Dean Barth wrote the book "Social and Cognitive Treatment of Children and Adolescents" (1986). Moreover, he has also co-written nine other books "Preventing Adolescent Abuse" (1992), "From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Pathways Through Child Welfare Services" (1992), "Families Living with Drugs and HIV" (1993), "The Tender Years: Toward Developmentally-Sensitive Child Welfare Services" (1998), "The Child Welfare Challenge" (1992, 2000), and "Beyond Common Sense: Child Welfare, Child-Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform" (2006).