Reading List for Mental Health Awareness Month: Research-based Works & Information for Professional Development

For practical guides, personal narratives and leisure reading related to mental health & wellness, visit our other resource list, Mental Health Awareness Month: Resources for Self-Care, Leisure & Personal Growth. 

Whether you're interested in learning about mental health conditions or exploring public health approaches, these resources offer valuable insights. We hope you will explore these highlighted materials and then visit our Mental Health and Wellness Resources Guide to deepen your understanding and contribute to a more supportive and compassionate community. 

Therapeutic Practices and Art Therapy 

• Art Psychotherapy and Innovation: New Territories, Techniques and Technologies edited by Helen Jury and Ali Coles 
• Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry by Karin Dannecker 
• Clinical Art Therapy: A Comprehensive Guide by Helen Landgarten 
• Dance/Movement Therapists in Action: a Working Guide to Research Options edited by Robyn Flaum Cruz and Cynthia F. Berrol, with a foreword by Joan Chodorow 
• Integrated Team Working: Music Therapy As Part of Transdisciplinary and Collaborative Approaches by Karen Twyford and Tessa Watson 
• Therapists Creating a Cultural Tapestry: Using the Creative Therapies Across Cultures edited by Stephanie L. Brooke and Charles E. Myers 
• Virtual Art Therapy: Research and Practice edited by Michelle Winkel, Christen Bodenbender, and Melissa Yue 

Counseling, Ethics, and Supervision

• Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults and Their Nonaccepting Parents by Gary M. Diamond and Rotem Boruchovitz-Zamir 
• Co-Occurring Disorders: a Whole-Person Approach to the Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use and Mental Disorders by Charles Atkins 
• Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice by Karyn Morgan and Mary Townsend 
• Ethics and Decision Making in Counseling and Psychotherapy edited by Robert Rocco Cottone, Vilia M. Tarvydas, and Michael T. Hartley 
• Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy edited by Megan Murphy 
• Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy by Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel 
• Family Art Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice by Christine Kerr 
• Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision by Janine M. Bernard and Rodney K. Goodyear 
• Systemic Research in Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy and Counseling edited by Matthias Ochs, Maria Borcsa, and Jochen Schweitzer 
• Teaching Facilitation of Group Therapy: Processes and Applications by Nina W. Brown 
• The Challenge of Racism in Therapeutic Practice: Engaging with Oppression in Practice and Supervision by Isha McKenzie-Mavinga 
• The Dictionary of Family Therapy edited by Jacques Miermont and Hugh Jenkins 

Education and Cultural Competency 

• Ability, Equity, and Culture: Sustaining Inclusive Urban Education Reform edited by Elizabeth Kozleski and Kathleen King Thorius
• African American Patients in Psychotherapy: Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression by Ruth Fallenbaum 
• Crip Authorship: Disability As Method edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez 
• Cultural Competency in Psychological Assessment: Working Effectively with Latinx Populations by Alfonso Mercado and Amanda Venta 
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond 
• Ethnomorality of Care: Migrants and Their Aging Parents by Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna, Anna Rosinska, and Weronika Kloc-Nowak 
• Family Art Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice by Christine Kerr

Public Health, Policy, and Research-Based Works 

• Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention edited by Benjamin Ewert and Kathrin Loer 
• Disability and International Development: A Guide for Students and Practitioners by David Cobley 
• Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention edited by Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caitlin O. Mahoney, and Amy E. Meade 
• Rating Scales in Mental Health by Martha Sajatovic and Luis F. Ramirez  
• The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease by Robert Scaer 
• Treatment Program Evaluation: Public Health Perspectives on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders by Allyson Kelley

Health, Wellness, and Other Topics 

• Complementary Therapies in Nursing: Promoting Integrative Care edited by Ruth Lindquist, Mary Fran Tracy, and Mariah Snyder 
• Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being by Elyse Purcell 
• Investigating Pop Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies edited by Stephen Hupp and Richard Wiseman 
• Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine by Kerry Bone and Simon Mills 
• Productivity Through Wellness for Live Entertainment and Theatre Technicians: Increasing Productivity, Avoiding Burnout, and Maximizing the Value of an Hour by Caleb Stroman 
• Wellness Around the World: an International Encyclopedia of Health Indicators, Practices and Issues by Brenda Gardenour Walter