Archive for May 2013
Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) and young people not in education or training (NET)
The Cognitive-Interpersonal Maintenance Model of Anorexia Nervosa Revisited: A summary of the evidence for cognitive, socio-emotional and interpersonal predisposing and perpetuating factors.
The Casework Relationship
Concealing negative evaluations of a romantic partner’s physical attractiveness
How Ohio’s Debtors’ Prisons Are Ruining Lives and Costing Communities
Social Work Practice with Families: A Resiliency-Based Approach
Dr. Mary Van Hook’s Social Work Practice with Families is a useful guide to family therapy with a strengths-based perspective that focuses on families’ vitality and capacity to thrive. The book explores resiliency as an empirically grounded framework with which to conduct assessments with families effectively. Van Hook presents a thorough discussion of contemporary treatment models, clearly demonstrating the importance of selecting appropriate treatments based on the specifics of each assessment. Using extensive case materials drawn from both the United States and Canada, this new edition explores the various factors associated with family resiliency in the context of diverse cultures, family structures, and difficult life events.
A systematic review of publications assessing reliability and validity of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 2004–2011
Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
When it comes to understanding and treating madness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book’s detailed analyses of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics of bad science are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. This is mad science.
History of the Discovery of the Antipsychotic Dopamine D2 Receptor: A Basis for the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia
The 1975 publication of Seeman et al. (Proc Nat Acad Sci, USA), reporting the discovery of the antipsychotic receptor in the brain, is a classic example of translational medicine research. In searching for a pathophysiological mechanism of psychosis, the team sought to identify sites that bound the antipsychotic drug haloperidol….The collective work is generally viewed as providing a fundamental basis for the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia.
PRISMA for Abstracts: Reporting Systematic Reviews in Journal and Conference Abstracts
Gang membership of California middle school students: behaviors and attitudes as mediators of school violence
Child labour: parameters, developmental implications, causes and consequences
Meeting report: Depression and Anxiety Spectrum disorders: from basic science to the clinic and back
Evidence-Based Principles for Choosing Programs To Serve Parents in the Child Welfare System
Efforts to Address the Medical Needs of Children in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear Incident
Chronic Conditions Among Children Investigated by Child Welfare: A National Sample
Transforming Risks into Opportunities in Child Protection Cases: A Case Study with a Multisystemic, In-Home, Strength-Based Model
Country Differences in Material Deprivation in Europe
Measuring the Associations Between Symptoms of Depression and Suicide in Adolescence and Unhealthy Romantic Relationships in Young Adulthood
Substance use, risky sexual behaviors, and their associations in a Chinese sample of senior high school students
Are There Risks with Risk Assessment? A Study of the Predictive Accuracy of the Youth Level of Service-Case Management Inventory with Young Offenders in Scotland
Patterns of Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Young Adolescents in Singapore
Guidelines for health care providers working with same-sex parented families
Predictors of retention in community-based methadone maintenance treatment program in Pearl River Delta, China
A Sense of Where You Are
Forced and servile marriage in the context of human trafficking
Risk and Protective Factors Related to Hoarding
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UNCFCRP
Screening for HIV
Post-traumatic stress disorder and the outcome of dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder
From Vagrancy to Homelessness: The Value of a Welfare Approach to Homelessness
Women’s perceptions and reasons for choosing the pill, patch, or ring in the CHOICE study: a cross-sectional survey of contraceptive method selection after counseling
Frequently Asked Questions about Poverty
Can text messages increase safer sexual health behaviours in young people?
How the United States Immigration System Works: A Fact Sheet
Abraham Flexner: “Is social work a profession in the technical and strict sense of the term?” 1915
2011/12 National Survey of Children’s Health: How many children have experience two or more adverse experiences?
Ambivalent sexism and perceptions of men and women who violate gendered family roles
Increases in Quitline Calls and Smoking Cessation Website Visitors During a National Tobacco Education Campaign — March 19–June 10, 2012
Life Expectancies of South African Adults Starting Antiretroviral Treatment: Collaborative Analysis of Cohort Studies
Resumption of menses in anorexia nervosa during a course of family-based treatment
Youth perceptions about parental spillover: influences and impacts
Safeguarding Adults and the Law, 2nd edition
The book covers, for example, Department of Health guidelines, human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the barring of carers from working with vulnerable adults, care standards tribunal cases, mental capacity, undue influence, assault, battery, wilful neglect, ill treatment, self-neglect, manslaughter, murder, theft, fraud, sexual offences, data protection and the sharing of information. It focuses on how these areas of law apply to vulnerable adults, and uses the large body of case law to bring the law to life. Also covered is how local authorities and the NHS are implicated in causing harm – through abuse, neglect or omission – as exemplified by the independent and public inquiries into the catastrophic events at Stafford Hospital. This fully-updated second edition comprehensively reflects recent changes to the law, and includes many new case studies. It looks forward also to the implications, for safeguarding, of the draft Care and Support Bill 2012.
This book will be an essential resource for all those working in community care, adult social work, health care and housing. Those working for local authorities, the NHS, voluntary organisations and students will find it to be essential reading.