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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 ... -
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, ... -
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 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 ... -
Anxiety and School Transition: a Choice of Programs
(2014-04)Every year students make the transition from elementary to high school with varying degrees of success. While some students may appear unaffected by the change in schools, others struggle in their transition. Teachers and ... -
Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Coming to Deeper Understandings and Better Interventions
(2016-10)Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Coming to Deeper Understandings and Better Interventions” is a manuscript thesis that explores many aspects of anxiety. Such aspects include: a literature review of Cognitive Behavioural ... -
Anxiety in Couple Relationships: the Pursuer-Distancer Dynamic in a Heterosexual Married Couple and its Interaction with Interpersonal Functioning of the Relationship
(2008)This case study of a heterosexual couple is given in order to examine, in detail, the dynamics of a pursuer-distancer dynamic and how this affects the modulation of anxiety in the individuals and in the relationship. ... -
Applications of Meaning-Centered Counselling
(2015-03-31)This thesis explores the application of meaning-centered counselling within different contexts and with different populations. Meaning-centered counselling is a broad term used to denote any counselling that focuses on the ... -
Are Life Skills Learned Through Team Sport Participation?
(2014-06)The aim of this study was to investigate the perceived impact of team sport participation on the development of future life skills. Thirty-two participants ranging in age from 18-25 consented to participate in the quantitative ... -
The "At Risk" Adolescent: A Review of Historical Perspectives and Emerging Trends
(2008-10-24)This paper reviews professional perspectives and general institutional policies regarding services for youth deemed to be “at risk”. Views with regard to the at-risk adolescent population have evolved over the past 50 ...
