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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 ... -
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 ... -
Accommodation access by Southern California Community College students with specific learning disabilities
(2019-12-18)Despite the increase of students with disabilities (SWD) attending college, students who self-identify with specific learning disabilities (SLD) are not accessing the accommodations needed to assist them with their academic ... -
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 Faith in the Counselling Room: A Phenomenological Exploration of Lived Experience
(2019)Since a large percentage of the world’s population identifies with some sort of religious practice, I believe that as counsellors we need to feel comfortable and competent working not only with those from diverse ethnic ... -
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 ... -
Adolescent Therapy: Dropout, Relationship, and Beyond
(2022-03-31)The purpose of this capstone is to review current research on ways to improve adolescent mental health through engagement with therapeutic interventions, utilizing a relational lens. Many adolescents drop out of therapy, ... -
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 Alternative Education Program for At-Risk Students Implemented in a Rural Alberta High School
(2016-03)For over 50 years, schools across North America have implemented a variety of alternative education programs to help address the needs of students who have struggled in traditional school settings. Students who do not ...
