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Title: Child and youth care in the field: A practicum workbook
Author(s): Carys Cragg (author)
Date: 2020
Abstract: Child and Youth Care in the Field: A Practicum Guidebook uses critical reflection to facilitate student learning and growth throughout the practicum experience. Students can apply and build upon the theory and skills acquired during their fieldwork by utilizing the engaging workbook features and writing spaces included in the text. This resource helps prepare students for practicum and expand their self-awareness by discussing the challenges and difficulties they will encounter in the field, and by providing insight on how to navigate the decision-making process. With the increasing need for a hands-on resource in child and youth care studies, this book is well suited for first year, field placement, and professional skills courses in child and youth care programs at the college and university level.
Subject(s): Social service--Fieldwork, Social work with children, Social work with youth, Practicums
Department: Child and Youth Care, Applied Community Studies

Title: New dimensions of sport in modern Europe: Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
Author(s): Robert. J. Lake (editor), Heather Dichter (editor), Mark Dyreson (editor)
Date: 2021
Abstract: New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the 'long twentieth century' designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered 'traditional' or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure - especially those deriving from the leading hotbeds of European sport history. This anthology adds to the growing corpus of explorations of sport and leisure in late-modern European history from a variety of countries: France, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovenia. With topics covering several different sports and ranging from sport during empire to mega-events, and sport literature to women's sport attire, the insights provided by this new body of research demonstrate a greater understanding of the connections between sport and society in Europe throughout the long twentieth century.
Subject(s): Sports--Europe--History--20th century, Sports--Social aspects--Europe--History--20th century, Europe--Social life and customs--20th century
Department: Sport Science, Science and Technology

Title: Public protection as a ruling concept in the management of nurses’ substance use
Author(s): Charlotte A. Ross (author), Paul C. Luken (editor), Suzanne Vaughan (editor)
Date: 2021
Abstract: Dr. Charlotte A. Ross (Douglas College) writes the book chapter Public protection as a ruling concept in the management of nurses’ substance use (2021).
Subject(s): Nurses--Substance use, Nurses--Substance use--Social aspects, Nursing services--Personnel management, Drugs and employment, Nursing ethics
Department: Nursing, Health Sciences

Title: From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front
Author(s): Devin Z. Shaw (author)
Date: 2021
Abstract: Dr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) writes the book chapter From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front (2021).
Subject(s): Anti-Nazi movement--Germany, Anti-fascist movements--Germany--History--20th century, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, Communists--Germany--History--20th century, Germany--History--1933-1945
Department: Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title: Nurse mentored, student research in undergraduate nursing education to support evidence‐based practice: A pilot study
Author(s): Ruhina Rana (author), Marie‐Pier Caron (author), Steve Kanters (author)
Date: 2021-10-29
Abstract: The aim was to investigate if an extracurricular research skills development program builds the knowledge, attitudes, and skills (KAS) to support evidence-based practice (EBP). Twenty nursing students and six mentors in four teams completed small, student-led research projects over 1 year. Using a mixed-methods design, the knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) survey was administered at three-time points, followed by qualitative interviews. A linear mixed-effects regression model was used to analyze survey data and thematic analysis for qualitative data. The change from the KAP survey from the first to the third time point showed a statistically significant difference following engagement in the program. Qualitative data indicated benefits and challenges to participation for both students and mentors. Mentorship provided students with improved relationships, collaboration, and leadership skills. Students believed the program enhanced their understanding of research and reported increased confidence in using EBP.
Subject(s): Nursing students, Evidence-based nursing--Research--Study and teaching (Higher), Nursing--Research--Study and teaching (Higher), Mentoring in nursing, Mentoring in education
Department: Nursing

Title: Reducing the use of imprisonment: Lessons from 20 years' experience in Canada
Author(s): Andrew A. Reid (author)
Date: 2020-11
Abstract: In order to reduce or constrain prison populations, many different strategies have been proposed, trialled, or implemented. In 1996, Canada created the first and, to date, most ambitious home confinement sanction, the Conditional Sentence of Imprisonment (CSI). This study tracks annual changes to correctional admissions since the introduction of the sanction to assess whether it has reduced custodial admissions for Aboriginal offenders. There is evidence that the CSI had a modest decarceration effect overall and for Aboriginal offenders specifically. These effects were strongest in the initial years after the sanction was introduced, with waning performance in the most recent decade. The decarceration effects have not been erased but nor has the serious problem of over-incarceration among Aboriginal offenders.
Subject(s): Alternatives to imprisonment, Sentences (Criminal procedure), Community-based corrections, Home detention, Criminal justice, Administration of, Indigenous criminals, Indigenous prisoners
Department: Criminology

Title: A comparative study of anaesthetic agents on high voltage activated calcium channel currents in identified molluscan neurons
Author(s): Terrence J. Morris (author), Philip M. Hopkins (author), William Winlow (author)
Date: 2021
Abstract: 1. Using the two electrode voltage clamp configuration, a high voltage activated whole-cell Ca2+ channel current (IBa) was recorded from a cluster of neurosecretory ‘Light Yellow’ Cells (LYC) in the right parietal ganglion of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. 2. Recordings of IBa from LYCs show a reversible concentration-dependent depression of current amplitude in the presence of the volatile anaesthetics halothane, isoflurane and sevoflurane, or the non-volatile anaesthetic pentobarbitone at clinical concentrations. 3. In the presence of the anaesthetics investigated, IBa measured at the end of the depolarizing test pulse showed proportionally greater depression than that at measured peak amplitude, as well as significant decrease in the rate of activation or increase in inactivation or both. 4. Within the range of concentrations used, the concentration-response plots for all the anaesthetics investigated correlate strongly to straight line functions, with linear regression R2 values > 0.99 in all instances. 5. For volatile anaesthetics, the dose-response regression slopes for IBa increase in magnitude, in order of gradient: sevoflurane, isoflurane and halothane, a sequence which reflects their order of clinical potency in terms of MAC value."
Subject(s): Anesthetics--Physiological effect, Calcium channels--Effect of drugs on, Lymnaeidae--Effect of drugs on, Cells--Effect of drugs on, Cells--Electric properties, Neuropharmacology
Department: Biology, Science and Technology

Title: The role of technology in the hospital and implications for coronavirus
Author(s): Cathy Lipke (author), Rajanpreet Shinger (author)
Date: 2020
Abstract: Social workers play a crucial role in patient wellbeing in a health care setting. Technological advances have changed the way patients and practitioners communicate. Social work has attempted to keep up with advances in technology, however there are barriers. This study interviewed health care social workers and explored the use of technology in their practice. In the time of a global pandemic, health care has seen many restrictions to receiving care and supporting family members of patients. Social workers and their use of technology plays can play a major role in supporting patients accessing services and keeping patients connected with their families.
Subject(s): Medical care--Technological innovations, Social service--Technological innovations, Medical innovations, Patients--Effect of technological innovations on, COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Department: Social Work, Applied Community Studies

Title: How to play philosophy: A book for public thinking and the thinking public
Author(s): Michael Picard (author)
Date: 2022
Abstract: "How to Play Philosophy is a series of lyrical, creative essays that explore timeless and timely ideas about who we are and how we live. MIT-trained philosopher Michael Picard shares ideas of numerous. philosophers from conflicting traditions and builds an intellectual background to enable readers to draw their own conclusions." Written in a spirit of free and playful inquiry, the essays were composed originally to support public participatory philosophy, or Café Philosophy, which the author has facilitated for decades. Subjects include Play it With Feeling (Desire, Stress, Anger); Games We Play (Intimacy, Loyalty, Betrayal) and Playing Fair (Values, Good, Integrity), alongside epistemological topics including Truth (Knowledge, Certainty, Objectivity) and the perennial metaphysical quandaries (Human Nature, The Sacred, God). -- Provided by publisher.
Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophy--Introductions
Department: Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title: Does consumer innovativeness matter in electrified vehicle? The moderation role of consumer involvement
Author(s): Li Sun (author), Chih-Wei Chao (author), Yu-Chen Hung (author)
Date: 2022
Abstract: Electrified vehicles have become a solution to greenhouse gas emissions. However, the diffusion of this sustainable transportation is slow, and consumer innovativeness is suggested to have a weak predictive power on electrified vehicle adoption. The aim of this study was to understand how consumer innovativeness and involvement may affect customers' electrified vehicle purchase behavior. The results indicate that consumer innovativeness has less ability to predict electrified vehicle adoption. This finding offers insights for the formulation of marketing strategies on facilitating electrified vehicle adoption, which should focus on highly involved consumers with a high level of consumer innovativeness. This study highlights the importance of the role of personality traits and supports the proposition that of distinction between consumer innovativeness and involvement. This study focuses on the role of personality traits on consumers' actual electrified vehicle adoption behavior rather than purchase intention.
Department: Marketing, Commerce and Business Administration

Title: Diffused effort, asset heterogeneity, and real estate brokerage
Author(s): Li Sun (author), Zhaohui Li (author), Qiang Li (author), Hua Sun (author)
Date: 2022
Abstract: We generalize the classic Williams (1998, Review of Financial Studies, 11, 239–280) brokerage model by introducing diffused effort and asset heterogeneity. The term "diffused effort" refers to the fact that an agent can cross‐utilize effort spending on one listing to another. One counterintuitive finding in Williams' paper is the absence of the agency problem. As a special case in our model, we recover the agency problem. We demonstrate the positive externality due to the diffused effort and show it depends on the agent's inventory size. Hence, there is a trade‐off between agents' effort committed to existing listings and expanding network size by soliciting new listings.
Subject(s): Real property, Real estate listings, Real estate agents, Brokers, Assets (Accounting)
Department: Marketing, Commerce and Business Administration

Title: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Canada: Content analysis of tweets using the theoretical domains framework
Author(s): Janessa Griffith (author), Husayn Marani (author), Helen Monkman (author)
Date: 2021
Abstract: Background: With the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines in Canada, many people feel a sense of relief, as hope is on the horizon. However, only about 75% of people in Canada plan to receive one of the vaccines. The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons why people in Canada feel hesitant toward receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Methods: We screened 3915 tweets from public Twitter profiles in Canada by using the search words “vaccine” and “COVID.” The tweets that met the inclusion criteria (i.e., those about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy) were coded via content analysis. Codes were then organized into themes and interpreted by using the Theoretical Domains Framework. Results: Overall, 605 tweets were identified as those about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine hesitancy stemmed from the following themes: concerns over safety, suspicion about political or economic forces driving the COVID-19 pandemic or vaccine development, a lack of knowledge about the vaccine, antivaccine or confusing messages from authority figures, and a lack of legal liability from vaccine companies. This study also examined mistrust toward the medical industry not due to hesitancy, but due to the legacy of communities marginalized by health care institutions. These themes were categorized into the following five Theoretical Domains Framework constructs: knowledge, beliefs about consequences, environmental context and resources, social influence, and emotion. Conclusions With the World Health Organization stating that one of the worst threats to global health is vaccine hesitancy, it is important to have a comprehensive understanding of the reasons behind this reluctance. By using a behavioral science framework, this study adds to the emerging knowledge about vaccine hesitancy in relation to COVID-19 vaccines by analyzing public discourse in tweets in real time. Health care leaders and clinicians may use this knowledge to develop public health interventions that are responsive to the concerns of people who are hesitant to receive vaccines.
Subject(s): COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination--Canada--Public opinion, Vaccination--Canada--Public opinion, Vaccine hesitancy--Canada, Health attitudes--Canada
Department: Health Information Management, Health Sciences

Title: The decline of lawn tennis in Ireland around the turn of the twentieth century: Bad management, bad luck or bad homburg?
Author(s): Robert J. Lake (author), Simon J. Eaves (author)
Date: 2020
Abstract: For a time in the 1880s and early 1890s, lawn tennis in Ireland was at its peak, and a leading nation in the sport, globally. Its players were among the world’s best, the only rival to its national championships in terms of prestige and quality of entries was Wimbledon, and its coaching professionals ranked among the world’s most sought after. From the mid-1890s onwards, however, a combination of bad management and bad luck brought long-term decline to Irish lawn tennis, particularly in and around Dublin and the Irish Championships. The story of decline must be situated within the contexts of the desertion of aristocratic support, the emergence of alternative leisure pursuits like bicycling and golf, the spread of lawn tennis across continental Europe that led to increasing competition between tournaments, alongside the mounting pressure for lawn tennis clubs and tournaments to be properly managed and organized as a collective, rather than isolated entities. This decline around the turn of the twentieth century should serve as a cautionary tale for how broader circumstances, only some of which were under the direct influence of its officials and leaders, had a profound influence on a rich, sporting culture.
Subject(s): Tennis--Ireland--History--19th century, Tennis--Tournaments--Ireland--History--19th century, Tennis clubs--Ireland--History--19th century, Sports administration--Ireland--History--19th century
Department: Sport Science, Science and Technology

Title: To ‘fan the spirit of race hatred’: lawn tennis, propaganda and Germanophobia during the Great War
Author(s): Robert J. Lake (author)
Date: 2021
Abstract: This study considers the various ways that tennis was implicated within First World War propaganda; more specifically, to consider tennis as both a lens to view and a context to understand and communicate perspectives about the war from a British perspective. In the midst of heightened nationalism, jingoism and Germanophobia, tennis featured in broader debates in both the mainstream and sporting press as a site of contested meanings of British national identity. This was seen through poetry and cartoons alongside public correspondence through letters to editors and various published discussions. These messages typically defended Britain’s amateur games culture, utilising constructions of ‘sportsmanship’ to distinguish British and German approaches, while denigrating Germany’s more functionalistic understanding of sport’s role in training. These messages were far from one-sided, as some British correspondents sought to defend German tennis players as somehow ‘above’ their barbarous brethren in ethics. Moreover, through tennis, Germans also communicated their objections to Britain’s apparently more ‘frivolous’ attitude toward sport and warfare. Thus, narratives were diverse and conflicting, and were indicative of ongoing confusions expressed publicly about the supposed role of amateur sport as a site of political expression.
Subject(s): Tennis--Political aspects--Great Britain History--20th century, Nationalism and sports--Great Britain History--20th century, Propaganda, Anti-German--Great Britain History--20th century, World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Department: Sport Science

Title: 'Flannelled fools are strutting about tennis courts': Lawn tennis in Britain during the Great War
Author(s): Robert J. Lake (author)
Date: 2020
Abstract: This article examines the connections between (lawn) tennis in Britain and the Great War (1914–1918). While previous historical research has suggested a four-year hiatus, in fact the sport continued to be played during the war, recreationally and among servicemen/women and more elite players in exhibition matches. Anecdotes about the cessation of tournaments and restricted play were interspersed with debates about the appropriateness of continuing play recreationally, as the ‘gentleman in tennis flannels’ became a symbol of public censure. Alongside enlistment, tennis players responded to the call byoffering their club facilities to the war effort, digging up courts to plant vegetables, hosting charity matches, and providing entertainment for convalescent soldiers. This analysis highlights the significance of tennis as a vehicle to promote a kind of British identity, as responses to the war as seen through tennis reflected broader sporting ideals, privileging amateurism, fair play and the ‘stuff upper lip’.
Subject(s): Tennis--Great Britain--History--20th century, Tennis--Social aspects--Great Britain History--20th century, Tennis--Tournaments--Great Britain History--20th century, Nationalism and sports--Great Britain History--20th century, National characteristics, British, World War, 1914-1918
Department: Sport Science

Title: Exploring issues in transnational sport history
Author(s): Robert J. Lake (author)
Date: 2021
Abstract: Increasingly, sport has become an important lens through which to examine the historical influences of, and issues related to, transnational interactions and exchanges, yet the term “transnational” remains beset with disagreement regarding its precise meaning and definition. Commonly, transnational approaches to the historical study of sport provide opportunities to reach beyond “the nation,” whereby the nation–state is not positioned, necessarily, as the central category of analysis in discussions of cultural exchange between or across nations and borders. In such analyses, nonstate actors—essentially, those working outside of government influence—can move from the periphery to the center of focus. Challenging the dominant narrative of much historical research into globalization in sport that has tended to dwell on the negative, transnational approaches, as evidenced in this collection, offer new opportunities to consider positive, progressive, and co-operative aspects inherent to the connections and exchanges examined.
Subject(s): Nationalism and sports--History, Transnationalism--History, Sports and globalization--History, Sports and international relations--History
Department: Sport Science

Title: 'And how pretty they are!’ Lawn tennis, tourism and gender relations at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1880s-1920s
Author(s): Robert J. Lake (author)
Date: 2021
Abstract: In the four decades straddling the turn of the nineteenth century, the small Ontario town of Niagara-on-the-Lake experienced marked growth in its tourism industry. Catering predominantly to wealthy upper-middle-class Canadian and American visitors, the lake-side settlement offered numerous opportunities for polite recreation. Chief among them was lawn tennis, a sport that sat somewhat outside of the mainstream in terms of its high-class, mixed-sex participation demographic. While its players were imbued with a strong amateur philosophy, local boosters recognized the sport’s potential to generate tourism income through its two tournaments, but this hinged on the outward presentation among its players/guests of refined gentility—a reflection of both class and gender—both on and off the court. This article considers how lawn tennis tournaments fit into the town’s burgeoning tourism industry, and examines gender relations—particularly the role of women—in relation to this development.
Subject(s): Sports and tourism--Ontario--History, Sports and tourism--Social aspects--Ontario--History, Tennis--Economic aspects--Ontario--History, Tennis--Social aspects--Ontario--History, Tennis--Tournaments--Economic aspects--Ontario--History, Tennis--Tournaments--Social aspects--Ontario--History, Feminism and sports--Ontario--History
Department: Sport Science

Title: Panegyric: A novel
Author(s): Logan Macnair (author)
Date: 2020
Abstract: When underachieving writer Larry Mann is granted the lucrative opportunity to ghostwrite the memoirs of the notorious and eccentric businessman-turned-politician Maxime Montblanc, he accepts immediately, tantalized by the financial benefits he’s promised. However, as the two men begin to learn about and confide in one another, hints of their pasts surface to reveal two men both breaking in their own ways and both searching for a brighter future that may not exist. Alternating between the stark and the surreal, the abstract and the lyrical, Panegyric is an exploration and examination into the nature of artistic integrity, creation, and legacy, told in a way that is subversive, allegorical, profane, humorous, harrowing, and at times, unapologetically incomprehensible.
Subject(s): Ghostwriters--Fiction, Politicians--Fiction, Integrity--Fiction, Canadian fiction (English)--21st century, Canadian fiction--21st century
Department: Criminology

Title: Child rights based and trauma informed training in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Author(s): Gabriel Dennis (author), Aleks Vasiljević (author)
Date: 2021
Abstract: "Child and youth care (CYC) practitioners at two community centres in Vancouver’s downtown eastside help create a relational culture where all staff share a sense of responsibility in reporting child protection concerns. However, for many staff who may have had negative experiences with child protection this can create hesitation and activate previous trauma. The CYCs are also at risk for burnout constantly trying to assist youth in these matters and running into systemic barriers. As a proactive response, we have pioneered a new robust child protection training model that is both trauma informed and based in child rights. This training has included buy-in and direct articipation from the office of the Representative for Children and Youth, social workers from both the Ministry of Child and Family Development (MCFD) and Vancouver Aboriginal Family Services Society (VACFSS), and lawyers from the Child and Youth Legal Clinic (CLC). Some of the challenges faced in advocating for children and youth in child protection are also addressed, and we present some possible child rights-based techniques to help improve the process."
Subject(s): Child welfare workers--Training of, Psychic trauma in children, Psychic trauma in adolescence, Social work with children, Social work with youth, Child welfare, Children's rights, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Department: Child and Youth Care, Applied Community Studies

Title: Embracing interdependence: A community approach to development for adults emerging from care
Author(s): Gabriel Dennis (author)
Date: 2021
Abstract: Despite strong evidence in favour of it, emerging adulthood has never truly been established in public consciousness in the same way other stages, such as infancy and childhood, have. Instead, there has been a tug-of-war between ideological stances on the subject. Some researchers have begun to question why opportunities to assist emerging adults, like the ones presented here, and especially for those who are aging out of care, are not more numerous. In this author’s opinion, emerging adulthood should be fully recognized as a stage of development and considered in further policy changes for youth aging out of care. Agencies serving youth and young adults emerging from care can play a key role in in promoting interdependence and a sense of community belonging. This can be made possible by providing family like environments for emerging adults where they can try, fail, succeed, reflect, reference, and regroup all while allowing for positive thinking about the future.
Subject(s): Youth--Deinstitutionalization, Young adults--Deinstitutionalization, Social work with youth, Young adults--Services for, Ex-foster children--Services for, Youth development, Adulthood--Social aspects
Department: Child and Youth Care, Applied Community Studies