Archive for September 2024
The COVID Tracking Project Part 2
Why is Congress so out of step with the American people?
A reflection on qualitative methods activism: Advancing knowledge and expanding scientific practice.
Evaluating shortlisting methods for admission into the social work degree: personal statement versus psychological test
Food Programs and Your Rights: A Guide for Immigrant Families
Vaccines You Need as an Adult
To Fix Social Security, Increasing the Wage Base Should Be Part of the Solution
Examining Links Between Motivations for Social Withdrawal, Time Spent Alone, and Indices of Internalizing Problems in Childhood and Early Adolescence
CfP: Violent Labour and Media
Hearing student voice within the context of Iran: Building schools for the future
Guidance: Adult Social Work Apprenticeship Fund (Updated 13 Aug)
Squeezed From Both Sides
Why is neither party happy with higher education?
A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem
There are already bad actors in science, including “paper mills” churning out fake papers. This problem will only get worse when a scientific paper can be produced with US$15 and a vague initial prompt. The need to check for errors in a mountain of automatically generated research could rapidly overwhelm the capacity of actual scientists. The peer review system is arguably already broken, and dumping more research of questionable quality into the system won’t fix it. Science is fundamentally based on trust. Scientists emphasise the integrity of the scientific process so we can be confident our understanding of the world (and now, the world’s machines) is valid and improving. A scientific ecosystem where AI systems are key players raises fundamental questions about the meaning and value of this process, and what level of trust we should have in AI scientists. Is this the kind of scientific ecosystem we want?
Does generation benefit learning for narrative and expository texts? A direct replication attempt
The pandemic as an opportunity for learning and improving the students’ reflective learning strategies in the field of social work. Reflections based on an Italian case study
Voting is Social Work
Planned and unplanned drinking to get drunk: A registered report examining willingness, drinking motives, and protective behavioral strategies using ecological momentary assessment.
Lay perceptions of mental health among Afghan forced migrants residing in Finland
Should we combine antipsychotics in patients with bipolar disorder?
Knowledge and attitude towards mpox: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Training approaches for the dissemination of clinical guidelines for NSSI: a quasi-experimental trial
Associations between childbirth, gang exposure and substance use among young women in Cape Town, South Africa
Perceptions of prescription opioid use among rural farming and ranching communities: Preliminary implications for outreach and treatment
Fentanyl Test Strips for Harm Reduction: A Scoping Review
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Generation Now by Tim Ingold
My experience of person-centered and personalized care in early-stage primary progressive aphasia
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, Negation by Werner Bonefeld
Book Review: Class and Everyday Life by Kirsteen Paton
How Effective Are the Post-9/11 U.S. Counterterrorism Policies Within and Outside the United States?
Book Review: Political ideology and social work by Mitchell Rosenwald
Hybridization or Salad Bar Ideology? Testing Ideological Convergence Within the American Violent Far Right
Assisted dying for mental illness: a contemporary concern that requires careful and compassionate consideration
Kicked out at 18 to live on the streets – a teenage migrant in Spain
The small amount of pocket money a social worker gave him before he left Ceuta’s migrant minors’ centre paid for the ferry to the Spanish mainland port of Algeciras. There, he was approached by local social workers who recommended he travel 98km (61 miles) up to the city of Jerez where a place in a facility for young migrants was vacant, they said.
Cross-effects of cultural and gay capitals in access to refugee status on the grounds of SOGI in France: Study of the formal and informal preparations of West African men for asylum trials
Event-level risk for negative alcohol consequences in emerging adults: The role of affect, motivation, and context.
Forgotten: Support for kinship children’s education and mental health
Promoting new mothers’ maternal social support in urban China: a series of group social work interventions in a public hospital setting
Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal
Intra-organizational Mobility and Employees’ Work-related Contact Patterns: Evidence from Panel Data in the European Commission
Social work collective leadership in a large urban hospital during an era of unprecedented transformational change
The economic cost consequences of suboptimal infant and young child feeding practices: A scoping review
Retrospective self-reports of sensitivity to the effects of alcohol: Trait-like stability and concomitant changes with alcohol involvement.
Self-Directed Home- and Community-Based Services Improve Outcomes for Family Caregivers: A Systematic Review
Unveiling the significance of women’s role in health-seeking behavior during suspected malaria fever in risk populations of Nepal: Mixed methods cross-sectional study
IASW welcomes appointment of Chief Social Worker in HSE
The Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW) warmly welcomes the appointment of Ms. Amanda Casey as the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) Chief Social Worker and looks forward to working in partnership with the Chief Social Worker and her team to progress the wide range of goals, duties and responsibilities attached to the post.