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Advocating with Humility: Improving Access of Treatment Services for Filipino Immigrant Families with Autistic Children in Alberta, Canada
(2020-12-15)Different factors influence access to services for Filipino immigrant families with autistic children in Alberta, Canada. These include the immigration process, the immediate needs of the family as they settle down in their ... -
The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Adult Sibling Relationships
(2020-12-15)Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can result in adverse psychosocial, physical, and psychological affects on the victim. Furthermore, these adverse affects can extend into romantic and familial relationships. Yet, the victim ... -
The Role of Work Culture in Female Police Officers' Mental Health
(2020-12-13)Females make up approximately 22% of law enforcement officers in Canada. Despite the longstanding presence of women in law enforcement, researchers have not studied female officers’ experiences with their work culture and ... -
Social Media and Adolescent Mental Health
(2020-12-12)In the late 1990s, the first emergence of social media platforms began to change the way humans communicate within society (van Dijck, 2013). Before this time, connecting with others meant personal telephone calls, emails, ... -
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 ... -
An Investigation into the Effects of Bias on Graduate Students and Novice Clinicians
(2020-12-05)The purpose of this manuscript was to identify the effects of bias on graduate students and novice clinicians. Understanding bias requires knowledge of cognitive psychology as bias can affect decision making and problem-solving. ... -
Retaining Teachers in the Teaching Union in one Urban District in Michigan, a Right-to-Work State
(2020-12-04)The purpose of this study was to identify the transformational leadership traits suited for retaining members in the local union in this urban district in Michigan, a Right-to-Work state. Policy like Janus v. AFSCME has ... -
Faculty Diversity Impact on Historically Underserved Running Start Students of Color (HUSC) Access Rates at Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
(2020-12-04)Nationally and in Washington State, historically underserved students of color (HUSC) continue to lag behind their dominant culture white peers in accessing and attaining high-value credentials through institutions of ... -
The Link Between Fictional Suicides and Suicide Contagion: Fact or Myth?
(2020-12)This paper is an examination of fictional media depictions of suicide and their potential relationship to suicide contagion. By surveying and exploring the literature, the aim is to present both proponents and opponents ... -
Ecotherapy as a Mitigator of Ecological Loss and Grief
(2020-11-30)In this hermeneutic research Capstone, the author explores how ecotherapy can mitigate the deleterious effects of ecological loss and grief in relation to climate crisis, urbanization, digitalization and breakdown of ... -
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 ... -
The Phenomenology of Opinion Expression on Social Media: Culture and Human Functioning
(2020-11-19)Social media provides people with an incredible opportunity to express their opinions on an array of important, meaningful life topics. In turn, they experience a wide variety of opinions from other people to which they ... -
A Professional Development Study of a New Teacher's Responses to Misbehavior
(2020-11-18)This is a professional development study using action research protocol to deepen inquiry and reflection. The focus is on the educator’s learning with the intent to influence student learning and behavior. The context that ... -
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 ... -
The Effects of Personalized Learning on Students' Attendance in a Wisconsin Public Elementary School
(2020-11-17)Pressure to improve academic success for all students has been applied to the educational While school personnel create programs and implement innovative instructional pedagogy, such as personalized learning to prioritize ... -
Motherhood in Adult Children of Alcoholics
(2020-11-15)Adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) grew up in homes where one or both parents struggled with alcohol abuse. Countless children and families are impacted by intergenerational alcohol abuse and suffer in silence as they ... -
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 ... -
Mental Illness Stigma in Asian Populations Impacting Access to Counselling
(2020-11-09)Mental illness stigma diminishes help-seeking behaviours and creates barriers for effective treatment options. Particularly affected are those from racial minorities and more specifically, the Asian subpopulation. As a ... -
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 ... -
Dance Movement Therapy as an Approach to Healthy Body Image in Women and Girls
(2020-11)Body image has a significant impact on health and well-being, however, society has deemed body image dissatisfaction as a normative experience in women and girls. There is a lack of emphasis on developing healthy body image ...
