Strong Helpers Teachings Third Edition

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

Strong Helpers' Teachings provides enrichment for the helping practices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, practitioners, and scholars in the human services. Those in the helping professions are challenged to share these important Indigenous teachings, including holistic approaches, spirituality, and healing, without appropriating their meanings and purposes. Cyndy Baskin outlines a foundation of values and ethical principles to be applied in social work practice and offers pathways to collaboration with Aboriginal peoples. Each chapter offers an Indigenous lens to explore issues and challenges, from caring for children and families to healing justice. Strong Helpers' Teachings is a call to action for all Indigenous peoples to teach what is needed to care for their communities and for non-Indigenous peoples to listen and recognize the value of Indigenous worldviews. Features: places Aboriginal peoples and their concerns and perspectives at the centre of the social work discipline includes the voices and insights of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, professors, and practitioners provides concrete examples of how Indigenous approaches and knowledge can be incorporated into the helping professions in areas such as child welfare, spirituality, justice, and community

Strong Helpers’ Teachings encourages students, scholars, and practitioners in the human services, as well as anyone who has an interest in decolonization and healing, to recognize the value of Indigenous worldviews to all peoples. Cyndy Baskin demonstrates how these important Indigenous teachings, including holistic approaches, spirituality, and community ethics, can inform the work of those in the helping professions. Now in its second edition, Strong Helpers’ Teachings has been thoroughly updated and features new chapters on mental health, two-spirit peoples, supporting the helpers, and being an ally. Each chapter offers an Indigenous lens through which to explore issues and challenges in the helping professions, in areas as diverse as caring for children and families, healing justice, pedagogy, and research. This text incorporates the voices and perspectives of Indigenous Elders, scholars, and practitioners and provides illustrative examples through the stories of individuals, families, communities, and the author’s own experiences in teaching and practicing social work. This highly accessible text includes both theory and practice for those whose life’s work is helping others. It is an invaluable resource that offers pathways to collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in areas such as social work, child and youth studies, health care, and community development.

""Do you know how scary it is to want something so bad you're willing to change your whole life for it?"" Emily Cooper is ready to risk everything to be with the man who has consumed her thoughts and dreams since the fateful day they met. Unraveling fast, she can only cling to the hope that Gavin Blake still wants her. Nursing his wounded heart, Gavin has cut himself off from society and retreated into a self-destructive, mind-numbing world. Emily isn't used to being the strong one, but she'll have to find the daring and confidence within to fight for their love and bring Gavin back from the edge--even if it means losing herself to their all-consuming, pulse-pounding passion. A "New York Times" bestseller, "Pulse" is the unforgettable conclusion to the story of Emily and Gavin that began with "Collide."

Wícihitowin is the first Canadian social work book written by First Nations, Inuit and Métis authors who are educators at schools of social work across Canada. The book begins by presenting foundational theoretical perspectives that develop an understanding of the history of colonization and theories of decolonization and Indigenist social work. It goes on to explore issues and aspects of social work practice with Indigenous people to assist educators, researchers, students and practitioners to create effective and respectful approaches to social work with diverse populations. Traditional Indigenous knowledge that challenges and transforms the basis of social work with Indigenous and other peoples comprises a third section of the book. Wícihitowin concludes with an eye to the future, which the authors hope will continue to promote the innovations and creativity presented in this groundbreaking work.

Canadian Working Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include: better representation of women scholars, and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights, women's equality; gender history, Quebec sovereignty; and the environment.

Spirituality and Social Justice explores how critically informed spirituality can serve as an inspiration and a political force in the quest for social and ecological justice. Writing from various spiritual and religious worldviews, including Indigenous, Islamic, Wicca/Witchcraft, Jewish, Buddhist, and Christian, the authors—practitioners and academics of social work—draw on lived experience, research, and literature to illuminate how relationship with spirit can orient ways of being and acting to build a more just society. In Part One, the authors foreground Indigenous spirituality as resistance and decolonization. Part Two examines the complex ethical and political dimensions of spirituality, including the ecological destruction of the Earth and the influence of contemporary neoliberalism. Lastly, Part Three explores spirituality in teaching and learning contexts, both inside and beyond the classroom. Engaging and well-written, Spirituality and Social Justice challenges the notion that practitioners must put aside their critical spirituality in teaching, learning, healing, and practice. Students, practitioners, and academics of social work and other helping professions will benefit from the unique insights into spirituality and religion and how they inform social justice activism.

Newly revised and thoroughly updated, the third edition of An Introduction to Global Health is constructed around three essential questions: why is population health so poor in developing countries, what is the scope of the issue, and how can it be remediated? By considering aspects of the topic that are often neglected—including poverty, malnutrition, wars, governance, and humanitarian disasters—Seear and Ezezika provide a comprehensive overview of the various determinants of global health and its inevitable companion, the modern aid industry. This informative and accessible introduction examines potential solutions to health inequity via a combination of primary health care strategies, poverty alleviation, developing world debt relief, and human rights interventions. With an updated discussion of global health in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the addition of chapter summaries, critical-thinking questions, and recommended readings, this new edition is an ideal resource for both university-level students and anyone keen to inform themselves on this urgent problem.