Archive for October 2024
Fluctuations in core depressive symptoms in colorectal cancer patients. A prospective, population-based PROFILES-registry study
Remedies for the housewife’s nervousness: Life advice in Abraham Myerson’s popular self‐help texts, 1920–1930
Racial Socialization and Black Adolescent Mental Health and Developmental Outcomes: A Critical Review and Future Directions
Basic income ‘won’t stop people working’: lessons from Canada
Twenty-five years of policy show that social support helps people thrive – and doesn’t disincentivise work. Above: Two people react to the police ‘cleanup’ operation of a tent encampment in Edmonton, Canada.
Of Flotsam and Jetsam
More kids lacked health insurance in 2023, Census Bureau finds
The uninsured rate for children rose, however, jumping from 5.4% in 2022 to 5.8%, with about 4.4 million children lacking coverage in 2023. Coverage fell for children of all races and ethnicities, but dropped the most among Hispanic children, 9.4% of whom lacked insurance last year. About 4.8% of Black children were uninsured, as were 4.4% of white children and 4.2% of Asian children.
Ending Unequal Treatment and Achieving Optimal Health for All
Establishing a Cutoff Score for the Healing after Gender-based Violence Scale (GBV-Heal): A Brief Report
Dying to Succeed: Unveiling the (Un)Hidden Toll of Academic Advancement for Black Women
Interaction of Generational Differences with Gender and Residential Nature in Attitudes Toward Interfaith Marriages
Future Directions in Clinical Trials and Intention-To-Treat Analysis: Fulfilling Admirable Intentions Through the Right Questions
Detecting Fentanyl Use Through Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing
Hierarchical structuring of psychopathological dimensions in youth: current progress and future steps with the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)
The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook, 2e
Practising creative bibliotherapy down under: understanding diverse approaches to literature as therapy
LxAddictions24: Addiction and mental health
Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT)
Identification, Similarity and Understanding in Female Same-Sex Couples: A Dyadic Study
Mental health workers strike against Kaiser Permanente in Southern California
More than 2,000 unionized mental health workers in Southern California went on strike against Kaiser Permanente on Monday after the two sides failed to reach a new labor agreement.
2025-26 National Urban Fellows Program Now Accepting Applications: Fully Funded Master’s & Leadership Development
Prices are up in all U.S. metro areas, but some much more than others
The Dredging
Mackenzie Fierceton attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate in political science and then as a master’s student in social work.
Characterizing Long COVID in Children and Adolescents
Still Underrepresented? Gender Representation of Witnesses at House and Senate Committee Hearings
Difficulties in Positioning as Veg*an: Two Distinctions to Examine Positioning
NHS workers slam Labour plan for ‘job coaches’ on mental health wards
Health workers and campaigners are furious with Labour’s plans for “job coaches” to tour mental health wards trying to push seriously ill people into work. Work and pension secretary Liz Kendall told BBC News she thought her plan would have “dramatic results”. She said she wanted it rolled out as part of her drive to shrink Britain’s annual disability and incapacity benefits bill.
Military experiences, connection to military identity, and time since military discharge as predictors of United States veteran suicide risk
Gender, Sexism, and Contempt in Candidate Evaluation
Homophily in Interfaith Marriages in Israel Between Jewish Israeli Men and Arab Israeli Women
Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science
The adoption of international travel measures during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive analysis
Marital Forgiveness Among Turkish Married Individuals: A Qualitative Study
Population estimates for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-2023
Mexican Immigrant Couples’ Marital Quality and Coparenting Satisfaction: The Role of Spouses’ Incongruence in Familism Values
Transforming Social Work with the Power of Youth Work
From 14 to 18 October 2024, the European Youth Centre Budapest hosted 40 youth and social workers for the study session Transforming Social Work with the Power of Youth Work.
IPV survivors’ and service providers’ perspectives on brain injury screening/evaluation process and impact
Post-COVID fatigue: Reduced quality-of-life associated with clinically relevant fatigue in mild disease courses
Family caregivers’ sense-making of the results of functional neurodiagnostics for patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness
Effect of stimulation-driven attention in virtual reality balloon search training of patients with left unilateral spatial neglect after stroke: A randomized crossover study
Cambodia: Barriers to accessing alternatives to incarceration for women and young people who use drugs
Factors associated with internalized HIV-related stigma among people living with HIV in Thailand
Defending the right to health in Gaza: a call to action by health workers
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research on Illicit Drug Markets [First Available Due Date: Oct 5]
Swiss cantons step up efforts to tackle child poverty
Swiss cantons and cities have decided to strengthen social welfare services and increase basic needs provisions for children in poverty.
Advancing Patient-Centered Care: An International Survey of Adolescent Perspectives on Insomnia
Mapping between measurement scales in meta‐analysis, with application to measures of body mass index in children
Preparing to succeed: the impact of an access module
Philip Zimbardo, psychologist who led Stanford prison experiment, dies at 91
In a career spanning five decades, Dr. Zimbardo (above in 1971) served as president of the American Psychological Association and pursued research on topics including shyness, the psychological roots of evil and the way dwelling on the past can affect decision-making. At the “core” of his interest… was “the process of transformation of human nature.”