Recommended CBT Books and Readings

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy 

Our team has extensively studied Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for diverse populations and a wide range of mental health concerns. To support your journey toward a meaningful and fulfilling life, we’ve compiled a list of CBT books that offer valuable insights, practical strategies, and expert guidance.

Whether you’re looking to manage anxiety, overcome negative thought patterns, or develop healthier coping mechanisms, these resources can help you apply CBT techniques in your daily life.

Discover the right CBT book for your needs and take the next step toward personal growth and well-being.

Recommended Books for Adults

• The Mindful Way Workbook
• The Mindful Way through Depression
• Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition)

Recommended Books for Adolescents

• Anxiety
  • The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens by Jennifer Shannon
• Depression
  • Helping your Teenager Beat Depression by Katharina Manassis
  • Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens by Sheri Van Dijk
  • The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens by Lisa Schab, LCSW
• Anger
  • The Anger Workbook for Teens by Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, MS
    • Read more about Anger Management.
• Organization
  • The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens by Sharon Hansen

Divorce Books for Children

• The Divorce Workbook for Children by Lisa Schab, LCSW

Mindfulness Meditation Books for Children

• Peaceful Piggy Meditation by Kerry Lee MacLean
• Moody Cow Meditates by Kerry Lee MacLean
• Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children by Thich Nhat Hanh
• 10 Mindful Minutes by G. Hawn
• What Does it Mean to be Present? by Rana DiOrio

Read more about Mindfulness Meditation.

Teasing and Bullying Books

• Don’t Pick On Me: Help for Kids to Stand Up to and Deal with Bullies by Susan Green
• Stop Picking On Me! by Pat Thomas and Lesley Harker
• Mom, They’re Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems by Michael Thompson
• The Bully, The Bullied, and The Bystander by Barbara Coloroso

Recommended Readings for Children with Depression

• What to Do When You Grumble Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Negativity by Dawn Huebner
• When I Feel Sad by Cornelia Maude Spelman
• The Hyena Who Lost Her Laugh by Jessica Lamb Shapiro

Books for Children with Behavioural Problems and Anger

• What to Do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger by Ph.D. Dawn Huebner and Bonnie Matthews
• The Explosive Child by Ross Green
• Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps To Better Behavior by Russell A. Barkley and Christine M. Benton
• Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent and Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
• A Volcano In My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger by Eliane Whitehouse and Warwick Pudney

Anxiety Books for Children

• What to Do When You Worry Too Much by Dawn Huebner
• What to Do When You are Scared and Worried by James J. Crist
• Keys to Parenting your Anxious Child by Katharina Manassis
• OCD: Talking back to OCD John March
• What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck by Dawn Huebner
• Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children’s Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Treatment by A.P. Wagner, PhD

Books for Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ by Daniel Goleman

Recommended Reading for Weight Loss

• The Beck Diet Solution: Weight Loss Workbook by Judith S. Beck, PhD

Books for Perfectionism

• When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism by Martin M. Antony, PhD and Richard P. Swinson, MD

Relationships Recommended Readings

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson
• When Anger Hurts your Relationships by M. Paleg, Ph.D. and K. McKay, PhD
• 75 Habits for a Happy Marriage by Ashley David Bush
• When Your Lover is a Liar by Susan Forward
• After the Affair by Janis A Spring
• When Anger Hurts Your Kids by Matthew McKay

Books for ADD and ADHD

• Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by Russell A. Barkley, PhD
• A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté, MD

Trauma-Focused CBT Books

• Books for Chronic Pain ManagementHealing Trauma by Peter Levine, PhD
• The PTSD Workbook by Mary Beth Williams, PhD, LCSW, CTS and S. Poijula, PhD

• Managing Pain Before it Manages You by M. Caudill
• Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain by Beverly Thorn

Books for Personality Disorders

• The Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Workbook, Matthew McKay
• The Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook for Personality Disorders by Jeffrey Wood
• Reinventing your Life by Jeffrey Young and J. Klosko
• Disarming the Narcissist by W. Behary
• Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan
• Without Conscience by Robert D. Hare, PhD
• The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living with Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Randi Kreger

Read more on our website:

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Mindfulness Meditation Recommended Readings

• Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse by Zindel V. Segal, J. Mark G. Williams and John D. Teasdale
• The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination by S. Kumar

CBT Social Anxiety Books

• Dying of Embarrassment Barbara Markway, Ch. Carmin, C. Pollard, T. Flynn
• Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook by Martin Antony, PhD and Richard Swinson
• Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers

Books for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Coping with OCD, by Bruce Hyman and Troy Dufrene (2008)
• Loving someone with OCD: Help for You and Your Family by Karen Landsman, K. Rupertus, Cherry Pedrick, Karen J. Landsman
•  Getting over OCD by Jonathan S. Abramowitz
• When Once is Not Enough: Help for Obsessive-Compulsives by Gail Steketee and Kerrin White

Recommended Readings for Phobias

• The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook by Edmund J. Bourne, PhD
• Overcoming Animal & Insect Phobias by Atony McCabe

Children’s Books

Anxiety

1. What to do when you worry too much by Dawn Huebner
2. What to do when you are scared and worried by James J. Crist
3. Keys to parenting your anxious child, by Katharina Manassis
4. OCD: Talking back to OCD John March
5. What to do when your brain gets stuck by Dawn Huebner

Behavioural Problems and Anger

1. What to Do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger by Ph.D. Dawn Huebner and Bonnie Matthews
2. The Explosive Child by Ross Green
3. Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps To Better Behavior by Russell A. Barkley and Christine M. Benton
4. Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent and Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Depression

1. What to Do When You Grumble Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Negativity by Dawn Huebner
2. Helping your teenager beat depression by Katharina Manassis
3. Don’t let your emotions run your life for teens by Sheri Van Kijk

Teasing and Bullying

1. Don’t Pick On Me: Help for Kids to Stand Up to and Deal with Bullies by Susan Green
2. Stop Picking On Me! by Pat Thomas and Lesley Harker
3. Mom, They’re Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems by Michael Thompson

Mindfulness Meditation for Children

1. Peaceful Piggy Meditation by Kerry Lee MacLean
2. Moody Cow Meditates by Kerry Lee MacLean
3. Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children by Thich Nhat Hanh
4. 10 Mindful Minutes by G. Hawn

Adult’s Books

Anxiety and Depression

1. Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky
2. The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns
3. Get out of your mind & into your life by S. Hayes
4. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
5. The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones by James Claiborn
6. Overcoming Health Anxiety, by K.Owens & M. Anthony
7. It’s Not All in Your Head, by G. Asmundson & Taylor
8. Habit Control in A Day by N. Azrin, G. Nunn

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

1. Coping with OCD, by Bruce Hyman and Troy Dufrene (2008)
2. Loving someone with OCD: help for you and your family by Karen Landsman, K. Rupertus, Cherry PedrickKaren J. Landsman
3.  Getting over OCD by Jonathan S. Abramowitz
4. When Once is Not Enough: Help for Obsessive-Compulsives by Gail Steketee and Kerrin White

Social Anxiety

1. Dying of embarrassment by Barbara Markway, Ch. Carmin, C. Pollard, T. Flynn
2. Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook by Martin Antony PhD and Richard Swinson
3. Feel the fear and do it anyways by Susan Jeffers

Mindfulness Meditation

1. Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
2. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse by Zindel V. Segal, J. Mark G. Williams and John D. Teasdale
3. The mindful path through worry and rumination by S. Kumar

Personality Disorders

1. The dialectical behaviour therapy skills workbook, Matthew McKay
2. The Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook for Personality Disorders by Jeffrey Wood
3. Reinventing your life by Jeffrey Young and J. Klosko
4. Disarming the Narcissist by Behary and J. Young
5. Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan

Pain

1. Managing Pain before it manages you by M. Caudill
2. Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain by Beverly Thorn

Grief & Loss

1. Grieving Mindfully by Sameet Kumar
2. Grief one day at a time by Dr. Alan Wolfelt

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