Archive for July 2024

Allison is currently pursuing her other dream of helping the future generation after finishing her master’s degree in social work from Arizona State University in 2023.

Is it possible to decode how we feel from our movements? How can emotions be studied “from the outside” by using empirical methods? To answer these questions, a large international and interdisciplinary research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has developed an integrative scientific methodology. Using artistic and digital means such as motion capture technology, the researchers developed the EMOKINE software to measure the objective kinematic features of movements that express emotions.

Faculty for Social Wellbeing voices its concern over proposed amendments to laws governing social work, counselling and the psychology profession, saying they were carried out without consultation with stakeholders

Established in 1988 by the Royal Mencap Society, Jutland Place is a care home for adults with learning disabilities. Families were informed in January 2024 that Mencap was closing the service in June as it had cost more to run than it had received in funding from SCC for the past three years.

Authorities have accused the board of failing to take firm action to prevent people convicted of national security offences from registering to join the profession.

Perhaps we owe children a new adage, as oversimplified as the ones with which I began but no less true: The shameless shall inherit the earth, while the blameless grapple with the mess they make of it.

GZ was fortunate. He survived the chaos of the streets. With the help of social workers, he moved into a temporary shelter and was approved for a monthly Supplemental Security Income (SSI) of $800, which allowed him to escape the horrors of homelessness.