As a technique for creative use of literary resources, writing and narrative, reading therapy is an effective tool for social work to respond to the needs of social development and people’s psychological needs in the period of transformation. On the one hand, the application of reading therapy in social work services can not only adopt patterns of individual static reading, group reading, and shared reading for service objects, but also patterns of understanding reading, creative reading, and research reading for service-oriented content. On the other hand, in the development of social work, standardized steps such as system matching, alliance creation, scene layout, meaning interpretation, self-reconstruction, and recognition of the past and future, as well as the core techniques such as self-viewing, subject reconstruction, and life writing, have been developed to help clients achieve the goals of psychological recovery, behavioral promotion, self-improvement, and social integration. In addition, in the process of using reading therapy in social work, special attention should be paid to the target, qualification requirements, application principles, and use limitations of reading therapy.