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The Influences of Social Media on Athletes' Mental Health and Performance: A Literature Review
(2021-12-23)Athletes face a variety of stressors and challenges that impact their mental health and functioning. While research has focused on a number of these factors, social media and its use is still an emerging area of interest. ... -
Therapeutic Applications of Tabletop Role-Playing Games
(2021-12)Tabletop role-playing games have existed for decades and, despite the advent of technology and some bad press in the 1980's, has seen a resurgence in recent years thanks to popular culture. Though there has been some ... -
Internet Gaming as a Behavioral Addiction in Adolescents
(2021-12-13)This research project explores the following questions: 1. How is Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) assessed? 2. How is IGD treated and, is treatment related to how it has been defined and assessed? First, this paper will ... -
Implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Continuation High Schools
(2021-12-14)The problem addressed in this study was that there remains limited research on how continuation schools implement evidence-based, multi-tiered programs (i.e., Multi-Tiered System of Support [MTSS]) to increase students' ... -
Making the Invisible Visible: Assisting Counsellors to Understand and Spot Coercive Control
(2021-12)Coercive control is gradually coming into public awareness as the underlying mechanism of male to female partner abuse. Proposed by Stark (2012) as a much-needed reframing of the concept of domestic abuse, coercive control ... -
The Impact of Insecure Attachment on Adolescent Self-Concept and Peer Attachment: A Resource for Counsellors
(2021-12-07)The purpose of this capstone is to provide an outline of the current research on the impact that an insecure attachment has on self-concept and peer attachment in adolescence. Insecure attachment within adolescents creates ... -
Melting the Fortress of Developmental Trauma: Integrating the Unintegrated Selves
(2021-12)This capstone will address the biological, psychological and spiritual dimensions of developmental trauma. Research suggests that the quality of the attachment relationship between a child and their caregiver influences ... -
Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Telehealth and COVID-19: A Literature Review
(2021-12-22)This literature review investigates the effectiveness of counselling via telehealth for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic and corresponding public health orders ... -
Coping Strategies Employed by Women to Mitigate the Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and their Therapeutic Implications
(2021-12-17)Intimate partner violence has detrimental health and psychological consequences on individuals who experience it. Intimate partner violence is conceptualized in various ways: physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological. ... -
Developing a Voice assistant Chatbot with Alexa Skills
(2021-12)In recent years, many breakthrough advancements have been made in the field of intelligent voice assistants with the help of Machine learning technologies like Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation ... -
Meaningful Classification for Music Recommendation Systems
(2021-12)While the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is steadily progressing, the majority of music recommendation systems still operate using collaborative filtering. Collaborative filtering operates by finding patterns ... -
Containerization on an Example Closed System Architecture
(2021-12)The current system is overly complicated due to legacy architecture. Containerization can be used to solve this issue by converting many of the virtual machines into containers, reducing the number of operating systems and ... -
Developing a Connected Knowledge Management System to Increase Workforce Capabilities
(2021-12)Technological innovation within production environments for technical manufacturing and maintenance operations is a field of study that has encountered many gaps between the vision of largely automated intelligent systems, ... -
The Importance of Analysis and Design in the Software Development Life Cycle
(2021-12)Through the computing history, there have been situations where due to a bad planning and design in the Software Development Life Cycle, software products have ended in fatal consequences, from a radiotherapy machine that ... -
Web Application: Bug Tracking System
(2021-12)Software testing is an important part of the software development process. Companies use bug tracking tools to help manage bugs discovered during the software testing process. Luckily there are many bug tracking tools out ... -
Moral Injury and Its Effect on Frontline Healthcare Workers: Understanding the Psychological Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2021-12-09)The potential for moral injury in healthcare workers is increasingly salient on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare workers on the frontlines have faced unprecedented human suffering, extraordinary working conditions, ... -
Understanding Problematic Video Gaming Among Adolescents Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory
(2021-12)Online gaming is a multi-billion-dollar industry that is on the rise and fast becoming one of the most popular forms of leisure among children and adolescents in the modern world. With faster internet speed, greater ... -
The Link Between Trauma and Substance Use: Raising Counsellor Awareness
(2021-12-06)There is a clear link between trauma and addiction, which is elucidated by a body of research going back several decades. As our understanding of the nature of trauma and substance use disorders (SUDs) has evolved over ... -
Choking in Sport Explained for Counsellors: Theories, Interventions, and Considerations
(2021-12)Performance optimization is a key reason why athletes seek mental performance support, and when athletes do not perform up to their own expectations in decisive moments of the game, the results are devastating. This capstone ... -
South Asian Youth and Empowerment Towards Accessing Services
(2021-12-07)South-Asian youth are navigating through various socio-cultural factors such as familial obligations, abuse, pressures of academic achievement among other typical adolescent struggles. This dichotomous balance of the ...
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