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
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
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 – A Personal Development Guide for Women Seeking Balance and Motivation
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
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
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Play Based Interventions for Autism, Adhd, Neurodevelopmental... by Robert Jason GrantPlay Therapy by Virginia M. AxlinePlay Therapy by Garry L. LandrethPlay in Family Therapy by Eliana GilPlay Therapy Child Centered Play Therapy by Garry L. Landreth
Play Therapists' Favorite Books
9 books — 3 voters
Radicali all'azione! Organizzare i senza-potere by Saul D. AlinskyRecreating the World by Michael Bopp and Judie BoppLet Them Call Me Rebel by Sanford D. Horwitt
Community organizing
3 books — 2 voters

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew  Perry11th Hour Awakening by AnamikosTogether by Vivek H. MurthyQueer Ducks (and Other Animals) by Eliot SchreferNow Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    Wilson
Books to Read 2023
12 books — 3 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
92 books — 53 voters

Practice Test for the Social Work Licensing Exam by Social Work Test PrepA Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care by John      HarrisTheories For Direct Social Work Practice by Joseph WalshDirect Social Work Practice by Dean H. HepworthDesk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5 by American Psychiatric Associ...
ASWB Exam Prep
6 books — 1 voter
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
142 books — 49 voters


Abhijit Naskar
If there is not a single Naskar in sight, be the Naskar of your generation.
Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

Abhijit Naskar
An animal doesn't need reason to be cruel, a human doesn't need reason to be kind. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

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NACSW Book Club A forum for members of the North American Association of Christians in Social Work to engage wit…more
27 members, last active 10 years ago
A group specifically for social workers who want to share and discuss books they love or wrote t…more
3 members, last active 8 months ago
Thought we could just put different book recs in here so they're all together…more
2 members, last active 4 years ago
Social Workers Social Workers reading, preparing for the licensing exam, being social workers.
30 members, last active 13 years ago