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Self-Esteem and Its Effect on Bullying Behaviour
(2015-12)
The issue of bullying has been one that has gained a lot of attention in the recent years. With technology allowing for continued harassment among teens, not limited to the school grounds, bullying appears to continue to ...
The Value of Hope in School Counselling
(2015-12)
A trend towards increasing accounts of anxiety conditions amongst children and adolescents as witnessed by school counsellors has given educators and mental healthcare professionals across many domains a call to action. ...
A Justification for Supporting Transgender Youth in Schools
(2015-06)
This research project is an extensive literature review that explores the experience of transgender youth in an effort to illuminate how schools can better support the academic, social and emotional success of transgender ...
An Investigation into Parental Attitudes about Sexuality and Children with Intellectual Disabilities
(2016-02-16)
People with intellectual disabilities (id) living in Canada traditionally experience unique challenges and roadblocks as they seek to explore their sexuality. Often, they have a difficult time forming and maintaining ...
School Connectedness: Contextualizing Issues in Extracurricular School Based Sports
(2016-03)
This capstone project reviewed research literature exploring current trends in youth sports participation. The three issues of ‘specialization’, ‘hyper-competitiveness and exclusionary team forming’, and ‘the influence of ...
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 ...
Nature as Healer and Teacher - The Importance of Reconnecting Children to the Earth for Physical and Emotional Wellbeing
(2015-12)
Current research indicates that many children exhibit symptoms of nature deficit disorder (NDD), a condition that describes the growing gap between children and the time they spend in nature (Louv, 2008). NDD may be related ...
A Fine Balance: Social Emotional Learning and Academic Rigour in Schools
(2015-11)
In recent decades, there has been a push towards academic rigour in schools in the form of standardized testing, school ratings, and holding teachers accountable to deliver an unprecedented number of prescribed learning ...
The Effects on Performance When Utilizing Confident Body Language Preceding a Speech
(2015-07)
This research examines one way to potentially embody feelings of confidence in grade 4/5 elementary school children. Previous research suggests that utilizing confident body language prior to a job interview or other ...