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Navigating Life in Pain: The Impact of Chronic Pain on Quality of Life
Get PDFThis capstone project explores the impact of chronic pain on people's lives. Chronic pain significantly affects physical and mental well-being, daily life, and relationships. The research includes themes such as mental health, navigating healthcare for pain management, quality of life, opioid addiction, and the impact on relationships and intimacy. The personal experience informs the study of the researcher, who lives with chronic pain and tries to stay impartial. In the final chapter, the project evaluates findings, acknowledges limitations, and suggests directions for future research. This project aims to provide insights for healthcare professionals and individuals with chronic pain, offering a roadmap and understanding for improved care for support in this challenging context
Reconstructing "Otherness" — Counselling that Cultivates Belonging
No full textThis capstone project explores how counsellors can support individuals who feel a lack of belonging in their lives based on parts of their identity that are less obvious or perceptible. The research question investigated was: how can the frameworks of social constructionism and queer theory help counsellors nurture feelings of belonging and affirmation in clients who feel they experience 'otherness'? The methodological framework used to guide the literature review was an integrative review. Findings from this research include ways that narrative therapy can be used and improved to uplift clients. Recommendations in a counselling session include: directly initiating conversations about a client's experience of otherness, ongoing counsellor humility and self-reflection, and present moment awareness of relational dynamics. Reviewing this project can provide a new lens to improve counsellor awareness for supporting individuals who experience otherness. This understanding can provide recommendations to foster belonging in those who have historically felt out of place
Supporting Autistic Students With Anxiety in School Communities
No full textThis capstone paper examines how school counsellors can provide support to autistic school-aged children and youth by adapting and modifying the counselling skills they already have from an individual and social model perspective. Low therapist confidence and self-perceived knowledge, as well as limited knowledge about ASD, can result in a lack of understanding of how to adapt counselling skills when working with autistic students (Gallant et al., 2022). The literature review examines the challenges and barriers that autistic students face in school communities, as well as ASD and comorbidity rates in schools. Through the lens of neurodiversity, this paper looks at how the social model can help us to recognize barriers that make it harder for autistic students in schools, as well as challenges our worldviews by using the Double Empathy Study. Through current research and listening to the voices of the autistic community, the goal of this paper is to provide school counsellors with a comprehensive list of ways that they can provide support to autistic school-aged children and youth by adapting and modifying the counselling skills they already have from an individual and social model perspective