Archive for November 2025

Obituary: Mary ‘May’ McGee, activist who won landmark court case against the State’s ban on contraception

Mary ‘May’ McGee, who has died at the age of 81 after a short illness, made legal and social history in Ireland when she and her husband Shay won a Supreme Court case against the State’s ban on contraception in 1973.

Micromobilities: The turn to health, social interaction and inclusivity

Mental health-related prescriptions in 2023-24

Australian Human Rights Commission: Evidence-based approaches to child justice

The dire disregard of measurement invariance testing in psychological science.

Dynamics of covert signaling: Modeling the emergence and extinction of identity signals.

The joint effect of screen use and home literacy on children’s receptive vocabulary developmental trajectories: A harm reduction perspective

The contribution of crime to the longitudinal relationship between neighbourhood disadvantage and mental well-being, 2009 to 2016

Under Anesthesia, Where Do Our Minds Go?

Nautilius

General anesthesia redefined surgery and medicine, but over a century later it still carries significant risks. Too much sedation can lead to neurocognitive disorders and may even shorten lifespan; too little can lead to traumatic and painful wakefulness during surgery. So far, scientists have learned that, generally speaking, anesthetic drugs render people unconscious by altering how parts of the brain communicate. But they still don’t fully understand why.

Impact of adolescent ethanol binge on serotonin signaling and pain sensitivity post-withdrawal

Blurred boundaries: Community treatment orders as instruments of racial surveillance

Miss Julie’s School of Beauty offers a new path for survivors

WHAM | Miss Julies

Miss Julie’s School of Beauty is making history as the first nonprofit cosmetology school in the nation dedicated to helping survivors of sex trafficking.

The ethics we abandon – A medical student perspective on a familiar face

Differentiating between harmless and harmful threats: What factors increase risk of violence following threats?

Queer Korea

Open Minds, Closed Discourse: Dynamics of Openmindedness and Speech Suppression on Campus

Australian Pregnancy Care Guidelines

Do state-funded “Alternatives to Abortion” programs reduce abortion rates? A longitudinal analysis

Macro-level determinants of gender differences in the temporal sequencing of major depression and alcohol use disorder in the United States

Systematic literature review on the awareness of obesity in adults and children living with obesity, the general public and healthcare professionals

Reasons for cannabis use among adults with disabilities: Findings from the 2023-2024 National Survey on Health and Disabilities

Taxing billionaires

Social Justice Innovation in Africa

Social workers ‘ignored’ in federal budget, says national association

CASW

The amendments would have included several more professions in the Canada Student Loan Forgiveness Program. The program currently offers to forgive the federal portion of outstanding loans for family doctors and nurses working in rural and remote communities.

Christian Nationalism and Educational Policy in the United States

Brain structural and functional aberrant of hippocampal subregions was associated with somatic depression

Unravelling symptom interplay of depression, anxiety, insomnia and suicidality in adolescents: A network analysis

Railways to better minds: The influence of high-speed rail on cognitive health inequalities

Psychiatrists’ engagement with advance statement in Victoria, Australia

Government launches independent review of Social Work England

CommunityCare | Social Work England

Former College of Social Work and national safeguarding lead Annie Hudson will lead statutory review of Social Work England and make recommendations on future regulation of profession

Cost-utility analysis of a collaborative and stepped care model in patients with mental disorders in German primary care (the COMET study)

Restoring council housing after Right to Buy

Understanding hepatitis C virus reinfections in England in the context of eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health concern

An intersectional perspective on disabled students’ experiences in German higher education

Qatar Foundation for Social Work holds bilateral meetings with UN officials

During the meetings, discussions focused on ways to cooperate in the areas of child protection and developing the skills of social and psychological professionals, as well as enhancing the role of women and empowering them in the social development process.

Differential risk for Hepatitis C and HIV among people who inject drugs in Kenya: a latent class analysis signaling needs for innovation in service delivery

A systematic review of birth trauma in the Middle East

Collaboration between nurse home visitors and child welfare predicts participant attrition in home visiting programs

Who gets to decide when children participate? Considering the complexities of consent and gatekeeping in violence research

Using experimental research designs to evaluate social work practice in China

Government apologised to social service agencies for perceived ‘finger-pointing’ in initial statement on Megan Khung case

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SINGAPORE: The government has apologised to Beyond Social Services and other agencies for the misunderstanding over “finger-pointing” when the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) made its initial statement on Megan Khung’s case in April, Minister-in-Charge of Social Services Integration Desmond Lee (above) said on Wednesday (Nov 5)