7 must-read social work books like An Introduction to Group Work Practice by Ronald W. Toseland

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An Introduction to Group Work Practice

By: Ronald W. Toseland

3.68

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The perfect text for preparing students to work with either treatment (ongoing) or task (special fo…

If you liked the social work plot in An Introduction to Group Work Practice by Ronald W. Toseland , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Frenchman's Creek

By: Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson

3.98

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside wi… read more

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"You have no hobby then?" "Moths interest me, my lady."

-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

"I am notorious," said Dona, "for making unfortunate remarks."

-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

"—in reality it was escape she wanted, escape from her own self—"

-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

"I had become like a prisoner in chains, and the dungeon was deep."

-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

Cover of Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals by Shawn Christopher Shea

2. Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals

By: Shawn Christopher Shea

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • social work
  • psychology
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3. A Secret History of Witches

By: None

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Audiobook

An ancient and dangerous power is being handed down from mother to daughter through some of the mos… read more

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4. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • social work
  • psychology

5. Three Wishes

By: Liane Moriarty

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

7. Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen , None , None

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In this provocative essay on that least understood virtue, compassion, the authors challenge themse… read more

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8. Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change

By: Stephen Rollnick , William R. Miller

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This bestselling work has introduced hundreds of thousands of professionals and students to motivat… read more

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9. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more

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10. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)

By: Gregory Maguire , Douglas Smith

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard o… read more

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11. Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

By: Paula S. Rothenberg , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

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12. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Bruce D. Perry

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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13. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

4.52

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more

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"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."

-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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14. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

By: Jessica Fern

4.40

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

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15. The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)

By: Alice Hoffman

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellb… read more

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"Everything worthwhile is dangerous."

-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)

"Language was everything. Trust was for fools. Love came and went. Words could be stolen."

-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)

"Tonight the special was chicken pot pie, but most of the regulars were concentrating on whiskey."

-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)

"Time is out there. Everything that ever happened is still happening. For instance, if I took your hand in mine."

-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)

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16. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

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17. Storm and Fury (The Harbinger, #1)

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The stunning beginning to the New York Times bestselling Harbinger series. Meet Trinity Marrow, … read more

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"Pero caer en la tentación es mucho mas divertido"

-Jennifer L. Armentrout, Storm and Fury (The Harbinger, #1)

"- Supongo que el cielo está lleno de estrellas, ¿no? - Sí, pero las únicas que importan son las que tu ves."

-Jennifer L. Armentrout, Storm and Fury (The Harbinger, #1)

"- Entonces empezó a vestirse y yo me quedé en plan "Agárrate que vienen curvas, esta no es la tierra prometida, pero es la otra vida que buscaba"

-Jennifer L. Armentrout, Storm and Fury (The Harbinger, #1)

"Because it's always the last ones you suspect in my experience. The ones who hide their dark souls rather than show the world what a shit ball they are,' he replied, and I shook my head. 'And the fac…"

-Jennifer L. Armentrout, Storm and Fury (The Harbinger, #1)

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18. Hester

By: Laurie Lico Albanese

3.97

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotlan… read more

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"The letter A is red,"

-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

"Isobel, you're in my veins now--you know it, don't you? You're in my blood."

-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

"...history isn't what's written or told. History is hidden away in dark corners and shadows..."

-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

"But there's another kind of strength we've got...It comes from knowing the difference between who you are and who they think you are."

-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

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19. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

By: Resmaa Menakem

4.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social work
  • psychology
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

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20. Juniper & Thorn

By: Ava Reid

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper T… read more

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"It filled me with a terrible pity and guilt, so perfunctory it was as if I'd been made for it, a machine for dispensing grief."

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"If I have you it will be as a man has a woman, a husband his wife. Do you dream of Bogatyr Ivan when you kiss me? Do you wish I entered you while holding a wooden sword? I would not like any story to…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"The grandfather clock gonged three. Papa spoke a word that sounded like a spell, though I couldn't be sure. It was neither kind nor cruel. It was simply a wheel going into its grooves. All I knew the…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

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21. Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

By: Christie Tate

3.81

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"If you can't say no in relationships, then you can't be intimate"

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I recognized the familiar feeling of warmth and safety that settled after the rush of emotional risk."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I wept...for how deeply afraid I was that my life would never truly change or, worse, that true change would ask more of me than I could give."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I released a secret, not caring who in my family. might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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22. The Newcomer

By: Mary Kay Andrews

3.93

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her n… read more

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23. When Women Were Dragons

By: Kelly Barnhill

3.85

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transfo… read more

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"The dragons did not go away."

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"The work of storytelling requires a person to remain in a state of brutal vulnerability and punishing empathy. We feel everything. It tears us apart. We could not do this work without people in our l…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"There's very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang onto what we love. And that's it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to contr…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of th…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

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24. The Kiss Curse (The Ex Hex, #2)

By: Erin Sterling

3.78

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Spooky Season!! The follow-up to Erin Sterling’s New York Times bestselling hit The Ex H… read more

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"Instead, Gwyn gestured around them and said, “Do you think we’re just picking up on bad vibes from this stuff? Because the vibes in here are definitely bad. Vibe check thoroughly failed."

-Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse (The Ex Hex, #2)

"So Glinda was telling us how you’re trying to find out about someone getting kicked out of Penhaven, and I was telling her that I dated this girl who works in the records department. Her name was Sar…"

-Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse (The Ex Hex, #2)

"I want all of you, too.' he told her. 'The powerful witch and the woman who loves nothing better than to take the piss out of me when I deserve it. The woman who inspires loyalty in talking cats and …"

-Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse (The Ex Hex, #2)

"He wondered if he should share with her his suspicions about Morgan, but Gwyn and Morgan were clearly old friends. She’d probably just roll her eyes at him again and tell him he was being an idiot. A…"

-Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse (The Ex Hex, #2)

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25. Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills [with InfoTrac]

By: Dean H. Hepworth

3.72

Format: 634 pages, Hardcover

Through proven learning experiences that are as close to real-life practice as can be obtained from… read more

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  • school
  • social work
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • textbooks
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26. An Introduction to Group Work Practice

By: Ronald W. Toseland

3.68

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The perfect text for preparing students to work with either treatment (ongoing) or task (special fo… read more

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  • school
  • social work
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • textbooks
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27. Theories for Direct Social Work Practice

By: Joseph Walsh

3.94

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Walsh's text provides MSW course instructors and students with a single volume that incorporates co… read more

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  • textbooks
  • social work
  • psychology
  • school
Cover of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis in Social Work Practice by Jacqueline Corcoran

28. Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis in Social Work Practice

By: Jacqueline Corcoran

4.13

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This user-friendly textbook not only guides social workers in developing competence in the American… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • textbooks
  • social work

10 Best nonfiction books like An Introduction to Group Work Practice by Ronald W. Toseland

Transform Your Habits

Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals

Shawn Christopher Shea

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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21 must-read fiction books like When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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The Book Eaters

Sunyi Dean

3.64

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James McBride

4.00

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