Archive for April 2024
The PRO‐HOME Project. A multicomponent intervention for the protected discharge from the hospital of multimorbid and polytreated older individuals by using innovative technologies: A pilot study
Social Security International Update, March 2024
Forever Struggle Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston’s Chinatown, 1880-2018
Beyond Purchasing Power: The Association Between Sense of Community Belongingness and Food Insecurity Among Older Adults in Canada
Severity and Predictors of Physical Intimate Partner Violence against Male Victims in Canada
Child development, film evidence, and epidemiological sciences: Elwyn James Anthony and the 1957 Zurich International Congress of Psychiatry
Figure 6. Examples of repetitive movements and behaviour (Anthony, 1957a).
Disenfranchisement and Voting Opportunity Among People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Considering Financial Assets When Promoting Sense of Purpose in Older Adulthood
In Montana, an avalanche of wealth is displacing workers
In These Times | J Osborne
The people who feed, clothe and clean up after the West’s rich newcomers can’t afford to live alongside them. Above: RV stands on a street in Bozeman, Montana, in December 2022, a housing “fix” many locals are turning to as rents rise.
Most Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana for Medical, Recreational Use
Divergent Experiences Reported by Rural and Frontier Older Adults Aging in Place
Midlife Satisfaction Disparities by Sexual Orientation: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study
Capitalist welfare under AMLO: a critical analysis of Mexico’s cash transfer and minimum wage policies
WSWS | A Lo Mexa
As the six-year term of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) draws to a close and the country prepares for the upcoming presidential election, plenty of attention has been given by the pseudo-left press to the cash transfer programs as well as to the raises to the minimum wage that have been implemented under his administration. Above: Artisan in Capácuaro, Michoacán
The Association Between Masculinity Ideology and Sexism: The Role of Sexual Orientation Among Heterosexual and Bisexual Women
Sustainability, Sociodemographic Differences, and Consumer Behavior
What We Know About the Impact of Career and Technical Education: A Systematic Review of the Research
Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care‐experienced people: Introduction to the special issue
Comparative Efficacy of Online vs. Face-to-Face Group Interventions: A Systematic Review
The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood
Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds much-needed light on the networks of health-care providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in this ongoing surveillance and punishment of pregnant people.
Teacher Instructional Approaches and Student Engagement and Behavioral Responses During Literacy Instruction in a Juvenile Correctional Facility
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement
Care-experienced young people’s views on what they want from mental health services
The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy
A Social-Ecological Model Exploring Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Screening Practices Among Antenatal Health Care Providers
How to control your gambling
OJJDP FY24 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative
Why so many Indigenous children died at residential schools in Canada
The Effect of Peer Influence and Neighborhood Quality on Incarcerated Fathers’ Attachment
Dastardly Theology: Andrew Drummond & Eleanor Janega
Unmet Need Score Map Tool
Can Chicago manage its migrant crisis
The New Yorker | AL Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Getty
Dr. Aimee Hilado, at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and chair of the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, has worked with frontline staff on helping migrants feel settled in communities… Before they arrived in the United States, these migrants had already endured a hard journey, Hilado told me. “They witnessed so much loss of life. They take pictures of people that are floating in the rivers, and they see people that can’t make it or who will die by suicide on the path to come to the United States.”
Nonphysical Suffering: An Under-Resourced and Key Role for Hospice and Palliative Care Social Workers
Evaluation of a school intervention to improve adherence to the Mediterranean Diet
A Culturally Specific Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program to Improve Diet in Immigrant Communities in Brooklyn, New York
The War on Recovery
In Memoriam: UConn School of Social Work Professor Emerita Ruth R. Martin
UConn Today | S Yolacti
Martin ’70 MSW, ’80 Ph.D., was a former Associate Dean and Professor Emerita at the UConn School of Social Work.
Do participants in widening participation outreach programmes in England progress to selective universities at a higher rate than would otherwise be expected?
Find out why Isle of Wight social work team are considering possible strike action
County Press/yahoo!news | inteGRIDy
UNISON Isle of Wight’s local government branch secretary, Mark Chiverton said he was non-plussed with the council’s stance. “This is an award-winning social work team that’s always worked extremely hard to ensure Isle of Wight residents are provided with an excellent service, seven days a week, 24 hours a day,” Chiverton said.
Test Security and the Pandemic: Comparison of Test Center and Online Proctor Delivery Modalities
The social media use of college students: Exploring identity development, learning support, and parallel use
Lifetime trauma and mortality risk: A systematic review
Ireland’s approach to health and social care policy and practice for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Comparing the Long-Term Impacts of Different Child Well-Being Improvements
Popular boys, the ideal schoolboy, and blended patterns of masculinity for 10- to 11-year-olds in two London schools
Reforming adult social care in England: Twenty-Second Report of Session 2023–24
National, regional, and global estimates of low birthweight in 2020, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis
Handbook for forensic child interviews in presumed cases of trafficking
‘All about the NHS and what about the rest of us?’: Exploring how low‐paid health and social care workers construct key stakeholders and account for the UK’s response to the COVID‐19 pandemic
Social workers’ concerns about welfare not dealt with by authorities
SWU/Independent
In the last 18 months two-fifths (40%) of social workers have raised concerns about cases where they don’t believe appropriate action was taken. Of these, almost a third 29% have highlighted more than 5 cases in that time. The findings come in an exclusive report in The Independent which commissioned research among members of the Social Workers Union (SWU).