Library and Academic Success: Child and Youth Care: Start your Research

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Looking for information for an assignment? Enter your keywords to find books, articles, streaming video & more in one click. Access to full text requires your Georgian user credentials.

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Comprehensive collection of Canadian and international magazines such as Macleans, Scientific American, newspapers and news wires such as the Toronto Star, as well as reference books and company information, biographies and an image collection. This database also includes a Canadian Dictionary.
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Provides Canadian context for a variety of research topics and clearly illustrates differing points of view to help start research projects and opinion papers.
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Canadian Periodical Index covers Canadian and international journals, magazines, newspapers and other references from 1988 with full-text from 1995. Includes selected sections on full-text of Globe and Mail from 1997.
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Formerly known as Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations. Lists over 3,100 foundations that make grants to registered charities and includes over 90,000 indexed grants and 150 corporation listings.
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Contains over 5,000 videos on topics in business, nursing, social sciences, health, science and technical education.
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Watch documentaries, animations and more available from the National Film Board (NFB). Users can access any online NFB or CAMPUS title. Search for NFB titles in Page 1+. or directly in NFB. Note that NFB also lists titles from partners that may not be accessible.
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Cultural reports for more than 200 countries each include categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, dating and marriage, family, diet, housing, holidays, economy, education, and health.
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Open access medical, biomedical, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences database. Please note: PubMed is currently working best with PC browsers.
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All sciences - technological, engineering, chemical, biological, medical, veterinary and social. All articles are peer reviewed and academic. This source includes ebooks on selected scientific topics.
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DSM-V-TR (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and several textbooks from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Use Firefox to search this tool.
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Searchable database for reports on more than 1,150 diseases and syndromes.

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Comprehensive index of scholarly journals with focuses on social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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DSM-5 (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and several textbooks from the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
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Comprehensive sociology research database including its many sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Full text available for over 700 journals (back to 1908), 800 books and thousands of conference papers.
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eBooks to get you started

Child and Youth Care Across Sectors, Volume 1 : Canadian Perspectives
ISBN: 9781773381046
With a Canadian focus this book examines all active child and youth care sectors across the human services including: challenges, opportunities, residential care, foster homes, schools, cyberspace, services that support Quebecois, deaf, autism, LGBTQ+ communities and more.
Child and Youth Care Across Sectors, Volume 2: Canadian Perspectives
ISBN: 9781773381978
With a Canadian focus that aims to reflect the changing field of child and youth care. Examining topics ranging from homelessness to immigration, antiracism, African-centred praxis, Indigenous ways of being, and additional settings of child and youth care.
Child and youth care in the field: a practicum guidebook.
ISBN: 9781773381800
This resource helps prepare students for practicum and expand their self-awareness. Discusses challenges and difficulties they will encounter in the field and includes checklists of child and youth care competencies, practical exercises, scenario examples and more.
Introduction to Mental Health for Child and Youth Care
ISBN: 9781773382050
As child and youth care practitioners increasingly engage with children, youth, and their families impacted by mental health concerns, the need for supporting resources is higher than ever. Recognizing the importance of mental health literacy, specifically designed to meet the professional practice needs of child and youth care practitioners.
Necessary but Not Sufficient : Improving Community Living for Youth after Residential Mental Health Programs
ISBN: 9781487507282
This book proposes a template for improving community living outcomes for youth leaving residential mental health programs. Includes theory and evidence from multiple fields including education, juvenile justice, child welfare, and more.
Working with Adolescents, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781462546305
A comprehensive view of adolescent development and explores effective ways to support teens who are having difficulties. Examines protective and risk factors, assessment and intervention strategies, and includes case examples.
Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging
ISBN: 9780203712412
Looking at a wide range of areas (rural, urban, displacements and mobilities) this book investigates how young people adapt to social change, negotiate belonging in everyday life, and provides insight into young people’s identities.
Youth Sociology
ISBN: 9781137490421
A holistic and cross-cutting sociological introduction and analysis of what it means to 'grow up' in the modern world which will make perfect reading for those studying childhood and youth.

Books

A Tapestry of Relational Child and Youth Care Competencies
Call Number: HV1421 .F73
ISBN: 9781773380339
Available at: Orillia
Reviews the five domains of Child and Youth Care (CYC) core competencies: professionalism, cultural and human diversity, applied human development, relationship and communication, and developmental practice methods.
Ohpikinawasowin : growing a child : implementing Indigenous ways of knowing with Indigenous families
Call Number: HQ778.7.C2 O37
ISBN: 9781773632278
Available at: Barrie, Orillia, Owen Sound
Child welfare for Indigenous peoples must be informed and guided by Indigenous practices and understandings. This collection forms a whole related to the Turtle Lodge Teachings, which expresses nehiyaw stages of development, and works to undo the colonial trappings of Canada's current child welfare system.
The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada
Call Number: HQ789 .C68
ISBN: 9781771123556
Available at: Orillia
Discusses children’s rights in Canada and the disconnect that everyone will abandon proprietary notions about children, or that all children will be free to enjoy the substance of their rights in every social and institutional context in which they find themselves, including - and perhaps especially - within families.
Under-Served: health determinants of Indigenous, inner-city, and migrant populations in Canada
Call Number: RA418.3.C2 U55
ISBN: 9781773380582
Available at: Barrie
Addresses the need for systemic change both in and outside of the Canadian health care system. Examines traditional determinants of health-social such as economic, environmental, and behavioural elements, and additional factors such as family and community, government policies, mental health and addiction, disease, homelessness and housing, racism, youth, and LGBTQ.

Online Journals and Magazines

Canadian Journal of Public Health
This is an independent, peer‐reviewed journal published by the Canadian Public Health Association.
Child and Youth Care Forum
Available in Academic Search Premier database with 12 month delay. Current issues available in print.
This journal is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary publication which includes original empirical research papers, theoretical reviews as well as invited commentaries – on children, youth, and families
Child and Youth Services
Available in SocINDEX database with 18 month delay.
This is an international academic journal devoted to advancing knowledge and thinking about relational engagement with children, youth, their families, and communities
First Peoples Child & Family Review
Promotes child, family and community based-matters for First Nations, Metis and Inuit in Canada as well as Indigenous Peoples abroad.
New Directions for Student Leadership
Available in Academic Search Premier database with 12 month delay.
Was previously: New directions for youth development.
This sourcebook explores dimensions of the development of leadership in high school youth and college students to aid leadership educators who design educational courses and programs for students.
Relational Child & Youth Care Practice
You can use MultiSearch to search the contents of this journal by entering your keywords in one search box and the name of the journal in another. Once you locate an article, use this website to check to see if it's available online. You may need to access some issues of the journal in Print in the Orillia library. Click on the title above to browse the table of contents for the current year(s). Older issues of the journal are available ON CAMPUS if you scroll to the very bottom of the page and click the link for more issues.
This journal is committed to promoting and supporting the profession of Child and Youth Care through disseminating the knowledge and experience of individuals involved in the day-to-day lives of young people.
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