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
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. BlowHigh Rise Stories by Audrey PettyThe Divide by Matt TaibbiFire in the Ashes by Jonathan KozolOrphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Brown School
64 books — 7 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

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
86 books — 45 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

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
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew  PerryTogether by Vivek H. MurthyQueer Ducks (and Other Animals) by Eliot SchreferNow Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    WilsonThe Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi
Books to Read 2023
11 books — 2 voters


Abhijit Naskar
Ignorance is animal blessing, knowledge is human curse. Selfishness is animal tradition, service is human choice.
Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Abhijit Naskar
Unwrite Me, You Cannot (Sonnet 1949) I've written my life on the fabric of time, no matter how much you try, you cannot unwrite me. My childhood friends are now parents to children, while I stand alone as the keeper of humanity. Even the woman I once dreamt a life with, is now a mother, yet my struggle continues for eternity. May they all have a full and flourishing life, but mine is to die as the lampbearer of liberty. I took the road less travelled, of my own accord, so the marginalized cou ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

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Social Worker's Bookshelf This is a group for anyone in the social work field! Students and current social workers are wel…more
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