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GERRY FEWSTER

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Gerry Fewster
Gerry Fewster, photo by Joe Blow
Occupation	Author, Lecturer
Nationality	British-Canadian
Genre	Fiction
Notable works	Ben and Jock: A Biography Being in Child Care: A Journey into Self

Gerry Fewster Ph.D. (Gerald David Fewster) (born February 18, 1940 in Hull, England) is a psychologist, teacher, writer and therapist, recognized internationally for his leadership and pioneering work in the development of children’s services and professional child and youth care across Canada and the U.S.A.

(Fewster 2001, p. 119).

Education

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• Ph.D. University and Year

Selected Professional Awards

• Professional of the Year (1978) Canadian Mental Health Association, Alberta.
• Inducted into the Academy of Child and Youth Care Professional. 1990
• Best Documentary (Executive Producer). Alberta Television and Film Awards.

Selected Postions Held

• Probation Officer, Liverpool, U.K. 1964-1966.
• ‘Wandering Clown,’ Brown’s Amusement Park, Bridlington, U.K. WHEN
• Family Therapist, Burnaby Mental Health Centre, Burnaby, BC. 1968-1969
• Senior Therapist, William Roper Hull Home, Calgary, AB. 1971-1974.
• Executive Director, Youth Development Centre, Edmonton, AB. 1975-1976.
• Executive Director, William Roper Child & Family Services, Calgary,AB. 1977-1998
• Director, Alberta Children’s Mental Health Project. 1985-1986
• Professor, Department of Health & Human Services, Vancouver Island University. 1998-2005
• Editor, Journal of Child & Youth Care. 1984-2001
• Columnist, Victoria Times Colonist. 1996-1998
• Editor, Relational Child & Youth Care Practice. 2001-2007
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calgary. 1998 –
• Administrator, Pacific North West Institute of Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP). 2000 -
• Vice-President, Canadian Council on Children and Youth. 1974-1978
• President, Calgary Children’s Services Council. 1985-1987
• President, Calgary Mental Health Council. 1983-1985
• President, Canadian Mental Health Association, Vancouver Island. WHEN
• Faculty, Haven Institute, 2002 - present

Contributions

Residential Treatment for Children

(Fewster 1986)

Relational Child Care

Fewster advocated for a human relational approach to adolescent treatment. He was instrumental in bringing humanistic values into the Alberta residential care system.

(Fewster 1986) ONE OF THESE MIGHT NOT WORK (Fewster 2003)

"It is time to show courage to a society that has become afraid of its own children; the courage it will take to step aside and invite parents to become responsible, caring about themselves as they would care for their children."

— Gerry Fewster, Ph.D.(Fewster 1989, p. vi)

(Fewster 1990)

Humanistic Therapy

(Fewster & Rand 1997)

(Fewster & 1990?)

"Given support, encouragement, and above all, patience, the unknown Self will step forward, tentative and evasive at first, but slowly growing in confidence."

— Gerry Fewster, Ph.D.(Fewster 2005, p. 4)

Community Mental Health

Social Agencies (Fewster 1977) (Fewster 1986) ONE OF THESE MIGHT NOT WORK

(Fewster 1989)

Ben and Jock: A Biography

In his 2002 book, Gerry Fewster used his experience in relational child care and psychology to deepen his interviews with Bennet Wong and Jock McKeen in his research for the book on Wong and McKeen and their relationship to the Human Potential Movement on the west coast of North America (Fewster 2001).

In a review of Ben and Jock: A Biography Jay Currie wrote "Fewster, a therapist himself, writes sympathetically about the evolution of Ben and Jock's thinking on the question of healing. Their combination of East and West, encounter groups and breath techniques, all fit the humanistic paradigm." Currie went on to say, "Ben and Jock is not an academic biography. It contains imagined conversations between Ben and Jock for which Fewster cites no objective record. It lacks an index, endnotes and a bibliography. All of which may, in fact, reveal the profound difference between the human potential movement and the mainstream." Currie was positive about Fewster's departure from the traditional form of biographical writing: "Humanist psychology is not about records and scholarship, it's about stories. About healers being fully present to hear what another person is saying. So is Ben and Jock. Beyond the book's lack of formal apparatus, is a striking story, well told. Stay with it and breath." (Currie 2002).

"What if each and every moment of our evolving life contains an infinite storehouse of possibilities through which we might find ourselves within the life and spirit of the cosmos? Perhaps, we are that life and that spirit, all that we fear and that we embrace, our health and our sickness, our aloneness and our relatedness, our life and our death, our Heaven and our Hell."

— Gerry Fewster, Ph.D.(Fewster 2001, p. 415)

References

• Fewster, Gerry (1989), "The Lost Courage (Editorial)", Journal of Child and Youth Care, vol. 4, p. vi.
• Fewster, Gerry (1992), "Foreword", in Wong, B and McKeen, J (ed.), A Manual For Life, PD Publishing, p. xi, ISBN 0-9696755-0-X{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link).

• Staff Writer. (March 15, 2002), "Book Launch for Gerry Fewster's Ben and Jock: A Biography", Nanaimo Daily News, Nanaimo, BC, pp. C1 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).

• Sun, Staff Writer. (March 23, 2002), "Psychologist Gerry Fewster Appears With the Subjects of His Biography, Ben & Jock", The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, BC, p. H17 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).

• Times Colonist, Staff Writer. (May 1, 2002), "Book Launch by Author Gerry Fewster", Times Colonist, Victoria, BC, pp. B2 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).

• Currie, Jay (March 31, 2002), "Rocky Road to Self-Actualization - Ben and Jock: A Biography by Gerry Fewster", Times Colonist, Victoria, BC, pp. D10 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).

• Bulletin, Staff Reporter (March 18, 2002), "Ben and Jock Subject of a Book", Nanaimo News Bulletin, Nanaimo, BC {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Selected Publications

Books

• Fewster, Gerry (1977), The Social Agency, Alberta: WRRH Publications, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help).

• Fewster, Gerry (1986), Being in Child Care: A Journey into Self, New York, NY: Haworth, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help).

• Fewster, Gerry (1986), Expanding the Circle: A Community Approach to Children’s Mental Health, Alberta: Alberta Government Publications, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help).

• Fewster, Gerry (2001), Ben and Jock: A Biography, Parksville, BC: Oolichan Books, ISBN 0-88982-202-6.

Contributed Chapters

• Fewster, Gerry (1979), "Residential Adolescent Treatment", in Payne, J.; White, Keith (Eds) (eds.), Caring for Deprived Children, London, England: Croom Helm (published 1996), pp. 238–256, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Fewster, Gerry (1987), "Residential Child Care", in Denholm; Ferguson; Pence, (Eds.) (eds.), Professional Child & Youth Care: A Canadian Perspective, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 9–35, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: |editor3-first= has generic name (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Fewster, Gerry (1989), "Creating Options: Designing a Radical Children's Mental Health Program", in Brown, Roy; Chazen, Maurice (Eds.) (eds.), Learning Difficulties and Emotional Problems, Alberta: Detselig Ltd., pp. 67–85, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Fewster, Gerry (1990), "Growing Together: The Personal Relationship in Child & Youth Care", in Anglin; Denholm; Ferguson; Pence, (Eds.) (eds.), Perspectives in Professional Child & Youth Care, New York, NY: Haworth, pp. ???, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: |editor4-first= has generic name (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Fewster, Gerry; Rand, Marjorie (1997), "Self, Boundaries and Containment: Integrative Body Psychotherapy", in Caldwell, Christine (Ed.) (ed.), Getting in Touch: The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies, Illinois: Quest Books (published 1990?), pp. ???, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Check date values in: |publication-date= (help)

• Fewster, Gerry (1990?), "Robbing the House that Jack Built", in Itten; Fischer (Eds.) (eds.), Celebrating a Master Psychotherapist: Jack Rosenberg, St. Gallen, USA: IBP Books, pp. ???, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Check date values in: |year= and |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: year (link)

• Fewster, Gerry (2003), "My Place or Yours? Inviting the Family into Child & Youth Care Practice", in Garfat, Thom (Ed.) (ed.), A Child and Youth Care Approach to Working with Families, New York, NY: Haworth Press, pp. ???, ISBN ??? {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Articles

• Fewster, Gerry (1990), "Introduction", In the Shadow of Satan: The Ritual Abuse of Children, Journal of Child and Youth Care Special Issue, p. v-viii, ISBN 0-919813-75-5.

• Fewster, Gerry (1989), "The Lost Courage (Editorial)", Journal of Child and Youth Care, vol. 4, p. vi.

• Fewster, Gerry (December 20, 2001), "Ben and Jock", The Sounder, Gabriola, BC, p. 3 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).

• Fewster, Gerry (Fall 2005), "I Don't Like Kids (Editorial)", Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 3-5 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).

External links

• The Haven Institute
• Fewster Faculty Listing Haven Institute