The thoroughly updated third edition of Strong Helpers’ Teachings skillfully illustrates the importance of Indigenous knowledges in the human services. Making space for the voices of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, practitioners, and service users, Cyndy Baskin’s text models possible pathways toward relationship building and allyship.
With practical examples and case studies, Baskin places Indigenous perspectives at the centre of the social work disciplines and covers topics such as spirituality, research, justice, and healing. Robust updates include new chapters on decolonization and reconciliation, as well as expanded content on holistic healing implementation, skill building, land-based practice, and child welfare.
With concise theoretical content, illustrative practical applications, rich pedagogical features, and a focus on centering Indigenous worldviews, knowledge, and helping practices, this text is foundational for educators, practitioners, and students of human services, social work, child and youth care, and more.
FEATURES
centres Indigenous knowledge for social work practice
supplements practical applications with case studies, encouraging critical reflection and discussion
each chapter includes an introduction and conclusion to outline objectives and summarize the chapter’s content
Chapter Two: The Self Is Always First in the Circle
Chapter Three: When Bad Things Happen to Those Who Do the Helping
Chapter Four: Current Theories and Models of Social Work as Seen through an Indigenous Lens
Chapter Five: Centring All Helping Approaches
Chapter Six: From an Ethical Place
Chapter Seven: Holistic or Wholistic Approach
Chapter Eight: The Answers Are in the Community
Chapter Nine: Spirituality: The Core of Indigenous Worldviews
Chapter Ten: Mental Health as Connected to the Whole
Chapter Eleven: Healing Justice
Chapter Twelve: Coming In: Two-Spirit Identity
Chapter Thirteen: Caring for Families, Caring for Children
Chapter Fourteen: The Power of Pedagogy
Chapter Fifteen: Taking Back Research
Chapter Sixteen: We Are All Related
Chapter Seventeen: So You Wanna Be an… Ally? Accomplice? Co-Conspirator?
Chapter Eighteen: Self-Determination and Reconciliation: The Next Seven Generations
Chapter Nineteen: The End of the World as We Know It
References
Biography
Cyndy Baskin is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University.
“This third edition of Strong Helpers’ Teachings will greatly help students, educators, and practitioners in addressing current concerns raised within, with added topics such as stopping cultural expropriation and supporting practical efforts towards truth and reconciliation. This updated third edition is based on Cyndy’s lived experiences and the cultural and spiritual wisdom she has received from Elders and from her own ancestors throughout her life. Congratulations, Cyndy, on this marvellous new edition.”
—Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell), Anishinaabe Elder, Midewin Medicine Society and Elder-in-Residence in the Indigenous Field of Study at Wilfrid Laurier University, and Ben Carniol, Professor Emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University and instructor in the Decolonizing Education Certificate at Wilfrid Laurier University
“Strong Helpers’ Teachings is a work that has been walking with me since I started my teaching career. It is a book that I return to over and over again. It allows both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students to develop an understanding of Indigenous social work theory from a non-deficit model in a responsible and reciprocal manner. This updated third edition deepens the discussions that Indigenous social workers have been having since time immemorial.”
—Ruth Green, PhD, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, School of Social Work, York University
“Helping professions—including nursing—should consider this book as required reading to guide practice for advancing human rights and health equity with Indigenous Peoples. Baskin’s wisdom provides clear direction on how to engage in a messy decolonial process with compassion and critical awareness in relationship with ourselves, clients, families, colleagues, communities, institutions, and society. We are called to respectfully recognize the vital need for Indigenous worldviews to advance (w)holistic wellness. This book is an invaluable guide on how we may be authentic strong helpers for the good of all people.”
—Andrea Kennedy, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mount Royal University
Instructor Resources
When instructors adopt Strong Helpers’ Teachings, Third Edition they will receive access to instructor resources, including a test bank and PowerPoint slides for each chapter.
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