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Dropout in Group Therapy: Causes and Prevention Strategies
(2018-03-23)This paper explores dropout rates in mental health groups and how counsellors can retain participants. It examines the implications for both professionals and clients when entering into group therapy. Group therapy provides ... -
Supporting Student Learning with the Framework for Information Literacy
(2018-03-21)How can faculty help increase students’ critical consumption of information in order to ground their learning in trusted and relevant resources for their discipline? In 2004, leveraging the ACRL Information Literacy ... -
How safe is your digital therapy session? A review of ethical considerations for online counselling
(2017-12-07)Online counselling is currently one of the options available to clients and is presently being practiced despite numerous concerns regarding its effectiveness and ethicality. Within this thesis, the author defines online ... -
Mental Health Challenges of Older Immigrants in Canada
(2017-12-01)The aim of this thesis is to offer an extensive review of current research on the barriers that older immigrants face upon entry to a new host country. Evidence has shown that older immigrants, particularly those from ... -
Beautitudo Imperfecta
(2017-12-01)This thesis examines the psychological dimension called happiness from the perspective of philosophy, experimental psychology, psychotherapeutic theory, clinical practice, cognitive neuroscience, and interpersonal neurobiology. ... -
Starting from Wholeness: An Exploration of Non-Dual Awareness
(2017-11-30)This manuscript thesis is an exploration of non-dual awareness and its integration into the field of counseling. The author begins with a biographical introspective, examining the significance of non-dual awareness to his ... -
The Exploration of Migratory Grief, Social Factors and Resolutions
(2017-11-27)This thesis explores the losses and grief associated with migration. My research questions revolve around three themes: migratory grief, its functions and expressions, its influencing factors, and its resolutions. I have ... -
Psychotherapy or Life Coaching: A Literature Review
(2017-11-27)Psychotherapy and life coaching are both considered helper professions. This literature review looks at the two disciplines through a historical lens to understand their foundations and the path each took to their current ... -
Mass Media and Body Satisfaction in Young Women: An Exploration of Impacts
(2017-11-27)The purpose of this study was to explore how the objectification of women’s bodies in mass media has impacted adolescent women’s body image, self-esteem, disordered eating, and social comparison in the hope that this ... -
Integrated Understanding of The Psychology of Pervasive Digital Internet Technology In Adolescents' Lives as Critical to Care
(2017-11-15)The purpose of this thesis was to gain an integrated understanding of the psychology of pervasive digital internet technology (DIT) in adolescents lives. The basic premise is that in this digital age this understanding is ... -
Group Versus Individual Intervention: A Best Practice Analysis for Social Skill Development in Children Aged Four to Seven with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2017-11-11)This thesis is a best practice analysis to determine the play therapy modality that provides the most desirable increase in social skills for children aged four to seven diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Autism ... -
Gender Disproportionality in K-12 School Superintendent Positions
(2017-11-06)Despite an increase in the number of women obtaining senior leadership positions, women continue to be underrepresented in school district superintendencies (Muñoz, Mills, Pankake, & Whaley, 2014; T. Wallace, 2015). In ... -
Situating Myself as a Counsellor: The Influences of Intimate Experience and Inner Work on Process Ethics
(2017-11)The experiences of individuals who deviate from heteronormative identity and roles in society are often neglected and/or overlooked, which merely compounds the oppression that sexual minority individuals very frequently ... -
Walking With Grief & Trauma: A Developing Counselling Practice
(2017-10-21)Background: A counselling practice involving walking with clients during counselling sessions seems to be gaining popularity across North America. There is a prevalence of practice of using this modality in working with ... -
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 ... -
A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Study of Conversion Disorder: A Patient’s Perspective
(2017-10-18)Conversion disorder (CD) is a mental illness with a long and complicated history. The disorder continues to be difficult to diagnose and treat. This paper presents the results of a hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry into ... -
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, ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ...
