16 Result(s)

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Chronic health conditions, labour market participation and resource consumption among immigrant and native-born residents of Canada

To compare chronic illnesses, economic dependence and health-care use by immigrants and native-born Canadians.

Morton Beiser, Feng Hou in International Journal of Public Health (2014)

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Predictors of immigrant children’s mental health in Canada: selection, settlement contingencies, culture, or all of the above?

A previous publication from the New Canadian Children and Youth Study, a national study of immigrant children and youth in Canada, showed a gradient of levels of emotional distress with children from Hong Kong...

Morton Beiser, Alasdair M. Goodwill… in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2014)

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Personal and Social Forms of Resilience: Research with Southeast Asian and Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in Canada

Despite pre-migration assaults such as persecution, escape, and internment, and despite the challenges of resettling in a strange country, only a minority of refugees become mental health casualties. Stress pr...

Morton Beiser in Refuge and Resilience (2014)

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Predictors of emotional problems and physical aggression among children of Hong Kong Chinese, Mainland Chinese and Filipino immigrants to Canada

Data from the New Canadian Children and Youth Study (NCCYS), a national study of immigrant children and youth in Canada, are used to examine the mental health salience of putatively universal determinants, as ...

Morton Beiser, Hayley Hamilton… in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2010)

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Providing Social Support for Immigrants and Refugees in Canada: Challenges and Directions

In this article we report research findings from a qualitative study of social support for immigrants and refugees in Canada. We focus on challenges from the perspectives of 137 service providers and policymak...

Laura Simich, Morton Beiser, Miriam Stewart… in Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2005)

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Sponsorship and resettlement success

To compare the integration of privately and government sponsored Southeast Asian refugees at the end of their first decade in the country.

Morton Beiser in Journal of International Migration and Int… (2003)

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The Structure of Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Symptoms Among Native and Non-Native Elementary School Children

This study evaluated the psychometric properties of a measure of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with Native and non-Native children. Two models, corresponding to DSM-III-R and DSM-IV symptom c...

Morton Beiser, Rene Dion, Andrew Gotowiec in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2000)

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After the Door Has Been Opened: The Mental Health of Immigrants and Refugees in Canada

Canada, ‘the country of immigrants’, is a hoary cliché. Like many clichés, it embodies a powerful truth. Ever since it was founded more than 120 years ago, Canada has counted among its population at least one ...

Morton Beiser in The International Refugee Crisis (1993)

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Electrodermal Nonresponding in First-Episode Psychosis as a Function of Stimulus Significance

Although electrodermal activity has been studied in psychiatric patients since the turn of the century, it has only been during the last two decades that specific electrodermal deviations associated with funct...

William G. Iacono, John W. Ficken, Morton Beiser in Progress in Electrodermal Research (1993)

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Co-Morbid Symptoms of depression and conduct disorder in first nations children: Some findings from the flower of two soils project

The prominence of co-morbidity in children and adolescents has increased over the past decade as new empirical research data has accumulated. Yet little epidemiological data of any kind exists for First Nation...

William H. Sack, Morton Beiser, Norman Phillips… in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (1992)

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Ventricular and Sulcal Size at the Onset of Psychosis

To determine whether abnormalities in brain morphology are present at the onset of illness, patients with schizophrenia (n=31), schizophreniform (n=20) and bipolar disorders (n=18), and major depression (n=16)...

William G. Iacono, Geoffrey N. Smith, Margaret Moreau… in Annual Review of Hydrocephalus (1990)

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Changing time perspective and mental health among Southeast Asian refugees

Little is known about the psychological mechanisms people employ in adapting to extreme circumstances such as becoming refugees. Case studies of refugees making up part of a sample of 1348 persons relocated fr...

Morton Beiser in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (1987)

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Commentary on ‘culture-bound syndromes and international disease classifications’

Morton Beiser in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (1987)