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Fall 2023

Elliott, Cassandra L.

Epidemiological monitoring over the past decade has identified a pattern of increasing rates of suicide, financial difficulty, and transition distress in Canadian Armed Forces veterans. Veterans who involuntarily release due to medical reasons experience more challenges than other groups of...

Fall 2023

Friesen, Laura Suzanne

Canada’s rural population is an important part of the country’s national identity. And yet, this is a dwindling population which has become a rather marginalized group with unique challenges and needs. In terms of mental health, rural individuals face complex and multifaceted barriers to...

Fall 2023

Devereux, Chloe

Due to the ongoing conflict in Syria, approximately 50,000 Syrian refugees arrived in Canada between 2015 and 2020. Upon arrival, Syrians needed to find housing, employment, healthcare, and language training. They also had to address psychosocial needs, such as cultivating social supports and...

Fall 2023

Gower, Heather K.

Foundational to professional psychology, the scientist-practitioner model encourages a scientific approach to practice, strengthening clinical work with the best available research evidence. However, troubling research shows inadequate training in research and science, and low engagement with...

Fall 2023

Wells, Kendra L

Teaching became harder during the pandemic. More specifically, elementary teachers were expected to monitor student health on top of teaching curriculum, they were required to find creative ways to maintain relationships with students, and they needed to coach parents on implementing daily...

Fall 2023

Schatz, Talia

Often, one may think of assessments, assignments, and tests as purely extrinsic motivators and that students have no intrinsic interest or drive to engage with them. However, there may be instances where students are intrinsically motivated by assessment. It is important to illuminate the various...

Fall 2023

Brassard, Leah

The concept of resilience has been widely studied for decades. Recent streams of resilience research have focused on relational and environmental factors important for understanding risk and resilience beyond individual traits (Masten, Lucke, Nelson & Stallworthy, 2021). This systems perspective...

Spring 2023

Volk, Brittany Elena

Background: The clinical supervisory relationship (SR) between counsellors-in-training and established psychologists has been considered by counsellor trainees, researchers, and the profession to be one of the most crucial and influential aspects of the training process. Accordingly, more...

Spring 2023

Burgos Cando, Mikaela

Survivors of attempted genocide are persecuted for their ethnic, racial, national, and/or religious identities (United Nations, n.d.a). Throughout the migration journey, genocide survivors are exposed to various forms of violence and trauma (Rieder & Elbert, 2013). Despite the potential negative...

Fall 2023

David, Claire V.

Individuals who have sustained a sports-related concussion can experience psychological and emotional distress that impacts their quality of life. Although concussion symptoms typically resolve within 30 days from injury, some individuals experience persisting symptoms that continue for months,...