📚 Social Work

Books with social work on their catalogue record, first published between 1940 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social work in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 15,681 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Research Design	John W. Creswell	1994	21
	Theory and practice of social case work	Gordon Hamilton	1940	19
	Social services in Britain	Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division.	1955	18
	The heart of counseling	Jeff L. Cochran	2005	16
	From Trauma to Healing	Ann Goelitz	2013	15
	Applied social research	Duane R. Monette	1986	14
	Human trafficking	Mary C. Burke	2013	14
	Social work in health settings	Toba Schwaber Kerson	2010	13
	Direct social work practice	Dean H. Hepworth	1982	12
	The practice of social work	Charles Zastrow	1981	11
	Organization, policy, and practice in the human services	Bernard Neugeboren	1984	11
	Managing for service effectiveness in social welfare organizations	Rino J. Patti	1988	11
	Family violence	Harvey Wallace	2011	10
	Fundamentals of Case Management Practice	Nancy Summers	2000	9
	Family Violence	Harvey Wallace	1995	8
	Human behavior in the social environment	José B. Ashford	1997	8
	Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice	Roberta Greene	2008	8
	The field of social work	Arthur E. Fink	1942	7
	The social work dictionary	Robert L. Barker	1987	7
	Understanding generalist practice	Karen Kay Kirst-Ashman	1993	7
	Textbook of Social Administration	Charles A. Rapp	2007	7
	Working with Substance-Affected Parents and Their Children	Menka Tsantefski	2015	7
	Human behavior and the social environment, macro level	Katherine S. Van Wormer	2007	6
	Social group work	Gisela Konopka	1963	5
	Supervision in social work	Alfred Kadushin	1976	5
	International social work	David R. Cox	2005	5
	Developing helping skills	Valerie Nash Chang	2008	5
	Social Work Practice	Veronica Coulshed	1988	4
	Encyclopedia of social work	Edwards, Richard L. Ph. D.	1995	4
	School social work	Robert T. Constable	2006	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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