Alec Stratford, the registrar of the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers, said he’s been surprised by the department’s lack of accurate data about caseloads for all of the eight years he’s been in his role.
Archive for May 2024
Community Services doesn’t know how many cases its social workers are juggling
The Great Decline: From the Era of Hope and Progress to the Age of Fear and Rage
New skills for distance regulation: Therapists’ experiences of remote psychotherapy following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hypertension among persons living with HIV/AIDS and its association with HIV-related health factors
Social Security Administration: Expand the Definition of a Public Assistance Household
The mental health needs of autistic youth in remote areas of Ontario, Canada: Clinicians’ perspectives.
Planning, implementing and governing systems-based co-creation: the DISCOVER framework
Integrating Clinical Neuropsychology and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Analysis of Cognitive Dynamics, Interventions, and Underlying Mechanisms
Who’s making money from forced labour?
Indirect associations between immigration-related stressors and latine adolescents’ depressive symptoms: The moderating roles of familism, nativity, and gender.
Self-evaluation and improvement plan FAQs
Guaranteed Income: The First Step Towards Guaranteeing Human Rights in America
Scheer and Foster debate and discuss the conditions in America that led to the ideas presented in Foster’s new book, The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy. The main idea in Foster’s book suggests that a new sort of paradigm has emerged throughout the Biden administration and in response to the pandemic, where the guarantee of income and healthcare no longer faces the same stigma it once did.
Mental Health Awareness Month – EBSA
Addiction Care
Task sensitivity and noise: How mechanical properties of preference elicitation tasks account for differences in preferences across tasks.
Research on Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery (R01 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required) (Expiration Date: June 22)
Brief transactional analysis psychotherapy for depression: The systematic development of a treatment manual.
Comparison of physical activity levels and dietary habits between women with polycystic ovarian syndrome and healthy controls of reproductive age: a case-control study
Can Incentives Increase the Writing of Wills?
Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Validation of the Sexual and Reproductive Empowerment Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults in Kenya
Why Is N.Y.U. Forcing Protesters to Write Apology Letters?
Dozens of students and faculty members were arrested at a demonstration last month at New York University.
Discounting future reward in an uncertain world.
The role of microfinance in improving living standards: Evidence from Tunisia
Health system productivity in sub-Saharan Africa: tuberculosis control in high burden countries
School psychologists’ training to support inclusive education in Portugal: Trainers’ perspectives of opportunities, challenges, and improvements
Changing discourse of public administration: Where PAD stands?
‘Social worker board vets applications individually’
The chairman of the Social Workers Registration Board has stressed that the statutory body reviews every application on a case-by-case basis, after the government suggested the board might have erred in renewing and approving licences from people who had committed serious crimes.
Reforming Inspection of Childcare Provision: Lessons from Israel
Bioethics Without Theory?
At a Glance – Blueprint for a future joint European degree
WE economy: Potential of mutual aid distribution based on moral responsibility and risk vulnerability
Followers, customers, or partners? Comparing conceptualisations of students as partners in Australian, Mainland Chinese, and Hong Kong universities
Informational Webinar on Nathan Shock Centers Funding Opportunities, RFA-AG-25-012 and RFA-AG-25-013
Attitudes, motivators, and barriers toward influenza vaccination for children: a study from a conflict-ridden country
Supporting Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Screening and Intervention
NIMHD 2024 Approved Research Concepts
UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice Taught Graduate Courses 2024
Older American Indians may experience higher levels of cognitive impairment than previously thought
Researchers have found that 54% of older American Indians have cognitive impairment, including 10% with dementia, highlighting a significant disparity with the rates of cognitive impairment and dementia in the general American population.
Education systems change: cultural beliefs and practices that support and inhibit deep learning in Vietnam
New 150-bed UW psychiatric hospital opens to serve hard-to-treat patients
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is among the specialized services available at the new UW Medicine Center for Behavioral Health and Learning, on the UW Medical Center-Northwest campus in North Seattle.
L-Carnitine in the Treatment of Psychiatric and Neurological Manifestations: A Systematic Review
Experimental use of self-affirmation to manage self-concept threat in a simulated intrusive thought paradigm
PRESERVE & CONNECT: Impact Study of the BPC
Measuring sustainability of opioid agonist therapy programs in the context of transition from global fund support
The Effect of Mindset Interventions on Stress and Academic Motivation in College Students
CfP: Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology on “Unpacking Economic Inequality: A Psychological Perspective” (Part of a Multi-Journal Special Issue) (Proposal due by Sept 9)
Did You Know? Workers’ Comp Covers Mental Health
The lasting impact of war experiences on quality of life in long-lived retirement homes residents: The birth cohort 1906–1928
The Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in Westside St. Paul
Mexican and Mexican American migration to the Midwest dates to the 1920s and 1930s, when laborers moved to the north to work on sugar beet farms. Over time, they set down roots in Minnesota communities — particularly St. Paul’s Lower West Side (the West Side Flats), which offered jobs in meatpacking and the railroad industry. Towards the end of the 1930s, so many Mexicans tried to settle near their families that there was a housing shortage in the neighborhood.