For Depression, Anxiety, and Low Self Esteem

• The Feeling Good Handbook
  by David Burns
• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  by Stephen Hayes
• The Unwelcome Party Guest ACT Metaphor

For Resilience and A Healthy, Growth-Oriented Mindset toward Stress and Adversity

• The Upside of Stress
  by Kelly McDonigal
• How to Make Stress Your Friend
  Ted Talk by Kelly McDonigal
• The Willpower Instinct
  by Kelly McDonigal (animated book summary)
• Interview about The Willpower Instinct with Kelly McDonigal
• Outliers: The Story of Success
  by Malcom Gladwell
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

For Career Planning and Transition

• What Color is Your Parachute
  by Richard Nelson Bolles

For Challenges Correlating with Gifted Individuals

• A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children
  by James Web
• Living with Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Michael Marian, Piechowski and Susan Daniels
• Searching for Meaning: Idealism, Bright Minds, Disillusionment, and Hope. by James T. Webb