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The Brock University Digital Repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material.2024-03-29T01:28:45ZEnding the cycle: Scholars' perspectives on hazing prevention
http://hdl.handle.net/10464/18356
Ending the cycle: Scholars' perspectives on hazing prevention
Lamothe, Richard
The purpose of this study is to synthesize the knowledge of hazing experts to explore hazing prevention techniques. Preventing hazing in sport has been studied, analyzed, and explored through various research designs centered on strategies of athlete education, cultural change, and replacement activities. However, literature has lacked a study that compares and integrates these methods within the practice of prevention. This study begins to conceptually fill that void. To critically examine, compare, and integrate hazing prevention methods, published hazing scholars were surveyed using the Delphi technique. All participants had published at least one peer-reviewed publication on hazing written in English. Using the Delphi technique, participants were surveyed three times, with each iteration being developed from the results of the previous survey. The first survey had fifteen participants, the second had fourteen, and the third had eleven. The survey responses were analyzed using thematic coding. Participating scholars provided detailed descriptions of best practices with prevention strategies centered on athlete education, cultural change, and replacement activities. Importantly, participating scholars identified that all hazing prevention methods should be implemented as much as possible as they are often connected, interrelated, and have the potential to be most effective when utilized together.
A Comparison of Methods for Teaching Discrimination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training Processes in Samples of Verbal Behaviour
http://hdl.handle.net/10464/18354
A Comparison of Methods for Teaching Discrimination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training Processes in Samples of Verbal Behaviour
Manuge, Taylor
Accurate identification of the six core processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/ Training (ACT) is foundational for practitioners, yet no published research has compared methods for teaching this skill. This exploratory study compared the efficacy and efficiency of two methods (discrimination training, DT and self-paced, mastery-based training, SPMB) for training graduate students to identify ACT processes using speech samples. Two ACT processes were selected as training targets based on a logical analysis conducted with six behaviour analysts trained in ACT. Respondents rated fusion/defusion and lack of present moment awareness (PMA)/PMA to be of relatively equal discrimination difficulty. The training procedures were compared in an adapted alternating treatment design embedded within a delayed concurrent multiple baseline design across three students. In the DT condition modules, participants viewed training videos, completed exercises, whereas in the SPMB condition modules, participants read chapters of an ACT text in the SPMB condition modules. Following modules in either condition, participants completed skill assessments to assess their ability to discriminate the target ACT skills. Participants listened to samples of verbal behaviour then selected which ACT process they observed. Skill assessment results suggest that the most efficacious training method is SPMB. However, when false positives (identifying a sample of verbal behaviour as the target skill when it is the control skill) are included in scoring, DT is the more efficacious training method. Participants did not rate one training method more favorably than the other. Findings have the potential to inform future ACT research and ultimately increase the effectiveness of ACT interventions.
Exploring the common practices that exist within the dynamic approach of virtual and onsite movement-based programming for young people living with autism spectrum disorder (autism)
http://hdl.handle.net/10464/18353
Exploring the common practices that exist within the dynamic approach of virtual and onsite movement-based programming for young people living with autism spectrum disorder (autism)
Hicks, Stephanie
The purpose of this study was to describe, analyze, and understand the common practices
that exist within the dynamic approach of virtual and onsite programming across different
organizations with a focus on movement-based programming for children and youth living with
autism spectrum disorder (autism). Previous research suggested that it would be a missed
opportunity for learning, development, and engagement to disregard a hybrid or virtual program
delivery model. This study used public domain data sets to investigate and analyze current
practices in the methods of program delivery for activity for children living with autism. The
researcher examined both manifest and latent content, and discerned common practices of
program delivery through application and completion of a prompt-based checklist. The findings
were developed through a multi-level content analysis and contribute to insights about current
and common practices relating to the impact of the hybridization of movement-based programs
for children with autism. This study demonstrated that organizations are primarily transitioning
back to on-site programming options as society enters the state of an endemic, and it raises
concerns as to why the priority and level of virtual access has been taken away. The findings
could lead to further research around program delivery practices and communication as members
of the community move away from the pandemic mindset. Further research is necessary to
continue investigating how hybrid program delivery should be prioritized in future years
increasing pathways of participation.
Snap-shots, Port Colborne
http://hdl.handle.net/10464/18350
Snap-shots, Port Colborne
Williams, Edie; Carl, Sharon
Photo album and scrapbook containing many World War I era newspaper clippings and family photographs. The black and white photographs are of various subjects including the building of the Welland Canal, Niagara Falls, early aviation near Port Colborne, Nickel beach, homes in Port Colborne, and a photograph of an unknown engineer on the new Welland Canal. The photographs also include three individuals in black face.
Please note: This collection contains imagery that reflects the time period when it was created and the view of its creator(s). This can include offensive and negative language, references, and stereotypes that are no longer used or appropriate today. The item(s) retain their original content to ensure that attitudes and viewpoints are not erased from the historical record. The Archives & Special Collections are actively working on including more respectful and representative language in our own descriptions now and into the future
The album is attributed to the Reid family of Port Colborne. The 1921 Census of Canada lists a Reid family in Port Colborne living on Charlotte Street. Some of the homes in the background of the photographs appear similar to homes on Charlotte Street in 2024. At this time, it is unknown who the members of the family are.
The newspaper clippings are from the New York Times picture section, August-September 1918. The clippings show the Allied efforts in France, Italy and Palestine.
Photographs include family and friends of the Reid family of Port Colborne and include an engineer on the new [fourth] Welland Canal. Other locations include Niagara Falls, Nickel Beach, Port Colborne High School and various points along the fourth Welland Canal. Photographs include early aviation and a train wreck in Port Colborne, automobiles, family pets, bicycles, schools, early telephone switchboard, swimming, children’s picnics, Maple Leaf Mills, Welland Canal construction, cottages and beach images.
2024-03-21T00:00:00Z