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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 289,388 ratings — published 2014
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.58 — 42,478 ratings — published 2007
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,287 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 — 29,747 ratings — published 2001
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,803 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 — 110,839 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 410,691 ratings — published 2019
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,910 ratings — published 2017
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 — 244,998 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 66 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.55 — 39,583 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,411 ratings — published 2010
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,260 ratings — published 1991
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 24,328 ratings — published 2007
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,345 ratings — published 2016
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,718 ratings — published 2021
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.42 — 11,665 ratings — published 2018
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,691 ratings — published 1968
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 48 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,869 ratings — published 2018
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.26 — 60,624 ratings — published 2011
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.49 — 78,821 ratings — published 2022
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 3.97 — 267 ratings — published 1999
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 224,927 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 — 89,750 ratings — published 1997
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.35 — 94,921 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 — 125,717 ratings — published 2010
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,791 ratings — published 1961
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 462,911 ratings — published 1995
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 895,663 ratings — published 1946
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Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills [with InfoTrac] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.74 — 409 ratings — published 2015
Modern Social Work Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 240 ratings — published
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 99,141 ratings — published 2021
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,639 ratings — published 2008
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.05 — 473 ratings — published 1993
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,495 ratings — published 1995
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.62 — 265,143 ratings — published 2014
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,525 ratings — published 1967
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,434 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 — 26,763 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 — 36,784 ratings — published 2022
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.92 — 65,960 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 4.44 — 2,091 ratings — published 2009
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,287 ratings — published 2015
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,581 ratings — published 2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,944 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 — 21,153 ratings — published 2007
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,962 ratings — published 2019
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.54 — 14,224 ratings — published 2013
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,193 ratings — published
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,111 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 — 193,027 ratings — published 2024
“For every church, mosque, and temple you build, if you're not building ten schools and hospitals, to provide affordable education and healthcare, you are serving none but your own delusions, for holiness unfolds in human welfare.”
― The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
― The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Each of you are the world's remedy,
each of you are light to life -
breathing testament to possibility,
walk, and weave the world civilized!”
― The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
each of you are light to life -
breathing testament to possibility,
walk, and weave the world civilized!”
― The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
