“We know from the research that people who were closest in physical proximity to the event itself were most affected by it,” says Dr. Mark Macgowan, an Associate Dean and Professor of Social Work in the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work. His research, teaching, and clinical work focuses on survivors and responders to mass casualty events.
Archive for September 2024
‘Part of history.’ Cherokee dispensary starts first recreational cannabis sales in Southeast
The Eastern Band of Cherokee’s main revenue comes from two casinos: Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Valley River Casino. The casinos bring in the majority of the tribe’s revenue and employ over 4,000 people in Western North Carolina. In recent years, the tribe has focused on diversifying its income – especially after having to briefly close the casinos during the 2020 pandemic.
Intragroup Processes in Social Psychology: My Past, Our Present, Your Future
unmconf : an R package for Bayesian regression with unmeasured confounders
Underground Roots for Ancestral Futures: Exploring Lithium Through an Experimental Alliance between Chemistry and Anthropology
Coping With Child Loss: Its Impact on the Mental Health of Chinese Parents
Employers should promote smoking cessation in the workplace
Question cards: Putting your cards on the table in the interview process
A Prospective Qualitative Inquiry of Patient Experiences of Cognitive Functional Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain During the RESTORE Trial
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Intraindividual Academic Strengths: A Cross-Temporal Analysis
Is Dosage of a Meditation App Associated With Changes in Psychological Distress? It Depends on How You Ask
How the Police and Armed Forces Construct Gender on Social Media: A Comparison of El Salvador and Honduras
Experiences of researchers with disabilities at academic institutions in the United States
Comparing Institutional, Teaching, and Student Factors in Relation to Psychology Student Satisfaction
LGBTQ People’s Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment
Assessing psychologists’ intentions to become licensed prescribers in Pennsylvania using the theory of planned behavior.
Austerity Bites: 10 Years On A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK
Design principles for data visualisation
Adolescent patients’ perspectives on rapid-refeeding: a prospective qualitative study of an inpatient population
Cognitive Impairment and Social Determinants of Health Among Indigenous Women
Encountering anorexia: challenging stigma with recovery stories
Is Vermont’s motel program a ‘magnet’ for out-of-staters experiencing homelessness?
I was brought on by Vermont Public and VTDigger last year to report on Vermont’s housing crisis. I’ve spent hundreds of hours talking to researchers, politicians, government officials and housing advocates to understand the situation here. And I’ve spent a lot of time with people who don’t have a permanent home right now.
Are subjective language complaints in memory clinic patients informative?
Cannabis Use During Pregnancy and While Breastfeeding: What Have We Learned?
SAMHSA: Recovery Month Toolkit
OnPoint NYC: Annual Report [first overdose prevention center in the United States]
Loneliness and social isolation are not associated with executive functioning in a cross-sectional study of cognitively healthy older adults
Types of misinformation and interventions to address it
Promoting Healthy Children and Youth Topical PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2024 (Applicant Town Hall: Sept 18)
Screening homeless Veterans for a voluntary money management skills training program
Temperature-related mortality burden and projected change in 1368 European regions: a modelling study
A recovery-oriented peer provider (ROPP) work-role model and prototype measure
Bye, bye holiday hunger, hello hefty bills: Life for Ireland’s poor
Have we reached an acceptable level of poverty where programmes such as hot meals in schools tinker around the edges of the crisis but still leave families disempowered and struggling? This was among questions raised during End Child Poverty Week — questions given heightened urgency by new ESRI findings showing 250,000 young children and their parents live below the poverty line.
Trend, burden and determinants of undiagnosed hypertension in the Horn of Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Parent-Reported HIV Prevention Communication Topics with Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Descriptive Study
A qualitative description of community service, business, and organization perspectives on mental illness and inclusion
The virtual reality classroom: Engaging students and communities in collaborative learning with virtual reality to understand disasters and climate change
Examining the family belonging of adults with institutional care experience in childhood
Reconciliation Programs from the Experiences of War-Affected Persons in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
Potentially preventable hospitalisations in Australia by small geographic areas, 2020–21 to 2021–22
“We Can’t Work With Them, We Can’t Work Without Them”: The Police-Victim Advocacy Nexus in Processing Sexual Offenses in the Nigerian Justice System
Research excellence and productivity for global impact at an African university
A case study on the Recovery Experiences of Problematic Online Gamblers
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students
Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023 Workforce Data
Funding helping Headway Essex change the lives of those with acquired brain injuries
Colchester-based charity Headway Essex provides advice and practical assistance to adults with an acquired brain injury (ABI), as well as their families and carers.