Parent Resources
We want to welcome you our Parent Resources, which has been developed with the intention of helping caregivers with resources you can use to support your children and teens. Your role is vital and integral to the success of children; positive parental involvement provide many positive benefits to your child’s well-being.
Parenting:
Beyond Behaviors by Mona Delahooke, PhD (book)
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel Siegel (book)
CDC Child Development Resources (website)
Child-Centered Play Therapy (website)
Healthy Children (website)
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish (book)
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Joanna Faber and Julie King
Kids Health (website)
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson (book)
Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen (book)
Siblings without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (book)
The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell (book)
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them by Elaine N. Aron, PhD (book)
The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel Siegel, MD (book)
General Mental Health:
Child Counseling/Play Therapy:
Learning Differences:
Learning Disabilities of America (website)
Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz, MD (book)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD):
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit to Distraction Disorder by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey (book)
How to ADHD (YouTube Channel)
Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare (book)
Taking Charge of ADHD by Russell Barkley, PhD (book)
Autism:
The Awesome Autistic Go-To Guide: A Practical Handbook for Autistic Teens and Tweens by Yenn Purkins & Tanya Masterman
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) (website)
Neuroclastic (website)
Uniquely Human by Barry Prizant, PhD
Trauma:
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (website)
Trauma through a Child’s Eyes by Peter Levine & Maggie Kline (book)
Emergency Contacts:
Rockwall County Emergency Services: 9-1-1
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Abuse Hotline: 1.800.252.5400
United Way National Hotline: 2-1-1
Suicide/Teen Crisis Hotline: 972.233.TEEN
Rape Crisis Center: 210-349-7273
Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas Hotline: 214.828.1000
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1.888.799.7233
National Runaway Safeline: 1.800.786.2929
Texas Runaway Hotline: 1.888.580.HELP