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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"

Are You Mad at Me?
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
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
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
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
But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
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
Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work
The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma
Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
DBT For Dummies
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
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
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Trauma Aware: A Christian's Guide to Providing Help and Care
A Protest History of the United States
Body-First Healing: Get Unstuck and Recover from Trauma with Somatic Healing
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
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
Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
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
Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow
The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Justice Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

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Quotes Tagged “Social Work”

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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Abhijit Naskar
“ I'm a mad monk, I won't return to paradise - the world is a giant headache, yet my suffering is my cure. ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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Bookclub 2k19 Escaping from our lives one book at a time.
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Death Cafe Death Cafe is a continuation of the in person Death Cafe movement. Our mission is simple at the …more
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This group is for daughters and son of parents with mental illness to share and discuss books re…more
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NACSW Book Club A forum for members of the North American Association of Christians in Social Work to engage wit…more
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