Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is an extremely common developmental disability, affecting just under 2% of the population in Canada (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2018). This population faces many of the same mental ...

Gender bias—giving preferences to men over women—is a societal issue that affects the day-to-day lives of individuals in the workforce. This is especially true in the police force, where gender bias influences the recruitment ...

Over the years, research has reiterated the unique difficulties faced by those within the transgender community, including increased risk for verbal and physical abuse, depression, substance abuse, and suicidality compared ...

This project is an intervention in counseling theory discourses. It contributes to the development of an Indigenous feminist counseling theory (IFCT), which examines Indigenous worldviews, cultures, and healing practices ...

In this thesis I identify the experience of giftedness/ADHD, offer a clinical analysis of what challenges these children face, what supports are in place for gifted/ADHD children, as well as the areas that require further ...

Since the Industrial Revolution, extraverts have been preferred in leadership over introverts. Their outgoing and social nature suggests they are better communicators in comparison to introverts. Job descriptions of K-12 ...

In the early 1950s, the British Psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott coined the phrase “good enough mother” in an effort to describe the fundamentally productive middle ground between bad mothering and the will towards perfect ...

Given the prevalence of depressive symptoms in women who experience infertility, and the high numbers of Canadian couples likely to be diagnosed with infertility, this case study seeks to elucidate participant perspectives ...

The intention of this thesis is to open up a space to explore the long-term impacts of exposure to the patriarchy; taking a life course perspective to understand how women navigate the aging process while living in a ...