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Fall 2024

Kavic, Katie Jeannie Marie

Social relationships between staff and youth are often regarded as one of the most important mediums to achieving positive youth development (PYD) program aims (McDavid & McDonough, 2019). Despite the promising impacts of staff and youth relationships within sport-based PYD settings, little...

Spring 2017

Boyd, Kassi A.

Dignity encompasses feelings of self-respect and worth (Nordenfelt, 2004). These feelings can be shattered by the cruel acts of others, resulting in humiliation or embarrassment (Johnston, Goodwin, & Leo, 2015). It has been argued that children with autism experience increased rates of indignity...

Fall 2017

Iaboni, Kristine N

Hope is recognized as an important aspect of human growth, change and wellbeing (Erikson, 1964, 1968, 1985; Turner, 2005). Hope has been defined as the anticipation that one’s future will be both meaningful and desirable (Stephenson, 1991) and is acknowledged as essential to daily life (Erikson,...

Fall 2021

Bourque, Anthony Stephen

Risk-aversion is prevalent in North America, and the literature (Brussoni et al., 2012) has suggested that Adventure Playgrounds may be an appropriate intervention to re-introduce risky play into children’s lives. However, even within spaces that allow for more risk-taking during play, children’s...

Spring 2014

McFeetors, Pamela Janelle

High school mathematics students often complete homework and study for unit tests without support to consider how these actions could contribute to their mathematical learning. However, students can, through the process of learning to learn mathematics, to bring into view how they learn...

Fall 2020

Wine, Osnat

Academia has transformed research to be more collaborative to address complex questions such as understanding the relationship between human health and the environment. Such collaborations harness diverse expertise and perspectives of various stakeholders including researchers, practitioners,...

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 2021

Babyn, Katherine A

Menopause not only marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years but is a significant transition from a biological and psychosocial standpoint. The majority of women will experience menopause symptoms including vasomotor symptoms, genitourinary symptoms, sleep disturbances, mood changes,...

Spring 2016

Pullishy, Lesley A

This thesis describes the experiences of partners involved in integrated knowledge translation (iKT)—a poorly understood process wherein partners from diverse professional spheres (e.g. community, government, and academia) work together to ensure research generated is relevant for the context of...

Fall 2020

Rubuliak, Rebecca

Recess can be a valuable and significant experience in children’s lives that provides opportunities for outdoor free play and engagement with peers; however children experiencing disability often withdraw or are excluded during recess. The recess context has received little attention from an...