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?
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Fierce Self-Compassion: How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive
Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing
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
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
How to Launder Money by George CottrellThe Gift of Fear by Gavin de BeckerDangerous Personalities by Joe NavarroInsane by Alisa RothBedlam by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
Mental Illness, Crime, and Violence
141 books — 46 voters
My Mystical Path by Donna Shin-WardDelly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Scar by Charlotte MoundlicA Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. HolmesPearl's Marigolds For Grandpa by Jane Breskin Zalben
Bibliotherapy for Child Trauma
173 books — 22 voters

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew  PerryTogether by Vivek H. MurthyWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsQueer Ducks (and Other Animals) by Eliot SchreferNow Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    Wilson
Books to Read 2023
12 books — 3 voters
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. BlowHigh Rise Stories by Audrey PettyThe Divide by Matt TaibbiFire in the Ashes by Jonathan KozolLet's Get Free by Paul   Butler
Brown School
64 books — 7 voters

Radicali all'azione! Organizzare i senza-potere by Saul D. AlinskyLet Them Call Me Rebel by Sanford D. Horwitt
Community organizing
2 books — 1 voter
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud by Scott   StevensGarbage Bag Suitcase by Shenandoah ChefaloThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer BarkleyA Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Social Work/Human Service Books
276 books — 110 voters


Abhijit Naskar
You cannot have a self, and not burn it. You cannot have a life, and not sacrifice it.
Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

According to one theory. social workers were social workers because they themselves needed social workers.
Errol Blackadder, Campus Chainsaw Massacre: A Satire

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