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Investigating Emotional Resistance To Organizational Change: A Descriptive Qualitative Research Study Of Local Television Newsroom Leaders
(2017-05-09)A factor contributing to failed change initiatives in organizations is emotional resistance from change recipients. If overlooked, emotional resistance can impede changes for an organization’s survival (Bateh, Castaneda, ... -
Supporting Self-Regulation Through Mindfulness In The Educational Setting
(2017-05)The practice of mindfulness as a means of addressing self-regulation in school aged children and adolescents is becoming increasingly popular. Investigative research has shown that self-regulation through mindful awareness ... -
Building a Culture of Effective Cooperative Learning: Teacher Practices and School Leadership in an Elementary School
(2017-05)Alberta Education’s (2010) Inspiring Education framework, a Ministerial Order on Student Learning (Alberta Education, 2013), continues to be challenged by a diversity of learners and learning needs. With the need for ... -
Sexual Health Education in BC, Canada
(2017-04-28)The following thesis explores sexual health education in BC and in Canada. It does so by exploring sexual health in an international context as well as locally, comparing local curriculum to best practice documents, and ... -
Non-Parent Adults and Children of Parents With a Mental Health Problem
(2017-04-27)Children who have a parent with a mental health problem are a population that has been shown to be at risk of adverse life experiences and outcomes, such as mental health concerns of their own and ambiguous, non-finite ... -
A Proposal: A Study of the Lived Experience in the Aftermath of an Extradyadic Relationship
(2017-04-02)The focus of this proposal is to gain insight into the lived experience of a participating partner in the aftermath of an extradyadic relationship. More specifically, it is about understanding the grief experience of the ... -
Living in a Grown-up World: An Exploration of the Realities of Young People Providing Care and Implications for a Canadian Context
(2017-04)A large number of young people provide developmentally inappropriate care to parents or other family members with physical and mental health challenges, which may include substance abuse and stressful life events. Called ... -
Implementing a Collaborative Cross-Curricular Approach to Inquiry-based Learning
(2017-04)Learning in the 21st century requires that new instructional and learning skills be implemented for both teachers and students for current and future generations of learners to be successful. The author discusses recent ... -
The Need For Transformational Leaders In Education During Times of Change in British Columbia
(2017-04)The aims of education have evolved to include a focus on educating the whole student, in order to develop responsible citizens who are able to contribute to their community and the world at large in the 21st century. In ... -
The Efficacy of Zones of Regulation in Teaching Grade 3 and 4 Students Self-Regulation Skills
(2017-04)The aim of this paper was to examine the phenomenological experience of the teacher while teaching a grade 3 and 4 students the Zones of Regulation program. The Zones of Regulation program’s aims are to teach students ... -
The Practice of Self-Compassion: an Approach to Preventing Therapeutic Burnout
(2017-04)Research suggests that helping professionals such as counselling therapists are at a higher risk of developing burnout than their counterparts in other fields; the risk is especially high for those individuals new to the ... -
Instructional Leadership in Mathematics: Compensating for Principals’ Lack of Mathematical Background
(2017-04)Principals are responsible for ensuring the academic achievement of students in mathematics. Researchers have identified that principals who possess a combination of mathematical content knowledge and instructional ... -
Proposal For An Appreciative Inquiry Into Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Self-Regulation of Elementary School Children At A British Columbian Public School
(2017-03-31)This thesis sets out to examine the current literature on mindfulness-based interventions and the potential benefits they may have on elementary aged children’s ability to self regulate. It applies the positive lens of ... -
The Importance and Impact of School Based Mentorship Programs
(2017-03-28)The research for this paper began with the purpose to educate and prepare its readers in order to guide and assist school counsellors in the development, implementation and evaluation of their own school based mentorship ... -
The Benefits of Incorporating Art Therapy into School-Based Trauma Interventions: a Literature Review
(2017-03-17)Traumatic experiences are common among children and adolescents and can have a devastating impact on their physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development (Perry, 1999). For traumatized youth, schools offer an ... -
Investigating the Possible Effects of Disney Princess Culture on Young Women: Approach, Ideals, and Gender Roles Within Intimate Relationships
(2017-02-06)Disney Princess culture (DPC) conveys strong messages regarding the criteria of a model intimate relationship through the repetition of themes within the Disney Princess movies (DPM). Children have been shown to internalize ... -
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Treatment for Refugee Adolescents’ Trauma through the Integrative Approach: A Literature Review
(2017-01-24)Exposure to trauma at an early age can have long lasting devastating consequences that can lead to post traumatic stress disorders, depression, anxiety, and behavioural and educational problems in children and adolescents. ... -
Understanding the Potential of Solitude
(2017)This thesis seeks to investigate the positive psychology of solitude. Solitude can be viewed as a kind of positive aloneness, a sought out and enjoyable experience that is not usually associated with negative emotions. ... -
Influence of Compassion on the Healing and Recovery Process within Mental Health Services
(2017)Human beings have a longing to be connected with one another, to find meaning and purpose in their lives and to be free from suffering. People living with serious mental health concerns can often feel isolated, lack a sense ... -
Coming Home: An Autoethnography on Acceptance, Embodiment and Compassionate Awakening.
(2017)This paper draws upon my own lived experience as well as the work of Joseph Campbell to articulate a way of understanding the human journey. It provides an autoethnographic account of my experience with attachment, somatic ...
