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The Lived Experience of Gay Men Enduring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
(2020-09-30)Domestic violence is an issue that plagues all relationships regardless of sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or nationality. Despite this issue's widespread nature, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in gay male relationships ... -
Men, Masculinity, and Conformity to Masculine Norms
(2020-09-20)This research paper highlights some of the critical issues contributing to the overall decline in men’s mental health and how masculine norms influence men’s help-seeking behaviours. Key areas explored regarding men’s ... -
Trauma-Informed Care in Counselling Agencies
(2020-09-15)This research project examines the importance of understanding, creating, and providing trauma-informed care practices in counselling agencies in Canada. It will highlight and deepen the discussion surrounding the importance ... -
Why They Stay: Variables Associated With Commitment Among Student Affairs Professionals
(2020-09-09)Attrition of new student affairs professionals can be financially burdensome to an institution and simultaneously handicaps the continuity of service and engagement of student affairs. Factors related to the departure of ... -
A Qualitative Examination of Middle School Principals' and Assistant Principals' Cultural Intelligence and Experiences with Diversity in an Urban School District in New York City
(2020-09-01)In an increasingly global and connected world, the classroom becomes a reflection of this marvel at a microcosmic level. Globalization, a reality in the 21st-century workplace, has spread its wings in the school environment. ... -
What are the Effects of Racial Trauma on the Black Diaspora and What Could Be the Benefits of Creative Expression as a Resilience Tool?
(2020-08-20)The lack of adequate mental health services for people of African origin living outside of the continent, also known as the Black diaspora, is an issue that has been highlighted in recent months. The research questions ... -
The World of Resilience in Moving Beyond Chronic Homelessness
(2020-08-15)Homelessness is a significant issue facing Canada today and causes adversity for those who experience it. How does resilience contribute to an individual’s capacity to overcome the experience of chronic homelessness? The ... -
Implications of Emergent Research in the Field of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) for Counselling Practice
(2020-08-01)The purpose of this study is to explore the connections between emergent biomedical research in the field of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and mental health, and how clinical counselling is influenced by it. Two ... -
An Auto-Ethnography of the Implementation of Social-Emotional Focused Programming in a Kindergarten/Grade 1 Classroom
(2020-08)More than 60% of students have experienced one or more traumatic events in their life by the time they reach 17 years of age (Blodgett & Lanigan, 2018; Langley, Gonzalez, Sugar, Solis & Jaycox, 2015; Holmes, Levy, Smith, ... -
The Body: Accessing and Integrating Implicit Processes for Treating Trauma
(2020-07-31)Individuals exposed to trauma, especially complex trauma, experience relentless suffering unless effectively treated. Unfortunately, current “go-to” trauma treatment modalities, like traumainformed cognitive behaviour ... -
Barriers to Help-Seeking in Men for Mental Health Issues: The Impact of Gender Role Socialization and Masculinity Ideologies
(2020-07-20)According to the World Health Organization (2017), depression is a significant contributor to suicides globally and that men lead in the number of suicides. However, there is a discrepancy between the extent of men diagnosed ... -
Old brains in a new world: A manuscript thesis
(2020-07-13)The human brain and nervous system have both adapted in direct response to the specific environmental pressures that existed tens of thousands of years ago. More recently (approximately the past 200 hundred years) societal ... -
Social Emotional Learning and Classroom Meetings
(2020-07-07)This researcher studied the effect weekly classroom meetings had on classroom climate. The participants included nineteen second-grade students in a Seattle public school over a one-month period. Students led and ... -
Supporting Refugee Youth’s Integration in Canada
(2020-07-02)Canada is a country that has resettled a high number of refugees from around the world. Canada cannot reverse the events and traumas that refugee youth have experienced before arriving, but it can expand and continue to ... -
Kindergarten readers theater
(2020-07)This research focused on how the use of Readers Theater would impact students' reading fluency and sight word knowledge. The problem addressed in this action research study was that students were failing to meet their ... -
Homework differentiation and kindergarten reading fluency
(2020-07)The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact that differentiated homework has on Kindergarten reading fluency. This study divided 20 kindergarteners into reading level groups: low, middle, and high based on sight ... -
Chronic Pelvic Pain: The Power of the Mind/Body Connection
(2020-07)This autoethnographic thesis is an account of my journey with chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and endometriosis. The study incorporates current literature that highlights the complexities of these conditions, and the impact that ... -
“She just got harder and harder to look after”: A Discourse Analytic Case Study of Elder Abuse
(2020-07)As our population ages, it is anticipated we will see more and more cases of elder abuse (Young, 2014). With that said, elder abuse is often obscured from view because it typically takes place behind closed doors in family ... -
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 ... -
Self-Blame and Self-Compassion in Breastfeeding
(2020-06-30)Breastfeeding is widely endorsed and promoted as the most optimal infant feeding practice, and in Canada, breastfeeding initiation rates have increased substantially over the past five decades. Although breastfeeding has ...
