Archive for August 2025

Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest, 2023 – Statistical Tables

How to get published in a special collection or issue

The decline of volunteering in the United States: Is it the economy?

Psychometric Analysis of Scores on a Mexican Dialect Spanish Adapted Version of the GAD-7 with Mexican Earthquake Survivors

“I’m taking control of my body and my sexuality with birth control”: Documenting the contraceptive experiences of unsheltered people capable of pregnancy

Medicaid can drive workforce development and youth well-being, says public health expert Alex Briscoe

Whitehall procurement rules threaten top graduate schemes, experts warn

Financial Times | Frontline

Mary Jackson runs the Frontline charity in England which recruits graduates into social work. What was the actual mission of Frontline?

Lacking Life Insurance Makes Many Hispanic Families Especially Vulnerable in Times of Crisis

Connect for Success Symposium

Barriers and facilitators to implementing the Act-Belong-Commit – ABCs for Mental Wellbeing in Finland

Changing Theoretical and Clinical Issues

Examination of Human Rights in Liberian Social Work Field Education Programs

Lancaster County housing, social work experts worry about latest executive order on homelessness

LancasterOnline | L Gehman

Jennifer Frank, a professor of social work at Millersville University, said a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer that upheld bans on public camping and sleeping seemed to be the “worst possible scenario” for people experiencing homelessness. Now, Frank said, the executive order may usurp that.

Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children’s Understanding of Task‐Motivation Fit

Qualitative Study on the Roles of Social Workers in Multi-Disciplinary Anti-Trafficking Teams in Enugu State, Nigeria

‘Because otherwise she’s not doing her job – if she doesn’t listen’: children’s and parents’ views on participation in the assessment process according to the Swedish Disability Act

Is the NHS Health Check improving our population’s health?

‘Maybe no one took responsibility to a full extent’ staff and managers’ experience of implementing a dialogue support tool to enhance participation for young people in the context of out-of-home care

The IBIC – a tool for social work? Social documentation, language, and persons with psychiatric disabilities

Why people ignore debt letters – and what it says about inequality today

The Conversation | S Frost/Alamy

Ignoring debts and other payment commitments is often dismissed as being irresponsible. But a closer look reveals that many people see things differently, reflecting a deeper point about inequality in Britain today.

Moderate- to long-term effect of dietary interventions for depression and anxiety : A systematic review and meta-analysis

Quality of Life Psychosocial Determinants for Parents of Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders in Jordan

Siasa na Jamii: Pressing Social Concerns and Civic Engagement Among Secondary School Students in Tanzania

Stress, loneliness, depression, anxiety and problematic smartphone use among a sample of Syrian refugee adolescents: a network approach

“It’s like jihad”: Working mothers, household, and caregiving demands during COVID‐19 lockdown in Saudi Arabia

Effective partnerships can stop the next pandemic

Childhood Trauma as a Mediator of Intergenerational PTSD Symptom Transmission in Rwanda: A Cross-Sectional Study

Editorial: Environmental and Climate Justice—Protecting Human and Ecological Rights

The Perpetual Foreigner and Model Minority Spectrum: Comparing How Southeast and East Asian Americans Experience Racialization

Collective Value-Laden Grief Among Hongkongers: We Left, We Grieve, We Live

Cognitive Remediation Method Using Rhythmic, Vocal and Corporal Musical Learning for Schizophrenia (ARCoS-2)

NIHR: Modelling the effects of public policy on e-cigarette use (Closing date: 9 Dec)

Health-related quality of life of patients with multiple sclerosis in China: a national online survey

Sexually transmitted infections surveillance reports [NSW – Australia]

Surveillance at the Border

TAP | M YTork/AP

It’s only a matter of time before the drones, spy blimps, license plate readers, and motion-activated cameras come to the rest of America. Above: Drones, like the ones being piloted here by Customs and Border Protection officers, are part of the surveillance dragnet at the border.