Archive for March 2015
Multiple Victimizations Before and After Leaving Home Associated With PTSD, Depression, and Substance Use Disorder Among Homeless Youth
Mental Disorders as Causal Systems: A Network Approach to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Working with Older Adults: Predictors of Attitudes Towards Ageing in Psychology and Social Work Students, Faculty, and Practitioners
Gay? Prove it: The politics of queer anti-deportation activism
Live-in caregivers in Fort McMurray: A socioeconomic footprint
How unequal is your state?
Gordon Parks exhibit offers intimate glimpse into segregation-era life for African Americans
Child protection as surveillance of African American families
Cognitive Advantage in Bilingualism: An Example of Publication Bias?
African American families carry more student loan debt than white families (interactive version here)
Pretraumatic Stress Reactions in Soldiers Deployed to Afghanistan
Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession by Barbara Garson
Limits of Current Approaches to Diagnosis Severity Based on Criterion Counts: An Example With DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorder
Under-representation of women on governing bodies: women general practitioners on Clinical Commissioning Groups in England
Rationing in healthcare
Rough Justice: Considerations on the Role of Violence, Masculinity, and the Alienation of Young Men in Communities and Peacebuilding Processes in Northern Ireland
Changes in inpatients’ experiences of hospital care in England over a 12-year period: a secondary analysis of national survey data
Unlikely Fame: Poor People Who Made History
Psychodynamic therapy in South Africa Contexts, theories and applications
Bridging Levels of Understanding in Schizophrenia Through Computational Modeling
Comparing end-of-life practices in different policy contexts: a scoping review
Serotonin Promoter Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) Predicts Biased Attention for Emotion Stimuli: Preliminary Evidence of Moderation by the Social Environment
Nutritional Interventions in Clinical Depression
Science and Pseudoscience in Social Work Practice
While many psychosocial interventions used in social work practice have strong research evidence supporting their efficacy, a surprising number do not, potentially resulting in harmful outcomes. With the goal of promoting critical thinking among social workers and related professionals, this book evaluates commonly used scientific and pseudoscientific practices in social work today.