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Comm 19999: Essential Communication Skills, Julie Warkentin, Jonathan Filipovic Jan 2019

Comm 19999: Essential Communication Skills, Julie Warkentin, Jonathan Filipovic

Faculty Books

This open educational resource textbook provides Sheridan students with the foundational information and skills necessary to be successful in diploma-level programs. The book integrates customized Sheridan-centred content, including information on academic resources available on campus and customized readings that reflect the cross-disciplinary work of Sheridan programs, students, and faculty. With a focus on writing and research skills for both academic and professional contexts, the COMM 19999 course text is a valuable resource for students as they transition from post-secondary studies into their chosen fields.


Creating A Better World For Our Child, Theresa Fraser Jan 2010

Creating A Better World For Our Child, Theresa Fraser

Faculty Books

The book chapter describes the use of the Sandtray-Worldplay Method to:

• Establish a safe and open therapeutic environment

• Encourage parents to identify common values, hopes, and goals

• Identify how parents can support their child and each other in working toward specific family goals

• Set goals to be addressed in treatment


Memory Quilt Or Pillow, Theresa Fraser Jan 2008

Memory Quilt Or Pillow, Theresa Fraser

Faculty Books

This book chapter describes the use of a memory quilt or pillow in therapy with the goal to:

• Gather information about the client's interests, feelings, and needs

• Increase open communication

• Allow the client to discuss positive experiences shared with significant caregivers

• Encourage the client to identify and verbally express the loss of significant past relationships with natural family members or with faster families

• Help the client to identify goals for current or future relationships


Putting A Human Face On Child Welfare: Voices From The Prairies, Ivan Brown, Ferzana Chaze, Don Fuchs, Jean Lafrance, Sharon Mckay, Shelley Thomas Prokop Jan 2007

Putting A Human Face On Child Welfare: Voices From The Prairies, Ivan Brown, Ferzana Chaze, Don Fuchs, Jean Lafrance, Sharon Mckay, Shelley Thomas Prokop

Faculty Books

The chapters in this book represent a selection of the many very fine presentations made at the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium's (PCWC) 3rd bi-annual Symposium, held in Edmonton, Alberta, November 23–25, 2005. The theme of that Symposium was Putting a Human Face on Child Welfare.

Sharon McKay's article "Development of the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium" at the beginning of this book provides a brief history of the beginnings of the PCWC, illustrating not only its practical, but more importantly the philosophical development. Readers will find that this philosophy informs a great deal of the writing in the 11 chapters of …