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

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
Are You Mad at Me?
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and 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
Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety
But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor MatéThe Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. PerryTrauma Stewardship by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
For the Social Worker
54 books — 20 voters
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew  PerryTogether by Vivek H. MurthyQueer Ducks (and Other Animals) by Eliot SchreferNow Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    WilsonThe Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi
Books to Read 2023
11 books — 2 voters

Practice Test for the Social Work Licensing Exam by Social Work Test PrepA Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care by John      HarrisTheories for Direct Social Work Practice by Joseph WalshDirect Social Work Practice by Dean H. HepworthDesk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5 by American Psychiatric Associ...
ASWB Exam Prep
6 books — 1 voter

Radicali all'azione! Organizzare i senza-potere by Saul D. AlinskyLet Them Call Me Rebel by Sanford D. Horwitt
Community organizing
2 books — 1 voter
Play Based Interventions for Autism, Adhd, Neurodevelopmental... by Robert Jason GrantPlay Therapy with Kids and Canines by Risë VanFleetFilial Therapy by Risë VanFleetPlay Therapy Child Centered Play Therapy by Garry L. LandrethPlay in Family Therapy by Eliana Gil
Play Therapists' Favorite Books
8 books — 1 voter


Angeline Boulley
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. ...more
Angeline Boulley, Sisters in the Wind

Abhijit Naskar
If the trees refused to endure storms, no human habitat could flourish anywhere. If the one human refuses to take pains, whole humanity will collapse and disappear.
Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

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Social Workers Social Workers reading, preparing for the licensing exam, being social workers.
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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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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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A group specifically for social workers who want to share and discuss books they love or wrote t…more
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