ALEXANDRIA PAVELICH

REFEREED CONTRIBUTIONS

IN PREPARATION:  Pavelich, A., Flett, G., and Dell, C. (2024). Mattering And the Human-Animal Bond: The Social Significance of Service Dogs for Military Veterans Experiencing Suicidality. Canadian Psychology, special issue on mattering.

IN PREPARATION:  Pavelich, A., Dell, C., McKenzie, H., Stempien, J., Hozack, A., & Smith, J. (2024). "Better Than Any Medicine:" The Impact of Therapy Dogs for Emergency Department Patients Presenting with Mental Health & Substance Use Concerns. Patient Experience Journal.

SUBMITTED - Pavelich,A., Dell, C.,McKenzie, H., Stempien, J., Rowsell, L., Gunderson, J., Smith, J., &Hozack, A. (2024). The Support Role of Therapy Dogs for Suicidal Patients Presenting to aHospital Emergency Department. Suicide ResearchSymposium (SRS) – AnnualConference co-hosted by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [Virtual], MountSinai Health System, New York City, NY on April 17-19.

ACCEPTED - Pavelich, A., McKenzie, H., Dell, C., Stempien, J., Rowsell, L., Hozack, A., Carey, B. & Smith, J. (2024). Integrating Animal-Assisted Intervention into Emergency  Medicine Practice: The Value of Therapy-Dog Teams for Improved Patient & Staff Experience. CAEP: Canadian
            Associationof Emergency Physicians Annual Conference, Saskatoon, SK, June 12.

McKenzie, H. A., Dell, C.A., Arisman, K., Pavelich, A., WIlliamson, L., Snead, E., Gibson, M., Carey, B., Raichuk, E., Beaupre, C., Khalid, A., Buhr, E., Smith, J., Peachy, S., Kubes, K., (2023) Where narratives about human-animal relations during the COVID-19 pandemic lead us: Advancing animal-inclusive housing to promote human and animal health. ISAZ 2023 Anthrozoology: The Spectrum of Human-Animal Interactions and Relationships, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 15 - 18.

 Pavelich, A., McKenzie, H., Dell, C., Stempien,J., Laliberte, L., Arisman, K., Smith, J., Hozack, A., Tupper, S., Acoose, S.,Gunderson, J., and Pease, E. (2023). Understanding if and how therapy-dog handler teams benefit emergency department patients with mental health concerns. Canadian Sociological Association - Annual Congress, Toronto, ON,  May 27 - June 2.

Tupper, S., Beckwell, E., Pavelich, A., Arisman, K., and Fesciuc, D. (2023). Solutions-focused story telling: challenging pain related stigma and marginalization through graphic medicine. Canadian Pain Society, Banff, Alberta, May 10 - 13. Canadian Journal of Pain.

SUBMITTED: McKenzie, H. A., Dell, C.A., Arisman, K., Pavelich, A., Williamson, L., Snead, E., Gibson, M., Carey, B., Raichuk, E., Beaupre, C., Khalid, A., Buhr, E.,Smith. J., Peachey, S., Kubes, K. (2023). Where Narratives About Human-Animal Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead Us: Advancing Animal-Inclusive Housing to Promote Human and Animal Health. Frontiers in Communication.

Carey, B., Dell, C.A., Pavelich, A. (2023).The Pawsitive Effect of TherapyDogs in a Hospital Emergency Department. The ScienceBreaker. 2 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk694

IN PREPARATION:  Pavelich, A., Tupper, S., Jack, J., & Jones, C. (2022). “I Lost All Hope Of Finding Help:” A Descriptive Study of Stigma Experiences with Chronic Pain in Saskatchewan. To Canadian Journal of Pain.

IN PREPARATION: Tupper, S., Jack, J., Pavelich, A., & Jones, C. (2022). “Improving Pain in Saskatchewan:” Gaps Analysis and Mapping Improvement Strategies Through Community-Based Participatory Action. To Canadian Journal of Pain.

Pavelich, A. (2022). The Life-Saving Role of Service Dogs for Canadian Military Veterans Experiencing Suicidality. Critical Suicide Studies 4th Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC, October 21 - 22.

Tupper, S., Jack, J.,Jones, C., Juckes, K., Hewson, M., Pavelich, A., Beckwell, E., McCreery,R., Ugolini, C., Coe, J., Baerg, K., Downe, P., Dell, C., and Lawson, K. (2022). Improving pain in Saskatchewan, Canada: a community-based participatory project to identify, co-design, and engage change in pain management. International Association for the Study of Pain, Toronto, ON, September 19 - 23.

INVITED: Pavelich, A. (2022). The Significance of "Mattering:" Exploring the Experiences of Military Veterans Living with PTSD, Substance Use Harms, and Pain While Working Alongside Service Dogs. Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California, on August 5 - 7.

INVITED: Pavelich, A. (2022). Navigating Iatrogenic Harm Among Female Pain Patients: Utilizing Institutional Ethnography to Explore the Social Organization of Trauma-Informed Care. Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California, on August 5 - 7.

Pavelich, A. (2022). The Life-Saving Role of Service Dogs for Military Veterans Experiencing Suicidality. Suicide Research Symposium (SRS) – Inaugural Conference, Mount Sinai Health System, New York City, NY on June 16– 17.

Pavelich, A. (2022). The Life-Saving Role of Service Dogs in Promoting "Mattering" for Military Veterans Experiencing Suicidality. Canadian Sociological Association - Annual Congress,  May 16 - 20.

Jones, C., Jack, J., Hewson, M., Pavelich, A., Okeeweehow, S., Beckwell, E., McCreery, R., Baerg, K., Juckes, K., Coe, J., Dell, C., Downe, P., Lawson, K., Ugulini, C., and Tupper, S. (2022). Partners in Pain: Evaluation of a virtual community engagement group for people living with chronic pain in Saskatchewan. Canadian Pain Society - Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec on May 10 - 13.

Dell, C., Williamson, L., Carey, B., McKenzie, H., Pavelich, A., Gibson, M., & Cruz, M. (2021). Responding to university student substance use and mental health concerns during COVID-19 through an on-line therapy dog program. Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, Issues of Substance 2021: Driving Change Together, in Ottawa, Ontario on November 23 – 25.

Dell, C., Williamson, L.,Gibson, M., & Pavelich, A. (2022). The varied helping roles of service dogs in the recovery journeys of veterans diagnosed with PTSD &substance use disorder. The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) Issues of Substance 2021 conference. Virtual format, November 23-25.

Dell, C., Williamson, L., Carey, B., McKenzie, H., Pavelich, A., Gibson, M., & Cruz, M. (2021). Responding to university student substance use and mental health concerns during COVID-19 through an on-line therapy dog program. Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, Issues of Substance 2021: Driving Change Together, in Ottawa, Ontario on November 23 – 25.

Dell, C., Williamson, L., Gibson, M., & Pavelich, A. (2021). Panel: The Varied Helping Roles of Service Dogs in the Recovery Journeys of Veterans Diagnosed with PTSD & Substance Use Disorder. Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, Issues of Substance 2021: Driving Change Together, in Ottawa, Ontario on November 23 – 25.

Pavelich, A. (2021). Animal-assisted intervention and suicidality: The impact of service dogs for Veterans at high-risk for suicide. American Psychological Association (APA) Convention - Human Animal Interaction Social Hour, in Washington, DC on August 12.

Dell, C., Williamson, L., Carey, B., Cruz, M.,Gibson, E., & Pavelich, A. (2022) Transitioning therapy dogs online during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned. Animals. (ISSN 2076-2615).

Carey, B., Pavelich, A., Fletcher-Hildebrand, S. (2021). Transitioning therapy dogs online during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned. 10th Annual E-Mental Health Conference: Virtual Care in Times of Crisis and Beyond, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., on March 4.

Pavelich, A. (2021). Exploring animal-assisted intervention among military veterans: The potential social significance and impact of psychiatric service dogs. Poster submitted for presentation at the Anthrozoology as International Practice: A Student Conference in Animal Studies at the University of Exeter, UK on March 4-5.

Pavelich, A. (2021). Exploring animal-assisted intervention among military veterans: The potential social significance and impact of psychiatric service dogs. Paper submitted for presentation at the Anthrozoology as International Practice: A Student Conference in Animal Studies at the University of Exeter, UK on March 4-5.

Pavelich, A. (2021). The Depoliticization of Suicide: A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Government of Canada’s Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention. Paper submitted for presentation at the "Re-Imaging Social Futures" Conference at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, March 4-5.

INVITED/COVID POST-PONED: Pavelich, A. (2020). The Depoliticization of Suicide: A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Government of Canada’s Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention. Paper submitted for presentation at the Fourth Conference of the Critical Suicide Studies Network at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, June 12-13, 2020.

INVITED/COVID POST-PONED: Pavelich, A. (2020). The Medicalization of Social Suffering: The Depoliticizing Nature of Psychiatric Labels in Critical Suicidology. Paper submitted for presentation at the Sociology Graduate Conference: Social Justice in a Changing Society at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, April 22-24.

Carey, B. (Presenter), Dell, C., Williamson, L., Pavelich, A., McKenzie, H., Gibson,M., Cruz, M. (2020). “Transitioning a Therapy Dog Program Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned”. Virtual Solutions for Substance Use Care Conference.University of British Columbia. Virtual Platform. In absentia.

Pavelich, A. (2019, May). Culture as Intervention: Applying Indigenous Knowledge & Self-Determination to Suicide Prevention Policies in Northern Saskatchewan. Sojourners: Undergraduate Journal of Sociology, 11. UBC. (Also available on ResearchGate).

Pavelich, A. (2019) The Medicalization of Suicide and its Depoliticization of Social Suffering. Presenter at the Sociology Undergraduate Student Association Academic Conference on March 15th, 2019 at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Best Presentation Recipient.

Bohr, Y., Manion, I., Lee, Y., Armour, L., Pavelich, A., & Abdelmaseh, M. (2019). I(nuit)-SPARX: Design of a Culture Specific Mental Health e-Intervention by Nunavut Youth for Nunavut Youth. Paper presentation at the International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health at the Hyatt Regency in Calgary, Alberta, March 22-24.

Pavelich, A. (2018, March). Culture as Intervention: Applying Indigenous Knowledge & Self-Determination to Suicide Prevention Policy in Northern Saskatchewan. Paper presented at the Sociology Undergraduate Student Association Academic Conference on March 15th, 2018 at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Pavelich, A. (2017, April). From Deviance to Disease: The Role of Medicalization in the History of Psychopathology. Paper presented at the Medical Practices & Processes Panel at the Mount Royal Historical Society Foothills Colloquium on April 30th at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta.

NON-REFEREED CONTRIBUTIONS

A. Pavelich, & T. Wirchenko. (2020, January). Introducing a Therapy Dog for Staff Members in the Peter MacKinnon and Administration Building: Pilot Project Report. University of Saskatchewan, Pilot Project Report. Office of Centennial Enhancement Chair in One Health & Wellness.

A. Pavelich, C. Dell, J. Ogresko. (2019, November). PAWS Your Stress: A Therapy Dog Program on the University of Saskatchewan Campus. USask Media Production - Promotional Video. (6:24 seconds).

McQuay, J., Pavelich, A., Porter, S., Tarantini, M., Van Dusen, O., and Wong, F. (2019, August). Undergraduate Student Expectations and Experiences in York University’s Sociology Program Final Report for FLR at York University in 2018 – 2019 as supported by the Sociology Undergraduate Student Association (SUSA) at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Pavelich, A. (2017, October). Medicalization and Pharmaceutical Intervention within Psychiatry. Invited Paper Presenter at the Humber College Academic Conference re: The State of (in)Equality: Social Justice Under Siege on October 28th, 2017 at the Harbourfront Center in Toronto, Ontario.

UNSCHEDULED INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY & GUEST LECTURES

Understanding if and how therapy-dog handler teams benefit emergency department patients with mental health concerns
Competitive Studentship Grant Recipient Speaker - Toronto, Ontario
Mental Health Research Canada Annual Board Meeting - June 27, 2023

Animal-AssistedIntervention: The Impact of Working Dogs through the One Health & Wellness Office / SUAP
University of Saskatchewan – Presentation forthe Honorable Carolyn Bennett,  Minister of Mental Health & Addictions
with Dr. Colleen Dell, Darlene Chalmers,  Maryellen Gibson, & Alexandria Pavelich - April 13th, 2022

Partnersin Pain Webinar: Pain Management and Medical Cannabis
Saskatchewan Pain Society – Presentation for the“Partners in Pain” Webinar Series
Alongside pharmacist Kelly Kizlyk and Dr. Robert Laprairie - March 30th, 2022

Animal-Assisted Interaction and Suicidality: The Impact of Service Dogs for Veterans at High Risk for Suicide
HAI Research Group for the American Psychological Association - Washington, DC
Human-Animal Interactions Research Webinar - September 15, 2021

Exploring animal-assisted intervention among military veterans:
The potential social significance and impact of psychiatric service dogs
University of Saskatchewan
990 Seminar Series - April 30, 2021

Introducing Animal-Assisted Intervention & Therapy Dogs- Guest Lecture
University of Saskatchewan
Peer Health Mentors - January 26, 2020

Fostering Graduate Student Success: SSHRC Funding
University of Saskatchewan
990 Seminar Series - October 4th, 2019

Introduction to Research Skills
I-SPARX Youth Champions Retreat
Iqualuit, Nunavut
April 14, 2019