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Title: The perception of emotional expressions in incarcerated youth.
Contributors: Evan Douglas Vike (author), Glend Prkachin (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The aim of this study was to explore if the social difficulties experienced by incarcerated youth are related, in part, to some deficit in perceiving socially important information conveyed by facial expressions of emotion. Furthermore, it sought to investigate the underlying structural or functional impairment of processing facial emotion within this subpopulation. -- p.ii.
Discipline: Psychology
Date added: 2017-03-29T17:33:32.095Z

Title: Theatre for health: "Playing" the price of colonialism on the health of indigenous peoples in Saik'uz territory.
Contributors: Lisa Striegler (author), Sarah de Leeuw (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Strong evidence exists that anti-Indigenous racism is built into the fabric of Canadian society and that it is a determinant of Indigenous peoples' health. Colonial policies that historically de-humanized and dislocated Indigenous peoples in order to open territory for European settlement continue to have a negative impact on Indigenous health status today. A mixed methods study combining data from focus groups, individual interviews, participant observation field notes, and surveys explored the use of community-based theatre as a means to ameliorate racism-based health inequities in Saik'uz territory in Northern British Columbia. The findings suggest that community-based theatre provides an effective means for enhancing trust and building relationships within community, and between the traditionally racially divided communities of Saik'uz and the neighbouring District of Vanderhoof. Relationships of trust are crucial elements that contribute to greater well-being for those living in Saik'uz territory. --Leaf ii.
Discipline: Community Health
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:12:24.975Z

Title: Tiny specks in microscopes: the impact of human service workers on the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities
Contributors: Jacqueline Harper (author), Gordon Ternowetsky (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This exploratory study used grounded theory methodology to examine the interactions between human service workers and parents with intellectual disabilities. Seven in-depth interviews were conducted with 3 parents. These parents were all receiving voluntary, formal support services. The findings of this study indicated that parents recognized that they needed voluntary, formal support services to manage some aspects of their lives. Other findings indicated, however, that support was not always viewed as being beneficial. Human service workers were often perceived as social control officers. A number of mechanisms such as coercion and blaming were used to maintain social control. The social control parents experienced led them to feel a sense of hopelessness about their situations which resulted in parents inventing new ways to adjust or adapt to their situations.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:16:10.079Z

Title: Stress management for young adolescent girls: strengthening connection in the school setting
Contributors: Candace Merla Koziski (author), Colleen Haney (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: For this research project, nine grade 8 girls were asked specific questions during focus group interviews to illuminate their stressors and methods of coping. The results revealed that stress is a significant factor in three main areas of their lives: school (especially the transition to high school), family and peers. The girls utilized mostly active coping strategies. They sought assistance from family, friends or other adults in their environment. A small group format was mentioned as affording an opportunity to practice coping skills. These findings imply that young adolescent girls elicit most of their support through connection with others. Therefore, a stress management group intervention is presented to assist young adolescent girls in managing the transition to secondary school and beyond. The program attempts to help the students learn skills that will increase their ability to cope actively with their stressors. This project concludes with recommendations and practical applications for future endeavors.--Page ii.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:18:48.731Z

Title: Grief and loss and children: a guide for caregivers and educators
Contributors: Rachel Mulder (author), Linda O'Neill (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Loss and the accompanying grief that children experience in childhood is a real and problematic concern for the healthy development of children. Often times, children's grief experiences are overlooked or minimized because adults don't want to draw attention to it for fear of making it worse. This project was undertaken to demonstrate the need to address this issue. I researched the impact of leaving issues of grief and loss unresolved in childhood, and the impact that this has on subsequent development. I also examined therapeutic practice that has positive outcomes for children and combined those into a series of lessons. These lessons are crafted to work within the current BC education curriculum and can be incorporated into one on one, small group or the classroom setting, with therapeutic approaches and techniques designed to support both the grieving child and those caring adults and peers who want to help in a time of loss. --Leaf i.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2017-03-29T17:21:46.625Z

Title: An exploration of young adult women's experiences of using physical aggression in intimate relationships: A phenomenological study.
Contributors: Kayla Adams (author), Corinne Koehn (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Both men and women use physical aggression in intimate relationships however the research examining the many nuances of women's use of physical aggression is sparse in comparison to the research available on men. Because little is known about the motivations and contextual factors leading to women's use of physical aggression in comparison to men, theories of violence and offender treatment programs that were developed for men are being used to understand and treat women. This is problematic because research suggests male and female aggressors differ in some very important areas. The present study used transcendental phenomenology to explore the experience of young adult women's use of physical aggression in intimate relationships. From the interviews with eight women, five themes were discovered: altered state, observations of self as someone else, others not seeing authentic self, moving towards ideal self, and managing connection/disconnection. Implications for counselling and future research are discussed.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:06:24.098Z

Title: Self-reflective identity processing and psychological maturity: Examining the link between identity and wisdom.
Contributors: Todd G. Pryor (author), Sherry L. Beaumont (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The predictive relationship between the use of an informational identity processing style and wisdom was examined by focusing specifically on the mediating roles of self-reflective capacities (self-reflection, insight, mindfulness, and self-compassion). One hundred and eighty three young adult men (N=51) and women (N=132) completed self-report measures of identity styles, identity commitment, self-reflection, insight, mindfulness, self-compassion, and wisdom, with a subsample (N=60 14 men and 46 women) also completing these measures one year later. The use of an information style was positively related to all self-reflective capacities and to wisdom. In addition, each of the reflective capacities partially mediated the relationship between informational identity processing and wisdom. Contrary to predictions, informational style processing, self-reflection, and insight measured at Time 1 did not predict wisdom measured at Time 2. The results are discussed in terms how the reflective capacities of informational individuals may promote wisdom development. --Leaf ii.
Discipline: Psychology
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:12:28.495Z

Title: The role of knowledge gained through bodily experience in the processing of insults.
Contributors: Michele Wellsby (author), Paul Siakaluk (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The purpose of this research was to examine whether knowledge gained through bodily experience influences the processing of insults. I presented embodied insults (e.g., asswipe'), non-embodied insults (e.g., cheapskate'), and other non-insults (e.g., armband') or compliments (e.g., eyeful') in four insult detection task experiments (is the stimulus an insult or not?'). After each experiment, participants were given a surprise recall task. In all four experiments, a facilitatory bodily experience effect was observed, such that the embodied insults were responded to more rapidly and were recalled more often than the non-embodied insults. I propose that knowledge gained through bodily experience is an integral component of the conceptual knowledge people possess for insults. My results are also consistent with the idea that embodied insults are understood by creating mental simulations of underlying bodily experiences. --P. ii.
Discipline: Psychology
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:08:53.656Z

Title: Stigma and resilience: Lived experiences of people with HIV in a northern community.
Contributors: Orlando McLeish (author), Jos~e Lavole (Thesis advisor), Tina Fraser (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Stigma is a reality for millions of individuals who are living with HIV/AIDS and is accompanied with many challenges, however individuals are resilient in spite of the negative impacts of stigma. The purpose of this research was to explore and highlight the lived experience of people living with HIV-related stigmas in Prince George, secondly, to understand the impacts of stigma, and thirdly, to identify the ways in which those living with HIV/AIDS respond to stigma. The research draws on hermeneutics phenomenology as this enables the exploration of participants' experiences of stigma and resilience. Findings that have emerged from the thematic analysis have shown that stigma both enacted and felt is still prevalent in the lives of the participants. Also, participants' experienced various challenges such as: mental health problems, substance abuse, financial problems and the lack of relationships. However, despite these challenges, participants reported feeling optimistic and hopeful as well as experiencing spiritual growth, finding a sense of purpose while living with their diagnosis. Overall participants in the study are adapting to their hardship and choosing not to be victims of HIV but survivors and fighters. --Leaf ii.
Discipline: Community Health
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:13:34.031Z

Title: Community referrals: the experiences of youth forensic mental health therapists in Prince George
Contributors: Jennifer Elizabeth Broughton (author), Glen Schmidt (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Youth Forensic Psychiatric Services (YFPS) outpatient clinic in Prince George is the focus of this Master of Social Work practicum report. The following pages outline practicum learning goals and objectives and how goals and objectives were met. YFPS is described in detail including the mandate of the agency along with the clinical services provided by the clinic. The staff of YFPS are the subjects of the research component of this practicum report. Participants were interviewed and asked to comment on their experiences in making or suggesting community referrals for their clients. The data provided by participants was evaluated using thematic analysis. The results yielded an understanding of the community resources youth most commonly require in the Prince George area. Also, participants identified the areas where additional services are required. --P.ii.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:05:29.411Z

Title: The effects of traumatic stress on firefighters' world assumptions.
Contributors: Juanita Brower-Berkhoven (author), Shannon Wagner (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: No abstract available.
Discipline: Disability Management
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:03:23.677Z

Title: Routes to transcendence: Disordered eating, substance abuse, and self-injury in young women.
Contributors: Maria L. McKay (author), Si Transken (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The purpose of this research was to explore the intersections between disordered eating, substance abuse, and self-injury among young women. In this thesis, I attempted to illuminate convergences and divergences between the experiences of young women who have struggled with these three problems, in the interest of shedding light on contributing factors, as well as possible barriers, to recovery and wellness. Throughout the research process, the focus was on the women's thoughts, feelings, and meaning-making. Inquiry into past trauma and abuse was deliberately omitted in order to focus on the behaviours as adaptations rather than symptoms of pathology. Nine women ages 21 to 27 were interviewed all were university students. Experience of the three behaviours varied, as did experience of therapeutic intervention. Interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed, and analyzed to yield eight themes and seven sub-themes. The most pervasive of these was the theme of ambivalence, which functions on multiple levels and appears to constitute a significant barrier to help-seeking and recovery. Other themes included identity body image stigma learning the behaviours function and strategy of behaviours choice and recovery.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:04:15.586Z

Title: The long-term relational impacts of child sexual abuse by a parent
Contributors: Bernadette Ridley (author), unknown unknown (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia College of Arts, Social, and Health Sciences (Degree granting institution), unknown unknown (Committee member)
Abstract: This qualitative autoethnographic research study examines the long-term relationship impacts of child sexual abuse (CSA) by parent. Using snowball sampling seven resilient women were recruited for this research. From an autoethnographic and feminist perspective the researcher shares her personal story of CSA in solidarity with the seven women participants. Through semi-structured interviews the women contributors gave deep and rich relational personal her/stories about being sexually abused by their fathers. Using a “six-phase” model of thematic analysis, member checking, and qualitative transparency, two over-arching themes, and eight subthemes emerged from the data. Finally, through this research study it was apparent there needs to be more research about the understudied long-term relational impacts of being sexually abused by a parent and the mother’s and families role in colluding with the perpetrator.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2017-05-15T16:28:30.718Z

Title: ARTivism: Gender and artistic expression at AWAC.
Contributors: Reeanna Bradley (author), Si Transken (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This thesis explores the power dynamics inherent in discussions about legitimate knowledge and gender expectations. Through eight sessions of art and eleven interviews, it exposes oppressive systems and compares the intersections of race, class, sex, and sexuality. My interdisciplinary approach expands from the work of local contemporary artist and researcher Zandra Dahne Harding. Building upon her thesis, and including influences from feminist theorists such as Rich, hooks, and Butler, and minority activists like Tuhiwai Smith and Feinberg, I situate voices emerging from marginalized populations as equally relevant and poignant, using the case study of seventeen residents of AWAC Homeless Shelter. Art is a means of expression for those whose experiences are muted by socioeconomic disadvantage, differential access to education, and non-normative gender identities. This thesis shares an example of how oppressed people can use and personalize participation in the visual arts to subvert elements of prevailing power structures, like those related to education, criminal corrections, and gender hierarchies. Art sessions and interviews conducted with feminist and indigenous frameworks, called artivism' helped participants involved with a street-level shelter in Northern British Columbia communicate some aspects of their diverse truths of subordination. --Leaf 2.
Discipline: Gender Studies
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:13:22.63Z

Title: Identity development in men and its relation to psychosocial distress and self-concept
Contributors: Ray Zukanovic (author), Sherry Beaumont (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The major hypothesis addressed in this research was that the experience of stress is attributable to the quality or clarity of one's identity rather than to age grouping. Two hundred and seventy-five men of three age groups (earlyadulthood, n = 1 00; middle-adulthood, n = 1 00; late-adulthood, n = 75) completed self-report measures of identity (Identity Style Inventory Sixth Grade), distress (Life Distress Inventory), perceived stress of middle age (Mid-life Crisis Scale), and self-concept (global subscale of the Adult Self-Concept Questionnaire). Based on scores on the identity questionnaire, participants were assigned to one of three identity styles (information, normative, diffused/avoidant). Results indicated that middle age is not particularly salient as a period of heightened psychosocial distress. Specifically, young adults had higher levels of distress compared to middle age and older adults, and middle-age adults had more distress than did late adults. Those men with an information or diffused/avoidant identity style had higher levels of distress than those with a normative identity style (irrespective of age grouping), and those with a diffused/avoidant identity style had greater perceived stress of middle age scores than did those with a normative identity style. Additionally, older adults had the lowest levels of selfworth of any age group, whereas middle-age adults had the highest levels of selfworth, and young adults fell in-between. Those with a normative identity style had the highest levels of self-worth, those with a diffused identity style had the lowest self-worth, and those with the information identity style fell in-between. These results are discussed in terms of a lifespan perspective on identity development.
Discipline: Psychology
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:15:08.151Z

Title: Identity processing style and sex-role identity predict attachment style and psychosocial balance.
Contributors: Michael M. Pratt (author), Sherry Beaumont (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Differences in relationship style scores (secure, fearful, preoccupied, dismissing) and psychosocial balance scale scores (basic trust, autonomy, identity, intimacy, generativity) were examined as a function of identity style (informational, normative, diffuse/avoidant), sex-role identity (feminine, masculine, androgynous, undifferentiated), age (young adult, middle adult, late adult), and gender. Three hundred and eighty-eight participants (166 men and 222 women) completed self-report questionnaires designed to measure the relevant constructs. Results indicated that identity processing style did not prove to be significantly related to relationship style or psychosocial balance scores. However, differences in sex-role identity were predictive of different patterns of scores on the relationship style measure and the psychosocial balance measure. In addition, the secure relationship style was positively predictive of all five psychosocial balance scale scores. These findings suggest that identity processing style may play a lesser role than sex-role identity classification in determining patterns of differences in relationship styles and psychosocial adjustment.
Discipline: Psychology
Date added: 2017-03-30T16:59:54.578Z

Title: Clinical supervision
Contributors: Katherine Marchand (author), Linda O'Neill (thesis advisor), John Sherry (committee member)
Abstract: Clinical supervision has been identified as a key component in combatting attrition in the human services field. Unfortunately, clinical supervision is not utilized in its full breadth, leaving workers to continuously suffer the consequences of cumulative stress from their complex work. This project is a result of a review of the literature on clinical supervision. The literature has indicated that clinical supervision is an essential tool for supporting workers to manage the emotional and psychological workplace hazards that they frequently encounter. The literature has identified three functions of clinical supervision and highlights that the administrative function is the one most often used.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2019-08-19T21:12:25.853Z

Title: Firefighters, hostility, and satisfaction with life, job and marital relationship
Contributors: Romana Pasca (author), Shannon Wagner (thesis advisor), Paul Siakaluk (committee member), R. Luke Harris (committee member), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Hostility is associated with negative health outcomes. Empirical research has indicated that high levels of hostility, in association with personal characteristics, may result in either aggressive actions and re-actions, or isolation and disengagement. The purpose of this study was to investigate hostility and its influence on mental health, overall satisfaction with life, job, and marital relationship, and cardiovascular health of professional firefighters. The study was analyzed in the context of Social Ecology Theory exploring how personality, spousal relationship, and social factors influenced the relationship between work and health. Firefighters were invited to engage their romantic partners in the study assessing how work stress impacted intimate relationship. Data analyses involved structural equation modeling, as well as repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance and multilinear regressions. The results indicated that work stress and exposure to toxic environment and hazardous conditions have a negative impact on the mental health and overall satisfaction of firefighters, but not on hostility. When controlling for personality, openness to experience revealed a significant relationship between work and hostility. No significant relationships were observed either between hostility and domestic conflict or between hostility and cardiovascular health.
Discipline: Health Sciences
Date added: 2019-03-29T18:09:56.298Z

Title: Psychological distance of events and attribute dimensions
Contributors: Parveen Kaur Pannu (author), Xin Ge (thesis advisor), Sungchul Choi (committee member), Liang Chen (committee member)
Abstract: Using a Construal Level Theory (CLT) foundation, the authors conduct four studies which find consumers are more likely to pay attention to short-term (long-term) benefits if an event is taking place in the near (distant) future. Additionally, when people are deciding for themselves (acquaintances), they’re more likely to pay attention to short-term (long-term) benefits and proximal (distant) spatial locations. This research provides theoretical and managerial implications, as businesses can tailor marketing campaigns to emphasize short-term/long-term attribute dimensions to prime consumers to choose a certain alternative depending on how psychologically distant they are from an event/object. The research methods used were questionnaires where participants chose between two alternatives. The current research aims to uphold philosophy from previous literature that states: a primary aim of consumer research is to understand aspects that are influencing different trade-offs of a choice set in the preference construction process (Bettman, Luce, & Payne, 1998).
Discipline: Business Administration
Date added: 2019-10-03T17:01:49.937Z

Title: A review of workplace culture in a health care setting and its impact on the employees of Southlake Regional Health Centre
Contributors: Sheryl Stinson (author), Henry Harder (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: No abstract available.
Discipline: Disability Management
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:11:31.327Z

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