ComunityCare | R Jones
Professor Ray Jones reflects on Labour’s 13-year reign and the impact of its focus on performance and targets on outcomes for children and on the morale of the sector
Archive for September 2024
Hypothetical mechanisms driving physical activity levels in ethnic minority groups living in Europe: a systematically identified evidence-based conceptual systems model
The Relationship between Perceived Friendship Quality and Self-Judgements in Adolescent Girls from London
Who Cheats? Adolescents’ Background Characteristics and Dishonest Behavior: A Comprehensive Literature Review and Insights From Two Consecutive Surveys
Relationship quality perceived by family caregivers of people with dementia in the context of a psychoeducational intervention: A qualitative exploration
Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots
Social work in the 2000s: New Labour’s focus on performance management
Not the role of social work courses to train students in specialist practice areas, say academic leaders
CommunityCare | DAC
The Joint Universities Social Work Association (JUSWA) issued the statement in response to a BBC investigation that found that 37% of courses in England did not deliver specific training for students on coercive and controlling behaviour, in the context of domestic abuse…. The BBC’s findings were described as “baffling” by sector watchdog the Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales, who called for such training to be made mandatory on pre-qualifying courses.
Life Course Models of Child Maltreatment: Effects on General Psychopathology Outcomes in a Longitudinal Sample
The transformational power of evaluation: Exploring long-term perspectives in evaluations of impacts and outcomes from the standpoint of practitioners
Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology
Home Visiting and Child Welfare Involvement: A Matched Comparison Group Study
Ikigai and saudade, cultural meanings lived through the body
Wuhan residents perceptions of prejudice and discrimination and the social categorization processes during and after the COVID-19 lockdown: A qualitative study
OCD in children: phenomenology, impairment, and psychiatric co-morbidity—an experience from Kashmir
24/96 EME Programme Researcher-led (Closes 10 Dec)
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research investigating disordered eating and help-seeking in elite athletes
How to think about consciousness
Aeon+Psyche
What is it like to be you? Dive into the philosophical puzzle of consciousness and see yourself and the world in new ways
Hong Kong social worker body removes committee member accused of rioting in 2019
SCMP | X Chen
Social worker Jackie Chen appears at a court in Wan Chai to stand trial on rioting charges.
Post-Disaster Social Connectedness in Parent–Child Dyads: A Qualitative Investigation of Changes in Coping and Social Capital of Rural Australian Families Following Bushfires
Discharge from secondary care services to primary care for adults with serious mental illness: a scoping review
Team Decision-making Interaction and Performance: A Behavioral Process-based Relationship Study
An Innovative Approach to the Psychology Capstone Course
Life Is About Change: A Professional Memoir
Guidance changes are coming soon
Effectiveness of a Digital Application for Adolescents With Mild to Moderate Anxiety
Exploring the New Addiction: An Internet Abstinence Assignment for Addictions Education
Faster and farther towards the abyss: global health accelerators instead of tangible changes
Australia: 2024 Child Homelessness Snapshot
From Access Challenges (as Data) to Methodological Insights: Enhancing Qualitative Inquiries in Public Administration Research
CfP: Neoliberalism and the Capitalists (deadline 1 Nov)
A Paradigm Shift: Implications for Social Worker Provision of LGBTQI+ Information and Support in Human Milk Feeding
Richard Browne’s Portraits of Aboriginal Australians: Analysing the Evidence
CfP: Commons and economic inequality in rural Europe (1500-1800). European Rural History Organisation Conference 2025 (Deadline: 20 Sept)
Selective Attention (SA) and Perceptual Inhibition (PI) Throughout the Lifespan
Radical Thought and Political Practice: Officeholding and Accountability in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Professional Associations as Networks: How Informal Networking Characterizes Inter-Agency Collaboration from a Social Psychology Perspective
“But Did You Die?”: Intimate Partner Violence as a Social Determinant of Health
Youth mental health care use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Canada: an interrupted time series, population-based study
What does it mean to be an adult in Australia? There’s an ‘alarming contradiction’
Relational Cultural Theory and Intervention Approaches with Adolescent Girls: An Integrative Review
In This Rural Small Town, A Group Of Locals Steps Up To Support Senior Health
npr | T Evans
Linking persistence and executive functions with later academic achievement
Berthold Awarded Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair Award for This Academic Year
UConn Today
UConn School of Social Work Professor Dr. S. Megan Berthold