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Compared with adults receiving no treatment, those receiving psychotherapy did not demonstrate any increased or decreased risk of falls or related injuries. However, compared with no treatment, taking first-line antidepressants was associated with a lower risk of falls.

Jenkins, who has a master’s degree in social work, was chief of staff to legendary Councilwoman Maryann Mahaffey from 1999 to 2004.

A council has been told it needs to improve how it looks after homeless young people and children leaving care. Cheshire West and Chester Council was also pulled up by Ofsted for still putting a small number of children in “illegal” unregistered care homes.

What makes someone seem wise? People view wisdom through the lens of applying knowledge and thinking logically as well as considering others’ feelings and perceptions, according to researchers who looked at perceptions of wisdom across 12 countries and five continents.

The report praises the local authority for providing good quality support to vulnerable children and young people. Its last inspection was carried out in 2019 where the council was found to require improvement across the board.

There are now more than 140 documented illnesses — including two suspected deaths — all tied to the same brand of mushroom edibles, called Diamond Shruumz, according to the Food and Drug Administration. It’s one of the many varieties of psychedelic-inspired treats that have proliferated online, in smoke shops and convenience stores, often advertising some kind of proprietary mushroom blend, with words like “nootropic,” “magic” or “microdosing” emblazoned on the packaging.

Few people concerned with racial equality and the effects of racism on American cities are not familiar with the maps created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the late 1930s. In recent years, those maps have been repeatedly singled out as a major, or even the major driving force behind today’s patterns of urban racial inequity, whether measured in terms of housing quality, environmental conditions, or health disparities.

Dr. Andrew Eaton, an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Regina, is shown on Aug. 26, 2024 in Saskatoon. He is conducting research on Cognitive Remediation Group Therapy (CRGT) for middle-aged to older people living with HIV in Saskatchewan Indigenous communities.

In the fifth summer of Covid, cases are surging, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported “high” or “very high” levels of the virus in wastewater in almost every state. The rate of hospitalizations with Covid is nearly twice what it was at this time last summer, and deaths — despite being down almost 75 percent from what they were at the worst of the pandemic — are still double what they were this spring. As children return to schools and Labor Day weekend travel swells, the potential for further spread abounds. Above: A crowded restaurant in Manhattan in June.

Four adults who were taken into care and placed with families in a special village in the 1980s and 1990s say they were physically and sexually abused during their time there, the Telegraaf reported… The four have all made formal police complaints about their mistreatment, said to be at the hands of one man who worked in the De Glind village near Barneveld, in the heart of the Dutch Bible belt.

There is a general concern that, with urbanisation, people have lost contact with nature. According to research, less contact means lower engagement with nature and poorer health outcomes as people spend less time outdoors. How we might strengthen or rediscover our connection to nature is therefore a topical question. This is particularly important for children, partly because of the impact on their health, but also because it is in childhood that our relationships with nature are formed.

“I remember having a one-hour lecture on domestic abuse, I had pretty much no mention of coercive control during my training,” says social worker Cintia. “It didn’t prepare us for what was coming. You feel like you’re thrown into the deep end.”

People who are infected with chlamydia can transmit these bacteria to other people during unprotected sex. The pathogens usually cause no or only mild symptoms at first, such as itching in the vagina, penis or anus. If the infection is noticed, it can be easily treated with antibiotics. If this does not happen, the bacteria can cause serious problems, including infertility and cancer.

A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from overcharging the government by billions of dollars — only to abruptly back off amid an “uproar” from the industry, newly released court filings show.

Robert Land Academy promised to reform boys into “good citizens.” Former students allege it subjected them to years of humiliation, degradation, and abuse

On the morning I depart Berkeley, my friend Rose suggests I leave Daniel a letter telling him not to contact me for at least six months. I sit at her kitchen table, choosing words to cauterize the growing rupture in my heart. I write that I will never stop loving and caring about him, but since his violence toward me will never stop, it’s better for both of us to be apart. After sealing the envelope, I block him on my phone.

With enrollment dropping in its district, School 10 in Rochester, New York, has been closed, replaced in the century-old building by a Montessori school, whose students have a lower rate of poverty.

A new report shows instructors feel like they’re always on the clock and that many believe the use of technology, in and out of the classroom, is pushing higher ed in the wrong direction.

Lucie Castets (L), candidate of the New Popular Front for prime minister, walks alongside MEP Manon Aubry in the southeast of France, August 24, 2024.

A study of nearly 19 million adults in England reveals a higher rate of mental illness among survivors of COVID-19 hospitalization—particularly among the unvaccinated—for up to a year. A team led by University of Bristol investigators evaluated the incidence of mental illness in patients before and after COVID-19 diagnosis within the past year in three groups.

Although wheelchair users, visually impaired people and others with mobility and physical disabilities need consistent exercise, it’s often hard for them to work out. In many cases, they can’t get access to “adaptive” exercise and sports equipment – meaning machines, weights and other devices that have been modified or engineered for ease of use by people with disabilities. High costs, steep learning curves and limited access constrain their use.

As neuroscientists in the fields of physical therapy and psychology, we think about the ways people use mental imagery. Here is what researchers do know so far.

No one making less than $400,000 a year would see their taxes go up under the plan. Instead, Ms. Harris is seeking to significantly raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and large corporations. Congress has previously rejected many of these tax ideas, even when Democrats controlled both chambers.

The FDA has approved an updated covid shot for everyone 6 months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot now, with the latest covid outbreak sweeping the country, or hold it in reserve for the winter wave?

Whether it’s your partner that’s getting on your nerves, or your friends, or even your pet, sometimes you just want to burn everything to the ground and start over. But will you feel the same way tomorrow?

The study, published in Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, found that the nondeceptive group showed a significant decrease in stress, anxiety and depression in just two weeks compared to the no-treatment control group. Participants also reported that the nondeceptive placebos were easy to use, not burdensome and appropriate for the situation.

A report written by a panel of family and domestic violence experts has detailed a “national emergency” in Australia. The Rapid Review of Prevention Approaches was established in May following a spate of murders of women.

America is in the midst of a mental health crisis.

Approximately 74% of college students in Connecticut have gambled within the last year, according to data released in March by researchers at DMHAS and the University of Connecticut School of Social Work who polled students across 30 public, private and community colleges and universities in the state through surveys and focus groups. The results suggest a higher rate of gambling engagement among college students compared to the general population.

The legacy of pollution from the pharmaceutical industry is palpable in Salinas, where chemical smells hide the scent of the sea.

When boys and girls reach adolescence, they are bombarded with messages that associate attraction with violence. These messages – from their peer group, TV series, films, music, social media, and so on – depict boys with violent and demeaning attitudes towards girls as attractive, but not so much those who treat girls well.

A new report from the Children’s Commissioner for England has found that 457 strip searches of children by police took place between July 2022 and June 2023. The report shows that Black children were four times more likely, when compared to national population figures, to be strip-searched.

Research-integrity watchers had already suspected that citations are for sale at paper mills, services that churn out low-quality studies and sell authorship slots on already-accepted papers, says Cyril Labbé, a computer scientist at Grenoble Alpes University in France. “Paper mills have the ability to insert citations into papers that they are selling,” he says. In November 2023, analytics firm Clarivate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, excluded more than 1,000 researchers from its annual list of highly cited researchers because of fears of citation gaming and ‘hyper-publishing’.

“Without the staffing crisis, we would have plenty of PRTF beds,” said Laura Howard (above), secretary for the Department for Children and Families and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services…. She said the Legislature has made investments to the foster care system, but not enough in services that might deal with the mental and behavioral problems that land so many kids in the system.

The rollout of these products is a psychological experiment on a massive scale. It should worry all of us — and not just for the reasons you might think. Emotional reliance on AI isn’t a hypothetical risk. It’s already happening.

The study used data collected by the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) — also known as Children of the 90s — and included a total of 6,556 participants of whom 50.4% were female. Inflammation was identified by increased levels of the general inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) recorded in participants at ages 9, 15 and 17 years. Of the two groups identified with persistently raised inflammation throughout their developing years, the researchers discovered that it was the group whose CRP levels peaked earlier in childhood, around age 9, that were most associated with subsequent higher risks of depression and psychosis at age 24.

Is it time to legalise and tax widely used drugs like cannabis which are no longer being prosecuted by the authorities and to give the money to the NHS​?

Lead author Heather Burrell Ward, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, explains, “Cognitive impairment is highly prevalent in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. There are currently no medications to treat cognitive impairment, resulting in significant disability. This impairment is frequently present by the time an individual has their first psychotic break, making early detection and intervention critical. Our current study is part of our work to understand and treat the medication-resistant symptoms of psychotic disorders.”

After a presentation by the provincial Department of Social Development to the standing committee on Social Development earlier in August, the committee wrote to Justice Minister Thembisile Simelane, asking for attacks against social workers attacks to be reclassified as an ‘offence against the state’, with harsher legal consequences.

Americans own approximately 400 million firearms and the country carries the unfortunate distinction of being the only one in the world in which guns are known to be the leading cause of child and adolescent death. Today, Americans live with around 1.2 guns per capita – double that of the next-highest scoring country, Yemen. Despite having less than 5 per cent of the global population, the US possesses nearly half of the world’s civilian-owned guns. Moreover, in recent years Americans have witnessed a surge in gun sales and gun-related deaths, unfolding against a backdrop of increasingly lenient gun laws across states.

Dr. Siobhan Stevenson, an expert in library science, explains why library management, in some cases, fails to respond to library workers’ concerns about safety. She also noted: “This is not a library problem. This is a political problem. This is a social problem. And to get past it, we need the political will to change our thinking around how we fund or how we want to fund social services,”

More than 320 cases of suspected identity fraud have been referred for investigation by welfare inspectors, according to the Department of Social Protection…. Last year, more than 630,000 customer welfare claims were reviewed, resulting in savings of €526 million. While the €115 million worth of welfare overpayments were identified, repayments of nearly €88 million were made last year.

The purpose of this CMCS Informational Bulletin (CIB) is to highlight federal renewal
requirements and available flexibilities to promote continuity of coverage for individuals eligible for Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) through Medicaid.

In many countries scientists have experienced a loss of academic freedom in recent years. This trend has come in for criticism on the basis of fundamental principles. However, there has been no research to date on whether the degree of academic freedom also has an impact on a society’s ability to produce innovations. For the first time an international team of researchers has studied the relationship between academic freedom and innovation output.

While rates of methamphetamine-related psychiatric hospitalizations increased 68% over the study period, opioid-related hospitalizations decreased by 22%. Methamphetamine rate increases may be attributed to methamphetamines ubiquitousness and affordability, as well as the lack of resources available to manage methamphetamine use. Why opioid-involved psychiatric hospitalizations declined is less clear but may be related to the lethality of fentanyl.

In the mid-1980s, Park Village Apartments could charitably have been viewed as needing some attention. The low-income apartment complex in Stockton, California, was in disrepair, with leaking roofs, sewage issues, abandoned cars, and stretches of dirt where landscaping should have been. Above: By 1995, construction was complete.

The legal conflict began when Paxton arrived at Annunciation House on February 7, 2024, demanding a vast array of confidential records to be turned over to the Office of the Attorney General within 24 hours…. This aggressive stance not only underscored the growing tension in Texas between state authorities and organizations that provide essential support to migrants but also shocked many, including Pope Francis, who was taken aback by Paxton’s attack on a religious nonprofit. Annunciation House has strongly denied any involvement in illegal activities, with their attorney stating, “There is no legal basis for closing a nonprofit that provides social services to refugees. Period.”

Dr. Bilgin, said: “Despite the ongoing debate about the potential long-term harms and benefits of bed-sharing, little scientific research has been conducted on this topic. Parents can rest assured that as long as it’s practiced safely, bed-sharing is unlikely to have any negative impact on children’s emotional and behavioural development”

“Post-traumatic growth theory is a concept from psychology describing the positive change that can occur as a result of struggling with highly challenging life circumstances,” said Lenny Chiang-Hanisko, Ph.D., senior author and an FAU associate professor.

The esteemed professor reflected on his 40-year career, including the legacy of his work on attachment theory and the importance of understanding parents’ worldview.