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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.33 — 310,623 ratings — published 2014
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.58 — 44,588 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 — 7,603 ratings — published 2007
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,273 ratings — published 2002
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,306 ratings — published 1992
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 115,974 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 426,088 ratings — published 2019
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,441 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 70 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.55 — 42,079 ratings — published 2016
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 249,902 ratings — published 2012
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,586 ratings — published 2010
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 25,611 ratings — published 2007
No Bad Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.08 — 23,313 ratings — published 2021
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,413 ratings — published 1991
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 86,133 ratings — published 2022
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.42 — 12,192 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,588 ratings — published 2016
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 — 64,407 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 — 174,517 ratings — published 2018
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,109 ratings — published 1968
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 104,010 ratings — published 2015
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 3.96 — 271 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 — 91,155 ratings — published 1997
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 230,837 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 940,966 ratings — published 1946
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,280 ratings — published 1961
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 — 133,739 ratings — published 2010
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 102,506 ratings — published 2021
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,676 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 — 414 ratings — published 2015
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,423 ratings — published
Modern Social Work Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 246 ratings — published
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,851 ratings — published 1995
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 490 ratings — published 1993
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,919 ratings — published 2008
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,708 ratings — published 2022
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,557 ratings — published 1995
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,313 ratings — published
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 222,330 ratings — published 2024
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.91 — 68,393 ratings — published 2019
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,925 ratings — published 2003
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,894 ratings — published 1997
I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,232 ratings — published 2007
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,068 ratings — published 2019
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.53 — 15,199 ratings — published 2013
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,600 ratings — published 1967
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,364 ratings — published 2015
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,898 ratings — published 2001
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 88,177 ratings — published 1995
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 43,580 ratings — published 1989
“When the Human speaks, mountains wake,
tired hearts of earth unbreak -
turn the world from ash to flame,
help the broken speak their name.”
― Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
tired hearts of earth unbreak -
turn the world from ash to flame,
help the broken speak their name.”
― Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“You cannot have a self, and not burn it. You cannot have a life, and not sacrifice it.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
