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Exploring Dimensions of Self Within Educational Pathways For Gifted Adolescents
(2017-11)This thesis is a proposal for a quantitative study exploring the relationship between self-concept and self-efficacy among gifted adolescents and the extent to which they relate to age, gender, socio-economic status, and ... -
Walking With Grief & Trauma: A Developing Counselling Practice
(2017-10-21)Background: A counselling practice involving walking with clients during counselling sessions seems to be gaining popularity across North America. There is a prevalence of practice of using this modality in working with ... -
Medicinal Poisons: The Role of Psychedelics in Psychotherapy
(2017-10-18)Mind-altering substances have been used by humanity since time immemorial to heal psychic wounds, numb pain, and enter altered states of consciousness for purposes of healing and divination. In the Western world some of ... -
A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Study of Conversion Disorder: A Patient’s Perspective
(2017-10-18)Conversion disorder (CD) is a mental illness with a long and complicated history. The disorder continues to be difficult to diagnose and treat. This paper presents the results of a hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry into ... -
Chronic Illness: The Role of Attachment and Somatic Perspectives in Therapy
(2017-09-23)The objective of this study is to gain an in depth understanding of chronic illness, and offer guidance on how counsellors can assist those who deal with it. To begin, a literature review is conducted which explores the ... -
Impact of Attachment on Bereavement: Implications In Clinical Practice And the Development of an Integrated Somatic-Attachment Bereavement Therapy Model
(2017-09-15)Attachment theory informs bereavement on multiple levels. How the bereaved respond to loss can be predicted by their early attachment relationships. The death of an attachment figure is a unique and highly stressful event. ... -
Effective Strategies for Stronger Numeracy in Middle School Students
(2017-09)Over the last five years, Alberta students in grades 6 and 9 who wrote the provincial achievement test in mathematics, over the last five years, have had stagnant scores. According to Education Minister David Eggen, the ... -
Benefits and Barriers to Dual Credit Programming in Alberta Schools
(2017-08-12)The critical demand for the alignment of workplace skills among graduating youth places huge responsibility on educators and learning institutions to provide relevant career training and preparatory programs to high school ... -
Social Construction of Meaning, Authority, Agency and Consent: Does Accurate Language Matter When We Discuss Sexualized Violence Against Children
(2017-08)Sexualized violence against children is a topic that many in our North American society find uncomfortable to discuss freely. Alongside this very common discomfort with the topic is a general lack of dialogue. As a society, ... -
The Relevance Of Attachment Theory Principles To Psychotherapy And How It Can Contribute To Fostering Therapeutic Alliance and The Change Process For Clients: A Literature Review
(2017-07-28)This study is focused on how attachment theory can help explain the importance of the therapeutic alliance as a key factor for effective psychotherapy and how a felt sense of safety and care can help to establish and foster ... -
The Benefit of Creating a Culture of Student Leadership on School Aged Students
(2017-07)This capstone paper will explore the different theories surrounding the development of leadership in students. Students will learn skills beginning from leadership vocabulary to living and practicing the leadership habits ... -
Large Scale PBL Activity Develops Core Competencies in Students
(2017-07)This research specifically aims to see whether a large scale PBL activity naturally develops the core competencies of the new B.C. curriculum in secondary students. An online survey was created to gather the responses of ... -
Nutrition as a Factor in Human Behaviour: a School Counselling Perspective
(2017-06-25)The problem under investigation is whether disruptive behaviour in the classroom and mental health issues exhibited by some students could be attributable to poor nutritional habits. This paper explores the research related ... -
What Employers Want And What Universities Teach: A Comparison Of UPAEP Business Programs And Auto Industry Recruiting in the Puebla Region
(2017-06-17)Mexico’s new business graduates are facing the problem of an extensive job-search, which impacts employability of new graduates because only 60% of them can obtain a job during the first year after graduation (Universia ... -
In Search of Wholeness: An Exploration of Social Connection as a Mediating Factor in Addiction
(2017-06-15)Addiction remains a topic of much research and media attention. The link between social connection and addiction has been identified, yet is rarely researched. I examine this link from two theoretical frameworks: Bowlby’s ... -
Creative Interventions for Indo-Canadian Children who Experience Trauma as a Result of Being Exposed to Domestic Violence
(2017-06-13)Domestic violence is under reported amongst South Asian communities across the globe and within the Indo-Canadian community in Canada. This is due to cultural held values and beliefs. The Indo-Canadian culture, in general, ... -
Discursive Analysis of Burnout in the Abbreviated Maslach Burnout Inventory
(2017-06-12)The purpose of this research was to explore the possibility that burnout is a response to workplace abuse. The literature review revealed systemic factors that contribute to burnout including; oppressive workloads, workplace ... -
Philanthropic Involvement Of CETYS Ensenada Alumni With Their Alma Mater: A Study Of Undergraduate Alumni From 1990 To 2010
(2017-06-09)Knowledge and understanding about alumni philanthropic contributions to Mexican universities have emerged mostly from the experience of fundraisers, alumni relations officers, and higher education leaders. A handful of ... -
Spirituality and Mindfulness in Personal Development and Therapeutic Practice
(2017-06-06)This thesis will focus on integrating mindfulness-based practice, and aspects of spirituality to safely and effectively treat emotional, psychological, and physical suffering while creating wellness. The content consists ... -
Media’s Language: A Look at Language Through a Response Based Practice Lens.
(2017-06-02)In the social context that we live in many victims of sexualized violence do not report the violence and/or seek the services that can be provided to them to support them through the horrific violence that they endure at ...
