   

Books:

1. • The Parent's Handbook: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting, Don Dinkmeyer, Sr.
   

2. • Parenting Young Children: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting, Don Dinkmeyer, Sr.
   

3. • Parenting Teenagers: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting, Don Dinkmeyer, Sr.
   

4. • Positive Discipline, Jane Nelson, Ed.D
   

5. • Driven to Distraction, Hallowell M.D., Ratey M.D.
   

6. • Real Boys, Rescuing Our Boys from the Myths of Boyhood, William Pollack, Ph.D
   

7. • Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher, Ph.D
   

8. • Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, Energetic, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
   

9. • What to Expect When You're Expecting, Eisenberg, Murkoff, and Hathaway
   

10. • What to Expect The First Year, Eisenberg, Murkoff, and Hathaway
    

11. • What to Expect The Toddler Years, Eisenberg, Murkoff, and Hathaway
    

12. • The Baby Book, Everything You Need to Know about Your Child from Birth to Age Two, Sears & Sears
    

Relationships

Books:

1. • Dance of Anger, Harriett Lerner
   

2. • Dance of Intimacy, Harriett Lerner
   

3. • Passionate Marriage, David Schnarch, Ph.D
   

4. • Hot Monogamy, Patricia Love & Jo Robinson
   

5. • Getting the Love You Want, Harville Hendrix
   

6. • Keeping the Love You Find, Harville Hendrix
   

Sexual Assault

Crisis Support:

1. • YWCA Rape Crisis Hotline (408)287-3000
   

Stress

Books:

1. • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Sapolsky
   

2. • Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D
   

3. • First Things First, Stephen Covey