Recommended Reads

Our expert presenters have put together a must-read list of recommended reading on behaviour guidance, child protection, neurodiversity, trauma, child health and safety, and much more.

This page was last updated on 31/10/2025. Book prices listed are in NZD and were accurate as of that date but may change. As an Amazon affiliate, books can be purchased directly via the links provided on this page.

Beyond Behaviours: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioural Challenges

Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behaviour and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids

The Explosive Child (Revised, Updated): A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition]: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

Overcoming Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A Two-Part Treatment Plan to Help Parents and Kids Work Together

The Teacher's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Lost at School

Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students (and, While You're At It, All the Others)

Lost & Found: Unlocking Collaboration and Compassion to Help Our Most Vulnerable, Misunderstood Students (and All the Rest)

Let's Go, Flo!

A "5" Could Make Me Lose Control! An Activity-Based Method for Evaluating and Supporting Highly Anxious Students

DBT Cards for Coping Skills: 125 DBT Skills and Strategies to Find Balance, Joy, and Purpose

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Discipline with Dignity for Challenging Youth

Discipline with Dignity: How to Build Responsibility, Relationships, and Respect in Your Classroom

You and Your Adolescent: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

Defiant Teens, First Edition: A Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Family Intervention

Your Defiant Teen: 10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship

Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved

Managing ADHD in Schools: The Best Evidence-Based Methods for Teachers

Understanding Girls with ADHD, Updated and Revised: How They Feel and Why They Do What They Do

Ready for Take-Off: Preparing Your Teen with ADHD or LD for College

Self-Regulation and Mindfulness: Over 82 Exercises & Worksheets for Sensory Processing Disorder, Adhd, & Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Brain Forest

Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Problem Behaviour

Raising a Sensory Smart Child

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Interoception and Regulation: Teaching Skills of Body Awareness and Supporting Connection with Others

Visual Supporters for Visual Thinkers

Visual Support for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Guide to Writing Social Stories™: Step-by-Step Guidelines for Parents and Professionals

Managing the Cycle of Meltdowns for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Helping Autistic Teens to Manage Their Anxiety: Strategies and Worksheets Using Cbt, Dbt, and Act Skills

The Social Survival Guide for Teens on the Autism Spectrum: How to Make Friends and Navigate Your Emotions

The Parents' Practical Guide to Resilience for Preteens and Teenagers on the Autism Spectrum

Getting into the Game: Sports Programs for Kids with Autism

A Little SPOT of Emotion 8 Plush Toys with Feelings Book Box Set

A Little SPOT of Feelings 8 Book Box Set (Book 25-32: Empathy, Frustration, Calm, Belonging, Worry, Boredom, Flexible Thinking, & Feelings Detective)

A Little SPOT Emotional Regulation Box Set (Books 49-56: Peaceful Hands, Anger Shield, Needs Feelings, Sleep, Disappointment, Wasted Worry, Positive Thinking, and Emotion Coach)

A Little SPOT of Anxiety: A Story About Calming Your Worries

A Little SPOT of Anger: A Story About Managing BIG Emotions

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, 3rd Edition: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

On Angels' Wings: My Flight from Trauma to Grace

Raising Parents - 2nd Edition

The Recovery of Rose Gold

Darling Rose Gold

See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse

Young offenders on community orders: Health, Welfare and Criminogenic Needs

101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward

Fish! A remarkable way to boost morale and improve results

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions: The Inspirational Story of One Man's Quest to Become a Modern Day Warrior

Good to Great : Why Some Companies Make the Leap & Others Don't

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All Book Authors

Bruce D Perry
Maia Szalavitz
Ross W. Greene
Barbara Cooper
Nancy Widdows
Russell A. Barkley
Arthur L. Robin
Varleisha Gibbs
Theresa E. Laurie Maitland
Patricia O. Quinn

Kathleen Nadeau
Ellen Littman
Richard L. Curwin
Allen N. Mendler
Brian D. Mendler
Daniel J. Siegel
Laurence Steinberg
Hsieh, T
Dweck, C
Bidois, N

Lisa Rogers
Emma Goodall
Wenn Lawson
Rebecca Moyes
Kari Dunn Buron
Arnold P. Goldstein
Yenn Purkis
Jeanette Purkis
Temple Grandin
Lindsey Sterling

Sandhya Menon
Mona Delahooke
Geoff Colvin
Martin R. Sheehan
Richard L. Simpson
Lindsey Biel
Nancy Peske
Collins, J
Roberts, K
Lundin, S et al