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
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
Are You Mad at Me?
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and 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
Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
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
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Fierce Self-Compassion: How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive
The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
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
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
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
270 books — 104 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 — 27 voters

Necessary Lies by Diane ChamberlainBeginnings, Middles, & Ends by Ogden W. RogersReal World Clinical Social Work by Danna R. BodenheimerFourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
Books for Social Workers
4 books — 2 voters
Delly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Scar by Charlotte MoundlicA Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. HolmesPearl's Marigolds For Grandpa by Jane Breskin ZalbenThe Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Bibliotherapy for Child Trauma
170 books — 13 voters

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
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


Abhijit Naskar
Access to essentials must be the first commandment of every single field and discipline, when it's the last instead, and an expendable one at that, every single field and discipline, along with its proud practitioners and proponents, are war criminals. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Abhijit Naskar
I'm A Mad Monk (Sonnet 2702) I'm a mad monk, I won't return to paradise - the world is a giant headache, yet my suffering is my cure. I'm exhausted, I want to sleep, but I'm afraid, if I fall asleep, I might not wake up - so I toil, till the soil is human. Soy un monje loco, no volveré al paraíso - o la tierra es de todos, o ilegales todos somos. The world ain't mine, the world ain't yours - either earth belongs to all, or we are all illegal. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

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