Resources for Parents: Getting Parents and Their Children Ready for College

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This list is intended as a resource guide only and is not an endorsement of the following books and articles. This is not intended as an exhaustive list; there are hundreds of excellent books and articles about the college process.

BOOKS

        College of the Overwhelmed
        The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to do about it
       Richard Kadison, MD and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

        Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children
        by Ruth Nemzoff

How College Affects Students : A Third Decade of Research (Jossey-Bass Higher & Adult Education) (Paperback)
by Ernest T. Pascarella, Patrick T. Terenzini

• Getting Ready for College: Everything You Need to Know Before You Go From Bike Locks to Laundry Baskets, Financial Aid to Health Care (Paperback)
  by Polly Berent, The Princeton Review (Foreword)

• When Your Kid Goes to College; A Parent's Survival Guide (Paperback)
  by Carol Barkin

• Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, Fourth Edition (Paperback)
  by Karen Levin Coburn

• You're On Your Own (But I'm Here if You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years (Paperback)
  by Marjorie Savage

• Almost Grown: Launching Your Child from High School to College (Paperback)
  by Patricia Pasick

• Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years (Paperback)

• In Addition to Tuition: The Parents' Survival Guide to Freshman Year of College (Paperback)
  by Marian Edelman Borden, Mary Anne Burlinson, Elsie R. Kearns

• I’ll Miss You Too: An Off-to-College Guide for Parents and Students (Paperback)
  by Margo E. Woodacre Bane, Steffany Bane

• Parents' Guide to College Life : 181 Straight Answers on Everything You Can Expect Over the Next Four Years (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
  by Robin Raskin

“Helicopter Parents”

• The Fine Art of Letting Go
  As parents, boomers face their final frontier: how to stand aside as their children become independent adults. Where's the line between caring and coddling?

• No escape from 'helicopter parents'
  Constant hovering can kick up a cloud of troubles

• Colleges Ward off Over Involved Parents

• Do 'Helicopter Moms' Do More Harm Than Good?

• Helicopter Parents:
  25% of Parents are Overly Involved, Say College Students; Experience, Inc. Polls College Students about Parental Involvement
  

Sexuality

• Beyond Acceptance : Parents of Lesbians & Gays Talk About Their Experiences (Paperback)
  by Carolyn W. Griffin, Marian J. Wirth

• Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together (Paperback)
  by Robert Bernstein

• My Child Is Gay: How Parents React When They Hear the News (Paperback)
  by Bryce McDougall (Editor)

College Drinking

• http://www.centurycouncil.org/

• Talking with College Students about Alcohol: Motivational Strategies for Reducing Abuse (Paperback)
  by Scott T. Walters, John S. Baer

• Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS): A Harm Reduction Approach (Paperback)
  by Linda A. Dimeff, G. Alan Marlatt, John S. Baer, Daniel R. Kivlahan