Psychology (Functional Area: Clinical-Developmental)
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Girls in Child Protective Services: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Self-Perceptions, Interpersonal Connections, and Academic Resilience
(2022-03-03)Aim: The aim of the present study was to advance the understanding of academic resilience among girls in the care of child protective services. Using a developmental framework of resilience this research examined: the ... -
Clinician Factors Related to the Delivery of Psychotherapy for Youth with Autism and ADHD
(2022-03-03)Children and adolescents with autism are far more likely than children without autism to experience co-occurring mental health problems such as anxiety or depression. Though evidence-based psychotherapy that addresses ... -
Long-Term Follow-Up of Mothers and Children Treated for Maternal Substance Use: A Mixed Methods Approach
(2021-11-15)Maternal substance use is a major public health concern that can lead to various negative outcomes for women, children, and society. Previous research has shown how integrated substance use interventions promote positive ... -
An Evaluation of Social Cognition and Social Emotional Outcomes Following Pediatric Stroke
(2021-11-15)Following stroke, children experience cognitive sequelae, which may have a consequential impact on a childs functional outcomes and quality of life. An under-appreciated element of pediatric stroke is its impact on social ... -
Listening to Indigenous Girls' Experiences of Warmth and Caring: A Qualitative Study
(2021-11-15)Indigenous Girls in Canada face the results of centuries of compounded social, economic, psychological, and spiritual harms due to the disrupting force of colonization, which still carries harms today and reveals itself ... -
Executive Functioning and Theory of Mind: Links with Emerging Adult Peer, Occupational, and Romantic Adjustment
(2021-11-15)Few studies have directly examined associations between executive functioning (EF), theory of mind (ToM), and social adjustment among emerging adults, as well as contextual variables influencing these associations. This ... -
Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Collision and Contact Female Athletes Over the Course of a Season
(2021-11-15)Objective: University contact and collision sport athletes are exposed to numerous impacts to the body and head, however, the short-term effects of such cumulative hits on neurological functioning remain elusive. This study ... -
The Association Between Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines and C-Reactive-Protein and the Cognitive and Neurological Outcome in Stroke Survivors: A Systematic Review
(2021-11-15)The role of inflammation in neurological prognosis of stroke has been studied previously. However, very little research has thoroughly examined the association between inflammatory markers and neurocognitive outcome ... -
Examining Stress and Coping in Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2021-11-15)Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are at risk for experiencing elevated levels of distress; coping has been shown to moderate parents experience of distress, but popular instruments of both stress and ... -
Applied behaviour analysis in Taiwan: Examining How parents of children with autism perceive and select intervention options
(2021-11-15)Although many different types of autism treatments exist, very few are grounded in evidence. Interventions based on applied behaviour analysis (ABA) have received substantial evidence supporting their efficacy and community ... -
Trajectories of Distress Regulation During Preschool Vaccinations: Child and Caregiver Predictors
(2021-11-15)Recent research has highlighted the need for a deeper understanding of the heterogeneity in trajectories of childrens distress following acute pain exposure, moving beyond group means of behavioural pain scores at a single ... -
Building a Systemic Understanding of Resilience in Boys in Street Situations in Leon, Nicaragua
(2021-11-15)There are tens of millions of children and youth in street situations (CYSS) worldwide, the majority of whom are males who reside in low- and middle-income countries. On the street, children face risk factors that carry ... -
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and social functioning in youth with autism spectrum disorder
(2021-07-06)Recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses reveal that psychiatric comorbidities are highly prevalent in youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), particularly anxiety disorders. Given the high prevalence of anxiety among ... -
Caregiver-Child Behaviours in the Immunization Context: Building Understanding Through a Preschool Attachment Lens
(2021-03-08)Research on how caregivers and young children interact during distressing situations through an attachment theory lens demonstrates that less optimal attachment patterns are linked with socio-emotional and biological ... -
Parent Outcomes in Group Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2020-11-13)It has been shown that having a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) impacts parents in many ways. However, there is limited research examining changes of these impacts over time, especially in the context of childrens ... -
The Ambiance-Brief: An Investigation of a Novel Tool Designed to Assess Disrupted Maternal Behaviour
(2020-11-13)Maternal sensitivity has long been associated with optimal child development, yet outcomes of studies investigating its predictive validity have been far from consistent. One explanation for this inconsistency is that ... -
Examining Autism Symptom Severity and Structure in IQ Groups
(2020-11-13)The purpose of this study was to compare the severity and structure of autism symptoms in four cognitive-level groups: (1) those without an intellectual disability (No ID; IQ: 85;), (2) those with borderline cognitive ... -
Examining the Relationships Between Neonatal Pain-Related Facial Actions and Cortical Activity
(2020-11-13)The current study examined the relationships between preterm and full-term neonates pain-related facial actions and cortical activity following a heel lance. Participants consisted of 41 late preterm and 37 full-term ... -
Emotion Dysregulation in Children with Autism: A Multimethod Investigation of the Role of Child and Parent Factors
(2020-11-13)Children with autism have been found to experience greater difficulties with emotion regulation than typically developing peers. Characteristics related to autism (i.e., social communication, restricted repetitive behaviours, ... -
Parenting Stress in Zambian Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities
(2020-11-13)This dissertation examined the experiences of Zambian parents of children with developmental disabilities (DD) using the Perry (2004) stress model as a theoretical framework. The overall project was a sequential mixed ...
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