When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its atrocities. Above: Atomic bomb damage at Hiroshima, Japan on November 17, 1945
Archive for November 2023
Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support
Cashing in on Troubled Teens
Best practice guide: Telehealth for school-based services
Challenges of practicing professional social work in Bangladesh: perspectives from public sector service providers
Hidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space
CfP: Journal of Human Rights and Social Work – Environmental and Climate Justice: Intersecting Rights of Humans and the Natural World (Due by April 15)
The state of health care and adult social care in England 2022/23
Operation Pedro Pan: The untold exodus of 14,048 Cuban children, revised edition
Who cares? The grandmother kinship carers shouldering the burden within a gendered care economy
Gender differences in interactions and depressive symptoms among hospitalized older patients living with dementia
Millions have used the 988 mental health crisis line, but most say they wouldn’t turn to it again
“Launching the 988 hotline has been a critical step for addressing America’s expanding need for mental health services, but we have to get to the bottom of why so many users who were in serious distress wouldn’t use it again — whether that means better training is needed, more resources or other solutions,” said Dr. Michael Lindsey (above), Dean of the New York University Silver School of Social Work and co-author of the new study.
A Mentally Healthier Nation
SNPC 2023: Minimum Income Guarantee: Short-term action towards a long-term ambition
Development of a Transdiagnostic Intervention for Adolescents at Risk for Serious Mental Illness
Empowering TNBGE and QTBIPOC Students through Clinical Group Practice in University Settings
Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry
Designing strategies to prevent homelessness among single adults in Dublin: What the data tells us
The mediating role of coping self-efficacy on social support and PTSD symptom severity among injury survivors
Patterns of Sexual Harassment: An Intersectional Approach to Reported Victimization in a Campus Climate Survey of Students at Irish Higher Education Institutions
No Access Real-World Evidence on Clinical Outcomes of Commonly Used Antidepressants in Older Adults Initiating Antidepressants for Depression: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Denmark
Heuristic decision-making across adulthood.
EU Drug Market: Amphetamine — In-depth analysis
Inside a social work strike: the staff fighting for a ‘safe service’
Mental health social workers at Barnet Council have taken to the picket line to protest against ‘chronic staffing issues’ and rising waiting times for the people they support
Norwegian higher education futures
Sexual orientation, UK: 2021 and 2022
Investigation of the relationship between sexual and pelvic floor dysfunction in female patients with fibromyalgia syndrome
Socio-demographic and psycho-social determinants of HIV late presentation in Germany – results from the FindHIV study
Designing and compiling the protocol of specialized interventions of hospital social workers in crisis situations in Iran
A qualitative study on the experience of defection and staying in a third country of an unaccompanied female adolescent North Korean refugee in South Korea
Lower urinary tract symptoms and toileting behaviors in Turkish adult women
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland’s citizens’ assembly on gender equality
Convenient and Comfortable, yet Limited in Many Ways: Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic from Perspectives of Social Work Students in Vietnam
We Should Look to Vienna for Answers to Our Housing Crisis
Vienna’s social housing triumphs show that when governments invest in housing as a human right, they can combat homelessness and inequality. It is an inspiration for what cities can accomplish if they elevate human needs over the pursuit of private profits. Above: The Karl-Marx-Hof municipal housing complex in Vienna, Austria.