About
Ph.D., Administratorof the Pacific North West Institute of the Integrative Body Psychotherapy andAssociate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at the Universityof Calgary. Program Design and Development Consultant and contributes and promotesthe Society.
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Gerry Fewster is aneducator, writer and psychotherapist. For over twenty years he was ExecutiveDirector of one of Canada’s largest privately operated treatment centers fortroubled children and their families. He has held teaching positions at threeuniversities and is currently Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department ofApplied Psychology at the University of Calgary. Dr. Fewster has writtenextensively on children’s mental health issues and is widely acknowledged forhis contributions to the development of Child and Youth Care across NorthAmerica.
He was the editor ofthe Journal of Child and Youth Care foralmost twenty years and editor of RelationalChild and Youth Care Practice. Dr. Fewster has contributed over fortyarticles to professional journals and published a number of books including, Being in child care: A journey into Self (Haworth,N.Y., 1990) and Ben and Jock: A biography(Oolican, B.C., 2001).
He now lives onVancouver Island where he and his wife Judith direct the Pacific North WestInstitute of Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP), one of ten internationalinstitutes dedicated to the advancement of human potential. Together theFewster’s maintain a private practice, specializing in relationship therapy.
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<p><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Santa’s Birthday Gift was written in response to a grandchild’s question, after reading the story of the Nativity.<span> </span>She asked, “But where’s Santa?”<span> </span>This story tells the story of the Nativity and then goes on to tell the story about how when Jesus is born, Santa sees the star at the North Pole and travels to see the baby. Since he is a toymaker, he brings his bag of toys - and offers them to the Christ Child, and then to all the people of the town. His birthday gift to Jesus is a promise to bring gifts to all good boys and girls each year on the Christ Child's birthday</span></p>
Story Behind The Book
Stop drugging our kids
Author Dr Gerry Fewster PhD "Don't Let Your Kids be Normal – A Partnership for a different world" releases his new controversial book encouraging Professionals to stop drugging our children.
Across North America and Europe youngsters are being tagged and labelled as 'problems' and subjected to the remedial devices of the experts and the pharmaceutical companies. The statistics are staggering. We are now at the point where even babies and toddlers are being treated for depression, disobedience, anxiety, attachment disorders, hyper-activity and an escalating list of syndromes invented to let parents off the hook.
Fewsters new book "Don't Let your kids be Normal" contends that current parenting, teaching and professional practices are generally ineffective and repressive. Encouraging, or coercing children to follow in our footsteps is the worst possible option.
Reviews
If every person who cared for a child read this book, the world would be
a better place. In his classic and powerful way Fewster takes us inside
the life of a child, our own and others, and provides invaluable
insight into how to understand and be with children. His life long
commitment to valuing and knowing children is evident from page to page
as is his ability to mirror back his experience of the lives and moments
of childhood. With knowledge accumulated over years of experience and
study, wit, and incredible examples, Fewster has created a masterpiece
that eliminates once and for all parenting stereotypes and the idea of
adults doing something to children. Parents and helping professionals
with this information at hand, an understanding of their own experience,
and the will to be care givers and receivers will undoubtedly be even
better after reading the book. We should use it in our classes and our
homes.
<br /><br />Mark Krueger
<br />Professor of Youth Work
<br />University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
