UBC Press proudly distributes Jessica Kingsley Publishers in Canada. A selection of JKP titles are available on our website. If you're interested in a title not available on our website, please contact us or our distributor, UTP Distribution.
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP) is a wholly independent company, committed to publishing books that make a difference.
The company was founded in 1987 in London by Jessica Kingsley and has grown since then to now publish over 250 books a year. JKP is known for long established lists on the autism spectrum, social work, and arts therapies. More recently they have published extensively in the fields of mental health, counselling, palliative care, and practical theology. JKP has a range of graphic novels across these subject areas, and books for children, on issues including bereavement, depression and anger. In 2016, JKP was awarded Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year by the British Book Industry Awards.
In 2006 a new imprint, Singing Dragon, was born.
Where Do I Start?
How to navigate the emotional journey of autism parenting
Break the Binds of Weight Stigma
Free Yourself from Body Image Struggles Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
It’s a common reaction to put things on hold because of how you feel about your body or weight. This guide encourages you to take a step back from harmful social attitudes towards weight, and use ACT to support your journey from shame to meaningful, positive action and compassionate self-understanding.
Stories of Autistic Joy
Laura Kate Dale and 15 contributors from across the world open the door and look in on the candid, intimate moments that celebrates what it means to feel autistic joy.
I am an Autistic Girl
A Book to Help Young Girls Discover and Celebrate Being Autistic
We're All Neurodiverse
How to Build a Neurodiversity-Affirming Future and Challenge Neuronormativity
Radical, accepting and kind. This is the neurodiversity paradigm. This guide challenges your assumptions of who is and isn’t neurodivergent with own voice narratives reflecting on intersections of race, gender and sexuality and directly opposes the pathology paradigm. At its heart, it is a rallying cry to be a neurodiversity affirming society.
Making Sense of Your Senses
Sensory Solutions Workbook
Taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound are the five senses we all know about. But did you know there are three more? And they’re very important. This activity filled workbook for 7-12-year-olds teaches kids all about sensory processing, the effects it has on how they feel and how to identify the right kind of sensory input to feel better.
Notes for Neuro Navigators
The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains
What do autistics want you to know, and how can you support them best? This frank and easy-to-read guide sets out the basics in a no-nonsense way. If you want to make the lives of your autistic friends and family happier and easier, this is the book you need.
PDA in the Family
Life After the Lightbulb Moment
Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition
Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age
A cradle-to-grave guide to female autistic experience combining personal accounts with academic research, with chapters on childhood, education, employment, healthcare, gender identity and ageing.
Autistic and Black
Our Experiences of Growth, Progress and Empowerment
Kala Allen Omeiza explores what it means to be Black and autistic in this insightful and vitally important book. With contributions from across the world, this book dives deep into topics from BLM to anti-Black racism and mental health negligence.
Learning from Neurodivergent Leaders
How to Start, Survive and Thrive in Leadership
A business and leadership guide for neurodivergent leaders, and leaders of the future, with insight into finding your own leadership style, the unwritten rules of management, well being and self care, and holding open the door for others.
Roots and Rebellion
Personal Stories of Resisting Racism and Reclaiming Identity
From the winners of the JKP Writing Prize, this anthology of stories speaks to the humanity and bravery found in resistance against racism and the various ways it can manifest. Spanning generations, cultures, and communities, these prize-winning personal essays explore what it means to reclaim identity through personal, heartfelt resistance.
The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy
Steph Jones uses her professional and lived experience to explore everything she wished she had have known about being autistic and in therapy. Covering everything from red flags, the often asked “is it autism or trauma?' and ableism in therapy, setting boundaries and investigating how therapists can become neurodivergent affirming.
The Awesome Autistic Guide to Being Proud
Feeling Good About Who You Are
This awesome guide introduces autistic kids to the autistic community and promotes positive self-image by encouraging them to take pride in their identity and find their own place in the community.
The Awesome Autistic Guide to Feelings and Emotions
Finding Your Comfort Zone
This awesome guide provides practical tips and guidance on how to regulate emotions and discover their comfort zone.
The Awesome Autistic Guide to Other Humans
Relationships with Friends and Family
This awesome guide provides practical tips and guidance on how autistic young people can form positive friendships and understand all the relationships in their lives!
The Lifestyle Medicine Toolbox
Mind-Body Approaches for Health Promotion
This practical resource provides professionals with a holistic toolbox on how to promote integrative lifestyle medicine with their clients. Focussing on the 6 primary lifestyle medicine factors of nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, addiction and social connectedness, it promotes sustainable mind-body healing with actionable advice and strategies.
Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Adopted or Fostered Child
Over 200 Quick and Simple Ways to Build Relationships and Open Conversations
A lifeline for parents of adopted or fostered children looking for simple and easy to use therapeutic parenting ideas and activities. This book features creative strategies that will help you to nurture a strong connection with your child, based on trust, compassion, and safety.
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles
Queer Symbols Throughout History
An illustrated guide to LGBTQIA2S+ codes and symbols for children 5+. With an exploration of queer underground culture throughout history to the present day, and questions for further discussion, this is a perfect guide for parents and teachers alike.
The OCD Recovery Journal
Creative Activities to Keep Yourself Well
The OCD Recovery Journal is for anybody struggling to stay motivated while managing the challenges of OCD. With journaling prompts and creative activities to help you take control of your OCD and care for yourself in the process, this journal is yours to be as free and imaginative with as you wish.
Caring for Prostate Cancer Survivors
A Biopsychosocial Approach in Physiotherapy and Oncology Practice
This book provides a holistic and comprehensive approach to prostate cancer recovery by exploring the biological, surgical, psychological and social wellbeing of prostate cancer survivors. It is full of actionable advice, practical strategies and handouts, and includes a comprehensive and accessible Q&A by two esteemed urologists.
Armchair Conversations on Love and Autism
Secrets of Happy Neurodiverse Couples
ACS counselling expert Eva Mendes takes us on a journey through 20 neurodiverse relationships and the unique strengths that drive them. Offering best practice advice and strategies on how to thrive in your relationship, Eva works to identify common themes amongst autistic relationships and irons out the widespread myths surrounding them.
Forging Queer Leaders
How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity
An inspirational guide to LGBTQ+ leadership, with a history of queer leadership, an exploration of how adversity can develop management superpowers and inspirational stories from queer leaders in diverse careers.
How to Raise Happy Neurofabulous Children
A Parents' Guide
Parenting any child is filled with its own wonders and challenges. This is an invaluable resource to gain insight and advice into raising autistic children, from a fellow parent. Easy to follow, supportive and refreshingly direct, this guide empowers you to explore what works best for you and your child.
It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks
An Anthology of Bisexual Voices
An essay collection exploring the diversity of bisexual identity - as it relates to class, religion, ethnicity, religion, sex and politics - and how it can disrupt and challenge binary and exclusionary ways of thinking. Erudite, provocative, and wide-ranging, this is both a call to action and a middle finger to bi-erasure.
Just the Job!
A Light-Hearted Guide to Office Life for the Autistic Employee
A humorously illustrated guide to office life for the autistic employee, with advice on navigating the world of office-speak, endless meetings, workplace relationships, banter and bullying, to help you become the best advocate for yourself at work (and an expert on your non autistic colleagues).
Navigating PDA in America
A Framework to Support Anxious, Demand-Avoidant Autistic Children, Teens and Young Adults
A primer explaining the anxious, demand avoidant, autistic profile known as PDA and a framework for supporting a child, teen or young adult who fits this profile at home, school and in the community.
Raising Capable Kids
The 12 Habits Every Parent Needs Regardless of their Child's Label or Challenge
A guide for parents to raising children who have been diagnosed as “different' - written by a parent and expert in educational psychology, with guidance on how to understand your child’s strengths and difficulties, set realistic and ambitious expectations and support and challenge them when needed.
The Teen's Guide to PDA
An illustrated guide to PDA for teens, written by Laura Kerbey, an autism consultant with over 20 years experience, and illustrated by Sunday Times bestselling author and PDA parent Eliza Fricker. Chapters include: managing anxiety, family and friends, sex and relationships, risky behaviours and gender identity and sexuality.
Conversations with Monsters
On mortality, creativity and neurodivergent survival
Being Autistic (And What That Actually Means)
Written by autistic author, Niamh Garvey, with lively illustrations throughout, this is the ultimate guide for 8-12-year-olds to learn all about what being autistic actually means.
Neurodiversity in the Workplace
How neurodivergent individuals can find their place and thrive
This is Who I Am
The Autistic Woman’s Creative Guide to Belonging
An explorative guide for women to help them work through the challenges arising from late autism discovery including understanding past behaviours, accessing support and developing a positive identity. Interweaving stories of lived experience with practical activities, this is the ideal dip-in/dip-out guide to achieving autistic self-acceptance.
Young, Autistic and ADHD
Moving into adulthood when you’re multiply-neurodivergent
Autistic ADHDer Sarah Boon opens the door on what it’s like as a young autistic ADHDer. Sharing invaluable tips and tricks that she has picked up along the way, this book is a companion guide to thriving when multiply neurodivergent.
A Grand Love
Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren
A guide for grandparents of trans children, written by Janna Barkin - mother to a trans son, and advocate for gender diverse people and their families - with interviews and stories from grandparents and children, a glossary of terms related to gender identity and further resources and reading.
Being Dyslexic, Being Us
The Amazing Talents and Strengths of Dyslexic Kids
Monogamy? In this Economy?
Finances, Childrearing, and Other Practical Concerns of Polyamory
A practical guide to the questions that come in the later stages of polyamorous relationships - with chapters on parenting, finance, households, metamours and breakup plans.
Parenting When You're Autistic
Tips and advice on how to parent successfully alongside your neurodivergence
This clear, supportive guide explores the joys and challenges of parenting as an autistic person. Clearly-structured sections including self care, special interests, meltdowns and shutdowns, building relationships, avoiding burnout and more help you to navigate the tough parts of raising children and enjoy the rewards.
The #ActuallyAutistic Guide to Building Independence
A Handbook for Teens, Young Adults, and Those Who Care About Them
An empowering guide for Autistic teens and young adults transitioning into adulthood, with tips on successful allyship for friends and family. With real-life experiences from the Autistic community, this encouraging book is what you need to ensure home, education, work, and social experiences support your independence in the best way possible.
A Different Kind of Parenting
Neurodivergent families finding a way through together
In this honest, heart-warming and supportive new book, The Sunday Times bestselling author and illustrator Eliza Fricker lifts parents of neurodivergent kids from the dark days of grappling with impenetrable systems, and shows them how life can become brighter.
All About PDA
An Insight Into Pathological Demand Avoidance
An enjoyable and highly informative introduction to the world of Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), accompanied by entertaining images of animals in the author’s popular style. This is the perfect overview of a little-understood and evolving condition, written for both PDA-ers, and those who support them.
Autistic Adulting
Real World Guidance for Autistic Adults and Allies
Through personal experience, helpful tips, affirmations, and more, in this guide autistic self-advocate Callum Stephen Howes aims to empower autistic individuals and educate allies. This invaluable resource suggests practical ways autistic adults can navigate and overcome hurdles they may encounter, and provides tips on how allies can support them.
Ready Eddie Go! Boardgames
Learning all about winning and losing!
Part of the Ready, Eddie, Go! series, based on the TV show of the same name, in this book Eddie plays boardgames with his friends. He finds out about winning and losing, and how you can manage all the emotions that come with playing together.