• 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, Jillian (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 ...
• 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 ...

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