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Spring 2020

Cruikshank, Emily

This study is a replication and expansion on the study completed by Mullen, Morris, and Lord in 2017 which aimed to determine how experience and reflection on ethical dilemmas impacts burnout amongst counselors. One hundred, sixty-four counselors completed an in-person survey that measured...

Fall 2011

Hitschfeld, Marjorie

This study was designed to investigate the factors that contribute to addressing exercise in psychotherapy. Self-identified psychotherapists (n=94) completed surveys relating to: the frequency and type of conversations they have with clients regarding exercise; the frequency and length of time in...

Fall 2011

Kostiuk, Lynne M.

The development of the Adolescent Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (AERQ) involved the creation of instrument items that were designed to measure emotion regulation strategies in cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and social response domains; intensity or duration emotional features; and...

Fall 2019

Deren, Cassandra

A majority (60%) of youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will come into contact with law at some point in their lives (Institute for Health Economics, 2013). The reasons for this troubling statistic are hypothesized to be a result of the varying cognitive, social, and behavioural...

Spring 2022

Hoover, Michelle NM

Play therapy is an effective form of psychotherapy typically used with children under the age of 12. Numerous meta-analyses amalgamating the results of hundreds of play therapy research studies have shown that children who engage in play therapy are better off than nearly 80% of those who do not...

Fall 2014

Calhoon, Kellsey D

Twenty percent of Canadians are affected by mental illness (Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2011). Mental illness can be positively impacted by Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLCs). TLCs include such things as exercise, diet, recreation, sleep, sunlight exposure, interpersonal relationships,...

Spring 2016

Kees, Jennifer G.

While research has demonstrated no differences in effectiveness between the different types of addictions treatments, differences have been found for effectiveness between counsellors. Research has shown that some counsellors who treat addictions, consistently achieve better results than others,...

Fall 2014

Whyte, Holly R

Reflective practice is an important part of what distinguishes expert psychotherapists from their merely average peers. Therapists who engage in it regularly are more effective than those who do not (Cropley, Hanton, Miles, & Niven, 2010; Hoshmand, 1994; Parsons, 2009). One area of reflective...

Fall 2012

Kostiuk, Nicole E

Abstract The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to identify the relationships between explicit and implicit self-esteem, offender categorization, risk of reoffence, narcissism, and psychopathy. Participants were 90 adult male offenders sentenced for a nonviolent, violent, or sexual...

Fall 2015

Wallace, Kevin S. D.

Some psychotherapists consistently achieve superior outcomes with their clients. That is, who you see for psychotherapy matters. Indeed, there is strong empirical evidence that some therapists are consistently more effective with their clients. Such therapists are variously referred to by...