Archive for October 2024
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Essential Science Conversations Presents: Dismantling Racism in the Field of Psychology and Beyond: Conversation with the Editors of the Special Issue of the American Psychologist
Long COVID in Children
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
The Guardian | A Mellon/Alamy/Getty/iStockphoto
An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur. Undercover filming has revealed the existence of the organisation, formed two years ago as the Human Diversity Foundation. Its members have used podcasts, videos, an online magazine and research papers to seed “dangerous ideology” about the supposed genetic superiority of certain ethnic groups.
The tensions of teaching low-income students to perform professionalism.
Development of a complex intervention to strengthen municipality-based breastfeeding support to reduced social inequity in breastfeeding
Unification in psychotherapy: An introduction to the special issue.
Stereotype lift and stereotype threat effects on subgroup mean differences for cognitive tests: A meta-analysis of adult samples.
Colorado Woman Dies in Crash While Walking Her Beloved Huskies in Scotland
People | EA Parker
Emilie moved with her dogs to Dundee from Colorado, USA, in July of this year, to pursue her Masters in Social Work at the University of Dundee, with which she dreamed to help serve the underserved communities of the world.”
Studies on the functions and mechanisms of shame and pride: A systematic examination of the relationship between shame/pride and concealment/exposure behaviors.
Blinded by wistfulness: on how nostalgia strengthens attitudes
Remote consultation: The experiences of community intellectual disability teams
State of Global Water Resources: 2023
The Hanau terror attack: Unraveling the dynamics of mental disorder and extremist beliefs.
Dumfries and Galloway Council social work bosses bracing themselves for staff exodus
Daily Record | Dumfries and Galloway Standard
A significant number of Dumfries and Galloway Council’s workers who run adult services, housing options, and homelessness services for the region are nearing retirement age. A total of 252 employees – almost one third of the overall workforce in these departments – are aged 55-64. Above: Dumfries and Galloway Council HQ
The costs of implementing anaemia reduction interventions among women fish processors in Ghana
Fins, feathers, fingers, and finding an explanation for the puzzle of ephemeral rewards.
The common core of psychotherapy: Bridging common factors with unification to frame the center of the field.
Correlates of adverse childhood experiences and secondary traumatic stress in school personnel.
Invasive Neisseria meningitidis subtype C in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: a systematic review
Move to double fine for unemployed who fail to engage with State services branded ‘Thatcherite’
The Journal | RollingNews.ie
The government is seeking to double the amount by which a person’s social welfare can be cut if they don’t engage with the State’s employment services. The current penalty is €44, but it would increase to €90 if legislation by Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys passes.
A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Xingnao Kaiqiao Acupuncture Combined With Modern Rehabilitation Therapy in the Treatment of Cognitive Dysfunction After Acute Ischemic Stroke
Help the Homeless
Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Tobacco, Alcohol, and Cannabis Policy Research for Health Equity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) [First Estimated Application Due Date: Feb 5]
Building digital and data capabilities for sexual health policy and practice Stage Two report: Working with young adults aged 18-29
Social Work Institute strengthens tie with FG for professional service
Vanguard
The Chartered Institute of Social Work Practitioners of Nigeria (C-ISOWN) has stepped up collaboration with the federal government in order to deliver more quality social work services in Nigeria.
Promoting positive youth development in rural communities: Integrating social work, psychology, and education
Loneliness Group Intervention
Measurement of Learning Disabilities and Intellectual Disabilities: Racial Patterns and Labor Market Biases in RSA-911 Data
CfP: Artificial Intelligence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research
Confronting Racism of Omission
School composition and academic decisions
The Limits of Preclearance
Developing a participatory landslide early warning system: The Inform@Risk project in Colombia
Active suicidal ideation in an adolescent with autism spectrum disorder receiving methylphenidate: a case report
Attainment and Gender Equality in Higher Education: Evidence from a Large-Scale Expansion
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world
Diverse Minds, Secure Networks: Embracing Neurodiversity in Cybersecurity
Concepts and Calculations: Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess
Buprenorphine Treatment Retention Among Youth in the US
Sex and death
aeon | A d’Agata/Magnum
The complex relationship between Eros and Thanatos is foundational to Western cultural output – and, in Freud’s wake, the basis of significant empirical studies in psychology. Though the concepts exist as opposite sides of a spectrum, in their collision one finds some of life’s most clarifying and intense moments.
Race, Corruption, and Southern Republicanism
12th grade girls and boys in the U.S. have different views about gender discrimination in the workplace
How elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns
CNN
The 80-year-old communications engineer from Texas had saved for decades, driving around in an old car and buying clothes from thrift stores so he’d have enough money to enjoy his retirement years. But as dementia robbed him of his reasoning abilities, he began making online political donations over and over again — eventually telling his son he believed he was part of a network of political operatives communicating with key Republican leaders.