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Aboriginal Achievement: A School Counsellor’s Role
(2013-08)As a focus for in-depth study, the area of Aboriginal achievement is an obvious choice. I see low levels of Aboriginal achievement in my school and district (School District 84, Vancouver Island West) as well as the presence ... -
Aboriginal Women's Encounters with Mainstream Mental Health Services: The Critical Incidents that Facilitate Healing
(2013)This study examines Aboriginal women’s encounters with mainstream mental health services. Using the Critical Incidents Technique, the researcher developed a list of categories to describe factors that help or hinder healing ... -
The Abused Child- The Bully or The Victim? Anger, Aggression and Bullying Behaviour in The School Setting - How Can The School Help?
(2015-07)Bullying in schools has become an epidemic problem in today’s society. More and more children are being told they are “bullies” and are victimizing their peers. As a school system, one must wonder why have more and more ... -
Acceptance Committment Therapy, Positive Psychology, and the Development of Mental Toughness
(2022-06)Mental Toughness is strongly correlated with lower levels of perceived stress, fewer depressive symptoms, lower levels of anxiety, and higher overall psychological well-being. Mental toughness is a multidimensional personality ... -
Accessing Therapeutic Reverie with Task-Based Counselling
(2021-02-23)A healthy function of the vagus nerve pathways will increase right hemisphere activation, increasing capability of accessing therapeutic reverie and the associated benefits thereof. If we can honor this sequence, it becomes ... -
Across the Prison Divide: the Role of Therapeutic Alliance in Treatment of Mandated Substance Abuse Clients
(2008)The therapeutic alliance has been studied over many decades and suggested to be an important element in successful treatment outcomes. A number of studies have discussed the relationship between alliance and substance abuse ... -
Addiction Counsellors: Ethical Issues
(2008)This thesis is a proposal to investigate ethical issues and dilemmas that may arise for addiction counsellors who work within 12-step informed facilities. This proposal was based upon Scott’s (2000) research entitled, ... -
Addressing the Impacts of Workplace Violence: An Exploration of Supporting the Diverse Needs Population, Workplace Violence and Its Psychological Effects
(2021-05)Workplace violence is an unfortunate reality for many different professions that are involved with helping people. Until recently, the impacts of workplace violence on psychological distress were unknown, and a lack of ... -
Addressing the Implicit Impacts of Sexual Trauma: An Exploration of Somatic Experiencing as an Adjunct to Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy
(2021-05)Sexual trauma is a life-altering violation with persistent, long term implications for survivors. Trauma can produce distinctive impacts on individuals, and therapeutic approaches that offer healing to some, may not be ... -
Addressing the Reading Achievement Gap in Nevada: An Exploration of Instructional Methods for Low SES and ELL Elementary Student Achievement
(2022-02-22)Teachers in Nevada have faced the problem of providing consistent, effective literacy instruction to elementary students, which impacts overall student achievement; only 48.3% of students in Clark County, Nevada were ... -
Adolescent Bullying in Elementary Schools: An In-depth Review of an Effective Prevention and Intervention Technique to Reduce Bullying
(2012)This critical literature review summarizes the most current data available on bulling amongst adolescents in elementary schools. In the existing literature, bullying is being defined as the negative and often aggressive ... -
The Adolescent from Poland: an Autoethnographic Journey of an Immigrant Experience in Canada
(2009)This thesis explores the experience of a non-English speaking, immigrant adolescent from Poland to Canada. This is a self-study, I the subject and researcher at once. I have chronicled and traced the experience of my own ... -
Adult Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: Braving the Shame
(2012-12)Shame has been found to be an effect of child sexual abuse (CSA) in male and female survivors. This thesis explores the lived shame experiences of six adult males who were sexually abused as children by adult perpetrators. ... -
Adult Women's Experiences of Health Food Industry Advertising
(2011)This study investigated the relationship between adult women's perception of healthy eating and their use of health food industry advertising as a guide to managing their food consumption. The general hypothesis was that ... -
Adventure Therapy: A Program Design Based on Common Factors and Related Change Constructs
(2012)Ever since the days of Hahn (founder of Outward Bound) and Lord Baden Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts movement), concerned adults have recognized large therapeutic effects of the wilderness and outdoor activities on ... -
An Analysis of Health Related Information in Canadian Running Magazines: What Motivation and Threshold of Activity is Endorsed?
(2009)Regular physical activity is thought to be associated with better physical and mental health. The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP), in partnership with Health Canada released Canada’s physical activity guide ... -
Animal Assisted Interventions and Trauma Therapy
(2021-06)Trauma is challenging to treat and current therapeutic practices fall short of meeting client’s needs. Trauma impacts nearly 80% of clients presenting at mental health clinics (Jones & Cureton, 2014), often manifesting as ... -
Animal Assisted Therapy: Examining its Positive Effects on Schizophrenia and the Ethical and Moral Effects of Animals Placed in Therapy
(2015-06)The effects of schizophrenia are devastating not only to the individuals diagnosed, but also to family, friends and society. Animals employed in Animal Assisted Therapy have been found to better assist those diagnosed with ... -
Anorexia Nervosa: A Three Dimensional Approach That Includes Psycho-Education, Family Therapy, and Mindfulness Practice
(2011)The purpose of this thesis is to encourage a balanced and holistic approach to the treatment of adolescent (13-18 years) anorexia nervosa, by proposing a protocol that integrates psychoeducation, family therapy and ... -
The Antecedents that Inform the Diagnostic Category of Borderline Personality Disorder
(2008)Women are diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) 75% more often than men. The precise etiological causes of BPD are currently unknown just as the reason(s) for the high female prevalence of BPD has yet to be ...
