
Archive for June 2025
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data in Overdose Research
Attitudes, knowledge and understanding towards mind-body practices as an asset for social prescribing in higher education
Searching the Brain for the Cause of Psychosis
Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven? The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate

COVID-19 and Completion of Select Routine Childhood Vaccinations
The Personalized Psychological Treatment for Psychosis (PERMEPSY)
Toward an understanding of sexual minority women’s social stressors and health in post-communist countries in Europe: a scoping review
Advancing Measurement-Based Care in School Mental Health
Impact of Female Genital Self-Image on sexual function and associated risk factors
Going the distance: benefits and challenges of a long-term study of working-class, first-in-family university students
HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s Approach To Addiction Treatment Is Dangerously Flawed
Driving meaningful impact through CQI: A framework for effective continuous quality improvement in human services
Examining the associations between endorsement of disability models and system justification within disabled and non-disabled Individuals
The Real Path to Abundance

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To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way. Above: The stacks from the Gavin power plant behind a nearby home in Cheshire, Ohio.
Interpersonal Goal Contagion Through Social Media Posts
Social Workers’ Attitudes and Beliefs about MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Adolescents with PTSD
CfP: Special Issue on Health Information Behaviors Research with Marginalized Communities (Submission deadline: 31 Dec)
White House health report included fake citations

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A report by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health commission cited nonexistent studies on mental illness and children’s asthma medication.
Clinicians’ Experiences of Delivering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Ten (CBT‐T): A Qualitative Investigation
Greed – the exceptional American pathology

HIV service use among minoritized racial and ethnic transgender and gender non-conforming youth in the U.S South: a qualitative investigation
Shared trauma: possible implications for the analytical field
Rights & Wrongs: Break the Chains
Outcomes of a pilot feasibility study of comprehensive geriatric assessment for younger frail patients with severe mental illness
Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers 2024 Annual Report
The experience of cultural stress in the school system among Puerto Rican Hurricane María migrant families.
Air Quality Affects Early Childhood Development and Health
Sex-specific differences in the experience of adverse childhood experiences: transmission, protective, and risk factors from the perspectives of parents and their children-results of an 18-year German longitudinal study
CfP: “Punitive education. On the relationship between violence, ideology and care in ‘total institutions’ under communist rule” (Deadline 15 June)
“Data Silence” Holds High Stakes for People’s Health

Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Disentangling the Intersections of Student Behavior, School Discipline, and School Safety in the Post-COVID Era
MDRC: Evidence to Practice
The Rise of Synthetic Societies: Is There a Role for Humans?
Access to social workers will expand in N.J., but not just yet

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The earliest state residents and New Jersey social workers will be able to benefit from the law Gov. Phil Murphy signed this month will be in late 2026, according to Dr. Dawn Apgar, an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University and a former deputy commissioner for the state Department of Human Services.
Families, Welfare States and Resilience Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe

APA Health Service Psychology Workforce Optimization
Transformational learning and agency for professional identity development: first-year social work student retention and wellbeing
Families at a Loss: The Asymmetric Relationship between Income Changes and Child Human Capital
Framing alcohol harm in the UN context – the importance of language
Historic Town-Gown Partnerships: Planning, Race, and Power

Social work goal born of real-life experience

School News Network
McKenna Tobin is independent: she’s got a new place to live, two dogs, a job and a diploma from Lowell High School. She’s ready to have a fun summer, and then major in social work at Aquinas College.
Recovery from an Early-Life Shock through Improved Access to Schools
NYC Shelter Repair Scorecard
Effects of Child-Care Vouchers on Price, Quantity, and Provider Turnover in Private-Care Markets
How ‘laughing gas’ became a deadly – but legal – American addiction

BBC
Nitrous oxide – known colloquially as “laughing gas” – has many uses, from a painkiller during dental procedures to a whipping agent for canned whipped cream. While its euphoric side effects have long been known, the rise of vaping has helped create a perfect delivery vehicle for the gas – and a perfect recipe for an addiction, experts warn.