Archive for July 2025
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
Disability policies in South Africa and Sweden: A critical policy analysis from a social work perspective
Characterizing Identifiers for Immigrant Populations in Electronic Health Records
The U.S. approach to globalization has gone from bad to worse under the new administration:
Keep academic authority in human hands

The rise of AI in research and higher education and the administration’s actions are born from the same cultural trends: the devaluing of authentic human curiosity in favor of a single voice of authority, maximizing efficiency and usefulness in the generation and curation of knowledge. It’s no coincidence that the same administration pushing for increased AI usage in education is also pursuing government takeover of universities. These problems lead to the same end: Academics will cease to make the decisions about what sort of questions to ask, research to do, and concepts to teach.
How Do Welfare Regimes Moderate the Impact of Individual Factors on Citizens’ Attitudes Toward the Welfare State? Comparative Analysis of the United States, Germany, and Sweden
Write With Clarity, Precision, and Inclusion [APA Style]
Personality as mechanism: An integrative model of five-factor model personality traits as a mechanism between earlier life factors and cognitive aging
Altered resting-state functional connectivity in individuals at risk for Alzheimer’s disease: a longitudinal study
Barriers to HIV Care among Transgender Sex Workers of Colour in the USA and Canada: An Intersectional Scoping Review
Attachment and socialization of siblings in Hungarian residential care: An ethnographic study
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between sedentary behavior and behavioral problems in children with overweight/obesity
Causes and consequences of access disparities by ethnicity
Experiences and challenges of Arab social workers in Israel with community violence
Social Work England to hold ‘national conversation’ on future regulation of profession

Roadshow will cover future of CPD, fitness to practise and social work education, along with regulator’s next business plan, with five events planned this autumn
Call for proposals for short-form books: Digital cultural heritage
Navigating Menstrual Taboo: Challenges and Consequences for Adolescent Girls Aged 12–17 in Ghana’s Offin River Communities
A systematic review and meta-analysis of medical and psychosocial care procedures for children and adolescents after (online) sexual abuse
In-silico evaluation of aging-related interventions using omics data and predictive modeling
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.
Effects of a shared activities parenting intervention on weight outcomes in middle childhood: An exploratory study
Effectiveness of Social Prescribing for Mental Health Across Care Intensity Needs: A Pre–Post Evaluation in Australia
Factors for dissemination and implementation of community reinforcement and family training in Japan: A pilot study
It’s the little moments that power social mobility
Bounce-Back From Depression (BECOME)
Hope For The Helpless: Kuwait Cares For Children Without Parents

Dr. Amthal Al-Huwailah is the Minister of Social, Family and Childhood Affairs
Research!America 2026 Advocacy Awards (Closes: July 31)
Barriers to child nutrition in Bengaluru slums: Caregiver insights from the SCOPE strategy
Relationship between implicit conflict monitoring, metacognitive monitoring, and cognitive control demand avoidance in children and adults.
Feasibility trial of the My Health Coach app for adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Balancing data privacy and social good: A framework for the AI generation of social and human services
Five hospitalized after suspected drug incident at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall

Youths being held at the hall and probation staff members were among those taken to the hospital on Wednesday morning, Waters said. She did not know what the substance was, where it was found or approximately what time the incident occurred. Above: Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.
Internet Based Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy for Functional Somatic Disorder With and Without Therapist Support
Caring at the end of life: Bereaved family members’ experiences of preparedness, readiness, and anticipation fatigue
Men’s Health Strategy for England: open call for evidence in British Sign Language
Validation of the Thai version of the modified social functioning scale (SFS) for individuals with schizophrenia
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods

Feeling connected, feeling poor? The dual impact of everyday interactions with neighbors and relative deprivation on subjective well-being
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children
CfP: Spatial mobility and subjective well-being (Submission deadline: 1 Oct)
Research on social bot identification through behavioral feature analysis
Associations between daily parent–teacher communication, child’s problem behavior, and parent–child relationship mediated by parental self-efficacy
Pedestrians and cyclists who live in communities of color face disproportionate exposure to traffic injury—both in their neighborhoods and elsewhere
The Impact of Virtual-, Augmented- and Mixed Reality during Preoperative Informed Consent: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Non-contact time implementation in early childhood center-based programs: A mixed methods study
Critical Discourse Analysis in Reaction to Türkiye’s Bill on the Euthanasia of Stray Animals: Revelations and Inferences

UVic partnerships bring equity into death care

Early morning sunbeams slant through the elder Oak trees, as palliative care doctors, Indigenous advisors, nurses and social workers from as far afield as Belgium, the UK and New Zealand take a “walkshop” across the campus of the University of Victoria (UVic), to the beach at Arbutus Cove.
‘He stopped me from talking to male colleagues’: new research shows how domestic violence so often starts with isolation and control
