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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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...