Brush Education imprint: 40 books
Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment
Insights from Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Guided by the concept of synergy, this groundbreaking collection explores alternatives in the areas of counseling, education, and community health and development. Synergy refers to the process of two or more things coming together to create a new, greater, and often-unexpected whole. When synergy...
Teamwork, Leadership and Communication
Collaboration Basics for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
This practical, straightforward guide presents the basic skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed for successful interprofessional collaboration in healthcare. Collaboration is fundamental to quality healthcare, and many regulatory bodies and accrediting agencies now have standards and benchmarks for...
Diversity, Culture and Counselling
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Canada is one of the most diverse nations in the world. As counsellors increasingly deal with people from many different cultures and backgrounds, there is a need to shift from Eurocentric counselling theories and methods towards an approach that recognizes diversity and new world perspectives. Bringing...
Tools for Teaching Social Studies
A How-to Handbook of Useful Ideas and Practical Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Engage your students AND keep your sanity with classroom-tested tools. Tools for Teaching Social Studies delivers a wealth of practical solutions for classroom success — all grounded in solid educational philosophy. A lifeline for new social studies teachers and a source of inspiration and ideas...
Cultural Competency Skills for Psychologists, Psychotherapists, and Counselling Professionals
A Workbook for Caring Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Build your intercultural communication skills to ensure the best possible patient outcomes. Features embedded video with dramatizations of realistic health-care scenarios. Cultural Competency Skills for Psychologists, Psychotherapists, and Counselling Professionals teaches techniques for meeting the...
Haida Eagle Treasures
Traditional Stories and Memories from a Teacher of the Tsath Lanas Clan
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Take a journey into the heart of Haida culture as it is lived and experienced by an extraordinary woman of the Tsath Lanas Eagle Clan. Pansy Collison, a Haida woman born and raised in Old Massett on Haida Gwaii, tells stories of her clan and community, as well as personal narratives about her history...
Gross Pathology Handbook
A Guide to Descriptive Terms
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This highly practical guide helps pathology professionals quickly and accurately describe surgical and autopsy specimens as they perform gross dissection. It helps clinicians and medical students interpret pathology reports easily and exactly. Gross Pathology Handbook provides a comprehensive list...
Neither Married Nor Single
When Your Partner has Alzheimer’s or Other Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
When Dr. David Kirkpatrick’s wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2007, their lives—and their marriage—would change forever. In an honest, uplifting, and sometimes heartbreaking account of loving a partner with dementia, Dr. Kirkpatrick creates a clear guide for others in similar...
Lab Literacy for Canadian Doctors
A Guide to Ordering the Right Tests for Better Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Lab Literacy for Canadian Doctors is an affordable and comprehensive pocket guide for choosing appropriate lab tests. It quickly and efficiently improves patient care through better test decisions for clinical situations. This unique resource reduces the risks of: ordering the wrong test, not clearly...
by Charlene Richard
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Fast, effective strategies--each teachable in 10 minutes or less! Includes printable patient handouts and audio downloads for guided relaxation practices. Empower your patients quickly with tools that range from relaxation strategies to life skills. Teach patients to recognize their stress response...
Psychiatry Review for Canadian Doctors
Key Preparation for Your Exams
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Reinforce the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to excel in your certification exams. Ensure you're ready for the psychiatry certification exams, both written and oral, offered by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Psychiatry Review for Canadian Doctors is the only guide...
Native Plants for the Short Season Yard
Best Picks for the Chinook and Canadian Prairie Zones
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This is the definitive guide to gardening with native plants on the prairies. Gardening with native plants has lots of advantages, not only for your yard, but also for the ecosystem. What could be better than a beautiful, low-maintenance yard that preserves biodiversity and withstands the prairie...
by Leslie Vermeer
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
From building and managing author relationships, through acquiring and developing manuscripts, to every level of text editing and proofing for print and ebooks, editors play integral roles in the operations of a book publishing house. In The Complete Canadian Book Editor, veteran editor and professor...
One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years
A History of Wood's Homes as Told by the People Who Lived and Worked There
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
For 100 years, Wood’s Homes has offered a lifeline to children and their families who have nowhere else to turn. A multiservice, non-profit children’s mental health organization based in Calgary, Wood’s Homes serves communities throughout Alberta and in the Northwest Territories. In honour of...