Browsing by Degree Field "Counseling"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Adapting the Islands of Safety Model for LGBTQ2S+ Communities
(2016-10-24)The purpose of this study was to gain initial feedback from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, two-spirit and other gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ2S+) counsellors, social workers and anti-violence workers on the ... -
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 Bullying Behaviours Without Labeling the Individual
(2018-05-31)This thesis explores ways of addressing bullying behaviours without labeling the individual. There is a lot of information in the news, research and the media about helping victims of bullying but there seems to be little ... -
Addressing Internalized Oppression in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy: Towards a Liberating and Inclusive Clinical Practice
(2016)This document consists of five chapters that attempt to integrate liberating and anti-oppressive concepts and Cognitive-Behavioural principles in psychotherapy. Its purpose is to develop guidelines for cognitive behavioural ... -
Addressing the effects of social media use on adolescents
(2019-11)Communication is humans’ most basic desire and as technology advances, mobile phones and social media provide this by allowing people to connect and by giving a sense of belonging. As of January 2017, approximately 37% of ... -
Adolescent Bereavement: A Nuanced Landscape of Loss
(2015-04)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the topic of adolescent bereavement within the scope of three essays which together comprise a manuscript thesis. Drawing upon both structuralist and postmodern theoretical frameworks, ... -
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 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. ... -
Anxiety prevention, and early mental health education in British Columbia classrooms
(2019-07)This thesis used a self-reporting online survey of British Columbia teachers to gather firsthand knowledge of teachers experiences with mental health education in early elementary school classrooms. Current research into ...
