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Fostering a sense of belonging: Attachment through movement and dance
(2019-07-11)This manuscript style thesis seeks to highlight the connection between the use of dance, movement, and music to support attachment development. There is abundant research showing the importance of early attachment bonds ... -
Moderators of gender-based barriers in the U.S. Army: How enlisted women increase their own recruitment, promotion, participation, retention, and integration
(2019-07)In their women’s integration plan, the U.S. Army (2016b) called for studies to identify and “develop strategies to overcome [gender] barriers” (p. 13) women encounter, without an institutional understanding of gender ... -
The Impact of Sexual Violence on Female Student Athletes perpetrated by Male Student Athletes and applicable Therapeutic Modalities
(2019-06-16)Sexual violence against female intercollegiate athletes is a prevalent crisis evident in today’s society (McCray, 2015). This capstone will focus on male intercollegiate athletes as the perpetrators of sexual violence ... -
How can the lens of Dislocation Theory further understanding of why people contemplate suicide?
(2019-06-15)The reasons for suicide remain a widely researched topic. The majority of research on suicide offers reasons for suicide that are attributed to individuals having an underlying mental disorder. Research is needed on reasons ... -
Reframing compliance: Exposing violence within applied behaviour analysis
(2019-06-04)The purpose of this study is to explore the potential relationship between Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and acts of violence. This relationship is explored through a critical discourse analysis of six scholarly research ... -
Challenging Confidentiality and Dual Relationships in the Treatment of Addiction: A case study
(2019-06)This case study explores the question, how does adapting the traditional professional boundaries of confidentiality and dual relationships in the treatment of addictions (by including clients in an ongoing community that ... -
How Communication is Used in Polyamorous Relationships
(2019-06)This paper explores the phenomenological lived experience of what it is like to participate in a polyamorous relationship. The question proposed is how do polyamorous individuals use communication to negotiate rules and ... -
Positive Reinforcement in the Classroom: The Effect of Positive Reinforcement on Student Behavior and Participation
(2019-06)This research investigates the in-class behavior and participation affected by positive reinforcement. A total of 53 students within two 5th grade math and science classes took part in this study. Throughout the study, ... -
Fostering Equitable Learning Opportunities for Middle School Students in Special Education by Reducing Their Discipline Disproportionality Rates
(2019-05-31)Students with disabilities enrolled in public schools continue to struggle to gain equitable access to learning opportunities, despite federal protections. Because of the overuse of suspensions and expulsions, researchers ... -
Childhood Interpersonal Violence: The Effects on Adult Attachment and How Best to Support Victims in Moving Beyond their Violent Experience
(2019-05-31)Child interpersonal violence continues to be a concern affecting a considerable proportion of the population. Without appropriate intervention, it is possible that many of these children will continue to experience ... -
Intimate Partner Violence Among South Asian Women: Conceptualizing Culture, Building Resilience and Increasing Cultural Competency of Counsellors
(2019-05-30)Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an issue that impacts all nationalities, ethnicities and cultures, and is continuing to gain more acknowledgement the more IPV is openly addressed. The South Asian culture is built on ... -
Optimism and Counselling, Subjective Wellbeing and Mental as well as Physical Health
(2019-05-16)It is common for people to say either I am unhappy or I just want to be happy. So what makes people happy? This is a question that interests me and I also find that it interests many people as well. Sometimes individuals ... -
Single mothers' narratives of strength, with a focus on resiliency and resourcefulness
(2019-05-15)There is a substantial body of literature that focuses on the supposed detrimental impact of single mothers on themselves, their children and on society. The aim of this research is to bring more attention to the strengths, ... -
What Can Death and Dying Teach? An Autoethnography of the Retrospective Transformative Properties of Grief
(2019-05-06)This research explores the lived experience of meaningful incidences of post traumatic growth following the death of a loved one. Using an autoethnographic approach the study explores two siblings’ experiences of living ... -
Two Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) Strategies and a Classroom
(2019-05-03)More than half of second grade students at an elementary school in Washington tested below the standard reading level. This study focused on using two Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) strategies, the Cooperative ... -
Give them Wings! Exploring Latino experiences and perspectives on employee engagement through qualitative phenomenological inquiry
(2019-05)Employee engagement has emerged as a relevant and noteworthy topic in the discourse on organizational leadership and sustainability, as engaged employees are a source of organizational productivity, positive morale, ... -
Being a girl: How young girls respond to social messages
(2019-05)The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the research question: How does the application of response-based practice theory to the responses of female identifying youth inform professionals who support them? ... -
Integrating an innovative organizational culture with cultural intelligence in multicultural teams: A case study of an international student team
(2019-04-13)Addressing innovation and multicultural teams separately is no longer an option for companies since both are essential for a company to stay competitive and thrive. Although studies such as Cox, Lobel, and McLeod (1991) ... -
Exploring Disordered Eating and Chronic Illness: A journey of recovery through OSFED
(2019-03-19)Research identifies eating disorders as a biopsychosocial with the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric illnesses. Using the process of autoethnography, my personal experience recovering from OSFED with a chronic ... -
Building Better Organizational Rebrands: Exploring the Employee Viewpoint
(2019-03-13)Organizational brands can be powerful, and it is risky to rebrand and potentially alienate stakeholders with a change (Abramovich, 2014). Yet, despite its high failure rate and cost, rebranding has become commonplace (Zhao, ...
