Scholarly Work (Open Access)
Contains open access scholarly work from City University of Seattle students, faculty, and staff.
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In Search of Wholeness: An Exploration of Social Connection as a Mediating Factor in Addiction
(2017-06-15)Addiction remains a topic of much research and media attention. The link between social connection and addiction has been identified, yet is rarely researched. I examine this link from two theoretical frameworks: Bowlby’s ... -
Media’s Language: A Look at Language Through a Response Based Practice Lens.
(2017-06-02)In the social context that we live in many victims of sexualized violence do not report the violence and/or seek the services that can be provided to them to support them through the horrific violence that they endure at ... -
Pathologizing Trauma: A Discourse Analysis of Diagnosis in Adoption
(2017-05-29)The purpose of this study is to look at the influence of diagnosis on the way in which the experiences of children who have been adopted are understood. The pathologizing of trauma is explored through a Critical Discourse ... -
For Death is But a Passing Phase of Life: Riding The Grief Waves Resulting From The Death of Pet and Human Loss Within a Culturally Fluid World
(2017-05-31)We, as living beings, all cross paths with death of others and of ourselves, as well as the grief that follows. However, people in many cultures and societies are often discouraged from talking about death and dying. Death ... -
The Treatment of PTSD in Canadian Refugees and Immigrants from South Sudan
(2016-04)The purpose of this integrative research paper was to explore and critique the state of knowledge derived from qualitative and quantitative research conducted in the area of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and refugees ... -
Culture & Way of Being - Unification of Three Cultures: Individualist, Collectivist, & First Peoples
(2017-05-18)This is a study about culture, about three different cultures, in fact. It is about how these cultures mix together, sometimes are at odds with each other, and how they come together in the context of my work as a counsellor. ... -
Investigating Emotional Resistance To Organizational Change: A Descriptive Qualitative Research Study Of Local Television Newsroom Leaders
(2017-05-09)A factor contributing to failed change initiatives in organizations is emotional resistance from change recipients. If overlooked, emotional resistance can impede changes for an organization’s survival (Bateh, Castaneda, ... -
The Efficacy of Zones of Regulation in Teaching Grade 3 and 4 Students Self-Regulation Skills
(2017-04)The aim of this paper was to examine the phenomenological experience of the teacher while teaching a grade 3 and 4 students the Zones of Regulation program. The Zones of Regulation program’s aims are to teach students ... -
The Need For Transformational Leaders In Education During Times of Change in British Columbia
(2017-04)The aims of education have evolved to include a focus on educating the whole student, in order to develop responsible citizens who are able to contribute to their community and the world at large in the 21st century. In ... -
Living in a Grown-up World: An Exploration of the Realities of Young People Providing Care and Implications for a Canadian Context
(2017-04)A large number of young people provide developmentally inappropriate care to parents or other family members with physical and mental health challenges, which may include substance abuse and stressful life events. Called ... -
Understanding the Potential of Solitude
(2017)This thesis seeks to investigate the positive psychology of solitude. Solitude can be viewed as a kind of positive aloneness, a sought out and enjoyable experience that is not usually associated with negative emotions. ... -
Investigating the Possible Effects of Disney Princess Culture on Young Women: Approach, Ideals, and Gender Roles Within Intimate Relationships
(2017-02-06)Disney Princess culture (DPC) conveys strong messages regarding the criteria of a model intimate relationship through the repetition of themes within the Disney Princess movies (DPM). Children have been shown to internalize ... -
Therapeutic Presence Within Supportive Housing Settings
(2016-11-24)Therapeutic presence is a concept which has been discussed within therapeutic literature for many years as an important or even essential aspect of therapeutic encounters. Recent literature has attempted to bring a unifying ... -
Coming Home: An Autoethnography on Acceptance, Embodiment and Compassionate Awakening.
(2017)This paper draws upon my own lived experience as well as the work of Joseph Campbell to articulate a way of understanding the human journey. It provides an autoethnographic account of my experience with attachment, somatic ... -
Addressing Internalized Oppression in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy: Towards a Liberating and Inclusive Clinical Practice
(2016)This document consists of five chapters that attempt to integrate liberating and anti-oppressive concepts and Cognitive-Behavioural principles in psychotherapy. Its purpose is to develop guidelines for cognitive behavioural ... -
Child and Youth Therapy in BC
(2016)The study of what conditions are most effective in child and adolescent therapy is one that is growing but much work has yet to be done. This work is a review of two current approaches to psychotherapy, evidence based ... -
Relationship Between Gender and Transformational Leadership Practices: a Study of Self Reports of Male and Female Graduate Students
(2016)Women continue to be underrepresented in top level management roles in spite of their progress in the labor market and educational attainment (Eagly & Carli, 2007). The gender gap in leadership is true in most of the ... -
Potential for Personal Growth in Grief and Loss: A Personal Journey of Re-learning the World
(2016-12-15)Grief and loss is a significant experience that can impact an individual’s way of being in many areas throughout the course of their lives. An experience of loss instigates grief, and grievers process the pain and suffering ... -
Mending the Human-Nature Relationship Through Therapy
(2016-12)In the last few decades, there has been an increase in literature and research on the importance of nature in psychotherapy due to the realization of its crucial role in human development and well-being. This thesis discusses ... -
Meaningful/Authentic Collaborative Practice in Child, Youth and Family Wellness in British Columbia: The Time is Now!
(2016-10-28)This thesis examines “Meaningful/Authentic Collaborative Practice in Child, Youth and Family Wellness, in British Columbia”, exploring what meaningful collaboration is, why the ethics are critical to the practice, and how ...
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