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news & new scholarship from around the world 11.23.09information for practice December 2008 archives
December 30, 2008
12 November 2008. The Prime Minister opened the Beechfield SureStart children's centre, Watford, meeting parents, staff and children.
December 29, 2008
Note. We're taking three days off. We'll be back with new content on Thursday 01/02/09.
D Bicknell, Calgary Herald
Kelly Gunsch left Transalta for the Calgary Homeless Foundation.
The report includes national-level and facility-level estimates of nonconsensual sexual acts, abusive sexual contacts, inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate victimization, and level of coercion. . . . About 1.6% of inmates (12,100, nationwide) reported an incident involving another inmate, and 2.0% (15,200) reported an incident involving staff.
Head of Social Work at Charles Darwin University, Associate Professor Deborah West said that as a long-time social worker she understood all too well how her students needed to be equipped for the profession in the NT.
Over the past several decades, the demand in California for college-educated workers has grown. But the supply of college graduates has not kept pace with demand, and it appears that this “workforce skills gap” will not only continue but widen.
More than 49 million people receive monthly Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits (OASDI). About 91 percent of the population age 65 and older received benefits at the end of 2006. The poverty rate for those age 65 and older is 10.1 percent, but without Social Security that rate would rise to 46 percent.
The economic crisis has produced a tsunami of newly unemployed Massachusetts residents seeking financial help with health insurance coverage.
D Adame | Associated Press
Sex offenders called this makeshift camp under a Miami causeway home after they were kicked off a vacant lot adjacent to a children's center.
Recent international comparisons contain alarming news for Americans: The United States, which led the world in high school completion rates throughout the 20th century, ranked just 21st out of 27 advanced economies by 2005. And our college completion rates have dropped dramatically — from number two in the world for younger workers (age 25-34) to number eleven. The United States is on the verge of losing the great global educational competitive edge it has long enjoyed.
Results of twelve studies, five RCTs and seven non-RCTs including a control group, conducted in the USA, Canada and Great Britain suggest that Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) in residential settings is more effective than standard treatment in reducing criminal behavior in adolescents twelve months after release from the institution. The results are consistent across studies although the studies vary in quality. There is no evidence that the results of CBT are better than those of alternative treatments, i.e. treatments other than CBT.
GP Burnett | NY Times
FAMILY Mary Keane in the kitchen of her Yonkers home, with Anthony Brunson, left, and Jay Jay Rosario-Keane.
Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to US
- Perceived History of Anaphylaxis and Parental Overprotection, Autonomy, Anxiety, and Depression in Food Allergic Young Adults
- Post-Traumatic Growth After a Myocardial Infarction: A Matter of Personality, Psychological Health, or Cognitive Coping?
- Age and Body Satisfaction Predict Diet Adherence in Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Different Associations of Health Related Quality of Life with Pain, Psychological Distress and Coping Strategies in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disorder
- Frequent Assessment of Negative Symptoms Does Not Induce Depressed Mood
- Optimal Scoring of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory in a Chronic Pain Sample
- Relationships Among Religiousness, Spirituality, and Health for Individuals with Stroke
- When Anxiety Symptoms Masquerade as Medical Symptoms: What Medical Specialists Know about Panic Disorder and Available Psychological Treatments
- CD4 Count and Physical Symptoms Among Urban African American Mothers with HIV: An Examination of the Role of Optimism and Depressive Symptoms
- Introducing Mindfulness to Clinical Psychologists in Training: An Experiential Course of Brief Exercises
L Romero | NY Times
VOLUNTEERING Mary Hirschman, right, visiting residents, including Lucy Devries, left, at Bright Side Manor in Teaneck.
In May 2008, the Committee asked all federal departments and agencies to identify federally-funded research projects that address the well-being of older adults. Agencies were asked to submit to the Committee examples of research projects that contributed significantly to policymakers’ knowledge and understanding of social, economic, and medical issues related to aging.
- Social exclusion and mental health: Conceptual and methodological review
- Schizotypal cognitions as a predictor of psychopathology in adolescents with mild intellectual impairment
- Mental health of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities in Britain
- Mental health and quality of residential environment
- Influence of childhood adversity on health among male UK military personnel
- Growth trajectory during early life and risk of adult schizophrenia
- Cost-effectiveness of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and routine specialist care with and without cognitive–behavioural therapy in adolescents with major depression
- Cost of scaling up mental healthcare in low- and middle-income countries
- Cluster randomised controlled trial of training practices in reattribution for medically unexplained symptoms
- Staff and patient perspectives on unmet need and therapeutic alliance in community mental health services
- Postcards from the EDge: 24-month outcomes of a randomised controlled trial for hospital-treated self-poisoning
- Efficacy of three screening instruments in the identification of autistic-spectrum disorders
December 28, 2008
In 2007, about 34 million family caregivers provided care at any given point in time, and about 52 million provided care at some time during the year. The estimated economic value of their unpaid contributions was approximately $375 billion in 2007, up from an estimated $350 billion in 2006.
J Anderson | NY Times
Maria Flores, center, who is pregnant, came to the Waverly Belmont clinic in Nashville for care for herself and for her 11-month-old daughter, Jausari Patron.
A Houston | NY Times
ON RECORD Tom Malamud, Laurel House’s director, takes video at the facility's first-ever holiday luncheon.
J Serences | UC San Diego
Visual areas of the brain that respond more to valuable objects.
The JRF’s recent public consultation revealed a strong sense of unease about some of the changes shaping British society. This Viewpoint continues the discussion about modern 'social evils' on the theme of 'individualism'. Neal Lawson discusses why we are less happy and why our lives feel more out of control than ever before, despite gaining many individual liberties.
A telephone survey of individuals ages 55-75, married or living as married, who were retired and/or had a spouse who was retired. The responses of 1,064 survey participants were analyzed.
Star-News file
Wilmington director Thomas "Tab" Ballis, a licensed clinical social worker in Wilmington, argued that Talana Quay Kreeger’s killing was a hate crime, motivated in part because Kreeger was a lesbian.
This review attempted to determine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural training
interventions. Only six trials involving 463 foster carers were included. Results suggest little
evidence of effect on looked-after children, foster carers and fostering agency outcomes.
Tony and Bianca in a scene from EastEnders
The New Policy Institute has produced its 2008 edition of indicators of poverty and social exclusion in Scotland, providing a comprehensive analysis of trends and differences between groups. Based on the latest available data, its starting point is that, while child and pensioner poverty in Scotland has fallen over the last decade, poverty among working-age adults has remained the same.
Kevin Turtle works on his medicine wheel during the Anishnawbe Mushkiki Health Centre workshop.
Jean Kilbourne's award-winning video offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising images and the devastating effects of those images on women's health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and a well-documented critical perspective on the social impact of advertising.
- Association between fertility and HIV status: what implications for HIV estimates?
- Worldwide food recall patterns over an eleven month period: A country perspective
- All-cause mortality in the Aberdeen 1921 birth cohort: Effects of socio-demographic, physical and cognitive factors
- Fish consumption and its motives in households with versus without self-reported medical history of CVD: A consumer survey from five European countries
- Health-related characteristics and preferred methods of receiving health education according to dominant language among Latinos Aged 25 to 64 in a large Northern California health plan
- Relationship between multimorbidity and physical activity: Secondary analysis from the Quebec health survey
- Problem drinking and exceeding guidelines for 'sensible' alcohol consumption in Scottish men: associations with life course socioeconomic disadvantage in a population-based cohort study
- Factors associated with the health and nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in Afghanistan: family behaviour related to women and past experience of war-related hardships
- The Diagnosis of Tourette's Syndrome: Communication and Impact
- At-risk Mothers' Parenting Capacity: An Epistemological Analysis of Change Through Intensive Intervention
- Young Offenders' Experiences of Traumatic Life Events: A Qualitative Investigation
- Life-Threatening Food Refusal in Two Nine-Year-Old Girls: Re-Thinking the Maudsley Model
- Guilt and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Child Victims of Interpersonal Violence
- Characterizing Anxious Children with an Obsessive Difficult Temperament
- Exploring Young Women's Understandings of the Development of Difficulties: A Narrative Biographical Analysis
- The Perpetuation of Patriarchy: The Hidden Factor of Gender Bias in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Children
December 27, 2008
The existence of 'in-work' poverty has only been officially recognised in the last couple of years. Yet the steady upward trend and number of children involved mean that it should be given high priority. The report includes an in-depth analysis of the progress that has been made on in-work poverty among children since the start of the government's poverty programme in the late 1990s.
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Infoxchange trainer Setyo Budi with Despina Kaloudis, who has been emailing relatives and playing solitaire since she joined the Collingwood housing estate program.
Xinhua Photo
Medical practitioners give consultations to local farmers, at Xiaohe Township of Xiangfan City, central China's Hubei Province
This fact sheet addresses common misconceptions about Medicaid, a program that serves as an effective safety net for those who are unable to pay for health and long-term care.
Presents the number of persons on probation and parole at yearend 2007, by state, with percent changes in each state during the year. The statistical tables provide state-level probation and parole supervision rates and entries and exits. National and state-level data on parole re-incarceration rates are presented.
Cognitive Computing: Building A Machine That Can Learn From Experience
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ALEXANDRA CASTRO, 10, kisses her 1-year-old brother, Saul, as their mother, Leticia, decorates their tree, as part of the Women of Puente de la Costa Sur s Madre Project in Pescadero. Women and children were given small trees to decorate for Christmas as part of the project.
C Drake | NY Times
Bibisoro Sayidova, at her home in Tosh-Teppa, Tajikistan, is struggling since her migrant husband stopped getting paid.
Provides data on the imprisonment rates for prisoners sentenced to more than one year by jurisdiction; the number of males and females in prison; age, race, and gender distributions; admissions and releases; the number of inmates in custody in state and federal prisons and local jails; and custody incarceration rates. It also includes the count for inmates held within facilities operated by and for the military, U.S. territories, Indian country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and juvenile authorities.
This review examines the evidence from recent experimental design evaluations on the impact of after-school programming on youth context (i.e., student location, supervision, and safety); participation in activities; and behavioral, social and emotional, and academic outcomes.
Image courtesy of University of South Florida Health
This MRI scan shows severe atrophy indicative of Alzheimer's pathology in all areas, except the right perirhinal cortex, which has moderate atrophy.
- A reliability and validity study of the Palliative Performance Scale
- A reassuring presence: An evaluation of Bradford District Hospice at Home service
- Palliative care in advanced dementia; A mixed methods approach for the development of a complex intervention
- Randomised controlled trial of a new palliative care service: Compliance, recruitment and completeness of follow-up
- A comparative analysis of computer based hospice palliative care datasets in Canada
- Self-perceived symptoms and care needs of patients with severe to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure or chronic renal failure and its consequences for their closest relatives: the research protocol
- Efficacy of a training intervention on the quality of practitioners' decision support for patients deciding about place of care at the end of life: A randomized control trial: Study protocol
- Information from physicians and retention of information by patients – Obstacles to the awareness of patients of progressing disease when life is near the end
- Palliative care for cancer patients in a primary health care setting: Bereaved relatives' experience, a qualitative group interview study
The report describes the current strengths and weaknesses in policy provision to combat child poverty when parental employment is constrained and is a timely analysis given the approaching 2010 deadline for halving child poverty from 1999 levels. The analysis uses original and unique tax-benefit modelling of current provision across a range of low-paid and out-of-work family profiles.
Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants -- stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy. Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations.
Over the past 10 years, great strides have been made in improving childcare, but more must be done to improve quality and to make childcare more affordable and available to the most disadvantaged groups. This report sets out how, with further improvements, childcare policy can continue to play a key role not just in reducing poverty for today's children, but also in improving outcomes and preventing poverty for the next generation.
- Young people's 'agency' in sexuality research using visual methods
- Young women and politics: an oxymoron?
- Political participation in late modernity among Norwegian youth: an individual choice or a statement of social class?
- Social support as a factor inhibiting teenage risk-taking: views of students, parents and professionals
- 'It's a choice, simple as that': youth reasoning for sexual abstinence or activity
- Teen driving as public drama: statistics, risk, and the social construction of youth as a public problem
- Teenage mothers' experiences of stigma
- Gimme shelter! Investigating the social service interface from the standpoint of youth
- Dancing beyond exercise: young people's experiences in dance classes
M Joseph | Washington Post
Sam Foster, left, and Roscoe Jackson-El work at a drug-and-alcohol rehab center. "All I'm worried about is what is he's going to do for the inner city, not Capitol Hill," Jackson-El says.
December 26, 2008
S Cleary | Associated Press
Michael Baker, 18, sprays artificial snow on his dorm room window.
iStockphoto | S Kaulitzki
Researchers have found a molecule that stores complex, high-quality memories, in a discovery that may one day lead to the ability to erase debilitating painful memories and addictions from the brain.
From 2009 all long-term unemployed people will be referred for employment assistance to external New Deal 'prime contractors' paid largely according to their success in placing people into sustained employment. Senior politicians of all parties are in agreement that such a 'welfare market' will lead to service innovation, improved accountability, better job outcomes, greater value for money, and better customer service, citing the success of market-based reform in countries such as Australia and the Netherlands.
As the population ages, the power of attorney will be used increasingly to appoint trusted family members or others to handle financial decision-making. But it also can be a ‘license to steal,’ because it grants broad powers with little oversight. The report shows that a large majority of states lack protections against abuse.
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In addition, contrary to what was previously thought, it has also been shown that decaffeinated coffee also produces an increased state of alertness.
AP | D Petersen
After fifteen years living years living in seclusion in the Western State Hospital in Staunton, Virginia, a patient now lives alone in a three room suite that the hospital recently fixed up on a ward
Boosting assets enables individuals and households to invest in life goals and to enhance long-term economic stability and social protections. This fact sheet, drawn from Asset Building and Low-Income Families, presents an array of key statistics.
12 girls were sexually abused at a polygamist group's ranch targeted in a high-profile raid last spring, and parents neglected 250 kids living there by doing nothing to protect them from future abuse, Texas child welfare officials said Tuesday.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is among the more promising rehabilitative treatments for
criminal offenders. Reviews of the comparative effectiveness of different treatment approaches
have generally ranked it in the top tier with regard to effects on recidivism . . . . However, there is also significant variation across studies in the size of those treatment effects. Identification of the moderator variables that describe the study characteristics associated with larger and smaller effects can further develop our understanding of the effectiveness of CBT with offenders.
This report looks at how the anticipated changes in qualifications and in the occupational and sectoral distribution of employment will impact on the incidence of child poverty by 2020.
F Orr | LA Times
Kerry Himmel kisses her daughter. Readers have opened their hearts to the Himmels. Offers of help ranged from a few dollars, to food and clothing, to the use of a house.
Bert Shulimson, 1930-2008: Ex-official with Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation who helped refugees
Storybooks On Paper Better For Children Than Reading Fiction On Computer Screen, According to Expert
Crisis is opening temporary shelters for the homeless over Christmas
- The influence of alcohol on basic motoric and cognitive disinhibition
- The crossmodal facilitation effect is disrupted in alcoholism: A study with emotional stimuli
- Stress increases attentional bias for alcohol cues in social drinkers who drink to cope
- The relative contribution of metacognitive beliefs and expectancies to drinking behaviour
- Alcohol use disorders, and at-risk drinking in patients affected by a mood disorder, in Cagliari, Italy: sensitivity and specificity of different questionnaires
- The factor structure and concurrent validity of the alcohol use disorder identification test based on a nationally representative UK sample
- Screening and brief intervention targeting risky drinkers in danish general practice—A pragmatic controlled trial
- Compliance with aftercare treatment, including disulfiram, and effect on outcome in alcohol-dependent patients
- How do quantities drunk per drinking day and the frequencies of drinking those quantities contribute to self-reported harm and positive consequences?
- Comorbidity of alcohol dependence and personality disorders: A comparative study
- The influence of parental drinking behaviour and antisocial personality disorder on adolescent behavioural problems: Results of the Greifswalder Family Study
- Prevalence, proximity and predictors of alcohol ads in Central Harlem
In this program, Jean William Pape, M.D., Director of GHESKIO (the largest health care organization in Haiti), discusses 25 years of AIDS in Haiti. Special focus is placed on research as a key to improving medical care in resource limited settings.
- Is there a European social work identity?
- From obligations to negotiations: reciprocity and reflexivity in informal financial support
- The presence of the absent father: how lone mothers with sons construct and animate the absent father through narratives
- Cross-national social work case analysis: learning from international experience within an electronic environment
- Normality or care - an inventory of Swedish municipalities' responses to unstable accommodation for vulnerable groups
- The specialisation of needs-assessment in Swedish municipal care for older people: the diffusion of a new organisational model
- Comparison of the characteristics of homes for older people in Slovenia with Goffman's concept of the total institution
- Gender differences in social workers' assessments and help-giving strategies towards single parents
- Developing a measure of contentment in an Arab Muslim country: implications for cross-cultural research in social work
- Peeping at peers: a cross-national study of professionalism in social work
- Studies in international social work
This report focuses on the discrimination experienced by families living in poverty in the UK ('povertyism'), examining the barriers preventing them from enjoying equal access to fundamental economic and social rights.
December 24, 2008
This framework report outlines the impact of violence and abuse on health and inequalities. It looks at why violence and abuse happen and makes links between the different forms of violence and abuse. It also provides a framework for intervention to prevent violence and abuse from occurring in the first place.
- A reliability and validity study of the Palliative Performance Scale
- A reassuring presence: An evaluation of Bradford District Hospice at Home service
- Palliative care in advanced dementia; A mixed methods approach for the development of a complex intervention
- Randomised controlled trial of a new palliative care service: Compliance, recruitment and completeness of follow-up
- A comparative analysis of computer based hospice palliative care datasets in Canada
- Self-perceived symptoms and care needs of patients with severe to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure or chronic renal failure and its consequences for their closest relatives: the research protocol
- Efficacy of a training intervention on the quality of practitioners' decision support for patients deciding about place of care at the end of life: A randomized control trial: Study protocol
- Information from physicians and retention of information by patients – Obstacles to the awareness of patients of progressing disease when life is near the end
- Palliative care for cancer patients in a primary health care setting: Bereaved relatives' experience, a qualitative group interview study
- The attitudes of brain cancer patients and their caregivers towards death and dying: a qualitative study
December 23, 2008
Note. We're taking two days off. We'll be back with new content on Thursday 12/26/08.
This report looks at the progress made in healthcare since 2004 and the challenges ahead. It focuses on how six key areas of care were provided to and experienced by patients in 2008.
In Cuyahoga County over the last 10 years, suicides are far more common in May than in November or December, two months that sit smack in the middle of the pack in terms of suicide prevalence.
L Nash | NY Times
PURSUING RECOVERY Patients and their families waiting for methadone
Strong evidence suggests physical activity and maintaining involvement in cognitively stimulating activities buttress cognition as we age. Join Amy Jak, Ph.D., UCSD School of Medicine, as she explores how this phenomenon happens.
The Mental Capacity Act came into force on 1 October 2007. It has a significant impact both for patients with impaired mental capacity, and those caring for them. That includes all health and social care professionals engaged in palliative care, whatever their setting, be it a specialist unit or hospice, an acute hospital, a care home, or primary care.
Dr Kevin Balanda, Associate Director of the Institute of Public Health in Ireland is interviewed by Arlene McKay
This study explores the assumption that individuals can work their way out of poverty, by examining the changing earnings of employees, the integration of migrants and the progression of low-paid families in Britain since the late 1970s.
"Over the next three years the Scottish Government is committing over £44 million to tackle violence against women, including supporting the work of Scottish Women's Aid, the Scottish Domestic Abuse Helpline, Rape Crisis Scotland and the network of local rape crisis centres.
k djansezian | associated press
John Malpede (above) is the director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, which includes a 20-member acting troupe made up primarily of homeless people.
Baltimore Sun | E Malby
A candlelight vigil at the Inner Harbor recalls 47 homeless men and women who died this year in Baltimore.
The review sought all randomised controlled evaluations about the effects of CBT on physical violence worldwide, but found only six small trials with 2343 participants met the inclusion criteria. The evidence from the included studies is insufficient to draw any conclusions.
The government has repeatedly stated that work is the best route out of poverty. This implies that work is not the only route, but is the preferred or main route in tackling child poverty. This report examines the extent to which there is underemployment among parents and a desire to work among parents who are not currently working. It examines patterns of work and worklessness among parents and flows between work and workless states for parents, both using survey data and lone-parent benefit claims.
Giving up
Susan Kettles, 19, from Tayport, smokes about 10 cigarettes a day. She said: "I was 14 when I started - it was the in thing to do at school to be honest. "I'm going to give up for the New Year."
"It's a lot to do with health, that's the reason I'm giving up."
In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered Black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In his book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a cross-roads, with members of a new multiracial movement pointing the way toward equality.
World Health Organization
Margaret Chan: "Having evidence and a well-designed package of interventions are not enough. We will not see progress in mental health without political commitment."
- A Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Risk of Recurrence in Women With Bipolar Disorder During Pregnancy: Prospective Study of Mood Stabilizer Discontinuation
- Religion, Spirituality, and Medicine: Psychiatrists’ and Other Physicians’ Differing Observations, Interpretations, and Clinical Approaches
- Failure of Frontolimbic Inhibitory Function in the Context of Negative Emotion in Borderline Personality Disorder
- Altered Reward Processing in Women Recovered From Anorexia Nervosa
- Physiology of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizoaffective Disorder
- Ethical and regulatory considerations in HIV prevention studies employing respondent-driven sampling
- Cannabis policies and user practices: Market separation, price, potency, and accessibility in Amsterdam and San Francisco
- Alcohol and other drug related deaths among young people in CIS countries: Proximal and distal causes and implications for policy
- Globalization and the price decline of illicit drugs
- Understanding recreational ecstasy use in the United States: A qualitative inquiry
- How do drug policy makers access research evidence?
- Increasing the appeal and utilization of services for alcohol and drug problems: What consumers and their social networks prefer
- Opioid dependent patients’ experiences of and attitudes towards having their injecting sites examined
- Fentanyl use among street drug users in Toronto, Canada: Behavioural dynamics and public health implications
- ‘Towards a Global Approach’–An overview of Harm Reduction 2008: IHRA’s 19th International Conference
This factsheet explains what an advance decision is, and what it can and cannot do. It also provides practical advice and a form for drafting an advance decision.
December 22, 2008
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Social Worker Candi Collins, left, follws up with a client at Tri-County Community Action Partnership in Bridgeton. The poor economy is stressing social workers as caseloads increase and resources diminish.
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Karen Matthews had never worked but because she had seven children she was able to claim an estimated £286.60 a week in benefits.
This booklet explains how the Mental Capacity Act 2005 can help people with mental health problems deal with their money when they go into banks, building societies and post offices.
This statistical release about statutory homelessness includes data on household acceptances and households in temporary accommodation.
An examination of community involvement in the governance of local services, with an emphasis on the role of public officials. The role played by public officials in community engagement has important effects on the extent to which community views can influence local services. This study explores the experiences and views of public officials, comparing a local authority, a police service and a Primary Care Trust in one part of London.
Joseph Catan, interim executive director of Roxbury Multi-Service Center, has had to make tough choices amid funding struggles.
This document reviews HM Prison Service's five-year race equality plan and demonstrates the progress made in putting systems and processes in place to effectively manage race equality in prisons.
Examines civil rights claims based on race, age, sex, or national origin involving employment, welfare, housing, voting, or other civil rights discrimination issues. It covers civil rights claims litigated in federal district courts from 1990 to 2006. Information is presented on trends in types of civil rights cases filed in federal district courts, the basis of federal court jurisdiction, case processing time, disposition of civil rights cases, and the types of trials that occur in the federal courts.
Above Stanley Milgram and some of his results (cf., Dr. Thomas Blass's work)
Dr Jerry Burger, of Santa Clara University, used a similar format, although he did not allow the volunteers to carry on beyond 150 volts after they had shown their willingness to do so . . . Again, however, the vast majority of the 29 men and 41 women taking part were willing to push the button knowing it would cause pain to another human.
For older workers, this recession is unprecedented. Last month, 298,000 Americans ages 65 and older were unemployed, 50 percent more than when the recession began a year ago.
This review has been written ahead of the forthcoming Housing Reform Green Paper, which will include a focus on the improved provision of housing services and options for young people. The review provides a context for considering the changing nature of young people’s housing transitions in recent decades and highlights some of the most pressing housing-related issues facing young people in the UK today.
F Larson | The Chronicle
Melvin Randal Osborn, from Lake Tahoe, arrived in San Francisco by bus. He's homeless.
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides a statutory framework to empower and protect people aged 16 and over who lack, or may lack, capacity to make certain decisions for themselves because of illness, a learning disability, or mental health problems. The act was fully implemented in October 2007 and applies in England and Wales.
Dr. Nancy Minshew discusses the cognitive factors that are contributing to some individuals with autism not being able to cope with their emotional dysregulation in social situations often resulting in behavior problems.
M Taboada | NY Times
Reyna Luisa Olmedo Vasquez, the nurse for the clinic in Paso de Coyutla. At health clinics like this one in rural Meico, poor people are paid to bring in their children for checkups.
- Decolonizing the pedagogy and practice of international social work
- Engaging Italian and Australian social workers in evaluation
- Educational benefits of international experiential learning in an MSW program
- Deconstructing motivations: Challenging international social work placements
- Japanese students' perceptions of international perspectives in social work
- Addressing issues of globalization in the training of public child welfare workers: Lessons from a training program in the USA
- Child welfare needs in Mongolia: A collaborative exploration among three universities
- Children affected by earthquakes and their immediate emotional needs
- Accuracy of self-reported body weight, height and waist circumference in a Dutch overweight working population
- Simple estimators of the intensity of seasonal occurrence
- Double–blind control of the data manager doesn't have any impact on data entry reliability and should be considered as an avoidable cost
- Intervention, recruitment and evaluation challenges in the Bangladeshi community: Experience from a peer lead educational course
- Reliability and validity of the international physical activity questionnaire in the Nord-Trøndelag health study (HUNT) population of men
- The HCV Synthesis Project: Scope, methodology, and preliminary results
- Data management for prospective research studies using SAS® software
- Industry-supported meta-analyses compared with meta-analyses with non-profit or no support: Differences in methodological quality and conclusions
December 21, 2008
A 12-week course of continuous treatment with buprenorphine-naloxone and counseling is more effective than conventional detoxification and counseling in treating youth for opioid addiction, a randomized clinical trial has found.
The five sets (a core set, a mental health set, a residential accommodation set, a community care and primary care set and an acute hospitals set) can be downloaded here. Each set comes in two versions that include hyperlinks to the Act, to the Code of Practice and to other key documents, case studies and exercises.
Equality is a core value of both the Christian and Western democratic tradition. Much has been achieved in the field of legal and civic equality, but historically such economic leveling in Britain has resulted from the cost pressures of war rather from deliberate political design.
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How many taste buds have you got? As part of the large-scale experiment, pupils from all over Denmark had to colour their tongue bright blue with fruit dye and count the number of taste buds in a certain section of the tongue. Pupils from Amager Fælled School in Copenhagen.
Yarrow Davies
Slowing labour force growth will heighten the competition among organizations for skilled workers. In light of this, the voluntary/non-profit will need to identify strategies to attract and retain older workers and people from groups under-represented in the work force including Aboriginal people, immigrants and disabled workers.
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Brain fMRI image illustrating activation of the hippocampus during the memory suppression phase. Researchers have determined that the circuitry in the area of the brain responsible for suppressing memory is dysfunctional in patients suffering from stress-related psychiatric disorders.
President-elect Obama’s appointment of Peter Orszag to be director of the Office of Management and Budget has raised the threat level for an attack on Social Security to orange.
Total global expenditure for health: US$ 4.1 trillion +
Total global expenditure for health per person per year: US$ 639
Country with lowest total spending per person per year on health: Burundi (US$ 2.90)
R Kastro | The Times
Mazal Shachar, 64, a Tel Aviv bank bookkeeper, says her pension savings account has shrunk 30% this year, derailing her carefully made plans to retire in a year. She had expected to draw about $2,450 a month in retirement, a sum similar to her current salary, but now estimates that the figure would be $1,825, not enough to support herself.
This publication is an annual compendium of research on issues related to rape, sexual assault and other forms of community violence.
This document supports local areas in commissioning weight management services for children and young people. It is designed to reflect the move towards world-class commissioning and joint commissioning of children’s services.
Prague - About 500 leftist radicals today attended a rally called Against Racist Pogroms, Against Social Exclusion, for Dignified Life for All, staged by the leftist Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) in the centre of Prague.
- Treating dementia: will the NICE guidance 2006 change our clinical practice?
- Delirium post-stroke
- The prevalence of dementia in the People's Republic of China: a systematic analysis of 1980–2004 studies
- Does the patient-centred approach help identify the needs of older people attending primary care?
- START (screening tool to alert doctors to the right treatment)—an evidence-based screening tool to detect prescribing omissions in elderly patients
- Smoking cessation and transition into retirement: analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Associations of delirium with in-hospital and in 6-months mortality in elderly medical inpatients
- Rethinking individual and community fall prevention strategies: a meta-regression comparing single and multifactorial interventions
- Can people with mild to moderate dementia provide reliable answers about their quality of life?
- The older persons' assessment and liaison team ‘OPAL’: evaluation of comprehensive geriatric assessment in acute medical inpatients
- Striving for comfort: "Positive" construction of dating cultures among second-generation Chinese American youths
- Is actual similarity necessary for attraction? A meta-analysis of actual and perceived similarity
- Division of eco-friendly household labor and the marital relationship
- An examination of the tripartite approach to commitment: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Analysis of the effect of relational maintenance behavior
- Relational identities of always-single Japanese women
- Sexual minority stress and changes in relationship quality in same-sex couples
December 20, 2008
This study focuses on what arrangements are in place across England to protect adults from abuse. Our report finds that the current arrangements for safeguarding adults are inconsistent.
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Social Worker Candi Collins, left, follws up with a client at Tri-County Community Action Partnership in Bridgeton. The poor economy is stressing social workers as caseloads increase and resources diminish.
David Heath, Bachelor of Social Work student at Charles Darwin University
The JRF's recent public consultation revealed a strong sense of unease about some of the changes shaping British society. This Viewpoint continues the discussion about modern 'social evils' on the theme of 'inequality'. Chris Creegan argues that until we can reconcile the problems of excessive individualism, consumerism and greed at the heart of contemporary society, life opportunities will continue to be lost, limited and wasted.
International travel can pose various risks to health, depending on the characteristics of both the traveller and the travel. Travellers may encounter sudden and significant changes in altitude, humidity, microbes and temperature, which can result in ill-health. In addition, serious health risks may arise in areas where accommodation is of poor quality, hygiene and sanitation are inadequate, medical services are not well developed and clean water is unavailable.
J Trujillo | P-I
Harry Bondy, right, tries to keep warm as temperatures dip into the teens Monday on Lower Queen Anne: "If you let yourself get cold then it's hard to get warm."
Culture is and always has been central to development. As a natural and fundamental dimension of people’s lives, culture must be integrated into development policy and programming. This report shows how this process works in practice.
Community organisations have owned or managed assets, including buildings and land, for many years. Current government policy encourages the transfer of assets to community organisations. This study reviewed existing evidence to explore the scale of community ownership in the UK, the benefits and outcomes that arise from it, and differing international approaches.
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Carmelita Robertson and daughter Jaira, 2, occupy a private, tented cot inside the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles. Robertson said they lived in a motel room until they ran out of government vouchers.
Comprised of 22 individual measures; 16 of which measure determinants and 6 of which measure health outcomes. Each measure reflects a different aspect of our health and its variation across the United States.
The reform of public services can make a tremendous impact on the lives of rural people. Often reform brings real improvement to the way in which services are delivered and to the choice which people can exercise.
- Cannabis use and psychosis: the origins and implications of an association
- Epidemiology: what it is and why it matters
- Off-label prescribing in psychiatric practice
- Why don’t patients attend their appointments? Maintaining engagement with psychiatric services
- Why do psychiatrists have difficulty disengaging with the out-patient clinic?
- Cognitive–behavioural therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Recognising and managing antidepressant discontinuation symptoms
- The cognitive behavioural analysis system of psychotherapy: a new psychotherapy for chronic depression
- The work patterns of consultant psychiatrists
- Introducing the Latent Congruence Model for Improving the Assessment of Similarity, Agreement, and Fit in Organizational Research
- Latent Variable Modeling in Congruence Research: Current Problems and Future Directions
- A Multiple-Perspective Approach to Data Analysis in Congruence Research
- First Decade of Organizational Research Methods: Trends in Design, Measurement, and Data-Analysis Topics
- How Do Missing Data Bias Estimates of Within-Group Agreement? Sensitivity of SD WG, CVWG, rWG(J), rWG(J) * , and ICC to Systematic Nonresponse
- Testing Agreement for Multi-Item Scales With the IndicesrWG(J) and AD M(J)
- The Multifaceted Nature of Measurement Artifacts and Its Implications for Estimating Construct-Level Relationships
- Awareness of health effects of cooking smoke among women in the Gondar Region of Ethiopia: a pilot survey
- A multilevel analysis of effect of neighbourhood and individual wealth status on sexual behaviour among women: evidence from Nigeria 2003 Demographic and Health Survey
- Mental health of returnees: refugees in Germany prior to their state-sponsored repatriation
- Self-rated health among Mayan women participating in a randomised intervention trial reducing indoor air pollution in Guatemala
- Health and lifestyle of Nepalese migrants in the UK
- Metabolic control in a nationally representative diabetic elderly sample in Costa Rica: patients at community health centers vs. patients at other health care settings
- Unreported births and deaths, a severe obstacle for improved neonatal survival in low-income countries; a population based study
- Systematic synthesis of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) project evaluation reports for evidence-based policy: a proof-of-concept study
- Exploring synergies between human rights and public health ethics: A whole greater than the sum of its parts
- Correlates of current cigarette smoking among school-going adolescents in Punjab, India: results from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2003
- Risk, Uncertainty and Public Protection: Assessment of Young People Who Offend
- Child Welfare and Information and Communication Technology: Today’s Challenge
- That’s Not My Child Anymore! Parental Grief after Acquired Brain Injury (ABI): Incidence, Nature and Longevity
- Parental Substance Misuse and Child Welfare: Outcomes for Children Two Years after Referral
- Early Intervention in the Round: A Great Idea But . . .
- Powers to Detain under Mental Health Legislation in England and the Role of the Approved Social Worker: An Analysis of Patterns and Trends under the 1983 Mental Health Act in Six Local Authorities
- Themes in Family Care-Giving: Implications for Social Work Practice with Older Adults
- Diversity and Progression among Students Starting Social Work Qualifying Programmes in England between 1995 and 1998: A Quantitative Study
- Collaboration Between Community Advocates and Academic Researchers: Scientific Advocacy or Political Research?
- Evidence-Based Practice: An Exploration of the Effectiveness of Voluntary Sector Services for Victims of Community Violence
- Putting "Rural" Into Psychiatry Residency Training Programs
- Psychiatric Resident Education in Intellectual Disabilities: One Program’s Ten Years of Experience
- Resident Education and Perceptions of Recovery in Serious Mental Illness: Observations and Commentary
- Increasing the Rate of Return of Resident Rotation Evaluations by Their Attending Physicians in an In-Patient Psychiatric Facility
- The Structured Clinically Relevant Interview for Psychiatrists in Training (SCRIPT): A New Standardized Assessment Tool for Recruitment in the UK
- Assessing Attitudes about Genetic Testing as a Component of Continuing Medical Education
- Developing the Master Educator: Cross Disciplinary Teaching Scholars Program for Human and Veterinary Medical Faculty
- Get Over Your (Legal) 'Self': A Brief History of Lesbians, Motherhood and the Law
- 'Straight from the Horse's Mouth': An Empirical Exploration of Success in the Irish Credit Union Movement
- Legislating Gender, (Re)producing Rights: An Analysis of African Case Law
- Constructing Citizenship: Making Room for Prisoners' Rights
- Patient satisfaction with antiretroviral services at primary health-care facilities in the Free State, South Africa – a two-year study using four waves of cross-sectional data
- Determinants of health care utilization by immigrants in Portugal
- Family caregiver quality of life in multiple sclerosis among Kuwaitis: a controlled study
- A cost effectiveness study of integrated care in health services delivery: a diabetes program in Australia
- Urban women's socioeconomic status, health service needs and utilization in the four weeks after postpartum hospital discharge: findings of a Canadian cross-sectional survey
- The relationship between depressive symptoms, health service consumption, and prognosis after acute myocardial infarction: a prospective cohort study
- Being Related: How children define and create kinship
- Challenging Childhoods: Young people's accounts of `getting by' in families with substance use problems
- Conformity and Resistance in Self-Management Strategies of `Good Girls'
- Methodological Immaturity in Childhood Research?: Thinking through `participatory methods'
- `Cry and you cry alone': Timeout in early childhood settings
- Student-Centered Learning in an Advanced Social Work Practice Course: Outcomes of a Mixed Methods Investigation
- Self-Reported Likelihood of Whistleblowing by Social Work Students
- Introducing Vocational Qualifications in Care to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Assessing Social Work Field Education: Towards Standardising Fieldwork Assessment in New Zealand
- Graduate Social Work Students' Interest in Working with Older Adults
- Who Really Drives the Development of Post-Qualifying Social Work Education and What are the Implications of This?
- The Apparent Conflict between Commitment to the Development of the Profession and the Imperatives of the Academy
- Gender in Social Work Education and Practice in India
- Principles of Engagement: (mis)Understanding the Community-Design Studio
- Citizen Engagement in Post-Hurricane Katrina Planning in Harrison County, Mississippi
- Building Local Capacity: Planning for Local Culture and Neighborhood Recovery in New Orleans
- Equity Planning in Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans: Lessons From the Ninth Ward
- Rebuilding Community Block by Block
- A Sustainable Housing Response to Hurricane Katrina
- Working With Experience
- Biloxi Treehouse Project
- URBANbuild: Architectural Networks of Real Urbanism
- Rebuilding for the Seventh Ward's Cultural Life
- Rebuilding New Orleans With Affordable, Hurricane-Resistant Residential Construction
- Special Section: The Problem of Psychology and the Integration of Human Knowledge: Contrasting Wilson's Consilience with the Tree of Knowledge System
- Special Section: Theoretical Unification as a Practical Project: Kant and the Tree of Knowledge System
- Special Section: Religion as a Large-Scale Justification System: Does the Justification Hypothesis Explain Animistic Attribution?
- Special Section: The Critical Role of the Dialectic in Viable Metatheory: A Commentary on Henriques' Tree of Knowledge System for Integrating Human Knowledge
- Special Section: Pruning the Tree of Knowledge
- On the Possibility of Unification: The Reality and Nature of the Crisis in Psychology
- Demonstration in Experimental Phenomenology: How to Bring out Perceptual Laws
- Adverse outcomes following hospitalization in acutely ill older patients
- How do older patients and their GPs evaluate shared decision-making in healthcare?
- Falls in advanced old age: recalled falls and prospective follow-up of over-90-year-olds in the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort study
- Factors associated with self-rated health in older people living in institutions
- Individual nutrition therapy and exercise regime: A controlled trial of injured, vulnerable elderly (INTERACTIVE trial)
- Transitions in cognitive test scores over 5 and 10 years in elderly people: Evidence for a model of age-related deficit accumulation
- (Cost)-effectiveness of family meetings on indicated prevention of anxiety and depressive symptoms and disorders of primary family caregivers of patients with dementia: design of a randomized controlled trial
- Prevalence of anaemia in older persons: systematic review
- The Effects of Multiple Identities on Psychological Well-Being
- Getting Off on the Wrong Foot: The Timing of a Breach and the Restoration of Trust
- The Other Side of We: When Outgroup Members Express Common Identity
- Success Attributions and More: Multidimensional Extensions of the Sexual Attribution Bias to Failure Attributions, Social Emotions, and the Desire for Social Interaction
- Sunken Costs and Desired Plans: Examining Different Types of Investments in Close Relationships
- Depletion Makes the Heart Grow Less Helpful: Helping as a Function of Self-Regulatory Energy and Genetic Relatedness
- Leader Emergence: The Case of the Narcissistic Leader
- The Dark Side of Creativity: Biological Vulnerability and Negative Emotions Lead to Greater Artistic Creativity
- Team Negotiation: Social, Epistemic, Economic, and Psychological Consequences of Subgroup Conflict
- The Good and Bad of Relationships: How Social Hindrance and Social Support Affect Relationship Feelings in Daily Life
- The Agreeableness Asymmetry in First Impressions: Perceivers' Impulse to (Mis)judge Agreeableness and How It Is Moderated by Power
- Perceptions of Undereaters: A Matter of Perspective?
- The Centrality of Contingent Faculty to Academe’s Future
- Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Studies
- Nameless, New Haven, and Nicholls
- Organizing in the Lab
- The Seamy Side of Science
- How to Succeed in an Academic Science Career
- Battling for Hearts and Minds
- Including Contingent Faculty in Governance
- Legal Remedies for Contingent Faculty
- Gaining Access to Unemployment Insurance
- Lobbying for Contingent Faculty Interests
- Working Without a Union in New Mexico
- Organizing a Legislative Forum
- Multi-Union Efforts in New York
- Lobbying in a “Right-to-Work” State
- Contingent Faculty and Student Outcomes
- Deconstructing Demons: The Case of Geoffrey
- Adapting Older Adults to Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Vice Versa: The Case of Geoffrey
- New Wine in Old Bottles: The Transdiagnostic Model in the Case of Geoffrey
- Balancing Between Empirically-Supported Methods and Individualized Treatment Design in the Case of Geoffrey
- Backlash or Equality?: The Influence of Men's and Women's Rights Discourses on Domestic Violence Legislation in Ontario
- Covariation in the Use of Physical and Sexual Intimate Partner Aggression Among Adolescent and College-Age Men: A Longitudinal Analysis
- Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women: Training Needs of Violence Practitioners
- Improving Services to African American Survivors of IPV: From the Voices of Recipients of Culturally Specific Services
- Good Women, Martyrs, and Survivors: A Theoretical Framework for South Asian Women's Responses to Partner Violence
- Empowering Bystanders to Prevent Campus Violence Against Women: A Preliminary Evaluation of a Poster Campaign
- Introduction to the Special Issue
- Improving the Social Status of Peer-Rejected Youth with Disabilities: Extending the Research on Positive Peer Reporting
- Treatment of Chronic Breath-Holding in an Adult with Severe Mental Retardation
- In-Home Parent Training of Functional Analysis Skills
- Developing Stimulus Control for Occurrences of Stereotypy Exhibited by a Child with Autism
- The Use of Concurrent Operants Preference Assessment to Evaluate Choice of Interventions for Children Diagnosed with Autism
- Teaching Laundry Skills to Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Using Video Prompting
- Behavioral Health in Intellectual Disability: A Comprehensive Program of Nutrition, Exercise, and Weight Reduction
- Evaluation of a Changing Criterion Intervention to Increase Fluent Responding in an Elementary Age Student with Autism
- Preliminary Evaluation of Children's Psychosocial Rehabilitation for Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance
- Efficacy of a Camp-Based Intervention for Childhood Traumatic Grief
- Evaluation of an In-Service Training Program for Child Welfare Practitioners
- Placement and Permanency Outcomes for Children in Out-of-Home Care by Prior Inpatient Mental Health Treatment
- Study Quality Assessment in Systematic Reviews of Research on Intervention Effects
- On the Meaning and Measurement of Engagement in Youth Residential Treatment Centers
- Item Selection Methods for the Adolescent Domain Screening Inventory
- Development of the Policy Advocacy Behavior Scale: Initial Reliability and Validity
- Testing the Cross-Ethnic Construct Validity of the Brief Symptom Inventory
- Reinventing Social Work Accreditation
- Response to Stoesz and Karger's Article, "Reinventing Social Work Accreditation"
- Social Work Education: Status Quo or Change?
- Rejoinder to "Reinventing Social Work Education"
- Comments on "Reinventing Social Work Accreditation"
- Poor Rigor and Political Obduracy: which is the Horse and which is the Cart in Social Work Education?
- "Reinventing Social Work Accreditation": Write On!
- The CSWE and Social Work Accreditation: Not Guilty on All Charges
- Social Work Education in Wonderland: Stoesz and Karger Reply
- Earnings Losses of Older Displaced Workers: A Detailed Analysis with Administrative Data
- The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging
- Industry Hiring Patterns of Older Workers
- Labor-Force Dynamics at Older Ages: Movements Into Self-Employment for Workers and Nonworkers
- Gradual Retirement, Sense of Control, and Retirees' Happiness
- Behavior Analysis in its Historical and Cultural Context
- Behavior and Social Issues Advances
- Editorial Note on Scientific Tone
- Propensity to Report Intimate Partner Violence in Australia: Community Demographics
- Belief in Free Will: Measurement and Conceptualization Innovations
- A Relational Frame Theory Contribution to Social Categorization
- Functional Assessment of Self-Initiated Maladaptive Behaviors: A Case Study
- New Myths and Harsh Realities: Reply to Paul on the Implications of Paul and Lentz (1977) for Generalization From Token Economies to Uncontrolled Environments
- Relationship between cognitive appraisals of symptoms and negative mood for subtypes of irritable bowel syndrome
- Childhood physical abuse in outpatients with psychosomatic symptoms
- Symptoms of somatization as a rapid screening tool for mitochondrial dysfunction in depression
- Somatic awareness in the clinical care of patients with body distress symptoms
- Psychological and weight-related characteristics of patients with anorexia nervosa-restricting type who later develop bulimia nervosa
- Psychosomatic complaints and sense of coherence among adolescents in a county in Sweden: a cross-sectional school survey
- Case report: a case of intractable Meniere's disease treated with autogenic training
- Towards a new strategy to implement psychosomatic knowledge in medical practice
- Changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population-based sample of children and adolescents after 3 years of follow-up
- Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on health-related quality of life in women in the Nurses’ Health Study
- Health-related quality of life in unselected outpatients with heart failure across Spain in two different health care levels. Magnitude and determinants of impairment: The INCA study
- Cognitive interviewing in the evaluation of fatigue items: Results from the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS)
- Psychometric properties of the Personal and Social Performance scale (PSP) among individuals with schizophrenia living in the community
- Comparative responsiveness and minimal change for the Oxford Elbow Score following surgery
- The Turkish version of the National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life Instrument: translation, validity and reliability
- Lower visual acuity predicts worse utility values among patients with type 2 diabetes
- Health-related quality of life and utilities in primary-care patients with generalized anxiety disorder
- Using patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: proceedings of an International Society of Quality of Life Research conference
- Prospects and challenges in using patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice
- Patient-reported outcomes and the mandate of measurement
- Evaluating the effectiveness of using PROs in clinical practice: a role for cluster-randomised trials
- Taking PROs and patient-centered care seriously: incremental and disruptive ideas for incorporating PROs in oncology practice
- The Code of Ethics and the Clash of Orthodoxies: A Response to Spano and Koenig
- A response to Paul Adams. The code of ethics and the clash of orthodoxies
- On the Readiness of Social Work Students to Blow the Whistle to Protect the Client’s Interests
- Grounding MSW Students in Social Work Values and Ethics: An Innovative Approach
- Ethics as Activity: Building Collaborative, Expansive and Just Social Work
- Social Work and The International Humanitarian Law: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities
- Understanding Human Trafficking in the United States
- Sexual Homicide: A Synthesis of the Literature
- The Elusive Search for Definitive Evidence on Routine Screening for Intimate Partner Violence
- Sexual Violence Against Women and Children in Chinese Societies
- Gender and ethnic differences for Hispanic children referred to child protective services
- Facing the challenges of children and youth with special abilities and needs on the fringes of Omani society
- The impact of early mental health services on the trajectory of externalizing behavioral problems in a sample of high-risk pre-adolescent children
- The impact of low- and moderate-wealth homeownership on parental attitudes and behavior: Evidence from the community advantage panel
- A comparative study of policy approach for child protection in Goa and Singapore
- Children with disabilities: Problems faced by foster parents
- Generations of Hope Communities: An intergenerational neighborhood model of support and service
- The beliefs of resilient African-American adolescent mothers transitioning from foster care to independent living: A case-based analysis
- Receipt of professional care coordination among families raising children with special health care needs: A multilevel analysis of state policy needs
- Mothers' experience of methamphetamine addiction: A case-based analysis of rural, midwestern women
- Intentions to remain employed in child welfare: The role of human caring, self-efficacy beliefs, and professional organizational culture
- Assessing candidates for adoptive parenthood. Institutional re-formulations of biographical notes
- School climate and children's views of their rights: A multi-cultural perspective among Jewish and Arab adolescents
- Natural mentoring and psychosocial outcomes among older youth transitioning from foster care
- The role of child welfare managers in promoting agency performance through experimentation
- Implementation fidelity of Team Decisionmaking
- Runaway youths in Singapore: Exploring demographics, motivations, and environments
- AdoptUsKids national photolisting service: Characteristics of listed children and length of time to placement
- Residential education: An emerging resource for improving educational outcomes for youth in foster care?
- Satisfaction with counseling among black males in transition from the foster care system
- Legal themes concerning obesity regulation in the United States: Theory and practice
- A systematic policy approach to changing the food system and physical activity environments to prevent obesity
- Obesity prevention: the role of policies, laws and regulations
- What's law got to do with it? Part 2: Legal strategies for healthier nutrition and obesity prevention
- What's law got to do with it? Part 1: A framework for obesity prevention
- Obesity: should there be a law against it? Introduction to a symposium
- Meeting the demographic challenges ahead: Toward culture change in an ageing New Zealand
- Access to high cost medicines in Australia: ethical perspectives
- Beyond policy and planning to practice: getting sexual health on the agenda in Aboriginal communities in Western Australia
- Unwanted pregnancy, mental health and abortion: untangling the evidence
The "This Is Social Work & Aging" contest submission from the Gerontology Student Association (GSA) of the Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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The European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research says there are. Latest data show that the rate of poverty varies between 10% and 23% between States. Countries recording the lowest poverty levels are the Nordic states, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia. The Baltic and Mediterranean regions face the highest levels.
December 19, 2008
The European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) represents a unique attempt to explore quality of life in a wide range of countries. It is a major source of information, highlighting the social and economic policy challenges facing the EU following the two recent rounds of enlargement.
Ombudsman Alice Tai Yuen-ying said the SWD also dished out funds on forged rental receipts and was hoodwinked by at least one applicant posing as a landlord.
Academics and students have presented a petition to Downing Street, urging the government to withdraw new immigration rules for overseas students in the UK.
Hope Laboratory
This microscopic image shows HIV (red) entering human cervical/vaginal tissue. Structure of tissue is shown by staining the surface of the cells (green) and nuclei (blue). Inset of higher magnification of region in white box showing that virus is located between the cells.
Empirical research on the effectiveness of community mobilization strategies to prevent violence remains limited. Community mobilization strategies to prevent domestic violence are often grounded in public health prevention models, community organizing strategies, and/or strengths-based approaches.
The delivery of 55,000 postcards to Governor Paterson demanded that the State “invest in CUNY with public dollars – not tuition hikes.”
POVERTY INSTITUTE
http://www.pbn.com/stories/36852.html“THE SHRINKING SAFETY NET has caused the basic needs budgets for low- and modest-income families to go from black to red,” Poverty Institute chief Kate Brewster said in a statement accompanying the release of today’s report “Today, work supports narrow but no longer close the gap between earnings and expenses.”
Consumer providers (CPs) are individuals with serious mental illness who are trained to use their experiences to provide recovery-oriented services and support to others. There are several demonstrated benefits to employing CPs: They can serve as role models, voice and broker the needs of consumers, provide information and motivation, and mentor others (including potential CPs).
A lot of traditional Vermont industries were experiencing hard times already by the mid 1920s... the paper industry is a good example of that. Paper mills were shut down across the state, so the state economy was already pretty fragile by the time the stock market crashed.
This bulletin presents further analysis of the 2007/08 BCS, focusing on the seven strands that comprise the overall summary measure of perceptions of anti-social behaviour (ASB). The proportion of adults with a high level of perceived ASB has fallen from 19 per cent in 2001/02 (the first year in which this measure could be calculated) to 16 per cent in 2007/08.
Baby P died shortly before Ofsted gave Haringey a clean bill of health
Alicia Callanan Mandigo talks with John Bricout, Ph.D. from UCF's College of Health and Public Affairs about new research possibilities in the field of social work. Research topics discussed are services for the public good like voting and senior centers and what changes can be implemented to improve the well-being of disadvantaged people. Central Florida presents unique research opportunities due to its newness as a community and its diversity. Another area of research discussed is telework or telecommuting in response to rising gas prices and how to get companies to be less resistant to it by understanding employers' perspectives.
This report presents statistics from the Child Support Agency, which aims to ensure that parents who live apart both fulfill their responsibility to maintain their children whenever they can afford to do so.
December 18, 2008
In nearly 3,000 communes across the country, one quarter of the people are poor.
Our report finds that the current system for assessing whether someone is eligible for publicly funded social care is flawed.
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Hank Williams, 57, of Modesto.
Marriage affects health insurance coverage. As marriage rates in the United States decline . . . fewer women will have the opportunity to obtain health insurance coverage through their spouse. Marriage can also increase family income and may make health insurance more affordable. Because poor and low-income unmarried women are more likely to be eligible for Medicaid than their married counterparts, changes in Medicaid eligibility may also affect coverage rates disproportionately for poor and low-income unmarried women.
Although CDC recently reported that annual HIV incidence has remained stable in the United States in recent years, these estimates do not provide a full picture of the effect that HIV prevention efforts are having across the country. While stability in new infections is one sign of progress, these incidence data alone cannot quantify the amount of transmission that occurs in relation to the growing population infected with HIV.
According to the most recently available Labour Force Survey for 2004-2005, 509,000 individuals in the UK believed they were suffering from stress, depression or anxiety and these conditions were caused or made worse by their current or past work. This resulted in an estimated 12.8 million working days lost with an average of 30.9 days off over a 12 month period.
Parsons students working with Guatemalan weavers in San Lucas Toliman.
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During the Great Depression, the old Schade Brewery, vacant because of Prohibition, became a soup kitchen for hundreds of transients camped near the Spokane Rive
The JRF's recent public consultation revealed a strong sense of unease about some of the changes shaping British society. This Viewpoint continues the discussion about modern ‘socialevils’ on the theme of ‘inequality’. Jeremy Seabrook argues that, in the face of extraordinary imbalances in society, the myth that accumulating wealth is the supreme human purpose needs to be replaced before any improvement will occur.
Robley Carr, 15 when he died in 2006, suffered abuse in foster care years earlier.
Underage drinkers who drank in the past month (i.e., current drinkers) obtained their last alcohol drink as follows: 30.6% paid for the last alcoholic drink, 26.4% got it for free from a nonrelative of legal drinking age, 14.6% got it for free from another underage person, 5.9% got it from a parent or guardian, and 8.5% got it from another relative who was of legal drinking age.
These statistics inform local areas of the number and rate of first-time entrants aged 10 to 17 to the criminal justice system in their areas.
Ed Bradley's report on schizophrenia, 23 years ago this week, revealed the lack of treatment and social services for ... the mentally ill, leaving many homeless with nowhere to go but on the streets.
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A worker helps with the renovation of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, one of the targets of last month’s attacks. The hotel is scheduled to reopen Sunday.
December 17, 2008
Good news for people who qualify for council-arranged or council-funded social care: Services have improved for the sixth year running.
Globe | J Hunt
Lenny Llenas checked on other homeless census volunteers at City Hall Plaza before hitting the streets of Boston last night. Last year the city counted 3,084 people in homeless families.
LM Ferris | Times Union
Amber Christian Osterhout uses her artwork to raise awareness of the stigmas and discrimination people with mental illness can suffer.
This fact sheet includes the following categories: adults, health disparities, college age, children and youth (17 years or younger), non-fatal injuries and medical treatment and perpetrators.
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Ladoris Perkins (right) and Poncho (left) eat soup from the Salvation Army on Golden Gate at Leavenworth streets in San Francisco, Calif, on Friday, December 12, 2008.
This report describes what is being done in Minnesota to assist victims of sexual assault, combining local and national trends, published research literature, and insights gained through interviews with 25 expert observers from diverse perspectives.
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This x-ray image illustrates 3 metal staples embedded in the hand of a teenage girl.
This brief uses data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) to examine (1) the amount of time that students’ public school teachers expected them to spend on reading/language arts and mathematics homework in first, third, and fifth grades; and (2) reports from parents of public school children of how often their children did homework at home in the first, third, and fifth grades.
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Dr. Wagner, Professor of Social Work and Sociology, he holds degrees from Columbia University, the University of Massachusetts, and the City University of New York. Dave was trained and worked as a community and labor organizer, and a labor official as well as a direct practice social worker, and continues to be active in community change.
Choose the right path: Former drug addict Kek Chew Lam, a social worker for Persatuan Rumah Caring Kajang, sharing his experience with students to warn them against drug addiction. Kek has been diagnosed with third stage nose cancer caused by years of drug abuse.
This report examines the progress local councils and their partners are making in developing children's trusts.
December 16, 2008
Sister M. Claudia Burke -- driving force behind food bank, Catholic Outreach -- gets hero's send off
M Cousineau | Flint Journal
Sister M. Claudia Burke celebrates among friends and family as she is presented with a congressional proclamation in her honor for her outstanding work with the needy.
Written by a range of experts this report outlines how increasing inequalities are harmful to children and society at large - and what to do about it.
Drug abuse violations are defined as State or local offenses relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing, and making of narcotic drugs including opium or cocaine and their derivatives, marijuana, synthetic narcotics, and dangerous nonnarcotic drugs such as barbiturates.
Combined 2006 to 2007 data from SAMHSA's National Surveys on Drug Use and Health indicate that an annual average of 5 million persons aged 12 or older (2%) attended a self-help group in the past year because of their use of alcohol or illicit drugs.
Seventy-five years ago, FDR began the New Deal. What was truly new - in fact revolutionary - was his conviction that the federal government had a direct responsibility to create jobs, and to pay for them with tax dollars. "Our greatest task is to put people back to work," he said.
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People on methadone programmes are as likely as other addicts to use heroin and commit crime, according to a study.
Alcohol increases the likelihood of sexual assault perpetration through pharmacological and psychological mechanisms. Alcohol is absorbed by the brain and reduces the ability to make complex decisions. Often this produces a focus on short-term positive rewards and a failure to consider the long-term negative consequences of behavior.
Providence Journal | K Craig
William Felkner at the offices of his Ocean State Policy Research Institute on the East Side of Providence. Felkner has sued the Rhode Island College School of Social Work, saying it has discriminated against him in retaliation for his conservative views.
Summarizes the major provisions of key Federal laws regarding child protection, child welfare, and adoption. Includes a timeline of Federal child welfare legislation.
Baltimore Sun | BH Taylor
Molly McGrath is director of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services
This Pro-Tv video explores the black market economy in New York City, where statistics show that up to one in every 2 African American men is not employed by the traditional labor market
This study provides an overview, synthesis and analysis of research and other evidence on ‘young carers’ and ‘young adult carers’ in the UK.
AP | Keystone A Della Bella
In this Dec. 5, 2008 photo is shown the veterinary drug sodium pentobarbital. Only Switzerland, in a law dating back to 1942, permits foreigners to come and kill themselves, placing few restrictions on the how, when and why. Doctors have relative freedom to prescribe a veterinary drug for that very purpose.
December 15, 2008
On the desolate salt pans of western India, as in much of the developing world, poverty and long-standing social customs bar many girls from attending school.
Built around a set of indicators constructed using the latest official government data, the report assesses the record across a wide range of subjects from low income to exclusion from services. It effectively provides a picture of the state of poverty and social exclusion in the UK just before the onset of the recent economic downturn.
Both sex and gender matter in health. They may act independently or, more often, they interact to bring about different disease patterns between men and women.
R Garza | Flint Journal
Family court referee Shelley Spivack listens to case workers during her monthly special docket for children missing from foster care.
Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers
The report found that unionized women workers earned, on average, 11.2 percent more than their non-union peers. In addition, women in unions were much more likely to have health insurance benefits and a pension plan.
CV Tines | Detroit News
Terri Martin, in court with husband Terrance behind her, will get to spend the holidays at her own home with three of her children.
| The Christmas crunch |
Merry Christmas. Here's your orange.
No joke. An orange was a pretty common Christmas gift during the Great Depression, according to the folks who lived through it. And for those who may darkly mutter about Depression deja vu, in light of the current economy, the kids of the 1930s say that when it comes to the holidays, we aren't even close . . . yet. They were the children who waited for Santa during an era that started with the stock market crash on "Black Tuesday," Oct. 29, 1929.
D Treeger | The Republican
The futures of 137 severely disabled people and 403 employees became uncertain with Friday's announcement the state will close the Monson Developmental Center by 2013. Above - part of the campus.
According to the report, contingent faculty and instructors, including graduate teaching assistants, make up almost 70 percent of the people teaching in U.S. colleges and universities today. The report also found that contingent faculty members teach nearly 49 percent of all undergraduate public college courses.
Government Response to Joint Chief Inspectors' Report on Safeguarding Children
This document sets out the Government’s response to recommendations contained in the chief inspectors’ report on safeguarding arrangements for children. These recommendations focus on the need to strengthen local multi-agency arrangements.
J Durrans | NY Times
From left, Kenny Nunez, 4, Nia Byrd, 4, and Mikal Grubbs, 5, singing out at Queen’s Daughters Day Care in Yonkers.
Trends in Substance Use, Dependence or Abuse, and Treatment Among Adolescents: 2002 to 2007
Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, adolescent past month use of cigarettes, alcohol, and illicit drugs declined between 2002 and 2007 but little change occurred between 2006 and 2007.
C Nich | Calgary Herald
Three-year-old Montserat received some gifts from the Give A Toy Get A Smile charity, which donates toys to underprivileged children in the Cancun area.
December 14, 2008
For England as a whole there has been overall improvement against adult performance indicators for the ninth year running. Of the 20 adult indicators that can be compared, 13 showed an improvement between 2006-07 and 2007-08 and 7 remained at a similar level. However, in a few cases the improvements were small.
REUTERS | M Anzuoni
A homeless man smokes a cigarette on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood in this January 27, 2006 file photo. Homelessness and demand for emergency food are rising in the United States as the economy founders, a report said on Friday, and homeless advocates cautioned many cities were not equipped for the increase.
This research looked at barriers and motivations to using formal childcare and identified the most potent mix of messages to maximise take-up, primarily amongst low-income families.
In a school of 2,211 students, there are at least 70 girls who are soon-to-be or already mothers.
These statistics cover the number of drug seizures made by police forces and HM Revenue and Customs in 2006-07, as well as the quantities seized.
A Houston | NY Times
The signs lining the Victory Bridge are small, but mental health professionals are hoping they will have a big impact. So far this year, there have been seven suicides and one attempted suicide from the bridge.
Companions of Choice Part 2 of 2
Combining interviews with pro-life and pro-choice advocates and actualities of public demonstrations, Companions of Choice offers new insight into the tensions between religious values, individual freedom, and health care policy.
In most jurisdictions, much needed support for court involved families with parents suffering from mental illness is hard to find. Parents with mental illness face many parenting challenges, including difficulty in meeting Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) timelines given the uneven course of illness and recovery and the frequent lack of appropriate services.
B Silverman | NY Times
Legislator David L. Mejias, left, with Doreen and Victor Ciappa, whose daughter Natalie died of a heroin overdose.
Effective Early Interventions for Youth at Risk of Future Poor Outcomes: A rapid evidence assessment
This study reviews and interprets existing evidence for the risk factors that are associated with poor outcomes for young people.
Many white pre-adoptive parents believe that they are ready to adopt transracially because they are at ease with people of color. But we must look at life through the children’s eyes.
The Tories have demanded an apology after Downing Street admitted releasing data on knife crime after ignoring objections from statisticians.
December 13, 2008
This research investigated the patterns and outcomes of the reunification of looked-after children with their parents.
Lloyd E. Ohlin
Dr. Ohlin taught as a professor of sociology at the Columbia University School of Social Work from 1956-1967.
Image courtesy of Vanderbilt University
Image of a brain from the Vanderbilt University fMRI scanner.
This report evaluates a pilot programme of individual care budgets for families with disabled children.
More than 100 Glasgow gang members have taken part in talks with police as part of a US-inspired scheme to curb violence, it has emerged.
James Howson must spend a minimum of 22 years in prison for murdering his 16-month-old daughter Amy
Companions for Choice Part 1 of 2
Companions for Choice examines the role of volunteer escorts in the on-going battle over abortion rights.
A stable and loving relationship with a primary caregiver is critical for healthy infant development. Many infants in the child welfare system (CWS) lack these consistent relationships. . . . This research brief examines adoption among infants involved in investigations of child maltreatment.
This report summarises the responses received to a consultation on draft court rules and forms to support the implementation of the remaining provisions of the Children and Adoption Act 2006. These provisions enable courts to use contact activities to help resolve child contact disputes and give them more flexible powers to enforce contact orders.
The primer describes the types and sources of health care spending and the demographic factors associated with higher or lower levels of spending. It also discusses other factors that influence health care spending growth, including the use of new medical technology, population changes, and changes in disease prevalence.
Father tells inquest of son's dying moments
PA
Daniel James died after drinking a prescribed poison.
December 12, 2008
This report assesses the performance of council-funded adult social care services in 2008.
Creative approaches to care and support must be provided
As the diversity of demands from older people puts its strain on the social care sector, Allan Bowman, chairman of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, explores the personalisation of social care and what it involves for local authorities, voluntary organisations and independent providers
Defines basic surveillance terms and explains the federal and state's role in surveillance of the U.S. epidemic.
Martin Ramirez: The Last Works
Untitled (Trains and Tunnels), Martin Ramirez
Martin Ramirez (1895-1963) created hundreds of drawings and collages while institutionalized at the DeWitt State Hospital In Auburn, California, where he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He is considered one of the self-taught masters of 20th century art, and his work often explored the same subjects: horseback riders, trains and tunnels, landscapes, Madonnas and animals.
This exploratory study investigated practitioners’ views about child poverty in relation to their work with deprived children and families, and their views about the support families need to improve outcomes for children and lift them out of poverty.
The architect of the modern welfare state in Britain, William Beveridge, wrote in 1942 that the long-term unemployed "should be required, as a condition of continued benefit to attend a work or training centre, such attendance being designed as a means of preventing habituation to idleness and as a means of improving capacity for earnings".
Welfare recipients poorer than Canadians imagine
B Keay | Vancouver Sun
A recent report by a federal advisory body says most people living on social assistance are so impoverished that adequate housing, jobs and recreational activities are beyond their reach.
Poverty Reduction in the Developing World
In this lecture sponsored by UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, veterinarian-scientist Brian Perry reviews the associations between poverty and livestock in the developing world.
Labour to tighten rules on benefits
C Thomond
Falinge in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, which has the highest number of benefit claimants - some 42.9% of the working age population.
This research brief presents information on adopted children with special health care needs, using data from the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN). The analysis takes advantage of questions in the NS-CSHCN that allow adopted children in the sample to be grouped and compared by adoption type, that is, foster care adoptions, international adoptions, and domestic adoptions through sources other than the public child welfare system (for convenience discussed below as “private domestic adoptions”).
This research looked at barriers to young people getting involved with alcohol and barriers to stopping drinking.
Domestic violence specialists (specialists) are individuals with domestic violence expertise that work outside of domestic violence agencies to help professionals and families involved in other systems manage domestic violence cases. Specialists are often co-located (employed by a domestic violence agency and housed at another program) or hired directly by an organization to bring proficiency in-house. Specialists are most frequently placed in law enforcement agencies, courts, child protection services (CPS), and medical settings.
City to lead welfare 'revolution'
Glasgow is among five cities where controversial changes to the UK's welfare system will be piloted.
December 11, 2008
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Painful Parting: A mother eyes a photo of a daughter she relinquished.
This report presents the results of a national census of inpatients in mental health and learning disability services.
Welfare plans 'not in real world'
Plans for welfare reform are "not based on the real world," the Northern Ireland Poverty Network has said.
This research assesses demand and supply for welfare beds in secure children's homes. It also forecasts likely future demand for welfare beds and identifies options for better commissioning and development of the secure children’s homes market.
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Perth Amboy, N.J. (1938): Public-works projects gave needy workers jobs.
This primer, updated with 2007 data, reviews the basic profile of the uninsured population, how they receive care, the latest trends in health insurance coverage, and what the options are for increasing coverage.
New social work programme seeks to promote, enhance profession
AMMAN (JT) - Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday inaugurated the Hashemite University social work centre, highlighting its role in providing the country with trained and efficient social workers.
Why Baby P never stood a chance - by the social worker blamed for Victoria Climbie's death
A one minute silence in memory of Victoria last year, when she would have been 16 years old
Social workers are better now at child protection
From the beginnings of child protection social work in the late-19th century through to 1914, no less than 13,613 children died in child protection cases. These were children who died in the cases that the NSPCC knew about. Like today, many more died from abuse but did not come to the attention of professionals. Not all of these children were killed by murderous cruel parents. Many were dying anyway due to poverty, rampant diseases and poor public health.
Korean-American Mosaic - A Vibrant Community
Produced by the Network of Korean-American Leaders (NetKAL) at the USC School of Social Work, the fellowship program promotes professional leadership development among up and coming Korean-Americans
What is needed is a shift to a public health model of child abuse prevention, which focuses on changing community environments rather than targeting only those deemed to be at risk in the same way that even partial immunization of the public lowers community risk. To reduce abuse and increase child well-being, we need to promote a sense of community responsibility for children, families, and neighbors.
This study provides an overview of family issues relevant to the Children’s Plan.
More Evidence The Aging Brain Is Easily Distracted
Image courtesy of Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Older brains showed additional increased activation in certain regions during memory encoding failure that was not found in younger brains.
December 10, 2008
SEAL is a comprehensive, whole-school approach to promoting the social and emotional skills that are thought to underpin effective learning, positive behaviour, regular attendance, and emotional wellbeing (Department for Education and Skills, 2005)1. It was first implemented as part of the national
Behaviour and Attendance Pilot in 2003 (Hallam, Rhamie and Shaw, 2006) and is currently used in more than 80% of primary schools across England.
Homeless center draws neighbors' complaints
M Kane | P-I
Delia Paeff, the weekend supervisor at Lazarus Day Center, directs clients away
These statistics cover self-reported drug use for adults and young people in England and Wales from the 2007-08 British Crime Survey.
Pavlov's Neurons: Brain Cells That Are A Key To Learning Discovered
iStockphoto | KT Segundo
Researchers have found individual neurons in the amygdalas of rat brains that are activated when the animals are given an associative learning task.
Shonagh Rae | Heart
Picking up the pieces ... "Somebody had to be punished and because I couldn't punish him, I was punishing myself."
Social worker unafraid to blaze trails
Special to The Denver Post
Ellen Moose, who died at age 97, had worked at Denver's first YWCA for blacks.
This document provides an update on progress to meet the health inequalities national target to reduce the gap as measured by infant mortality and life expectancy by 10 per cent by 2010.
García's attempt to oust LAUSD's Brewer: gaffe or gutsy?
D Crane | Staff
Board president Monica Garcia, MSW attends a school board meeting at The Los Angeles Unified School District office in Los Angeles.
Data from a recent IRS report on the adoption tax credit reveal that the credit, as it is currently structured, is not meeting its original goal of promoting adoptions from foster care. The following data highlight the significant gap between the current beneficiaries of the credit and the goal of having the credit encourage foster care adoptions
Asia Society's multimedia look at electronic waste shipped overseas and the toxic effect it has on places such as Guiyu, China--known as "trash town."
The assessment of young children's development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations are developing programs to enhance the school readiness of all young children, especially children from economically disadvantaged homes and communities
Parent mutual self-help support groups play an active role in strengthening families. In group settings, families find support and gain information, both of which help parents develop resilience and the ability to better handle life’s stressful events. The premise of parent mutual self-help support groups is that they help promote protective factors.
December 9, 2008
This study provides a snapshot of the progress of the Croydon Integrated Domestic Violence Court pilot after 12 months. It explores emerging issues and offers recommendations for policy and good practice.
Paying Low Rent, but at an Inflated Risk
A Zale | NY Times
IN JEOPARDY Tenants at the Levister Towers may have to move from their low income homes because a crack has been found in the pre-war brick, Tudor-style apartment house.
This report evaluates the strengths and weaknesses in business education for 14 to 19-year-olds in schools and colleges, and in the provision of initial training of teachers to teach business education in schools. It explores current issues in business education, including the development of economic and business understanding and financial capability for all students at key stage four.
Part 2 of the DCTV Documentary Urban Indians, about the plight of Native Americans in New York City
The Death of Christopher Thomas
K Wentz-Graff
Katherine Shaw (left) and Frank Shaw, Christopher’s great-grandparents, and Christopher’s mother, Candace Glover (right) want justice in the baby’s death.
Camden council's chief executive Moira Gibb will chair a taskforce to improve the quality of social workers.
This primer explains key elements of the Medicare program, which now provides health coverage to 45 million people -- including nearly 38 million people age 65 and older and another seven million younger adults with permanent disabilities. It looks at the characteristics of the Medicare population, what benefits are covered, how much people with Medicare pay for their benefits and the program’s overall costs and future financing challenges.
This video features Janeen Comenote, Coalition Coordinator for the National Urban Indian Family Coalition.
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Campus Kitchen volunteer Flor Avellaneda (center) checks the temperature on the mashed potatoes, while Kayla Barr (top) stirs a kettle of soup and Sheila Porter holds the oven door. Avellaneda and Barr are Baylor University students working on their Master of Social Work degrees.
This fact sheet summarizes the latest coverage data on the nation's children and examines the key role played by two public health coverage programs, Medicaid and SCHIP.
The indicators and background measures presented in America’s Children in Brief all have been used in previous reports by the Forum. Indicators are chosen because they are easy to understand; are based on substantial research connecting them to child well-being; vary across important areas of children’s lives; are measured regularly so that they can be updated and show trends over time; and represent large segments of the population, rather than one particular group.
One of the most important child protective services functions of a public child welfare agency is to receive and to promptly and appropriately respond to reports of suspected child abuse or neglect. Commonly referred to as a State’s child abuse and neglect hotline, the unit responsible for receiving and responding to reports of child abuse and neglect is often the most visible face of public child protection.
Tough times for the third sector
S Simpson | Getty
The third sector has earned praise for policy on children.
Child Protection and the Ofsted Joint Area Review report on safeguarding of children in Haringey
Statement in covering letter from David Nicholson on child protection and the Ofsted Joint Area Review report on safeguarding of children in Haringey
December 8, 2008
This primer demystifies federal rental assistance programs and provides the most current information available on how many (and who) they serve and how their scale is changing. It also summarizes key challenges facing housing policy today and in the coming years—challenges that may create opportunities for federal, state, and local engagement and innovation.
Victoria Climbie aftermath shows planned reforms do not always lead to action
PA
Children's secretary Ed Balls's announcement of an overhaul of social work services is not the first time that the Government has pledged to repair the failing child protection system. The case has painful echoes of the case of Victoria Climbié, above, who was tortured to death by her great aunt and her boyfriend in 2000.
This primer provides an overview of the basic components of Medicaid, the nation's largest health coverage program, which covers 59 million low-income individuals, including children and families, people with disabilities and the elderly who are also covered by Medicare. Medicaid is also the dominant source of the country’s long-term care financing.
Finding a Voice to Match the Pressing Medical Needs of Hispanics
S Sureck | NY Times
Irma Ortiz has recovered from cancer, but she still suffers from diabetes, which affects a disproportionate share of Latinos.
This resource is designed for communities seeking to develop interventions that will improve their responses to families suffering both domestic violence and child maltreatment.
Jared Bernstein Interview - Wealth Inequality
Here’s the link.
Since the mid 70's the gap between rich and poor in the United States has been growing consistently to the point where it is now the largest it has been since 1929. The richest 1% of Americans today control 22% of the wealth of the country when in 1980 they accounted for just 8%. Despite an economy that has been growing for decades, doubling in size since the early nineties, many have yet to see the benefits of this improvement.
Transitional Housing Inc., Y-Haven help homeless rebuild their lives
J Kuntz | Plain Dealer
Matthew Pompei of Cleveland catches up on e-mails at the Wifi Cafe in the Liberal Arts building at Cuyahoga Community College. Pompei, once a homeless drug addict, turned his life around with the help of Y-Haven Transitional Housing in Cleveland. Pompei is now a college student and dreams of helping others as a social worker.
The guide explains the key strategies for expanding coverage to the nation's 45 million uninsured people and explains and how different policy options can be combined to form comprehensive reform proposals. It organizes the various policy strategies under four overall approaches: strengthening current coverage arrangements, improving the affordability of coverage, improving the availability of coverage and changing the tax treatment and financing of health insurance.
Youth with cases pending simultaneously in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems often experience less favorable outcomes: they are more likely to be detained, usually spend extended time in the delinquency system, and exhibit higher rates of recidivism than youth without a foster care history.
This policy brief reviews the public and private options available to help people maintain coverage if they become unemployed during a downturn and cannot get employer-sponsored coverage through a spouse. Specifically, it examines COBRA, non-group insurance and Medicaid.
Part of Urban Indians, a touching documentary about the plight of Native Americans in New York City
Barriers to work for mentally ill people still in place
C Thomond
There are still too many hurdles for those unemployed due to long-term illness to get back into work.
The commentary responds to a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on future Medicaid spending growth. Medicaid spending growth will in fact be high but not probably as high as the CMS actuaries have forecast (7.9% per year).
December 7, 2008
Radio Host Has Drug Company Ties
DH Charles | NY Times
Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin in 2001 during taping of “The Infinite Mind,” his public radio program.
WE WILL NOT DIE LIKE DOGS profiles AIDS activists from Nigeria, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Zambia. Honest and provocative testimonies of individuals living with the epidemic include two HIV-positive women fighting stigma and discrimination, a doctor working to care for HIV-infected children in rural villages, and a reggae artist using his status among youth and the media to bring awareness to HIV/AIDS
Officials confirmed that Mr Balls and Health Secretary Alan Johnson (above) will this week announce the formation of a new task force to look at every aspect of social work in England, including leadership, training and recruitment.
More than five million people are under community supervision—either probation or parole—on any given day in the United States. Success rates among these offenders are not high: more than 40 percent of probationers and more than half of parolees do not complete their supervision terms successfully.
The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience study was described as a "wake-up call" about the impact of deprivation.
This brief uses data from the 2007 Survey of Employers in the Low-Skill Labor Market to describe the role job placement agencies play in helping employers fill noncollege jobs.
Virtual Faces Created With Emotions, Moods And Personality
Arellano et al
Universal emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise.
Man charged over £20m heroin haul
A 19-year-old man from Cardiff has been remanded in custody, charged in connection with the discovery of heroin worth £20m in London.
December 6, 2008
New tough line on welfare mothers
In an interview with The Sunday Times, James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, said: “Virtually everyone will be doing something in return for their benefits.”
New tough line on welfare mothers
In an interview with The Sunday Times, James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, said: “Virtually everyone will be doing something in return for their benefits.”
Baby P case: the role of Sharon Shoesmith
I Nicholson | PA
Haringey headteachers described Sharon Shoesmith, pictured, as an 'outstanding public servant'.
This brief uses data from the 2007 Survey of Employers in the Low-Skill Labor Market to explore differences between noncollege jobs that have few if any requirements and those for which either a high school degree, prior experience, or previous skills training is extremely important.
United we stand: making difficult social work doable
John Dixon is president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
December 5, 2008
Foster care to be stretched in WA, say welfare groups
BIG PLANS: Child Protection Minister Robyn McSweeney wants to eventually expand mandatory reporting to include physical and psychological abuse, as well as the neglect of children.
Graduating senior overcomes struggles
The Shorthorn | M Rettig
Graduating senior Sabrina Young balanced work, school and family commitments to earn her bachelor’s in social work. Young, who has gotten a job as a kinship care manager with Catholic Charities in Fort Worth, says her passion for her field comes from her background.