Texts and Reference Books

Days in the Lives of Social Workers

DSM-5

Child Development, Third Edition: A Practitioner's Guide

Racial and Ethnic Groups

Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording

Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond

[Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life]
(https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Feelings-Harbinger-Self-Help-Workbook/dp/1608822087/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3ZW7PRW5TK2PB0MDR9R3)

Interpersonal Process in Therapy: An Integrative Model

[The Clinical Assessment Workbook: Balancing Strengths and Differential Diagnosis]
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0534578438/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_38?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ARCO1HGQTQFT8)

Helping Abused and Traumatized Children

Essential Research Methods for Social Work

Navigating Human Service Organizations

Privilege: A Reader

Play Therapy with Children in Crisis

The Color of Hope: People of Color Mental Health Narratives

The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner

Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

Deviant Behavior

Social Work with Older Adults

The Aging Networks: A Guide to Programs and Services

[Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice]
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415884810/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change

Ethnicity and Family Therapy

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook

DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents

DBT Skills Manual

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets

Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need

Novels

[A People’s History of the United States]
(https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062397346/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511070674&sr=1-1&keywords=howard+zinn&dpID=51pps1C9%252BGL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch)


The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Life For Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Tuesdays with Morrie

The Death Class <- This one is based off of a course I took at my undergrad university

The Quiet Room

Girl, Interrupted

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Flowers for Algernon

Of Mice and Men

A Child Called It

Go Ask Alice

Under the Udala Trees

Prozac Nation

It's Kind of a Funny Story

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Bell Jar

The Outsiders

To Kill a Mockingbird

Okay read through the PDF (did not go through the entire appendixes or check if the citations were accurate). I think most science undergrads could roast the article on a pike. Even if this alleged paper was worth the bytes of data it took up it would be torn apart in any decent peer review journal. So the main argument is “why didn’t you do a placebo test for this vaccine? Huh? Huh? Gotcha science!” Except the author (perhaps intentionally misleading) tries to make a straw man argument that without a placebo test then vaccines are unproven and should be halted which is insane. Look up a credible peer reviewed vaccine paper (I recommend https://www.cochrane.org). There are numerous trials/records for control and efficacy. There is a range of research that goes into drug evaluations (extremely strict and takes decades).

*I agree with OP that vaccinations should be mandatory to be enrolled in public schools. But don’t agree with “forced” vaccines which I think anti-vax individuals feel they are being pressured into. Parents can choose but realize they lose some public services. Public health ethics is very interesting and directly tackles this issue. Recommended reading (https://www.amazon.ca/Public-Health-Ethics-Stephen-Holland/dp/0745662196).

They are much more common in the US than in Europe.

> The United States has the highest rate of gun related injuries (not deaths per capita) among developed countries, though they also have the highest rate of gun ownership and highest rate of officers.[9]

The citation is a book, which you can find here.

There's also this: US Leads Richest Nations in Gun Deaths

 I recommend getting one of the Lange study guides. I took the exam last Nov and used a seventh edition study guide and still passed. I believe the newest edition is tenth - https://www.amazon.com/LANGE-Radiography-Examination-Allied-Health/dp/0071833102 - there were questions from the book word for word on the test! I wouldn't stress to hard about it! 

I passed the registry with a 96/100. Let's put some things into perspective for you:

• You're overreacting. With two semesters left, you have yet to learn everything you're going to learn. By the time you learn it, you're going to forget what you learned in the first semester. That's why programs like mine dedicated the entire last semester to review and practice exams. See if your school administers the HESI exam for radiography; it's almost a mirror of the registry, and will tell you your standing. But you won't take that until the very end.
  
  
  
• The only study material I used was the Lange Q&A and Radiography PREP book with the included CD. If you can functionally answer all the questions on the practice CD to some degree of 90%, then you're going to ace the registry easily.
  
  
  
• The board exams you're going to be given are probably only including what you've learned so far, so review your old tests and focus on those.
  
  
  We took a Correctec practice exam and the beginning of our final semester, and we were told that a 50% or above meant that the student was on track to passing. That's assumed because, with an entire semester of review, your score is going to improve dramatically. You only need a 75 to pass. If you're two semesters out and almost at a 75 on the quizzes, I think you'll be fine.
  
  Relax! You're fine.

Sorry for being slow to respond!

Yes, probably the single best resource to look at is a book called Choosing to train in public health which gives a pretty great overview of the area and the application process.

There is also a lot of information from the UK Faculty of public health https://www.fph.org.uk/.

The final source of information is to consider contacting a Training Programme Director directly in the UK. The programme run out of Oxford has a strong international focus so that might be one to consider. This this is the website for the School.

Feel free to message me if you have any other questions.

The Vaccine Rabbithole

Skip to the (Important) document if you’re in a hurry.

https://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Vaccinations--Know-the-risks-and-failures-.aspx

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/4-billion-and-growing-u-s-payouts-for-vaccine-injuries-and-deaths-keep-climbing/

http://vaccinepapers.org/vaccine-revenue/

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/adjuvants.html (vaccine aluminum adjuvants)

The 1 CDC and FDA study cited (Mitkus) Debunked Here: http://vaccinepapers.org/debunking-aluminum-adjuvant-part-2/

Autistic Brains Have High Aluminum Levels

Vaccine Aluminum Travels Into The Brain

Al Adjuvant Causes Brain Inflammation and Behavioral Abnormalities; Low Dose Is More Harmful

Brochure 1

Brochure 2

https://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/March-2011/No-Pharma-Liability--No-Vaccine-Mandates-.aspx

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N5ePF6XPR5LmLGTjiBMpD5JfFJAm6JYJ68OyV5GJySw/mobilebasic (Important)*

https://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/doctors-good-actors-and-spokesmodels-for-very-bad-drugs-and-vaccines/

https://youtu.be/mDb0ZS3vB9g

https://www.nvic.org/nvic-archives/institutemedicine.aspx

Scroll down to “The Testimony”

https://youtu.be/DFTsd042M3o (9 hour long deposition)

http://www.robertscottbell.com/government/exposed-world-renowned-vaccine-scientists-shocking-legal-deposition-now-public-by-jefferey-jaxen/

One Conversation Part 1, Part 2

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ay0flr/a_response_to_the_latest_big_pharmafunded_study/

https://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions/inadequate-vaccine-safety-research-and-conflicts-of-interest

http://vaccinesafetycommission.org/cdc-conflicts.html

http://vaccinesafetycommission.org

https://vaccinepapers.org

https://www.drpaulapproved.com

https://youtu.be/6oEtF8FdqpA (Butthurt Doctor)

https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/2018/4/1/international2018

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/aw1dqm/assumptions_i_had_when_i_was_a_provaxxer/

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/af839i/vaccines_do_cause_autism_according_to_provaccine/

https://www.reddit.com/r/VaxTalk/comments/bjeb2w/treacherous_deceit_and_fraud/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

http://vaccinepapers.org/dr-paul-offits-aluminum-deceptions-academic-misconduct/

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• Vaccine Debate with Paul Offit 1, 2
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vRU93kGmbI0
  
  
• Fact checking Peter Hotez 1, 2
  
  https://youtu.be/3GAmHscgtEs
  
  More vaccine debates:
  
  
• https://youtu.be/WwcXiU0c7e4
  
  
• https://youtu.be/8Yf4-P2qbHo
  
  https://youtu.be/6y09WNx4njY
  
  http://vaxxedthemovie.com/about/ (Stream Vaxxed)
  
  https://youtu.be/uEkbXGAfMyY
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQKglol4OLE
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eU32Ojf8-rA
  
  https://youtu.be/zt-CZN48rR8
  
  HHS is involved with vaccine safety. This ICAN report documents the failure of vaccine placebo trials.
  
  https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf
  
  https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/167223
  
  
  
  Suzanne Humpries
  
  http://drsuzanne.net/dr-suzanne-humphries-vaccines-vaccination/
  
  http://drsuzanne.net/2015/10/why-dr-suzanne-humphries-an-anti-vaccine-activist-is-lying-to-you-about-measles/
  
  http://www.greenmedinfo.com/gmi-blogs/suzannemd
  
  https://youtu.be/BpC0Tbb3diI
  
  https://youtu.be/SFQQOv-Oi6U
  
  https://youtu.be/pYUj26bRNoo
  
  https://youtu.be/aNKcaWp3Sf4
  
  https://youtu.be/AkyjgY70yPA
  
  http://drsuzanne.net/videos/
  
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCqmzJIoo52a7bqxCuuZSIw
  
  
  
  Books
  
  

1. How to End the Autism Epidemic
   
   
2. Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History
   
   
3. Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies: 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers
   
   
4. Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children
   
   
5. Rising From The Dead
   
   
6. Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC
   
   
   
7. Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC
   
   
8. Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury—a Known Neurotoxin—from Vaccines
   
   
9. Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
   
   10.The Vaccine Court: The Dark Truth of America's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
   
   
10. The Vaccine Papers
    
    
11. The HPV Vaccine On Trial: Seeking Justice For A Generation Betrayed
    
    
12. Jabbed: How the Vaccine Industry, Medical Establishment, and Government Stick It to You and Your Family
    
    
13. Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy
    
    
14. The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism
    
    
15. Crooked: Man-Made Disease Explained: The incredible story of metal, microbes, and medicine - hidden within our faces.
    
    
16. Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
    
    
17. Vaccines: A Reappraisal
    
    
18. Vaccines and Autoimmunity (Textbook)
    
    
19. Saying No to Vaccines: A Resource Guide for All Ages
    
    
20. Vaccine Injuries: Documented Adverse Reactions to Vaccines
    
    
21. Vaccine Illusion

I am not in bio-anthropology, but have read much within political and economic anthropology. People who have not read anthropology or done research using ethnography or other methodologies probably need a basic introduction before anything can be said. In anthropology and ecology, uncertainty and complexity are all right. Economists, for example, can claim to be "scientists" because they assume away any aspects of human behavior that cause the equations to lose their elegance. Unfortunately, this also destroys the usefulness of economics in understanding what really goes on in core economic areas such as business. A good book to read, for demonstrating the usefulness of anthropological methodologies compared to economics, is Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Have you read anything by Robert Pool, for example http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Anthropology-Understanding-Public-Health/dp/0335218504

Not specific to reproductive health, but a good starting point to medical anthropology I always thought was Health, Illness, and the Social Body.

This is a great resource, and only $32 on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Certification-Recertification-Examinations-Assistants/dp/145119109X

I used a previous edition when I studied for the PANCE. I am actually taking the PANRE on Saturday and used a newer edition.

It has about 400 pages of content, a 300 question practice test and an online question bank (not sure how many).

When studying, practice questions are key. I also really like:

https://www.amazon.com/Physician-Assistant-Examination-Seventh-Allied/dp/0071845054

About $38 and has 1300 practice questions.

There is a book by Kaplan that is absolute garbage.

I need this book for Environmental Health Science! Thanks for doing this :)

I'm a dual degree Master of Public Health (Health Promotion and Behavior) and Master of Social Work (Clinical Social Work) student, and I'm hoping to establish web-based health education programs (such as a 16-week diabetes prevention program) after I graduate. I suppose I could probably start sooner...

I have two recommendations. One I've read, and the other I have on my list to read--but both seem to be what you're looking for.

My recommendation: The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health by John Duffy. This book begins in colonial America and goes into the 1980s. Its strength is in the historical analysis of the American hygiene movement.

On my reading list: A History of Public Health by George Rosen. Johns Hopkins publishes this and they seem to keep it in print by coming out with an update every few years with some extra content. This was first written in the late 1950s. It starts with a history from Greek and Roman times, and then summarizes various epochs: 500-1500, 1500-1750, 1750-1830, 1830-1875, and 1875-1950.

I read the second edition of Studying a Study & Testing a Test by Riegelman and it was the best thing I did in preparation for my masters in biostatistics & clinical epidemiology. I specifically like the fifth edition (pink cover) because it has a brief statistics primer in the sixth section that is unmatched as a general / mostly non-technical overview, in my opinion. The rest of the book is not about statistics, per se, but is a great overview on study design and test fit diagnostics (sens/spec, PPV, ROC curves, etc.). That last section on stats, which won't take you more than a couple of afternoons to read, is worth the purchase alone. It has very helpful charts on how to select the appropriate statistic depending on your model construction and types of predictor / outcome variables. It is unfortunate that they removed this in the sixth edition. And yes, it is (only) available as a physical book. Here is a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Studying-Study-Testing-Test-Pediatrics/dp/0781745764/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1408634374&sr=8-2&keywords=studying+a+study

EDIT: sixth section, not third

Cummins is one of the biggest deniers in the scene. He has absolutely no idea. I already told you how it works. I also named you two books which are very good.

https://www.amazon.de/Clinical-Lipidology-Companion-Braunwalds-Disease/dp/0323287867/

https://www.amazon.de/Atlas-Atherosclerosis-Metabolic-Syndrome-Grundy/dp/1493940937/

I found this helpful in outlining a medical research career (and helpful in deciding what I did NOT want to do): http://www.amazon.com/The-Physician-Scientists-Career-Guide/dp/1603279075

“Democracy in America”- Alexis de Tocqueville

For anyone interested in more classical liberal approaches to fixing our current healthcare system, here are a few contemporary publications I highly recommend:

“Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Healthcare” - Charles Silver and David A. Hyman

“Big Brother In The Exam Room” - Twila Brase

Another short book written by a libertarian Medical Doctor surrounding the erroneous focus on data to solve humanistic problems:

“Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine” - Michel Accad, MD

Inoculated by Kent Heckenlively

>In November of 2013, Simpson University biology professor, Dr. Brian Hooker got a call from Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working in vaccine safety. Their conversations would lead to explosive revelations that top officials at the CDC engaged in a systematic cover-up of data showing that earlier administration of the MMR vaccine caused increased rates of autism in children, particularly African-American males. Thompson would eventually turn over thousands of the documents to US Congressman William Poesy.

>Science teacher and author, Kent Heckenlively, was granted access to this unprecedented trove of documents and uses them, as well as ground-breaking interviews with any of the key players in this debate, to tell the story of how vaccines have become a thirty-year disaster since passage of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act which gave pharmaceutical companies complete immunity for damages caused by their products.

Please get it from this link

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Ebola-Natural-Symptoms-Outbreaks-ebook/dp/B00OKUZEIY