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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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Using Automated Procedures to Score Written Essays in Persian: An Application of the Multilingual BERT System
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The automated scoring of student essays is now recognized as a significant development in both the research and practice of educational testing. The majority of the published studies on automated essay scoring (AES) focus on outcomes in English. Studies on multilingual AES—meaning languages other...
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Syrian Refugees in Canada: A Qualitative Report of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychosocial Adaptation
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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...
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Exploring the Associations between Child Temperament, Parenting Behaviours and Styles, and Early Childhood Social-Emotional and Behavioural Development
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This dissertation contains three studies that contribute to the existing research by exploring the associations between child temperament, parenting, and early childhood social-emotional and behavioural development. The first study explores associations between child temperament, mothers’ and...
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Social Connectedness on Instagram: Understanding Young Women’s Experience of Thinspiration and Fitspiration on Instagram
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Viewing inspirational content such as Thinspiration and Fitspiration has been found to increase body dissatisfaction, appearance comparisons (Dignard & Jarry, 2020), and negative affect (Griffiths et al., 2019). 85.7% of young social media users use health and fitness-related social media...
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Science-Informed Practice in Canadian Professional Psychology: Factors Associated with Clinicians' Scientific Skills and Attitudes
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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...
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Automatically Detecting Affect in Computer-based Learning Environments: A Systematic Literature Review
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Affect detection is increasingly viewed as an essential component of computer-based learning systems because it aims to improve learner outcomes by adapting to the learner’s affect. However, most computer-based learning environments used across formal and informal educational contexts do not...
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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...
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A Multi-Method Investigation of Educational Activities for Hospital-Based Healthcare Providers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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The Covid-19 pandemic was a period of intense stress for hospital-based healthcare providers (HCPs). Education was frequently proposed as a solution to support HCPs with pandemic-related distress, but little is known about what pandemic training and/or education looked like for hospital-based...
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Insecure Attachment in Clinical Supervisory Relationships: Balancing Personal with Professional
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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...