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Fall 2024

Kowalewski, Jasmine

In response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) crisis in Canada, annual Marches are held to raise awareness, increase community healing, and prevent further gendered violence. Blending a Western focus group and Indigenous sharing circle, this thesis research aimed to...

Fall 2024

Zukiwsky, Rachel D

Well-developed social and emotional skills gained in early childhood are integral for independent functioning as children enter into school, especially emotion regulation abilities and social skills. Learned through parent-child interactions, researchers have identified parenting stress (i.e.,...

Fall 2024

Gorgun, Guher

The purpose of this dissertation is to employ three prominent atural language processing methods to assess the feasibility of automatically evaluating cloze questions generated by automatic item generation (AIG) methods. AIG methods have been developed to address the need for a large number of...

Fall 2023

Brosinsky, Larissa H

One in five Canadians are touched by adoption in their life, encompassing over 162,000 people in the city of Edmonton, and over seven million people across Canada (Adoption Council of Canada, n.d.). The “adopted family” has become very diverse over the past few decades, with many lesbian, gay,...

Fall 2023

Elliott, Cassandra L.

Epidemiological monitoring over the past decade has identified a pattern of increasing rates of suicide, financial difficulty, and transition distress in Canadian Armed Forces veterans. Veterans who involuntarily release due to medical reasons experience more challenges than other groups of...

Fall 2023

Friesen, Laura Suzanne

Canada’s rural population is an important part of the country’s national identity. And yet, this is a dwindling population which has become a rather marginalized group with unique challenges and needs. In terms of mental health, rural individuals face complex and multifaceted barriers to...

Fall 2023

Eriksen, Jessica

Decades of research revealed that effective psychological reports are those written at a lower reading level, are formatted by functional domain, and communicate the results in an integrated client-centered manner. However, psychological reports continue to be difficult to read for non-...

Fall 2023

Pan, Zexuan

Computational thinking (CT) has become an essential literacy for the digital age, as it enables individuals to approach complex problems systematically and adapt to a rapidly changing technological landscape. Despite the educational benefits of CT being largely supported in the literature, the...

Fall 2023

Feltis, Lindsey

Among adolescents, the ending of a close friendship may be a source of significant psychological distress. Considering the potentially adverse sequalae of friendship dissolutions, it is crucial to gain an understanding of strategies and practices that adolescents can employ to cope with such...

Fall 2023

Budzan, Brittany N

Despite accounting for a significant proportion of the transgender population, non-binary individuals are often neglected within research. Studies that do include non-binary participants are often focused on deficit, stigma, and mental health disparities, resulting in a narrow and one-sided...