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Addressing the Reading Achievement Gap in Nevada: An Exploration of Instructional Methods for Low SES and ELL Elementary Student Achievement
(2022-02-22)Teachers in Nevada have faced the problem of providing consistent, effective literacy instruction to elementary students, which impacts overall student achievement; only 48.3% of students in Clark County, Nevada were ... -
Teaching Healthy Relationship Skills to Emerging Adults
(2022-02-21)The purpose of this Capstone Research Project is to identify the skills and knowledge that should be included in a short-term, individual-oriented relationship education program designed to teach general relationship ... -
Reciprocal Teaching as a Reading Comprehension Instructional Strategy to Support the Integration of Science Literacy into the Middle School Classroom
(2022-02-18)The Massachusetts Science, Technology, and Engineering Framework integrates literacy skills into the standards and requires science teachers to use instructional strategies to support literacy in the classroom (Massachusetts ... -
The Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities in a College Success Course: What is Working and What is Not
(2022-02-16)The problem addressed in this study is how a College Success course might reverse the trend of lower graduation rates for students with learning disabilities (LDs) who attend a Colorado institution of higher education. ... -
Sustaining Microbreweries Beyond 5 Years
(2022-02-07)Small Business Administration (SBA, 2020a) reported from 1994–2018, an average of 67.6% of new employer small businesses survived at least 2 years. During the same period, the 5-year survival rate was 48.8%. The general ... -
School-Based Parent Network Programs: A Partnership in Reducing Childhood Anxiety
(2022-02)Today's world is quickly becoming full of distractions, busyness, and barriers that often force people to feel like they need to cope with life in isolation and feel disconnected from their community. Now more than ever, ... -
The Barriers and Challenges of the Development of Online Counselling After the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022-01)Online therapy has been around as an alternative delivery method for clients who are unable to attend to a therapy session in-person. The main concerns and limitation on online therapy is mainly focus on the difficulties ... -
How Do Caregivers of Persons with Dementia Cope with the Ambiguity of Their Grief Experience Throughout the Caregiver Journey
(2022-01)Dementia is a condition that foreseeably alters the life course of diagnosed persons as the illness impedes their ability to manage independently and live on their own with the progression of the disease. In response, ... -
Efficacy of Supports Available to Marginalised Sexual Minority Youth Through an Attachment Theoretical Lens
(2022-01)The prevalence of homeless youth in Canada has been increasing with over 30,000 youth homeless, and Indigenous and sexual- and gender-minority youth being overrepresented. A disparity exists amongst marginalised sexual-minority ... -
The Influences of Social Media on Athletes' Mental Health and Performance: A Literature Review
(2021-12-23)Athletes face a variety of stressors and challenges that impact their mental health and functioning. While research has focused on a number of these factors, social media and its use is still an emerging area of interest. ... -
Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Telehealth and COVID-19: A Literature Review
(2021-12-22)This literature review investigates the effectiveness of counselling via telehealth for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic and corresponding public health orders ... -
Factors that Influence the Therapeutic Relationship with Clients Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder
(2021-12-22)This paper investigates factors which influence the therapeutic relationship with clients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The research is clear that therapists will inevitably be confronted with their ... -
Coping Strategies Employed by Women to Mitigate the Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and their Therapeutic Implications
(2021-12-17)Intimate partner violence has detrimental health and psychological consequences on individuals who experience it. Intimate partner violence is conceptualized in various ways: physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological. ... -
Implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Continuation High Schools
(2021-12-14)The problem addressed in this study was that there remains limited research on how continuation schools implement evidence-based, multi-tiered programs (i.e., Multi-Tiered System of Support [MTSS]) to increase students' ... -
Internet Gaming as a Behavioral Addiction in Adolescents
(2021-12-13)This research project explores the following questions: 1. How is Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) assessed? 2. How is IGD treated and, is treatment related to how it has been defined and assessed? First, this paper will ... -
Instilling Hope in the Lives of Adolescents in a School Setting
(2021-12-10)Hope is an important psychological strength and acts as a protective factor during challenging and uncertain times in life (Marques, Lopez et al., 2011; Snyder, 2002). Hopeful individuals benefit from this attribute as it ... -
Moral Injury and Its Effect on Frontline Healthcare Workers: Understanding the Psychological Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2021-12-09)The potential for moral injury in healthcare workers is increasingly salient on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare workers on the frontlines have faced unprecedented human suffering, extraordinary working conditions, ... -
Barriers to Mental Health Service Utilization by South Asian Communities in North America
(2021-12-07)South Asian (SA) communities in North America have been shown to have lower rates of utilization of mental health services when compared to the dominant Western demographic (Chaudhry & Chen, 2019). This literature review ... -
South Asian Youth and Empowerment Towards Accessing Services
(2021-12-07)South-Asian youth are navigating through various socio-cultural factors such as familial obligations, abuse, pressures of academic achievement among other typical adolescent struggles. This dichotomous balance of the ... -
The Impact of Insecure Attachment on Adolescent Self-Concept and Peer Attachment: A Resource for Counsellors
(2021-12-07)The purpose of this capstone is to provide an outline of the current research on the impact that an insecure attachment has on self-concept and peer attachment in adolescence. Insecure attachment within adolescents creates ...
