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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 298,832 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 — 43,378 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 — 7,458 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 — 30,429 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 — 16,024 ratings — published 1992
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.41 — 113,217 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 — 417,407 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 — 12,150 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 — 247,237 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 — 40,690 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 — 24,882 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 — 119,387 ratings — published 2010
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,323 ratings — published 1991
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,862 ratings — published 2021
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,809 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 — 11,913 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 — 62,303 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,298 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 — 173,656 ratings — published 2018
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.49 — 82,064 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 — 90,359 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 — 98,866 ratings — published 2015
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 227,612 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 915,141 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 — 129,304 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 — 18,979 ratings — published 1961
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 465,123 ratings — published 1995
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 — 100,775 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 — 268,556 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 — 17,757 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 — 38,075 ratings — published 2022
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,644 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 — 26,981 ratings — published 2007
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.91 — 67,173 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 4.43 — 2,135 ratings — published 2009
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.54 — 14,650 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 — 89,827 ratings — published 2015
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,398 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 — 21,664 ratings — published 2007
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,314 ratings — published
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,725 ratings — published 2003
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,736 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 — 207,192 ratings — published 2024
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,487 ratings — published 2019
“If there is not a single Naskar in sight, be the Naskar of your generation.”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Compassion is the mother of civilization.”
― Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
― Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat












