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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 ...
Leadership Seven - Impacting Student Behavior and School Culture
(2015-06)
This paper presents a description of the development of a Leadership Seven Course at Hatzic Middle Secondary. Through research it considers literature pertaining to effective principles and practices of effective leadership ...
An Auto-ethnography: One Middle-Aged Woman’s Journey through Graduate School
(2015-08)
This research represents an intensely personalized account of the various complexities in terms of role demand, management, conflict, and overload for women of the 21st century. I am the primary subject and researcher ...
The Isolated Search for Meaning: A Phenomenological Study of Adolescent Grief and Bereavement
(2015-08)
This thesis reports on the findings of a phenomenological study that explored the experiences of loss, grief, and bereavement in adolescents. In light of the increased use of social media amongst young adults and the ...
Connection and the Effect of Explicit Intervention Practices and Strategies Designed to Help Chronically Disconnected Students Connect Within Their School Environment
(2015-06)
As we navigate through the twenty first century, there is increasing evidence supporting claims that when students feel a part of a school community, and cared for by the members of their school - connected - they are less ...
How to Create Engagement in the Online Classroom
(2015-07)
Considering the low completion rates at Fraser Valley Distance Education School, which are as low as 40 percent in secondary courses, there needs to be an attempt to engage students in order to promote their understanding ...
The Effects of Yoga on Anxiety and Depression: A Personal Journey
(2015-05-22)
Anxiety and depression are common mental health concerns for many people in our society with various alternative non-pharmacological treatments known to be beneficial. Yoga is one such effective treatment. This qualitative ...
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 ...