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Healing of Aboriginal offenders : a comparison between cognitive-behavioural treatment and the traditional Aboriginal sweat lodge ceremony
(2000)
Within the correctional system, aboriginal people are disproportionately represented at both the provincial and federal levels. Moreover, recent statistics confirm that this disproportional representation is increasing at ...
The association between divorce and patterns of child adjustment
(2001)
Previous research has indicated that although children from divorced families on average are not as well adjusted as children from intact families, there is a great deal of variability in how these children adjust to the ...
Severity of illness-geriatric (SOI-G) : instrument development
(2002-09-14)
Controlling for the wide variability in the physical health status of geriatric populations is important as severity of illness is known to both moderate and suppress relationships examined in psychosocial research. The ...
The efficacy of a combined cognitive-behavioural and interpersonal therapy approach to the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome : a randomized controlled trial
(2008)
The purpose of the current study was to develop a manualized treatment for fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) and to examine the efficacy of the treatment in a randomized controlled clinical trial. FM is a chronic musculoskeletal ...
Assessing the correctional service of Canada high intensity family violence program
(2004-05-10)
A family violence prevention program for incarcerated male offenders was evaluated. One hundred and one (101) offenders incarcerated in minimum and medium security facilities participated in a high intensity family violence ...
Can defense mechanisms aid in the differentiation of depression and anxiety
(2008)
The aim of the current studies was to first determine the convergent validity of several observer and self-report measures of defense mechanisms, and second to determine whether participants in the depressed and anxious ...
The effect of psychological stress procedures on the coagulation system in the albino rat
(1956)
Research dealing with changes in the blood coagulation system as a result of psychological stress procedures appears to be rather limited. Apart from the work of Cannon about forty years ago, and more recent clinical ...
The transition to post-secondary education for Canadian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal students : a focus on adjustment, fit and anticipated persistence.
(2011-06)
Why do some first year students continue and others leave before their second year? This has been a pressing question for a number of years. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in examining the experiences of ...
Selection of candidates for adult probation in Saskatchewan by the use of a biographical questionaire and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
(1955)
Over the past two years, the author has worked as Adult Probation Officer for the Police Magistrate's Court in the city of Saskatoon, Canada. This was the first position held after graduation from University. Together with ...
Delayed termination of the conditioned stimulus at different stages of avoidance learning
(1963)
The study of avoidance behavior is not new to psychology; it was investigated in the laboratory as early as 1913 by the Russian physiologist, Bekhterev. Recently, however, avoidance learning has attracted the interest of ...