UBC Press proudly distributes Jessica Kingsley Publishers in Canada. A selection of JKP titles are available on our website. If you're interested in a title not available on our website, please contact us or our distributor, UTP Distribution.
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP) is a wholly independent company, committed to publishing books that make a difference.
The company was founded in 1987 in London by Jessica Kingsley and has grown since then to now publish over 250 books a year. JKP is known for long established lists on the autism spectrum, social work, and arts therapies. More recently they have published extensively in the fields of mental health, counselling, palliative care, and practical theology. JKP has a range of graphic novels across these subject areas, and books for children, on issues including bereavement, depression and anger. In 2016, JKP was awarded Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year by the British Book Industry Awards.
In 2006 a new imprint, Singing Dragon, was born.
I'm Not Upside Down, I'm Downside Up
Not a Boring Book About PDA
Welcome to my downside up life! My name is Ariana and I want to explain what it’s like to have pathological demand avoidance from my perspective. I’ll try and show you why I am the way I am from inside my own head and why I often feel like I have to control the things around me by avoiding demands as much as I can.
Confronting Shame
How to Understand Your Shame and Gain Inner Freedom
Shame can underlie a multitude of common mental health problems including low self-esteem, depression and anxiety. Confronting Shame will help you understand and overcome your shame with reflective exercises in each chapter to rebuild your empathy and compassion towards yourself.
Queer Body Power
Finding Your Body Positivity
Fierce and unapologetically written, this is an inspiring call to arms for queer body positivity. Featuring honest advice, personal insights and powerful stories from a diverse range of queer voices, this essential book will help you love your queer body.
You Can Make a Difference!
A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists
The #ActuallyAutistic Guide to Advocacy
Step-by-Step Advice on How to Ally and Speak Up with Autistic People and the Autism Community
A guide for those who want to understand how to effectively advocate and ally with Autistic people, featuring over 100 #ActuallyAutistic voices. It offers practical strategies for honing advocacy efforts to align with the desires of the #ActuallyAutistic community.
Supporting Trans People of Colour
How to Make Your Practice Inclusive
This book provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to including trans people of colour and uses case studies, tips, checklists and interviews to set out best practice for creating safer inclusive spaces, representation, support, training and awareness in any organisation or setting, or for any professional working with trans people of colour. It discusses identity and intersectionality, explains how to create and hold safer spaces and provides practical advice for websites, venues, advertising and outreach.
Creating Consent Culture
A Handbook for Educators
The Teenage Girl's Guide to Living Well with ADHD
Improve your Self-Esteem, Self-Care and Self Knowledge
A positive, self-affirming guide for girls with ADHD to increase their self-knowledge and empower them in their daily lives by explaining the strengths and challenges of ADHD. Stuffed with tips, strategies and visuals designed for ADHD learners and self-reflective activities that can be used with support from parents, mentors or teachers.
From Hurt to Hope
Stories of mental health, mental illness and being autistic
A selection of reflective essays about mental health on the autism spectrum from a diverse range of people. Each contributor follows the topics of hurt (their experience and how they felt), help (tools that have aided them), and hope (looking forwards). Covering trauma, relationships, the carer perspective, healthcare, intersectionality and more.
Autism and Masking
How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have
This book offers an in in-depth examination of how autistic people mask, why they do it and the impact it can have on their wellbeing. Combining the latest research with contributed case studies, it provides a thorough and illuminating introduction to this important but underserved area.
The Family Experience of PDA
An Illustrated Guide to Pathological Demand Avoidance
Eliza Fricker gets it. She knows how difficult PDA parenting can be, but she puts fun and humour back into it, despite the occasional mishaps! Humorous, quirky comic strips and empathetic writing will give essential advice and tips on how to navigate the challenges of PDA parenting.
Sensory Solutions in the Classroom
The Teacher's Guide to Fidgeting, Inattention and Restlessness
An essential read for teachers trying to understand sensory processing disorders to make their classrooms the ideal learning environment for SPD learners. Concise, with accessible scientific based information, loaded with activities and quizzes, even the busiest of teachers can learn about SPD with ease.
Help! I'm Addicted
A Trans Girl's Self-Discovery and Recovery
A powerful and frank account of a trans woman’s journey of recovery from addiction and depression. Beginning her journey the same year as she began her transition, Rhyannon Styles explores the simultaneous transitions in her life with searing honesty and insight.
Transitioning Later in Life
A Personal Guide
The first in-depth guide for people who are transitioning later in life