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Montgomery Library's Guide to Social Work Resources.

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REFERENCE    
REF HN 57 .O94 2012     The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
REF HV 29.7 .C65 2012   The Columbia Guide to Social Work Writing
REF HV 40 .S6464 2015   Social Workers' Desk Reference, Third Edition
     
SOCIAL PATHOLOGY AND SOCIAL & PUBLIC WELFARE    
HV 10.5 .B345 2019   Ethics and Values in Social Work
HV 11 .H58 2019   Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology
HV 40 .N193 2019   Not Just Play: Summer Camp and the Profession of Social Work
HV 40 .R674 2023   Political Ideology and Social Work
HV 40 .S5483 2019   Shaping a Science of Social Work
HV 40 .S6135 2022   Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors
HV 40 .S63 2023   Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions
HV 40.3 .W446 2022   Where Social Work Can Lead You: Journeys Into, Around, and Even Out of Social Work
HV 640 .A2226 2020   Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis
HV 687 .H38 2019   Health Care Social Work: A Global Perspective
HV 2113 .T26 2022   Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity
HV 3001 .A4 P35 2019   Palliative Care: A Guide for Health Social Workers
HV 6250.4 .W65 B869 2022    Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy
HV 6250.4 .W65 D475 2022   Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women
HV 6626.2 .B56 2023   Violence Never Heals: The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women
     
PSYCHOLOGY & RELIGION    
BF 637 .C4 C56 2010    Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships that All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
BF 637 .S4 M386 2012   The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
BF 637 .S8 G533 2011   Outliers: The Story of Success
BS 1199 .A25 B457 2023    Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole
BV 639 .P6 C67 2012     When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor ... and Yourself
     
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE    
GE 235 .C25 K56 2021   Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
     
INDUSTRIES, LAND USE, LABOR    
HD 5708 .R37 2020   Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment
     
SOCIAL REFORM/SOCIOLOGY    
HM 756 .F85 2022    Community in Urban–Rural Systems
HN 80 .M6 F67    A Voice but No Power: Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis
     
FAMILY / MARRIAGE    
HQ 10 .S773 2020   Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist
HQ 77.9 .M25 2022   Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
HQ 755.8 .D63 2019   Love, Money & Parenting
HQ 772.5 .M65 2021   Seen and Not Heard: Why Children's Voices Matter
HQ 789 .W66 2020   The Ecology of Childhood: How Our Changing World Threatens Children's Rights
     
COMMUNITIES, CLASSES, RACES    
HQ 755.5 .U5 O37 2023   Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
HT 153 .V85 2022   Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities
HT 175 .G353 2021   The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020
HT 361 .T55 2021  
City and Country: The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems
HT 1521 .A24 2020   Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
HT 1521 .R6255 2021   Speaking of Race: How to Have Antiracist Conversations That Bring Us Together
HT 1523 .D55 2021   Antiracist discourse: Theory and history of a macromovement
     
IMMIGRATION    
JV 6483 .Z394 2023   Through Iceboxes and Kennels: How Immigration Detention Harms Children and Families
     
EDUCATION    
LB 2395.7 .L47 2021   Lessons From the Pandemic: Trauma-Informed Approaches to College, Crisis, Change
LB 3430 .S87 2020   Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students: A Guide for School-Based Professionals
     
MEDICINE    
RA 448.5 .N4 V55 2022     Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America
RA 563 .M56 M28 2022   Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America
RA 564.86 .B533 2022     Black Women and Public Health: Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power
RA 790.75 .G37 2022   Pursuing a Career in Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide for Aspiring Professionals
RC 454 .S774 2021    The Stigma of Mental Illness: Models and Methods of Stigma Reduction
REF RC 455.2 .C4 A48 2022   Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5-TR
RC 488.5 .S982 2020   Brief Strategic Family Therapy
RC  552 .T7 P47 2020   What Happens to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
RC 552 .T7 S56 2021   Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life
RJ 501 .A2 C46 2023   Child and adolescent mental health in social work: A casebook

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Library of Congress Classification Guide for Social Science:

H         Social sciences (general)
HM Sociology (general and theoretical) and social psychology
HN Social history, social reform, social problems
HQ Family, marriage, women
HS Societies: secret, benevolent, clubs
HT Communities, classes, races
HV Social pathology, social work, criminology
HX Socialism, communism, anarchism


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