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The ‘success’ of formal diversion programs for youth: Understanding why alternatives to court are so popular among youth and law enforcement.
(2014-01-16)
The diversion of young people from the traditional court process has been supported for many years. Much of the research on diversion policies and program has focused exclusively on how diversion programs operate, such ...
Counsellor and Practicum Supervisor Critical Incidents in the Development of Multicultural and Social Justice Competency
(2014-01-16)
In many countries, counselling psychology has increasingly attended to the diverse needs of clients within multicultural societies. In North America, emphasis has been placed on nondominant populations, whose experiences ...
Program Experiences of Men Completing the Reaching for a Good Life Program
(2014-01-16)
This presentation will report the findings of a qualitative investigation into the experiences of thirty-one men completing the Reaching for a Good Life program as well as post-group quantitative measures of executive ...
Two School-Based Mental Health Services: One Systemic Approach
(2014-01-16)
This presentation focuses on the development, operation, and evolution of two school-based, mental health consultation services operating in private and charter schools in Calgary, AB, Canada. First, I describe the ...
Testing under Pressure
(2014-01-16)
“For most of us, testing shares more in common with emergency response than with airplane maintenance. In a perfect world we’d check the torque on every bolt, and leave the runway with 100% certainty every flight. Most ...
Increase in daily steps after a 6-month lifestyle intervention for adults with type 2 diabetes in primary care: a controlled Trial
(2014-01-16)
Background: Healthy eating and active living are cornerstones of diabetes management, yet due to a number of systematic factors, patients in primary care settings don’t often receive adequate support for lifestyle change. ...
The Accumulation of Capital” – Economic Underpinnings of Rosa Luxemburg’s Democratic Socialism
(2014-02-06)
Left critics of the statist policies pursued by social democrats and Soviet communists often drew inspiration from Rosa Luxemburg’s critique of union and party bureaucracies and her uncompromised commitment to the ...
Synergia Project
(2014-02-10)
The Synergia Project is a new initiative whose purpose is to promote online learning technology to support the diffusion of co-operative knowledge (both formal and tacit) and practice to meet the challenges of building a ...
An Interactive OER Course Development at Athabasca University based on ODL Principles
(2014-02-06)
Failure rates in first year calculus courses are high in most post-secondary institutions across North America and other parts of the world. This Inukshuk-funded open education project involved the development of five ...
Causes of Banking Crises: Deregulation, Credit Booms and Asset Bubbles, Then and Now
(2014-02-06)
We examine similarities in the run-up to banking crises using two essential criteria for their predictability: i) the percentage of a specified number of years prior to a crisis correctly called; and ii) the percentage of ...