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
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
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD
Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
Fierce Self-Compassion: How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal
Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma
A Protest History of the United States
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow
But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families
The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Justice Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
Decolonizing Wellness
DBT For Dummies
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy
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
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
If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

Abhijit Naskar
Holiness unfolds in human welfare.
Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

Abhijit Naskar
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. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

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