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Men’s help-seeking behaviour
(2020-06)This thesis used a self-reporting online survey to gather firsthand knowledge of men’s help-seeking behaviour. Research into men’s unwillingness to accept help generally, and more specifically for psychotherapy, is reviewed. ... -
First-generation Filipino American perceptions of pursuing the American dream through higher education
(2020-06)The American Dream, coined by writer and historian James Truslow Adams (as cited in Nakate, 2018), is the idea of opportunities for fulfilling dreams through hard work. Most people in the United States believe higher ... -
Six interventions for anxiety: Somatic training, affect regulation, and mental health
(2020-03-15)This thesis analyses aspects of Anxiety and Depression which are two of the most serious mental health challenges. Anxiety is rendered in upper case as A and lower case as a, to indicate both generic and specific uses of ... -
Disenfranchised grief in response to supporting loved ones through significant substance use challenges
(2020-06-30)This research explores lived experiences of individuals supporting loved ones through significant substance use challenges. The data was gathered by one-on-one semi-structured qualitative life history interviews with six ... -
Peer to peer feedback and its impact on mathematics in the classroom
(2020-06-10)Some elementary students have such mathematics anxiety that it impedes their ability to master grade level standards. The participants of this study were 29 fourth grade students in the school where I performed my student ... -
Students with emotional and behavioral disabilities
(2020-06)Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBD) in students can significantly affect both their social and academic life if proper management strategies are not put in place. This applies especially in the educational ... -
Discourses of rape culture: An examination of university policies on sexualized violence
(2020-05-31)The purpose of this study is to identify language used in sexualized violence polices at post-secondary institutions that are consistent with Coates & Wade's (2007) research on language that blames the victim, obscures ... -
The impact of close reading on reading comprehension
(2020-05)This issue-focused design study examines the impacts of close reading on reading comprehension for low-level readers and how to best support English Language Learners’ (EL) reading comprehension for primary grade students. ... -
Secondary school counselors' perceptions of STEM education
(2020-05)The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions of secondary school counselors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The understanding gathered from this study was necessary because, as ... -
Re-membering the narratives of the deceased: A reflexive autoethnography on family relationships
(2020-05)The purpose of this reflexive autoethnography is to investigate ways in which the perceptions of our relationships with our deceased loved ones can be shifted through the exploration of their narratives using a narrative ... -
Fighting the scale: Overcoming disordered eating in current society
(2020-05)This autoethnography will seek to address my lived experience of bulimia, to fully explore the integration of bulimia and the concurrent concepts I have experienced of trauma, genetics, and societal pressure. I will weave ... -
A phenomenological exploration of vicarious posttraumatic growth experiences in therapists
(2020-06)This qualitative interpretive phenomenological analysis examines the lived experiences of vicarious posttraumatic growth in therapists who work with trauma survivors. By providing an in-depth exploration of the experiences ... -
The integration of equine-facilitated and somatic therapies for the treatment of complex trauma
(2020-05-19)Current research on early trauma is uncovering the staggering toll it takes on physical, psychological, social, and emotional health. Neurobiology and trauma research also suggests that accessing the portion of the brain ... -
The use of language in developing emotional safety
(2020-05-22)This thesis explores how the language used by counsellors influences client experiences of emotional safety within the therapeutic relationship. This influence was explored through an online survey exploring counsellor and ... -
Why your pain must not exist: Bias & Phenomenology at the ends of medicine
(2020-05-28)Interrupting bias in counselling psychotherapy is critical to ethical practice. This paper demonstrates how the scientific method, for all its utility in health and medicine, also functions as a worldview and a personal ... -
The impact of VAS and AAC charts on student focus
(2020-06-04)This action research study investigates the use of visual activity schedules (VAS) and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) charts in a first-grade classroom in Washington State to increase the amount of time ... -
A points system and its impact on student behaviors
(2020-06-04)Negative classroom behaviors can affect not only the learning of the child exhibiting the behaviors, but they can disrupt the learning of other children in the classroom. Creating a points system to manage negative behaviors ... -
The effect of goal setting, goal tracking, and feedback on reading fluency
(2020-06-05)As more accountability is placed on teachers and schools, they must find ways to boost their students’ academic reading fluency success. Because of the need to increase academic achievement, strategies that have little ... -
Connecting math talk communities, student reasoning and math assessments
(2020-06)This action research project explores the possible connections between the development of a math talks community in a classroom and student performance on standards-based assessments. The project includes nine student ... -
Classroom management
(2020-06)Classroom management is a primary challenge to academic instruction in elementary classrooms. Establishing and maintaining student engagement may be a controllable way to create a functioning classroom management system. ...
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