Social Work

Social Gerontology in Canada

Social Gerontology in Canada introduces students to the key topics in social gerontology, a multi-disciplinary field concerned with the study of the social aspects of aging and older adults. This text provides an overview of key theories, policies, and topics, incorporating intersectional and strength-based approaches to aging studies. Strong learning features are included in each chapter, designed to be interactive and student friendly. The textbook was written in close collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, who contributed to the writing of the chapters, ensuring that they are accessible and readable. The chapters are concise and written in a conversational tone to appeal to all readers interested in social gerontology. The book is packed with pedagogical tools, and there is a focus on interactive and case-based learning to enhance real-world application and practical knowledge. Within each chapter, an intersectional lens including a strong focus on ethnic and gender diversity of older Canadians is included, and each chapter also features a “gerontology in practice” textbox that explains how the material covered in the chapter can be applied to real life. Social Gerontology in Canada is intended for sociology, gerontology, aging studies, social work, and health studies programs within universities and colleges in Canada that take a social sciences/sociological approach to aging and gerontology. FEATURES
  • Written in a concise and conversational tone with the explicit aim to match the reading level of undergraduate students and arm them with practical learning takeaways
  • Emphasizes positive aspects of aging and challenges prevalent ageist assumptions
  • Pedagogical features include expected learning outcomes, questions for critical thought, additional resources, glossaries, additional resources, boxed inserts, pause and reflect boxes, and figures, charts, and tables
  • Instructor resources include PowerPoints and sample test questions

Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling

Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling is a practical text designed to help students learn essential interviewing and counselling skills through a practical action-oriented approach and scenarios situated in common professional CYC settings such as group homes, treatment centres, or outreach services. This invaluable text features examples, reflection questions, role-play exercises, and case studies that demonstrate how counselling skills are used outside of the typical one-hour counselling session, impacting the daily life of children and youth in their lifespaces. Students will develop essential skills within the field with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppression. Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling is an essential must-read resource for Child and Youth Care, Social Work, and Human Services programs at colleges and universities in Canada and the United States. FEATURES
  • The first of its kind, this text builds essential skills for child and youth care interviewing and counselling
  • Relevant theories to the field are expanded upon including narrative therapy, feminist, and attachment theories
  • Pedagogical features include chapter reflective questions, use of skills, use of theories, informal assessment, measuring progress, activities, and an appendix with key terms
  • Chapter reflective questions encourage readers to consider important areas to the field and practice self-reflection

Anti-Oppressive Child and Youth Care

Anti-Oppressive Child and Youth Care explores the meaning of anti-oppressive practice within the field of child and youth care. The contributing authors analyze the effectiveness of current systems in Canada through an anti-oppressive lens, examine the meaning of social justice within a child and youth care context, critically evaluate how child and youth care systems and policies perpetuate oppression, and offer strategies for redefining what best practices could be within the profession. The chapters discuss topics including systemic anti-Black racism and oppression, Indigenous relational ethics, intervention approaches, anti-oppressive practice in post-secondary classrooms, anti-fat bias in child and youth care practice, youth engagement, and toxic positivity. Equipped with critical reflective activities at the end of each chapter, the text aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice by creating learning opportunities that support critical analysis and integration of anti-oppressive theory into child and youth care practice. This fundamental resource is well-suited for colleges and universities within Canada whose child and youth care, social work, or education programs offer courses with a focus on anti-oppressive practice. FEATURES
  • A groundbreaking text and the first to examine anti-oppressive practice within the context of child and youth care
  • Contains contributions from a diverse range of authors with the aim of integrating and exploring the relationship of anti-oppressive frameworks with decolonization
  • Examines current social justice movements and their impacts on the child and youth care field and working with young people
  • Chapters offer pedagogical features including learning objectives and activities for critical reflection and integration into practice

A Critical Mental Health Primer

In A Critical Mental Health Primer, Dr. Jan DeFehr, university professor with over twenty years of clinical social work practitioner experience, provides an overview of critical mental health scholarship, arguing that providing access to critical mental health knowledge is a prerequisite for ethical practice. Through a peer-reviewed critique of psychiatry and its broad field of mental health, topics explored include scientific critique of evidence; the potential long-term harm caused by mental disorder diagnoses; key concerns related to lack of transparency and procedural justice; anti-colonial critiques of the mental health system; critiques concerning psychiatric drugs and the DSM; ethical standards of care; and practical guidance for supporting one another outside of the dominant mental health model. A Critical Mental Health Primer is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate level mental health courses across social work, education, health sciences studies, and nursing programs, in both universities and colleges. FEATURES
  • A rare collection of non-pathologizing alternatives to current mental health practices that centre collaborative, relational, dialogical, anti-oppressive, and anti-colonial approaches
  • Offers vital tools for building public access to critical mental health knowledge, learned from first-hand experience and a recent participatory action research project
  • Pedagogical features include chapter overviews and post-chapter invitations with questions for readers

Mental Health

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