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- The Big Five
- The Enneagram (psychometrics less sound than other personality measures but helpful as a non-pathologizing resource for self-understanding)
- What are personality disorders? (American Psychiatric Association)
- Where personality goes awry (American Psychological Association)
- What causes personality disorders? (American Psychological Association)
- Narvaez, D. Neurobiology and the development of human morality: Evolution, culture, & wisdom.
- Fraiberg, S. H. (1959). The magic years: Understanding and handling the problems of early childhood.
- Bowlby, J. (1988). A secure base.
- Aron, E. (2002). The highly sensitive child : helping our children thrive when the world overwhelms them.
- Siegel, D. J. and M. Hartzell (2003). Parenting from the inside out: How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive.
- Kurcinka, M. S. (2015). Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic.
- Boyce, W. T. (2019). The orchid and the dandelion: Why some children struggle and how all can thrive.
- Harvey, P. & Penzo, J. (2009). Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors.
- Harvey, P., & Rathbone, B. H. (2015). Parenting a teen who has intense emotions DBT skills to help your teen navigate emotional & behavioral challenges.
- Greene, R.W. (2021). The explosive child (6th edition): A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children.
- Solomon, A. (2012). Far from the tree: parents, children, and the search for identity.
