Archive for April 2024
A systematic review of the efficacy of group social skills interventions on social functioning and social participation in children with acquired brain injury or cerebral palsy
Health Policy in the United States: Access, Cost and Quality
Oncology Social Work Competencies, Opportunities, Roles, and Expertise (CORE): Results from a Role Delineation Study
Exploring the Multidimensions of Wellbeing that Latinx Youth Experienced When they Engaged in Critical Action Toward Anti-Immigrant Politics
The Global Respect Act and LGBTQI Human Rights
Linked Child Welfare and Medicaid Data in Kentucky and Florida Highlights Racial Disparities in Access to Care
Challenging the Chatbot: An Assessment of ChatGPT’s Diagnoses and Recommendations for DBP Case Studies
A longitudinal multi-site evaluation of community-based partnerships: implications for researchers, funders, and communities
Longitudinal Relationships Between Financial Stress, Career Related Optimism, and Psychological Distress During Emerging Adulthood in Australia
Counselors’ Knowledge of Serving the Birth to Six Population
Group polyphony and sexuality
Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education
Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash
Accused Subway Shover Found Little Help in New York’s Chaotic Shelters
NYT | A Gray
As New York has struggled to provide services for homeless mentally ill people across the city, its mental health shelters were supposed to help fill a crucial need, with on-call psychiatrists and social workers on staff to ensure that the thousands of people like Mr. McPherson were connected to treatment, and did not harm themselves or someone else. Above: The mental health shelter on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx has been the site of frequent violence and disorder, records and interviews show.
Life-Course Perspective on Immigrant Loneliness: A Conceptual Framework for Intergenerational Loneliness Trajectories
Facing Campus Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence With Courage: A Guide for Institutions and Clinicians on Prevention, Support, and Healing
Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2002–2022
The Relation Between Personal Values and Gratitude: Does It Differ Between Young Adults From Divorced Families and Married Families?
Impact of harm minimization interventions on reducing blood-borne infection transmission and some injecting behaviors among people who inject drugs: an overview and evidence gap mapping
Comprehensive HIV and Harm Prevention Via Telehealth (CHARIOT)
8 Strategies for a Healthy Spring
A Multimethod Exploration of the COVID-Era Transition to Virtual Hearings in Child Welfare Court Cases
Studying Parole Revocation Practices: Accounting for Dependency Between Competing Events
The Alternative Factors Leading to Replication Crisis: Prediction and Evaluation
Social work students in Aotearoa New Zealand: the impacts of financial hardship on mental and social wellbeing
Ruling Relations Coordinating the ‘Migrant Family’ in Institutional Encounters between Finnish Social Work Professionals and Migrant Service Users
OVC FY24 Preventing Trafficking of Girls (Grants.gov deadline: April 24)
‘If you want to abuse your workers, that’s fine’: UK modern slavery watchdog’s funding cut
The Guardian | The Lincolnite/GLAA
Britain’s labour abuse watchdog has had its funding cut by the Home Office despite a dramatic surge in exploitation in the care sector. The budget of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) has been set at £6.25m for 2024-25 compared with £7.7m last year, official figures show.
Explainer: What is famine?
A Brief Case Management Intervention for People Involuntarily Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital (CARP)
Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day
Almost half the people displaced worldwide are under 18, yet their voices are rarely heard. This book records the experiences of children arriving in Britain from Hitler’s Europe in the 1930s to those escaping war in Ukraine in 2022. It follows the journeys of war-traumatised children from Mogadishu to Mile End and from Syria to a Scottish isle. Some followed their parents to the ‘motherland’ from the former British Empire. Others came independently to escape forced marriage or military conscription.
Evaluating Sustainable Mobility: Motorized and Non-motorized Modes in Suburban Areas of Thailand
How is NICE guideline 214 relevant to my role in community based services?
The Enlightened Social Worker: An Introduction to Rights-Focused Practice
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering
Why Prague’s homeless are resorting to poverty tourism
Toward a Contextually Sensitive Understanding of Polyvictimization: A Latent Class Analysis of Violence, Risks, and Protections Among South African Adolescents From Highly Deprived Settings
UK child poverty at highest level in 30 years, with schools providing basic living necessities
WSWS | N Moralee
The terrible social crisis tearing apart the lives of children will only worsen with the expected election of a pro-austerity Labour government this year. Labour is committed to retaining the two-child limit on welfare benefits and benefit cap. The Financial Times noted when party leader Sir Keir Starmer announced the policy last June that he was sticking to “its pledge of responsible spending”