Steven S. Hick (PhD, University of Toronto; MA, Carleton University) is associate professor at the School of Social Work, Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. He is a writer, teacher, human rights advocate, and researcher. He teaches in the area of mindfulness, human rights practice, social worker formation, and community development. He offers mindfulness-based stress reduction courses and social worker training in interpersonal mindfulness. He is co-founder of War Child Canada, an organization that educates Canadian youths about war and helps children in war zones. He is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of Mindfulness and the Therapeutic Relationship (2008); Social Work in Canada (2nd ed., 2005); Social Work: A Critical Turn (2005); Social Welfare in Canada: Understanding Income Security (2nd ed., 2007); Advocacy, Activism, and the Internet (2002); Children's Rights and the Internet (2001); and Human Rights and the Internet (2000).