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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.35 — 288,269 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 — 42,363 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 4.28 — 7,269 ratings — published 2007
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,661 ratings — published 2001
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,774 ratings — published 1992
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.41 — 110,591 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 409,922 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 — 11,874 ratings — published 2017
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 244,731 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 66 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.55 — 39,446 ratings — published 2016
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,246 ratings — published 1991
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,250 ratings — published 2010
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 24,241 ratings — published 2007
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,151 ratings — published 2016
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,590 ratings — published 2021
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.42 — 11,641 ratings — published 2018
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,624 ratings — published 1968
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.26 — 60,424 ratings — published 2011
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 3.97 — 267 ratings — published 1999
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.49 — 78,431 ratings — published 2022
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 46 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,799 ratings — published 2018
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 224,570 ratings — published 2010
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,671 ratings — published 1997
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.35 — 94,464 ratings — published 2015
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.13 — 125,272 ratings — published 2010
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,769 ratings — published 1961
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 462,650 ratings — published 1995
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 893,468 ratings — published 1946
Modern Social Work Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 240 ratings — published
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Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills [with InfoTrac] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.74 — 409 ratings — published 2015
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,492 ratings — published 1995
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 98,880 ratings — published 2021
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,613 ratings — published 2008
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.05 — 473 ratings — published 1993
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.62 — 264,694 ratings — published 2014
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,519 ratings — published 1967
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,412 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 — 26,750 ratings — published 2007
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 36,607 ratings — published 2022
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.92 — 65,848 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 — 2,087 ratings — published 2009
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,220 ratings — published 2015
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,572 ratings — published 2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,890 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 — 21,079 ratings — published 2007
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,902 ratings — published 2019
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.54 — 14,172 ratings — published 2013
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,837 ratings — published 2013
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,025 ratings — published 1989
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.31 — 191,065 ratings — published 2024
“It's important for students to go into the Native community at the beginning of their master's program—their first semester—before they adopt their professor's biases.”
― Sisters in the Wind
― Sisters in the Wind
“Stars that burn for others, wither in body, but live in light.”
― With Love From A Blue Rock
― With Love From A Blue Rock
