This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
An Exploration of Factors Impacting Youth Volunteers Who Provide Indirect Services, Andrea M. McArthur
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Dance in Contexts: Exploring the Complexity of the Helping/Healing Process with a Focus on Client Satisfaction, Margriet de Zeeuw Wright
Bringing Medicine to the Hamlet: Exploring the Experiences of Older Women in Rural Bangladesh Who Seek Health Care, Md. Abul Hossen
An Exploration of Counselling Practices with Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Should Therapists Ask About Thoughts or Behaviour Involving Sex with Children?, Angela Karen Hovey
Exploring the Concepts of Partnership and their Implications for HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care in Two Ghanian Communities, Jonathan Lomotey
What the Body Stories of Girls Tell Us About Autonomy and Connection During Adolescence, Colleen McMillan
The Experience of New Workers in the Field of Child Welfare, Teena M. Shah
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Getting the Bug: Exploring Running Group Therapy for Youth with Affective Disorders, Jamie Lee Bell
Secondary Traumatic Stress: The Hidden Trauma in Child and Youth Counsellors, Michelle Linda Bloom
Exploring the Nature of Collaboration Between Organizations Assisting Persons Experiencing Poverty in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Morgan E. Braganza
The Sexual Health Education Experiences and Needs of Immigrant Women in Kitchener-Waterloo, Stefani Burosch
Exploring a Sense of Canadianess: Canadian Muslims in Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario), Soha Elsayed
Keeping Kids Safe in Custody: Youths’ Perception of Safety While Incarcerated in Canada, Judy Finlay
Assessing Tangible Support Efforts in English Canadian Christian Church Communities, Dana M. Friesen
Including Spirituality: A Means to Cope with Cancer and Recommendations for Health Care Professionals, Lisa Green
Exploring the Experience of University Students Coping with Acquired or Traumatic Brain Injury, Halina Kay Lin Haag
Moving Beyond the Surface: Ethics Education in Canadian Social Work Bachelor Programs, Susan Lynn Hardie
Personal Growth in Couples Caring for a Child with a Life-Threatening Illness, Kimberly Kennedy
Exploring the Reintegration Process for Child Soldiers: A Case Study of Young Women and their Children in Northern Uganda, Allison N. Martin
The Paradox of Exclusion Within Equity: Interrogating Discourse at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Delores V. Mullings
Institutional Analysis of Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Mental Health, Substance Use and Gambling Problems in Ontario: A Case Study, Gabriela Novotná
Mothers’ Experiences of the Care Provided to their Child with a Life-Limiting Illness, Carolyn Miguelle Ouellet
Non-Biological Caregivers’ Experiences of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Support Groups, Sharon Porty
Voices of Anorexia Uncovered: The Healing Journey Unveiled, Elisha Van Harte
Constructed Identity, Subjective Identity and Inter-Subjective Transformation: An Exploration By Way of Motherhood and Canadian Maternity Benefits, Patricia Van Katwyk
A Systems Theory Examination of Factors Related to Inclusive Attitudes Towards Newcomers and Racial Minorities, Shannon A. Veurink
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Living Out: A Study Exploring the Experience of Live Out Assistants in L’Arche, Jennifer Christine Elkins
Perspectives on the Post-Degree Supervision Needs of Ontario Social Workers, Heather Jane Hair
Challenges of Volunteerism within a Cultural Community: Case Study of Young Hmong Adults in Kitchener-Waterloo, Melanie Heu
Understanding Indigenous Canadian Traditional Health and Healing, (Gus) Louis Paul Hill
Aging with Dementia and an Intellectual Disability: A Case Study of Supported Empowerment in a Community Living Home, Shehenaz Manji
The Story of South African Child Welfare: A History of the Present, Jeanette Elizabeth Schmid
Critical Approaches to Clinical Social Work Practice: Considerations from Contemporary Relational Psychoanalytic Theory, Christopher Trevelyan
Assessment of Unit Scale: An Innovative Counselling Tool for Assessing the Relationships of Couples Facing Infertility, Reina Zatylny
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
An exploration of bullying as experienced by Sudanese refugee youths, Aislinn Clancy
A Qualitative Study of Experiences of Aboriginal Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disabilities, Joyce Ellen Clouston
“To Thine Own Self Be True”: A Narrative Analysis of Social Group Disengagement and Associated Identity Implications, Catherine de Boer
IDA Accessibility: Learning More About Whether Individual Development Accounts Can Work for Canada’s Poor, Molly Elliott
Role changes and birth order in female adolescent bereavement, Jennifer Joyce Evans
Mothers of children placed in out-of-home care: Everyday realities and child placement experiences, Nancy Colleen Freymond
Assessing the Need for and Impact of an Emotions Regulation Booster Program for Elementary School Aged Children, Angela Hammond
The Relationship Between Homelessness and Women’s Health, Christine Paramonczyk
An Exploration of Immigrant Women’s Experiences with Social Service Agencies in the Region of Waterloo, Gillian Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Correlates of housing stability among psychiatric consumer/survivors, Stephanie Anne Brown
Embracing an emerging structure: The employment of psychiatric survivors in Ontario community mental health organizations, Jillian Gail Grant
Political will as a determinant of health in Ontario: Implications for progressive human services, M. Anthony Hutchinson
Attachment representations in mothers of young children with developmental delay: Relations with concurrent and later maternal depression, Mary Catherine Hutchinson
Awakening social work to the human/nature relationship: A proposed university education framework, Seth M. Koplowitz
To 'brown it up' or 'bring down the brown': Identity and strategy in second-generation, South Asian-Canadian youth, Purnima Sundar
Caregiver's perceptions of the ability of orphanages to meet child development needs: A Polish case study, Marta Zych
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
An exploration into the clinical usefulness of the reciprocal and avoidant attachment questionnaires in the treatment of survivors of childhood abuse, Maxine Dawn Barbour
'No woman no cry': An examination of the use of feminist ideology in shelters for abused women when working with Caribbean-Canadian women, Tenniel Melisa Hanson
The impact of training on educators' reporting of child abuse and neglect, Carrie Smith
Media messages about body image and food: Adolescent perceptions of contradictory messages in television commercials, Carrie Wise
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Social policy and social work education: A historical comparative study, Thomas E. Brenner
The relationship between family burden ratings and follow-up psychotic symptom levels in schizophrenia, Alison Golob
Sexual consent in a gay, lesbian, and bisexual population: An exploratory study, Dahlia Marie Hallal
Safe sex practices: Identity style, sexual communication, and HIV/AIDS knowledge, Kathia Marie Hallal
Humour and marital quality: Is humour style associated with marital success?, Melissa Johari
The bald truth: Determining the need for a Canadian alopecia association, Bonnie Lipton
Examining predictors of level of attendance in a group treatment program for men who abuse, Carrie Pollard
Self appraisal in later life: Comparison orientation and well-being, Angela Marie Pye
A qualitative study examining the experiences of children living in a residential treatment program, Elisabeth Robson
Learning, Earning and Parenting (LEAP) directive 39.0 of Ontario Works: A policy analysis, Tracy Anne Smith-Carrier
Insights: An exploration of experiences with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, Leslie D. St. Jacques
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The therapeutic value of the equine-human relationship in recovery from trauma: A qualitative analysis, Janet Yorke
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Chaotic patterns of restraining power: The dynamics of personal decision making in a long-term care facility, Sandra Loucks Campbell
Internal displacement: A study of homelessness in the city of Toronto (Ontario), Danielle K. Koyama
A relational self model of gender role identity of young Taiwanese women within their cultural context (China), Chu-Li Julie Liu
Transracial adoption (TRA) and the development of ethnoracial identity, Mairi McKenna
Dancing towards wholeness: An examination of empathy and cohesion in social work treatment groups, William James Pelech
Targeting child poverty in Canada, Miguel Roberto Sanchez Garcia
Dynamical systems theory as applied to war-ravaged Bosnia and its people: Stage one of a multistrategy research, Kristin T. Trotter
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Emerging strong from a difficult adolescence: A qualitative study of resilience, Vivian Horovitch
A place for all seasons: Examining youth shelters and the youth-in-trouble network in Toronto (Ontario), Jeffrey Michael Karabanow
Gender, income and managerial status among graduate social workers, Gail Louise Kenyon
Adolescent development in the context of Canadian-Chinese immigrant families, Ching Man Lam
A journey within a journey: A naturalistic study of the early relationship development process in non-directive play therapy, Nancy Lynne Riedel Bowers
Clinicians share their experience of coping with the cost of caring: A good news story, Elizabeth Susanna Schramm
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The sun always comes out after it rains: Exploring the experience of AIDS caregivers (Immune deficiency), Susan Cadell
Professional interventions with parents at the time of the sudden death of a child, Linda Susan Charlotte Maxwell
Women's employment initiatives as a means addressing poverty: A comparative study of Canadian and Chilean examples, Linda L. Snyder
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Rehabilitation for deafened adults: A puzzle with missing pieces, Miguel Oswald Aguayo
Quilts as social text, Helen Kathryn Ball
The social construction of a nonabuser image: A study of a post-treatment male abuser self-help group, Bruce Alan Bidgood
Impact of gender and culture: Contributing factors to satisfactory long-term marriages, Maria Yip Ling Cheung
The construction of homelessness as a social problem: Linking contributing factors, mediating factors and interventive strategies, Heather Elizabeth Jeffery
An exploration of the relationship between school setting and the self-esteem of grade-six girls, Maureen Thoroughgood Kropf
Restaging the welfare diva: Case studies of single motherhood and social policy, Iara Lessa
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Examining beliefs about the causes of unemployment and poverty: An analysis of the causal models from the research literature, Garson George Coon
Compassionate fire: Women's stories of subjective and social change, Norma Jean Profitt
The social construction of interprofessional teams in human service organizations: Two case studies, Daniel Philip Salhani
Models of church-agency relationship in church-affiliated social service agencies in the Region of Waterloo (Ontario), Buetta Louise Martin Warkentin
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Level of adaptive behaviour according to the occupational status of foster adolescents in independent living, Marissa Dionne Amoroso