Lifted from an NASW/Linked-In discussion board, here are twenty-four books recommended by nineteen social workers–none of them (or maybe just one), I think, on the Best-Ever Book Lists put together by WTCI readers…and therefore, maybe of interest.
The question answered: What professional books would you recommend to remain current in the field of mental health? What books have had the greatest influence on you?
Here are the group’s answers, in the order posted:
- I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy and Power, by Brene Brown
- Wasted, by Marya Hornbacher
- An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison
- The the Heart and Soul of Change, by Duncan, Miller, Wambold, Hubble
- The Heroic Client, by Duncan, by Miller and Sparks
- Don’t Hit My Mommy: A Manual for Child-Parent Psychotherapy With Young Witnesses of Family Violencem by Lieberman and Van Horn
- If You Meet Buddha on the Road Kill Him, by Sheldon Kopp
- Building the Bonds of Attachment, by Daniel Hughes
- Enhancing Resilence in Survivors of Family Violence, Kim M. Anderson
- Quality of Life Therapy, by Frisch
- Modern Psychoanalysis of the Schizophrenic Patient, by Hyman Spotnitz
- Maps of Narrative Practice, by Michael White
- The Barefoot Helper, by Mark Hamer
- Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, by Heinz Ansbacher
- UNITAS, by Edward Eismann
- Over the Influence, by Patt Denning
- The Tree of Knowledge, by Humberto Maturana
- Motivational Interviewing by Rollnick and Miller
- Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders, Fourth Edition: A Step-by-Step Treatment Manual, by David Barlow
- Trauma & Recovery, by Judith Herman
- Return to Community: Building Support Systems for People with Psychiatric Disabilities, Paul J. Carling
- A Little Book About Person Centered Planning: Ways to Think About Person-centered Planning, by John O’Brien & Connie Lyle O’Brien (eds)
- Reinventing Your Life, by Jeffrey E. Young and Janet S. Klosko
- Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (you can get the abridged version), by Harold Kaplan and Benjamin Sadock
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