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Whether it’s your partner that’s getting on your nerves, or your friends, or even your pet, sometimes you just want to burn everything to the ground and start over. But will you feel the same way tomorrow?
Archive for August 2024
How to build a better life Do you really want a divorce? Or are you just ‘getting divorcey’?
Predictive validity of the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire as a screening tool to identify motor skill problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Digital divide and the health of internal elderly migrants in China: A cross-sectional study
16 to 19 funding: in-year growth for 2024 to 2025 [UK]
Placebos reduce stress, anxiety, depression — even when people know they are placebos
Science Daily | MSU
The study, published in Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, found that the nondeceptive group showed a significant decrease in stress, anxiety and depression in just two weeks compared to the no-treatment control group. Participants also reported that the nondeceptive placebos were easy to use, not burdensome and appropriate for the situation.
A major review declares family violence an ’emergency’. Here’s what it says needs to change
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A report written by a panel of family and domestic violence experts has detailed a “national emergency” in Australia. The Rapid Review of Prevention Approaches was established in May following a spate of murders of women.
Systematic review and narrative synthesis of the experiences of individuals with chronic pain participating in digital pain management interventions
School-based Interventions for Test Anxiety in Adolescents
Perspectives on the essential skills of healthcare decision making in children and adolescents with intellectual disability
Patients’ experiences of living with low anterior resection syndrome three to six months after colorectal cancer surgery: A phenomenological study
Doing transgender: Gender minorities in the organization
Cap on Retirees’ Part D Spending May Push Up Premiums
Help-Seeking and Barriers to Service Use amongst Men with Past-Year Suicidal Ideation and not in Contact with Mental Health Services
WHO: Call for expressions of interest to serve WHO Youth Council (2024-2026) (Application deadline: 6 Sept)
Frances Perkins homestead worthy of national monument status
This undated image provided by the Frances Perkins Center, shows land and home belonging to the late Frances Perkins, the nation’s first female Cabinet member under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Newcastle, Maine. Maine leaders said, Aug. 8, that they’re asking President Biden to elevate the status of the homestead by making it a national monument managed by the National Park Service.
Selecting PedsQL items to derive the PedsUtil health state classification system to measure health utilities in children
Attachment Representations of Female Child Sexual Abuse Survivors Reflected in the Bird’s Nest Drawing Assessment
Relationships Between Parental Proviolence Attitudes, Parental Moral Disengagement, and Aggressive Behaviour in Preschoolers: The Moderating Role of Teacher–Child Closeness
Open government and US development co‐operation in Colombia: Lessons for locally led development
Developing culturally relevant leadership educators
Fewer Washington kids are going to foster care despite steady stream of child neglect reports
Why I left the network
ProPublica
America is in the midst of a mental health crisis.
Problem gambling brings millions in revenue to CT. It’s ensnaring college students across the state
Hartford Courant | UCONN
Approximately 74% of college students in Connecticut have gambled within the last year, according to data released in March by researchers at DMHAS and the University of Connecticut School of Social Work who polled students across 30 public, private and community colleges and universities in the state through surveys and focus groups. The results suggest a higher rate of gambling engagement among college students compared to the general population.
The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural group therapy on infertile men, a randomised clinical trial
Evolution of an epidemic: Understanding the opioid epidemic in the United States and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on opioid-related mortality
A scoping review of the use of minimally important difference of EQ-5D utility index and EQ-VAS scores in health technology assessment
Sexual risk characteristics, social vulnerability, and anal cancer screening uptake among men living with HIV in the deep south
Incidence and risk factors associated with acquired syphilis in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis users
Crisis Integration With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Labour shortages: a game changer for industrial relations?
Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion
Drawing in a Circle: Therapeutic Benefits on Anxiety in High and Low Stress Conditions
Parent–child boundary dissolution and children’s psychological difficulties: A meta-analytic review.
Evaluating the Use of ePortfolios in Social Work Education: Assessing Student Competency in Meeting Graduate Attributes
Building Organizational & Staff Capacity at Comm. Health Centers to Reduce Visual Health Disparities
‘Dulce’: How a sweet-smelling chemical upended life in Salinas, Puerto Rico
Grist | EGM Neris/Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
The legacy of pollution from the pharmaceutical industry is palpable in Salinas, where chemical smells hide the scent of the sea.
Factorial invariance of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition, across the UK, US and Australia & New Zealand
Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
Moms in motion: Predicting healthcare utilization patterns among mothers in Newfoundland and Labrador
Multisector collaboration to improve community wellbeing: A framework for action
The exercise world of otaku: extended body techniques, alternative body projects, and controllable social architecture
Two faces of activation attitudes. Explaining citizens’ diverging views on demanding versus enabling activation policies
Academics’ experiences of university-wide top-down curriculum reform in Finland
Why are teenage girls attracted to boys who hurt them? We talked to high school students to find out
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When boys and girls reach adolescence, they are bombarded with messages that associate attraction with violence. These messages – from their peer group, TV series, films, music, social media, and so on – depict boys with violent and demeaning attitudes towards girls as attractive, but not so much those who treat girls well.