Neighbourhood Houses
Building Community in Vancouver
Neighbourhood Houses documents how the neighbourhood house model, a century-old type of community organization, can help overcome isolation in urban neighbourhoods by creating welcoming places.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Aging–Disability Nexus
The Aging–Disability Nexus explores the complex and competing narratives we create about aging and disability, providing fresh perspectives on how these markers interact with each other and with other indicators of power and difference.
- Copyright year: 2020
Putting Family First
Migration and Integration in Canada
Putting Family First challenges the conventional view of settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market, placing the family at the centre of the successful immigrant experience.
- Copyright year: 2019
No Home in a Homeland
Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North
Through personal accounts and analysis of historical trends, No Home in the Homeland documents the spread of homelessness in the North, what it reveals about colonialism and its legacies, and the limitations of existing policies and programs.
- Copyright year: 2017
Contesting Elder Abuse and Neglect
Ageism, Risk, and the Rhetoric of Rights in the Mistreatment of Older People
Drawing on twenty years of original, interdisciplinary research, Contesting Elder Abuse and Neglect explores how and why the mistreatment of older people became known as “elder abuse and neglect” and the consequences of this designation.
- Copyright year: 2016
Queering Social Work Education
The first book of its kind in North America, this collection of original works promises to transform the future of social work education by equipping scholars and students with a new appreciation of queer strengths and experiences.
- Copyright year: 2016
Shelter in a Storm
Revitalizing Feminism in Neoliberal Ontario
Drawing on the experiences of three YWCA women’s shelters in Ontario, this book exposes the dangers for women that are embedded in government neoliberal policies and reveals how feminism can counteract this pervasive ideology.
- Copyright year: 2016
Who Is Bob_34?
Investigating Child Cyberpornography
Researchers Francis Fortin and Patrice Corriveau investigate the clandestine world of child cyberpornography to understand who produces, exchanges, and consumes pedo-pornographic images.
- Copyright year: 2015
Father Involvement in Canada
Diversity, Renewal, and Transformation
Exploring the diverse roles fathers play in their children’s lives, Father Involvement in Canada provides a timely synopsis of current knowledge while challenging many long-held assumptions about fatherhood.
- Copyright year: 2012
Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives
Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization
Documents the experience of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and intervention, and their effects on young people’s lives and social networks.
- Copyright year: 2012
The End of Children?
Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood
This timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child raising.
- Copyright year: 2012
Child and Youth Care
Critical Perspectives on Pedagogy, Practice, and Policy
This book reconceptualizes child and youth care by bringing critical and postmodern perspectives to bear on practices, programs, and policies.
- Copyright year: 2011
Lost Kids
Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States
Distinguished historians and social scientists consider the under-representation, demonization, and inadequate care of vulnerable children in twentieth-century Canada and the United States.
- Copyright year: 2009
A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
This book explores the history of kindergartens and infant schools in three settler colonies, revealing how discourses and developments in the past have shaped early childhood education in the present.
- Copyright year: 2009
Judicial Decision Making in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
Laws and definitions of sexual abuse may have changed since the 1980s, but this book demonstrates that interpretation of the law still depends on the social construction of children and on judges’ own understanding of what constitutes child sexual abuse.
- Copyright year: 2007
No Place to Go
Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement
The first history of the battered women’s shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue.
- Copyright year: 2007
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
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.
- Copyright year: 2007
Protecting Aboriginal Children
This is the first book to document emerging practice in Aboriginal communities and describe child protection practice simultaneously from the point of view of the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social worker.
- Copyright year: 2005
Cross-Cultural Caring, 2nd ed.
A Handbook for Health Professionals
This new edition provides up-to-date statistics and fresh analysis of changing trends in immigration, describes ethno-cultural community, discussing such issues as childbirth, mental illness, dental care, hospitalization, and death, as well as home country culture, common reasons for emigrating, and challenges in adjusting to a new culture.
- Copyright year: 2005
Social Policy and the Ethic of Care
Over the last twenty years, the feminist ethic of care has had a significant impact on the study of ethics and political philosophy. Hankivsky develops the concept of a publicly viable ethic of care, and applies it to several Canadian social policy issues.
- Copyright year: 2004