Education
Integrative Approaches to Couple and Family Therapy in Canada
Integrative Approaches to Couple and Family Therapy in Canada is a practical and accessible guide to working with diverse couples and families through an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed lens. Written in a conversational style, this textbook reflects the contemporary realities of couples and families in Canada today—recognizing that they are varied, multi-faceted and constantly evolving.
The book begins with an overview of theoretical approaches and trauma-informed care before guiding readers on how to apply these concepts in the therapeutic and counselling process, from assessment to termination. The chapters cover topics including blended families, non-binary and LGBTQ2+ families, polyamorous families, co-parenting families, chosen families, and families experiencing substance use or mental health challenges.
Chapters feature “spotlight” interviews where experts in the field explore topics such as psychedelic-assisted therapy, therapy with neurodivergent families, and therapy with BIPOC families. Role-play scenario activities are interwoven throughout, offering a scenario and corresponding role-play questions to serve as prompts for interactive classroom or group learning. Reflective questions and glossaries conclude each chapter to further promote engagement and comprehension.
Filled with pedagogical features and reflective of diverse Canadian contexts, this practical resource will be valuable for courses in couple and family therapy, social work, or counselling psychology.
Features:
- A step-by-step practice framework guides students through the full therapeutic process from start to finish
- Canadian treatment contexts ground students in federal, provincial, and cultural realities of practice in Canada
- Expert “spotlight” interviews with practitioners working in emerging and specialized areas of practice include insight into work with varied and diverse family structures
- Integrated case studies throughout the text build on clinical decision-making, ethical reasoning, and treatment planning skills
- Instructor resources and in-text pedagogical features include an instructor’s manual, critical thinking questions that tie theory to practice, glossaries to reinforce professional language and key concepts, PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and structured role-play scenarios designed to engage students in the practice of therapeutic dialogue, boundary setting, and intervention strategies
School Counselling in Canada
School Counselling in Canada: A Comprehensive Guide is a collaborative text that explores the evolving and multi-faceted role of school counsellors at the intersection of education, mental health, and advocacy. Unlike general counselling resources, this book focuses on the specific challenges and responsibilities of school counsellors within Canadian contexts. School counsellors are not only advocates, confidants, and guides—they are also clinicians, educators, collaborators, and leaders who are instrumental in creating supportive and inclusive educational and counselling environments that promote student wellbeing and success.
This book blends scholarly research, lived experience, and practitioner wisdom to examine the evolving profession, ethical considerations, and the diverse and complex realities of school counselling across Canada. Using a collaborative co-author model, featuring school counsellors, practitioners, educators, and members of the Indigenous community, from various provinces, the chapters unpack specialized school counselling knowledge that will serve both future practitioners and their students in reaching their full potential. Designed for current and future school counsellors, as well as educators, administrators, and the education community as a whole, this guide offers the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of school counselling and better support student wellbeing, equity, and meaningful change.
Its comprehensive and collaborative approach to school counselling makes this resource suitable for Education and School Counselling programs at Canadian Universities.
Features:
- This text offers an in-depth look at various aspects of school counselling, while incorporating multicultural, decolonial, Indigenizing, trauma-informed, and relational lenses that can enrich understanding and practice
- Robust pedagogical features include a glossary and discussion / reflective questions
Outdoor Experiential Learning in Canada
Moving students’ learning from the traditional indoor classroom to outdoor spaces has proven benefits. It expands student engagement and uptake, promotes mental and physical health, and strengthens students’ awareness of Indigenous ways of knowing as well as environmental issues. Outdoor Experiential Learning in Canada takes pre- and in-service teachers and outdoor professionals on a journey that elevates their experience and effectiveness when teaching any curriculum content in an outdoor classroom.
With its focus on curriculum and instruction, this book focuses on ‘where’ students learn, emphasizing the use of outdoor spaces to teach. This book illustrates the many benefits of outdoor learning and how to be successful when educators teach students outside. The voices and perspectives of professional educators and practitioners from across Canada give readers a broad overview of outdoor learning from a variety of viewpoints, including Indigenous voices that ground the topic and provide a basis for connecting to the earth.
This book is intended to inspire teachers, pre-service teachers, outdoor professionals, and outdoor enthusiasts to take their students and clients outside to learn, connect, and grow.
Features:
- A research-informed and practice-based guide to outdoor learning that explores how teaching beyond the classroom can support student engagement, well-being, and meaningful connection to the land
- Pedagogical features include key terms, discussion questions, activities and assignments, recommended readings, and additional resources
- Instructor resources include an instructor’s manual, PowerPoint slides, and a test bank
Disrupting Developmentalism in Canadian Early Years Education
Disrupting Developmentalism in Canadian Early Years Education challenges dominant discourses about children and childhood by centring marginalized and subjugated voices, experiences, and knowledges. Confronting systemic white supremacy, cis-heteronormativity, ableism, and sanism rooted in developmental psychology, the authors invite educators to imagine new possibilities for understanding children, childhood, and education. The collection explores critical activist knowledges for disrupting developmentalism through contributions from teachers, practitioners, and educators, including narratives and lived experiences. This text will be an invaluable resource for early childhood education, teacher education, and child and youth studies programs in Canadian colleges and universities with courses focusing on child development, equity, diversity, inclusion, critical perspectives, and/or contemporary issues in early childhood education.
Features
- Critiques of the dominance of developmental psychology, specifically developmentalism, that reigns in post-secondary early years and elementary teacher education programs
- Diverse perspectives from educators, practitioners, community advocates, and activists from across the country
- Robust pedagogical features including chapter overviews, end-of-chapter glossaries of key terms, and critical thinking questions
New Titles
Anti-Oppressive Child and Youth Care
Critical Conversations
By Andrea Christensen
Anti-Oppressive Practice / Child and Youth / Education / Social Work
A Critical Mental Health Primer
Towards Informed Choice in Social Services, Education, and Healthcare
By Jan N. DeFehr
Addictions, Health, and Mental Health / Education / Health Studies / Mental Health and Addictions / Nursing / Social Work
Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools
Canadian Insights
By Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad, Stephanie Tuters, Andrew B. Campbell
Education / Gender, Equity, Diversity / Theory, Policy, Practice
Diversity and Equity in Canadian Schools
Fostering Human Flourishing
By Cathlene Hillier, Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng
Education / Gender, Equity, Diversity
Arts-Based Pedagogies
Integrating Culturally Relevant Creative Processes in K–12 Education
By Tanya Berg
Education
Autism in the Ontario Context, Second Edition
An Introduction
By Kimberly Maich, Brianna M. Anderson, Carmen Hall
Autism / Child and Youth / Education / Social Work
Understanding Mental Health Across Educational Contexts
Promoting Wellness in Classrooms
By Lindsey Jaber
Addictions, Health, and Mental Health / Child and Youth / Counselling / Early Childhood Education / Education / Psychology / Social Work
Transformative Change through Educational Leadership
Stories, Models, and Wonderings
By Kenneth H. MacKinnon
Education
Indigenous Education
Cree Pedagogy: Dance Your Style
By Angelina Weenie, Willie Ermine, Kevin Lewis, Ida Swan, Mary Sasakamoose, Jeffery Cappo, Deanna Pelletier
Education / Indigenous Education / Indigenous Studies
Unsettling Education
Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Land
By Anna-Leah King, Kathleen O’Reilly, Patrick J. Lewis
Education / Indigenous Education / Indigenous Studies
Land as Relation
Teaching and Learning through Place, People, and Practices
By Margaret Kress, Kahente Horn-Miller
406 PagesEducation / Indigenous Education / Indigenous Studies
Inclusive Education
Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools
Canadian Insights
By Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad, Stephanie Tuters, Andrew B. Campbell
Education / Gender, Equity, Diversity / Theory, Policy, Practice
Diversity and Equity in Canadian Schools
Fostering Human Flourishing
By Cathlene Hillier, Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng
Education / Gender, Equity, Diversity
Transformative Change through Educational Leadership
Stories, Models, and Wonderings
By Kenneth H. MacKinnon
Education
Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education
Canadian Perspectives
By Ardavan Eizadirad, Zuhra Abawi, Andrew B. Campbell
300 PagesEducation
Social Justice Education in Canada
Select Perspectives
By Ali A. Abdi
234 PagesEducation / Gender, Equity, Diversity
DisAppearing
Encounters in Disability Studies
By Tanya Titchkosky, Elaine Cagulada, Madeleine DeWelles, Efrat Gold
318 PagesDisability Studies / Education
Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care
By Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad, Rachel Berman
214 PagesEarly Childhood Education / Education
Educational Leadership
Leadership for Flourishing in Educational Contexts
By Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Sabre Cherkowski, Keith D. Walker
358 PagesEducation / Theory, Policy, Practice
Teaching in the Anthropocene
Education in the Face of the Environmental Crisis
By Alysha J. Farrell, Candy Jones, Michelle Lam
338 PagesEducation / Environmental Studies
Leadership in Education
The Power of Generative Dialogue
By Pamela Adams, Carmen Mombourquette, David Townsend
258 PagesEducation
The Compassionate Educator
Understanding Social Issues and the Ethics of Care in Canadian Schools
By Allyson Jule
316 PagesEducation / Gender, Equity, Diversity
The Role of an Education Assistant, Second Edition
Supporting Inclusion
By Mary Harber, Asha Rao
348 PagesEducation
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