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Archive for August 2024
Empowering women and restoring wetlands go hand in hand
Using national research activity data to help plan and place your trial
Lawsuit: Contra Costa social workers, Antioch police failed to prevent parents’ deadly abuse of toddler
Social media interactions after diagnosis: Social experiences of adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer
Are social determinants associated with depression among married women of reproductive age? A mixed methods study from urban slums of Islamabad, Pakistan
Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt
Why it takes humour to sustain a long-term relationship
Aeon+Psyche Daily | F Scianna/Getty
The comedian Wanda Sykes put it less academically: “Till death do you part. That’s biblical times. Moses wrote that. That’s the Old Testament. They had no problem saying till death do you part back then because they didn’t live that long. They had good plagues. Soon as that guy got on your nerves, here come some locusts to eat his ass up for you.”
The Effects of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) on Child-Care Use and Maternal Labor Supply
Association between sleep duration and hypertension incidence: Systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
From Screen Time to Face Time: Reclaiming Social Connectedness for Health and Longevity
Moderation by better sleep of the association among childhood maltreatment, neuroticism, and depressive symptoms in the adult volunteers: A moderated mediation model
State Implementation of Congregate Care Reforms for Children in Foster Care
CfP: Comparisons in Gerontology (Submissions due by Sept 1)
Importance of Drug User Detection
Multiple chronic diseases and psychological distress among adults in the United States: the intersectionality of chronic diseases, race/ethnicity, immigration, sex, and insurance coverage
2-Year or Not 2-Year? The Impact of Starting at Community College on Bachelor’s Degree Attainment
The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes
Haiti: Millions of lives on the brink amid multiple crises
Alcohol Use Predicts Longer But More Fragmented Sleep: A Daily Diary Study of Alcohol, Sleep, and PTSD in Nurses
Patterns of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Neurocognitive Development
We All Live in Vegas Now
NYT | I Rayintakath
Perhaps the most concerning red flag came in a preprint posted this month from a team of researchers from U.C.L.A. and the University of Southern California. In states that legalized and enabled online sports gambling, the researchers found, the likelihood of bankruptcy rose by 28 percent — not just among gamblers, whether casual or compulsive, but statewide. Relatedly, average credit scores went down — three times as much in places that enabled online gambling as in places that legalized only in-person betting — and debt collections went up. The effects were larger in low-income communities, which is not surprising: Families with smaller savings will most likely spend a much larger share of those savings gambling than those with more cash to spare, and do so with much less of a buffer to protect against losses.
At the End of the World: Notes on a 1941 Murder Rampage in the Arctic and the Threat of Religious Extremism, Loss of Indigenous Culture, and Danger of Digital Life
In a remote corner of the Arctic in 1941, a meteor shower flashed across the sky for an unusually long time. Taking this to be a sign, one of the local Inuit proclaimed himself Jesus Christ. Another proclaimed himself God. Anyone who didn’t believe in them was Satan. Violence ensued. At the End of the World isn’t just the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred on the Belcher Islands, a group of wind-blasted rocks in Canada’s Hudson Bay. It’s also a starting place for a deeper cultural exploration.
The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families receives new commissioner after nearly a year without a permanent leader
Boston Globe | Mass. Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Staverne Miller (above), the acting commissioner, was promoted to the top job at the agency responsible for 38,000 children and young adults. Miller, a nearly 35-year DCF veteran, worked her way through the ranks at the agency, she said in a brief interview Monday, including serving as a social worker.
Can the Promise of Free Education Improve College Attainment? Lessons from the Milwaukee Area Technical College Promise
Digital and Data Capability Framework
Life is better but not without challenges: experiences following discharge from community-based residential mental health rehabilitation–a qualitative content analysis
Social work alum’s career inspired novel about family connections
Dugan, who received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from Arizona State University, said the tribulations of 2015 and the years that followed formed an early basis for her novel, published earlier this year.