Scholarly Work (Open Access)
Contains open access scholarly work from City University of Seattle students, faculty, and staff.
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The Impact and Influence that Protective Factors and Trauma-Informed Care have on Building Resilience Among Those That Have Endured Adverse Childhood Experiences: A School Functioning and Adult Mental Health Review
(2021-05)This paper outlines and describes the implications that ACEs have on student functioning as well as the impacts ACEs have on one in later life. Research indicates that one’s mental health as well as ones physical and social ... -
Relational Healing Through Animals: The Human-Animal Bond Therapist Toolkit
(2021-05)Early attachment experiences and the resulting attachment security that develops has a lasting impact on human mental health and well-being, as well as challenges to interpersonal relationships. Without early experiences ... -
Ancestral Healing Supports Anti-Racist Solidarity Building for People of Colour
(2021)This manuscript-style thesis explores ways in which ancestral healing, as a set of practices and a resource, can expand capacity and generate possibilities for accessing and cultivating a felt sense of anti-racist solidarity ... -
A Response-Based Practice Perspective of Postnatal Depression Treatment
(2021-05-08)The purpose of this capstone is to explore and connect the concepts of postnatal depression (PND), response-based practice (RBP), and group therapy as a means of introducing a systemic/relational way to view and help ... -
The Impact of Instagram on Females' Self Image
(2021-05-13)With the advancements of technology and smartphones, social media has become a prevalent part of many individuals' lives. Instagram is a popular social media site that allows users to generate and interact with images and ... -
Parental Responses to Child-Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorder
(2021-05-04)Parental responses range in presentation and severity after receiving a child-diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental disorder. Diagnosis-related grief is a form of living loss and is less comprehended by society, resulting in ... -
An Investigation into Effective Mindfulness-Based Practices in K-12 Schools
(2021-04)Mindfulness can be understood as the foundation and the basic pre-condition for education (Zenner, Herrnleben-Kurz, & Walach, 2014). Students need to learn to stop their mind from wandering and regulate attention and ... -
It Takes a Village to Manage Chronic Pain
(2021-06)Chronic pain is a debilitating disorder characterized by musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and compromises in cognition. Although pharmacotherapy has had some success in treating chronic pain, this approach does not address ... -
Elementary Principals' Experiences With Coaching
(2020-03-17)The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to explore the topic of principal coaching using principal supervisors. In the past, the traditional model of principal supervision focused on monitoring principals ... -
Are They Ready?: Alternative Education and Post-Secondary Readiness
(2021-04-13)Student success is influenced by accessibility and educational experience. These two factors shape academic rigor, teacher support, and post-secondary preparation, all essential elements for the growing number of disenfranchised ... -
An Analysis of Multiple Measures to Reduce Disproportionality in Accelerated Program Identification
(2021-04-14)Low-income students and students of color are disproportionately identified at lower rates for accelerated programs in K-12 education compared to their peers in the United States. A lack of equitable identification processes ... -
An Exploration of Trauma in Children and Youth with Intellectual Disabilities
(2021-04-10)Children and youth with intellectual disabilities (ID) and their families are not currently receiving appropriate therapeutic support to meet their mental health needs. This study looks at the concept of intellectual ... -
Workplace Racism and Women of Colour: An Exploration of Impacts and Coping Strategies
(2021-04-16)Women of colour in North America often face workplace racism, which significantly impacts their overall mental health and wellbeing. Racial disparities in mental health and physical health are widely recognized by researchers ... -
An Investigation Into the Construct of the Highly Sensitive Person and the Personality Traits Which Make for an Effective Counsellor
(2021-04-09)The purpose of this Capstone Research Project is to explore the concept of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) traits and to examine the personality traits that make for an effective counsellor. Any overlaps between the ... -
Play and Social-Emotional Wellbeing: Creating Space for Unstructured Play in Montessori Environments
(2021-04)Research indicates that most Canadian children and youth fill their time outside of school participating in extracurricular activities or on a screen (Statistics Canada, 2008, 2018). This suggests that many young people ... -
The Role of Self-Determination Theory in Physical Activity Interventions for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(2021-03)Standard treatments for trauma are often limited by the aversiveness of addressing traumatic memories in counselling. Physical activity is emerging as an effective adjunct treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ... -
How to Best Support Caregivers of Those with Neurocognitive Disorder: Preferred Modalities of Psychotherapy
(2021-03-10)Caregivers of those with neurocognitive disorder (NCD) are currently not receiving clinical therapeutic counselling, to support their mental health needs. The current research shows that Canada’s public health care system ... -
The Dehumanization of Cindy Gladue
(2020-09-21)This study presents an analysis of the language and actions surrounding a jury trial in Alberta in 2015. The findings include many examples of prejudicial or in some cases what may be considered inappropriate or ethically ... -
Relationship Trauma and Difficulty of Healthy Relationships
(2021-03)This Capstone will explore the ideas behind how past traumatic relationships create difficulty in forming new, healthy relationships in individuals. The paper takes a look at different types of unhealthy relationships such ... -
A Case Study of Software Reengineering using Emerging Cloud Computing: A Non-profit's National Math Competition Event Management System
(2021-03)Recently, there is some research about software reengineering, but few kinds of analysis use cloud computing technologies to demonstrate software reengineering for web application technologies. Cloud computing also will ...
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