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The new Canadian children and youth study. Research to Fill a Gap in Canada’s Children’s Agenda.
Download2005
Beiser, M., Armstrong, R., Ogilvie, L., Rummens, A., Oxman-Martinez, J.
One in every five children living in Canada was either born somewhere else or born into immigrant and refugee families, and Canada expects a lot from them. The literature about immigrant and refugee children is riddled with paradoxes, inconsistent results and unanswered questions. Longitudinal...
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The School and Social Experiences of Tourette Syndrome through the First-Person Perspective of Youth: A Theatre-Based Approach to Community-Based Research
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Tourette Syndrome Plus (TS+) is a “neuropsychiatric or brain-based condition that causes people who have it to make involuntary sounds or movements called tics” (Tourette Canada, n. d., para. 1). Individuals with TS+ may also have a number of associated disorders such as OCD, ADHD, and Anxiety...
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Fall 2017
This thesis is an examination of how musical participation and sociality intersect in the lives of nine urban Aboriginal youth and their allies living in western North America. Through the lens of modern Hardcore and Hip Hop, I explore how participation in these two musical scenes may engender a...
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The Well-Being of Youth Brought up by Parents with Disability: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study
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Background: The available research suggests that children brought up by parents with disability face a heighted risk of poorer well-being, including developmental delay, respiratory health conditions, accidents and injuries, and emotional-behavioural problems. This research is however limited,...
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This is Not For You: The Rise and Fall of Music Milieux in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, 1950s -1990s
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This thesis examines the rise and fall of music communities in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest from the 1950s to the 1990s: the jazz mileu in Seattle in the 1950s, the Pacific Northwest garage rock network of the 1960s, and the alternative music community of the 1980s and early 1990s. It looks...
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Fall 2017
The purpose of this study was to produce a conceptualization of good parenting in female youth sport. A two-phase approach was used. In phase one, individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight coaches (3 females, 5 males, M age= 40.1 years, SD = 15.1 years) with at least five...
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Understanding youth experiences and information needs related to online mental health searching: A qualitative descriptive study
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Background: A study of the mental health of Canadian youth from 2011-2018 showed an increase in the prevalence of perceived poor/fair mental health (1). Yet, many youth do not access mental health services provided by a health care provider. The most common help-seeking approach among youth is an...
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Using Social Media for Health Information: How New Technologies are Being Used in HIV/AIDS Communication
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Social networking sites, mobile technologies and other information and communications technologies have become popular ways of connecting. The health information field is no exception; however, what are best practices and strategies to effectively use the affordances of these tools, and currently...
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When aspirations aren't enough: educational aspirations and university participation among Canadian youth
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This study asks are educational aspirations enough? Specifically, this dissertation enquires whether educational aspirations have the potential to allow young people to overcome traditional class-based and other sources of inequality and achieve educational parity with their non-disadvantaged...
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2017-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Through cooperative inquiry and critical co-design, the project will develop an interactive digital story app (i.e., digital fiction) that can be evaluated as a tool for media-enhanced bibliotherapy to help young women address issues associated with body image concerns. 40...