Christopher E. Lalonde

• University of Victoria

We report on an analysis of the ways that children in five elementary school classrooms engaged with oral narrative patterns that they experienced through their participation in a First Nations cultural education program. Our analysis focuses on the use of a pattern of “measured descriptive elaboration”, that we argue functions to create vivid and...

Presents an obituary for Michael Joseph Chandler (1938-2019). Michael was trained as a developmental psychologist (though he preferred "genetic epistemologist") at Grinnell College (1960), the University of California, Berkeley (1966), the University of Geneva (1967), and The Menninger Foundation (1967-1968). He was subsequently hired at the Univer...

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Background Worldwide, Indigenous people have disproportionately higher rates of transport injuries. We examined disparities in injury-related hospitalizations resulting from transport incidents for three population groups in British Columbia (BC): total population, Aboriginal off-reserve, and Aboriginal on-reserve populations. We also examined soci...

Standardized relative risks of hospitalization for categories of unintentional transportation injury, British Columbia, 1991–2010. (DOC)

Abstract Background Our objective was to explore intentional injury disparity between Indigenous populations and the total population in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. We focus on hospitalizations, including both self-inflicted injuries and injuries inflicted by others. Methods We used data from BC’s universal health care insurance...

Purpose: Measure population health impact, and socioeconomic, geographic, and ethnic predictors of iatrogenic injury. Methods: Within three groups (total population, Aboriginal off-reserve, and Aboriginal on-reserve) in each of 16 Health Service Delivery Areas (HSDAs) of British Columbia, Canada we calculated crude incidence and Standardized Rel...

Background: The current study examines what factors contribute to higher injury risk among Aboriginal peoples, compared to the total British Columbia (BC) population. We explore socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural factors, and combinations of these factors, that contribute to increased injury risk for Aboriginal peoples. This follows from our...

Purpose. Measure population health impact, and socioeconomic, geographic, and ethnic predictors of iatrogenic injury. Methods. Within three groups (total population, Aboriginal off-reserve, and Aboriginal on-reserve) in each of 16 Health Service Delivery Areas (HSDAs) of British Columbia, Canada we calculated crude incidence and Standardized Relati...

Background: Aboriginal people in British Columbia (BC), especially those residing on Indian reserves, have higher risk of unintentional fall injury than the general population. We test the hypothesis that the disparities are attributable to a combination of socioeconomic status, geographic place, and Aboriginal ethnicity. Methods: Within each of...

Background: Disparities in injury rates between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations in British Columbia (BC) are well established. Information regarding the influence of residence on disparities is scarce. We sought to fill these gaps by examining hospitalization rates for all injuries, unintentional injuries and intentional injuries across...

First, the authors investigated the direct associations of vertical collectivism, ethnic identity exploration, and ethnic identity commitment with psychological well-being among first-generation Asian Canadian university students in Canada (n = 78). Second, to gain a more nuanced understanding of the association between vertical collectivism and we...

Children and youth worldwide are at high risk of injury resulting in morbidity, disability or mortality. Disparities in risk exist between and within countries, and by sex and ethnicity. Our aim is to contribute data on disparities of injury rates for Aboriginal children and youth compared with those of the general population in British Columbia (B...

Aboriginal people in British Columbia (BC) have higher injury incidence than the general population. This report describes variability in visits to primary care due to injury, among injury categories, time periods, geographies, and demographic groups. We used BC’s universal health care insurance plan as a population registry, linked to practitioner...

This paper presents a case study of a classroom of culturally diverse grade one students who participated in a First Nations cultural education program focused around traditional oral storytelling. The data reveal particular forms of narrative skills that these children were exploring in this context. Through a “verse analysis” of stories told to t...

Aboriginal people in British Columbia (BC) have higher injury incidence than the general population. Our project describes variability among injury categories, time periods, and geographic, demographic and socio-economic groups. This report focuses on unintentional falls. We used BC's universal health care insurance plan as a population registry, l...

Background Evidence from various jurisdictions has shown higher rates of injury for Aboriginal compared with non-Aboriginal populations. This study provides an overview of trends in hospitalization injury rates between the Aboriginal and total populations of one Canadian province, British Columbia. Data and methods Hospital discharge records from 1...

Population-level statistics indicating disparities in injury rates between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations disguise considerable community-level heterogeneity. Using an ecological approach, we analyzed linked data from British Columbia's (BC) universal health care insurance plan, worker compensation, vital statistics, and census databases...

Background Aboriginal people in British Columbia (BC) have higher injury incidence than the general population, but information is scarce regarding variability among injury categories, time periods, and geographic, demographic and socio-economic groups. Our project helps fill these gaps. This report focuses on workplace injuries. Methods We used B...

This paper reports on a comparative analysis of differently aged student's retellings of traditional oral narratives from First Nations communities in British Columbia. Using three different analytic frameworks, we examine retellings of traditional stories from 50 students in four classrooms (two grade 1 classrooms, a grade 2 classroom and a grade...

The project, Injury in British Columbia's Aboriginal Communities: Building Capacity while Developing Knowledge, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), aims to expand knowledge on injury rates among First Nations communities in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The purpose is to improve understanding of community differences and t...

This paper reports on a set of results from a larger study documenting how children engage with particular forms of narrative practice through participation in cultural education sessions with Canadian First Nations cultural educators. Results reported here consist of a case study of narratives produced by 13 children in one grade 1 classroom parti...

This chapter will begin by focusing attention upon the under examined problem of just how it is that persons of different ages and life circumstances differently undertake to “conserve” or otherwise vouchsafe their own persistent and continuous identity in the face of evident personal change, and end by reporting upon an ongoing program of research...

Naïve conceptions and associated misconceptions about object motion arise in part from limitations on perceptual experience. Certain commercial video games, such as Enigmo, provide interactive experience with realistic trajectories and practice at purposefully manipulating those trajectories. We tested the possibility that this experience could mod...

briefly [summarize] what we take to be the current state of play in the ongoing debate about children's earliest understanding of the possibility of false belief / discuss . . . later arriving abilities that [the authors] argue are special to the acquisition of genuinely interpretive theories of mental life / the key hypotheses under examination in...

This prospective, longitudinal study examines individual differences in two conceptually related but empirically distinct domains of social-cognitive competence (cognitive interpretive understanding and interpersonal perspective co-ordination) as moderators of the relation between peer rejection and neglect and behavioral and emotional problems in...

ight years ago the journal Transcultural Psychiatry published the results of an epidemio- logical study (Chandler and Lalonde 1998) in which the highly variable rates of youth suicide among British Columbia's First Nations were related to six markers of "cultural continuity" - community-level variables meant to document the extent to which each of...

This brief report details a preliminary investigation into how community-level variability in knowledge of Aboriginal languages relate to "band"-level measures of youth suicide. In Canada, and, more specifically, in the province of British Columbia (BC), Aboriginal youth suicide rates vary substantially from one community to another. The results re...

Our understanding of children's social competence has increased tremendously over the past two decades. There is increasing evidence to suggest that social-cognitive impairments are not restricted to children on the autistic spectrum, but rather may be associated with a host of developmental and acquired neurological conditions including learning d...

The development of cognitive control and its relation to overcoming Stroop interference was assessed in a sample (N= 65) of elementary-school children. Subjects alternately performed Stroop color-naming trials and word-reading trials. In separate blocks, the colored Stroop items were non-color words (incongruent condition) or rows of asterisks (neu...

The development of cognitive control and its relationship to overcoming Stroop interference was assessed in a sample (N = 65) of elementary school children. Subjects alternately performed Stroop color naming trials and word reading trials. In separate blocks, the colored Stroop items were noncolor words (incongruent condition) or rows of asterisks...

To examine persistence with methylphenidate (MPH) therapy among children and youth in the general population. We conducted a retrospective analysis of longitudinally organized, individual-specific anonymous data from linked prescription and health databases covering the population of British Columbia for 1990 through 1996. No prescriptions being fi...

Although in fundamental agreement with Carpendale & Lewis's (C&L's) position, we discuss a potential source of confusion regarding the socially constituted nature of mental states. Drawing from recent work by Kusch (1997; 1999), we argue, more specifically, that mental states are instances of “artificial kinds,” and so, stand between the more commo...

Baldwin's [1901] Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology contains the fol-lowing warning on the topic of culture: 'This field of investigation, however, is so extremely comprehensive, and requires for its successful pursuit such specialized methods, that it cannot be included in the science of psychology as ordinarily inter-preted.' Some measure of...

The cross-cultural program of research presented here is about matters of temporal persistence--personal persistence and cultural persistence--and about solution strategies for solving the paradox of "sameness-in-change." The crux of this paradox resides in the fact that, on threat of otherwise ceasing to be recognizable as a self, all of us must s...

The prevailing view in the study of children's developing theories of mind is that the 4-year-old's newfound understanding of false belief is the single developmental milestone marking entry into an adult “folk psychology.” We argue instead that there are at least two such watershed events. Children first develop a “copy theory” that equates the mi...

There are concerns about the frequency and appropriateness of psychostimulant drug prescription to children. In order to identify unusual or unexpected patterns of use or prescribing, we reviewed prescription of methylphenidate (Ritalin) to children and adolescents aged 19 years or less in British Columbia between 1990 and 1996. We obtained informa...

This research report examines self-continuity and its role as a protective factor against suicide. First, we review the notions of personal and cultural continuity and their relevance to under-standing suicide among First Nations youth. The central theoretical idea developed here is that, because it is constitutive of what it means to have or be a...

Previous research has shown that young infants can discriminate both native and nonnative phonetic contrasts with ease. By 10 to 12 months of age, however, infants—like adults—typically have difficulty discriminating consonant contrasts that are not used to distinguish meaning in their native language. Although the timing of this change in speech p...

This research report describes a search for possible relations between children's developing theories of mind and aspects of their social-emotional maturity conducted by comparing the performance of 3-year-olds on measures of false belief understanding with teacher ratings of certain of their social-emotional skills and behaviours. The intuitions g...

In Study 1, 30 preschoolers (aged 3–5 yrs) witnessed what appeared to be 1 solid object passing unhindered through a space already occupied by another solid object. While more than half of the Ss initially labeled the event "magical," over the course of 3 trials almost all came to judge what they had seen to be a trick. In Study 2, 45 older childre...

during the latter half of the first year of life, infants show marked changes in their performance on a number of tasks / discuss changes on four of these tasks: the AB̄ [A, not B] object search task, the object retrieval task, the visual categorization task, and the cross-language speech perception task briefly describe each task, outline the deve...

This article reports three studies designed to increase our understanding of developmental changes in cross-language speech perception. In the first study, we compared adult speakers of English and Hindi on their ability to discriminate pairings from a synthetic voiced, unaspirated place-of-articulation continuum. Results indicated that English lis...

relates the normative course of social-cognitive development to psychopathology / use a broad perspective on social cognition, referring to the construction and development of meanings about the self and other social world / allow for transformations of theories and underlying paradigms that may provide insights into relationships among meaning-mak...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997. Includes bibliographical references.