Scholarly Work (Open Access)
Contains open access scholarly work from City University of Seattle students, faculty, and staff.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Articulation of community engagement: A collaborative recovery model (CEACRM)
(2020-06-10)This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter consists of a two-part introduction. The first part of the introduction provides a critique of the prevailing diagnostic and medicalized worldview within our ... -
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 ... -
Home learning activities' impact on parent engagement in kindergarten math
(2020)The ways families engage with student learning vary, from volunteer opportunities, to fundraising, to home-based learning opportunities. Studies showed that take home learning can facilitate family involvement. The purpose ... -
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 ... -
Increasing awareness of sensory needs to inform teaching practices
(2020-05)This professional development study examines the teaching practices of the researcher and how sensory-based strategies can be integrated with classroom instruction to support all learners. Instructional practices of the ... -
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 ... -
Men’s help-seeking behaviour
(2020-06)This thesis used a self-reporting online survey to gather firsthand knowledge of men’s help-seeking behaviour. Research into men’s unwillingness to accept help generally, and more specifically for psychotherapy, is reviewed. ... -
First-generation Filipino American perceptions of pursuing the American dream through higher education
(2020-06)The American Dream, coined by writer and historian James Truslow Adams (as cited in Nakate, 2018), is the idea of opportunities for fulfilling dreams through hard work. Most people in the United States believe higher ... -
Six interventions for anxiety: Somatic training, affect regulation, and mental health
(2020-03-15)This thesis analyses aspects of Anxiety and Depression which are two of the most serious mental health challenges. Anxiety is rendered in upper case as A and lower case as a, to indicate both generic and specific uses of ... -
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 ... -
The integration of equine-facilitated and somatic therapies for the treatment of complex trauma
(2020-05-19)Current research on early trauma is uncovering the staggering toll it takes on physical, psychological, social, and emotional health. Neurobiology and trauma research also suggests that accessing the portion of the brain ... -
The use of language in developing emotional safety
(2020-05-22)This thesis explores how the language used by counsellors influences client experiences of emotional safety within the therapeutic relationship. This influence was explored through an online survey exploring counsellor and ... -
Why your pain must not exist: Bias & Phenomenology at the ends of medicine
(2020-05-28)Interrupting bias in counselling psychotherapy is critical to ethical practice. This paper demonstrates how the scientific method, for all its utility in health and medicine, also functions as a worldview and a personal ... -
The impact of VAS and AAC charts on student focus
(2020-06-04)This action research study investigates the use of visual activity schedules (VAS) and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) charts in a first-grade classroom in Washington State to increase the amount of time ...
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