Navigating Your First Year in College: Resource List

This list of resources is a companion to the articles found here: Navigating Your First Year in College and Helping Your Daughter Successfully Navigate Her First Year of College, by Monica Valdivia Aguilar, MA, MFT.

Clicking on a book will take you to Amazon.com, where you can order it. You may also want to check out some of these titles at your local library!


Websites

Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection: provides articles and tips on a variety of mental health topics for college students


Half of Us: dedicated to mental health information and suicide prevention resources for college students


Book References

For Parents:

	Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years by Helen Johnson & Christine Schelhas-Miller
	Let the Journey Begin: A Parent's Monthly Guide to the College Experience by Jacqueline Kiernan MacKay & Wanda Johnson Ingram

For Students:

	Life During College: Valuable Advice & Tips For Success by John Ricchini & Terry Arndt
	Your College Experience: Strategies for Success by John N. Gardner and A. Jerome Jewler
	College Rules!: How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College by Sherrie Nist, Ph.D., and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D

For Students with ADHD or Learning Disabilities:

	Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life by Sari Solden This easy to read "self-help" book is a feel good, affirming book, helping individuals understand some of the differences of ADHD in women as compared to men!
	Driven To Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey Hallowell and Ratey have three books: Driven to Distraction and Answers to Distraction are the old standbys. Delivered from Distraction is a bit more "positive" about the ADHD personality.
	You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo Addresses ADHD in the adult.
	Survival Guide for College Students with ADHD or LD by Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. Less than 100 pages, and a general "how to get organized, how to get help" sort of book. It gives very little information on what ADHD IS, but lots of suggestions about what to DO about it in the college setting.

For Mental Health Professionals:

	College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It by Richard Kadison & Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

Books for students who may be dealing with depression:

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, by David Burns

Breaking the Patterns of Depression, by Michael Yapko

Depression Is Contagious: How the Most Common Mood Disorder Is Spreading Around the World and How to Stop It, by Michael Yapko



Books for students who may be dealing with anxiety:

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, by Edmund Bourne


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