Three books by a clinical social worker on how a belief is formed, how it is held, and what is left when it is seen through.
Our first beliefs arrive by accident of birth: the family, the faith, and the place we happen to land in.
From Beliefs Have Shapes
Secret Six is very concerning because people will believe the lies of their leaders without question.
From The Seven Secrets of Attachment
For less than 60 seconds, without a single thought, nothing was held.
From The Meaning of Life Found Me
Read alone, each book stands on its own. Read in order, they follow a single belief from the day it is handed to us to the moment it lets go.
Third edition. For readers 12 to 14 and the adults who teach them.
Twelve-year-old Steven believes everything his Pop tells him. Then he finds the girl next door feeding a mother cat and two tiny kittens, and what he sees no longer fits what he was told.
Includes an afterword for parents, teachers, and counselors, discussion questions, and a quiz for young readers.
Second edition. Unlocking the Bonds That Shape Your Life.
Universal Attachment Theory reveals the hidden bonds with people, places, objects, and ideas that shape our lives, and how understanding them leads to healthier connections.
Illustrated, with everyday examples, from forty-six years of clinical practice.
A memoir. For anyone who has had an experience like this and been afraid to say so.
In 1973, on a garage floor in Seattle, the separate "me" fell away for less than 60 seconds. A clinician's plain account of what he saw, told for the first time after fifty-three years of silence.
Illustrated with nineteen graphic organizers.
Also by Dr. Glenn Thomas
How to gain insight into issues and take charge of your life. Third edition.
A short, illustrated book built around the Clarity Chart, the simple chart Dr. Glenn Thomas and Cyndy Thomas, MSW, LCSW, have used with clients for decades. Clients write down the Events that hurt them, their Issues (the thoughts that keep repeating) and the Feelings those thoughts bring, how they Cope (what they do in response), and the Goals they want. Written mainly for professionals, it is also the book the Thomases ask couples to read at the start of therapy, so they know where the work is heading. It can be read in one sitting.
“During this time of intense polarization that we now see everywhere, The Seven Secrets of Attachment helped me understand why people believe some of the crazy things they do. What caught me off guard, however, was the way Dr. Thomas gently challenged his readers to remove their own blinders to view the world differently.”
“It is a step-by-step guide to understanding attachment in everyday life, beautifully illustrated with pictures that bring the concepts to life.”
“Dr. Thomas was able to unveil the role these ‘secrets’ play in my behaviors and life choices. While there is no shortcut to self-awareness, this book carves a swift path to approach the ascent.”
“An eye opening read with everyday examples and situations, elegantly laid out pictorially and with scholarly text.”
Follow no one except truth itself. That includes me.
Dr. Glenn Thomas
The books are about how people see. These projects are about what they do next.
Social workers spend their careers inside the problems our laws are meant to solve. CAFESW is a nonprofit that helps them run for public office.
Visit CAFESW.orgFounded by Dr. Thomas in 2017, 23Strong is a council of the California chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. It gives a voice to all 10,000 social work students in California's 23 accredited schools of social work.
Volunteering, made into friendly competition. Anyone can form a group, called a Flock, create a volunteer challenge, and compete with other Flocks for prizes. Students can turn the efforts they lead into a portfolio for college applications. It's free to use, and patented.
Visit FlockItToMe.com
For forty-six years I sat with individuals, couples, and families as a clinical social worker. Again and again I noticed the same thing: most of what people believed, they had never chosen.
That observation became Universal Attachment Theory, and then these books. For fifteen of those years I also taught at San Jose State University, more than 2,000 graduate students by the time I retired. I earned my Doctor of Social Work from the University of Southern California, summa cum laude, and I received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Jose Unit of the National Association of Social Workers. I live in San Jose, California.
I was named NASW's Social Worker of the Year for the San Jose region in 2005, served eight years on the NASW California Board of Directors, and often spoke at Legislative Lobby Days in Sacramento over fifteen years.
Long before FlockItToMe, I created the Home School Communicator in 1991, the first commercial online grade book for the Macintosh. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both covered it. I also hold two U.S. patents and trademarks.
I'm not asking anyone to follow me. If the books help you look at your own beliefs a little more clearly, that's enough.