New Book Coming Soon!
Relationships Matter: Building Children’s Resilience Within the Family, School and Community
Our new book Relationships Matter is a compassionate, evidence-based guide to understanding children’s mental health through the lens of connection.
Drawing on decades of experience working with children and families, author Janet Morrison explores how resilience is shaped not only at home, but through relationships at school, in communities, and in the broader culture.
This is not another prescriptive parenting book. This is a book about strengthening the many relationships that impact a child’s mental health and wellbeing, and how these relationships help children to feel safe, supported, and able to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
"In light of the myriad stressors affecting today's youth - social media, hateful speech and actions, discrimination, and more - it is vital that we help them develop strategies that enhance their capacity to manage the pressures and their reactions to them. Morrison's work highlights the importance of strong, positive relationships in facilitating this. The book is an important reminder that "it takes a village" to raise a child - a village drawing from the whole of society, from families, to schools, to the surrounding community."
~ Dr. Barbara Perry, Order of Canada, UNESCO Chair in Hate Studies
About The Author
Janet Morrison is a Psychological Associate with forty years’ experience assessing and treating children, youth and their families. She has consulted to school boards and children’s aid societies across Ontario, taught and supervised psychologists and social workers at the Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Janet has a podcast called Catch Up on Kids Mental Health where she explores diverse topics related to children’s mental health and development.