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Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Policies and programs to prevent child maltreatment and promote family wellness in Ghana, Bright Isaac Asante
Critical psychology in action: Recommendations for the practice of critical psychology, Stephanie Austin
Parenting experience and gender role socialization in toy play situations, Sara Elizabeth Gugula
Board transition in a student government organization: Developing effective organizational change, Rolando Eduardo Inzunza
Ondansetron interferes with the establishment and expression of lithium-induced conditioned rejection reactions, Cheryl Lynn Limebeer
Programs for the promotion of family wellness and the prevention of child maltreatment: A meta-analytic review, Jennifer R. MacLeod
Planning and developing school-based community supports for refugee children, Peggy (Margaret) Nickels
Community gardeners: Planting the seeds of a sustainable future, Janet Ann O'Reilly
Transitions '98: Evaluation of a support group program for first-year university students, Alexandra J. Ostaniewicz
Don't let the sun go down on me: The relationship between gay men living with HIV and their physicians (Immune deficiency), Adele Parkinson-Heyes
An examination of the creation and impact of a supported housing program for psychiatric consumer/survivors, Shannon Parkinson
Single mothers, income, and health: An analysis of risk and protective factors, Melanie Quickfall
Applied ethics in mental health in Cuba: Concepts, values, dilemmas and resources, Laura Sanchez Valdes
Feminism meets self-care in social change work, Wendy L. Telford
Participatory action research learning involving women who have developmental challenges, Barbara Diane Weaver Zupko
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Evaluating elaborative interrogation's efficacy with expository text, Rhonda Leah Boudreau
Supporting community innovators: An evaluation of the Sexual Offender Program of Community Justice Initiatives, Kitchener, Ontario, Stephanie Campbell
Effects of cholinergic and dopaminergic drugs on number and time processing in rats, Romina Coppa
Assessing the separate contributions of recollection and familiarity for the mirror effect: A process dissociation approach, Elvin Dobani
Making connections: Greek and Sri Lankan Tamil perceptions of mental health, ways of coping, and help-seeking, Margaret Douglin
Gender differences and similarities in moral orientations: A narrative approach to moral socialization within the family, Susan M. Hilbers
Changes in environmental context and the mirror effect in recognition memory, Craig Andrew Livermore
A voice for our future: High-risk adolescents' perceptions and experiences about help and healing interventions, Cameron Dale Norman
The courage to change: Salvadoran stories of personal and social transformation (El Salvador), Audrey Celeste Rosa
The relations of parenting characteristics and parents' levels of care reasoning to preschoolers' prosocial reasoning, Stacey Tzavelas
Attentional, instructional, and depth effects on retrieval estimates, Jennifer Vonk
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Application of the remember/know judgement paradigm to eyewitness stimuli, P. Michael Appavoo
Barely a whisper in the system: Parents' perspectives on the prevention of foster care placement, Tammie O. Belliveau
Animal memory processes for number and time: Pigeons, methamphetamine, and the internal clock model, James W. Coyle
Conforming to the will of the church: The role of religious orientation, religious proscription, and right-wing authoritarianism in the religion-prejudice relationship, Robert James Duck
The need for social validation, Robert S. Graham
Achieving diversity (sciences, relativism, compassion), Erich John Knerr
The Comprehensive Organizational Social Support Tool: COSST assessment, Amanda Kroger
Pentobarbital-induced place aversion learning, Gilbert Lew
A case study of partnerships in practice, Heather Lorraine MacGillivary
Social support, campus involvement, and the adjustment to university, Krista Martin
Cross-cultural differences in parenting and moral development in late adolescence: A narrative approach, Wanna E. Mar
The effect on feeding and wheel running behaviours of housing rats in pairs, Roison M. O'Connor
Value dilemmas in striving for social justice: A case study of the Working Centre (Ontario), Stephen Orr
Age differences in implicit memory tests, Penny Kathleen Poisson
A qualitative, participatory study of the process of becoming an advocate for nonhuman animals, Angela Kathleen Raithby
Breaking the silence: New immigrant children affected by war trauma. Community needs and resources assessment, Danijela Seskar-Hencic
Specific dopaminergic manipulation of the internal clock mechanism, Lianne Elizabeth Stanford
MK-801 interferes with the acquisition of amphetamine- and lithium-induced place conditioning, Jonathan Francis Toth
Assessing process dissociation procedure and implicit memory estimates of automatic retrieval for a retention interval manipulation, Daryl E. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The list-strength effect and categorical frequency memory: Tests of availability, Joanne Bonanno
The use of drama to explore violence within relationships: A study of young men's experiences, Tammie Brunk
Empowerment in the workplace: A qualitative study, Dale Burt
Item versus associative information: A comparison of forgetting rates with and without recollective experience, Angela Consoli
The role of parental authoritarianism and religiosity in child-rearing goals and practices, Henry Akuoko Danso
The invisible weavers: Women volunteers creating community fabric, Lorie Anne Fioze
Native voices on Native science: Mohawk perspectives on the concept, practice, and meaning of a knowledge production system rooted in traditional Native thought, Pamela Esther Johnson
Juvenile delinquency and adult aggression against women, Michelle Kalra
Development and validation of a tool to measure temporal orientation, Yolanda Martins
Towards the well-being of immigrant and refugee children: A community-based approach, Adrine McKenzie
A formative evaluation of the Ontario breast cancer information exchange project, Michelle Marie Monforton-Everest
Forum theatre from a community psychology perspective, Holt Sivak
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Food systems: Community-Shared Agriculture, a means of empowerment and social vitality, Godwin Samuel Ashiabi
A process evaluation of a participant-centred approach to opportunities planning and its potential for empowerment, Barbara Dian Chrysler
The role of attachment, affect and integrative complexity in couple discussions, Fiona Jill Currie
Peer evaluation: The effect of reciprocity and level of performance on evaluative feedback, Doreen Maria de Veen
Social identity and integrative complexity: The effects of silent group membership on reasoning about social issues, Stephen Leonard Friedman
Coping with the transition to university: The impact of a social support-based intervention, Daniel Jeff Lamothe
Ibogaine fails to interrupt the expression of a previously established morphine place preference, Tracey Lyn Luxton
A community-based needs and resource assessment on youth mental health: Bay of Islands/Pasadena, Newfoundland, Joanne A. Mills
Effect of ibogaine on morphine: Induced modifications of palatability, Hardy Joseph Rideout
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Morphine-induced modification of quinine palatability: Effects of multiple morphine-quinine trials, Sharon Nicola D.A. Clarke
Framework for support: Desired relationships between self-help-groups and professionals, Vicente Constantino
The role of adult romantic attachment in marital communication, Kimberly Jill Ewing
A stakeholder approach to sexual assault prevention programming in the Halton Board of Education, Judith Ann Gould
Changing authoritarians' attitudes: The role of authority legitimacy, Bruce Allen Parker
Planting the seeds of hope: Research and action on body image of university students, Michelle Poechman Fisher
The use of dance in the promotion of mental health in girls: An exploratory study, Irene E. Rossberg-Gempton
An ounce of prevention: The life stories and perceptions of men who sexually offended against children, Christiane Sadeler
The college attributional complexity scale: Development, validation, and relationship to university adjustment, Michael David Smith
Bridging the gap: Mobilizing race and ethnocultural equity policy within secondary schools, Melanie Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Gender differences in perceptions of sexual and nonsexual cues in dating, Christine Alksnis
An outcome and process evaluation of the PAMSCAD supplementary food program at Ayeredee in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana, West Africa, Kofi Bobi Barimah
A developmental evaluation of frequency information in lists, scripts, and stories, Deborah Ann Connolly
The relation between empathic listening styles and moral reasoning development in adolescents, Susan Elizabeth Curror
The cultivation of neighbourhood centres: A life cycle model, Barbara Anne Derksen
Citizen participation in the development of religious communities as extended health care centres, Theresa Connie Dunn
Hearing the voices of the silent: Alternative to the problem of blaming mothers for the occurrence of incest, Josephine Sui-fun Fong
Transition to parenthood: The role of self-complexity, Margo Michelle Gallant
Gender differences in the perception of rape: The role of ambiguity, Terence Patrick Humphreys
An examination of the effectiveness of elaborative interrogation for adult learners as a function of study context, Tracey Diane Idle
Does religion teach empathy and helpfulness? The role of fundamentalism and target of need in the religion-helping relation, Lynne Marie Jackson
Visible minorities with physical challenges: A study of their experiences in integrating into Canadian society, Thersiah L. Lubis
Ontario's mental health system: The experience of families and their perspective on reform, Eric Laite Macnaughton
The development of a preventive peer mentoring program for students: Grounded theory at work, Leslea Peirson
A comparison of metamemory judgements and forgetting rates for item and associative recognition for normal and closed-head injured populations, Kathy Bharrath Singh
In search of a place to call home: A qualitative evaluation of a transitional housing program for refugee families, Colleen Marcia Wiltshire
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Kitchener-Waterloo Immigrant Settlement and Adaptation Program (ISAP): A process and outcome evaluation (Ontario), Charity Sylvia Akotia
Authoritarianism and integrative complexity, Susan Michele Alisat
The impact of hierarchical relationship quality on the content and timing of evaluative feedback: An affectively-driven process model, Peter Lawrence Egan
Base rates, individuating information, expertise, and transfer of knowledge in judgment under uncertainty, Owen Helmkay
Working for work: A program evaluation, Rich P. Janzen