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Increased green space in prisons can reduce self-harm and violence

UB
UB

The study is the first to attempt large-scale mapping of green space within prison environments and link it to well-being in a robust, statistically significant way.

Posted in: News on 02/27/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A record 5.6% of Americans identify as LGBT+, Gallup poll finds

TRFN | A Kelley/Reuters
TRFN | A Kelley/Reuters

A record 5.6% of Americans – or 18 million people – are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, a Gallup poll found on Wednesday, attributing a significant increase to greater social acceptance.

Posted in: News on 02/27/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The right right thing to do

Aeon | R Capa/International Centre for Photography/Magnum
Aeon | R Capa/International Centre for Photography/Magnum

An American soldier with British war orphans adopted by his unit.

Posted in: News on 02/27/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Biden Starts to Fill in Leadership at Administration for Children and Families

Imprint | ACF
Imprint | ACF
Posted in: News on 02/27/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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What coronavirus taught us about the ruling class

MR online | N Lopez/Pixels
MR online | N Lopez/Pixels

It’s business as usual: thousands dying every day because there’s still money to be made. It tells you everything you need to know about how the ruling class thinks—and what they think the rest of us are really worth.

Posted in: News on 02/27/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Israel to spend $50M compensating families of children who disappeared in state’s early years

SunSentinel | Bettmann Archive/Getty
SunSentinel | Bettmann Archive/Getty

Many suspected that hospital and social work officials abducted their children and gave them away to Ashkenazi families in Israel and the United States, who were thought to be better caretakers and, in some cases, had lost their own children during the Holocaust.

Posted in: News on 02/27/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Social workers start receiving COVID-19 vaccine

maltatoday
maltatoday

Around 700 workers at the Foundation for Social Welfare Services start receiving the COVID-19 vaccine

Posted in: News on 02/26/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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As Pandemic Took Hold, Suicide Rose Among Japanese Women

NYT | H Masuike
NYT | H Masuike

“The world I was living in was already small,” NH said of her struggle with depression last year. “But I felt it become smaller.”

Posted in: News on 02/26/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Four Subway Stabbings and a Young Man’s Downward Spiral

NYT | D Santiago
NYT | D Santiago

A fatal stabbing in the 207th St. Station was one of four stabbings, two fatal, that the police said were committed by the same homeless man.Credit…

Posted in: News on 02/26/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘A place in my heart:’ Social work professor remembers 38 years at WKU

College Heights Herald | WKU
College Heights Herald | WKU

Dr. Saundra Starks, is one of the top three-longest working professors at WKU.

Posted in: News on 02/26/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College

NYT | C Capozziello
NYT | C Capozziello

Smith College is an elite 145-year-old liberal arts college, where tuition, room and board top $78,000 a year and where the employees who keep the school running often come from working-class neigbhorhoods.

Posted in: News on 02/26/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Nursing Home Industry Avoids Scrutiny for Covid-19 Deaths as Powerful Lobby Goes to Work

The Intercept
The Intercept
Posted in: News on 02/26/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Lonely adolescents are susceptible to internet addiction

SD | UH
SD | UH

Loneliness is a risk factor associated with adolescents being drawn into compulsive internet use. The risk of compulsive use has grown in the coronavirus pandemic: loneliness has become increasingly prevalent among adolescents, who spend longer and longer periods of time online.

Posted in: News on 02/25/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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How to reconcile after a family rift

The Guardian | E Bee/The Observer
The Guardian | E Bee/The Observer

Estrangement is surprisingly common – so how can the injured parties put their differences aside?

Posted in: News on 02/25/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Imperfect Girls Make Perfect Role Models

NYT | C Rosa
NYT | C Rosa

The notion of “good role models” needs an update, especially when it comes to girls, or the steady stream of gleaming snapshots of achievement they see can actually lead to self-doubt. In addition to role models, our extensive work on girls and confidence has found that what girls could really use are “work in progress” models.

Posted in: News on 02/25/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Computerized screening may help identify youth at risk for suicide

NIH | YDSP
NIH | YDSP

A team of scientists led by Dr. Cheryl A. King at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor developed a computerized suicide screener. The screener, called the computerized adaptive screen for suicidal youth (CASSY), asks a series of questions—11 on average—and takes between 1 to 2 minutes to complete.

Posted in: News on 02/25/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Two Social Work Alums Hired to Head Up University Mental Health Efforts

UCONN Today
UCONN Today
Posted in: News on 02/25/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Blood Bath at Ecuador Prisons as Drug Gangs Battle for Control

NYT | MP Mendez/AFP/Getty
NYT | MP Mendez/AFP/Getty

More than 60 prisoners were killed in gruesome violence, some of it videotaped and posted online, that the authorities tied to the drug trade.

Posted in: News on 02/25/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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If smiles are so easy to fake, why do we trust them?

Psyche | Tom Kelley Studios/Getty
Psyche | Tom Kelley Studios/Getty

Research shows that people tend to rate a smiling person as more honest and likeable, and someone they want to cooperate with. When someone says they will cooperate, people are more likely to believe them if it’s said with a smile. In other words, smiles seem to be a sign that says: ‘Trust me.’

Posted in: News on 02/25/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Berlin’s revolutionary rent cap — success or flop?

DW | W Steinberg/picture-alliance
DW | W Steinberg/picture-alliance

Berlin’s controversial five-year rent freeze — worldwide a unique experimental measure — is now a year old. So has it worked?

Posted in: News on 02/24/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Appetite drug shows promise in treating obesity

The Conversation | Rostislav_Sedlacek/ Shutterstock
The Conversation | Rostislav_Sedlacek/ Shutterstock

The trial looked at 1,961 adults who were overweight or obese. Approximately 75% of participants were female. Participants were given a weekly injection of semaglutide, a drug normally used to control blood sugar in the treatment of diabetes.

Posted in: News on 02/24/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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As the virus crisis drags on, hard-hit French youth struggle

AP
AP

Nearly a quarter of French young people can’t find work — two-and-a-half times the national unemployment rate and one of the highest in the European Union’s 27 nations. Many university students now rely on food aid and several organizations have rallied to meet the need.

Posted in: News on 02/24/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Child poverty in the U.S. could be slashed by monthly payments to parents – an idea proved in other rich countries and proposed by a prominent Republican decades ago

The Conversation | Basic Income Today
The Conversation | Basic Income Today
Posted in: News on 02/24/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Clearinghouse Abruptly Downgrades Family Centered Treatment

The Imprint | FCT
The Imprint | FCT
Posted in: News on 02/24/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Police Misconduct Costs Cities Millions Every Year. But That’s Where The Accountability Ends.

The Marshall Project | E Scherer/Getty
The Marshall Project | E Scherer/Getty

If not for inconsistent and shoddy record-keeping, we might know if settlements make a difference in police misconduct.

Posted in: News on 02/24/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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BASW Cymru joins call for action on health inequalities

BASW Cymru
BASW Cymru

More than 30 organisations from across health, housing and social care in Wales come together to call for action on health inequalities

Posted in: News on 02/24/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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IFSW rights commission highlight concerns for LGBTQI people

IFSW
IFSW

There is a global-wide lack of action defending the rights of LGBTQI people. These concerns have been highlighted by social workers in all regions as they witness governments and policy makers ignoring human’s rights abuses as well as inciting specific discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer and intersex peoples.

Posted in: News on 02/24/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘Only junkies’: how stigma and discrimination link to rise in drug deaths among Scotland’s poor

The Conversation | UWS
The Conversation | UWS

For more than a decade, drug-related deaths (DRD) in Scotland have been rising – alongside evidence which suggests that the country has had much less success in treating and supporting people who use drugs compared to the rest of the UK and Europe.

Posted in: News on 02/23/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Disabled young people living on poverty-level benefits rises 300% in Australia

The Guardian
The Guardian

Anu Francis, 25, says her benefits while studying are too low to allow her to move out of home. ‘It’s pretty hard.’

Posted in: News on 02/23/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Police Are Three Times More Likely to Use Force Against the Left, Data Shows

truthout | A Gomes/AFP/Getty
truthout | A Gomes/AFP/Getty

The data is based on over 13,000 protests since April of last year and was gathered by researchers for the U.S. Crisis Monitor project. “Force” in the data includes use of tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets.

Posted in: News on 02/23/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Public Policy, Social Work Researchers: Antipoverty Programs Can Help Reduce Child Neglect

UConn Today | Getty
UConn Today | Getty
Posted in: News on 02/23/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’

NYT | I Jang
NYT | I Jang

There is also the possibility that even when everyone has been vaccinated, even when the pandemic is over, many of the conditions of lockdown life will remain for people with dementia. Today, around 50 million people worldwide live with the syndrome, according to the World Health Organization; that number is expected to triple to over 150 million by 2050.

Posted in: News on 02/23/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A New Way to Inoculate People Against Misinformation

Behavioral Scientist
Behavioral Scientist
Posted in: News on 02/23/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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How Norway is offering drug-free treatment to people with psychosis

BBC | JF Frantzen
BBC | JF Frantzen

The doors of the drug-free treatment department at Magnus Hald’s hospital are not locked

Posted in: News on 02/23/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Meet Florence, WHO’s digital health worker who can help you quit tobacco

WHO
WHO

Florence, a 24/7 virtual health worker, provides digital counselling services to those trying to quit tobacco.

Posted in: News on 02/22/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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We asked 70,000 people how coronavirus affected them – what they told us revealed a lot about inequality in the UK

The Conversation | K Roxby/Alamy
The Conversation | K Roxby/Alamy

Our research highlights how crucial it is for the UK government to follow behavioural scientists’ insights into individual experiences. Rules to manage this virus and corresponding rhetoric and communications need to suit the realities of the public if we want to increase compliance and trust in authorities.

Posted in: News on 02/22/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Meet the coffee shop giving homeless youth a chance at success

Salon | Wildflyer Coffee
Salon | Wildflyer Coffee

Carley Kammerer started Wildflyer Coffee in 2017, after years of working as a social worker.

Posted in: News on 02/22/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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NYC social workers set sights on city council seats

Queens Daily Eagle | Gomez
Queens Daily Eagle | Gomez

Ingrid Gomez, a candidate for City Council in Queens, is one of at least five social workers running for city office.

Posted in: News on 02/22/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Social Housing Is Becoming a Mainstream Policy Goal in the US

Jacobin | Wikimedia
Jacobin | Wikimedia

Alton West in London is among the greatest social housing developments of the twentieth century.

Posted in: News on 02/22/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The New Landlordism: Vulture Funds plan to use the Pandemic to pillage the Global Economy

MRonline
MRonline

One favourite tactic is renoviction to launch a series of surface-layer modernisations of apartment blocks that allow investors to skirt tenants’ protections, evict residents, and gentrify neighbourhoods at speed. The upshot of their investment is renters left in harsher, more precarious tenancies, and an accelerated hollowing-out of working-class communities.

Posted in: News on 02/22/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Cypriot Social Workers Bridging Divides and Healing Open Wounds

IFSW
IFSW

Social workers from the North and South getting to know each other on a walk at the border.

Posted in: News on 02/22/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Award-winning university project digitally adapted to boost social element during pandemic

Wrexham.com | WGU
Wrexham.com | WGU

A multi-award winning project where Social Work students hear first-hand from individuals about their experiences of social care and health practice has been adapted to keep running during the coronavirus pandemic.

Posted in: News on 02/21/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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How Can We Revive Herd Immunity to Fascism?

The Nation | The Social Science Collective
The Nation | The Social Science Collective

There is indeed a clear and undeniable correlation between the neoliberal onslaught that started in the 1980s, led by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan—an onslaught that made “deregulation” one of its main goals, along with privatization, reduction of social spending, and tax cuts for the rich—and the rise of phenomena such as neofascism and religious fundamentalism after decades of marginalization.

Posted in: News on 02/21/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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As Outcry Over Nursing Homes Grows, Cuomo Lashes Out at Critics

NYT | NY Magazine
NYT | NY Magazine

On Friday, another prominent Democrat, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Queens, joined a chorus of lawmakers backing investigations into the state’s handling of nursing homes during the pandemic, noting that “thousands of vulnerable New Yorkers lost their lives.”

Posted in: News on 02/21/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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How many people get ‘long COVID’ – and who is most at risk?

The Conversation | Westend61/Getty
The Conversation | Westend61/Getty

Patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19 are most likely to experience long-lasting symptoms.

Posted in: News on 02/21/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Covid and suicide: Japan’s rise a warning to the world?

BBC
BBC

Professor Michiko Ueda is one of Japan’s leading experts on suicide. She tells me how shocking it has been to witness the sharp reverse in the last few months. “This pattern of female suicides is very, very unusual,” she tells me.

Posted in: News on 02/21/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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To end HIV epidemic, we must address health disparities

NIH
NIH

Expert report cites unequal progress in Southern U.S. and among marginalized groups.

Posted in: News on 02/21/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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In attack on academic freedom, Gavin Williamson puts ally in charge of uni speaker lists

Left Foot Forward
Left Foot Forward

By deciding how to define freedom of speech and when and how to enforce it, Wharton and his staff will essentially decide who is allowed to speak at universities and who is not. This is a grave threat to academic freedom.

Posted in: News on 02/21/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Call for rural views on mental health support

The Courier | Shutterstock/Air Images
The Courier | Shutterstock/Air Images

The study, led by Stirling University and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), seeks to gather views on, and determine the acceptability of, two possible interventions to support mental health.

Posted in: News on 02/20/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Distracted Minds: How to Fix Your Attention Shortage

CHE | MediaModifier/Pixabay
CHE | MediaModifier/Pixabay

It’s not just our students who have trouble paying attention. Sometimes faculty members need help focusing on our work, too.

Posted in: News on 02/20/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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