Social Work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being. Social functioning refers to the way in which people perform their social roles, and the structural institutions that are provided to sustain them. Social work applies social sciences, such as sociology, psychology, political science, public health, community development, law, and economics, to engage with client systems, conduct assessments, and develop interventions to solve social and personal problems ...more

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Are You Mad at Me?
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD
Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
Fierce Self-Compassion: How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor MatéThe Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. PerryTrauma Stewardship by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
For the Social Worker
54 books — 20 voters
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Special Reports series
44 books — 8 voters

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de BeckerDangerous Personalities by Joe NavarroInsane by Alisa RothBedlam by Kenneth Paul RosenbergHidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Mental Illness, Crime, and Violence
139 books — 28 voters
Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan ShayOn Killing by Dave GrossmanRule Number Two by Heidi Squier KraftMilitary Psychology by Carrie H. KennedyMilitary Psychology by Carrie H. Kennedy
Military Psychology Reading List
87 books — 46 voters


Abhijit Naskar
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