• Sexual Health and Sexuality Education in Child and Youth Care Curriculum 

  Gray, Angelina (2022-12-21)

  In higher education, sexual health and sexuality education (SHSE) topics are clearly absent from the curriculum in the human services field. With many competing priorities in these fields to offer rich and broad educational ...
• Children’s Rights to Participate in Health Care Decision-Making and the Role of Child Life Specialists in the Netherlands: A Critical and Focused Ethnography 

  Matthiesen, Amarens (2022-12-19)

  Children’s participation in decision-making is widely recognized as an important and beneficial legal right with moral and ethical implications. In pediatric health care settings, however, many children are not provided ...
• Queering Survivorhood 

  Wolfe, Audrey (2022-12-14)

  There has been little research conducted in general that explores the impact of sexualized violence on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) youth. There is even more limited qualitative research, and almost ...
• Calling in Outdoor Education to Create Anti-Colonial Change in Canada 

  Walker, Calvin (2022-09-23)

  Contemporary Outdoor Education (OE) has been criticized for continuing to operate in ways that uphold settler colonialism, including having taken minimal action in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of ...
• Reintegrating Darkness: An Exploration into Lived Experiences of Natural Darkness 

  Frey, Sean (2022-09-08)

  Background: With current environmental issues of light pollution as a point of departure, this thesis draws a link between Western society’s subjugation of darkness within personal and collective psyches, and the harmful ...
• Sense of Home and Belonging in Forced Migration: A Case of Farsi-Speaking Youth in Malaysia 

  Lamouchi, Rashin (2022-09-02)

  This qualitative study sought insights into forced migrant youths’ sense of belonging. The study was part of the Youth Migration Project, an ongoing investigation of how young forced migrants construct their identities, ...
• Beginning Within: Exploring a White Settler Emerging Practice for Justice-Doing 

  Laliberte, Julie (2022-08-30)

  There is an increase of White settler Child and Youth Care (CYC) practitioners who are questioning how to be useful in their attempts at solidarity and justice-doing amidst precarious ethics and tensions. Meanwhile, ...
• The Lived Experiences of Child and Youth Care Practitioners Who Use Tactile Objects in Practice 

  Stickney, Allison (2022-08-29)

  This study explores the lived experiences of using tactile objects in Child and Youth Care (CYC) Practitioners’ practice. This thesis includes the definition and scope of tactile objects, explores what being a CYC Practitioner ...
• How do Early Childhood Educators’ Preprofessional Music Experiences Shape their Practices with Young Children: An Interpretive Phenomenology Study 

  Varga, Veronika (2022-08-25)

  Music activities and free musical play have significant developmental, social, and emotional benefits for young children. Early childhood educators can play an important role in integrating music-related activities into ...
• Queer Play, Failure, and Becoming: Investigating Queer Young Adults’ Memories of Play and Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Child and Youthhood 

  Jack, Astri (2022-08-22)

  This study investigated (1) how and where queer young adults remembered playing and exploring gender and sexuality in their child and youthhoods, and (2) how those memories influenced their identities as queer young adults. ...
• Exploring women’s visual narratives of brain injury 

  Roer, Jacquelyn (2022-05-02)

  This qualitative exploratory study centres on the identity, relationship and experiences of six women who have survived a brain injury, as told through their narratives and photographs. Situated in a critical feminist ...
• Trait emotional intelligence, client symptoms, and predictive factors in wilderness therapy 

  Zolotas, Kostas (2022-04-28)

  Background: Mental health issues and harmful substance use are problems that affect many Canadian youth. Wilderness therapy (WT) is a residential adventure-based therapy modality shown to have some success in treating these ...
• Tuning into child and youth care: an audio drama inquiry with child and youth care practitioners who have lived in residential placement 

  Vachon, Wolfgang (2022-04-21)

  Child and youth care (CYC) practitioners (CYCPs) who have lived in residential placement as children or youth represent an understudied and thus largely unknown cohort. This lack of knowledge has resulted in assumptions, ...
• “You have to deconstruct narrative just like narrative therapy deconstructs people’s problems”: exploring critical anticolonial narrative therapy with sexualized violence practitioners 

  Reed, Alina (2021-12-09)

  This qualitative study draws on intersectionality, antiracism, and anticolonialism to unpack the long history of colonial violence in the mental health and social service fields, such as counselling, victim services, social ...
• Our world to come: decolonial love as a praxis of dignity, justice, and resurgence 

  Moreno, Shantelle Andrea (2021-09-02)

  In this thesis I explore the theoretical, ethical, and practice-based implications of doing research with Indigenous, racialized, and LGBT2SQ+ youth and young people. This research traces participant conceptualizations of ...
• If suit people are going to listen. A strengths-based perspective on Indigenous homeless youth 

  Tenning, Jilleun (2021-08-24)

  Indigenous youth are overrepresented within homelessness and form approximately 20 percent of the total youth homeless population in Canada that uses emergency shelters. While extensive studies have been conducted and new ...
• "Disciples by default": women's narratives of leaving alternative religious movements 

  Pratezina, Jessica (2021-04-28)

  The study of alternative religious movements (ARMs) encompasses a wide range of groups, from Fundamentalist Mormons to Scientologists to Jehovah’s Witnesses. There is, however, little research, and almost none of it from ...
• 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 ...

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