• Witnessing the journey: a spiritual awakening 

  MacLeod, Ana Celeste (2021-01-07)

  Indigenous adoptee scholars across Turtle Island and beyond have done good work in coming to understand their identity through community connection, culture, education and practice. A plethora of research has guided young ...
• "Can I see my Daddy?": child and adult family members as visitors in the adult intensive care unit 

  Chalifour, Emma E. (2021-01-07)

  The purpose of this qualitative study was to supply preliminary insights into improving the support of visiting families with children who are minors during the intensive care unit stay (ICU) of an adult family member. ...
• Equine therapies in North America, exploring themes in the literature 

  Routley, Sasha (2021-01-05)

  The field of equine therapy (ET) in Canada and the USA encompasses a range of distinct approaches, such as equine-facilitated therapy, equine-assisted therapy, therapeutic riding, and hippotherapy. Due to issues like ...
• Readiness to change, trait emotional intelligence, and client fit in wilderness therapy 

  Mott, Addison J. (2020-12-21)

  Background: Wilderness therapy is one type of residential treatment that has been shown to successfully engage adolescents in mental health and substance use treatment. A growing body of wilderness therapy outcomes research ...
• #AnthropoceneChild: speculative child-figures at the end of the world 

  Ashton, Emily (2020-08-25)

  In this dissertation I think-with figures of #AnthropoceneChild in speculative texts that story the end of the world through some form of climate catastrophe. In these post-apocalyptic tales, the child-figures do different ...
• Oh nisa’taro:ten? Learning how to sken:nen as a contemporary Haudenosaunee woman 

  Coon, Emily Charmaine (2020-01-30)

  The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is threaded together with sken:nen, the radical practice of peacemaking. As a Kanien’keha:ka woman, I am responsible for finding ways of bringing our peace-full teachings, gifts and intellect ...
• Lighting fires: re-searching sexualized violence with Indigenous girls in Northern Canada 

  Chadwick, Anna (2019-10-01)

  In this thesis, I reflect on the ethical and theoretical foundations of researching (and re-searching) sexualized violence with Indigenous girls in remote communities in northern British Columbia, Canada, through a project ...
• Integrating fluid, responsive, and embodied ethics: unsettling the praxis of white settler CYC practitioners 

  MacKenzie, Kaz (2019-09-30)

  This thesis explores and seeks to unsettle the tenacity of white settler privilege in child and youth care (CYC). I first acknowledge the significant leadership of Indigenous and nonwhite activist-scholars to address the ...
• Dream/hope/love/create/act (and back): a collaboration in the dis/ability field 

  Sahlstrom, Jessica (2019-09-27)

  Dream/Hope/Love/Create/Act (and back) is a collaborative arts-based research project on the experiences that support workers have with enacting support, care and education practices in the disability support and education ...
• Risky business? Understanding the educational experiences of street-involved youth 

  Vetrone, Laura (2019-08-30)

  The purpose of this thesis research is to better understand the experiences of street-involved youth in educational institutions. Data for this study was collected through a five-wave panel study of street-involved youth ...
• Counselling in an age of Empire 

  Kouri, Scott (2019-07-09)

  In an age of unbridled global capitalism and caustic neocolonial relations to land and life, the question of the aims and approaches of doing counselling with young people, particularly those majoritarian youth who are ...
• Risky play in early childhood education and care in Norway 

  Obee, Patricia (2019-07-09)

  Background: Risky play is defined as thrilling and challenging forms of play that have the potential for physical injury and has been linked to development and health benefits for children in the early years such as ...
• Mindful children: exploring the conceptualization of mindfulness practice in public elementary school settings 

  Gaines, Jasmine Christine (2019-06-24)

  In recent decades, the practice of mindfulness has spread from its initial Eastern philosophical and spiritual roots and has been adapted in various Western contexts of service provision in attempts to improve the physical ...
• Risky business: a narrative inquiry of male child and youth care practitioners' use of therapeutic touch 

  Bennett, Christopher (2019-04-30)

  Male child and youth care (CYC) practitioners have rarely been queried about how, or if, they use therapeutic touch (TT) with clients. A significant amount of literature suggests that TT with children and youth can have a ...
• How do child welfare supervisors approach ethical dilemmas in their practice? 

  Rooke, Susan (2019-04-29)

  Although there is extensive literature on supervision in the human services, there is limited research specific to the stories from supervisors in child welfare, in particular in Canada. This inquiry sought to understand ...
• Meaning-making and the wilderness experience: an examination using a constructive-developmental lens 

  Pollock, Curtis J. (2019-04-29)

  Wilderness Experience Programs (WEPs) take youth into wilderness settings in order to teach wilderness travel and leadership, expand personal capacity, and equip youth with coping skills in order to manage life’s ...
• Mental illness stigma: experiences of youth with a mental disorder 

  Haug, Sally-Anne (2019-02-05)

  Canadian society continues to stigmatize individuals with mental illness, despite the prevalence of mental illness in the population, decades of advocacy to combat mental illness stigma, and known negative sequelae of ...
• Mature girls, squirrelly boys, and “wily” risk; gendered risk in outdoor adventure education 

  Tilstra, Elisabeth (2019-01-02)

  This thesis critically analyzes how gender intersects with risk processes and practices in outdoor adventure education. I focus on how language, binary logic, and societal norms work together to gender risk and offer three ...
• Sometimes even a single feather is enough to fly: a hermeneutic journey through rites of passage in outdoor education 

  Minichiello, Miles (2018-10-02)

  Rite of passage is a term that is used widely and uncritically in the field of outdoor education. This hermeneutic research project explores how a third-generation Canadian outdoor educator explores how rites of passage ...
• An exploration of experiences of extreme abuse 

  Charles, Grant (2018-07-13)

  This study has examined in detail the experiences of an individual who was ritually abused as a young person. Two other people, who had been ritually abused, were also interviewed in order to serve as a means of triangulation ...

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