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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 298,568 ratings — published 2014
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.58 — 43,354 ratings — published 2007
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,453 ratings — published 2007
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,409 ratings — published 2002
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,017 ratings — published 1992
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.41 — 113,168 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 417,249 ratings — published 2019
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,146 ratings — published 2017
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 247,169 ratings — published 2012
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.55 — 40,659 ratings — published 2016
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 24,867 ratings — published 2007
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,363 ratings — published 2010
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,321 ratings — published 1991
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,828 ratings — published 2021
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,762 ratings — published 2016
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.42 — 11,910 ratings — published 2018
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.26 — 62,259 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,286 ratings — published 1968
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 48 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,633 ratings — published 2018
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.49 — 81,978 ratings — published 2022
Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 58 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories From Social Work Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 270 ratings — published 1999
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,344 ratings — published 1997
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.35 — 98,780 ratings — published 2015
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 227,552 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 914,613 ratings — published 1946
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.13 — 129,209 ratings — published 2010
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,978 ratings — published 1961
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 465,055 ratings — published 1995
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Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills [with InfoTrac] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.73 — 410 ratings — published 2015
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 100,750 ratings — published 2021
Modern Social Work Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 243 ratings — published
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,485 ratings — published 2014
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.05 — 482 ratings — published 1993
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,755 ratings — published 2008
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,515 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,039 ratings — published 2022
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,639 ratings — published 1997
I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,978 ratings — published 2007
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.91 — 67,142 ratings — published 2019
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,133 ratings — published 2009
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.54 — 14,635 ratings — published 2013
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,567 ratings — published 1967
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,809 ratings — published 2015
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,389 ratings — published 2001
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.13 — 21,650 ratings — published 2007
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,311 ratings — published
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,724 ratings — published 2003
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,718 ratings — published 1989
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 206,858 ratings — published 2024
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,476 ratings — published 2019
“I take care of the world as my family, and someone somewhere will take care of my immediate family when I am not there, that's the kind of blind illogical faith that actually makes a difference.”
― Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
― Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Allergic to Opulence (Sonnet 2230)
Do I have any right to happiness,
when millions go without food and shelter!
That's why, there's not a trace of luxury in my life,
I churn out humanitarian electricity all waking hours.
Most expensive clothes I own cost 20 dollars,
most expensive devices I own cost 200 dollars.
Born to a factory worker, I never knew luxury,
then I made me a name, but saw the world's condition,
I grew an absolute repulsion to lifestyle luxurious.
The question is not, how much can I enjoy,
but how much can I endure to lift up the world!
Life's meaning comes not from what we gain for
ourselves, but from what we give up for others.
I'm existentially allergic to opulence,
every soft bed feels like a betrayal -
expensive meals scream of starving children,
dollar spent on luxury is a dollar animal.”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
Do I have any right to happiness,
when millions go without food and shelter!
That's why, there's not a trace of luxury in my life,
I churn out humanitarian electricity all waking hours.
Most expensive clothes I own cost 20 dollars,
most expensive devices I own cost 200 dollars.
Born to a factory worker, I never knew luxury,
then I made me a name, but saw the world's condition,
I grew an absolute repulsion to lifestyle luxurious.
The question is not, how much can I enjoy,
but how much can I endure to lift up the world!
Life's meaning comes not from what we gain for
ourselves, but from what we give up for others.
I'm existentially allergic to opulence,
every soft bed feels like a betrayal -
expensive meals scream of starving children,
dollar spent on luxury is a dollar animal.”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
