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The Getting of Resilience from the Inside Out
Price:
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781781611265
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing
Award-winning therapist Sally Baker shares her professional and personal experience of what it takes to survive trauma, providing practical guidance in the techniques she has refined working with an...
The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect
What It Is and How to Help
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781839976759
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect provides you with a concise explanation of the impact of emotional neglect in childhood. Easy to read and digest, it is a trusted introduction for any parent, carer or child welfare professional supporting children or adults affected by emotional neglect.
Wig-Maker
Price:
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201716
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
A powerful tale of violence, grief, resilience, and transformation, told in the voice of Janet Gallant, transcribed and lineated as a long poem by Sharon Thesen, The Wig-Maker gathers and weaves together...
Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth
Speaking Out and Pushing Back
Price:
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781773631035
Pub Date: July 2020
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Working with Indigenous, queer, immigrant and homeless youth across Canada, this five-year Youth-based Participatory Action Research project used art to explore the many ways that structural violence harms youth, destroying hope, optimism, a sense of belonging and a connection to civil society. However, recognizing that youth are not merely victims, Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth also examines the various ways youth respond to and resist this violence to preserve their dignity, well-being and inclusion in society.
Welcome to Wherever We Are
A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption
Price:
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781978808928
Pub Date: February 2020
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
In this extraordinary memoir, Deborah Cohan shares her story of caring for her elderly father, a man who was often generous and loving, but who also subjected her to a lifetime of cruelty, rage, and controlling behavior. Trained as a sociologist and family violence counselor, Cohan reflects on how she healed from decades of emotional abuse.
All We Knew But Couldn't Say
Price:
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781459744226
Pub Date: June 2019
Imprint: Dundurn Press
After surviving childhood abuse, abandonment, and attempted suicides, Joanne Vannicola came out, won an Emmy, and discovered herself. She also learned how to love and let go.
Against Our Will
Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970
Price:
CA$76.95
ISBN: 9780271082066
Pub Date: February 2019
Imprint: Penn State University Press
The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet
A Memoir
Price:
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496201973
Pub Date: October 2018
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing...
Support
Feminist Relationship Tools to Heal Yourself and End Rape Culture
Price:
CA$9.50
ISBN: 9781621069669
Pub Date: February 2018
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
Support encourages everyone to take a step back, listen, think, and talk about sex, consent, violence, and abuse. If you or someone you know have ever been assaulted or victimized, how to be an ally...
Conflict Is Not Abuse
Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility,
and the Duty of Repair
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781551526430
Pub Date: October 2016
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability....
The First Principles of Dreaming
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781927583272
Pub Date: September 2014
Imprint: Second Story Press
Mary-Eve Hamilton is a dutiful teenager whose life is ruled by her parents and their evangelical church. All this changes when she befriends Dee Eccles, the eighteen-year-old pagan goddess of their high school, and Mary-Eve’s initiation into the mysteries of cigarettes, sex, and otherworldly glory begins.
Family Ambiguity and Domestic Violence in Asia
Concept, Law and Process
Price:
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781845195557
Pub Date: June 2013
This book revisits the issue of Domestic Violence (DV) in Asia by exploring the question of family ambiguity, and interrogating DV's relationship between concept, law and strategy. Comparative experiences...
Cruel but Not Unusual
Violence in Canadian Families, 2nd Edition
Price:
CA$52.99
ISBN: 9781554588275
Pub Date: October 2012
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A comprehensive picture of the scope of violence in all types of Canadian families and intimate relationships. Inclusive focus and multi-faceted examination and integration of research, policies and practice addressing the roots, laws, theory, incidence, dynamics, intervention in and prevention of, violence in Canadian families.
Abuse
Domestic Violence, Workplace and School Bullying
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781855942172
Pub Date: August 2011
Imprint: Cork University Press
This book examines various aspects of abuse as a problematic relationship. It explores types of abuse such as physical, emotional, verbal, and financial, as well as abusive relationships like workplace...
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774813730
Pub Date: January 2008
Imprint: UBC Press
Contributors contemplate the evolution of child protection policy and practice in BC, addressing political influences on structural arrangements, cultural traditions of First Nations clients, and establishing community control over services.
Service User Involvement
Reaching the Hard to Reach in Supported Housing
Price:
CA$54.00
ISBN: 9781843103431
Pub Date: December 2007
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Drawing on original research, this book offers imaginative strategies for consulting with service users who have been historically difficult to engage with, including homeless people, ex-offenders, and minority ethnic groups. The authors explore traditional consultation methods as well as creative activities as ways of gathering clients' views.
The Getting of Resilience from the Inside Out
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781781611265
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing
The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect
What It Is and How to Help
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781839976759
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Wig-Maker
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201716
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth
Speaking Out and Pushing Back
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781773631035
Pub Date: July 2020
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Working with Indigenous, queer, immigrant and homeless youth across Canada, this five-year Youth-based Participatory Action Research project used art to explore the many ways that structural violence harms youth, destroying hope, optimism, a sense of belonging and a connection to civil society. However, recognizing that youth are not merely victims, Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth also examines the various ways youth respond to and resist this violence to preserve their dignity, well-being and inclusion in society.
Welcome to Wherever We Are
A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781978808928
Pub Date: February 2020
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
All We Knew But Couldn't Say
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781459744226
Pub Date: June 2019
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Against Our Will
Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970
CA$76.95
ISBN: 9780271082066
Pub Date: February 2019
Imprint: Penn State University Press
The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet
A Memoir
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496201973
Pub Date: October 2018
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Support
Feminist Relationship Tools to Heal Yourself and End Rape Culture
CA$9.50
ISBN: 9781621069669
Pub Date: February 2018
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
Conflict Is Not Abuse
Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781551526430
Pub Date: October 2016
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
The First Principles of Dreaming
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781927583272
Pub Date: September 2014
Imprint: Second Story Press
Mary-Eve Hamilton is a dutiful teenager whose life is ruled by her parents and their evangelical church. All this changes when she befriends Dee Eccles, the eighteen-year-old pagan goddess of their high school, and Mary-Eve’s initiation into the mysteries of cigarettes, sex, and otherworldly glory begins.
Family Ambiguity and Domestic Violence in Asia
Concept, Law and Process
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781845195557
Pub Date: June 2013
Cruel but Not Unusual
Violence in Canadian Families, 2nd Edition
CA$52.99
ISBN: 9781554588275
Pub Date: October 2012
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Abuse
Domestic Violence, Workplace and School Bullying
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781855942172
Pub Date: August 2011
Imprint: Cork University Press
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774813730
Pub Date: January 2008
Imprint: UBC Press
Service User Involvement
Reaching the Hard to Reach in Supported Housing
CA$54.00
ISBN: 9781843103431
Pub Date: December 2007
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers