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Item Open Access A change in perception: a hermeneutical inquiry into the experiences of women who practice yoga and their perceived body image(2009) Fiebig, Lindsey; Dudley, Nancy Q.This hermeneutic-phenomenological study explored the experiences of women who practice yoga and their perceived body image and self-esteem. Women in North America often struggle with body image issues because of the intense focus our society has on unrealistic beauty standards for women. Women's relationships with their bodies are complex and can be affected negatively by many different things. As such it was important to explore how yoga might affect women's perceptions of their bodies, and explore if yoga could be a positive influence in women's lives and their relationship with their bodies. The study found five themes (Experiencing a change in self-esteem and/or body image; Reflecting on the media's representation of the female body; Yoga as a way to balance life; Mind-body wholeness; and Formation and change in identity) and seventeen sub-themes which emerged from interviews that were conducted with five participants. Implications for counsellors are discussed.Item Open Access A collaborative school pilot research project to promote healthy body image, personal attitudes, and eating behaviors(2002) Russell-Mayhew, Michelle (Shelly) K.; Arthur, NancyItem Open Access A comparison of WISC-III short forms for the screening of gifted elementary students in canada(2001) Reiter, Betty Anne; Samuels, MarilynItem Open Access A developmental analysis of adolescents' life stories: narrative coherence and meaning-making(2005) Malcolm, Jennifer Elizabeth; McKeough, AnneItem Open Access A group intervention with university students who experience difficulties with perfectionism(2002) Kutlesa, Natasha; Arthur, NancyItem Open Access A hermeneutic exploration of the self-understanding of the racialized other in Canadian society(2002) Theron, Gabriel; Robertson, Sharon E.Item Open Access A model of achievement: a study of individual, family and social factors(2007) Quilliams, Laura; Beran, Tanya N.Item Open Access A model of individual and family factors related to achievement(2006) Shea, Giselle; Beran, Tanya N.Item Open Access A narrative analysis of behaviorally troubled adolescents' life stories(2001) Sanderson, Alexandra J.; McKeough, AnneItem Open Access A needs assessment of potential online counselling service clients(2010) Kilroe, Cherinne; Wiesenberg, FayeThe goal of this research project was to conduct a needs assessment in order to elicit the opinions and perceptions of potential online counselling clients on various aspects of online counselling. Using these results in conjunction with information gathered from an in-depth literature review, the researcher made recommendations to the agency partner in this study, the Calgary Counselling Centre (CCC), about the kinds of online counselling services to provide, as well as the professional resources and development required to competently offer online counselling. With the CCC looking to expand their services to include online counselling, the final report will be used to decide which services they will implement and how to ensure that their staff has the competencies required to deliver them.Item Open Access A phenomenological study of women living with early onset psoriasis(2007) Kirkpatrick, Lonna Karen; Dudley, Nancy Q.Item Open Access A portrait of a recovering mother: a grounded theory exploration(2006) Barry, Cheryl; Barlow, ConstanceItem Open Access A qualitative inquiry into the experience of Chinese immigrant children in Canada: adult reflections on childhood experiences(2003) Kowaliuk, Lori; Alderson, KevinItem Open Access A qualitative inquiry into the health-related experience of living and working in Alberta oil camps(2004) Taylor, Vatonia; Alderson, KevinItem Open Access A Renewed Ethic of Embodiment in the Community of Motherhood: On the Intersection of First-Time Maternity and Hermeneutics(2023-05-25) Samuels, Sumerlee Eden; St. George, Sally Ann; Chang, Jeff; Sesma Vazquez, Monica; Shaw, Jessica Corinne Allen; Ilic, DraganaWhat does it mean to be a “good” mother? This research focuses on the community of motherhood through the eyes of first-time (FT) mothers and is aimed at addressing the consequences, for newcomers to this community, of how we describe the goodness of a mother’s day-to-day labours. The main researched question is how might we understand embodied maternity and motherhood in a community whose members are always already measured and marked? To respond to this question, I used hermeneutic inquiry guided by Gadamer’s (1975/2004) philosophical hermeneutics. The pool of participants was comprised of 10 FT mothers, aged 29 to 43, who had joined the community of motherhood within the last 2 years. Participants engaged in audio-recorded interviews. Analysis of the data included reading transcripts and field notes, listening to recordings, journaling wonderings inspired by the interviews, reviewing drawings created by FT mothers, and consulting literature. Through this process, I distinguished tensions that are traditionally tough to traverse as a FT mother from which I created three interpretations that reveal how we might understand the notion of embodied maternity and motherhood. These interpretations included the ins and outs of muffled motherhood metrics, covering expectations for good mothers together with exceptions to expectations for good mothers; malleable mothering matters, covering good mothering doing(s) together with bad mothering doing(s); and manifested mothers’ manners, covering conventional mothering being(s) together with unconventional mothering being(s). Following a presentation of these interpretations, I discuss implications of the findings for theory, practice, and research.Item Open Access A sense of time, a sense of place: examining anishinaabe identity development within and between generations(2009) Bird, Stan; McKeough, AnneItem Open Access A study of self-determination and social skills in adolescents with and without learning disabilities(2009) Ortiz, Lindsey D.; McKeough, AnneItem Open Access A study of the ecological correlates of substantiated cases of child physical abuse and exposure to domestic violence in Alberta(2006) McCormack, Megan Carol; Beran, Tanya N.Item Open Access A study of the relationship between 16PF personality factors and ministerial effectiveness in a sample of Anglican clergy(2002) Eaton, Kyla Jane; McElheran, William G.Item Open Access Academic and psychological impact of cyber bullying(2011) Nordahl, Jennifer; Beran, Tanya N.Cyber bullying has emerged as a new form of bullying affecting a large portion of children. Children that were victims of cyber bullying (n = 239) in grades 6, 7, 10, and 11 were surveyed to. examine whether they experienced impaired academic performance and psychological well-being. Seven types of cyber bullying were identified. Through correlations the results demonstrated that all seven types of cyber bullying are significantly related to children's well-being. One-way ANOVAs and t-tests indicate that specific characteristics of the victim (sex, grade, and perpetrator) are associated with differential impact. In addition, this study found that deconstructing cyber bullying by type reveals unique information. For some types of cyber bullying, for example, girls and young children report more severe impact than boys and older children. Overall, the study demonstrates the importance of examining different types of cyber bullying to gain an understanding of children's experiences of this phenomenon .