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Social Work/Human Service Books
Books related to the diverse subject of Social Work. Ranging from child abuse to alcoholism to poverty and more. As well as books related to Human Services, the multitude of outlets created to help those in need such as the social welfare system, child protective services, counselors, mental health services, educators and more.
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Days in the Lives of Gerontological Social Workers: 44 Professionals Tell Stories from "Real-Life" Social Work Practice with Older Adults
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The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
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Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
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Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis
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One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found
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Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
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Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption: On the Meaning of Family and the Politics of Neurological Difference
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3.95 avg rating — 227 ratings
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American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
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In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
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3.94 avg rating — 283 ratings
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On the Job: The Untold Story of America's Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
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4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care
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Sentinel for Health: A History of the Centers for Disease Control
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The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
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Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done about It
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On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System
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The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
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Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
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4.35 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Say Anarcha
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3.82 avg rating — 417 ratings
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The Road Not Taken
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Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
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Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
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3.44 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida
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Street Kid
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The Fight for Coal Mine Health and Safety: A Documented History
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Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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Lucky Girl: A Memoir
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A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
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4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Another Place at the Table
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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4.13 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
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Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
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3.96 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
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Damaged
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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
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4.21 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
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3.97 avg rating — 19,466 ratings
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House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
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4.01 avg rating — 3,448 ratings
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Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907 (Volume 14) (New Directions in Native American Studies Series)
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Hope's Boy: A Memoir
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Andrew Bridge (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 3,651 ratings
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Doing Veterans Oral History
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The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
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4.16 avg rating — 489 ratings
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Veterans’ Reflections: History Preserved
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
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Cea Sunrise Person (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 17,851 ratings
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Homeward Bound: American Veterans Return from War
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Richard Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
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4.31 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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Inside the O'Briens
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Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 50,326 ratings
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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4.22 avg rating — 21,817 ratings
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The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)
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3.97 avg rating — 72 ratings
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
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3.80 avg rating — 37,445 ratings
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Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
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4.19 avg rating — 707 ratings
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
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4.06 avg rating — 10,168 ratings
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Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life
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Tracey Shors (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 700 ratings
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
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3.92 avg rating — 15,567 ratings
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Reckoning
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Name All the Animals: A Memoir
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A Deeper Wellness: Conquering Stress, Mood, Anxiety and Traumas
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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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Coming of Age on Zoloft
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Katherine Sharpe (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 698 ratings
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity
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Traumatized: Identify, Understand, and Cope with PTSD and Emotional Stress
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Kati Morton (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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The Street
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Anatomy of Autism: A Pocket Guide for Educators, Parents, and Students
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Race to Incarcerate
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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Child Protective Services needs to be abolished as they do not know how to do their jobs properly and are always taking babies when they should NOT. They also fail caring for children who really do need some help.
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Please consider Let's Talk About it:A Guide for Talking to Children After a Suicide of a Loved One by Laura Camerona.This book thoughtfully explains and supports children after the loss of someone to suicide.
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