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Asking For It: The Sexualized Violence of Jian Ghomeshi as Depicted by Four Traditional Journalistic Media Sources
(2016-03-26)
When the scandal surrounding ex-CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi first broke in the fall of 2014, the subsequent outpouring of public opinion, and the ongoing tension between victim sympathy and legal due process as captured ...
Qualitative Content Analysis of What Constitutes Effectual Group/Support Therapyfor Individuals Diagnosed with Schizophrenia/Psychosis Spectrum Illnesses: Client’s Perspective
(2015-05-31)
The purpose of this qualitative content analysis is to demonstrate that individuals diagnosed with a schizophrenia spectrum illness know and understand what the need from individual and group therapy in order to achieve ...
Increasing the Teaching Profession’s Collaborative Capacity: A Proposal of Organizational Change to Reduce Stress Experienced by Teachers
(2015-06-01)
The stress experienced by teachers is an internationally recognized problem that has resulted in high rates of attrition in the profession. The purpose of this research is to argue that stress experienced by teachers can ...
Dog-assisted Therapy in School Counselling
(2015-07-07)
The purpose of this inquiry is to explore the use of animals, in particular dogs, in my own practice as a school counsellor. Animal-assisted therapy has been defined as the presentation of an animal in counselling with the ...
A Meta-Analysis of Therapeutic Interventions for Women who Overeat; Supporting Them to Have a Healthy Relationship with Food
(2016-04)
This research was performed to locate effective therapeutic interventions that support women who overeat to have a healthy relationship with food. Previous research and available information recognizes how to support women ...
Can Counsellors Use Humour to Create a Therapeutic Alliance with Mandated Clients?
(2015)
A mandated counselling client attends counselling under the direction and supervision of an outside agency. They have been coerced to attend under the threat of punishment and are, understandably, often resistant to the ...
Group Therapy as a Social Response to Infertility: Participant Perspectives (A Case Study)
(2015-05-31)
Given the prevalence of depressive symptoms in women who experience infertility, and the high numbers of Canadian couples likely to be diagnosed with infertility, this case study seeks to elucidate participant perspectives ...
Response-Based Drama Therapy: a Viable Option for Youth Experiencing Anxiety
(2016-01)
This project outlines the motivation for and creation of an eight-week response-based drama therapy group for youth experiencing anxiety, as the predominant treatment modality presented in community based mental health ...
Creating a Liminal Space: How Interpreting Behavior as an Evolutionarily Driven Adaptation Informs the Treatment of Personality Disorders
(2016-05)
Despite the undeniable toll on individuals, families, and health care systems, 30 years of clinical work and research around personality disorders has failed to yield neither a solid conceptual understanding of dysfunction ...
Screen-time: a Meta-analysis of Possible Impacts on our Children's Psychosocial Development
(2015-04)
Objectives – To examine and determine whether excessive screen time inhibits psychosocial development and if there is a link between excessive screen time and child and adolescent mental health issues, for the purpose of ...