Scholarly Work (Open Access)
Contains open access scholarly work from City University of Seattle students, faculty, and staff.
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Medicinal Poisons: The Role of Psychedelics in Psychotherapy
(2017-10-18)Mind-altering substances have been used by humanity since time immemorial to heal psychic wounds, numb pain, and enter altered states of consciousness for purposes of healing and divination. In the Western world some of ... -
Social Construction of Meaning, Authority, Agency and Consent: Does Accurate Language Matter When We Discuss Sexualized Violence Against Children
(2017-08)Sexualized violence against children is a topic that many in our North American society find uncomfortable to discuss freely. Alongside this very common discomfort with the topic is a general lack of dialogue. As a society, ... -
Large Scale PBL Activity Develops Core Competencies in Students
(2017-07)This research specifically aims to see whether a large scale PBL activity naturally develops the core competencies of the new B.C. curriculum in secondary students. An online survey was created to gather the responses of ... -
Building Resilience: Affective Disorders in Adolescent Students
(2017-06)Affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are present and rising in adolescent students throughout North America. As students are developing these ailments of mental health, schools are being placed in a position ... -
What is Necessary to Effectively Teach Self-Regulation to Students? Defining the Importance for Student Self-Regulation
(2017-06)Students are currently experiencing a higher number of difficulties at school than in previous years. Teachers are dealing with a multitude of different behaviours and emotional issues in classrooms. Behaviour management ... -
Building a Culture of Effective Cooperative Learning: Teacher Practices and School Leadership in an Elementary School
(2017-05)Alberta Education’s (2010) Inspiring Education framework, a Ministerial Order on Student Learning (Alberta Education, 2013), continues to be challenged by a diversity of learners and learning needs. With the need for ... -
Instructional Leadership in Mathematics: Compensating for Principals’ Lack of Mathematical Background
(2017-04)Principals are responsible for ensuring the academic achievement of students in mathematics. Researchers have identified that principals who possess a combination of mathematical content knowledge and instructional ... -
The Benefit of Creating a Culture of Student Leadership on School Aged Students
(2017-07)This capstone paper will explore the different theories surrounding the development of leadership in students. Students will learn skills beginning from leadership vocabulary to living and practicing the leadership habits ... -
The Relevance Of Attachment Theory Principles To Psychotherapy And How It Can Contribute To Fostering Therapeutic Alliance and The Change Process For Clients: A Literature Review
(2017-07-28)This study is focused on how attachment theory can help explain the importance of the therapeutic alliance as a key factor for effective psychotherapy and how a felt sense of safety and care can help to establish and foster ... -
The Importance and Impact of School Based Mentorship Programs
(2017-03-28)The research for this paper began with the purpose to educate and prepare its readers in order to guide and assist school counsellors in the development, implementation and evaluation of their own school based mentorship ... -
What Employers Want And What Universities Teach: A Comparison Of UPAEP Business Programs And Auto Industry Recruiting in the Puebla Region
(2017-06-17)Mexico’s new business graduates are facing the problem of an extensive job-search, which impacts employability of new graduates because only 60% of them can obtain a job during the first year after graduation (Universia ... -
Creative Interventions for Indo-Canadian Children who Experience Trauma as a Result of Being Exposed to Domestic Violence
(2017-06-13)Domestic violence is under reported amongst South Asian communities across the globe and within the Indo-Canadian community in Canada. This is due to cultural held values and beliefs. The Indo-Canadian culture, in general, ... -
Therapeutic Soul Searching
(2017-06-02)Personal identity is an important theme that often comes up in therapeutic endeavours, especially in societies that are saturated with free market capitalism and mass media culture. I begin the thesis by describing a ... -
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, ...
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