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Farmers protest in Madrid, Spain, in January this year, to demand EU measures to alleviate rising costs.

“Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the lighting of a fire.”

– bell hooks

Depression symptoms can be hard to manage, especially for people with treatment-resistant depression, a persistent and severe form of the disorder. Fortunately, new therapies are emerging for such hard-to-treat conditions.

Unpredictable income is especially rough on low-income workers, with nearly half of people making under $25,000 dealing with unpredictable paychecks.

In her latest report… Dame Rachel de Souza examines a sample of 77 child in need plans submitted by local authorities. She finds that in 85% of plans “it was difficult to assess what had been done to protect the child named in the plan or whether progress had been made, such was the poor quality of the actions set out”.

Dr Paul Stephenson OBE organised the boycott which overturned a ban on people from ethnic minorities working on buses in the city and was instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act in 1965…. Dr Stephenson’s journey began as the first black social worker employed by the city of Bristol.

SAD tends to begin in young adulthood and is more common in women than men. People living further north of Earth’s equator are at higher risk for experiencing SAD. So are those with a family history of or who themselves have a pre-existing mental illness, like depression or bipolar disorder.

“There’s a need for governing boards, and there’s a need for administrations to run things,” said Dr. Noëlle McAfee, a philosophy professor who is the Emory Senate’s president-elect. “But they don’t have the expertise, they’re not qualified and it’s not their job to be handling matters having to do with educational mission.”

“Working-class identity is there for the taking, because the Left has fallen almost totally silent about the experience of social class.”

Treating anxiety, depression and other disorders may depend on the amygdala, a part of the brain that controls strong emotional reactions, especially fear. But a deep understanding of this structure has been lacking. Now scientists at the University of California, Davis have identified new clusters of cells with differing patterns of gene expression in the amygdala of humans and non-human primates. The work could lead to more targeted treatments for disorders such as anxiety that affect tens of millions of people.

Children as young as four years old are being placed in residential care because there is no foster carer available, while there is a waiting list for admission to the country’s 15 special care beds, according to the latest report from the Child Law Project.

Lesley Hill, newly named head of Quebec’s increasingly embattled youth protection department (DPJ), pledged Thursday to be a “watchdog” for the children of province, adding that she is ready to do what it takes to get to the bottom of the apparent dysfunction plaguing the agency.

Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related comorbidities 10 years later, according to results from a large clinical study.

Mackenzie Fierceton attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate in political science and then as a master’s student in social work.

The results of these ballot measures obviously matter to residents of each state, but they also will be telling for the future of the cannabis legalization movement. That’s because these states are all so-called red states where Republicans dominate state politics. They are part of the legalization movement’s biggest obstacle – what I call the “red wall.” And because federal legalization is unlikely in the next few years, red wall states are now the front line of the fight over cannabis reform.

The standards are published by The National Pediatric Readiness Project, an initiative to empower all emergency departments to provide effective emergency care to children, and encompass training for staff, coordination of health care, and the procedures and medical equipment needed to care for ill and injured children. According to the study, adopting the standards would range from no cost to $11.84 per child, depending on the state.

It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.

Over 150 young people under the age of 18 were placed in temporary accommodation over the course of a year – some of which was unregulated

While many people believe that poor sleep during pregnancy is inevitable, new research has determined that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) while pregnant can not only improve sleep patterns but also address postpartum depression.

Because every American deserves the right to choose

The state currently has over 3,000 children in foster care. And while DSS has made improvements in recent years, they still need help to give each child the support they deserve.

Psychedelic-assisted therapy is still awaiting official approval, but private firms are already using patents to corner the market. Government-funded research shouldn’t yield big profits for Big Pharma. Above: A laboratory technician displays hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms at Rose City Laboratories in Portland, Oregon

It has published 82 statements covering the knowledge, skills and behaviours the regulator believes that newly qualified social workers should possess at the point of registration to enable them to meet its professional standards. Social Work England consulted on the statements in 2022.

The continuing flow calls into question previous Coalition claims that people were crossing the border from Northern Ireland because of fears of the former British Government’s Rwanda policy.

In Wisconsin, seniors are leading the charge to protect their own healthcare. Above: Residents rally outside of the Sauk County Board of Supervisors meeting in support of keeping their county-owned nursing home publicly owned.

‘People doing door-to-door outreach to voters are encountering men who prevent their wives from even conversing at the door.’

What would it take to build a world where every pregnant person in this country had the rights, resources, and respect they needed to decide what to do with their pregnancy, whether to continue it or not? That world that we want to build is what’s possible with this election and the organizing that must happen after it, no matter the outcome. That world is possible, even as some of our political options drift dangerously far from it, fully embracing reproductive coercion, violence, and oppression as core to their white nationalist and fascist ideals.

According to the research, 38,154 of the 68,593 heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 would not have occurred without anthropogenic warming.

The stats showed 4,780 rough sleepers were counted by frontline workers on the streets between July and September this year, up 18% on the same period last year, 13% higher than the previous quarter and the highest quarterly figure on record.

In the months leading up to the unexpected death of a baby boy, Oranga Tamariki staff incorrectly handled several concerns reported to them relating to his family.

The intent of Bill 111 is to “provide the procedures to compassionately relocate people when necessary, including offering access to services and storage of personal property,” said committee chair Shane Sinenci. “Government cannot search and seize your personal property.”

Downtown Whiteville, North Carolina during the Annual Pecan Harvest Festival. The small community of 5,600 residents is featured in The Deciders.

What happens when you lose your Medicaid coverage?

Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related comorbidities 10 years later, according to results from a large clinical study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Rates of suicide, alcohol and drug fatalities (collectively known as “deaths of despair”) have increased by 9%, 45% and 81% respectively in England and Wales over the last decade. Given that mortality rates for most other causes are stable or decreasing, this increase is deeply concerning. In total, in 2022 these three causes accounted for 18,947 fatalities in England and Wales, almost one in 30 of the deaths recorded that year. The figures are even starker for younger people, with “deaths of despair” making up more than 40% of fatalities in the 25 to 29 age group.

The recent AI Nobel Prize win and California’s vetoed AI safety bill highlight the growing trend of placing our future in the hands of private corporations, with little public accountability.

Academic journals are not immune from ideological bias.

I’d first driven by this land en route to elsewhere. When I saw the bunkers—over a thousand set upon the desert—I was so stunned by the terrain’s alien disfigurement that I stopped at an overpass to absorb the view. To my eye, the concrete bunkers were dystopian in their sum and structure and sprawl—scarring nine thousand acres of flat northeastern Oregon land.

Many pundits call this movement Christian nationalism. But while it may seem like a phenomenon born out of our current political moment, it represents the culmination of various movements with roots that trace back decades. The more extreme elements didn’t just materialize a few years ago. They’ve been there from the start.

Jennifer Piper – West Region program director for the American Friends Service Committee – cited a series of so-called “show your papers” laws passed in Colorado between 2006 to 2013, which led to some of the highest deportation numbers in the nation. “Here in Colorado, we already know what the policies of mass deportation look like intimately,” said Piper. “And what we found is our businesses suffered, our schools suffered, our kids suffered.”

The Guardian on Tuesday published an investigation about how rightwing forces successfully blocked a ballot measure that would have rolled back the Arkansas abortion ban ushered in by Roe’s demise. Alongside that story, we are also publishing this story about Little Rock Family Planning Services, and accounts from women who were served there.

A destroyed property in Barre, a town near Montpelier that endured the worst flooding in the region in 2023 and was hit by another flood in 2024.

The diverse array of bacteria, fungi and other microbes present in mud and soil play a crucial role in our health and is key to what immunologists call “immune training”. This is the process by which the immune system learns to distinguish between harmful pathogens and benign environmental substances.

From 2021-24, 150,400 Hongkongers arrived in the UK under British National Overseas [BN(O)] visas, enabling them to live and work in the country for either two-and-a-half or five years, bringing dependant family members with them…. The introduction of the BN(O) visa was followed by a significant uptick in applications from Hong Kong-qualified social workers to register with Social Work England.

Mental health struggles are not uncommon among Hong Kong’s 340,000 domestic workers, who are vulnerable to financial problems and poor working conditions while supporting their families back home. Above: Inna Abrogena, a research assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s social work department

Supporters of Calgary’s Sheldon Chumir supervised consumption site rally at City Hall on Tuesday October 29, 2024. City Council was scheduled to debate on whether to ask the province to close the site.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib

The gun has come to embody many contradictions over America’s history: individual liberty and the police state, empowerment and violence, defense and death. To understand America’s complicated culture of guns is an interdisciplinary pursuit: legal, historical, sociological, economic.

New children’s minister Janet Daby wants to ease the burden on social workers – her own professional background – to make the role more attractive and reduce the incentive for staff to move to agency work.