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Clients' Perspectives of the Working Alliance Inventory
(2018-03-01)
The working alliance is one of the most widely studied constructs in the psychotherapy research literature, and ratings of the working alliance are widely used in clinical research and practice to measure the relationships ...
Cognitive Mechanisms of Wise Reasoning Across the Adult Lifespan
(2018-11-21)
Investigations have begun to unpack the cognitive architecture of wisdom, yet, controversies remain, including disparate notions of the role of memory. There is no agreed upon definition of wisdom; however, there is consensus ...
An Experimental Investigation of the Factors that Lead to Fat Talk
(2018-11-21)
Fat talk describes self-disparaging remarks made about ones weight or shape. Despite the fact that fat talk has been associated with a number of negative outcomes including eating pathology, fat talk has become a social ...
Understanding the Relation Between Boredom and Achievement in Post-Secondary Students
(2019-03-05)
Pekruns (2006) control-value theory offers a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the causes and consequences of boredom in a learning context. One important aspect of this model is the relationship between ...
Investigating Spatial Memory and Navigation in Developmental Amnesia: Evidence from a Google Street View Paradigm, Mental Navigation Tasks, and Route Descriptions
(2019-07-02)
This dissertation examined the integrity of spatial representations of extensively travelled environments in developmental amnesia, thereby elucidating the role of the hippocampus in forming and retrieving spatial memories ...
Predictors of Community Outcome in Schizophrenia: The Factor Structure of Cognition and Functional Capacity
(2018-05-28)
Cognition is considered a key predictor of community outcome in schizophrenia and is the target of an increasingly large number of pharmacological and behavioural interventions. The proliferation of functional capacity ...
The Effects of Prior Knowledge on Mnemonic Discrimination in Young and Other Adults, and in Hippocampal Amnesia
(2018-11-21)
The hippocampus is critical to discriminating between newly learned, highly similar stimuli; less clear is its role in discriminating representations based on prior knowledge. In this study, young adults, older adults ...
Which Eating Disorder Prevention Themes are Most Persuasive? Input from Clinical and Non-clinical Samples
(2015-08-12)
Eating disorder prevention programs have been shown to be an effective strategy in combating the development of disordered eating behaviours and attitudes in young women. However, such programs are typically broadband in ...
Mental Illness Stigma Among Middle Eastern Canadians: A Mixed Methods Study
(2018-03-01)
Mental illness stigma (MIS) is a global phenomenon, which perpetuates the distress associated with the symptoms of mental illness by acting as a deterrent to treatment (Tzouvara, Papadopoulos, & Randhawa, 2016). Research ...
The Relationship Between Parental Support, Parent Emotional Reaction, and Parenting Stress with Children's Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Following Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(2017-07-27)
The reciprocal relationship between parent factors (parental support, parent emotional reaction, and parenting stress) and child symptoms of posttraumatic stress was examined in the current study. Three hypotheses were ...