Scholarly Work (Restricted)
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The Lived Experience of Gay Men Enduring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
(2020-09-30)Domestic violence is an issue that plagues all relationships regardless of sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or nationality. Despite this issue's widespread nature, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in gay male relationships ... -
Men, Masculinity, and Conformity to Masculine Norms
(2020-09-20)This research paper highlights some of the critical issues contributing to the overall decline in men’s mental health and how masculine norms influence men’s help-seeking behaviours. Key areas explored regarding men’s ... -
Trauma-Informed Care in Counselling Agencies
(2020-09-15)This research project examines the importance of understanding, creating, and providing trauma-informed care practices in counselling agencies in Canada. It will highlight and deepen the discussion surrounding the importance ... -
What are the Effects of Racial Trauma on the Black Diaspora and What Could Be the Benefits of Creative Expression as a Resilience Tool?
(2020-08-20)The lack of adequate mental health services for people of African origin living outside of the continent, also known as the Black diaspora, is an issue that has been highlighted in recent months. The research questions ... -
Humour and the Therapeutic Relationship
(2020)This capstone is an investigation of the role humour plays in healing and as a part of the therapeutic relationship. Forming a therapeutic relationship is challenging and central, offering many benefits, to one’s wellness. ... -
Effects of a Career in Counselling Psychology on the Evolution of Identity
(2020)A career in counselling psychology may have important effects on the identity development of counselling psychologists through interpersonal work with clients from diverse populations. This literature review examines the ... -
Chronic Pelvic Pain: The Power of the Mind/Body Connection
(2020-07)This autoethnographic thesis is an account of my journey with chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and endometriosis. The study incorporates current literature that highlights the complexities of these conditions, and the impact that ... -
Supporting Refugee Youth’s Integration in Canada
(2020-07-02)Canada is a country that has resettled a high number of refugees from around the world. Canada cannot reverse the events and traumas that refugee youth have experienced before arriving, but it can expand and continue to ... -
Self-Blame and Self-Compassion in Breastfeeding
(2020-06-30)Breastfeeding is widely endorsed and promoted as the most optimal infant feeding practice, and in Canada, breastfeeding initiation rates have increased substantially over the past five decades. Although breastfeeding has ... -
Developmental trauma
(2020-05)Trauma is faced by people every single day and can impede many different implications for the sufferer making each experience very much an individual reaction. Trauma experienced during childhood is considered to have ... -
Project P.I.N.K.: A case study of a school-based intervention program for middle school girls
(2020-06)Maintaining positive self-esteem and self-image, especially in adolescent girls, has grown to be a significant issue that has caught the attention of school district leaders. However, related school-based programs that ... -
Impact of gestures and simple signing on instructional interruptions
(2020-05)Addressing distracting or non-compliant student behavior can be disruptive to an overall lesson and classroom. If a teacher is constantly managing student behavior rather than teaching, students may fall behind in curriculum ... -
Peer to peer feedback and its impact on mathematics in the classroom
(2020-06-10)Some elementary students have such mathematics anxiety that it impedes their ability to master grade level standards. The participants of this study were 29 fourth grade students in the school where I performed my student ... -
Students with emotional and behavioral disabilities
(2020-06)Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBD) in students can significantly affect both their social and academic life if proper management strategies are not put in place. This applies especially in the educational ... -
Discourses of rape culture: An examination of university policies on sexualized violence
(2020-05-31)The purpose of this study is to identify language used in sexualized violence polices at post-secondary institutions that are consistent with Coates & Wade's (2007) research on language that blames the victim, obscures ... -
The impact of close reading on reading comprehension
(2020-05)This issue-focused design study examines the impacts of close reading on reading comprehension for low-level readers and how to best support English Language Learners’ (EL) reading comprehension for primary grade students. ... -
Secondary school counselors' perceptions of STEM education
(2020-05)The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions of secondary school counselors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The understanding gathered from this study was necessary because, as ... -
Re-membering the narratives of the deceased: A reflexive autoethnography on family relationships
(2020-05)The purpose of this reflexive autoethnography is to investigate ways in which the perceptions of our relationships with our deceased loved ones can be shifted through the exploration of their narratives using a narrative ... -
Fighting the scale: Overcoming disordered eating in current society
(2020-05)This autoethnography will seek to address my lived experience of bulimia, to fully explore the integration of bulimia and the concurrent concepts I have experienced of trauma, genetics, and societal pressure. I will weave ... -
A phenomenological exploration of vicarious posttraumatic growth experiences in therapists
(2020-06)This qualitative interpretive phenomenological analysis examines the lived experiences of vicarious posttraumatic growth in therapists who work with trauma survivors. By providing an in-depth exploration of the experiences ...
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