ECS Resources

Several articles are reprinted here to better serve families by offering additional sources of information and explanations of what to expect in an out-of-home placement.

For many parents, the more information they have about their options and realistic expectations, the more confident they feel about making the best choice for the safety and health of their child.

Articles

• Questions to Ask An Educational Consultant
• What Are Placement Options for Struggling Youth?
• Clearing Up Misperceptions of Out-of-Home Placement
• How Do I Know if Out-of-Home Placement Makes Sense
• What to Expect from Placement for Struggling Teens
• What Now? Maximizing The Success of A Therapeutic Placement

Recommended Reading

At ECS, we strive to maintain knowledge of current topics related to our work with at-risk youth and families. One way we do this is by constantly reviewing articles, books and research in the areas relevant to our consulting practice. As part of our ongoing effort to support families we offer a reading list that may prove helpful to those seeking to learn more.

Parenting

• Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child by Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein
• Parenting With Love and Logic by Foster Cline
• Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
• Spoiling Childhood: How Well-Meaning Parents are Giving Children Too Much But Not What They Really Need by Diane Ehrensaft
• The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have: Finding the Right Balance of Character and Achievement for Your Child by Laura and Malcolm Gauld
• The Price of Priviledge: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine
• Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success by Stephen Nowicki, Marshall Duke, and Elizabeth Martin
• 1 2 3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 by Thomas Phelan
• Saying No Is Not Enough: Helping Your Children Make Wise Decisions about Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs. A Guide for Parents of Children Ages 3 through 19 by Robert Schwebel
• What about the Kids? Raising Your Children Before, During and After Divorce by Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakesee
• Get Out of My Life—But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? by Anthony Wolf
  

Learning Disabilities/Developmental Disorders

• Asperger’s Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals by Tony Attwood
• Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Other ASDs by Chantal Sicile-Kira and Temple Grandin
• Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward Hallowell and John Raty
• Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities by Marieke Molenaar-Klumper
• Learning Disabilities: From Theory Toward Practice by Lawrence O’Shea, Dorothy O’Shea, Bob Algozzine

Gender Specific

On Girls

• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher

On Boys

• Real Boys by William Pollack
• Real Boys’ Voices by William Pollack
• Real Boys—Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack and Mary Pipher

Psychological and Behavioral Health

• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross Greene, PhD
• The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood’s Most Misunderstood Disorder by Demitri Papolos and Janice Papolos
• Getting Control by Lee Baer
• The Imp of the Mind by Lee Baer
• OCD in Children and Adolescents by John March and Karen Mulle
• The OCD Workbook by Hyman and Pedrick
• Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
• The Body Remembers : The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild
• I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality Disorder by Jerold J Kreisman and Hal Straus
• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger
• The Monster Within: Overcoming Bulimia by Cynthia Rowland
• Some Body to Love by Leslea Newman
• The Me Nobody Knows: A Guide for Survivors by Barbara Bean and Shari Bennett
• Body Images: Development, Deviance and Change by Thomas Cash and Thomas Pruzinsky
• The Secret Language of Eating Disorders by Peggy Claude-Pierre

Addiction

• Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff
• Tweak by Nic Sheff
• The Lost Years by Kristina Wandzilak and Constance Curry
• Addict In The Family by Beverly Conyers
• Under the Influence: A Guide to the Myths and Realities of Alcoholism by James Robert Mmilam and Katherine Ketcham
• Beyond the Influence: Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism by Katherine Ketcham, William F. Asbury, Mel Schulstad, and Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
• It’s Not Okay to Be a Cannibal: How To Keep Addiction from Eating Your Family Alive by Andrew T. Wainwright
• Alcoholism: The Genetic Inheritance by Kathleen Fitzgerald
• Co-dependent No More: Ho to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
• Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption by William Cope Moyers with Katherine Ketcham

Adoption

• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self by David Rodzinsky, Marshall Schecter and Robin Marantz Henig
• The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Verrier
• Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens by Debbie Riley and John Meeks

Miscellaneous

• Leadership and Self-deception by The Arbinger Institute
• The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute
• Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing our Relationships, Coming To Ourselves by Terry Warner
• What Now? How Teen Therapeutic Programs Could Save Your Child by Paul Case
• Positive Peer Culture by Harry Vorath and Larry Brendtro
• Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
• Changing for Good by James Prochaska, PhD; John Norcross, PhD and Carlo Dicliment, PhD
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend