{"id":41002,"date":"2016-09-15T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41002"},"modified":"2016-09-15T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:13:33","slug":"phd-student-using-film-to-educate-receives-prestigious-sshrc-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/09\/phd-student-using-film-to-educate-receives-prestigious-sshrc-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student using film to educate receives prestigious SSHRC fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today\u2019s video age, what better tool than film to help educators \u201cequip\u201d students with personal life skills.\u00a0Christina Garchinski, a PhD student in Educational Studies, has created a film-making exercise as part of a psycho-educational classroom curriculum, called The EQUIP Approach.<\/span><\/p>\n

Garchinski\u2019s supervisor, Ann-Marie DiBiase, was one of the researchers to develop the multi-component prevention\/intervention program, as a way to teach students to think and act responsibly. The components involve anger management, social skills and social decision-making\/moral reasoning.<\/p>\n

As part of her Master\u2019s research at Brock, Garchinski added an innovative twist to the curriculum by developing a video exercise, called the EQUIP \u2014 Narrative Filmmaking program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is to give students the opportunity to dramatize, film and edit movies that depict moral situations,\u201d explains Garchinski.<\/p>\n

Garchinski has received a prestigious Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to support her study. She is one of a total of 29 master\u2019s and doctoral students from Brock who shared in $1,005,000 SSHRC funding to the University.<\/p>\n

Garchinski\u2019s doctoral research will further examine the effectiveness of the film-making exercise by having a Grade 9 Exploring Technologies class experience the program.<\/p>\n

The first step for the class is to be introduced to the main components of the EQUIP curriculum. These components emphasize skills to self-regulate anger, to correct self-centred thinking, to practice pro-social behaviours and to develop more mature moral judgment.<\/p>\n

From there, the students will progress into the role of film-makers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students will write scripts, illustrate storyboards, dramatize and make movies that depict the self-centre thinking errors,\u201d she explains. \u201cIn part one of the movie, students will be asked to illustrate negative consequences associated with reacting to an aggravating event with uncontrolled self-centred thinking and inappropriate antisocial behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students are then asked to rethink the story at a critical juncture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second part of the exercise, students will be required to create an alternate ending by going back to the point just before the climax so that their protagonist can implement EQUIP\u2019s anger management and social perspective-taking strategies to achieve a more positive outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garchinski says the study has substantive practical value for educators and clinicians. At the heart of The EQUIP Program is remediation of cognitive distortions \u2014 in other words, thinking errors. The main goal of this program is to remediate how children and adolescents think, to have sustained effects on how they behave.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objectives of my research reflect society\u2019s general concern for fostering responsible, pro-social, empathic and conscientious moral reasoning in our adolescent population by taking an intentional, proactive approach,\u201d she says \u201cThis study has the potential to benefit educators challenged with implementing a psycho-educational mental health program, as mandated by the Ministry of Education.\u201d<\/p>\n

2016\/17 Social Sciences and Humanities
\nResearch Council of Canada Awards (SSHRC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Christina Garchinski, Educational Studies,\u00a0\u201cThe Impact of Teaching Adolescents to Think and Act Responsibly Using the EQUIP-Narrative Filmmaking Program\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nathalie Gauthier, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cRisk assessment and reduction in psychopathy\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sarah Mann, Geography,\u00a0\u201cThe topographical and topological geographies of academic workers with mental illness\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships <\/strong><\/p>\n

Doctoral<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Daniella Bendo, Child & Youth Studies,\u00a0\u201cAn analysis of child and youth advocacy on an international scale\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tabitha Jones, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cPsychopathy, Prejudice, and Victimizing: The efficacy of intervention techniques\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andrew McEwan, Interdisciplinary Humanities,\u00a0\u201cWriting \u201cInkorrect thots\u201d: The invented languages of Claude Gauvreau, Hannah Weiner and Bill Bissett as poetic resistance to mental ableism\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hilary Scruton, Child & Youth Studies,\u00a0\u201cAssessing creative problem-solving in children with reading disabilities\u201d<\/p>\n

Master\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Rickie Castle, Classics,\u00a0\u201cIf Looks Could Kill: Medusa\u2019s gaze\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Katie Faust, Applied Health Sciences,\u00a0\u201cWriting Lives; Writing Loss: An autoethnography on the death of a teammate\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Elliott Fuller, Classics,\u00a0\u201cAdorning the Elite: Textile and jewellery dedications at Early Iron Age Lefkandi\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alaina Interisano, Critical Sociology,\u00a0\u201cAnimal experimentation pedagogy in Canadian universities\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tierney Kobryn-Dietrich, Critical Sociology,\u00a0\u201cSex work in the Niagara Region\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kiana LaPierre, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cCyberbullying from an evolutionary perspective\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Elliott MacDonell, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cThe effect of self-control on costly aggression\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Julia McColl, Philosophy,\u00a0\u201cOn phenomenology of schizophrenia\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kaitlin McKay, Applied Disability Studies,\u00a0\u201cA new approach to transition planning for transitional aged youth with intellectual disabilities\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kimberly Mularczyk, Child & Youth Studies,\u00a0\u201cWorking with the Bullying Adaptation: Prosocial alternatives to achieving resources, reputations, and reproductive opportunities\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Laura Murray, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cDepressive and anxiety symptoms following MHI\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stephanie Murray, Geography,\u00a0\u201cSense of Place, Sense of Movement: Following America\u2019s nomadic retirees\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alison O\u2019Connor, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cThe influence of social skill development on children\u2019s antisocial lie-telling\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jordan Power, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cThe moderating effects of maternal and paternal bonds on the expression of adult psychopathic traits\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Elvira Prusaczyk, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cDisability and Self-objectification: The influence of socio-political ideology on the effects of internalizing an able-bodied beauty ideal\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ryan Racine, English,\u00a0\u201cOne Planet, One Experiment: An ecological investigation into Juliana Spahr\u2019s Poetics\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Karly Rath, Critical Sociology,\u00a0\u201cThe Social Beliefs of Comprehensive Sex Education Opponents: An analysis using the cultural theory of risk perception\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Zachary Root, Applied Health Sciences,\u00a0\u201cNutritional and exercises recovery strategies to improve sports performance
\nin young athletes\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cayleigh Sexton, Child & Youth Studies,\u00a0\u201cThe Stress of Caregiving: The role of coping strategies in psychosocial outcomes\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Valentina Sitnik, Education,\u00a0\u201cNegotiating opportunities \u2018inside and out\u2019: Understanding the educational programming experiences of previously incarcerated women\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Marcus Tuttle, English,\u00a0\u201cPerforming the Public Sphere: Rewriting orientalist rhetoric in contemporary Canadian politics\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Breanne Wylie, Psychology,\u00a0\u201cExploring children\u2019s ability to disregard non-credible Internet sources\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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