Most Read This Week In 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Social Work"

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Are You Mad at Me?
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & 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
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
Fierce Self-Compassion: How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive – A Personal Development Guide for Women Seeking Balance and Motivation
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Wisdom of Your Body
Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
Validation: The New Psychology of Influence
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families
The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life
This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
Trauma Aware: A Christian's Guide to Providing Help and Care
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World
Body-First Healing: Get Unstuck and Recover from Trauma with Somatic Healing
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing
The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Decolonizing Wellness
Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
A Protest History of the United States
Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning
DBT For Dummies
But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy
Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow
The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Justice Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy

Abhijit Naskar
Be the last refuge for those refused. In you lies solution, in you lies the truth.
Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

Abhijit Naskar
Burn My Books, Go Lift The World (Sonnet 2236) If they ever make a cult of me, burn every last book of mine. Books are just kindling, mind is the real flame. Damn the prophet-people divide, every human is prophet of the planet! Socially aloof bookworms are no good to me - I don't want readers, I want revolutionaries. There is not one, but two societies - one sophisticated, the other suffering. The sophisticated don't matter, don't count; at the feet of the suffering life begins. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

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Welcome to the MSW Student Reads Group! This group is a space for Master of Social Work student…more
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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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Therapist Book Club The members of Therapist Book Club works together to make the club happen: members recommend boo…more
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Sienna St. James: Secrets, Suspense, and Social Action So, Sienna St. James, the star of my novels Losing Hope, Without Faith, and the upcoming Sacrifi…more
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