Jessie M. Wall

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of British Columbia

The purpose of this study was to describe the relational processes that exist between parents and athletes when engaged in an early specialization sport. Using an instrumental case study design, 5 parent–athlete (Mathlete age = 11.40 years) dyads in Canadian competitive figure skating represented cases for individual and collective analysis. Contex...

The transition from school to work is a time of excitement and uncertainty for many emerging adults. However, young people with intellectual disability (ID) face unique challenges with this transition. They often need a great deal more support in the activities of daily living, learning, and work. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the trans...

Objectives The purpose of this study was to understand the nature of the coach-parent relationship in Canadian competitive figure skating. Design Qualitative, interpretive description. Method Data were collected using individual semi-structured interviews with 12 mothers of competitive figure skaters and 12 coaches (M years of experience = 25). A...

Eight dyads ( N = 16) residing in Western Canada participated in this investigation of how young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their parents jointly construct, articulate, and act on goals pertinent to the young adults' transition to adulthood. Using the action-project method to collect and analyze conversations...

Introduction: Parents have found the transition to adulthood for their sons or daughters with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) particularly challenging. The literature has not examined how parents work together and with others in face of this transition nor has it highlighted parental goals in this process. This study used a pe...

This article describes an alternative framework for conceptualizing and researching emerging adulthood based on the notions of goal-directed processes. Specifically, contextual action theory (CAT) is proposed to add value to understanding transition-to-adulthood processes because of its emphasis on description, intentional action, and relational co...

Systematic case study designs are emerging as alternative paradigm strategies for psychotherapy and social science research. Through enhanced sensitivity to context, these designs examine idiographic profiles of causal processes. We specifically advocate the use of the hermeneutic single-case efficacy design (HSCED). HSCED has recently been used to...

Pluralistic approaches to psychotherapy research are advocated as an alternative to the arguable overemphasis on group based designs. Although randomized controlled trials provide valuable causal knowledge at the group level, they are limited in their ability to capture the idiographic complexity inherent in the therapy process. Moreover, it has be...

This study was the first to explore the treatment effects of observed and experiential integration (OEI) therapy for the salient psychological barriers to performance experienced by athletes. The hermeneutic single case efficacy design was used to explore the relationship between OEI therapy and athlete psychological functioning. The participant wa...