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As the first days of school approach rapidly, an educational psychologist offers strategies for combating anxiety in children and teens.
Is it time to put a moratorium on the meaningless word ‘leadership?’ In the business world, leadership now often simply means performing mundane managerial duties.
An education psychologist offers tips for parents of new high school kids on everything from navigation to time management.
Hamstring injuries played a major role at the 2017 world track and field championships. Without proper recovery, a hamstring injury can be career ending for some athletes.
Ability expectations are what people rely upon as they seek out productive and satisfying lives. They need to be a key part of the debate over gene-editing and other major scientific breakthroughs.
Even kids who have attended daycare can find the first days of kindergarten stressful. The good news is that parents can take practical steps this summer, to prepare for the fall transition.
In an era when opinion often trumps evidence in public health issues, it’s time to support and invest in evidence-based medicine to protect the public from dangerous, poorly informed beliefs.
The myth of compassion fatigue suggests that compassion is a finite resource. The reality is that health-care providers are over-worked and need better institutional support.
To properly address the social harm of online privacy invasions, such as in the “CanadaCreep case,” Canada must devote federal attention to strengthening its minimal and unclear privacy laws.
Allowing young people to legally access marijuana will improve cannabis education and use-prevention, and hinder illegal activity.
Most revenge isn’t violent or dramatic, but instead involves petty acts against coworkers or lovers. And some types work better than others.
Reactions to the thalidomiders’ difference contributed – and continue to contribute – to their negative well-being and deteriorating health.
On September 6, Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, announced that one of the fabled lost ships of Sir John Franklin’s expedition had been found off Hat Island, south-west of King William Island…
The development of resistant bacteria over the past 50 years stands testament to the power of evolution. While scientists have discovered or created hundreds of antibiotics to kill bacteria, those bacteria…
When it comes to gender transitions, trans patients are often inappropriately held to higher account when compared to people opting for other kinds of medical care. Standards of care are effectively constructed…
Popular Science has announced that it will be closing online comments on its news stories. Uncivil commenters have an overly negative effect on readers, it claims, with a small number of negative commenters…
Transgender people face many barriers when seeking medical treatment to help with their transitions. The most common, and arguably most damaging, is the “gatekeeper” model of health-care, where doctors…
This is my last blog piece about the Paralympics and so I should finally look at the media coverage. Sitting in North America is was nearly a non-event given the invisibility in the traditional media…
The Paralympics seems to define itself as representing the below species-typical, impaired people and the Olympics are the species-typical although on the upper end of the bell curve (see my blog To define…
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathison Centre for Youth Mental Health and Education, University of Calgary
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Research Associate, Aquatic Science, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
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PhD Candidate, Brain & Cognitive Science, University of Calgary
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Associate professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor of Business Technology Management, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Finance, University of Calgary
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Clinical Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Integrated Knowledge, Engineering and Sustainable Communities, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor and Scientific Director of the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary
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Werklund Research Professor of Education, University of Calgary
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary
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Professor, Area Chair, Business Technology Management, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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BMO Professor of Sustainable and Transition Finance, University of Calgary
