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Margaret Lee is a retired Principal Social Worker with experience in Child and Family Services, as well as on Child Protection Committee.
Archive for August 2025
England and Wales
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State
Has the 10 Year Plan failed to learn lessons from history?
Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Ubuntu in Addressing Gender-Based Violence Against Young Women in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
Opinion: What will Ireland’s costly five-year schools abuse inquiry achieve?
Expanding trauma-informed care: The case for a fifth ‘R’ — Reflect
The Current State of Palliative Care Research for Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Thematic Analysis of Empirical Literature
My parents empower me against bullying at school: Prosocial behavior and happiness in youths
A Systematic Review of the Leader Identity Research: A Road Map for the Rigorous Study and Advancement of Leader Identity
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research
Gossip in a Group’s Life: Gossip Functions During Different Stages of Group Development
On the brink: The devastating toll of aid cuts on people forced to flee
Prevalence and experience of violence against persons with disabilities in Bangladesh: findings from a nationwide mixed-method study
2024 NIH Public Access Policy
National Indigenous Children’s Commissioner appointed
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Sue-Anne Hunter has been appointed Australia’s first National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People. Hunter will lead efforts to close the gap on over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care and prison.
Lived experiences of how the care relationship in primary healthcare contributes to recovery from stress-related disorders: a reflective lifeworld research study
The third age interrupted: experiences of living in a retirement village during the first year of COVID-19 in Victoria, Australia
Suicide crisis in South Korea: Nearly 10 aged 65+ take own lives each
Malay Mail
Nearly 10 South Koreans aged 65 and above died by suicide each day between 2019 and 2023, according to a new medical study in the Journal of the Korean Medical Association.
FDA Takes Steps to Restrict 7-OH Opioid Products Threatening American Consumers
The FDA is specifically targeting 7-OH, a concentrated byproduct of the kratom plant; it is not focused on natural kratom leaf products. 7-OH is increasingly recognized as having potential for abuse because of its ability to bind to opioid receptors. The FDA is releasing a new report to educate the public about the health concerns of 7-OH and its distinction from the kratom plant leaf.
Disentangling eye movement desensitization and reprocessing mechanisms of action: The impact of eye movements in the eye blink conditioning task
Menstrual hygiene practices, determinants, and association with reproductive tract infection in India: a large repeated cross-sectional analysis (2015–2021)
Translating medication effects for alcohol use disorder across preclinical, human laboratory, and clinical trial outcomes using meta-analysis
Synergy Between Physical Activity and Outdoor Green Environments to Reduce the Intensity of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Intrinsic post-retirement work motivation in formal Chilean workers at retirement age: a qualitative study
CfP: Structural Inequities and the Brain: Mechanisms, Markers, and Models (Submission deadline: 31 Dec)
How do research participants with age-related vision loss talk about their experiences? A secondary discourse analysis of published qualitative extracts
What the movies get right and wrong about relationships, with Paul Eastwick, PhD and Eli Finkel, PhD
Supporting Social Work Leaders: Supervision, Intersectionality, and Nonprofit Leadership
Current Issues in Social Work Supervision
The current social protection discourse, gig economy within the advent of COVID-19: some emerging legal arguments
An Intervention to Increase Belonging and Support Retention for Faculty of Color and Women Faculty
Heterogeneous effects of artificial light at night on sleep and mental health: 2SLS augmented geospatial data modeling and geo-correlation analysis
10 facts about teens and social media – 2
The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is a stain on both parties
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Forget partisan finger-pointing. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal cuts across party lines, indicting economic and political elites alike. Above: Former president Bill Clinton shakes hands with Jeffrey Epstein, while Ghislaine Maxwell looks on, following an event for the White House Restoration Project, in Washington, DC, on September 29, 1993.
Theoretical and Quantitative Disconnect When Modeling Adverse Childhood Experiences Using a Common Factor Framework: An Argument for Causal Indicator Models in Stressor Research
Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network
Retraction Watch
A list of the forthcoming retractions Frontiers provided us names one paper from Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, six from Frontiers in Public Health, 29 from Frontiers in Energy Research, 33 from Frontiers in Environmental Science, and 53 from Frontiers in Psychology. Most were published in 2022.