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Archive for May 2025
Nonpharmacological interventions for decreasing anxiety during anesthesia induction in children: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis
Sociocultural determinants of mental health among male sexual trauma survivors
Advocates stress social workers’ key role during Foster Care Awareness Month
Efficacy of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) on Employment, Education, and Training in Young Adults With Early Psychosis—A Randomized Controlled Trial
From crisis to care: Addressing addiction, mental health, and homelessness through health and supportive services
Towards Independence: The Development of Children’s Capability to Have a Voice in Their Healthcare
The Fight Over Forced Rehab
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Canada’s nightmarish opioid crisis has renewed calls for involuntary drug treatment. Does the government have a right to force users to get help?
Stigma and the pejorative use of disabling conditions
Opioid medication doses among safer supply clients: Current safer supply doses and previous OAT experience
Expanded Medicare Coverage of Intensive Outpatient Services: Considerations for States
Different aspects of consciousness explained by distinct biophysical processes.
Meet the Honorees: Champions for Black Maternal Health
There are two Gen Zs The new political divide splitting young Americans in half
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The new political divide splitting young Americans in half.
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US
Mental health and social trust: Age and religiosity as moderators among young people in Croatia and Slovenia
The effects of childhood maltreatment, recent interpersonal and noninterpersonal stress, and HPA-axis multilocus genetic variation on prospective changes in adolescent depressive symptoms: A multiwave longitudinal study
Exploring the contribution of self-help groups to sexual and reproductive health and HIV outcomes for female sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Policy Brief Social Care Immigration Survey Findings
Toward a dynamic understanding of work–family boundary management: A control theory perspective.
Low HIV-risk aligned discontinuation among HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis users within public HIV clinics in Kenya: A mixed method study
Comment on a consultation: Obsessive-compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder: assessment and management (Submit comments by 6 June)
Ebay worker who quit after failing to explain four minutes of inactivity on computer to manager’s satisfaction loses WRC claim
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An eBay customer support agent who quit after being written up for failing to explain four minutes of inactivity on his computer to his manager’s satisfaction has lost his claim for constructive dismissal…. His former manager said: “Anything over 60 seconds is considered work avoidance.”
The early bird catches the worm: Assessing implicit theories on circadian processes at work.
Perceived intensity of extreme events and employees’ safety performance: An affective events perspective.
Prevalence of tobacco use, legal awareness and control attitudes among healthcare students, professionals and staff: a multicentric study in India
Does the name of a disease matter? Chinese people’s public perception of the renaming of COVID-19
Upmarket boudoirs and red lights: the physical environment of sex workplaces in New Zealand
Social work bursary increase [Scotland]
Tooth loss and physical function among older adults related to race and ethnicity in Hawai‘i: A cross-sectional study from 2014 to 2020
Biological Correlates of Dissociative Disorders: A Systematic Review on Biomarkers and Trauma Connections
Navigating Digital Rights: Balancing Advocacy and Basic Needs for Cambodian Children and Youth
Increased danger for unhoused trans people as HUD moves to limit equal shelter access
Shelterforce
Having access to shelter based on your gender identity is still the law, but HUD won’t enforce it, and is working to remove that protection. The result may be an even greater rise in unsheltered homelessness.
Unpacking definitions and distortions to highlight the science and benefits of forgiveness: A commentary on the definitional drift within the science of forgiveness.
Australian Education Research Organisation: Evidence-based practices in school settings for student wellbeing
IDAHOBIT: Amid waning room for advocacy, Hong Kong LGBTQ groups cherish rare chance to raise awareness
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Jacinta Yu, a social worker, volunteers with Pride Lab on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) on May 17
A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study
Individualized Music Playlist Based on Iso‐Principle for De‐Escalating Agitation of People With Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study
Beyond the screen: the role of social media and family influence in shaping body image and eating behaviors
Assessing teachers’ intervention-related expectations and self-efficacy: An examination of the factor structure of the implementation beliefs assessment.
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Repealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized Population
Peacebuilding in Colombia from the Lens of Community and Policy
Longitudinal support to the sociocultural stress and coping model. A 4-year follow-up of family caregivers of people with dementia
Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior
Teens, Social Media and Mental Health
Mexican drug cartels use hundreds of thousands of guns bought from licensed US gun shops – fueling violence in Mexico, drugs in the US and migration at the border
The Conversation
Our analysis also found:
– This flow of weapons is connected to the drug trade in the U.S. and is enabling increased gang violence in Mexico, causing more people to flee across the border.
– An increase in guns trafficked to Mexico from the U.S. is directly related to a significant increase in Mexico’s homicide rate.
Universal Behavior Screening and Early Warning System Indicators in Middle Schools
Former UIHC social worker charged with having sex with patient
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This is not the first time Burkhalter has been charged with this exact crime. He’s scheduled to go to trial in June for several counts of the same charge for incidents from March 2019 through January 2022.