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Gestational weight gain, physical activity, and nutrition counselling practices of prenatal health care providers: What influences practice?
DownloadFall 2016
Appropriate gestational weight gain is important for maternal and child health. Data from a recent Alberta cohort showed 49% of pregnant women gained weight in excess of Health Canada guidelines. Regional studies have shown low rates of gestational weight gain counselling by health care...
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Getting Off the Couch: Psychotherapists Who Have Incorporated Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Into Their Practice
DownloadFall 2014
Twenty percent of Canadians are affected by mental illness (Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2011). Mental illness can be positively impacted by Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLCs). TLCs include such things as exercise, diet, recreation, sleep, sunlight exposure, interpersonal relationships,...
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Fall 2019
The popularity of mindset theory has resulted in a surge of mindset interventions in the school systems (e.g., Brainology©). Nonetheless, Carol Dweck has recently emphasized that holding a growth mindset is much more than simply “positive thinking” and instead requires much more effort than...
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Spring 2017
Psychotherapy has been found to be highly effective, and yet we are still learning why. We do not know much about what is significant for clients about their therapy experiences, or how they may benefit from therapy in unexpected ways. Using an interpretive phenomenological analysis methodology,...
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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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Latino Immigrant Parents in Canada: Experiences and Adjustment to raising Children in the Absence of the Extended Family
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The Latino population in Canada has been increasing during the past decade accounting for 11% of newcomers in 2011. One of the core values in Latino culture is familism, the family is the main source of support and has an important role in childrearing. This qualitative study focuses on the...
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Learning Disabilities and Methodologies of Harm: Indigeneity, Pathologization, and Ambiguity in the Psychological Disciplines
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In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and the Psychological Foundation of Canada (PFC) issued a joint statement identifying the harms that psychological research and intervention have caused Indigenous communities, while...