Perceived Needs for Mental Health Care in Young Adults with Cancer

Lab alumnus Jennie Tang along with Dr. Ferro and colleagues at the University of Waterloo recently published a paper entitled “Perceived Needs for Mental Health…

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Gestational Thyroid Issues and Mental Health in Offspring

Thyroid problems are common during pregnancy and have been linked to neurocognitive impairments in children. Research has also suggested a link between thyroid function during pregnancy and symptoms of…

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ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on the Role of Hair Cortisol Concentration in the Association Between Parent Psychopathology and Child Mental Disorder

Dr. Ferro published a paper titled “Hair cortisol concentration mediates the association between parent and child psychopathology” that examined the role of hair cortisol concentration…

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ARCH Lab Alumnus Publishes Paper Examining Cortisol and Mental Disorder in Children with Chronic Physical Illnesses

An ARCH lab alumnus, Emily Kornelsen, published a paper using data from the REACH study, entitled “Hair cortisol concentration and mental disorder in children with chronic physical illness”….

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ARCH Lab Contributes to Paper on Shyness in Preterm Survivors and Their Offspring

Dr. Ferro contributed to a paper titled “The children of preterm survivors: shyness, parenting, and parental stress” that examined shyness, parenting and parental stress in…

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ARCH Lab Contributes to Two Papers on Childhood Epilepsy

The ARCH lab has contributed to two papers specifically examining quality of life in children with epilepsy. The first, “Parent proxy discrepancy groups of quality…

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ARCH Lab Contributes to a Study of Depression Symptoms in Children with Epilepsy

The ARCH lab contributed to a study entitled, “Longitudinal trajectories of depression symptoms in children with epilepsy”. This study examined depression symptoms in 477 children…

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ARCH Lab contributes to Two Studies Examining Treatments for Post-Partum Depression

The ARCH lab recently contributed to two papers investigating the use of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) in the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD). The first paper, “

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ARCH Lab Validates Two Scales in Samples of Canadian Youth

The ARCH Lab contributed to two articles examining the psychometric properties of two scales, the WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHO-DAS 2.0) and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6) in…

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The ARCH Lab Contributes to Two Papers on the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study Emotional Behavioural Scales

The ARCH Lab contributed to two papers on The 2014 Ontario Child Health Study Emotional Behavioural Scales (OCHS-EBS), Part I “A checklist for dimensional measurement…

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