• Transitioning out of violence: intersections of motherhood and precarious immigration status 

  Taylor, Catherine (2017-08-31)

  This study explores the help-seeking processes of mothers with precarious immigration status who have experienced domestic violence while residing in a mid-size coastal city in British Columbia. Using semi-structured ...
• Redefining student success : learning from nontraditional learners 

  Campbell, Jean Mallory (2017-08-28)

  This study examines student success from the perspective of mature, female students in human service programs at one B.C. post-secondary institution. An exploratory, case study approach was employed, focussing on in depth ...
• Exploring the experiences of children with autism spectrum disorder participating in a therapeutic social group 

  Weatherhead, Kerry-Lynn (2017-08-28)

  The purpose of this research was to explore the experiences of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in a therapeutic social group. Using a social constructionist theoretical framework and drawing on disability ...
• “Tough parts, connections, interruptions, and courage”: conversations with beginning early childhood educators 

  Butcher, Anastasia (2017-08-23)

  This thesis focuses on beginning early childhood educators and their stories, contributing to an area in the literature that has not been researched extensively. Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) philosophical concepts of ...
• Transitioning from child welfare into adulthood: a meta-analysis of North American interventions 

  Healey, Priscilla (2017-06-07)

  Objective: To assess the impact of North American transition programs for youth emerging to adulthood on education, housing, relationship, identity formation, youth engagement, life skills, mental health, and financial ...
• Working with diversity: the experiences of child life specialists 

  Matthiesen, Amarens (2017-05-01)

  Canada’s increasingly diverse population requires healthcare providers to become responsive to cultural differences within the provision of healthcare services, including Child Life Specialists (CLSs), who are committed ...
• Becoming affected with artistic memoir: entanglements with arts-based education in India 

  Berry, Alexandra Michele (2017-05-01)

  Drawing loosely on feminist and post-human notions of learning as an “untamed” and “more-than-multiple” experience (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 154), I play with the use of Artistic Memoir as a method to explore my affectual ...
• A beacon for information: youth narratives on school-based anxiety prevention 

  Felix, Andrea (2017-04-27)

  The newly revised 2017-2018 British Columbian high school curriculum, as a prevention education response to a growing concern around children and youths’ mental health, indicates that students will learn the signs and ...
• The development of addiction-prone personality traits and substance use behaviours in biological and adoptive families 

  Franco Cea, Nozomi (2017-04-21)

  Substance use behaviours have been viewed as the end products of a combination of influences. Numerous theories for working with substance use behaviour utilizing a multi-systemic approach have been proposed. In this ...
• Non-civilian, civilian: a Canadian youth perspective of growing up in the military lifestyle 

  Tupper, Tam Basaraba (2017-01-10)

  The title of this study, Non-Civilian/Civilian, illustrates the paradoxical positioning of children of military personnel: Though dependants are not in the military, they are not entirely separate from it either. Many ...
• Narrative evaluation of a community-based child care and education intervention: the case of Muula Center in Zomba, Malawi 

  Chibwana, Khama (2016-08-15)

  This study has evaluated outcomes of the care and educational intervention set up for children of Magalasi and the surrounding villages since 2003. Magalasi Village is located in the rural area of Zomba District in Malawi, ...
• Reading between the (on)lines: a discursive analysis of self-harming, suicidal and helper subjectivities 

  Baldock, Aubrey (2016-05-16)

  Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth in Canada and it is estimated that anywhere between 2-47% of North American youth among community and clinical populations have engaged in self-harming behaviours. As ...
• Teaching (with) love: relational engagement in educational settings 

  Vincent, Jennifer (2016-05-11)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate school professionals’ conceptualizations and experiences of love in their work with children. In order to investigate the place of love in educational settings, semi-structured ...
• Exploring the healing effects of yoga for trauma in children and youth: the stories of yoga instructors 

  Bonnell, Sarah (2016-04-29)

  Yoga as a therapeutic modality for treating trauma is currently emerging as an important topic of research with several new studies being produced to analyze its effectiveness on varying populations of traumatized individuals. ...
• “Make smart choices!”: discourses of girlhood responsibilization in cybersafety curricula 

  Brand, Cara (2016-04-28)

  Social discourses about cybersafety -the ways we teach people about protecting themselves from and reporting risks in new media- reveal a heightened focus on the part of those who work with girls regarding their risk in ...
• Community-based responses to youth offending: politics, policy and practice under the Youth Criminal Justice Act 

  Stoneman, Lorinda (2016-04-21)

  This research focused on diversion and community-based alternatives to custody for young offenders. For the purposes of this research, diversion, and community-based responses to youth crime include informal processes and ...
• Perspectives on capacity strengthening and co-learning in communities: Experiences of an Aboriginal community-based research steering committee 

  Stringer, Heather (2016-01-05)

  Community-university partnerships have become more prevalent to support community-based research, especially as a collaborative approach to research with Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. One practice is the activation of a ...
• Manufacturing marginalization: Parenting services from the perspective of parents with mental illness 

  Abramovitch, Ginna (2015-12-22)

  This exploratory study begins to fill in a large gap in the understanding of how parents with MI access parenting services and how they perceive this process. Constructivist grounded theory by K. Charmaz (2006) was the ...
• Conceiving Women: Childbirth Ideologies in Popular Literature 

  Toronchuk, Cherie (2015-08-28)

  North American research on childbearing demonstrates that many first-time mothers rely on educational books for information and advice concerning pregnancy and childbirth. Popular literature on childbearing advises women ...
• 'Because we want your family to keep flourishing’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Parenting Educational Materials 

  Reynolds, Teila (2015-08-24)

  In the 2012 Families First Agenda, the Government of British Columbia outlined the provision of ‘evidence-based’ parenting information as part of its official commitment to support vulnerable families. This thesis investigates ...

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