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Operationalizing Social Justice Advocacy as Part of Multicultural Counselling Competency
No full textThis capstone project explores the significance of social justice in counselling and examines how counsellors can operationalize social justice advocacy as part of multicultural counselling competencies. Counsellors play an integral role in supporting the lives of marginalized individuals. This capstone highlights the various ways a counsellor can support clients besides conventional individual counselling. Many frameworks offer insight into operationalizing social justice advocacy, which helps fill the gap in the literature. This project contributes to counselling psychology by supporting new counsellors with a better understanding of how to be effective advocates for clients inside and outside the counselling room. Finally, this capstone explores the various methods to change the curriculum in graduate programs moving forward to enhance the learning for aspiring counsellors to learn how to incorporate social justice advocacy into their work
When Two Worlds Collide: Examining Dual-Trauma Couples Navigating Their Past Trauma and Relationship
No full textThis research will examine the dynamics of dual-trauma couples navigating through trauma and their relationship in comparison to single-trauma couples. The purpose of this paper is to determine if there are significant differences with dual-trauma couples and whether being in one strengthen the resilience to dealing with past trauma and whether there is an association with relationship satisfaction. Finally, this paper will touch on the important area of intimate partner violence in relation to dual-trauma couples. The research paper will first delve into the research literature on dual-trauma couples, which is currently limited in scope and availability. Then it will draw on relevant studies on single-trauma couples and provide a summary of findings. This paper will highlight the significance, complexities, and need for future research into this area as it is widely accepted that trauma begins with the individual but affects the collective including interpersonal relationships. The major findings are that research is mixed, although trends seem to lean towards an association between dual-trauma couples and lower relationship satisfaction and a higher likelihood of negative interaction cycles. The literature gathered reinforces the need for future research that captures more diverse samples that include different ethnicities, different types of relationships, and sexual orientation, and the need for separate research on different types of traumas and how relationships are affected. This will enable relevant research findings to have greater generalizability, therefore can contribute to improvements in clinical practices, including the counselling field, which is representative to the greater population
Treating Female First Responders with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Best Practices for Counsellors
No full textFirst responders have been treated as a homogenous group in terms of their treatment for work related post-traumatic stress disorder. Females fell through the gaps of research when it came to studying the efficacy of treatments and therapies for remedying the symptoms that came along with experiencing trauma within their work. As such, this capstone paper looks to extrapolate the modalities that have helped females who have experienced forms of trauma from other sources as well as females with military backgrounds that parallel the paramilitary style of first responder work. The traditionally used therapeutic approaches such as EMDR, exposure therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy are explored as well as other less researched and emerging approaches such as yoga, acceptance commitment therapy, female-led support groups, and psychedelics. Synthesizing the current research in the field, a trauma-informed multi-pronged holistic approach is examined for counsellors to apply within their practice with this population
Healing from the Rupture of a Romantic Relationship Based on the Kübler-Ross Model of Loss and Grief
No full textA large body of literature pertaining to grief and loss explores the phenomenon in the context of healing following the death of a loved one. Much of this literature focuses on grief in the form of losing a romantic partner to death. Similarly, this field of research also contains literature that focuses on grieving the loss of a romantic partner, but through breakup. Various models of grief have been established as guidelines for the type of experiences a bereaved individual may experience while grieving; however, there exists limited research highlighting the applicability of such grief models to the context of romantic breakup. This paper responds to these limitations by exploring the applicability of the five stages of grief model to instances of romantic dissolution. This paper argues that there exist many parallels between grief experiences suggested by the five stages model and healing from romantic breakup, some of which are contingent on specific qualities of the relationship and the relationship termination, such as attachment style, role of initiation, and the extent of future plans for the relationship
Humanity Stripped: The Consequences of Self-Objectification
No full textThe sexual objectification of women is widespread and pervasive in North American culture. Sexual objectification has direct and indirect negative effects on women's health and well-being in psychological, physical, emotional, and financial domains. Constant exposure to sexually objectifying media and interpersonal interactions can cause girls and women to internalize an objectified view of themselves, a process known as self-objectification. Self-objectification has several intermediary consequences which have been found to contribute to depressive symptoms, disordered eating behaviours, and sexual dysfunction. This paper explores the process and impacts of sexual objectification and self-objectification in order to raise awareness within the therapist community, as well as contribute to greater societal change. Current mitigators and treatment approaches are outlined, and a therapeutic guideline is offered
