Our New Book Is Available Now!
Relationships Matter is a compassionate, evidence-based guide to understanding children’s mental health through the lens of connection. Drawing on more than four decades of experience working with children and families, author Janet Morrison looks beyond the individual child to explore how resilience is shaped by relationships at home, at school, within communities, and across the broader culture.
Rather than offering a prescriptive approach to parenting, Morrison invites parents, educators, mental health professionals, and others who care for children to consider the many interconnected influences on a young person’s wellbeing. She explores how supportive relationships create safety and belonging, strengthen resilience, and help children navigate an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world.
Thoughtful, accessible, and grounded in both research and experience, Relationships Matter offers a hopeful reminder: resilience isn't just something we build within children. It's something we build around them.
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“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 and has 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.