Academic Information

Master of Arts, Counselling Psychology, 2007-present
The University of British Columbia

Diploma in Guidance Studies, 2007
The University of British Columbia

B.A., Psychology, 2006
University College of the Fraser Valley

Associate of Arts Degree, Psychology, 2005
Douglas College

Research Interests
Trica is a graduate student in the Counselling Psychology program at UBC. She is writing her Master's Thesis on the child welfare system and the treatment needs of First Nation women who have addictions. Trica is both Han Gwitch'in and Northern Tutchone. Her other research interests include Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, anxiety, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and ethical research with First Nation populations. 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

• George, M., Masotti, P., MacLeod, S., Van Bibber, M., Lock, C., Fleming, M., McDiarmid, T., Morton, A., Penno, E., Prince, E. Ranford, J., Salmon, A., & Smith, C. (2007). Bridging the research gap: Aboriginal and academic collaboration in FASD prevention. The Healthy Communities, Mothers and Children Project. Alaska Medical Supplement, 49(10), 119-1340
• van der Woerd, K.A., Cox, D.N., & McDiarmid, T. (2006). A preliminary look at aggressive and violent behaviour in Aboriginal adolescent girls. Pimatisiwin, 4(1), 119-134. 

Reports

• McDiarmid, T. (2007). Aboriginal children and youth “in care”. In First Nations, Métis and Inuit children and youth: Time to act (pp. 83-93). Ottawa, ON: National Council of Welfare.
• McDiarmid, T. (2007). Aboriginal child and youth health, wellness and safety. In First Nations, Métis and Inuit children and youth: Time to act (pp. 61-72). Ottawa, ON: National Council of Welfare.
• van der Woerd, K.A., Dixon , B.L., McDiarmid, T. , Chittenden, M., Murphy, A. and the McCreary Centre Society. (2005). Raven's Children II: Aboriginal Youth Health in British Columbia. Vancouver: McCreary.
• Salmon, A., & McDiarmid, T. (2005). The Honouring Ourselves and Healing Our Past Approach. Vancouver: Vancouver Native Health Society.

Congress Proceedings

• Masotti, P., MacLeod, S., Van Bibber, M, George, M. A., Loock, C., Fleming, M., McDiarmid, T. , Morton, A.M., Penno, E., Prince, E., Ranford, J., Salmon, A., Smith, C. (2006). Bridging the research gap: Aboriginal and academic collaboration in FASD prevention. The Healthy Communities, Mothers, and Children Project. Russia : International Congress on Circumpolar Health.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• McDiarmid, T., Salmon, A., VanBibber, M., & Stokl, M. (2005, March). Walking our talk: Learning about research partnerships and ethics from the healthy communities, mothers, and children project. Invited guest speaker at the Advancing Indigenous Health Research Ethics Forum, Vancouver, BC.
• McDiarmid, T. & Salmon, A. (2005, February). Honouring ourselves and healing our pasts: A Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder preventative program created by Aboriginal women. Invited guest speaker at Vancouver Aboriginal Early Childhood Support Program, Vancouver, BC .
• McDiarmid, T. & Salmon, A. (2005, January). Constructing Aboriginal mothers: Legacies of eugenics, colonialism and neo-colonialism. Invited guest speakers for The Social Foundations of Education course at UBC.
• McDiarmid, T. & Salmon, A. (2004, October). Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the classroom: Management procedures for best outcomes. Invited guest speakers for Social Issues in Education course at UBC.
• McDiarmid, T., & Salmon, A. (2004, May). Healthy communities, mothers, and children: a community specific approach. Invited guest speaker at Vancouver Aboriginal Early Childhood Support Program, Vancouver, BC .
• McDiarmid, T. & Salmon, A. (2004, May). Healthy communities, mothers and children: opportunities for participation. Invited guest presenters at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre's Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder Awareness Night, Vancouver, BC .

Conference Presentations

A. Paper presentations

• McDiarmid, T. (2007, June). “My heart is just aching”: Why can't we hear the voices of First Nation mothers who struggle to bring their children home . Paper presented at the 7th Annual Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research Environment Gathering of Graduate Students in Aboriginal Health, Winnipeg, MB.
• McDiarmid, T. (2007, March). Child Welfare? Addressing the overrepresentation of First Nation children in care . Paper presented at the Network Environments for Aboriginal Research British Columbia Northern Aboriginal Research Gathering, Prince George, BC.
• Prince, E., Salmon, A., & McDiarmid, T. (2007, March). Supporting women's wellness using community developed approaches: Outcomes of an Inter Tribal Health Authority and Sheway community-based research project . Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Research, Policy and Practice Around the World, Victoria, B .
• Salmon, A., Greaves, L., Poole , N., & McDiarmid, T. (2006, November). Housing and women-centered harm reduction: Examples of Canadian programs for substance-using mothers and their children . Paper presented at the 6 th National Harm Reduction Conference: Drug User Health: The Politics & the Personal, San Francisco, CA .
• George, M. A., Masotti, P., MacLeod, S., Loock, C., Morton, M., Fleming, M., Ranford, J., Van Bibber, M., McDiarmid, T. , Michano-Stewart, T., Prince, E., Salmon, A.,& Smith, C. (2006, October). Academic-community partnership: A community-based FASD
  project in rural and urban settings. Paper presentation at the Canadian Rural Health Research Society Conference 2006, Prince George, BC .
• Masotti, P., Prince, E., MacLeod, S., George, M. A., Szala-Meneok, Morton, A. M., Loock, C., Van Bibber, M., Ranford, J., Fleming, M., McDiarmid, T., Penno, E., Salmon, A., Smith, C. (2006, September). Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Aboriginal communities: A methods development project:The Healthy Communities, Mothers and Children Project (HCMC). Paper presented at the 7 th Annual Fetal Alcohol Canadian Expertise (FACE) Research Roundtable, Moncton, NB.
• Masotti, P., MacLeod, S., Van Bibber, M., George, M. A., Loock, C., Fleming, M., McDiarmid, T., Morton, A. M., Penno, E., Prince, E., Ranford, J., Salmon, A., Smith, C. (2006, June). Bridging the Research Gap: Aboriginal and Academic Collaboration in FASD Prevention: The Healthy Communities, Mothers and Children Project. Paper presented at the 13 th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, International Union for Circumpolar Health.  Novosibirsk, Russia. (peer reviewed).
• Ranford, J., Van Bibber, M., Masotti, P., George, M. A., Loock, C., Morton, M., McDiarmid, T. , Penno, E., Prince, E., Salmon, A., Smith, C., & MacLeod, S. (2006, June). The role of academic-community partnerships in successful knowledge translation: Lessons learned from a multi-site community-based Aboriginal health research project . Paper presented at the 13th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, International Union for Circumpolar Health. Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of RF. Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia .
• McDiarmid, T. (2006, June). The ethics of Aboriginal community participation: Ensuring informed consent . Paper presented at the 6 th Annual Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research Environment Gathering of Graduate Students in Aboriginal Health, Toronto, ON.
• Ranford, J., Van Bibber, M., Masotti, P., George, M. A., Loock, C., Morton, M., McDiarmid, T. , Penno, E., Prince, E., Salmon, A., Smith, C., & MacLeod, S. (2006, March) The role of academic-community partnerships in successful knowledge translation: Lessons learned from a multi-site community based Aboriginal health research project . Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge and Knowledge Translation Summit, Regina, Saskatchewan.
• McDiarmid, T., & Salmon, A. (2005, December). The honouring ourselves and healing our pasts approach: Breaking down barriers to care and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder prevention in the Downtown Eastside . Paper presented at the National Advisory Partnership Committee conference. Vancouver, BC.
• McDiarmid, T., van der Woerd, K. A., & Dixon , B. L. (2005, August). De-emphasizing a deficit approach to youth health: Empowering Aboriginal adolescents to realize their excellence. Paper presented at the CIHR-IAPH Graduate Student meeting, Regina, SK.
• McDiarmid, T., Salmon, A., & Prince, E. (2005, May). How do you measure empowerment?: Contesting the terrains of partnership, Indigenous knowledge, and participatory action research in/and Aboriginal community development. Paper presented at the First International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL .
• McDiarmid, T. , Salmon, A., VanBibber, M., & Stokl, M. (2005, April). The Honouring Ourselves and Healing Our Past Approach:  Breaking down barriers to care for urban Aboriginal mothers. Paper presented at the International Meeting on Inuit and Native American Child Health Conference, Seattle, WA .
• Salmon, A., McDiarmid, T., & Van Bibber, M. (2005, March). Walking our talk: Learning about research partnerships and ethics from the Healthy Communities, Mothers and Children Project. Paper presented at the British Columbia Aboriginal Capacity and Development Research Environment, Advancing Indigenous Health Research Ethics Forum, Vancouver, British Columbi .
• George, M. A., Van Bibber, M., MacLeod, S., Sommersfeld, M., Salmon, A., McDiarmid, T., & Harper, N. (2005, February). Research on the adaptation of a brief alcohol intervention to prevent FAS: A community-based participatory research approach. Paper presented at The 2005 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder National Conference, Victoria, BC.
• McDiarmid, T., van der Woerd, K. A., & Van Blyderveen, S. L. (2004, November). Aggressive behaviour in Aboriginal girls. Paper presented at B.C. Consortium on Youth Health Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.
• McDiarmid, T. & Salmon, A. (2004, October). Healthy communities, mothers, and children: Supporting substance-using Aboriginal mothers in the Downtown Eastside. Paper presented at the National Advisory Partnership Committee Conference, Vancouver, BC.
• McDiarmid, T. (2004, June). Aboriginal adolescent girls: The relationship between aggression, mental health and substance use. Paper presented at the CIHR-IAPH Graduate Student meeting, Edmonton, AB.

B. Poster Presentations

• Masotti, P., Szala-Meneok, K., Ranford, J., George, M. A., Loock, C., Morton, M., Van Bibber, M., McDiarmid, T., Michano-Stewart, T., Prince, E., Salmon, A., & MacLeod, S. (2006, October). Aboriginal community members and university researchers reflect on collaborative research partnerships: Lessons learned from a community-based FASD project. Poster presented at the 2006 Health Services and Policy Research Day, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
• George, A., Masotti, P., MacLeod, S., Morton, M.,  Loock, C.,  Fleming, M., Ranford, J., Van Bibber, M., McDiarmid, T. , Michano-Stewart, T.,  Prince, E.,  Salmon, A., & Smith, C. (2006, May).  University researchers & aboriginal member partnership: Lessons learned from a community-based FASD project . Poster presented at the Canadian Public Health Association 97 th Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.
• Masotti, P., Szala-Meneok, K., Ranford, J., George, M.A., Loock, C., Morton, A. M., Van Bibber, M., McDiarmid, T., Michano-Stewart, T., Prince, E., Salmon, A., Smith, C., Flemming, M., & MacLeod, S. (2005, October). Aboriginal community members and university researchers reflect on collaborative research partnerships: Lessons learned from a community-based FASD project . Poster presented at the Rural & Northern Health Research – Bridging the Distance: 6 th Conference on the Canadian Rural Health Research Society (1 st Conference of the Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health). Quebec City, QB. 
• McDiarmid, T., van der Woerd, K. A., & Van Blyderveen, S. L. (2005, March). Aggression in Aboriginal adolescent girls: Risk and resiliency. Poster presented at the Indigenous Student Symposium 2005, Vancouver, BC.
• McDiarmid, T. , van der Woerd, K. A., & Van Blyderveen, S. L. (2005, March). Risk factors for aggression in Aboriginal adolescent girls. Poster presented at the Advancing Indigenous Health Research Ethics Forum, Vancouve , BC.
• McDiarmid, T. & van der Woerd, K. A. (2004, July). Aboriginal adolescent girls and aggression: How criminal behavior is evoked, maintained, and prevented. Poster presented at the European Association of Psychology and Law Conference, Krakow, Poland.
• van der Woerd, K. A., & McDiarmid, T. (2004, July). The association between Aboriginal cultural attachment, delinquency and health compromising behaviors. Poster presented at the European Association of Psychology and Law Conference, Krakow, Poland.
• McDiarmid, T. & van der Woerd, K. A. (2004, June). Aboriginal adolescent girls: The relationship between aggression, mental health and substance use. Poster presented at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Conference, Stockholm , Sweden.
• van der Woerd, K. A., & McDiarmid, T. (2004, June). The role of cultural attachment, mental health and family connection in aggression for First Nations youth. Poster presented at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
  
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