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Fall 2019

Salvisberg, Wendy L

Adolescence is a time of profound change and development for girls. Canadian girls may face a number of complex issues as they transition through childhood into adolescence, including sharp declines in physical and mental health, high rates of violence at home and at school, and mounting...

Spring 2020

Gross, Jennifer

This study explores the connections between the writer’s workshop approach and high school students’ perceptions of their own resilience. The research includes multiple-case studies of student participants being taught in a high school writer’s workshop, as well as one teacher participant. The...

Fall 2023

Panes, Benjamin

Western Canadian forests have been subject to periods of drought stress over the last three decades, resulting in growth reductions, dieback, and increased wildfires in the context of climate change. To contribute to adaptive forest management, this study compares drought vulnerabilities of eight...

Fall 2019

Gould, Jennifer

Little attention in research has been paid to post-homeless trajectories among former street involved youth (SIY), despite previous studies having revealed fragile housing stability post-homelessness. It is important to understand how former SIY are able to cope with life post-homelessness and...

Fall 2019

Kelsey Wright

Sport involvement can be both a stressor and protective factor for athletes’ well-being (Arnold & Fletcher, 2012; Sarkar & Fletcher, 2014; Secades et al., 2016). With potentially fewer performance stressors, recreational athletes might be best positioned to experience the positive aspects of...

Fall 2020

Kully-Martens, Katrina Violet

This manuscript-based dissertation investigated the processes of resilience and thriving among youth and young adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Following a review of relevant literature, two studies are presented. Study 1 is a quantitative study focused on resilience among...

Fall 2019

Stan, Kayla D.

The primary objectives of this thesis included contributing to: (i) the state of knowledge on the TDF physiological response to climatic variables; (ii) the understanding of forest resilience through assessing productivity response to temperature and precipitation; and (iii) assessing the...

Fall 2024

Shi, Wenlong

Climate change has become an urgent global concern in the 21st century. Such environmental variation has led to an increasing occurrence of natural disasters. For example, the continuing rises in global temperatures can bring about severe storms and wildfires. Consequently, electrical...

Fall 2020

Hankey, Jeffrey R.

This dissertation explores innovative and nuanced conceptions of resilience useful to understanding this construct, process, and outcome in a diverse population of street-involved and homeless sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults. These young persons deal with significant adversity and...