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

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What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back

Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder

Fierce Self-Compassion: How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive

Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing

This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life

"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change

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

Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy

When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways

Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal

When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America

Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy

The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change

Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma

Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow

Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families

Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System

Trauma Aware: A Christian's Guide to Providing Help and Care

Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction

The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Justice Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

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“ Compassion is the mother of civilization. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

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“ Unself your soul, Unchain your mind. Await no mythic might, Unleash your thundertide! ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

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