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When we see the outputs of AI, we can see these as the result of a very sophisticated process of extracting raw materials, labor, and our collective intelligence and repackaging these and selling it for a profit. Above: Nets outside of a Foxconn Technology Group employee dormitory in China in 2010 to help prevent suicide attempts.

The children spent an average of 6.5 hours per week (0.92 hours per day) using tablets when they were 3.5 years old, 6.7 hours per week (0.95 hours per day) when they were 4.5 years old, and 7.0 hours per week (1 hour per day) when they were 5.5 years old. The researchers found that each 69-minute increase in tablet use when the children were 3.5 years old was associated with a 22% increase in expressions of anger and frustration when they were 4.5 years old. In turn, each standard deviation increase in anger and frustration at 4.5 years was associated with an increase of roughly 17 minutes in tablet use at 5.5 years.

Commentators often blame the rise of the far right in East Germany on the social and economic consequences of “failed” reunification. But right-wing extremism is by no means exclusive to the neue Bundesländer in the East. In the postwar West, former Nazis were rehabilitated and integrated into the federal bureaucracy. The far right shaped the core institutions of the Federal Republic, which affected their ability—or willingness—to investigate or prosecute its crimes. Above: Scenes from the 1992 riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen.

The Rev. Blair Moorhead (left) with colleagues in ministry at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in McLean, Virginia.

How trustworthy is a positive HIV test result? How probable is an actual infection when the test is positive? Even professionals often get such questions wrong, which can lead to misdiagnoses and unnecessary surgeries in practice. In a new study with medicine and law students, a team of mathematics education scholars from the Universities of Regensburg, Kassel, and Freiburg, Heidelberg University of Education, and LMU Munich has compared four different training courses designed to help students gain a better understanding of probabilities.

Social work interns are stepping into critical roles at the Uniondale Public Library, providing essential support to the community. The initiative, a collaboration with Adelphi University, is an effort to both enhance the interns’ education and help local residents. Above: Natasha Holder, one of the Uniondale Library’s two social work interns

“This funding is a lifeline to several New Mexico counties that are impacted by healthcare and provider deserts,” Dr. Anna Nelson, Director of the Center for Excellence in Social Work, said. “It will enable us to provide educational resources for social workers who serve in these communities while creating better pathways for social work as a career. The more well-trained social workers we have in our state, the better prepared we are to meet the urgent mental health needs of our communities.”

Sheffield is moving at pace to meet the current and future demand for more carers in the city. It’s expected that there will be 13,000 more people aged over 65 by 2030 in Sheffield, so anticipating and responding effectively to changing health and care needs is key.

Beyond his contributions to the educational field, Galbreath’s commitment to ethical practice and lifelong learning has set a high standard for social work education in Ohio. His former colleagues and students regard him as not only a knowledgeable educator but also as a model of integrity and competence. Through his efforts to create inclusive policies and environments that welcome every voice, Galbreath has fostered a legacy that will undoubtedly shape the future of social work in Ohio.

A Victoria police crime scene at a Melbourne tobacco shop. Such fires have occurred on high streets across Victoria in the past 18 months.

Eight in 10 councils in England are on course to bust their budget on adult social care by March, according to a survey said to show the “ongoing and intensifying pressures” facing the sector. Such conditions do not provide the environment in which the new Government’s proposed National Care Service “can hope to succeed”, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) warned.

The innovative technology combines expertise in engineering and social work to proactively detect and intervene in incidents of violence in caregiving environments.

We present qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with people who have been incarcerated in prisons and/or jails in Colorado regarding their experiences with incarceration infrastructure, amplifying the voices of formerly incarcerated people to identify vulnerabilities which have been deliberately hidden by carceral social and institutional processes, and adding them to the academic dialogue around incarceration and climate change.

Asha Warsame) (right) led the way for her younger siblings, Ayan Warsame (left) and Abdi Najim Aban (center). All three graduated on the same spring day — Ayan with a master’s in social work and Abdi, a computer science degree.

Muscle mass and strength tend to wane over time. So do balance and other factors related to walking. These are all important to independent living and well-being. But it has not been clear which of these characteristics decline more quickly with age, and at what rates.

“During and after the pandemic, we see a greater difference between regions in terms of children’s weight. It even looks like it has exacerbated health inequalities,” explains Charlotte Nylander, a researcher at Uppsala University and the Centre for Clinical Research in Region Sörmland, where she is also a Senior Consultant in Child Health Care.

The 1945 Labour Manifesto was a startling feat of political imagination. Does Starmer have the courage to go big again? Above: Anenurin Bevan, Minister of Health, on the first day of the National Health Service, 5 July 1948 at Park Hospital, Davyhulme

Social work is vital to the Party’s long-term governance, the country’s enduring peace and stability, social harmony and stability, and the well-being of the people, Xi said in the instruction.

Researchers have joined forces to give a boost to spatial memory by creating a unique experimental setup that combines non-invasive deep-brain stimulation, virtual reality training, and fMRI imaging. The study demonstrates that targeted, painless electric impulses to the hippocampus and adjacent structures, a deep brain region implied in memory and spatial navigation, can improve the brain’s ability to recall locations and navigate more effectively.

The cost of childbirth and postpartum health care results in significant, ongoing financial hardship, particularly for lower-income families with commercial insurance. About half of people who give birth in the United States are covered by commercial health insurance, which typically requires cost-sharing in the form of deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance.

Consider an example from climate science. Experts studying large atmospheric circulation patterns and their impacts on global weather would like to know how these systems might change with warming climates. Here, many variables come into play: ocean and air temperatures and pressures, ocean currents and depths, and even details of the earth’s rotation over time. But which variables cause which measured effects?

Partisanship and ideology can not only affect individuals’ mental health and social relationships; they can also intensify disease outbreaks, affecting the whole society.

Our research project, Dying In The Margins, was established in 2019 to better understand the experiences of people dying at home in circumstances of financial hardship and deprivation. Perhaps surprisingly, it is still not widely understood that the age we die at, what we die from, and the way we die are largely determined by our socioeconomic circumstances over the course of our lives.

It is not history’s job to impose lessons on the present. But at the same time, it would be inadequate for viewers not to ask what we would have done in Bill’s place. And, more uncomfortably, what, faced with the knowledge of the multiple injustices of our own society, we ourselves are doing now. Above: Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These.

To protect our descendants from catastrophe, we must overcome the emotional hurdles that make it easy for us to look away

In September, a federal judge finally approved a $600 million settlement for East Palestine, Ohio, residents after a devastating train derailment. Yet twenty months after the disaster in East Palestine and a decade since the Toledo water crisis, residents throughout the state continue to endure systemic neglect and harbor lingering distrust toward the state and federal government, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

For his dedication to promoting young people’s mental well-being and developing the next generation of mental health care providers, The Door and Broome Street Academy presented NYU Silver Dean Michael A. Lindsey with the Founders Award at their 2024 Fall Benefit.

Students on the steps of University College London. ‘Linked as they are to earnings, student fee repayments are unlike any other loans.’

The BPS is part of a coalition that has published a roadmap to help the NHS meet the government’s manifesto pledge of creating the healthiest generation of children ever.

BASW England recognises the critical insights offered in the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) State of Care Report 2023/24 but notes with concern the pervasive issues in access, safety, and service quality. For social workers, who are on the frontline facing these systemic pressures, the findings reaffirm the urgent need for enhanced support, investment, and reform across the sector.

“I got a placement at Moving On, and within a few weeks they offered me a part-time job. “I’m now doing a degree in social services at the University of the West of Scotland, I originally wanted to go into nursing, but now I want to work in the addiction field and criminal justice.

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.