“When the state of emergency was declared, in January 2021, femicides went down, according to the Police and the State Statistics Institute. But, since efforts seeking to insist and stress that this is a public health issue did not continue, violence is once again rising,” said the former president of the College of Social Work Professionals (CPTS, Spanish acronym) Mabel López Ortiz.
Archive for November 2023
A Report into Current Anti-poverty Strategies and Work in Greater Manchester
Bio-Psycho-Sociocultural Lens Highlights Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Neuropsychological Outcomes Following COVID-19
“I’m not going to lay back and watch somebody die”: a qualitative study of how people who use drugs’ naloxone experiences are shaped by rural risk environment and overdose education/naloxone distribution intervention
Treatment and Rehabilitation of People with Intellectual Disability or Autism Spectrum Disorders and Co-occurring Mental Disorders
Femicides in 2023: Intimate cases on the rise three years after state of emergency declaration
The effect of vitamin D supplementation on primary depression: A meta-analysis
Shaping Conditions for Recovery: A narrative on a Homeless Man with Severe Mental Illness in a Modern Welfare State
English headteacher perspectives on school responses to protect student and staff mental wellbeing in the later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
Facial Mimicry and Social Context Affect Smile Interpretation
There are many reasons disabled people can’t just work from home – threatening to cut their benefits won’t fix the wider problems
As part of the UK government’s latest economic plan, disabled people may have to look for jobs they can do from home or face cuts to their benefits. Previously, disabled people with limited ability to work may have received benefits without being required to look for work. Now, Laura Trott, chief secretary to the Treasury, has said that disabled people not in work must “do their duty” and work from home.
Unpacking why health outcomes in the UK compare poorly with peers
Gratitude in Reflecting on the Journal of Music Therapy’s 60th Anniversary
Academic Motivation of Incarcerated Juveniles From the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory: A Multiple Case Study in Kosovo Context
Prevalence of unmet health care need in older adults in 83 countries: measuring progressing towards universal health coverage in the context of global population ageing
Navigating danger through nuisance: Racialized urban fears, gentrification, and sensory enskilment in Amsterdam
Self-disclosure by adolescents in therapy for eating difficulties: A Q-Methodology study
Terror Management: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Desire for Money Among Singaporeans
Participatory action research: The woven collective analysis approach to recognize experiential knowledge of poverty
Supporting and Sustaining the Current and Future Workforce to Care for People with Serious Illness Proceedings of a Workshop
Formal support services and (dis)empowerment of domestic violence victims: perspectives from women survivors in Ghana
Community-based advocacy in “cold case” sexual assault prosecutions: A qualitative exploration of survivors’ and advocates’ experiences
‘Playing us for years’: how pokies profits have funded tax-deductible spending within Australian clubs
Schemes in Victoria and NSW give clubs tax cuts if they put gaming proceeds into communities – but they overwhelmingly spend it on themselves. This former gambling addict said she and her friends would play pokies and ‘all pretend to each other that we were supporting the community’.
Comprehensive Alcohol-HIV/AIDS Research Center (P60 Clinical Trial Optional) (Earliest Submission Date: March 18)
A systematic review of the effectiveness and implementation readiness of psychosocial interventions for psychosis in South Asia
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts
The Answer To Veterans Homelessness Could Be One Of LA’s Most Expensive Neighborhoods
Tiny homes sit adjacent to what was previously Veterans Row on the campus of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Effectiveness of an LGBTQ+ E-Learning Module for Social Workers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Social Support Intervention for Addiction Recovery (LDART)
Role of Competencies and Attitudes in Training for Family Prevention Programme Facilitators
An aging and values-driven theory of mobility
Recovery Is Possible for Everyone: Understanding Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Behavioral Parent Training Via Telehealth for Autistic Children in Rural Appalachia: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study
Seizing Research Opportunities Made Available by Policy Driven Funding to Mitigate the Opioid Crisis (Due date for abstracts: Dec 1)
How Plan Monitoring Improves Plan Implementation: A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Neighborhood Planning Process
Design for Storm Surge Flooding Adaptation: Facilitating Emergency Evacuation with Adaptive Landscape Form-Based Codes
Resisting Change in Suburbia—Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in LA
The Ongoing Importance of Peer Review
Global Population Estimates Vary but Trends Are Clear
Ending the Coalfield-to-Prison Pipeline
Boosters have promoted prison construction on abandoned mine lands as a tool of economic development throughout Appalachia. New federal funding provides the opportunity for more sustainable and socially beneficial investments. Above: A former coal mining site in West Virginia
Care in the future – reconciling health system and individual resilience
How journal hijackers derail academic careers with impunity
The documented hijacking of a legitimate academic journal earlier this year shows how the pressure on researchers to publish, combined with the proliferation and development of AI technology, is threatening to undermine trust in research and is even derailing the careers of affected academics.