Psychology (Functional Area: Clinical Psychology)
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Childhood and Adolescent Adversity and Chronic Pain
(2021-03-08)This dissertation used systematic review methods to examine the relationship between early life adversities and chronic pain later in life, with a focus on the temporal nature of the relationship and proposed moderating ... -
Bringing Into Presence: Client Experiences of SpeakArt, a Group Therapy for Complex Trauma
(2021-03-08)This qualitative study explored the experiences of women who completed an art therapy group for the treatment of difficulties related to complex trauma. Increasingly, treatments that address problems with self-organization ... -
Couple Sexuality After Treatment for Colerectal Cancer and Adaptation to an Ostomy: Bridging the Divide Between Needs, Recommendations, and Treatment
(2020-11-13)Objective: Over the course of three sequential qualitative studies, this investigation aims to better understand and support couples sexual adjustment following ostomy surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC). Method: Study ... -
I'm So Happy, But Also Terrified: The Experiences of Women with a History of Cancer During the Perinatal Period
(2020-11-13)Young female cancer survivors are at a disproportionate risk of suffering psychological distress following treatment, particularly fears of cancer recurrence (FCR). While previous research has established the robust ... -
Your Attention Please: Neural Networks, Individual Differences, and Clinical Implications of Attentional Control in the Human Brain
(2020-11-13)Our brains ability to direct our attention requires paradoxical processing. We must be able to focus and maintain our attention without allowing external stimuli to lure us off task. Yet, we must also be able to shift our ... -
Assessing the Relationship Between Presurgical Somatization and Chronic Postsurgical Pain Six Month After Cardiothoracic Surgery
(2020-11-13)Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) is difficult to treat and affects thousands of Canadians following cardiothoracic surgery. This study prospectively explored presurgical somatization as a risk factor for CPSP following ... -
Examining Emotional Processing Differences Predicting 18-Month Follow-Up Outcomes in Experiential Treatments for Depression
(2020-11-13)This study examined whether an EFT theory-based model of emotional processing (EP) would provide a good transtheoretical model for predicting good and poor long-term outcomes from experiential treatment of depression ... -
Interpersonal and Motivational Dynamics of Social Support Provision Toward Depressed Individuals
(2020-11-13)Depression occurs within an interpersonal context. Research has shown that depressed individuals perceive significant others as rejecting and unsupportive; however, the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of significant ... -
An Exploration of Spatial Memory Through Eye Movements and Navigation in Virtual Reality
(2020-11-13)Finding ones way in different environments is a common everyday experience. As experiences navigating an environment accumulate over time, spatial representations of visuoperceptual identities of landmarks and geometric ... -
The Effects of Acquisition and Test Conditions on Declarative and Motor-Procedural Memory for Complex Tools
(2020-11-13)Previous research revealed that the acquisition and retention of various tool properties (e.g., recalling information about a tools attributes, performing tool-related motor actions, demonstrating a tools correct use) ... -
A Pilot Feasibility Study of an Online Lifestyle Group Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors: The Healthy Lifestyle Modification After Breast Cancer (HLM-ABC) Program
(2020-11-13)Overweight is a common concern for many breast cancer survivors (BCSs), which coincides with serious comorbidities and/or health risks, including diminished quality of life, poorer cancer prognosis and/or increased mortality. ... -
Social Cognition and Aggression in Forensic Psychiatric Patients
(2020-08-11)While there is an established link between untreated psychosis and aggression, the role of social cognition has been relatively neglected. This study examined various aspects of social cognitive functioning among forensic ... -
Validation of the Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization Scale
(2020-08-11)The present dissertation examines the psychometric properties of the Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization Scale (SPTS-12), a measure developed to assess the cognitive, emotional, behavioural, and somatic responses to pain ... -
Monitoring Accuracy Across Domains of General Knowledge and Emotional Face Recognition
(2020-08-11)Confidence and its accuracy have been most commonly examined in domains such as general knowledge and learning, and have been rarely studied in social domains. The current study extends the study of metacognitive monitoring ... -
The Underused Mind: The Role of Cognition in Trait Boredom
(2020-07-20)Trait boredom is associated with serious psychosocial consequences. It is also associated with poor sustained attention and self-reported executive dysfunction. However, research on trait boredom and cognitive ability ... -
Is Trait Boredom About What You Feel or How You Want to Respond to Boring Situations?
(2020-05-11)If state boredom signals that ones cognitive resources are not engaged in a situation and pushes an individual to seek cognitive engagement, then this study tested the idea that trait boredom moderates the impact of a ... -
Abnormal Structural Connectivity Patterns in Large-Scale Brain Networks in Schizophrenia
(2020-05-11)Background: While cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia, a minority of patients demonstrate average to superior ability on many standard cognitive measures with no attenuation of the psychotic disease ... -
Investigating White Matter Lesion Load, Intrinsic Functional Connectivity, and Cognitive Abilities in Older Adults
(2020-05-11)Changes to the while matter of the brain disrupt neural communication between spatially distributed brain regions and are associated with cognitive changes in later life. While approximately 95% of older adults experience ... -
Pain Intensity Ratings are Altered by Prior Exposure to an Unrelated Numeric Anchor
(2019-11-22)Numeric anchoring occurs when exposure to a numeric quantity biases a persons subsequent judgment involving other quantities. This study aimed to determine whether exposure to a random numeric anchor influences how a ... -
Temporal Self-Appraisal in Developmental Amnesia
(2019-11-22)According to temporal self-appraisal theory, people evaluate themselves in the past in a way that makes them feel good about themselves in the present. In line with this theory, studies have shown that people believe their ...
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