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School of Child and Youth Care

Jeff Smith

A head-and-shoulders portrait of Jeff Smith on campus. They are pictured outdoors, wearing a plaid collared button-down shirt.

Assistant Teaching Professor

School of Child & Youth Care

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Credentials:
BMT (CapU), MA (UVic), PhD (U of M)
Area of expertise:
music therapy and expressive therapies; research-creation; arts-based autoethnography; addictions, harm reduction, and recovery; mental health and well-being; Indigenous education and decolonial pedagogies; critical psychology/post structural counselling approaches; currere; discourse analysis; radical youthwork and youth wellness activities

Biography

Jeff Smith, PhD Candidate, CCC (he/him) is a counselling therapist, music therapist,
educator, and researcher living on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen-speaking
peoples. His practice integrates music-as-therapy (improvisation, songwriting, and sound
recording) with radical youth work, narrative therapy, trauma-specific therapy, and antiviolence,
response-based approaches. Jeff has worked in addictions and harm reduction
with provincial and regional health authorities, in university student services, youth
addictions and mental health, and supporting the healing of survivors of residential school
violence and intergenerational colonialism.

Sample Publications

Skott-Myhre, K. S., Skott-Myhre, H. A., Smith, J. G., & Kouri, S. (2023). Desettlering as Re-subjectification of the Settler Subject: Towards Alternative Traditions and Identity. Taylor & Francis.

Smith, J. (2023). Becoming-music as a De-settlering of Music Therapy. In S. Hadley, & A.
Crooke (Eds.), (Post)Colonial Music Therapy. Dallas: Barcelona Publishers.

Duncan, H., Smith, J., & Bachewich, L. (2022). Mino-Pimaatisiwin: Beginning the journey towards decolonisation and reconciliation. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 32(2), 1-17.

Smith, J. & Kouri, S. (2018). Schizoanalysis, Counselling Praxis and a Sanbox Dirge. In D. G. Cole & J. P. N. Bradley (Eds.), Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education (pp. 211-225). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Kouri, S. & Smith, J. (2016). Street Analysis: How we come together and apart in localized youth work peer supervision. In H. Skott-Myre, V. Pacini-Ketchabew, & K. S. G. Skott-Myhre (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Working with Young People (pp. 35-49). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Skott-Myhre, H., Skott-Myhre, K., Kouri, S. & Smith, J. (2016). Orphan Love in the Age of Capital. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 15(3), 51-70.

Kouri, S. & Smith, J. (2013). What’s Under the Dirt? Wondering as a Transformation of Self. Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 26(2), 42-46.

Smith, J. (2012). Becoming Music: A description of an improvisational music therapy outreach approach. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 3(2-3), 272-283.

Smith, J. (2007). Creating a “Circle of Song” Within Canada's Poorest Postal Code. Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, 13(2), 103-114.