Browsing by Type "Capstone"
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Addiction and Recovery: Examining Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care and Recovery Management
(2021-05)This capstone explores addiction and recovery. The first chapter explores the history of substance use within North America to provide context to modern perceptions of addiction. The moral and disease models of addiction ... -
Addressing the Implicit Impacts of Sexual Trauma: An Exploration of Somatic Experiencing as an Adjunct to Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy
(2021-05)Sexual trauma is a life-altering violation with persistent, long term implications for survivors. Trauma can produce distinctive impacts on individuals, and therapeutic approaches that offer healing to some, may not be ... -
Advocating with Humility: Improving Access of Treatment Services for Filipino Immigrant Families with Autistic Children in Alberta, Canada
(2020-12-15)Different factors influence access to services for Filipino immigrant families with autistic children in Alberta, Canada. These include the immigration process, the immediate needs of the family as they settle down in their ... -
Animal Assisted Interventions and Trauma Therapy
(2021-06)Trauma is challenging to treat and current therapeutic practices fall short of meeting client’s needs. Trauma impacts nearly 80% of clients presenting at mental health clinics (Jones & Cureton, 2014), often manifesting as ... -
Anti-Oppressive Therapies and Methods of Healing for 2SLGBTQ+ Youth
(2021-06)The resilience and activism stemming from 2SLBGTQ+ communities shaped the modern landscape of mental health counselling as we practice it today. A critical location for violence against 2SLBGTQ+ youth is within institutional ... -
Anxiety In Children: Understanding Factors Influencing Anxiety In Children and Counselling Best Practices
(2021-08)Considered the most prevalent mental health issue amongst children, anxiety is an emotion that is felt in the body and alerts us to threats, protects us from danger and helps us reach important goals (Anxiety Canada, n.d.). ... -
Application of Family Systems Approaches on Intergenerational Conflicts in Asian Immigrant Families
(2021-06)Intergeneration acculturation discrepancy within Asian immigrant families is a major source of intergenerational conflicts, and subsequently, has adverse impacts on the parent-child relationship and immigrant children and ... -
Barriers to and Facilitators of Help-Seeking Among Transgender IPV Survivors
(2021-06)Intimate partner violence (IPV) rates are disconcertingly high in sexual and gender minority relationships. In particular, research has highlighted that transgender individuals are subjected to IPV at higher rates than ... -
Bridging the Gap in Women’s Substance Use Services: A Trauma-informed, Gender-Responsive, and Anti-Oppressive Approach
(2021-05)Over the last decade, there has been an increase in trauma-informed substance use services, but a gap still exists between theory and practice. The majority of substance use services lack a gender-responsive and anti-oppressive ... -
Building on Resiliency: Recommendations for Schools on How to Provide Support and Affirmative Care for Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Youth Experiencing Trauma
(2021-07)This paper seeks to identify the kinds of trauma that trans and gender non-conforming youth experience and what schools and school counsellors can do to mitigate the harmful effects of such trauma. With an increase of ... -
A Case Study of Software Reengineering using Emerging Cloud Computing: A Non-profit's National Math Competition Event Management System
(2021-03)Recently, there is some research about software reengineering, but few kinds of analysis use cloud computing technologies to demonstrate software reengineering for web application technologies. Cloud computing also will ... -
Childhood Interpersonal Violence: The Effects on Adult Attachment and How Best to Support Victims in Moving Beyond their Violent Experience
(2019-05-31)Child interpersonal violence continues to be a concern affecting a considerable proportion of the population. Without appropriate intervention, it is possible that many of these children will continue to experience ... -
The Coming Out Process Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals from Confucian Cultures
(2021-06-28)The purpose of this research paper is to explore the lived experience and coming out processes of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals from Confucian-influenced cultural backgrounds. Specifically, this paper will ... -
A Comprehensive Review of the Surrey WRAPAround Program: Toward more Effective Mental Health Services for Surrey Youth at Risk of Gang Involvement
(2021-06-16)The primary purpose of this Capstone is to explore the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the Surrey WRAPAround program to facilitate the development of a new intake and assessment tool for the program and advocate ... -
Connecting with the Earth: Responding to the Impacts of Climate Change on Mental Health in BC Schools
(2021-06)In this paper, the question of what role school counsellors in BC schools should play to address the multitude of impacts climate change is having on mental health is examined. Clear and extensive links to mental health ... -
Counselling Chinese Clients: An Integration of Western Psychotherapy with Eastern Culture
(2020-11-24)To most Chinese immigrants in Canada, seeing a mental health professional is often a last resort. Many of them express resistance and reluctance towards sharing their personal and relational struggles with clinicians, whom ... -
Dance Movement Therapy as an Approach to Healthy Body Image in Women and Girls
(2020-11)Body image has a significant impact on health and well-being, however, society has deemed body image dissatisfaction as a normative experience in women and girls. There is a lack of emphasis on developing healthy body image ... -
Developing Factors and Treatment of Substance Addiction in Indigenous Populations
(2021-08)Indigenous Peoples have experienced multiple forms of trauma for many generations that are still present today. The impact of colonizers’ attempts to rid Indigenous peoples of their culture and identity led to experiences ... -
Ecotherapy as a Mitigator of Ecological Loss and Grief
(2020-11-30)In this hermeneutic research Capstone, the author explores how ecotherapy can mitigate the deleterious effects of ecological loss and grief in relation to climate crisis, urbanization, digitalization and breakdown of ... -
The Effect of Trauma Informed Yoga on Women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(2021-01-27)PTSD is conventionally treated with therapeutic modalities that often ignore the body’s involvement in the treatment process. Trauma Informed Yoga (TIY) is a treatment technique suggested in this paper to lower symptoms ...
