A lack of social workers means there can often be a vast discrepancy between pay across different authorities, as they battle to recruit and retain social workers. As a result the Scottish Association of Social Work is calling for a new approach with a set of nationally agreed terms and conditions, as they say the current system is just moving the existing workforce around.
Archive for November 2023
Does mortality salience make youths more materialistic? The role of future orientation and awe
Measuring School Staff Confidence and Worries to Deliver Mental Health Content: An Examination of the Psychometric Properties of Two Measures in a Sample of Secondary School Staff
Mental health of South Korean adolescents in the COVID-19 Era: Web-based survey focused on suicide-related factors
Exposure to Feminist Humor and the Proclivity to Collective Action for Gender Equality: The Role of Message Format and Feminist Identification
Home learning environments and family socioeconomic status: Implications on early learning attainments in Tanzania
Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union
Social citizenship as a marble cake: The changing pattern of right production and the role of the EU
Call for national approach to social workers in Scotland
Child health services and armed conflict in Tigray, North Ethiopia: a community-based study
Written Statement: Help to Stay [Wales]
Coordinating Center to Support Multi-Sectoral Preventive Interventions that Address Social Determinants of Health in Populations that Experience Health Disparities (U24, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Hard to Count? The 2020 Census “Citizenship Question” and Bureaucratic Visibility among Undocumented Latin Americans in Chicago
Hong Kong youth has little interest in joining official local governance platforms, NGO finds
Over 80 per cent of young Hongkongers have little interest in joining local care teams or government-appointed committees, which authorities see as playing a critical role in district-level governance, a survey has found. Above: Care Teams in Sham Shui Po sweeping leaves this month in the aftermath of Typhoon Koinu.
The cost-of-illness and burden-of-disease of treatment-resistant depression in Austria
Within-Person Test Score Distributions: How Typical Is “Normal”?
Repetitive Versus Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Major Depression (ReDeeMD)
Examining individual and contextual factors that contribute to early childhood teachers’ well‐being
Discrimination and Adverse Perinatal Health Outcomes: A Latent Class Analysis
Natural disasters and labor market outcomes in Mexico
CfP: Food environments and health (Submission deadline: 6 Nov 2024)
Sleep Duration Differences by Education from Middle to Older Adulthood: Does Employment Stratification Contribute to Gendered Leveling?
‘Taking knowledge on a journey’: Creating conditions for epistemic justice
Built Environment through a Well-being Lens
Association of Time in Bed, Social Jetlag, and Sleep Disturbances With Cognitive Performance in Children With ADHD
Understanding the Impact of Context on Ambition: Gender Role Conformity Negatively Influences Adolescent Boys’ Ambition Scores in an Educational Context
The Role of Perfectionism and Parental Expectations in the School Stress and Health Complaints of Secondary School Students
US: Texas Troopers’ Deadly Vehicle Pursuits
Dangerous chases of vehicles thought to contain migrants under the Texas government’s Operation Lone Star program led to crashes that killed at least 74 people and injured at least another 189 in a 29-month period, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Above: Kinney County sheriff’s deputies, Border Patrol, and state highway patrol at a vehicle pursuit crash site
Children’s Living Arrangements: Children Under 18 Years and Marital Status of Parents by Age of the Child: 2007 and 2023
Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Adolescent Cannabis Use in Washington State
No, turnstile gates on the light rail are not a good idea
The transit system has been through a lot since COVID-19, and resetting the public culture on the system poses a daunting challenge. The plan that’s in place, funded by the 2023 Legislature, seems sound: combining social work with a de-escalated policing approach. Unfortunately the program, called the Transit Service Intervention Project (TSIP), has been slow to kick into action thanks to some bureaucratic hurdles and hiring challenges. Above: Rendering of a transit station under St. Louis’ proposed “Secure Platform Plan.”
The ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical activity and screen time among Canadian youth
Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Multidimensional Behavioral Health Screen (MBHS) With a University Sample
Segregation and Childhood Blood Lead Levels in North Carolina
“It Just Felt Nice to be Able to Scream”: A Qualitative Examination of the Experiences of College Students Participating in the Black Lives Matter Movement
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review
International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction
State-Specific Prevalence of Adult Tobacco Product Use and Cigarette Smoking Cessation Behaviors, United States, 2018-2019
Understanding ADHD in AAPI College Students: Prevalence, Comorbidities, Impairments, and Treatment Utilization
Do You Know What Fake News Is? An Exploration of and Intervention to Increase Youth’s Fake News Literacy
Dr. Shelley Akabas, social work pioneer who transformed the world of work, dies at 92
A retired professor of social work at Columbia University, Akabas pioneered research into how labor and management could expand employment opportunities for people with disabilities and other challenges.
SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE LAWS EXPLAINED – and how they hold DCF / CPS accountable