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Identifying Major Depressive Symptoms and Major Depressive Episodes in Adolescents with Cancer
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Cancer is the leading cause of death from disease among adolescents in Canada. Although cancer is a well-researched disease process in the medical and nursing literature, adolescence is relatively understudied, with minimal evidence on strategies to promote healthy emotional adjustment...
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Intermediation and Governance of Digital Flows: Canadian Internet Service Providers as Instruments of Public Policy
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The internet has often had a disintermediating effect, 'disrupting' and circumventing traditional middlemen and gatekeepers. This dissertation examines the related trend of intermediation, or the ascendance of new internet intermediaries and their growing significance in our lives. Among these...
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Spring 2011
The current research was designed to add to the youth sport coping literature by examining adolescent athletes’ stressor appraisals and coping and to understand the way in which athletes learn to cope. Two studies were conducted. Study one was a metastudy (Paterson, Thorne, Canam, & Jillings,...
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Spring 2011
While evidence-based practice and knowledge translation (or transfer) has garnered much attention, research has not focused on health information as provisional and emergent, and on knowledge translation (KT) as a process of social construction. The challenge of evolving information is magnified...
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Metrology of Health-Related Quality of Life Measurements in Adults and Adolescents with Scoliosis
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Background: Scoliosis impacts Quality of Life (QOL). Stabilization exercises have been shown to be effective for improving patient reported outcomes (PROMS.); however, our literature review examining the effects of such exercises on QOL showed that such studies in adults with scoliosis are...
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Old Communication – New Means: The Linguistic Study of Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Websites
DownloadSpring 2014
This dissertation is concerned with the communicative potential of websites. The World Wide Web is a relatively new locale for communication on which an increasing number of users rely daily in Canada and in Ukraine. However, up to the present time there has been no unified framework for the...
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Fall 2010
When stress becomes distress, people seek to decrease their psychological pain using methods that seem convenient and appropriate. In an increasingly technology-based society, the Internet provides opportunities for individuals in distress to seek information and connections with others. Research...
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Parent-child communication and adolescents’ problem-solving strategies in hypothetical bullying situations
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The current study investigated: (a) the types of solutions that students and parents generate in response to hypothetical bullying situations; (b) the effectiveness of the solutions generated; and (c) the effectiveness of strategies when taking into consideration parent-child communication....
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Parental Experiences of a Parent-assisted Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) is a parent-assisted social skills program for teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In the PEERS program, the parents play a vital role in supporting and coaching their teen’s skill development. The purpose of this...
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Parenting and Peer Bullying: Parents’ and Adolescents’ Beliefs, Communication, Behavior and Strategies
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Bullying by peers is a serious problem facing Canadian adolescents today. A key social support for adolescents is the support of their parents. While there is considerable information from the parenting literature to indicate that healthy parent-child communication and authoritative-type...