NASW Press invites you to decide before you buy! Faculty affiliated with a US university or college can place an order for books that they are considering adopting for the classroom. You will have 90 days to make a decision. Visit the NASW Press website to learn more and check out some of our titles below.
Social Work Speaks: National Association of Social Workers Policy Statements 2024–2027 (13th Edition) is a comprehensive and
unabridged collection of policies, including those adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2024. The Delegate Assembly, NASW’s key policymaking body, meets every three years. The policy statements set the parameters for NASW’s positions and actions on a broad range of public policy and professional issues.
Social Work Speaks is a reference tool that represents the collective thinking of thousands of social workers across all fields of practice. This user-friendly resource can assist in developing organizational responses to policy issues, conducting policy analysis, and working in advocacy coalitions. The 13th edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including affirmative action, electoral politics, end-of-life decision making, healthcare, LGBTQIA2S+ issues, social justice, and youth suicide.
Clinical supervision is fraught with difficulties, and those who transition from frontline worker to supervisor often receive little training or support, particularly when it comes to the interpersonal skills needed for implementing complex human relations tasks. Left to their own devices, clinical 
supervisors must navigate myriad challenges. Drawing on decades of his own experience and the experiences of those he has trained, Lawrence Shulman provides clear, simple models of supervision using a conversational tone and practical advice in this must-have resource, Interactional Supervision (4th Edition).
Every phase of supervision is discussed in detail, with a focus on communication, making demands for work, facing taboo subjects, and transitioning into and out of roles and relationships. Strategies for group work and meetings include everyday challenges; trauma, such as client deaths; violence against frontline workers; and cutbacks. Supervisors will learn how to apply Shulman’s parallel process framework in their interactions with frontline workers to model ideal interactions between workers and their clients.
Ethical Standards in Social Work: A Review of the NASW Code of Ethics (Revised 3rd Edition), by Frederic G. Reamer is a practical guide
designed to help social workers protect clients, make sound ethical decisions, and minimize the risk of professional malpractice and disciplinary action.
The revised third edition reflects the 2021 updates of the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers, which provides social workers with a comprehensive summary and analysis of ethical standards in the profession and an explicit statement of the profession’s principal mission and core values. Ethical Standards in Social Work, (Revised 3rd Edition), now includes extensive discussion of new and updated ethics standards, especially pertaining to cultural competence and social workers’ self-care. Earn 13.5 CEUs by reading this book.
Despite so much time spent documenting, social workers often have a negative response to documentation—it is the 
bane of many professionals’ existence. To many social workers, documentation means responding to unnecessary bureaucratic demands and tending to tedious and boring details instead of spending time on their true passion: working with clients.
Designed to help practitioners build writing skills in a variety of settings, Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording (3rd Edition), by Nancy L. Sidell, is a how-to guide for social work students and practitioners interested in improving their record keeping and documentation skills. This wildly popular, must-have resource provides practical advice on current practice issues such as electronic case recording, trauma-informed documentation, and assessing and documenting client cultural differences of relevance. Earn eight CEUs by reading this book.
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You can earn continuing education credits by reading select NASW Press books via the NASW Social Work Online CE Institute—including titles noted above. Topics range from early childhood education and care, ecosocial work, economic well-being, mentoring women for leadership, and social work ethics to burnout, self-care, and meditation, social work career guidance and field work, digital practice, and social entrepreneurship to name a few. Visit the NASW Press website to learn more about the full list of books offered and how to participate.
