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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.33 — 305,696 ratings — published 2014
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.58 — 44,103 ratings — published 2007
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,547 ratings — published 2007
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,190 ratings — published 1992
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,897 ratings — published 2002
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 114,873 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 422,418 ratings — published 2019
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,327 ratings — published 2017
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.55 — 41,503 ratings — published 2016
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 248,809 ratings — published 2012
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 25,298 ratings — published 2007
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,711 ratings — published 2021
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,107 ratings — published 2010
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,373 ratings — published 1991
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,853 ratings — published 2016
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.49 — 84,357 ratings — published 2022
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.42 — 12,079 ratings — published 2018
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.26 — 63,533 ratings — published 2011
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 50 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,155 ratings — published 2018
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,786 ratings — published 1968
Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 58 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories From Social Work Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.95 — 270 ratings — published 1999
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,840 ratings — published 1997
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.35 — 101,855 ratings — published 2015
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 229,488 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 929,660 ratings — published 1946
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,866 ratings — published 2010
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,113 ratings — published 1961
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 101,814 ratings — published 2021
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,882 ratings — published 2014
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Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills [with InfoTrac] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.73 — 413 ratings — published 2015
Modern Social Work Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 245 ratings — published
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 466,684 ratings — published 1995
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.05 — 488 ratings — published 1993
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,841 ratings — published 2008
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,383 ratings — published
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,534 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,020 ratings — published 2022
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.91 — 67,885 ratings — published 2019
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,789 ratings — published 1997
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,176 ratings — published 2009
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,581 ratings — published 1967
I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,119 ratings — published 2007
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 216,426 ratings — published 2024
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.53 — 14,969 ratings — published 2013
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,848 ratings — published 2003
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,854 ratings — published 2019
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,133 ratings — published 2015
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,735 ratings — published 2001
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 43,196 ratings — published 1989
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,050 ratings — published 2007
“As helpers, we often feel the need to see our impact in tangible, measurable ways. We allow negative language into our head about the “broken system;” we look through a lens of “it doesn’t matter, I can’t make a difference”. These ideas are surely contributing to our burnout.”
― Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing
― Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing
“Be the last refuge for those refused. In you lies solution, in you lies the truth.”
― Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
― Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
