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“This isn’t gonna fix your child,” Experiences of parents using involuntary stabilization for a child’s substance use
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Background: Evidenced-informed strategies are urgently needed to support families who are struggling with a youth’s substance use disorder. One strategy used in several Canadian provinces is involuntary stabilization programs, which involve the apprehension and confinement of youth whose...
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Computing Emotion Dynamics from Text and Exploring their use as Biosocial Markers of Overall Well-being
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Language is inherently social -- it is influenced by our lived experiences and environments, and impacts the way in which we communicate with each other. Therefore, it is not a surprise that our health impacts our language. The patterns with which emotion changes over time -- emotion dynamics --...
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Developing, Implementing and Evaluating a Mental Health Training Program for Police Officers
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Interactions between police and individuals suffering from mental illness are very frequent. Police forces are regularly first responders to those with mental illness. Unfortunately, on occasion interactions are violent and sometimes fatal. Despite this, training police how to best interact with...
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Digital Innovations to Support the Health and Wellbeing of Individuals with Problematic Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder
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This dissertation explores the questions “What technology-based interventions are of most benefit in supporting the health and/or rehabilitation of individuals with substance use disorders? Where and how can they be most effectively embedded in the health system?” Chapter 1 begins with an...
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Effectiveness of On-Site Professional Oral Health Care Programs and Service Delivery within Nursing Homes: Preventing Bacterial Mouth Infection and Pneumonia/Aspiration Pneumonia
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Abstract Background: Seniors who are dependent on others to brush their teeth, communicate their dental needs, and provide them access to professional oral health care define dentally dependent nursing home residents in the context of this dissertation. Oral problems in Canadian nursing home...
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Spring 2016
While research has demonstrated no differences in effectiveness between the different types of addictions treatments, differences have been found for effectiveness between counsellors. Research has shown that some counsellors who treat addictions, consistently achieve better results than others,...
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Fall 2022
Approximately 3.5 million Canadians will meet the criteria for a mood disorder in their life time. Previous research has found that athletes are at a greater risk for mental health disorders than the general public. This could be due to professional athletes having intense physical and mental...
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Indigenous Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review of the Literature and Gendered Analysis of Métis Experiences
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The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the mental health of the global population. Indigenous Peoples have been disproportionately affected by previous pandemics and already face an increased vulnerability to poor mental health outcomes due to the damaging and enduring effects of colonialism. However,...
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Links Between Depressive Symptoms, Sexual Communication, and Sexual Satisfaction Across Three Years
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Guided by a relational developmental systems perspective, stress generation hypothesis, and gender relations theory, this thesis examined two major research questions: (1) What are the longitudinal associations between self-reported depression symptoms, sexual communication, and sexual...