NASW Members Recommend
By SaraKay Smullens, MSW
NASW Press
“There is no shortage of causes of burnout: overwhelming caseloads, limited budgets, complex and divergent responsibilities, and secondary trauma, all against a background of political unrest, systemic racism, dysfunctional leadership, and a global pandemic. It is no wonder that many question whether they can survive in the profession. In the second edition of this groundbreaking book, SaraKay Smullens defines creative strategies for self-care and personal growth and offers opportunities for reflection, redirection, and hope.” [Readers of this title are eligible for 5.0 CEUs in the NASW Online CE Institute.]
By Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP
Central Recovery Press
“Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. It is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head but also about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. It paves the way for a new body-centered understanding of white supremacy: how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system and offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.”
By Gregory L. Nooney, LICSW, ACSW
NASW Press
“Using case studies, diagnostic tools, and clinician self-care, Gregory Nooney demonstrates how to confirm a dissociative identity disorder (DID) diagnosis and establish a therapeutic relationship; assist the client in developing internal communication, cooperation, and co-consciousness; mitigate the risk of breaking dissociative barriers too quickly; manage the risk of rapid switching and decompensation, including suicidal risk; and lead the client from emotional rigidity and chaos to integration. Though the challenges of diagnosing and treating DID are vast, the rewards of helping this misunderstood and underserved population are enormous.” Readers of this title can earn 7.5 CEUs from the NASW Online CE Institute.
By Edward M. Hallowell, MDand John J. Ratey, MD
Penguin Random House
“Drs. Hallowell and Ratey, both of whom have this “variable attention trait,” draw on the latest science to provide both parents and adults with ADHD a plan for minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD at any age. They offer an arsenal of new strategies and lifestyle hacks for thriving with ADHD.”
By Mary Anne Cohen, LCSW
NASW Press
“In this engaging and compassionate book, Mary Anne Cohen teaches therapists how to fearlessly reach out to the heart and humanity of each client, illustrating how the therapist–client relationship—with its sharing of tears and laughter—makes treatment a deeply healing experience. The goal for the social work therapist is to create an individualized and comprehensive treatment approach in collaboration with clients that will help them break the chains of emotional eating and body image distress.”
Readers of this title can earn 8.0 CEUs from the NASW Online CE Institute.
By David Archer, MSW, MFT
Each One Teach One Publications
“This book will help you learn a new perspective for conceptualizing racism and recovering from its effects on the nervous system. Using the approaches described in this book will reveal how we can reprocess the pain of our past, inspire hope for the future and gain a higher level of awareness when discussing the mental health effects of systemic racism.”
By Nancy L. Sidell, PhD, MSW
NASW Press
“A how-to guide for social work students and practitioners interested in good record keeping and improving their documentation skills, this text will help practitioners build writing skills in a variety of settings and circumstances, including in current practices areas such as electronic case recording and trauma-informed documentation. In this second edition, author Nancy Sidell uses exercises to teach effective documentation and provides tips for assessing and documenting client cultural differences of relevance.”
Readers of this title are eligible for 7 CEUs in the NASW Online CE Institute.
By Rene Almeling
University of California Press
“Only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men’s health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men’s age, health and exposures. GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today.”
By David A. Jobes, with a foreword by Marsha M. Linehan
The Guilford Press
“The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) approach has garnered a strong evidence base and has been implemented by therapists from a range of orientations in diverse clinical settings. This extensively revised manual provides a proven therapeutic framework for evaluating suicidal risk and developing and implementing a suicide-specific treatment plan that is respectful, empathic and empowering. In addition to their clinical utility, the procedures used for assessment, treatment and progress monitoring within CAMS can help reduce the risk of malpractice liability.”
By Laurel Parnell, PHD
W. W. Norton & Company.
“Laurel Parnell, leader and innovator in the field of eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), offers us a way to embrace two often separate worlds of knowing: the science of early attachment relationships and the practice of healing within an EMDR framework. This book combines attachment theory with EMDR to teach therapists a new way of healing clients with relational trauma and attachment deficits.”
by Stanley Andrisse, MBA, PhD
Post Hill Press
“Growing up in Ferguson, MO, Andrisse began making poor decisions at a very young age. By his early twenties, he found himself facing 10 years in a maximum-security prison. While challenged with a strong desire for self-renewal, he faced an environment that was not conducive for transformative change. From poor institutional structure and policies to individual institutionalized thinking and behaviors, he battled on a daily basis to retain and maintain his humanity. Upon release Stanley was accepted into a PhD program. He completed his PhD/MBA simultaneously and became an endocrinologist and impactful leader at Johns Hopkins Medicine, specializing in diabetes research.”
By Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“A longtime trauma worker, Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, numb or like we can never do enough. Lipsky offers simple and profound practices, drawn from modern psychology and a range of spiritual traditions, that enable us to look carefully at our reactions and motivations and discover new sources of energy and renewal.”
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