Archive for April 2025

Presidential Powers And LGBTQI+ Equity: Advances And Rollbacks

Why does “national security” always mean more war, not more health care?

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The never ending annual military grift is closing in on $1,000,000,000,000

Relationship of fat mass index and fat free mass index with body mass index and association with sleeping patterns and physical activity in Saudi young adults women

Autism policy and services: Health and social care

Why do bureaucrats want mandatory training? A conjoint mixed‐methods analysis of individual learning preferences in German, Norwegian, and South Korean donor agencies

Psychosocial effects of a behavioural augmentation of existing public physical activity programs for middle-aged and older adults in Ireland

Observable interpersonal utility comparisons

Raising educational outcomes for individuals with Down syndrome: Findings from a larger systematic review of targeted interventions for individuals with SEND

We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent – here’s how

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The AI machine has no idea what it means to be human. It cannot offer genuine compassion, it cannot foresee your suffering, cannot intuit hidden motives or lies. It has no taste, no instinct, no inner compass. It is bereft of all the messy, charming complexity that makes us who we are. More troubling still: AI has no goals of its own, no desires or ethics unless injected into its code. That means the true danger doesn’t lie in the machine, but in its master — the programmer, the corporation, the government. Still feel safe?

The Concept of Active Longevity in Russia’s Policy on Aging

Implicit discriminatory attitudes in surveys: validation of the semantic affect misattribution procedure for dealing with social desirability in surveys

Monitoring report on integration 2024 [Ireland]

An exploratory study on municipal measures for preventing and addressing incidents of missing older persons with dementia living alone in Japan

Factors influencing disaster preparedness behaviors of older adults

Recognising and reflecting upon the evolution of school based social work in Northern Ireland

Implementation strategies for school-based universal prevention: A qualitative pilot study of Enhanced and standard Replicating Effective Programs

NIHR: Children and young people’s mental health

A need for chaos powers some Americans’ support for Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the US government

We are political psychologists who study the link between psychological traits and political beliefs. Last month, the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication ran a national survey that we designed to understand where the public stands on various political issues and how those beliefs relate to psychological traits, including need for chaos.

International Scientific Conference on Social Work Opens at the University of Science and Education – The University of Danang

Trường Đại học Lao Động - Xã Hội (CSII)

Development and psychometric validation of a novel health literacy scale for family caregivers of preschool children

Using Ecological Momentary Data to Inform a Web Intervention for Romantic Partners Concerned About Their Loved Ones’ Drinking

Reassessing Residency Restrictions: Analyzing Crime Proximity and Patterns for Sex Offenders in South Korea

Exploring the relationship between students´ experiences with online payment methods and financial competencies using a Bayesian nonparametric approach

Beliefs of US chiefs of police about substance use disorder, fentanyl exposure, overdose response, and use of discretion: results from a national survey

Military sexual trauma and mental health counseling: Effects on resilience over time among recent‐era U.S. veterans

Predictive Models Show Promise in Preventing Suicide

Transmission in interprofessional humanitarian teamwork: a scoping review

Consultation opens on draft Equality Action Plan and Draft Disability Action Plan 2025-2030 (Closing date: 28 June)

Exploring the Experiences and Perceptions of Psychotherapists and Counsellors Working With Autistic Adolescents: Paper Two

Augmented reality’s potential for addressing writing challenges in students with learning disabilities

Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain

Call for Non‐Verbal Mind‐Mindedness Measures for Use in Infancy and Across Cultures

“My entire life has moulded the person that I am”: Narrations of non‐suicidal self‐injury and complex trauma in individuals with complex posttraumatic stress experiences

Social worker who tried to save baby Phoenix honored as ‘Child Protector of Year’

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Santa Clara County social worker Matthew Kraft, who was the first to sound the alarm that baby Phoenix Castro should not be sent home with her drug-abusing parents, talks during an interview after receiving the “Child Protector of the Year” award from the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Santa Clara County