Dr. Brad Sachs is a psychologist, educator, consultant and best-selling author specializing in clinical work with children, adolescents, couples, and families, in Columbia, Maryland, and the Founder and Director of The Father Center, a program designed to meet the needs of new, expectant, and experienced fathers.

His newest book is entitled EMPTYING THE NEST: LAUNCHING YOUR YOUNG ADULT TOWARD SUCCESS AND SELF-RELIANCE (July, 2010).

His previous book, WHEN NO ONE UNDERSTANDS: LETTERS TO A TEENAGER ON LIFE, LOSS, AND THE HARD ROAD TO ADULTHOOD, was published in 2007, and is based on his between-sessions correspondence with a suicidal adolescent whom he was treating.

He is the author of numerous other books, including THE GOOD ENOUGH CHILD: HOW TO HAVE AN IMPERFECT FAMILY AND BE PERFECTLY SATISFIED (HarperCollins, 2001), which was named as an Editor’s Choice by Amazon.com and became its best-selling parenting title that year. It was featured on NBC’s The Today Show, and was excerpted in Family Circle Magazine   MORE >>>

• WHEN NO ONE UNDERSTANDS: LETTERS TO A TEENAGER ON LIFE, LOSS, AND THE HARD ROAD TO ADULTHOOD
  download discussion guides | read prologue |
  read letters 1-3 | read Q&A | read praise for the book | order your copy
  (Shambhala, January 2007)

  
   

• THE GOOD ENOUGH TEEN: HOW TO RAISE ADOLESCENTS WITH LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE (DESPITE HOW IMPOSSIBLE THEY CAN BE)
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  (HarperCollins, 2005)