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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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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...
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Psychologists’ Practices, Training, and Experiences Conducting Suicide Risk Assessment in Canada: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study
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Over the last 10 years, suicide prevention best practices have changed. We have learned that suicide cannot be reliably predicted, that hospitalizations for acute suicidality are harmful, and treating suicidal behaviours only has a small effect size. As a result, collaborative and humanistic...
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EEG in the wild: Using real-world tasks to measure changes in EEG rhythms related to human Attention.
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Understanding attentional processes in everyday environments is an important step to further understanding the EEG rhythms that, for decades, have been studied in isolated indoor chambers. The present dissertation aimed to investigate the dynamics of EEG oscillations using mobile settings. The...
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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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Gait and Cognition: Exploring Cognition and Dual-task Costs in a Group of Community Dwelling Alzheimer’s Disease Patients over 6 Months
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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder resulting in cognitive decline affecting many activities of daily living including gait. Many tools exist to monitor AD progression, including cognitive examinations, and functional tests of mobility. The purpose of the present study is...
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Pandemic HomeBODIES: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emerging Adults' Body Appreciation, Life Satisfaction, and Affect
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The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emerging adults’ lives in various aspects of physical and mental health at least in part because of lack of physical activity and face-to-face socialization paired with increased technology and social media time. In addition, changes such as using...
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The Development, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of a 12-Week Online Mind-Body Intervention for People with Primary Biliary Cholangitis
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Introduction: Persons with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) experience significantly higher rates of mental distress, impaired health related quality of life (HrQoL), and fatigue than the general population. While mind-body interventions have been shown to improve mental health and HrQoL, and...
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Understanding Students’ Help-Seeking Behaviours for Mental Health Needs at a Canadian University
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The university population is more sensitive to mental health problems than other populations, as in 2009, the Ontario College Health Association released a report indicating that university students were more likely to experience mental illness symptoms than non-university students. To address...