2023 Mental Health Projects

Welcome to the 2023 virtual Student Research Fair at our
Student Mental Health & Wellbeing conference!

This page showcases student projects related to clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, and mental health topics.

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View the Winning Projects

This years winning projects will be posted by Sunday March 19th, 2023

When Husbands/Fathers Come Out as Gay in a Heterosexual Familial Context: A Scoping Review

Name: Benjamin Nguyen; Collaborator: Dr. Monique Herbert;
Program: 4th year Psychology; Project Type: Review Paper

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Cross-Cultural (Korean and European-Canadian) Effects of Meditation on Self-Construal 

Name: Max Cooper; Program: 4th year Psychology;
Project Type: Empirical Study

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Out of the Loop: Investigating the Relationship Social Media Use, and Mood and Body Image

Name: Olivia Smith; Collaborator: Dr. Jennifer Mills;
Program: 3rd year Psychology; Project Type: Empirical Study



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The Interactive Role of Hurt and Anger on Victims’ Grudge Holding

Name: Jewy Ferrer; Collaborators: Jingyan Li, Dr. Ward Struthers;
Program: 4th year Psychology; Project Type: Empirical Study

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Personalizing Mental Health Interventions for Young Adults Through Adaptive Text-Messaging Experiments

Name: Yi Xuan Wang; Collaborators: Andrew Chung, Huayin Luo, Harsh Kumar, Jiakai Shi, Rachel Kornfeld, Jonah Mayeroff, David Mohr, Theresa Nguyen, Joseph Jay Williams; Program: 2nd year Computer Science/Statistics;
Project Type: Empirical Study

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Music Therapy as an Adjunct Therapy for Youth with Neurodevrelopmental Disorders Following Pediatric Stroke, and Acquired Brain Injury

Name: Saba Nasseri; Collaborators: Prisha Jain, Niki Hoveida, Dr. Mary Desrocher;
Project Type: Review Paper

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A Psychometric Evaluation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire in a Clinical Sample of Caregivers Who Attended an Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Workshop

Name: Samantha Mason; Collaborator: Kristina Corderio, Dr. Robert T. Muller;
Program: 4th year Psychology; Project Type: Empirical Study

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An Internet Analysis of Internet Addiction: Characteristics of People Looking to Overcome Internet Addiction

Name: Gurher Sidhu; Program: 3rd year Global Health;
Project Type: Review Paper

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Applying LLMs in Self-Experimentation for Mental Health

Name: Chu Yuan Wu; Collaborator: Harsh Kumar, Jiakai Shi, Joseph Jay Williams;
Program: 3rd year Psychology with a Sociology Minor; Project Type: Research Essay

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Gender-Role Beliefs and Psychological Well-Being among Immigrant Indian Women in Canada – A Proposal

Name: Ekta Maloo; Program: 4th year Psychology;
Project Type: Empirical Study

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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Is the Popular Neurodevelopmental Disorder Still Underdiagnosed?

Name: Alsa St Rose; Program: 4th year Psychology;
Project Type: Research Essay

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Effects of External Motivation on Desire Understanding in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Name: Yuen Lin; Collaborators: Dr. Amy Finn;
Program: 4th year Psychology; Project Type: Empirical Study

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Weird and Wired: Are Online Conversations on Mental Health Tools or Threats?

Name: Paula Potenza Fontes; Program: 1st year Psychology;
Project Type: Research Essay

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Treating Underlying Causes of Autism Improves Symptoms

Name: Lauren Rudolph;
Program: 3rd year Psychology; Project Type: Research Essay

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The Impact of Cognitive Executive Function on Adolescents’ Adherence to Online Treatment for Cannabis use Disorder 

Name: Nusrat Iftikhar ; Program: 4th year Psychology;
Project Type: Review Paper

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