
Archive for September 2025
Magic of the Mushrooms: Effects of Psilocybin Decriminalization
Parent-child border separation and the road to repair: addressing a global refugee phenomenon
US Census Snapshots 2020: Same-Sex Couples

Characteristics of a tattooed population and a possible role of tattoos as a risk factor for chronic diseases: Results from the LIFE-Adult-Study
Parental Psychological Distress and Children’s Social Emotional Adjustment: Mindful Parenting and Children’s Gratitude as Mediators
End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate

Marginality in India: Perspectives of Marginalisation from the Northeast

Degrees of Connection: Examining the Relationships Among College Majors, Marriage, and Spouse Selection
Elementary students’ social, emotional, and cognitive development during the COVID- 19 pandemic in North America: A scoping review
Promoting Positive Coparenting: Toward Comprehensive and Inclusive Family Policies
Predictors of suicide attempts among adolescents with suicidal ideations and a plan: Results from the National Survey on Drug use and Health (NSDUH)
Updates to the Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents with HIV
Geospatial Insights into Access to Kidney Transplantation in Underserved Hispanic Communities
Plan, Prepare and Protect Your Pet Before, During and After an Emergency
Examining the Burden of Chronic Disease and Low SES to Identify High-Need Rural Counties
Telehealth, Telebehavioral Health, and Patient Portal Willingness, Use, and Access Challenges among Migrant Farmworkers on H-2A Visas, North Carolina, USA, 2024
Trade unions need to fight against algorithmic exploitation

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Amazon warehouse workers are tracked through biometric data, scanners, wristbands, and surveillance cameras. They can be punished or even fired if they perform poorly on metrics like tasks completed per hour.
Generalized anxiety disorder, psychiatric comorbidities, and suicide
The View from Inside: Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) & Its Impact on New York City Elections
Attitudes Toward Mental Illness Among Primary School Students in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study
Exploring the relationship between non-communicable diseases and depression
Mental healthcare expenditure among adults by type of mental healthcare and its association with age and sex in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020
Long-term labour market outcomes of anorexia nervosa – the Northern Finland birth cohort 1986
Mental illness severity and characteristics among holocaust survivor immigrants, Non-Holocaust immigrants, and native israelis: A historical prospective study
Effects of an Interpersonal Counseling Intervention on Interdependence of Symptoms in Cancer Survivor‐Informal Caregiver Dyads
Does free tuition promote equity in higher education? impact on academic performance of low-income university students
Threatening for whom? National boundary-making, immigration, and support for the welfare state
Social Work Policy Panel newsletter: September 2025

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‘I am not worthy, but my pounds are’: Chinese postgraduate students’ perspectives of the marketisation of UK higher education and its impacts on their experience
How do micro-psychological and macro-socioeconomic factors influence construction safety knowledge sharing? Insights from a mixed-AI approach
What is known from the existing literature about adolescent knowledge and attitudes towards dementia and interventions to enhance this? A scoping review
Education and training divides: gendered skills, pathways and outcomes
Order effects and the evaluation bias in legal decision making.
Marital adjustment and quality of life in fibromyalgia.
Consolidation is key to enhancing grant support for women and vulnerable people in Scotland

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Scotland’s women deserve robust, resilient and impactful support, not fragmented good intentions. By working together, we can ensure the next generation of women receive the dignity, autonomy and financial empowerment that so many funds were founded to deliver.
Correcting for Differences in Measurement Unreliability in Meta-Analysis of Variances
Family systems scholarship in integrated health: Where have we been? Where are we going?
How do mental health professionals stigmatize incompetence in schizophrenia?
Understanding policy commitments for universal health coverage: a framework for analysis
Applying for Grants to Support Rural Health Projects
Healthcare Improvement Scotland: Fifteenth Citizens’ Panel report
Comparing options for screening of reading difficulties in middle school: Do teacher ratings improve accuracy?
Beyond Negative Emotions: Positive Emotion Reactivity and Social Impairments in Children with and without Elevated ADHD Symptoms
‘Was it all smoke and mirrors?’: How adult children are affected by grey divorce

BBC | Serenity Strull/ Gett
The US has one of the highest divorce rates in the world, even though over the past four decades, it has fallen among younger couples. Instead, middle-aged and older adults have taken over. In fact, adults aged 65 and older are now the only age group in the US with a growing divorce rate. For the over-50s, the rate also rose for decades, but has now stabilised. Today, roughly 36% of people getting divorced are 50 and older, compared to only 8.7% in 1990. This is known as a “grey divorce“.