This page brings together free online books, topic searches and Open Access resources related to social services and philanthropy, including charitable organizations, welfare work, community reform, public aid, and humanitarian efforts. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
The section below Topics provides links to related modern Open Access books. See that section for more information.
Topics – Social Work Books Collection PDF – Social Services PDF
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Social Work Books
- Social work teachers
- Social work with adult child sexual abuse victims
- Social work with African American children
- Social work with African American teenagers
- Social work with African Americans
- Social work with alcoholics
- Social work with bisexual people
- Social work with children
- Social work with children with disabilities
- Social work with children with mental disabilities
- Social work with deaf people
- Social work with drug addicts
- Social work with gay people
- Social work with gay youth
- Social work with gender-nonconforming youth
- Social work with Hispanic Americans
- Social work with HIV-positive persons
- Social work with human trafficking victims
- Social work with immigrants
- Social work with Indians
- Social work with indigenous peoples
- Social work with involuntary clients
- Social work with juvenile delinquents
- Social work with lesbian youth
- Social work with lesbians
- Social work with men
- Social work with minorities
- Social work with nomads
- Social work with older people
- Social work with people with disabilities
- Social work with people with mental disabilities
- Social work with people with social disabilities
- Social work with prostitutes
- Social work with refugees
- Social work with rural women
- Social work with sex offenders
- Social work with single parents
- Social work with teenagers
- Social work with the homeless
- Social work with the terminally ill
- Social work with unemployed
- Social work with transgender people
- Social work with widows
- Social work with women
- Social work with youth
Social Service Books
- Abused wives – Services for
- Adoption agencies
- Applied theater
- Arts in social service
- Blind – Services for
- Charities
- Child care services
- Communication in social work
- Community-based social services
- Evidence-based social work
- Family planning services
- Federations, Financial (Social service)
- Foster care review boards
- Friendly visiting
- Homophobia in social work
- Industrial welfare
- Interviewing in social service
- Mass media and social service
- Medical social work
- Mentoring in social service
- Military social work
- National service
- Older volunteers in social service
- Paraprofessionals in social service
- Photography in social service
- Police social work
- Private practice social work
- Psychiatric social work
- Public welfare
- Racism in social services
- School social work
- Service learning
- Social advocacy
- Social case work
- Social group work
- Social service, Rural
- Student affairs services
- Student volunteers in social service
- Task-centered social work
- Teenage volunteers in social service
- Television in social service
- Tort liability of social service agencies
- Video recording in social service
- Visiting housekeepers
- Volunteer workers in social service
- Women – Services for
- Women in charitable work
- Young volunteers in social service
Open Access PDF Social Work and Social Service Books and Textbooks Download Free
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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