Smith Henderson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Iowa

A Novel

After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. In this shattering and iconic American novel, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion, and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. Fourth of July Creek is an unforgettable, unflinching debut that marks the arrival of a major literary talent.

Fourth of July Creek

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

Social Studies

Juvenile Justice

Craig Winston LeCroy

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Maryland

Life Stories

The Call to Social Work is based on a simple question: What can we learn by listening to the stories about the work of the social worker? The result is a collection of passionate stories told in vivid detail about social workers' efforts to contribute to compassion and justice in the world, to pursue social transformations, and to provide a vision for a better way of living.

The Call to Social Work

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Louise W. Knight

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Spirit in Action

This biography of the leading stateswoman and Nobel Peace Prize winner describes her life-long dedication to making a difference in the world, from cofounding the nation's first settlement house to advocating for women's suffrage and becoming a presidential advisor.

Jane Addams

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Nadine Burke Harris

Washington

Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

 "An extraordinary, eye-opening book."--People

 

2018 National Health Information Awards, Silver Award

 

"A rousing wake-up call . . . this highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress."--Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

 

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego--a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual assault--who galvanized her journey to uncover the connections between toxic stress and lifelong illnesses.

            The stunning news of Burke Harris's research is just how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs--adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems, and lasts a lifetime. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the fascinating scientific insight and innovative, acclaimed health interventions in The Deepest Well represent vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come?.

 

"Nadine Burke Harris . . . offers a new set of tools, based in science, that can help each of us heal ourselves, our children, and our world."--Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed

 

"A powerful--even indispensable--frame to both understand and respond more effectively to our most serious social ills."--New York Times

The Deepest Well

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Ahmed M. Badr

Ben Stiller

Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World

Ahmed Badr--Iraqi poet, social entrepreneur, and former refugee--presents a groundbreaking collection of poetry, stories, and art created by refugees from around the world. In 2018, Badr traveled to Greece, where he spent months holding storytelling workshops with displaced people in camps, squats, and elsewhere around the city of Athens. Combining Badr's own poetry and photographs with the creative contributions of hundreds of refugees, Rewriting Tragedy seeks to tell a story that often goes unheard, in the voices of those who are living it.

While the Earth Sleeps We Travel

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Janis Tyler Johnson has collected the stories of six mothers who relate in their own words their experiences as mothers of incest victims. Their accounts challenge the collusive, mother-blaming theory of incest families. Mothers tell how they discovered the incest secret, the ways they responded, and the meanings that incest held for themselves, their daughters, husbands, and families.   Dr. Johnson, the former professor of sociology and social work at Immaculata University, has been as longtime social worker in community mental health, family service and public child welfare with expertise in child sexual abuse. #Incest #Abuse #Survivors #Mothers #Treatment #Counseling #Sociology #SocialWork #Womensstudies￼

Pennsylvania

Another Side of the Story

Mothers of Incest Survivors 

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Elizabeth J. Clark

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Louisiana

58 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories from Social Work Practice

Days in the Lives of Social Workers

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T. Laine Scales

New York

Science

Building and Sustaining Community Capacity

A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice

Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities.

This guide considers methods for social workers to participate in the work of sustaining rural communities. Each chapter features a reading integrating the themes of capacity-building and rural social work; discussion questions that facilitate critical thinking around the chapter; and suggested activities and assignments.

Rural Social Work, Second Edition explores:

 * Important practice issues in rural communities, including the challenges of working with stigmatized populations such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, the homeless, and people living with HIV/AIDS
 * Practice models that hold special promise for rural social workers, including evidence-based practice and community partnership models
 * Newer research tools such as asset mapping, social network analysis, concept mapping, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Exploring how social workers can integrate the tremendous resources that exist in rural communities into their practice, Rural Social Work, Second Edition provides a solid introduction to the complex, challenging, and rewarding work of building and sustaining rural communities.

Rural Social Work

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Don R. Riso

Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery

Personality Types

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Cynthia L. Garthwait

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Guide and Workbook for Students

"Social Work Practicum, 5/e, " offers a unique integrative format designed to help students develop social work competencies by applying their academic learning to practicum experiences. It covers a variety of topic areas and leads students through guided experiences and workbook questions, helping them gain a professional identity, integrate theory with practice, and acquire the core competencies needed for social work practice. This text is part of the "Connecting Core Competencies Series," designed to guide students in becoming skilled at the Council on Social Work's core competencies. Each chapter reflects and integrates the latest CSWE competency standards (EPAS). End-of-chapter assessment reinforces this integration, and MySocialWorkLab provides activites and supports the mastery of CSWE's core competencies through activities, tests, an extensive library of videos and cases, and much more.

Social Work Practicum

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Robert Bolton

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How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts

Improve your personal and professional relationships instantly with this timeless guide to communication, listening skills, body language, and conflict resolution.

Maybe a wall of silent resentment has shut you off from someone you love. Maybe you listen to an argument in which neither party seems to hear the other. Or maybe your mind drifts to other matters when people talk to you. People Skills is a communication skills handbook that can help you eliminate these and other communication problems. Author Robert Bolton describes the twelve most common communication barriers, showing how these "roadblocks" damage relationships by increasing defensiveness, aggressiveness, or dependency. He explains how to acquire the ability to listen, assert yourself, resolve conflicts, and work out problems with others. These are skills that will help you communicate calmly, even in stressful emotionally charged situations.

People Skills will show you:

· How to get your needs met using simple assertion techniques

· How body language often speaks louder than words

· How to use silence as a valuable communication tool

· How to de-escalate family disputes, lovers' quarrels, and other heated arguments

Both thought-provoking and practical, People Skills is filled with workable ideas that you can use to improve your communication in meaningful ways, every day.

People Skills

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Marian Bussey

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Utah

An Empowerment Response

Whether it's physical, psychological, social, historical, or ongoing, trauma is a universal experience, and this book provides professionals with the approaches necessary for successful and empowering interventions across the trauma spectrum. Part one examines the steps individuals take to heal their traumas. Nicolas survives an attack by his own dog; Tay rebuilds her life after years of incest; Claire speaks out about being molested by a program participant at her mental health clinic; and Erma copes with the shattering memories of childhood abuse. Part two focuses on interpersonal dynamics. Frank is held accountable for his violence toward his wife; Erin and her mother confront the reality of bullying and victimization in schools; Beth faces discrimination because of her sexual orientation; and staff members at a transitional housing shelter deal with the death of a client. Part three recounts stories of resilience and healing at the social and community level. Salome and her family process the historical trauma of the massacre of her American Indian ancestors. A group of boys who became fatherless after 9/11 respond to experiential ways of coping with their grief. Jennifer and Kim live daily with the social trauma of poverty. Three Liberian families survive torture, flight, refugee camps, and resettlement. Amory struggles to find meaning and move on from his experience as a combat veteran, and the story of Angelina Batiste epitomizes the loss and resilience of those who lived through Hurricane Katrina. Trauma Transformed provides insight into the psychological and spiritual resources practitioners need to help victims move forward and improve upon their circumstances. Readers will also learn to strengthen their sense of self to prevent secondary trauma.

Trauma Transformed

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Interesting story of growing up in a Persian harem, receiving an education in the US, and returning to Iran to battle poverty, disease and overcrowding. Text is in excellent condition. DJ shows definite edge wear and is yellowed on the inside periphery (see photos). First edition, first printing, complete number line. #autobiography #Iran #nonfiction #hardcover #firstedition #women #socialwork (Shelf 2F)

New Jersey

A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution

The daughter of a prominent Iranian recalls her privileged life in Tehran, her U.S. education, & her social reform work, which outraged Khomeini.

Daughter of Persia  **

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Lenore Terr

Michigan

Psychic Trauma in Childhood

In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.

Too Scared to Cry

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William R. Miller

Stephen Rollnick

Kelly Conforti

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Preparing People for Change

This bestselling work has introduced hundreds of thousands of professionals and students to motivational interviewing (MI), a proven approach to helping people overcome ambivalence that gets in the way of change. William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick explain current thinking on the process of behavior change, present the principles of MI, and provide detailed guidelines for putting it into practice. Case examples illustrate key points and demonstrate the benefits of MI in addictions treatment and other clinical contexts. The authors also discuss the process of learning MI. The volume's final section brings together an array of leading MI practitioners to present their work in diverse settings.

Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition

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Illinois

In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.

Richard M. Cohen

Rhode Island

Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope

The bestselling author of Blindsided, Richard M. Cohen spent three years chronicling the lives of five diverse "citizens of sickness": Denise, who suffers from ALS; Buzz, whose Christian faith helps him deal with his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Sarah, a determined young woman with Crohn's disease; Ben, a college student with muscular dystrophy; and Larry, whose bipolar disorder is hidden within. Differing in age and gender, race and economic status, all five are determined to live life on their own terms. In Strong at the Broken Places, Cohen shares these inspirational and revealing stories, which offer lessons for us all—–on self-determination, on courage in the face of adversity and public ignorance, on keeping hope alive. We are all strong at the broken places—stronger than we think.

Strong at the Broken Places

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Natasha Daniels

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North Dakota

English

50 Fun Exercises for Making Friends, Talking and Listening, and Understanding Social Rules

Learn Everyday Social Skills and Have Fun, Too! What are the Dos and Don'ts for making and keeping friends? How can you decode body language clues? What's the best way to keep a conversation going? Just like learning multiplication tables, social skills don't come naturally--every child has to learn them. Luckily, this book makes mastering social skills super fun with 50 awesome activities. Social Skills Activities for Kids gives children the confidence to successfully navigate social situations at home, school, and the world in between. From keeping the conversation ball moving to learning to compromise to practicing good table manners, these engaging activities help kids develop and use their social skills super powers. Inside Social Skills Activities for Kids, you'll find: Life Lessons--Kids learn how to handle everyday social situations like communicating with peers and adults, using and interpreting body language, reading social cues, and more. 50 Interactive Activities--Games, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and reflective entries keep kids learning and engaged. Real Scenarios--Includes up-to-date topics like bullying and using social media. Get the courage to be your very best self with Social Skills Activities for Kids.

Social Skills Activities for Kids

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Aysan Sev'er

Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners

Thirty-nine women and their strategies of survival are the central focus of this newest study on women who have left abusive situations. An indispensable new look and new hope to the issue of violence against women.

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Craig Winston LeCroy

The Call to Social Work

Louise W. Knight

Jane Addams

Nadine Burke Harris

The Deepest Well

Ahmed M. Badr; Ben Stiller

While the Earth Sleeps We Travel

Janis Tyler Johnson

Mothers of Incest Survivors

Elizabeth J. Clark

Days in the Lives of Social Workers

T. Laine Scales

Rural Social Work

Don R. Riso

Personality Types

Cynthia L. Garthwait

Social Work Practicum

Nadine Burke Harris

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Robert Bolton

People Skills

Marian Bussey

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Daughter of Persia **

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The Deepest Well

Lenore Terr

Too Scared to Cry

William R. Miller; Stephen Rollnick; Kelly Conforti

Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition

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Fourth of July Creek

Richard M. Cohen

Strong at the Broken Places

Natasha Daniels

Social Skills Activities for Kids

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The Deepest Well

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Fourth of July Creek

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