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The 14 best books to read as a social worker

Save the Social Worker

Chances are, if you have a book on social work from university, you might have shelved it, never to read it again. And here I am telling you to read more social work books? To be clear… The books I recommend here are not going to be just about social work. Do social work books help us to become better social workers?

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Best books for mental health professionals

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If that’s something you’ve struggled with, I recommend books. Books sound boring and dull, and they don’t seem to be the fastest way one can grow. But books can be a constant companion that helps you to take good ideas, and immediately apply them. Here are some of the best books. Why are social work books so boring?

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Anticipatory Social Work: Foresight-Based Tools for Social Imagining and Collective Praxis

Social Work Futures

Progress and focus for forthcoming book under contract with Oxford University Press – anticipated publication date: September-November 2024. Social In the context of community and/or society – actively engaged with and paying attention to the ways in which society is constructed. This is starting to get very real!

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Disenfranchised Grief

Hospice Chaplaincy

Editor’s Note: You can purchase Dr. Doka’s book “Disenfranchised Grief “Here! Every society has external rules or norms that govern how we are expected to behave. Yet societies also have internal rules that set expectations on internal states—how we are expected to think, feel, and even believe.

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Book Review: Embodied Self Awakening

The New Social Worker

Have you ever considered how living in a patriarchal, racist, capitalist society damages your mental health and separates you from wellness? The book first explores how we inherently experience pain when moving through the world, and how it creates emptiness within us.

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Disenfranchised Grief

Hospice Chaplaincy

Editor’s Note: You can purchase Dr. Doka’s book “Disenfranchised Grief “Here! Every society has external rules or norms that govern how we are expected to behave. Yet societies also have internal rules that set expectations on internal states—how we are expected to think, feel, and even believe.

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Generative AI & Social Work: It’s NOT the End of the World as We Know It

inSocialWork

Goldkind was in residence from June to August 2017 at the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society, located in Macao, a special administrative region in China.

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