Archive for September 2024
A Practical Guide to Community Social Work Practice in the UK
Validation of secondary data sources of the retail food environment in the capital of Uruguay, an emerging Latin American country
K-12 Education: Nationally, Black Girls Receive More Frequent and More Severe Discipline in School Than Other Girls
Latest findings highlight the continuing uncertainty over the utility of compulsory psychiatric treatment in the community
Water fetching and musculoskeletal health across the life-course in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Quality, replicability, and transparency in research in social psychology: Implementation of recommendations in Germany.
Providing healthcare under the threat of gang-violence: a survey of Haitian healthcare providers
To and from Latin America: Remarks about the history of psychology in “peripheries”.
Report will inform future actions on suicide prevention: Nesbitt
Health-NI
Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has welcomed the publication of a report on Northern Ireland’s strategy for the prevention of suicide and self-harm.
Cost-outcome analysis of HIV testing and counseling, linkage, and defaulter tracing services in Bukoba, Tanzania
Religious affect and personality among 9- to 13-year-old children in the Republic of Ireland: introducing the Junior Personality Scales in Three Dimensions (JPS3D)
The daily costs of workaholism: A within-individual investigation on blood pressure, emotional exhaustion, and sleep disturbances.
Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England
Is it ethical to use generative AI if you can’t tell whether it is right or wrong?
Local anaesthesia for pain control in surgical abortion before 14 weeks of pregnancy: a systematic review
Determining the minimum data set of geriatric assessment at the Iran primary health care referral system: shifting from fragmentation to integration care for older people
Censorship rising as academic freedom declines in Hong Kong
UWN | iStock
Hong Kong students and university faculty previously accustomed to academic freedom must now tread carefully to avoid retribution for what they teach, research and publish – and even with whom they associate – according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on academic freedom in the city since the 2020 National Security Law was imposed by Beijing. The law prohibits “secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces” to endanger national security but definitions of what constitutes such offences are vague.
Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas?
The Guardian | H Hanschke/EPA
A mural by graffiti artist Eme Freethinker depicting German chancellor Olaf Scholz after the country legalised recreational cannabis use on 3 April 2024.
Domestic violence plagues Vietnam – but services offer hope
Radio Free Asia | Maps of the World
As a social worker, Hoa has sat down with dozens of victims of domestic violence…. Hoa works at a women’s shelter in southern Vietnam. She asked that a nickname be used and her place of work concealed due to the sensitivity of domestic violence in the country.
Why your help is unhelpful: A multistage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement.
BODYFAT: a new calculator to determine the risk of being overweight validated in Spanish children between 11 and 17 years of age
Investigating daily abusive supervision as antecedent of subordinates’ low psychological detachment and relaxation during nonwork time: A diary study.
Effect of behavioural activation for individuals with post-stroke depression: systematic review and meta-analysis
The poetry of psychological distance: Bidirectional associations between stimulus speed and its psychological distance and construal level.
The Implicit Association Test and its difficulty(ies): Introducing the test difficulty concept to increase the true-score variance and, consequently, the predictive power of implicit association tests.
Temporal Asymmetry of Pleasant and Unpleasant Feelings Among Chinese Adolescents
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (Closes Oct 31)
A Mummers Farce – Retractions of Medical Papers Conducted in Egyptian Institutions
Majority of Household Population Lived in Coupled Households in 2020
Women’s empowerment, household dietary diversity, and child anthropometry among vulnerable populations in Odisha, India
Effectiveness of harm reduction interventions in chemsex: A systematic review
Thinking about the future: Examining the exacerbating and attenuating factors of despair-induced climate burnout
SD | FU
The troubling trend of despair and fatigue among those who work for environmental and climate change — a phenomenon described as ‘climate burnout’ — could jeopardise vital commitment to the cause. New Flinders University research explored the exacerbating and attenuating factors of despair-induced climate burnout to learn how people can overcome despair and maintain motivation to fight climate change.