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Title: Women escaping abuse in northern British Columbia: Attributes and resources that make the most difference.
Contributors: Cherylynne Greenard-Smith (author), Si Transken (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: No abstract available.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-03-30T16:58:13.69Z

Title: The silence speaks loudly: considering whether the victims' needs can be met through circle sentencing
Contributors: Charlene C. Levis (author), Jo-Anne Fiske (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: No abstract available.
Discipline: Gender Studies
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:19:00.287Z

Title: Women with developmental disabilities and sexual abuse : an analysis of the (draft) practice guidelines for Part 3 of the Adult Guardianship Act
Contributors: Heather Gwen Aase (author), Si Transken (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This modified case study critically explores the issue of women with developmental disabilities and sexual abuse and analyzes the (Draft) Ministry of Children and Family Development Practice Guidelines (policy) developed in response to the Adult Guardianship Act (Part 3) Support and Assistance to Abused and Neglected Adults (the Act). This project is grounded in a comprehensive review of the literature relating to women with disabilities and abuse. The development of the Act and policy are explored in both historical and contemporary contexts. It has been estimated that women with disabilities risk of abuse ranges from one and a half to five times greater than women without disabilities of similar age. This project will posit that negative assumptions and beliefs play a major role in socially constructed myths and stereotypes that act to negate women with disabilities. The root causes of society's negative attitude towards people with disabilities are a subscription to the medical model of disability and, more generally, capitalist society which inherently devalues people with developmental disabilities. This project seeks to analyze the Act through the framework of a social model of disability. A social model of disability contends that disability is the outcome of social arrangements which work to limit the activities of people with impairments by erecting social barriers. The policy does not address major structural barriers individuals with disabilities face. For instance, poverty, lack of educational opportunities, and unemployment. The policy does however, help to create awareness of the issue of abuse among women with disabilities and additionally, their right to self-determination. Finally, the Act acknowledges that abuse is a community problem through the creation of Community Response Networks which may help to alleviate abuse through education and ultimately societal change.--Page ii.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:12:19.05Z

Title: The Elmcrest Project: an evaluation of group therapeutic techniques in developing resiliency in children who have been exposed to women abuse in the home
Contributors: Gail Michelle Gustafson (author), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The author discusses the impact on children who are exposed to woman abuse in the home. Research indicates that these children demonstrate a high frequency of externalizing and internalizing behavior difficulties. However, not all children who grow up in maritally violent homes are behaviorally disturbed nor do all become involved in abusive relationships as adults. Adjustment problems of children who have been subject to various traumas have been shown to be highly variable. The research on "resilient" children emphasizes the importance of including the protective and vulnerability factors both within the child and his/her environment to explain this difference in response to adversity. This paper suggests that children's resiliency might be enhanced through their participation in a group treatment model of intervention. The Elmcrest Project is presented as such a model and the author's experience co-facilitating the Fall, 1998 "Lunch Group" is described.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:18:51.783Z

Title: Still walking on egg shells: women's lived experience of staying with their partners who have completed abusive men's treatment groups
Contributors: Christine M. Leischner (author), Barbara Issac (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Woman abuse is a serious problem in our society and our ready acceptance of men's treatment groups as a solution to woman abuse maybe short-sighted. Outcome investigations of abusive men's treatment groups have failed to include women's experience as a measure of treatment success and often disparity exists on whether success has been achieved. Many studies examine only physical abuse and fail to acknowledge the role of psychological abuse in relationships. The goal of this study was to listen to the voices of those women who have stayed with their partners after the men have completed group treatment and to understand their day-to-day experience of living with the 'treated' man. This feminist-oriented descriptive phenomenological study investigates five women, using face-to-face interview techniques. Descriptive information was generated from audio taped interviews. A metaphor emerged as the core phenomenon which participants described as 'still walking on eggshells'. This described the experience of living with their partners, post-group, and defined the essential element of the post-group experience. Within this core phenomenon, five themes were identified: safety, women's work of staying in the relationship, partner's use of power and control, concern for children and the role of the 'system' . These descriptions of the essence of the post-group relationship allow us to hear from the women who experience the daily reality of "still walking on egg shells", a perspective often unheard and therefore unacknowledged. These perspectives indicate a need to review our current treatment options for abusive men as a means of providing greater safety to women.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:15:37.851Z

Title: The embodied experiences of alienation and opioid use : examining the body as a site of direct exchange through the double lens of theory and narrative
Contributors: Sarah Blawatt (author), Maryna Romanets (thesis advisor), Jacqueline Holler (committee member), Sarah de Leeuw (committee member), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This research explores how the body is implicated in transmuting meaning for women who are substance dependent on opioids and have engaged in survival sex work. Using a hybridized application of narrative, theorizing, and interviews, this interdisciplinary thesis identifies some of the ways these women navigate the constraints of their marginalization. Eight women were interviewed on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, British Columbia. The research works to acknowledge and explore how these women exist in an ‘alternate’ economy in order to obtain opioids to meet their life-needs. The employment of materialist feminist examinations of alienation and access to capital located shared experiences in the women’s narratives. Though the research did not reveal an explicit connection between the body, meaning, and sex work, there was a strong indication of meaning making through advocacy and engagement with those in similar social positions.
Discipline: Gender Studies
Date added: 2020-05-28T20:17:55.539Z

Title: Transition houses: Safety, security, and compassion.
Contributors: Amanda Alexander (author), Si Transken (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to examine service efficacy in northern British Columbian transition houses. My research will attempt to examine what services women have found valuable to making their lives safe, what services could be offered to improve the quality of service provision in transition houses, and any recommendations for change that women have for service providers. Eight women were interviewed in a northern community in order to identify which services were most helpful to themselves and their children. A thematic analysis was applied to the data which yielded five main themes of importance: safety, support, creative service delivery, internal challenges, and external influences. From the analysis, it is evident that women find the transition house a valuable service, one that has assisted them in their healing journey.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:04:45.607Z

Title: 'He said he loved me. I wanted to be loved': Young women's experiences of coping with violence in intimate relationships.
Contributors: Marina Ursa (author), Corinne Koehn (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This study examined lived experiences of coping with physically violent common-law or marital relationships for women 19 to 24 years old. Information was collected from five women through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using Moustakas' transcendental phenomenological approach. Findings revealed that young women reduced stress, engaged in a variety of cognitive strategies, used communication with partners, managed violence, escaped, disclosed or hid evidence of abuse and violence from other people, were supported and hindered from family and friends, and relied on strangers and acquaintances. Findings indicate young women's coping was not about healthy or unhealthy strategies. Whether she remained in the relationship, tried to change dynamics, or left her partner, coping was an attempt to retain personal power and control. Findings highlight the importance of studying both how young women cope and their motivations for coping with abuse and violence. Implications for counsellor education, professional practice, and future research are discussed. --P.ii.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:06:47.951Z

Title: Constructing abuse: the experiences of mothers and court ordered child custody and access assessments
Contributors: Sonya Elizabeth Charlesworth (author), Barbara Issac (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This study looks at one aspect of child custody and access within the context of family violence; that is, how the presence of abuse within a parental relationship is considered in court ordered child custody and access evaluations. The personal accounts of three women as related to me in personal open-ended interviews were examined along side the respective custody and access evaluations as prepared by psychologists. It is through this qualitative case study approach that I hoped to gain some perspective and insight into some of the real life issues and obstacles that women everywhere are facing. Among the number of things that these women faced, perhaps most evident was the tendency of evaluators to disregard the existence of intimate violence whether it occurred before separation or continues to occur in other forms (i.e., intimidation, harassment) and fail to see it as a risk for children. Apparent also was how different standards were applied to levels of parental involvement and skills, with fathering tending to be more highly valued. In summary, the study suggests that the rights of fathers to continue to have relationships with their children given priority over the needs of women to protect themselves and their children from further violence.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:13:34.122Z

Title: The use of narrative therapy in counselling bridging participants
Contributors: Andr~a McKenzie (author), Peter MacMillan (Thesis advisor), Judith Lapadat (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: No abstract available.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:17:04.935Z

Title: An overview of clinical counselling techniques and their use in situations where persons have experienced abuse or grief and loss
Contributors: Catherine Mugure Karigeym (author), Glen Schmidt (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The need for effective counselling for abused women is a major concern for social workers and other professionals who have been responding to the plight of the mentioned individuals. There is a need to provide effective supportive counselling for victimized women who desire to be empowered in changing their situations by taking charge of their lives. In my approach to these women's needs, I found the most helpful clinical therapeutic counselling methods to be those that have a strength-based approach such as the following: Murray Bowen's System Theory, and Berg and de Shazer's Solution-Focused Therapy. In this report, I outline how I used the various methods of counselling and will conclude by explaining what I found to be the strengths and weaknesses of each method. --P. ii.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:07:59.951Z

Title: A postmodernist art therapy group curriculum for women who have been abused by their male partners
Contributors: Sarah E. Milner (author), Trudy Mothus (Thesis advisor), Dennis Procter (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: No abstract available.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:15:50.115Z

Title: Letting the light in : universal screening for woman abuse in a northern health care setting
Contributors: Paula Evanne Hunter (author), Si Transken (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Given that substantial numbers of abused women seek health care services and given the negative impact abuse has on women, children and communities at large, the health care sector has a vital role to play in addressing violence against women. However, due to a combination of personal, institutional and ideological factors, the needs of abused women are often overlooked in the health care encounter. This is troubling because the hospital emergency room represents a significant point of entry for abused women to receive treatment, support and safety. For those living in northern, rural and remote communities, the hospital may be the only source of assistance available to women experiencing violence. This case study critically explores the implications of adopting a health care policy known as ' universal screening' for use in a northern, rural or remote health care setting. It is argued that with appropriate training and education, health care providers can use the screening process to go beyond simply inquiring about abuse and treating the physical symptoms to paving the way to women's empowerment. The mains goals of screening from an empowerment perspective are listening with empathy providing support and validation offering appropriate treatment, information and referrals and reassuring women that the violence is not their fault. Most notably, this project asserts that developing a critical consciousness about the complex interplay between the personal, social and political aspects of woman abuse is a necessary component of empowerment practice. With this knowledge, rather than feeling that they need to fix the problem, health care providers will recognize that women are the best judges of their own circumstances.--Page ii.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:16:58.695Z

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