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

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
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
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. BlowHigh Rise Stories by Audrey PettyThe Divide by Matt TaibbiFire in the Ashes by Jonathan KozolLet's Get Free by Paul   Butler
Brown School
64 books — 7 voters

My Mystical Path by Donna Shin-WardDelly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Scar by Charlotte MoundlicA Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. HolmesPearl's Marigolds For Grandpa by Jane Breskin Zalben
Bibliotherapy for Child Trauma
181 books — 24 voters
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud by Scott   StevensGarbage Bag Suitcase by Shenandoah ChefaloThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer BarkleyA Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Social Work/Human Service Books
274 books — 108 voters

Play Based Interventions for Autism, Adhd, Neurodevelopmental... by Robert Jason GrantPlay Therapy by Virginia M. AxlinePlay Therapy by Garry L. LandrethPlay in Family Therapy by Eliana GilPlay Therapy Child Centered Play Therapy by Garry L. Landreth
Play Therapists' Favorite Books
8 books — 2 voters


Abhijit Naskar
I look after the world as family, so the world may look after my family, when I'm not there - that's the kind of blind faith that actually makes a difference. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Abhijit Naskar
An animal doesn't need reason to be cruel, a human doesn't need reason to be kind. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

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"Chapters of Change" Social Work Book Club Chapters of Change" is a book club for social workers dedicated to exploring literature that ins…more
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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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A group specifically for social workers who want to share and discuss books they love or wrote t…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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