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Robert L. Hawkins, Ph.D., associate dean for academic and faculty affairs at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at nearby North Carolina State University, has been named to the new position of vice dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work

Türkiye has overhauled its welfare model and significantly increased social protection investments in the past two decades, with Erdoğan’s policies greatly improving the conditions of many in society. Above: A man takes a ride in a ferry crossing the Bosporus in Istanbul, Türkiye

Inside the brains of people with psychosis, two key systems are malfunctioning: a “filter” that directs attention toward important external events and internal thoughts, and a “predictor” composed of pathways that anticipate rewards.

A large majority of American college and university students are so strongly in favour of abortion, gun control and the freedom to study ‘divisive topics’ such as critical race theory that they are either considering leaving their colleges or not applying to those in so-called ‘Red States’ like Florida, where (Republican) Governor Ron DeSantis has been waging a culture war against these issues.

Mental illness isn’t a crime, and jail isn’t the answer for those experiencing it. We must meet the needs of people in crisis with treatment and support. In order to do so, we need more funding.

Hannah Rose Harkins is a social worker in UAB’s Center for Psychiatric Medicine.

A new CDC Vital Signs study finds that only about 65% of women ages 50-74, with three or more health-related social needs, are up to date with their mammograms. Breast cancer causes more than 40,000 deaths in women each year in the United States, and screening mammograms have been shown to reduce breast cancer deaths

The failings of Oranga Tamariki go beyond the troubled chief executive Grainne Moss – Newsroom has learned the agency’s wholesale taking of Māori children until last year is now being reversed in a blunt instrument policy to return ‘uplifted’ tamariki even when they face new trauma.

Professor Xiangming Fang said: “The economic burden of childhood verbal abuse by adults that we have quantified clearly highlights the shocking hidden cost of the damage it causes to children throughout their lifetime. However, this is likely a considerable underestimate given the impact of childhood verbal abuse on several outcomes including healthcare utilisation costs and legal system expenses, which were not included in the analysis due to data unavailability.”

Thanks to neoliberalism, inequality in many societies has significantly increased since the 1980s. And yet, even amid this new Gilded Age, the ambient pull of democratic ideas is still apparently strong enough that many at the top of the pyramid feel compelled to pretend their presence there is something other than an accident of birth.

Dr. Stark was a research associate at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies from 1978 to 1984. He was hired the next year by Rutgers University and taught in its School of Social Work as a professor of women and gender studies until he retired in 2012.

The newspaper is a pale reflection of what it was when I worked there, beset by numerous journalistic fiascos, rudderless leadership and myopic cheerleading of the military debacles in the Middle East, Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza, where one of the Times contributions to the mass slaughter of Palestinians was an editorial refusing to back an unconditional ceasefire.

The Idaho Legislature has approved funding for a 26-bed facility after ProPublica found that state lawmakers and officials ignored repeated warnings about the practice of locking up mentally ill patients who hadn’t been convicted of a crime. Above: Psychiatric patients have been detained, sometimes for months at a time, in cells like this one in the Idaho Maximum Security Institution near Boise.

The cedar room at the Native Montreal Family Clinic.

If a sensor in Madam Liew Thye Moi’s home detects a fall, social workers will be alerted.

A noninvasive brain stimulation treatment improved depression and anxiety symptoms among older adults in a new University of Florida-led study.

This finding is just one example of a well-documented pattern of neglect and mistreatment of lower-income individuals, especially people in poverty. Students from lower-income families receive less positive attention from their teachers. Lower-income customers receive worse treatment while shopping. Lower-income patients receive less care from their physical and mental healthcare providers. And lower-income defendants receive harsher punishments in the courtroom. More generally, people in poverty receive less help and less support interpersonally and institutionally across many domains of everyday life.

The Comstock Act… is an 1873 anti-obscenity law, named after anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock. The law, which is still on the books, calls for banning the mailing or shipping of “every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance.” In addition, it specifically outlaws mailing “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” The intent of the law was not expressly about abortion, according to Mary Ziegler, law professor at the University of California, Davis. Instead, it was about what Comstock and his contemporaries called “sexual purity.”

We wanted to know if Chronicle readers have had their own compensation frustration, so we put out a request. Hundreds of you wrote in with stories of stagnant pay, opaque raise processes, and worries about the future. Here is just a small sampling of what you shared with us.

US healthcare is defined by the greed and inequality that its patients must battle, but Puerto Rico’s calamity is unique. Thanks to a combination of colonial neglect, a disastrous legacy of privatization that has given health insurance companies outsize control, and a series of devastating austerity measures in recent years, it’s not just patients who are feeling the impact; it’s also the people who are supposed to look after them. Puerto Rico has seen a mass exodus of doctors that has left it struggling to provide even the most basic level of care. And no medical specialty has been affected more than pediatrics.

The University of South Africa (Unisa) has raised concerns over an article regarding its Bachelor of Social Work programme. Unisa expresses deep concern regarding the significant inaccuracies present in both the headline and various sections of the article.

No one should be surprised that artificial intelligence is following a well-worn and entirely predictable financial arc

Along with a secure post and academic freedom, tenured professors enjoy financial security—or so many outsiders imagine. In fact, many tenured faculty are expected to cover much of their salary with grants, and may be penalized with salary reductions if they do not. That’s what happened at Tufts University School of Medicine—and some researchers are fighting back.

As global billionaires see their wealth soar to record heights, one Vietnamese real estate tycoon was sentenced to death on Thursday in the Southeast Asian nation’s largest-ever financial fraud case, part of a government crackdown on corruption.

What isn’t said enough is that rural whites are being told to blame all the wrong people for their very real problems. As we argue in the book, Hollywood liberals didn’t destroy the family farm, college professors didn’t move manufacturing jobs overseas, immigrants didn’t pour opioids into rural communities, and critical race theory didn’t close hundreds of rural hospitals. When Republican politicians and the conservative media tell rural whites to aim their anger at those targets, it’s so they won’t ask why the people they keep electing haven’t done anything to improve life in their communities.

If the rule becomes official, simply having a criminal record would not automatically or categorically deny access to or terminate someone from HUD-assisted housing—including public housing, housing choice vouchers, and HUD multifamily housing.

The housing crisis in the UK continues to deepen, and successive governments have failed to address it. There has been a significant reduction in social housing of 1.2 million homes since 1979, and there has been no serious drive to increase supply since then.

Groups monitoring organised crime warn that Turkey is becoming entry point for drugs reaching Europe

Darla Rasmussen (above) addressed hundreds of delegates as the council released the final draft of its Indigenous Women’s Justice Plan (IWJP), a plan she said comes after two years of hard work and listening to people around the province.

Members of the Mātauranga Ake team, including whānau and tamariki navigators, social workers and team leaders

The authors of new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy point out that rural whites are measurably more bigoted and xenophobic than suburban or urban voters, 13 points more likely to hate on queer people, 15 points more likely to support Trump’s Muslim ban.

Four Master of Social Work students, Brandi Stokes, Christian Thompson, Kyra Spengler, and Mandi Carroll, all worked together to create a simulation at Trauma Informed Oregon’s Day of Empathy event. The simulation highlighted the communication barriers mothers and their families experienced in Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.

Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids that contains more than 20 unique compounds, including isotonitazene, which was first identified in 2019 and is known on the streets as ISO. It also includes protonitazene, metonitazene and etonitazene. Nitazenes are psychoactive substances, or “designer drugs,” that aren’t controlled by any laws or conventions but pose significant health risks to the public. These substances have recently surfaced as illegal street drugs.

A memorial to Bubba, which was unveiled on March 26, 2024. Part of the Smiths Station memorial sidewalk, the marker is located in front of the Historic Jones Store Museum, a local heritage project that he had championed and that opened in 2019.

Three and a half years after it began, we finally have the findings of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into NHS youth gender identity services. It is a damning indictment of how badly we, as a society, have let down a group of vulnerable and highly distressed children.

Roma London chairperson Toma Nikolaeff Mladenov, 58 (above). Mr Mladenov told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “We’re making a peaceful protest in front of the council because a social worker from this council took three small children [from their father].”

NT Police said officers and social workers had been involved in more than 300 interactions with young people in the no-go area during the curfew period. An “interaction” was where a young person was spoken to, to ascertain their reason for being in the curfew zone during curfew hours.

The Dover Interfaith Mission for Housing building in Dover (above). Since Interfaith was formed in 2008, the organization boasts on its website that it has helped over 3,000 homeless men. It has been contracted with the state to provide emergency transitional housing since 2011 and, in the last few years, was infused with over $5 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding from the state on top of its state, federal and local government grants.

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine said the government isn’t taking any money out of the system.

Turning Points For Children is one of two nonprofits to leave Philadelphia’s child welfare system in recent years.

Mental health social workers in Barnet, north London, are set to launch two weeks of strikes next Monday as part of a nine‑week programme of action. The workers, in the Unison union, have already struck for 27 days as they fight for a recruitment and retention payment to reduce staff turnover and patient waiting lists.

The modern obsession with textual purity stems from a misapplication of the philosophies of Wittgenstein and Derrida

In Kashmir, there’s a bit of confusion swirling around the term “Social Worker” It’s like a jigsaw puzzle where everyone seems to be fitting into this role, but not everyone might understand what it truly entails.

Kotek Wilson does not receive a salary as Oregon’s First Partner. The governor’s office confirmed that the First Lady has been sitting in on staff meetings that focus on behavioral health, which are related to Kotek Wilson’s master’s degree in social work.

By its own admission, New York is experiencing a critical shortage of social workers. A 2022 audit by the State Comptroller’s Office found that 80% of public schools in New York City could not meet the recommended client-to-social worker ratio, with over a quarter of schools lacking a social worker altogether.

People imprisoned in Camden’s county lockup say conditions there are downright inhumane. They say there are often no recreational opportunities, they have limited access to social workers, meals are inadequate and unhealthy, and there is no access to alcohol and drug addiction recovery services — even as the majority of those incarcerated at Camden struggle with addiction.

Farmers in Ontario, a minority group facing distinct challenges, are advocating for enhanced mental health services as they grapple with isolation, stigma, and occupational stressors.

The monoliths of the skylines of Central and Eastern European cities are set to change