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news & new scholarship from around the world 02.09.10

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Meta-Analyses &
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This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N = 2,263 anxious,N = 1,768 nonanxious) examined the boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show that the bias is reliably demonstrated with different experimental paradigms and under a variety of experimental conditions, but that it is only an effect size of d = 0.45.

After deleting one trial with outlier results, a meta-analysis estimated the annual incidence of relapse after 1 year to be 10%; however, the small sample sizes resulted in a wide 95% confidence interval (5–17%) suggesting this estimate is not very accurate. We conclude a non-significant amount of relapse occurs after 1 year. Better quantification of this relapse rate is important to improve estimates of life-long abstinence and reductions in morbidity and mortality from smoking cessation.

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Grey Literature

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Analyzes data on the high net undercount of children, examines contributing factors and consequences, and considers prospects for the 2010 census. Makes recommendations for child advocacy groups and nonprofits, including partnering with the Census Bureau.

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Vancouver Sun

"This is our opportunity to get the message out to the world that our government could end poverty and homelessness. It’s about housing supply, low incomes and low wages. There is no excuse for it and we hope the visitors to Vancouver will be appalled by Canada’s record on poverty," said event organizer Wendy Pederson of the Raise the Rates Coalition, a coalition of community groups and organizations concerned with poverty and homelessness in B.C.

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President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act in 1935. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins can be seen standing behind Roosevelt. The Act provided pensions, a federal-state unemployment insurance system, and federal funds for state and local "relief" (welfare) programs. The original plan was meant to include health insurance but this element was dropped, largely because of opposition from doctors. Old age pensions had become a major political issue. However, many oldsters favored the much-more-generous Townsend Plan. As a result, Social Security - which was a radical proposal for its time - became the moderate alternative to Townsend.

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Books

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Comprehensive and focused, Zastrow's PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK, Ninth Edition provides students with the theoretical and working knowledge they need to become competent social work practitioners. This practical "worktext" covers the general practice of social work, as well as the more specialized areas and counseling theories for work with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations.

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