Clinical Resources

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This is my most recent book. It covers all of the essentials to helping parents to grow, change, and understand ways to improve in their parenting. It is written in an easy to understand manner and is absolutely a “straight-forward guide to making parenting easier.”

-Joseph R. Sanok | Practice of the Practice | We’re making counseling private practice awesome through marketing, consulting, and podcasting

I have used these treatment planners since my first year out of counseling graduate school. Especially when you are first starting out in private practice they give you clear direction as to diagnosis, long-term goals, and short term interventions. The whole series is great and has psycho-educational, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and other counseling best-practices. I require anyone I am supervising in my private practice to buy one of these books and The Start-up Guide to Guerrilla Marketing, that’s how much I love them.

-Joseph R. Sanok | Practice of the Practice | We’re making counseling private practice awesome through marketing, consulting, and podcasting

Client Resources

These next resources are ones that I recommend to clients. I have them listed on my website. I have copied the text so you can see what I say on my website, www.mentalwellnesscounseling.com/resources. You will notice that after each one I have a short description with my name | practice | tagline. Since “Traverse City counseling” are my search keywords, doing this on my private practice website has helped me move up in Google. Here are the resources: The world is full of products and self-help material. We’ve gone through a bunch of it and have found what we think are the BEST RESOURCES. These are things that our counselors use and recommend all the time. Thank you in advance for buying through these links. The money that we get from promoting resources we use to help our lower income clients. With that said, here is how we decide what we’re going to promote: 1. We we think it is awesome. 2. We would promote it even if we weren’t getting paid. 3. It is easy to understand. All of these products meet these three criteria. We’re also going to be writing reviews about what we think is great about the products, what populations they are aimed at, and how we want you to use them as you pursue mental wellness. Also, if you love/hate a resource, please tell us. If it has changed and is bad, we want to stop recommending it.

-Joseph R. Sanok | Practice of the Practice | We’re making counseling private practice awesome through marketing, consulting, and podcasting

Common Sense Parenting: Using Your Head as Well as Your Heart to Raise School-Aged Children: 3rd edition If I could find a way to teach everyone this method, the world would be a better place. They go through how to describe your kid’s behavior, teach through praise, preventing bad behavior, how to give consequences, and what to do when they are out of control. This is actually required reading for my LLPC supervisees if they want to work with parents. -Joseph R. Sanok | Practice of the Practice | We’re making counseling private practice awesome through marketing, consulting, and podcasting

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder So I read this book while on a six-week road trip with my wife. We were headed up the west coast so I had a lot of time in the car, it was a little Saturn. As I read this book, it occurred to me that nature is really great and that I learned a ton from it while I was a child. However, our kids now are not getting the time, space, and location to creatively explore. This book dives into these topics of kids and how being outdoors can help them academically, socially, and in regards to their future jobs. -Joseph R. Sanok | Practice of the Practice | We’re making counseling private practice awesome through marketing, consulting, and podcasting

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture This book is so great. It is funny and explores research in a way that does not seem like a college course. I read this book when I found out we were having a girl. It was 3 months before the due date and I had no idea what I was getting into. This book should be given to every man and woman who is having a baby girl. (Great baby shower gift! If they like reading.) -Joseph R. Sanok | Practice of the Practice | We’re making counseling private practice awesome through marketing, consulting, and podcasting

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child Dr. Weissbluth is totally the man. He has done tons of research and has made my life so much easier. This book is aimed at helping parents of kids under the age of 2. Or read his blog for free. -Joseph R. Sanok | Practice of the Practice | We’re making counseling private practice awesome through marketing, consulting, and podcasting

Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

When people come to me for marriage counseling, I require them to buy this book. The book has quizzes for couples that help in discussions and identifying things to work on. It is easy to read. Also, Dr. Gottman has done so much research that he can accurately predict divorce after watching couples for 15 minutes. My wife and I read this right after getting married and often return to it when we have struggles (yes, therapists are human too and have struggles)