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Fall 2022
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between demographic and health factors, and oculomotor functioning during baseline testing in professional athletes. Four hundred twenty-eight male athletes consented and participated in the baseline concussion assessments of the...
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Subcortical Volume and Executive Functions in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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Background. The subcortical regions, including the caudate and putamen, have been historically implicated in pediatric Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Along with differences in subcortical regions, children with ADHD generally show weaker executive function (EF). However,...
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Fall 2022
As many as 60% of those diagnosed with FASD come into contact with the Criminal Justice System (CJS), with youth with FASD being 19 times more likely to be in prison than their peer without (Chartrand & Forbes-Chilibeck, 2003; Fast et al., 1999; Institute of Health Economics, 2013; Popova et al.,...
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Understanding the Parenting Experience: Assessing the Relationship Between Parenting Stress, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Parental Emotion Socialization in a Community Sample of Parents
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The current dissertation is comprised of three related studies that examine several aspects of parenting, with the overarching goal of generating knowledge that will advance parenting research and support parents in their parenting role. Collectively, the three studies aimed to investigate...
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Fall 2022
Suicide is a leading cause of death for young adults. Among undergraduate students, risk factors for suicidality include substance abuse, academic pressure, and identifying as a minority (De Luca et al., 2016; Giordano & Cashwell, 2012; Shadick et al., 2015). Additionally, suicidal students tend...
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Fall 2022
As we find ways to address the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015) and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice (2019), there are stories about intergenerational trauma that remain silenced. One such story is about Indigenous women who have...
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Spring 2022
Play therapy is an effective form of psychotherapy typically used with children under the age of 12. Numerous meta-analyses amalgamating the results of hundreds of play therapy research studies have shown that children who engage in play therapy are better off than nearly 80% of those who do not...
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Refuge and Life Overseas: Influences of Gender, Culture, and Migration on Parenting Practices of African Refugees in Canada
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Parenting is a socially and culturally constructed role and experience. Parenting practices vary across and within communities yet most of what we know about parenting in the literature stems from Western worldviews on what ideal parenting and child-rearing looks like in practice. Taking a...
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Spring 2022
The research in this dissertation draws on theories from psychology to address the issue of obedience as it relates to medical error and patient harm in healthcare settings by developing a model of obedience, analyzing the environment of application through survey research, and testing obedience...
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What I Want My Teachers to Know: The Lived Experiences of Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a diagnostic term used to describe impacts resulting from alcohol exposure during prenatal development. Individuals with FASD have strengths they can use in and out of the classroom, yet much of the current FASD literature has largely focused on personal...