Scholarly Work (Restricted)
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Leadership in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments
(2020-11-17)Volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments require new forms of leadership that support organizational adaptiveness in the face of rapid change and complex environments. Moreover, the specific problem ... -
"Mystory": A Collection of Memories, Musings, and More
(2020)This manuscript is a personal story more than anything, a tale about my journey from “craziness” to counselling if you will. It focuses on events from the past five years, and it also includes reflections about my childhood ... -
Bridging the Gap: The Experiences of Males with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries
(2020-12-07)The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of males with spinal cord injuries and the level of mental health care they received post injury in the rehabilitation setting. A transcendental phenomenological ... -
Counselling Chinese Clients: An Integration of Western Psychotherapy with Eastern Culture
(2020-11-24)To most Chinese immigrants in Canada, seeing a mental health professional is often a last resort. Many of them express resistance and reluctance towards sharing their personal and relational struggles with clinicians, whom ... -
Motivations Behind the Use of Dating Apps
(2020-11-06)This capstone project investigates the motivation behind the use of dating applications. It looks at the traditional forms of interacting with potential partners and how online media has become a new way for people to meet ... -
Trauma to Trust: Understanding How Animal-Assisted Therapy Facilitates Therapeutic Safety Through the Lens of the Polyvagal Theory
(2020-11-11)Trauma was traditionally regarded as an event that happened to a person. However, this understanding has evolved over the years into the appreciation of trauma as the embodied human experience of feeling unsafe that continues ... -
The Role of Racial Discrimination on the Academic Performance of Ethnic Minorities
(2020-09-08)This phenomenological study sought to examine ethnic minority students’ experiences with racial discrimination in academia. Using a semi-structured interview protocol, five participants explored the impact of racial ... -
How Becoming Trauma-Informed as a School Community Can Lead to More Comprehensive and Successful Approaches for Students with Symptoms of Trauma
(2020-07)In researching the question, how can becoming trauma-informed as a school community lead to more comprehensive and successful approaches for students with symptoms of trauma, the impacts of trauma on the brain and learning ... -
Exploring the Long-Lasting Effects of Multiple Migrations During Childhood on Future Adult Relationships
(2020-10-06)The focus of this research project was on the long-term impacts of frequent migration on social development in children, which can influence their social and romantic relationships in adulthood. This paper utilized attachment ... -
The Impact of PTSD on First Responders
(2020-09-30)First responders perform essential, life-saving procedures in emergency situations and are continually exposed to work-place trauma. There is a 10% prevalence rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among first responders ... -
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 ...