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Counselling in the Midst of an Overdose Crisis: Immediate Changes to Practice are needed to Save Lives
(2018-05-21)The recent increase in fatal opiate overdoses in British Columbia has been declared a public health emergency by the provincial government. Across Canada, overdose numbers are also increasing significantly and the topic ... -
Proposed Research Project Design: Using Narrative Therapy Informed Questions with Young People Who Self-Injure
(2018-05-17)In this proposed study a set of Narrative therapy informed questions for talking to young people about self-injury will be evaluated. These questions are proposed in opposition to traditional therapeutic techniques like ... -
The Impact of Technology and Digital Media on the Cycle of Romantic Relationships
(2018-05-11)This thesis reviews the existing literature on how the use of various forms of technology and digital media, including smartphones, social media sites, and dating applications, impacts the cycle of romantic relationships. ... -
A Journey Through Anxiety and Psychotherapy
(2018-05-11)Anxiety is one of the two most common mental health concern experienced worldwide. Depression often accompanies anxiety. Anxiety is characterized by worrisome thoughts, intense physical symptoms, emotional fearfulness and ... -
Why Couldn’t You Just Keep Your Knees Together?: The Four-Discursive Operations of Language in the Court Proceedings of Her Majesty the Queen v. Alexander Scott Wagar
(2018-05-08)This thesis examines how the “four discursive operations of language” (Wade, Coates & Todd, 2002), as used by legal personnel, distort the appearance of truth within the court proceedings of an alleged sexual assault. The ... -
Social Responses Towards Sexualized Violence
(2018-05-01)The focus of this study is based on the prevalence of rape culture that exists in North American society. The messages surrounding rape culture continue to impact the psychological wellbeing of sexual assault survivors. ... -
Slaying Dragons: The Therapeutic Value of Tabletop Gaming
(2018-05-01)Tabletop role-playing games is a dynamic hobby in which players take on the mantle of a character they have created and collaborate with a game master to create adventure. The game itself offers a multitude of personal and ... -
To What Extent Do Attachment and Emotional Attunement Influence the Therapeutic Relationship?
(2018-05)The proposed research is intended to demonstrate that attachment and emotional attunement are key elements in forging and maintaining the therapeutic alliance. Therapeutic alliance, the bond between therapist and client, ... -
Dementia Spousal Caregivers: An Exploration of Pre-Loss Grief Interventions to Mitigate Post-Loss Complicated Grief
(2018-05)The aim of this thesis is to synthesize the existing evidence regarding spousal dementia caregivers’ pre-death grief experiences and grief variables linked with caregiver post-death complicated or prolonged grief. Dementia ... -
Empowering Parents Through Classroom Participation
(2018-05)Educators are ever searching for strategies to increase student learning, and research has shown that meaningful parent participation in schools is an effective way to support academic and social-emotional growth in children. ... -
The Loss of Community: The Connection between Poor Mental Health Outcomes and the Decrease in Community Connection
(2018-05)With technology becoming an increasingly relevant issue for young people, it is important to examine whether adolescents are still able to seek social connection and community in their everyday lives. The purpose of this ... -
Resilience as a Pathway to Increased Well-being
(2018-05)This thesis will examine current working definitions of resilience and will explore how and why resilience is important for client well-being as a means to help counsellors understand ways they can work alongside their ... -
Counseling Business: Are Students Prepared?
(2018-05)This research intends to raise the question of whether or not universities and colleges are fully preparing Master of Counseling students despite a lack of business courses. The universities included in this study are: The ... -
Considering New Approaches: Working with Women and Mental Health During Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Beyond
(2018-05)This literature review defines and explores mainstream ideas and responses to pre and postpartum depression. Risk factors, both for women and for childhood cognitive, emotional, and social development, are many. In a ... -
But...The Tree was the View: Understanding Human-Nature Relationships
(2018-05)This thesis takes the reader on a journey towards a deeper understanding of human-nature relationships. The term nature is defined, and practical information regarding the effect human-nature relationships have on human ... -
Teaching Emotional Smarts to Boost Academic Success
(2018-04-10)Academic achievement has been the driving force of education since its inception. However, the incorporation of emotional identification and development to assist in the increase of academic success has recently been ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Trauma and Rheumatoid Arthritis
(2018-03-29)Previous research indicates that there is a relationship between trauma and development of chronc pain. Using the process of autoethnography, where the researcher is using their own experiences as the research material, ... -
Dropout in Group Therapy: Causes and Prevention Strategies
(2018-03-23)This paper explores dropout rates in mental health groups and how counsellors can retain participants. It examines the implications for both professionals and clients when entering into group therapy. Group therapy provides ... -
Supporting Student Learning with the Framework for Information Literacy
(2018-03-21)How can faculty help increase students’ critical consumption of information in order to ground their learning in trusted and relevant resources for their discipline? In 2004, leveraging the ACRL Information Literacy ... -
Awakening the Compass of Compassion: An Evolutionary Journey
(2018-02-28)Compassion is medicine for suffering. By cultivating compassion for self and others we are becoming champions of compassionate change within the violent, divided, unjust world we call home. Promising community development ...
