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The effect of goal setting, goal tracking, and feedback on reading fluency
(2020-06-05)As more accountability is placed on teachers and schools, they must find ways to boost their students’ academic reading fluency success. Because of the need to increase academic achievement, strategies that have little ... -
The impact of VAS and AAC charts on student focus
(2020-06-04)This action research study investigates the use of visual activity schedules (VAS) and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) charts in a first-grade classroom in Washington State to increase the amount of time ... -
A points system and its impact on student behaviors
(2020-06-04)Negative classroom behaviors can affect not only the learning of the child exhibiting the behaviors, but they can disrupt the learning of other children in the classroom. Creating a points system to manage negative behaviors ... -
Connecting math talk communities, student reasoning and math assessments
(2020-06)This action research project explores the possible connections between the development of a math talks community in a classroom and student performance on standards-based assessments. The project includes nine student ... -
Classroom management: Middle school interventions
(2020-06)Classroom management interventions were implemented in a middle school resource room over a 6-week period. Of 32 students, 12 opted out of participating, which left 20 participants total. The goal was to implement classroom ... -
Classroom management
(2020-06)Classroom management is a primary challenge to academic instruction in elementary classrooms. Establishing and maintaining student engagement may be a controllable way to create a functioning classroom management system. ... -
Why your pain must not exist: Bias & Phenomenology at the ends of medicine
(2020-05-28)Interrupting bias in counselling psychotherapy is critical to ethical practice. This paper demonstrates how the scientific method, for all its utility in health and medicine, also functions as a worldview and a personal ... -
The use of language in developing emotional safety
(2020-05-22)This thesis explores how the language used by counsellors influences client experiences of emotional safety within the therapeutic relationship. This influence was explored through an online survey exploring counsellor and ... -
The integration of equine-facilitated and somatic therapies for the treatment of complex trauma
(2020-05-19)Current research on early trauma is uncovering the staggering toll it takes on physical, psychological, social, and emotional health. Neurobiology and trauma research also suggests that accessing the portion of the brain ... -
Maternal grief following miscarriage: Introducing a group therapy approach to support bereavement
(2020-05-07)Perinatal loss is a common experience in contemporary society. While one in four pregnancies may result in a miscarriage, support for bereaved parents is still lacking. This thesis presents a group therapy approach to ... -
A case for the use of community-based psychedelic assisted psychotherapy in a rural and remote context
(2020-05)The therapeutic use of psychedelic substances has been a foundational component of healing practices in many Indigenous cultures throughout the history of humankind, but it has only been topic of study in Western therapeutic ... -
Readers theater to improve students’ reading comprehension: An issue-focused design-based study to better support students reading below grade level
(2020-05)This study examines the efficacy of implementing Readers Theater on comprehension and reading motivation for lower-ability readers in upper grade classrooms. Analysis of the needs of upper-grade students soon to transition ... -
Makerspace implementation in the general education classroom
(2020-05)An issue focused study discussing the relevance of art education in public schools including the status of art education funding and legislation in the United States. The author introduced the integration of art education ... -
Mobile technologies and relationships: Rebuilding meaningful connections
(2020-05)[No abstract provided by author, first paragraph from Chapter 1 follows] Mobile-information communication technologies (MICT) (smart phones, tablets, internet, social media, texting) have become the preferred method of ... -
Reframing vicarious trauma in clinical supervision through the lens of aboriginal/indigenous focusing-oriented therapy
(2020-05)Clinical supervision is consistently mentioned in the documented literature on vicarious trauma as an essential part of addressing stress in trauma therapists. However, there has been little documented on how clinical ... -
Student statisfaction and student engagement in a school psychology graduate program: Differences between program formats, primarily campus-based, primarily online
(2020-04)While total higher education enrollment is declining, online enrollment is increasing (Lee & Martin, 2017). Educational leaders have developed online options to meet student requirements, but online retention rates are ... -
Therapy with consensually non-monogamous clients
(2020-04)This paper aims to provide a critical breakdown of the structure of monogamy in Western societies and provide therapists with information vital to supporting non-monogamous clients. Consensual non-monogamy (CNM) as a ... -
Stoicism as a model of psychotherapy
(2020-04)The purpose of this paper is to examine the philosophical origins of modern day psychotherapeutic practice, specifically the Hellenistic philosophy of Stoicism. Philosophical counselling engages the client in existential ... -
Reducing student frustration through math instruction
(2020-03-24)Frustration in the classroom during math instruction can result over time in the onset of math anxiety. This professional research study looked at instructional practices that can reduce student frustration within a general ... -
Six interventions for Anxiety: Somatic training, affect regulation, and mental health
(2020-03-15)This thesis analyses aspects of Anxiety and Depression which are two of the most serious mental health challenges. Anxiety is rendered in upper case as A and lower case as a to indicate both generic and specific uses of ...
