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
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
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

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
#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawFracking by Kathryn   Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawThe War on Poverty by Carolee LaineThe Syrian Conflict by Michael Capek
Special Reports series
44 books — 8 voters



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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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