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Fall 2017
Former foster youth often experience an array of serious challenges during their young adult years. Problems such as homelessness, school drop-out, and mental health and drug problems have been attributed to the requirement that foster youth lose their supports from child welfare as they approach...
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Fall 2018
With the increased attention paid towards the effects of trauma work on counsellors and psychologists in the last 35 years, a singular narrative has emerged that has deemed it a risky practice, leaving one susceptible to vicarious trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and a number of other...
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An Alternate Theory of Sexuality: Exploring the Relationship between Sexual Experience, Sexual Awareness and Sexual Attitudes
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Sexual behavior is a dynamic aspect of human life that is influenced by experience, awareness, ideas, beliefs, culture and society. Many different explanations are used to explain the desire to engage in sexual behaviors that are considered to be non-conventional or non-normative. This study...
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An evaluation of the stated student outcomes of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the stated student outcomes of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program including decreases in positive attitudes toward the use of abusable psychotropics and decreases in the self-reported use of the abusable psychotropics. A multivariate...
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Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap: Exploring a Research Community of Practice Model for Supporting Teachers’ Change in Practice
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Teacher professional development is generally supported as a means to improving classroom instruction and thereby improving student learning. Yet there are gaps between providing support for professional development, ensuring that practices are research-based, incorporating the learnings within...
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Canadian school psychologists' understanding of bullying intervention based on their experiences in Alberta, Canada
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School bullying (referred to in this thesis as bullying) was a phenomenon with serious implications regarding short-term and long-term effects on the individuals involved (Craig & Pepler, 1999). While interventions of bullying early in an individual’s life might help alleviate the effects of...
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Clinical Implications of Historical Development of the DSM through Examining Two Main Disorders
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As a gateway to support for those who experience significant distress or impairment as a result of cognitive, affective, developmental, social, environmental, or other personal/interpersonal challenges, mental disorder diagnosis is a common practice in mental health professions. In order to...
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Comparing the correctness of classical test theory and item response theory in evaluating the consistency and accurancy of student proficiency classifications
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The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare the values of decision consistency (DC) and decision accuracy (DA) yielded by three commonly used estimation procedures: Livingston-Lewis (LL) and the compound multinomial procedure (CM) procedures, both of which are based on classical test theory...
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Economic Disadvantage, Caregiver Mental Health, Family Functioning, and Children’s Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Well-Being in Low-Income Families
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Economic disadvantage continues to be of significant concern to many Canadian families and is at the forefront of many municipal, provincial, and federal government initiatives. The health consequences of living in low-income have been well-documented; however, the relationships between economic...
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Enhancing Learning Through The Use Of Graphic Organizers to Teach Science to Grade Eleven Students in Jamaica
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This study investigated the effectiveness of using concept mapping via the web-based software Inspiration to teach grade 11 students ‘Nutrition in Humans’. The sample consisted of 60 students, with an average age 16.4 years who were enrolled in a co-ed high school in western Jamaica. Three...