Archive for May 2025
Rights-Based Vision: a Portuguese Validation of the Human Rights Lens in Social Work Scale
Better Together Online: A pilot study of a relationship education intervention with rural female couples.
The Politics of Unpaid Labour
The effectiveness of interventions used to improve general health check uptake by the older adult population: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Synchrony of physiological activity trends between patient and psychotherapist during a psychodynamic psychotherapy session: A quasi-longitudinal case series pilot study.
Do “African Gangs” Exist in Melbourne? The African Australian Narrative
Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal
Networks of beliefs: An integrative theory of individual- and social-level belief dynamics.
Can the Phoenix still rise? Traumatic effect of Beirut port explosion on Lebanese people’s experiences.
Beyond Newton: Why assumptions of universality are critical to cognitive science, and how to finally move past them.
Effects of mentalization on the therapeutic relationship from patient and therapist perspectives: A longitudinal analysis.
Mapping social work challenges and responses during COVID-19: a case study of social workers in South Korea
Adult Education and Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Nationwide Longitudinal Cohort Study in China
BMBR Programme Researcher-led (Closes 1 July)
Profile of Australia’s population
Promoting the mental wellbeing of adolescents experiencing poverty alleviation relocation in China
Latent profiles of problematic internet use and their six-month subsequent psychopathology outcomes
Portland State University School of Social Work announces Researcher of the Year selection
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Lakindra Mitchell Dove, PhD, MSW, has been named the SSW’s Researcher of the Year for 2025. Dr. Mitchell Dove is a practice-informed researcher with more than 15 years of post-MSW practice experience, working primarily with children and families.
The forgotten contexts of evaluation
Methodological bricolage, data pattern detection and realist explanation: A portfolio analysis of inclusive business support
Wildfire survivors suffer mental, physical health effects long after flames are extinguished
The Nation's Health | R Chavez/Digital First Medi/The Mercury News/Getty
The burning of buildings, infrastructure and cars releases a cocktail of pollutants into the air and soil that science is only beginning to unravel. The toxins have been linked to cancer, respiratory ailments and other chronic diseases. At the same time, numerous studies have shown that wildfire smoke exposure places survivors at risk for chronic respiratory problems, with some research linking it to skin diseases, eye ailments and cancer.
Communities Collide: Hate Crime Myth Acceptance in the Campus Context
Transcending Barriers: Exploring Interpersonal Connectedness Among Incarcerated Individuals
Findings from a qualitative analysis: Social media influencers of color as trusted messengers of HPV vaccination messages
Optimizing a Wellbeing Program for Care-partners of Those With SCI
NMU Social Work Department celebrates 50 years of accreditation
Vacancy: Methodological Assurance Review Panel sub-group on Migration Statistics members (Deadline: 5 May)
‘Doing’ eligibility through income thresholds: Organisational practices in US financial assistance programmes for women with breast cancer
Brief Reports in the Journal for Specialists in Group Work: Guidelines and Evaluation Standards
Do Criminogenic Needs Matter in Non-Secure Settings? Assessing Change in Dynamic Risk Factors During Therapeutic Residential Care and the Association With Prediction and Recidivism
Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technology, and Disability Benefits: Phase One Report
See the Dramatic Consequences of Vaccination Rates Teetering on a ‘Knife’s Edge’
On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic
Examining the malleability of implicit views of aging in middle-aged and older adults.
Early predictors of prolonged grief among bereaved trauma survivors 8.5 years after a terrorist attack.
The relationship between personal recovery, clinical symptoms, and psychosocial functioning over time among service users with psychosis.
Hate Crime Police Intervention and Neighborhood Context: A Multilevel Analysis
In a broken mental health system, a tiny jail cell becomes an institution of last resort
KFF Health News | K Houghton
The Lake County jail has two roughly 30-square-foot cells used to isolate prisoners, including people in a mental health crisis. Some are held there for months as they wait for an open bed at the Montana State Hospital.
Routes of Marijuana Use — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 22 U.S. States and Two Territories, 2022
From passion to policy: School of Social Work graduate Adachi Selas confronts inequities in child welfare through research
The Dig/Howard University
Selas’s biggest takeaway from her time at Howard? Research isn’t just about data, it’s about impact.
Examining the Interaction Between Level of Risk and Dosage of Treatment
Digital-era evaluation: Automating and reconfiguring evaluation in the social service sector
Unmonitored Online Exams: Valid Assessment or Score Inflation?
Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada
Health Care Utilization and Perceived Quality of Care in a Colombian Indigenous Health Organization
Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood
