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

Cyndy Baskin, Mi'kmaq and Celtic Nations, is Associate Professor of Social Work at Ryerson University in Toronto and an active and energetic teacher, researcher, and community builder both in Canada and internationally. She has written widely on these and other topics.

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"Baskin takes up this challenge and begins from a positive place, founding her text on the premise that Indigenous knowledges have relevance for all. Her text offers, to scholars and practitioners of the helping professions, a number of comfortable starting points to begin wading into the depth, power, and utility of Indigenous approaches to helping self, families, and communities."— “Jean-Paul Restoule, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto