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Lifting the Voices of Adopted Teens and Emerging Adults in LGBTQ+ Families: A Narrative Inquiry
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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,...
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To Humbly Go Where No Psychologist Has Gone Before: Insider-Outsider Relationships in Rural Practice
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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...
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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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Fall 2022
As we find ways to address the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015) and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice (2019), there are stories about intergenerational trauma that remain silenced. One such story is about Indigenous women who have...
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Refuge and Life Overseas: Influences of Gender, Culture, and Migration on Parenting Practices of African Refugees in Canada
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Parenting is a socially and culturally constructed role and experience. Parenting practices vary across and within communities yet most of what we know about parenting in the literature stems from Western worldviews on what ideal parenting and child-rearing looks like in practice. Taking a...
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Fall 2021
Evidence suggests that despite growing numbers of refugees entering Alberta each year, there may not be enough counsellors equipped to provide helping services. Within the counselling context, refugees are identified as at risk for developing complex psychological challenges, requiring culturally...
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A Focused Ethnography Exploring the Experiences of Immigrant Parents' Collaboration with School Personnel to Support Their Child’s Reading Difficulty
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A strong partnership with immigrant parents can help educators better support students who experience reading difficulties related to complications arising from differing cultural, social, linguistic, and orthographic systems of their native language. Unfortunately, parental involvement is...
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Spring 2019
This study investigates the experience of hope for emerging adults who demonstrate resilience in the transition from government care to independent living. Hope is a complex emotional construct that has been shown to be important in supporting positive developmental outcomes; however, there is...
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Social, Emotional, and Academic Adjustment of Newcomer Syrian Refugee Children Within the School Context
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The conflict in Syria has now reached its seventh year (UNHCR, 2018b) and has been the greatest producer of refugees internationally (United Nations, n.d.). Given the state of this crisis, 52, 720 Syrian refugees were admitted to Canada between November 2015 and March 2018 (Immigration, Refugees...
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Fall 2017
The current global humanitarian crisis has led to the record number of 65 million people being displaced from their homelands (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2017). Canada is one of the top refugee receiving countries in the world, receiving between 20,000 and 40,000 refugees...