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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 294,737 ratings — published 2014
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.58 — 42,958 ratings — published 2007
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,385 ratings — published 2007
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,168 ratings — published 2001
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,940 ratings — published 1992
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.41 — 112,274 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 414,620 ratings — published 2019
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,046 ratings — published 2017
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 — 246,295 ratings — published 2012
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.55 — 40,235 ratings — published 2016
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 24,645 ratings — published 2007
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,294 ratings — published 1991
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,986 ratings — published 2010
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,384 ratings — published 2021
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,181 ratings — published 2016
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.42 — 11,806 ratings — published 2018
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.26 — 61,598 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,050 ratings — published 1968
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.49 — 80,694 ratings — published 2022
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,346 ratings — published 2018
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 — 268 ratings — published 1999
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 226,541 ratings — published 2010
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 90,086 ratings — published 1997
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.35 — 97,238 ratings — published 2015
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.13 — 127,795 ratings — published 2010
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,901 ratings — published 1961
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 904,095 ratings — published 1946
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 464,148 ratings — published 1995
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Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills [with InfoTrac] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.73 — 410 ratings — published 2015
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 100,186 ratings — published 2021
Modern Social Work Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 242 ratings — published
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 478 ratings — published 1993
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,510 ratings — published 1995
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,703 ratings — published 2008
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,179 ratings — published 2014
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,570 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 — 26,871 ratings — published 2007
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,552 ratings — published 2022
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.92 — 66,663 ratings — published 2019
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,107 ratings — published 2009
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,558 ratings — published 1967
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.54 — 14,470 ratings — published 2013
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,602 ratings — published 2015
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,664 ratings — published 2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,224 ratings — published 2001
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 — 21,443 ratings — published 2007
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,271 ratings — published
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,279 ratings — published 2019
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,477 ratings — published 1989
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.31 — 201,646 ratings — published 2024
“Compassion is the mother of civilization.”
― Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
― Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Do I have any right to happiness, when millions go without food and shelter!”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
