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Tic Busters group pilot study
This pilot study evaluates treatment outcomes of a group adaptation of an evidence-based treatment for tics in school age children.Facing Your Fears treatment outcome study
This study evaluates creative ways to assess anxiety in children with high-functioning autism. It also aims to better understand parent and child factors that increase treatment response to a cognitive-behavioural anxiety treatment group for children with high-functioning autism.Grants2012
Mental Health Research Grant ($30,000)
Honours & AwardsSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2001-2004
Study reveals that sucrose may not reduce the impact of neonatal pain exposure on long-term outcomes
Infants born two to four months early are exposed to mildly painful procedures in the NICU that are essential to monitor their health. As research shows that exposure to daily pain is associated with poorer behavioural and cognitive outcomes later in life, a common pain management strategy is to give those babies sucrose, but a BCCHR study shows evidence that a sugar solution doesn’t reduce these negative effects of pain exposure in the long term.
