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A cash-strapped English council is considering charging parents of children taken into local authority care half of the weekly cost of looking after them.
Derbyshire county council said “unprecedented financial challenges” meant it had little option but to “maximise alternative sources of income” to try to reduce the strain on its children’s services. The weekly charge would range from £90 to £113 depending on the child’s age.
Berkessel and her team found that, overall, participants with obesity reported more relationship, economic, and health disadvantages compared with participants without obesity. But they also found that those living in low-obesity regions were significantly more likely to be unemployed — and to report suboptimal health compared to their counterparts in high-obesity areas.
Rehearsing alternative outcomes of discarding through imagery rescripting shows promise as a treatment strategy for people who hoard, a study by UNSW psychology researchers has shown.
Michigan has made meaningful progress in supporting social workers over the past year — progress we can build on to further strengthen the profession and tackle the mental health care provider shortage.
According to the researchers, based on the study’s findings, commercially insured patients more often received treatments like physical and occupational therapy, noninvasive neurostimulation, and chiropractic care for chronic pain, whereas Medicaid-insured patients more often received medications. This suggests that type of health insurance is linked to differential access to the full range of evidence-based treatment options for chronic pain.
