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January 31, 2009
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A man searches through the garbage in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market.
Examines developments in the long-term care (LTC) systems in Germany and the United States to understand their impact on financing and coverage, consumer options and choice, family caregivers, the LTC workforce, and the quality of services. It also provides a brief overview of LTC reform proposals in both countries.
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A woman huddles on a street corner in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. In the first major census of people living on the streets since the recession, thousands of volunteers across the country have fanned out in the thick of night this week to count the most desperate members of their communities, and they are finding many causalities of the job and foreclosure crises. Although a nationwide tally of those sleeping in alleys and tunnels, under bridges and highways and in cars and tents is months away, officials at every level of government say they expect the totals will be substantially higher than the last count two years ago.
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.
A number of local partnerships across England, Wales and Scotland are currently discussing whether or how DCRs might help address their local drug problems. At present there are no DCRs in the UK, however, evidence elsewhere suggests that they can be valuable for engaging marginalised drug users, reducing overdose deaths and can have a beneficial impact on community safety in areas where public drug use is widespread.
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The Brown School of Social Work is now accepting applications for the new master of public health program.
The baby snatcher: Georgia Tann stole children from their real families and sold them for her own profit
This update of a 2002 AARP national survey is the latest in a series of AARP surveys examining older workers’ experiences, opinions, and expectations regarding their work and careers. In an effort to illustrate the survey’s implications for employers, the report also presents examples of workforce practices implemented by selected employers to address the needs of an aging workforce.
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A daily break of 15 minutes or more in the school day may play a role in improving learning, social development, and health in elementary school children.
Michigan’s continuing economic woes are spilling over into the lives of the state’s youngest residents with nearly one out of every four young children (under age 5)living in poverty. That means that for a family of four, income is no more than about $21,000. Two out of every five young children live in low-income households, defined as income under $42,000 for a family of four.
Nigel Walker set up home on the roundabout after becoming homeless
- Altruism Born of Suffering: The Roots of Caring and Helping After Victimization and Other Trauma
- Is There Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma? The Case of Combat Veterans' Children
- Development and Validation of the Child Psychosocial Distress Screener in Burundi
- Pathways to Posttraumatic Growth Versus Posttraumatic Stress: Coping and Emotional Reactions Following the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks
- Relations Among Gender, Violence Exposure, and Mental Health: The National Survey of Adolescents
- Attachment-Based Intervention for Maltreating Families
- Social Relationships Among Persons Who Have Experienced Serious Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, and Homelessness: Implications for Recovery
- Substance Involvement Among Youths in Child Welfare: The Role of Common and Unique Risk Factors
- On Failed Intersubjectivity: Recollections of Loneliness Experiences in Offspring of Holocaust Survivors
- Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Children's Rights Among Middle School Students in Jerusalem: The Role of Family Values and Patterns, Nationality, and Religion
- Jewish and Non-Jewish World War II Child and Adolescent Survivors at 60 Years After War: Effects of Parental Loss and Age at Exposure on Well-Being
- Development of the Zoological Garden and Mental Hospital
The searing story of two drug-addicted couples trying to survive on the streets of New York City. Follow-up: Dope Sick Love Clip: Matt and Tracey Reunited
This report presents the findings of a qualitative evaluation of the jobseeker mandatory activity pilot, which provided extra support to help jobseeker's allowance claimants back into the labour market.
- Explaining Maori under-achievement in standard tests: the role of social and individual characteristics
- Does social capital predict happiness, health and life satisfaction in an urban Australian community?
- Emerging Needs, Evolving Services: The Health of Pacific Peoples in New Zealand
- The Small Ministry with the Large Reach: Using Relationships to Extend Organisational Capacity
- Applying the International Well-Being Index to Investigate Subjective Well-Being of New Zealanders with European and with Maori Heritage
January 30, 2009
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A Brown Bear in a zoo, waving its paws repeatedly. Studying bears, gazelles, and rats, among other animals, scientists have developed a model to identify and understand abnormal behavior.
Generally, although cohabitants do have some legal protection in several areas, they do not have as many rights and responsibilities as married couples, and there is no specific legal status for what is often referred to as a “common law marriage”. Studies have shown that many cohabiting couples are unaware of this fact.
The Latin Kings are New York's largest, most dangerous street gang. For decades they were synonymous with drugs, guns and murder. In 1995 Antonio Fernandez (King Tone) became the leader of the Latin Kings. He vowed to lead the Kings away from violence and crime. The cops said it was a smoke screen. This is his story.
Millions saw the value of the retirement accounts plunge an average of 27% last year, Fidelity finds in a survey, but nearly all continue to invest.
Nearly two out of ten adults age 45 and older are not very confident that they will be able to afford medical care in the coming year, according to this December 2008 study conducted by AARP. The study also asked people about health insurance coverage, us of over-the-counter and prescription drugs, generic drugs, activities related to medication usage, and Medicare Part D.
As well as setting out to produce new research knowledge on the vital topic of quality of life in old age, the GO Programme has sought to try to contribute to the development of policies and practices in the field and, thereby, it is hoped, to the extension of quality life in old age.
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As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved.
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Deirdre O'Connell, left, and J. Smith-Cameron in "Looking for the Pony"
AARP commissioned a national survey of adults age 50 and older to ascertain their views on a proposed increase in Medicare Part B premiums that is over and above the regular annual increase in such premiums, in light of continuing increases in Medicare costs.
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Dr. Andrew Gilbert leads an intensive four-day-per-week group therapy for children and adolescents who have obsessive-compulsive disorder at the UPMC Children and Adolescent Services facility on the South Side.
The legislation would authorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through fiscal year 2013 and increase federal funding for the program above current levels. The bill would provide performance bonus payments to states for enrollment costs resulting from specified enrollment and retention efforts.
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Dawn Robertson and Shannon Willis shot these footage of our homeless neighbors in West LA.
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'. Ferdinand Mount takes a wide view of the causes and possible cures of injurious inequalities, looking at five overlapping types of inequalities and how to remedy them.
Danielle Scott died in February 2005
- A Fresh Look at Recovery
- A Theory of Social Integration as Quality of Life
- Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefits and Administrative Burden in the Care of Dually Eligible Psychiatric Patients
- The Family Forum: Directions for the Implementation of Family Psychoeducation for Severe Mental Illness
- Improving Knowledge About Mental Illness Through Family-Led Education: The Journey of Hope
- Factors Contributing to the Quality of Sibling Relationships for Adults With Schizophrenia
- A Typology of Advance Statements in Mental Health Care
- Improving Medication Management of Depression in Health Plans
- Adequacy of Antidepressant Treatment in Spanish Primary Care: A Naturalistic Six-Month Follow-Up Study
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Supported Employment Program for Persons With Long-Term Mental Illness in Hong Kong
- Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among Toronto Hospital Workers One to Two Years After the SARS Outbreak
- Datapoints: Inpatient Utilization for Persons With Co-occurring Disorders
- Public-Academic Partnerships: The Evolution and Current Status of Public-Academic Partnerships in Psychiatry
- State Mental Health Policy: Mental Health Transformation: Moving Toward a Public Health, Early-Intervention Approach in Texas
- Law & Psychiatry: Florida's Outpatient Commitment Law: A Lesson in Failed Reform?
- Personal Accounts: Musing Over Medications
- Recognizing and Responding to Early Psychosis: A Qualitative Analysis of Individual Narratives
- Public Psychiatrists' Reports of Their Own Recovery-Oriented Practices
- Health Beliefs and Help Seeking for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders Among Urban Singaporean Adults
- Employment of Advanced-Practice Psychiatric Nurses to Stem Rural Mental Health Workforce Shortages
- Psychiatric Care in a Primary Care Clinic
- Assertive Community Treatment for Older Adults
- The Effectiveness of an Electronic Security Management System in a Privately Owned Apartment Complex
- Poverty and Gender Perspective in Productive Projects for Rural Women in Mexico: Impact Evaluation of a Pilot Project
- Curriculum Evaluation and Revision in a Nascent Field: The Utility of the Retrospective Pretest—Posttest Model in a Homeland Security Program of Study
- A Model of Substance Abuse Risk: Adapting to the Sri Lankan Context
January 29, 2009
Gwen Crystal only boils her kettle once a day
This note sets out Government policy on tackling statutory homelessness, i.e. those households who successfully apply to local authorities for homelessness assistance. The Government’s aim is to half the number of homeless households living in temporary accommodation by 2010. A commitment has also been made to end the use of bed and breakfast as temporary accommodation for 16 and 17 year olds by local authorities, except in an emergency.
Family caregivers provide an estimated $6 billion in unpaid care to older adults in Maryland each year. AARP’s Maryland State Office commissioned this survey to explore the views and experiences of AARP members on caregiving issues.
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Platt says the next few years will be crucial for social care.
The study focused on ice hockey players
Statistics cited in the Databook demonstrate the extent to which the region has progressed in reducing poverty and income inequality. Poverty has decreased from 43.5 percent to 35.1 percent of the region's population in the last decade; and income inequality has fallen, though with some exceptions.
This Topical Budget film shows women taking over men's roles during WWI for the Women's National Land Service Corps - the equivalent of the Land Army in WWII.
Debates about community cohesion, citizenship and belonging within policy often fail to address the complexities of male Muslim identities and their everyday experiences. This report is an in-depth exploration of the work of one grassroots organisation in West Bowling, Bradford.
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Anita and Tom Bruton anxiously await news on their grandchildren, who were removed from their West Allis home recently after a report of abuse. They are the children’s kinship foster parents. The oldest, Desmond, is in treatment for leukemia.
- Forensic psychiatry and general psychiatry: re-examining the relationship
- Time to talk. Commentary on... Forensic psychiatry and general psychiatry
- Treating post-traumatic stress disorder in the ‘real world’: evaluation of a specialist trauma service and adaptations to standard treatment approaches
- Risk assessment of psychiatric in-patients: audit of completion of a risk assessment tool
- Consent to ECT: patients’ experiences in an Irish ECT clinic
- Assessment of mental capacity: who can do it?
- New procedures to cut delays in transfer of mentally ill prisoners to hospital
- Motivational interviewing and the older population in psychiatry
- Travellers on a dark journey: caring for a patient with chronic psychiatric illness
- Involving service users and carers in psychiatric education: what do trainees think?
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Customers with pre-pay meters tend to pay more for their gas and electricity.
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.
- Safety-Seeking and Coping Behavior During Exposure Tasks with Anxious Youth
- Contagious Depression: Negative Attachment Cognitions as a Moderator of the Temporal Association Between Parental Depression and Child Depression
- Sex Differences and Response Styles: Subtypes of Rumination and Associations with Depressive Symptoms
- Expressed Emotion in Mothers of Currently Depressed, Remitted, High-Risk, and Low-Risk Youth: Links to Child Depression Status and Longitudinal Course
- Maternal Depression, Paternal Psychopathology, and Toddlers' Behavior Problems
- Adolescent Mothers Leaving Multigenerational Households
- Romantic Experience and Psychosocial Adjustment in Middle Adolescence
- Long-Term Youth Criminal Outcomes in MST Transport: The Impact of Therapist Adherence and Organizational Climate and Structure
- Adolescents' Physical Aggression Toward Parents in a Clinic-Referred Sample
- Relations Between Parental Psychological Control and Childhood Relational Aggression: Reciprocal in Nature?
- Few Girls With Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Show Positive Adjustment During Adolescence
- Applications of Generalizability Theory to Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Research
- Validation of the Preschool and Primary School Form of a Questionnaire Assessing Parents' Childrearing Behavior
- Family-Based Treatment of a 17-Year-Old Twin Presenting with Emerging Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Study Using the “Maudsley Method”
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An aerial view of New York City, November 11, 2008.
January 28, 2009
One hundred and fifty jobs are to be created at Social Security offices in Northern Ireland to deal with the increased numbers of unemployed people.
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’. 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.
It is widely acknowledged that the UK is a global leader in social scientific research. Sustaining that
position requires the maintenance of a vibrant, high quality research base.Yet recently a number
of questions have been raised over the long term health of the UK social science research base.
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Sharlynn Bobo, left, holds an abandoned newborn during her time at the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency.
During a 12-month period, an estimated 3.4 million persons age 18 or older were victims of stalking. Stalking is defined as a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.
Dr. Kenneth White talks with his social work seminar class Monday morning about situations that occur in their internships in the community. Dr. White is a social work field coordinator with the Government, Social Work and Sociology department at Missouri Western State University.
STDs are hidden epidemics of enormous health and economic consequence in the United States. They are hidden because many Americans are reluctant to address sexual health issues in an open way and because of the biologic and social characteristics of these diseases. All Americans have an interest in STD prevention because all communities are impacted by STDs and all individuals directly or indirectly pay for the costs of these diseases.
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Sharon Shoesmith, Haringey's sacked director of children's services. Peter Lewis, her successor, made the appeal to other councils.
The biannual Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC) collects information about the facilities in which juvenile offenders are held. Facilities report on characteristics such as their size, structure, type, ownership, and security arrangements. Facilities also provide information on a range of services they provide to youth in their care.
- Realistic Evaluation and Case Studies: Stretching the Potential
- Desperately Seeking Regulatory Impact Assessments: Diary of a Reflective Researcher
- Testing Methodological Guidance on the Conduct of Narrative Synthesis in Systematic Reviews: Effectiveness of Interventions to Promote Smoke Alarm Ownership and Function
- Cooperation Networks and Innovation: A Complex Systems Perspective to the Analysis and Evaluation of a Regional Innovation Policy Programme
- Developing a Culture of Evaluation in the Irish Public Sector: The Case of Education
- Evaluating Development Learning: The World Bank Experience
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Botox injection. Botox belongs to a class of drugs called botulinum toxins, which derive from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Women in the a new study equated beauty to wealth and an affluent lifestyle.
Ana Leon, Ph.D., Associate Professor from the School of Social Work, talks about the struggles and challenges that Latina women face while living in the US.
- Managing Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Primary Care: A Systematic Analysis of Roles and Challenges
- A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Guanfacine Extended Release in Children and Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in a Pediatric Primary Care Clinic
- Expert Survey for the Management of Adolescent Depression in Primary Care
- Exposure to Smoking in Internationally Distributed American Movies and Youth Smoking in Germany: A Cross-cultural Cohort Study
- Assessment of Children's Health-Related Quality of Life in the United States With a Multidimensional Index
- Quality Medical Homes: Meeting Children's Needs for Therapeutic and Supportive Services
- Psychotropic Medication Patterns Among Youth in Foster Care
- Longitudinal Study of Viewing Smoking in Movies and Initiation of Smoking by Children
- Young Children's Reactions to War-Related Stress: A Survey and Assessment of an Innovative Intervention
- Parent-Reported Quality of Life of Children With Cerebral Palsy in Europe
- Household Food Insecurity: Associations With At-Risk Infant and Toddler Development
- Methadone Maintenance and Breastfeeding in the Neonatal Period
- Research Ethics in the MySpace Era
This Welfare Reform Bill will help tackle inequality of opportunity and improve employment outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged groups. There are still marked differences between the national employment rate and rates for disadvantaged groups and still just under 2.6 million incapacity benefit claimants. 2.9 million children still live in relative poverty. Government intervention is necessary to help tackle barriers to work – increasing support but also increasing our expectations to ensure that, for those who can, people are fully able to take advantage of employment opportunities.
January 27, 2009
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Amertine Robinson at home with her husband, Douglas. Mrs. Robinson, who is on dialysis for end-stage renal disease, has a home health aide 35 hours a week, now covered by Medicaid.
This resource pack sets out the principles of good practice when commissioning community services, showcases examples of existing good practice through case studies in six clinical areas and signposts commissioners to the most pertinent and relevant information.
This document is a revised draft charter for bereaved people. It provides statutory guidance and brings together many of the services bereaved people will receive from coroners in a reformed system.
The YWCA says it values its employees but, in tough economic times, simply doesn't have the resources to guarantee raises. The union dismisses this as double-speak, pointing to the large amounts the YWCA has spent both on anti-union efforts and on raises for top management.
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Sophomore Brittney Fifer throws a hearty punch to “the face of her attacker” during a lesson on self-defense as part of sexual assault awareness week. The social work department offered a movie, organized a panel of discussion, and set-up the self-defense class to the students this week for TBTN.
The Access to Drug Labels Survey explored the personal stories of people who had trouble reading prescription or over-the-counter medication information. Approximately 100 individuals completed the online survey and, in nearly every instance, respondents explained serious negative consequences of unreadable drug labeling information including illness, emergency room visits, hospitalization, additional expense, and increased anxiety.
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This home at 608 N. Birney is on a list of foreclosed homes in the area. There remain 273 foreclosed properties in Bay City, many of them vacant or abandoned.
Classifying, identifying, and measuring waste elucidate its causes, clarify systemic goals, and specify potential health care reforms that—by improving the market for health insurance and health care—will generate incentives for better efficiency and thus ultimately decrease waste in the U.S. health care system.
More than a city’s image at stake: Children on the roads
The current economic and social challenges facing California are daunting. The state budget is in record deficit. More people are struggling to make ends meet. California and its future workforce are losing the competitive edge in the global economy. Partisan differences have led to political stalemates. There is, however, a clear path to restoring California’s well-being: making children our number one investment in recognition of their critical role in determining our civic and economic future.
- ESPAnet/JESP Doctoral Researcher Prize Essay: Institutions and the politics of childcare services
- Towards a European Union Gender Equality Index
- Towards productive welfare? A comparative analysis of 23 OECD countries
- Dealing with older workers in Europe: a comparative survey of employers' attitudes and actions
- Do welfare-to-work initiatives work? Evidence from an activation programme targeted at social assistance recipients in Norway
This is a four-minute interview on the study of men's friendship by University of Maryland School of Social Work professor Geoffrey Grief. It culminated in the book "Buddy System" that reports that the way men related to other men in friendships is different from women. By recognizing these differences, which have historical roots, men can grow in the their friendships and, he hopes, live longer and happier lives.
This leaflet (in multiple languages) provides a brief general introduction to the MCA DOLS and has been specifically designed for care homes and hospitals to help staff understand what the MCA DOLS will mean for them and for their service users.
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This is a listener wired for sounds.
- The Majority of Inpatient Psychiatric Beds Should Not Be Appropriated by the Forensic System
- Use of DSM Paraphilia Diagnoses in Sexually Violent Predator Commitment Cases
- Commentary: Muddy Diagnostic Waters in the SVP Courtroom
- Commentary: Inventing Diagnosis for Civil Commitment of Rapists
- The Death Penalty in Catholic Teaching and Medicine: Intersections and Places for Dialogue
- Commentary: Further Points for Dialogue on the Death Penalty, the Church, and Our Profession
- Commentary: The Cost of Converting Religious Morals Into Politics
- Functional MRI Lie Detection: Too Good to be True?
- Commentary: Functional MRI Lie Detection
- Commentary: The Future of Forensic Functional Brain Imaging
- Forensic Evaluation of Problematic Internet Use
- Factors Associated With Agreement Between Experts in Evidence About Psychiatric Injury
- Jackson's Indiana: State Hospital Competence Restoration in Indiana
- The CHESS Method of Forensic Opinion Formulation: Striving to Checkmate Bias
- Addressing the Perfect Phantom on the Witness Stand
- School Shooting as a Culturally Enforced Way of Expressing Suicidal Hostile Intentions
- Pro Se Competence in the Aftermath of Indiana v. Edwards
- AAPL Guideline for Forensic Evaluation of Psychiatric Disabilities: A Disability Law Perspective
- "Filled With Desperation": Psychotherapy With an Insanity Acquittee
- Commentary: Psychotherapy in a Forensic Hospital
- Commentary: On Walking and Talking
January 26, 2009
This report uses official government data from a wide range of sources, and is built around a set of 50 indicators. The analysis covers the full range of issues, including material on low income, work, qualifications, health, housing, and exclusion from services. A major theme of this year’s report is comparing progress over the first five years of this government with the most recent five.
About 280 students from 29 colleges across the nation are participating in the symposium.
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Jan Wampler (left), an MIT professor of architecture, and lead organizer Gerthy Lahens explain details of their Haiti project.
This guidance is intended to help primary care trust providers of community services to build a purely contractual relationship with their commissioners. It should also help providers consider what types of organisations would best meet the future needs of patients and local communities and how change can be managed to support the transformation of services to patients.
This report considers the possibilities and challenges of promoting cohesion and meaningful interaction between different groups in a particular setting. Holme Wood in Bradford has traditionally been populated by people from white British ethnic backgrounds.
Phantom caretaking, fake jobs used to defraud taxpayer-funded system
For Deborah Bowen, a social work professor at UNC-Wilmington, mention in obits is a natural shift. As society has become isolated by computers, cable television, job transfers and 50-hour work weeks, pets fill a void too wide for busy humans, said Bowen, author of "A Good Friend for Bad Times: Helping Others Through Grief."
Number of people receiving monthly benefits from SSA (11/08):
-OASDI Benefits only -------------------- 48.2 million
-SSI Benefits only -------------------------- 4.9 million
-OASDI and SSI Benefits Concurrently- 2.6 million
Total -----------------------------------------55.7 million
Children in this Ethiopian orphanage can no longer be adopted by Irish parents. The new legislation requires both parties (parents and child) to be from countries where the Hague Convention is ratified, which rules out adoptions from Russia and Ethiopia.
The results from this study should serve as a wake-up call for any parent concerned about graphic or indecent material on websites they might perceive as being “safe” for their children. While most parents might not be surprised to learn that search terms employing words like “sex” and “porn” are likely to yield YouTube video content containing graphic sexual themes and portrayals, most would be stunned to know that seemingly “innocent” search terms are also likely to generate harshly profane material.
See some robots being developed by researchers who are experimenting with different ways for humans and robots to interact.
This guidance is Communities and Local Government's first attempt to set out what we know about meaningful interaction, based on research findings and the views of expert practitioners. It is aimed at local cohesion practitioners and policy planners and includes some good practice
- Psychological Distress: Precursor or Consequence of Dating Infidelity?
- Expectations for Others' Outcomes: Do People Display Compassionate Bracing?
- The Effect of Anticipated Affect on Persistence and Performance
- First Thought, Best Thought: Positive Mood Maintains and Negative Mood Degrades Implicit-Explicit Attitude Correspondence
- Stereotyping Based on Voice in the Presence of Individuating Information: Vocal Femininity Affects Perceived Competence but Not Warmth
- False Memory and the Associative Network of Happiness
- Regret for Errors of Commission and Omission in the Distant Term Versus Near Term: The Role of Level of Abstraction
- Trips Down Memory Lane: Recall Direction Affects the Subjective Distance of Past Events
- The Motivating Role of Violence in Video Games
- Prosocial Benefits of Feeling Free: Disbelief in Free Will Increases Aggression and Reduces Helpfulness
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Two nurses from the Fabeltjesland daycare walk outside a crisis centre set up in Dendermonde, near Brussels, after the attacks on Friday.
- Retaining Optimism in the Face of Adversity
- Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: An Assessment of Portable Entertainment Player Use and Hearing Acuity in a Community Sample
- Perceived Complexity of Care, Perceived Autonomy, and Career Satisfaction Among Primary Care Physicians
- Variables Associated With Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Acceptance by Men
January 25, 2009
Analysis has shown that a sense of belonging to the immediate neighbourhood is a key indicator of community cohesion. The Citizenship Survey 2007-08 found that 75 per cent of people nationally feel they belong strongly to their neighbourhood, including 34 per cent who said they belonged very strongly.
In planning the 1990 and 2000 censuses, the main objective was to produce alternative counts based on the measurement of net coverage error. For the 2010 census coverage measurement program, the Census Bureau will deemphasize that goal, and is instead planning to focus on the second goal of improving census processes.
This document is intended as a resource to be used by commissioners and providers of community services to help create transparent models of funding, through the use of new currencies and better pricing at a local level. New currencies (the units of healthcare for which a provider is funded) and better pricing are key to transforming community services, enabling commissioners to incentivise improvements in quality and value.
The current recession is having a devastating impact on working American families. By November 2008, more than 2.7 million people had joined the ranks of the unemployed since the recession began in 2007, and 10.3 million people were unemployed.1 Many of those people (and their families) lost their health coverage when they lost their jobs.
"Foster care is to help kids get on track. I'm doing it; I'm trying to follow the rules, and they're still saying no."
Intended for the California Assembly Select Committee on Foster Care, this analysis provides statistics on foster care services and costs.
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Fiona Hyslop said that action was essential to prevent a lost generation of Scots children
- The `problem' of anti-social behaviour and the policy knowledge base: Analysing the power/knowledge relationship
- Risk discourse and politics: Restructuring welfare in Hong Kong
- Reconciling agency with structure: The contradictions and paradoxes of capacity building in Wales' 2000--2006 Objective 1 programme
- Kerbcrawler rehabilitation programmes: Curing the `deviant' male and reinforcing the `respectable' moral order
- Mixed income housing policy and public housing residents' `right to the city'
- (Re)Constructing women's resistance to woman abuse: Resources, strategy choice and implications of and for public policy in Canada
- Dementia and dying: The need for a systematic policy approach
- Interviewing the Interpretive Researcher: A Method for Addressing the Crises of Representation, Legitimation, and Praxis
- Exploring Types of Educational Action Research: Implications for Research Validity
- I’m Okay, You’re Okay?: Reflections on the Well-Being and Ethical Requirements of Researchers and Research Participants in Conducting Qualitative Fieldwork Interviews
- In Search of Moral Coherence: Reconciling Uneasy Histories and Identities
- Sampling Hurdles: “Borderline Illegitimate” to Legitimate Data
This report examines trends in past month marijuana use and perceptions of its risk among adolescents aged 12 to 17 between 2002 and 2007. Additionally, this report uses 2007 data to explore demographic differences in marijuana use and perceptions of its risk, along with the correlation between use and risk perception.
AIDS activist Mechai "Mr. Condom" Viravaidya discusses several "out-of-the-box" methods for promoting condom distribution and safe-sex practices in his native Thailand.
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Boarded-up businesses in Burnley, the scene of rioting in 2001.
January 24, 2009
This document describes how the entire school system will need to change, and how individual schools will need to look beyond traditional boundaries, be outwards facing and work in close partnership with young people, parents, other schools, colleges, universities and with other children’s services.
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Many of the trails and shelters around Lake Worth were constructed by Civilian Conservation Corps members, sho
In this updated tutorial, Usha Ranji, M.S., principal policy analyst at the Kaiser Family Foundation, discusses coverage, access and financing of reproductive health services. The tutorial covers a number of issues, including contraception, screening and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, costs and coverage of maternity care and assisted reproductive technology, policies affecting access to abortion and reproductive health issues surrounding teens.
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Increasingly violent protests have gripped the Iceland's capital since Tuesday as demonstrators call for a change in government.
For more than 25 years, the global community has witnessed the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS. Until recently, many wondered whether prevention, treatment and care could ever make a measurable impact, particularly in resource-limited settings where HIV was a death sentence.
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Delia Cruz says her husband, Miguel, no longer recognizes her.
Even before the sharp financial downturn, working longer had emerged as perhaps the most attractive response to the contraction of the nation’s retirement income system. . . . This brief addresses the question of whether men in the bottom third of the educational distribution – a proxy for earnings levels – can be expected to work longer.
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Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta has become the East Coast distribution hub of the violent Mexican cartels that now dominate the drug trade. A network of highways and a large Hispanic population have made Atlanta attractive to the most notorious cartels, including the Gulf and the Federation. Consequently, the Atlanta area has started to see an increase in violent crimes, particularly kidnapping, that are worrisome to local law enforcement.
Around 17,000 children need special assistance during early childhood, with boys being in the majority.
This document answers some of the questions most commonly asked by former foster youth who are pregnant or parenting.
- The interface between formal and informal support in advanced old age: a ten-year study
- Residential Mobility in Older Dutch Adults : Influence of Later Life Events
- Discussing responsibility and ways of influencing health
- Sailing on seas of uncertainties: late style and Puccini’s struggle for self-renewal
Poet Bill McKnight from north Belfast
- Post-Adoption Contact and Openness in Adoptive Parents’ Minds: Consequences for Children’s Development
- Chronic Child Abuse: The Characteristics and Careers of Children Caught in the Child Protection System
- High Thresholds and Prevention in Children’s Services: The Impact of Mothers’ Coping Strategies on Outcome of Child and Parenting Problems—Six Month Follow-Up
- Leading Practice Improvement in Front Line Child Protection
- Attachment and Coping Strategies in Middle Childhood Children whose Mothers Have a Mental Health Problem: Implications for Social Work Practice
- Beyond ‘Vulnerability’: An Ecological Model Approach to Conceptualizing Risk of Sexual Violence against People with Learning Difficulties
- Social Work and the Shift from ‘Welfare’ to ‘Justice’
- From Care to Fellowship and Back: Interpretative Repertoires Used by the Social Welfare Workers when Describing their Relationship with Homeless Women
- (Re) Shaping Social Work: An Australian Case Study
- What (a) Difference a Degree Makes: The Evaluation of the New Social Work Degree in England
- Critical Commentary: Happy Shopper? The Problem with Service User and Carer Participation
Although the recovery package that Congress will consider in coming weeks is expected to include measures to restore several million jobs, an unusually large number of people are still likely to fall into severe poverty and to be at risk of homelessness, due to the depth of the recession. As a result, it is important that the package include funding for effective homelessness prevention strategies
NYU nutritionist Dr. Marion Nestle examines the controversial food industry practice of creating advertising directed at children.
January 23, 2009
Letter highlighting the work that is going on to develop a Payment by Results (PbR) approach for mental health.
The aims of this report, following from the literature review on perceptions of ethnic minorities among ‘poor white’ people in England, were:
1) to gather data on two not necessarily connected things: the sources of resentment, and perceptions of ethnic minorities among people resident on estates in four places in England
2) to attempt to unpick these perceptions
3) to identify suggestions to facilitate integration
4) and to put forward some recommendations for moving community cohesionand integration forward on this basis.
In 2007, the California Research Bureau conducted a survey in which homeless and formerly homeless youth completed 208 interviews with their currently and formerly homeless peers across the state in order to find out about their experiences, the services they need, and the changes they would like to see happen in policy or law.
Mariah Carey
Food security—consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life—is essential for health and good nutrition. The extent to which a nation’s population achieves food security is an indication of its material and social well-being. Differences in the prevalence of household-level food insecurity between Canada and the United States are described at the national level and for selected economic and demographic subpopulations.
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Angelica Toscano, who suffers from seizures, visits the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance office on 28th St. in Sacramento. Toscano was there to turn in paperwork in an attempt to have her government aid reinstated.
B McCartney | Wassau Daily Herald via Associated Press
Kara Neumann months before she died at age 11. Her parents, who prayed but did not seek medical care when she was ill, are charged with reckless endangerment.
The commission was charged with providing recommendations to the Judicial Council of California on the ways in which the courts and their partners can improve safety, permanency, well-being, and fairness outcomes for children and families. This report contains the commission’s recommendations for improving California’s juvenile dependency courts and foster care system and provides the values and principles that the commission adopted to guide and inform its development of the recommendations.
Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman criticizes child poverty rates in America, using the image of a family with six children who only care for five.
- Introductory: Reflecting on a Good Life
- The Good Life, The Examined Life, and the Embodied Life
- Pseudo-Concrete Ideals of a Good Life
- The Good Life and the Ideal of Flexibility
- Body Dissatisfaction
- Successful Ageing A Survey of the Most Important Theories
- Funeral Orations as Indicators of what a Good Life Ought to Be
- A Socio-Linguistic Approach to the Development of Folk Psychology
- Seeking a Mnemonic Turn: Interior Reflections in Gadamer's Post-Platonic Thought
- What Revolution Would You Like to See In the Field of Psychotherapy? Introduction
- We are not a Healthcare Business: Our Inadvertent Vow of Poverty
- Taking Relationship Seriously in Psychotherapy: Radical Relationality
- Sense-of-the-Other: At the Core of Interpersonal Theory and Practice
- Rehearsals, Confession, and Confabulations: Psychotherapy and The Synaptic Self
- Revolutionary Claims and Visions in Psychotherapy: An Anthropathological Perspective
- A Case that the Field of Psychotherapy Is Closed-Minded to Revolutionary New Ideas
- Psychotherapy Revolution: Translating Symptoms into Gifts
- On Revolutionizing the Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy
Alcohol misuse is a major problem for the NHS
A point-in-time review of children/youth in out-of-state placements excluding foster care, trial adoptions and kinship care was conducted. March 31, 2004 was randomly selected. 369 out of 3,268 children/youth (11%) in care of the WVDHHR were in out-of-state placements.
January 22, 2009
This report presents 2006 data on U.S. births according to a wide variety of characteristics. Data are presented for maternal demographic characteristics including age, live-birth order, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, and educational attainment; maternal lifestyle and health characteristics (medical risk factors, weight gain, and tobacco use); medical care utilization by pregnant women (prenatal care, obstetric procedures, characteristics of labor and/or delivery, attendant at birth, and method of delivery); and infant characteristics (period of gestation, birthweight, Apgar score, congenital anomalies, and multiple births).
G Robertson | Guardian
Richard Harwin (left), police mental health intervention officer for Hackney, with Mind's Krishna Maharaja.
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.
S Whitfield-Gabrieli | McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Altered brain connectivity of default brain network in people with schizophrenia and first-degree relatives Colored areas represent an interconnected network of brain regions that show synchronized activity (overlapping black and blue traces) when subjects rest and allow their minds to wander. The amount of synchrony, which reflects the strength of functional connections between the different areas, is increased in patients with schizophrenia. First-degree relatives of people with this illness also show some increase, although less than patients; this may reflect genetic effects on the brain that increase the risk of developing the disease.
The purpose of this report is to help further the Government's vision of equality for disabled people by 2025 as set out in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit Report Improving Life Chances of Disabled People. It looks at the work we are doing with our partners and stakeholders and sets out how we aim to achieve improved equality for disabled people across our broad policy sectors.
The hospital close to Kabul has only 40 beds
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.
LE Kossoff | Boston Globe
David Browner and Nancy Sandy talked with Steven Gray (not pictured) as they ate dinner at Shepherd's Table in Silver Spring, Md., last week.
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The state we're in: Lewisham's sink estates
The mission of the Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth & Families is to strengthen courts for children, youth, and families in the Texas child-protection system and thereby improve the safety, permanency, and well-being of children.
Melody Cole
Stanley Tannen turned to begging on the street to support his life's mission: to unite and lift up humanity through free public readings. With the help of several agencies, he now has a new apartment.
Describes delinquency cases handled between 1985 and 2005 and petitioned status offense cases handled between 1995 and 2005 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. Courts with juvenile jurisdiction may handle a variety of matters, including child abuse and neglect, traffic violations, child support, and adoptions.
A Cuban passport is one of the few things Silvia Wilhelm has left from her life growing up in Havana.
- Problem Drinking, Unemployment, and Intimate Partner Violence among a Sample of Construction Industry Workers and their Partners
- Perceived Risk for Future Intimate Partner Violence among Women in a Domestic Violence Shelter
- Perceptions of Same-sex Domestic Violence Among Crisis Center Staff
- On the Lived Experience of Battered Women Residing in Shelters
- Patterns of Risk and Protective Factors in the Intergenerational Cycle of Maltreatment
- A Culturally Sensitive Intervention with Domestically Violent Latino Immigrant Men
- The Timeline Followback Interview to Assess Children’s Exposure to Partner Violence: Reliability and Validity
- Queer Studies: Methodological approaches
- LOCALLY QUEER. A Note on the Feminist Genealogy of Queer Theory
- “I am what I am?” Toward a Sexual Politics of Contingent Foundations
- ‘Latino’ and ‘queer’ as sites of translation: Intersections of ‘race’, ethnicity and sexuality
- Queer ethnography in theory and practice: Reflections on studying sexual globalization and women’s queer activism in Beijing
- The Old, the Ugly and the Queer: Thinking old age in relation to queer theory
- The Anti-Social Turn in Queer Studies
January 21, 2009
This report provides information on the prevalence of past year SPD, the receipt of mental health services, and the types of mental health services received by adults aged 18 or older. All findings are based on 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data.
Nigel Walker has been camped on the busy roundabout for the last week
This policy brief examines the relationship between increases in the unemployment rate and changes in the number of people covered by employer-sponsored health insurance, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and non-group insurance policies, as well as the financial implications for government budgets. The analysis projects that if the unemployment rate rises to 7 percent in 2009 (up from an average of 4.6 percent in 2007), Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment would increase by 2.4 million and an additional 2.6 million people would become uninsured. The impacts would increase if the unemployment rates climbs even further.
L Bauman | Hutchinson News
New Beginnings program coordinator Jim Kanady, center, talks with Jacinda and John Kappel during the Christmas party held for the New Beginnings community in December
Americans’ diets, particularly those of low-income households, fall short of Government recommendations in the quantity of fruits and vegetables consumed. Some proposals suggest that a price subsidy for those products would encourage low-income Americans to consume more of them. This study estimated that a 10-percent subsidy would encourage low-income Americans to increase their consumption of fruits by 2.1-5.2 percent and vegetables by 2.1-4.9 percent.
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Amanda Wienckowski, 20, of Lewiston, was found dead in a garbage tote outside of an East Side church on Jan. 9, a little more than a month after she went missing.
During the fall and winter months, some people suffer from symptoms of depression that can appear gradually or come on all at once. These symptoms often dissipate as spring arrives and stay in remission through the summer months. For some people, this is a sign that they suffer from SAD.
V Roche | news-press.com
Lucheyona Weaver, right, talks with her friend Rannie Jenkins during an after-school program Wednesday at the Quality of Life Center. The Children's Network, a partner with the Department of Children and Families has been working with the center by referring them to at-risk families.
The 2008 Idaho Child Protection Reassessment utilizes statewide survey data along with
county-specific case file data and interview data to evaluate three aspects of the child protection
process: timeliness of judicial decision-making, quality of process, and legal representation.
Old-fashioned thug: One of the fearsome scuttlers arrested in 1890
Arthur Caplan, Director of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses ethical issues concerning genetic engineering and genetically handicapped children.
This process involves the selection of a small sample of cases in a county that are reviewed through detailed interviews by trained reviewers with each person involved with the case. Those persons include individuals such as the caseworker, foster parent, child and family, legal partners, providers and others who are materially involved in the case.
- The Association Between Right-Wing Political Ideology and Youth Distress
- Surviving Hegemony Through Resistance and Identity Articulation Among Outreaching Social Workers
- Loosening the Soil of Their Thinking: A Theoretical Integration for Contracting with Low-Income Single Mothers to Stop Physical Aggression Toward Their Children
- What’s the Relationship Got to do with It? Understanding the Therapeutic Relationship in Therapeutic Foster Care
- Evaluating the Efficacy of the Prodigy Prevention Program across Urban and Rural Locales
- Introducing the Issue
- Adolescent Development and the Regulation of Youth Crime
- Improving Professional Judgments of Risk and Amenability in Juvenile Justice
- Disproportionate Minority Contact
- Juvenile Crime and Criminal Justice: Resolving Border Disputes
- Understanding the Female Offender
- Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders
- Juvenile Justice and Substance Use
- Prevention and Intervention Programs for Juvenile Offenders
- Editorial: Welcome to the First Edition
- Macro Social Work Practice and Policy Advocacy with COFA Citizens
- “To Know That We Are Not Alone”: Social Work with Parents of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Counseling Approaches for Japanese Americans
- Cultural Implications of Native Hawaiian Influences on Grief and Bereavement in Hawai‘i as Experienced by “Locals”
- Al-Anon and Help for Serbian Families of Alcoholics
- Culturally Sensitive Counseling and Interventions for Pregnant Mexican-American Adolescents
- Facilitating Differences that Make a Difference
- A Longitudinal Perspective on Differentiation of Self, Interpersonal and Psychological Well-Being in Young Adulthood
- Family Functioning and Self-Differentiation: A Cross-Cultural Examination
- The Infertility Resilience Model: Assessing Individual, Couple, and External Predictive Factors
- The Influence of Supervisor and Supervisee Matching, Role Conflict, and Supervisory Relationship on Supervisee Satisfaction
- University, Failed
- The Psychotic University
- Discussing the Role of the Business School
- Epistemic Convenience: An Interview with Steve Fuller
- No Future
- From Enthusiasm to Exhaustion: A Day in the Life of a Human Geography Lecturer
- I Wanted to Be an Academic, Not a 'Creative': Notes on Universities and the New Capitalism
- We Are All Workers: A Class Analysis of University Labour Strikes
- What's It All For? Against Schooling in the Corporate University
- The Invention of the Business School
- The Next Frontier: Prevention as an Instrument of Social Justice
- Using a Social Justice Approach to Prevent the Mental Health Consequences of Heterosexism
- Impacting Sexism through Social Justice Prevention: Implications at the Person and Environmental Levels
- Preventing Racism and Promoting Social Justice: Person-Centered and Environment-Centered Interventions
- CitySongs: Primary Prevention in the Field
- Promoting a Social Justice Approach to Prevention: Future Directions for Training, Practice, and Research
- Rethinking Vulnerability: European Asylum Policy Harmonization and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors
- 'Today I was a Mittagskind’ – a Small-Scale Study of the Home Literacy Practices of a Four-Year-Old Multilingual Girl
- Childhood and Rights:Reflections on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Is respect an obstacle to or a facilitator of child participation? A study of children’s participation in the cultural context of Madagascar
- The Effects of Survey Question Wording on Rape Estimates
- If She Is Not a Victim, Does That Mean She Was Not Traumatized?: Evaluation of Predictors of PTSD Symptomatology Among College Rape Victims
- Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Funding: A Nationwide Assessment of Effects on Rape and Assault
- Battered Women Who Kill: The Impact of Expert Testimony and Empathy Induction in the Courtroom
- A Preliminary Study of Intimate Partner Violence Among Nepali Women in the United States
- Prevalence, Types, and Pattern of Intimate Partner Violence Among Pregnant Women in Lima, Peru
- The Housing Careers of Older Canadians: An Investigation Using Cycle 16 of the General Social Survey
- Bridges across the Racial Digital Divide: Residential Ecology of Internet Use Author
- Lost Generations? Indigenous Population of the Russian North in the Post-Soviet Era
- The Ageing Scottish Population: Trends, Consequences, Responses
- Measuring and Mismeasuring Discrimination against Visible Minority Immigrants: The Role of Work Experience
- Bienvenidos a Canadá? Globalization and the Migration Industry Surrounding Temporary Agricultural Migration in Canada
- An Evaluation of the Pearsonian Type I Curve of Fertility for Aboriginal Populations in Canada, 1996 to 2001
- 401(k) plans move away from employer stock as investment vehicle
- Occupational employment in the not-for-profit sector
- The employment rate of people with disabilities
- How high school students use time: a visual essay
- Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress in Parents of Children with Cancer: Are they Elevated Relative to Parents of Healthy Children?
- Brief Report: Quality of Life Is Impaired in Pediatric Burn Survivors with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Commentary: Adopting to a Broad Perspective on Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, Childhood Medical Illness and Injury
- Commentary: Life Threat, Risk, and Resilience in Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress
- Development and Validation of the Collaborative Parent Involvement Scale for Youths with Type 1 Diabetes
- Reliability and Validity of the Child Health QuestionnairePF-50 for European Children with Cerebral Palsy
- The Anger Expression Scale for Children: Initial Validation among Healthy Children and Children with Cancer
- Examining Short-term Stability of the Mealtime Interaction Coding System (MICS)
- Psychosocial Adjustment in Males with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Psychometric Properties and Clinical Utility of a Parent-report Questionnaire
- The Association of Psychiatric Diagnoses, Health Service Use, and Expenditures in Children with Obesity-related Health Conditions
- A Hopelessness Model of Depressive Symptoms in Youth with Epilepsy
- Attributions of Teacher Reactions to Diabetes Self-care Behaviors
- The Association Between Right-Wing Political Ideology and Youth Distress
- Surviving Hegemony Through Resistance and Identity Articulation Among Outreaching Social Workers
- Loosening the Soil of Their Thinking: A Theoretical Integration for Contracting with Low-Income Single Mothers to Stop Physical Aggression Toward Their Children
- What’s the Relationship Got to do with It? Understanding the Therapeutic Relationship in Therapeutic Foster Care
- Evaluating the Efficacy of the Prodigy Prevention Program across Urban and Rural Locales
- The Effects of Weight Management Programs on Self-Esteem in Pediatric Overweight Populations
- The Use of Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII): Parental and Professional Perceptions of Self-care Mastery and Autonomy in Children and Adolescents
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms Predict Nicotine Dependence and Progression to Regular Smoking from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
- Parents’ Social Adjustment in Families of Children with Spina Bifida: A Theory-driven Review
- Maternal Parenting Style and Adjustment in Adolescents with Type I Diabetes
- Differential Pathways to Preterm Delivery for Sexually Abused and Comparison Women
- Attachment, Cognitive, and Motor Development in Adopted Children: Short-term Outcomes after International Adoption
- Brief Report: Illness Intrusiveness and Adjustment among Native American and Caucasian Parents of Children with Juvenile Rheumatic Diseases
- Benefit Finding Scale for Children: Preliminary Findings from a Childhood Cancer Population
- Brief Report: Pediatric Cancer, Parental Coping Style, and Risk for Depressive, Posttraumatic Stress, and Anxiety Symptoms
- Differentiating Between Substantiated, Suspected, and Unsubstantiated Maltreatment in Canada
- Time to Leave Substantiation Behind: Findings From A National Probability Study
- Substantiation and Maltreatment Rereporting: A Propensity Score Analysis
- Caseworker Judgments and Substantiation
- Substantiation and Adverse Appeal Outcomes: Content Analysis and Testing of Drake's Harm/Evidence Model
- Allegory of the Cave: On the Theme of Substantiation
- Risk Factors for Child and Adolescent Maltreatment: A Longitudinal Investigation of a Cohort of Inner-City Youth
- Predictors of Re-Referral to Child Protective Services: A Longitudinal Follow-Up of an Urban Cohort Maltreated as Infants
- Telling Interviewers About Sexual Abuse: Predictors of Child Disclosure at Forensic Interviews
- Issues in the Application of Bayes' Theorem to Child Abuse Decision Making
- A Commentary on Mandatory Reporting Legislation in the United States, Canada, and Australia: A Cross-Jurisdictional Review of Key Features, Differences, and Issues
- Smoking cessation and financial stress
- Smoking in young people with asthma
- Community pharmacy harm reduction services for drug misusers: national service delivery and professional attitude development over a decade in Scotland
- Advertising of food to children: Is brand logo recognition related to their food knowledge, eating behaviours and food preferences?
- Preventing obesity in pre-school children: A literature review
- Impact of socioeconomic deprivation and type of facility on perceptions of the Scottish smoke-free legislation
- Reductions in cardiovascular risk in association with population screening: a 10-year longitudinal study
- Impact of a cardiovascular risk control project for South Asians (Khush Dil) on motivation, behaviour, obesity, blood pressure and lipids
- Hospital admission for acute pancreatitis in the Irish population, 1997–2004: could the increase be due to an increase in alcohol-related pancreatitis?
- An analysis of the link between behavioural, biological and social risk factors and subsequent hospital admission in Scotland
- Socio-economic status, ethnicity and diabetes management: an analysis of time trends using the health survey for England
- Caring, Mutuality and Reciprocity in Social Worker—Client Relationships: Rethinking Principles of Practice
- Adult Protection: Incidence of Referrals, Nature and Risk Factors in Two English Local Authorities
- Lived Experiences of Vulnerability in the Childhood of Persons Recovering from Substance Abuse
- Exploring the Possibilities of an Expanded Practice Repertoire in Child Protection: An Alternative Conceptual Approach
- Trying to Complete Socially Just, Politically Sensitive Social Work Research
- The Principles and Provisions of Relationships: Findings from an Evaluation of Support, Time and Recovery Workers in Mental Health Services in England
- The imperative of control
- Time to give nutrition interventions a higher profile: cost-effectiveness of 10 nutrition interventions
- Food references and marketing to children in Australian magazines: a content analysis
- Emergence Model of social and human capital and its application to the Healthy Municipalities project in Northeast Brazil
- The development of measures of community capacity for community-based funding programs in Canada
- Window of opportunity for intersectoral health policy in Sweden—open, half-open or half-shut?
- The status of health-promoting schools in Hong Kong and implications for further development
- Health-promoting hospitals in Estonia: what are they doing differently?
- Twenty years since Ottawa and Epp: researchers' reflections on challenges, gains and future prospects for reducing health inequities in Canada
- Educating for a healthy, sustainable world: an argument for integrating Health Promoting Schools and Sustainable Schools
- Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds Youth Violence Prevention: Comparing Psychodramatic and Support Group Delivery Formats
- The Explication of Implicit Team Knowledge and Its Supporting Effect on Team Processes and Technical Innovations: An Action Regulation Perspective on Team Reflexivity
- Group Members as Actors and Observers in Attributions of Responsibility for Group Performance
- Effects of Organizational Support on Potency in Work Teams: The Mediating Role of Team Processes
- Equity Sensitivity and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in a Team Environment
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Gender differences and prevalence in a Pakistani medical student population
- Cost of antipsychotic polypharmacy in the treatment of schizophrenia
- Treatment of chronically depressed patients: A multisite randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of 'Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy' (CBASP) for chronic depressions versus usual secondary care
- Development of mental health first aid guidelines for suicidal ideation and behaviour: A Delphi study
- Evaluation of patients on sertindole treatment after failure of other antipsychotics: A retrospective analysis
- Broad and narrow personality traits as markers of one-time and repeated suicide attempts: A population-based study
- What do patients want from their psychiatrist? A cross- sectional questionnaire based exploratory study from Karachi
- Narcissism in patients admitted to psychiatric acute wards: its relation to violence, suicidality and other psychopathology
- Training in dual diagnosis interventions (the COMO Study): Randomised controlled trial
- Asthma patient education opportunities in predominantly minority urban communities
- Young people, smoking and gender—a qualitative exploration
- The impact of school smoking policies and student perceptions of enforcement on school smoking prevalence and location of smoking
- ‘If I don’t smoke, I'm not a real man'—Indonesian teenage boys' views about smoking
- Social construction and cultural meanings of STI/HIV-related terminology among Nguni-speaking inmates and warders in four South African correctional facilities
- Understanding physical activity participation in members of an African American church: a qualitative study
- ‘I wouldn't have been interested in just sitting round a table talking about cancer’; exploring the experiences of women with breast cancer in a group exercise trial
- Facilitators and barriers to adoption of evidence-based perinatal care in Latin American hospitals: a qualitative study
- Social capital: implications from an investigation of illegal anabolic steroid networks
- The changing meanings of participation in school-based health education and health promotion: the participants' voices
- ‘You think you know? ... You have no idea’: youth participation in health policy development
- ‘Binge drinking? It's good, it's harmless fun’: a discourse analysis of accounts of female undergraduate drinking in Scotland
- Health education in rural settings in Ghana: a methodological approach
- The development and evaluation of written medicines information for Type 2 diabetes
- Does misdiagnosis explain the schizophrenia epidemic among immigrants from developing countries to Western Europe?
- Gender differences in first episode psychosis
- Association between financial strain, social network and five-year recovery from first episode psychosis
- Perceived discrimination and the risk of schizophrenia in ethnic minorities
- Routine evaluation in first episode psychosis services: feasibility and results from the MiData project
- Gender aspects of parents’ needs of schizophrenia patients
- Mode of onset of psychosis and family involvement in help-seeking as determinants of duration of untreated psychosis
- Gender differences in depression and anxiety across the adult lifespan: the role of psychosocial mediators
- Status inconsistency and common mental disorders in the Israel-based world mental health survey
- How to select representative geographical areas in mental health service research
- The generation gap in numbers: parent-child disagreement on youth’s emotional and behavioral problems
- Anxiety symptoms in rural Mexican adolescents
January 20, 2009
This note describes some law relating to Gypsies (Roma) and Travellers. It mainly covers issues relating to camp sites and trespass, including the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003.
Va. Proposal Puts Mental Health Safety Net for Children on Chopping Block
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) has ordered the elimination of the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents as well as a 16-bed hospital unit.
SK Brown | AP
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.
K Gardner | The Journal News
People applying for assistance programs wait in line at the Rockland County Department of Social Services.
R Dupuis-Devlin | University of Illinois-Chicago
Paula Allen-Meares, new chancellor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, at UI Board of Trustees meeting.
In this narrated slide tutorial, Andrew Bindman, M.D., professor at the University of California San Francisco and chief of the division of general internal medicine at San Francisco General Hospital, provides an overview of the health care safety net. The tutorial discusses the distinguishing features of safety net providers, factors affecting services and financing of the safety net, strategies to improve efficiency, and the implications of health insurance reform on the safety net.
DNJ | A Thompson
Neil Mattis talks about the struggles of living in a tent when the weather turns cold.
On October 1, 2008, what had been the Food Stamp Program was renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The program now provides about 30 million Americans with monthly benefits, delivered electronically, that can be used to purchase food eaten at home. For most people, the eligibility tests are low incomes and low assets, but noncitizens must meet additional eligibility requirements.
This Special Collection provides a unique perspective on working with children (younger than 13 years of age), focusing on theories and strategies for raising respectful, non-violent people. Resources included here discuss child development and how to utilize this knowledge when implementing primary prevention strategies that foster healthy attitudes and behaviors.
A conversation with Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism adjunct professor Ken Light and Photo Critic and Curator Fred Ritchin.
Jonathan Bartholomew, in his book The Welfare State We’re In, relates how Victorians faced these challenges in a way contemporary Canadians glimpse only at Christmas time―that is, welfare without the welfare state.
This chart outlines existing state and local laws and policies that provide rights and protections to children in foster care to assist with school stability and continuity under the federal McKinney-Vento Act through interpretations of "awaiting foster care placement."
January 19, 2009
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation on the banking crisis in 1933.
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Ajay Rochester at court
Strengthening marriages and relationships in low-income families has emerged as a national strategy for enhancing the well-being of children. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) appropriated $150 million in discretionary grants each year from 2006 through 2010 to implement the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative.
A study published today in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery found that such injuries are more common in female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) — defined as physical, sexual or emotional violence between partners or former partners — than among women who were assaulted during, say, a robbery, or hurt in a car accident, who are more likely to suffer broken jaws.
Economic downturns create serious problems with health coverage. When unemployment rises, fewer workers and dependents receive employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). Some who lose ESI qualify for Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), while others become uninsured.
P Constable | Washington Post
Wearing a burqa and a plastic sheet, a woman begged on a Kabul street. Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries, with high rates of unemployment, illiteracy, and infant mortality.
As is typical during labor market downturns, the bulk of the 3.4 million increase in economic part-time employment was due to an increase in the number of workers whose hours were cut back due to slack work (as opposed to the inability to find full-time work).
Social Workers in Jianan Refugee Camp
Republican | D Tregger
People fill the dining room at the Worthington St. Shelter to escape the cold temperatures outside.
A constant in the Social Panorama of Latin America is the chapter on poverty dynamics in Latin America. . . . Up-to-date estimates and analyses of the relevant figures, based on household surveys conducted in 18 countries, are provided for the year 2007. Three other chapters focus on the specific topics of the new employment-related target which has been incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals, the demographic dividend as an opportunity for expanding secondary education coverage, and the issue of youth violence and family violence as viewed from a perspective of social inclusion.
Each year, many children and youth are victims of commercial sexual exploitation involving acts of sex trafficking, prostitution, sex tourism, mail-order-bride trade and early marriage, pornography, stripping, and sexual performances. Reportedly, more than two million children worldwide are commercially sexually exploited every year, with as many as 300,000 of them being victimized in the United States.
Y BERG | TORONTO STAR
People joining in a protest against child poverty Jan. 17, 2009 gather at a makeshift soup kitchen in a Whitby park for hot chicken noodle soup.
Depression is a serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Depression has a variety of symptoms, but the most common are a deep feeling of sadness or a marked loss of interest or pleasure in activities.
Harbus | News
Lillian Lucas Dixon, in her apartment in Co-op City, surrounded by her three daughters (gray sweater, Princess, blue shirt, Lisa and Angela (orange shirt). Lillian is holding christmas presents that her son Juan never opened. Her son, Juan, was taken by social services in December.
Christina Natale talks about how financial pressures forced her to sell her home.
January 18, 2009
The Government is committed to contracting out delivery of welfare to work programmes and paying providers for getting participants into sustained employment. The main political parties concur that such a ‘welfare market’ will lead to service innovation, improved accountability, better job outcomes, and better customer service and value for money, referring to the success of similar reform in countries like Australia and the Netherlands. This study examines particular lessons from these programmes for this country.
Gerald Theis said his product, named My Crisis Capsule, will reduce medical errors by enabling medical or law enforcement personnel to access patient information by inserting a digital device into a USB port on any computer.
Historically, welfare caseloads rose during recessions, lagging behind the increases in unemployment . . . Unemployed parents who were either not eligible for unemployment insurance or who had exhausted these benefits often turned to welfare for cash assistance. But reforms in 1996 eliminated the individual entitlement to welfare and, more recently, stricter work-participation requirements were set. Most likely, Congress will need to consider increasing program funds and relaxing the work-participation requirements if this recession turns out to be long and deep, as many predict.
US drugmaker Eli Lilly pleaded guilty to violating US law in its marketing of anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa and will pay 1.42 billion dollars to settle criminal and civil allegations
AP | C Dharapak
President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to shape a new Social Security and Medicare "bargain" with the American people, saying that the nation's long-term economic recovery cannot be attained unless the government finally gets control over its most costly entitlement programs.
Larry Adelman, co-director of California Newsreel in San Francisco, made "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?"
Last month 298,000 adults age 65 and older were unemployed, about 50 percent more than in December 2007. The November 2008 unemployment rate for adults age 65 and older was 4.6 percent, up from 3.3 percent in December 2007 . . . By contrast, 12 months into the severe 1981–82 recession—the most recent downturn to have lasted as long as the current one—the number of unemployed older adults had not increased at all.
The State of America's Children 2008 compiles the most recent and reliable national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood development, education, nutrition and housing.
Funeral for a Friend played a concert in the town last year
Family caregivers provide an estimated $6 billion in unpaid care to older adults in Maryland each year. AARP’s Maryland State Office commissioned this survey to explore the views and experiences of AARP members on caregiving issues.
Families of brain tumor patients face many challenges in providing ongoing care of their loved ones. This in-depth program from the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF provides caregivers with useful information and details the struggles of healthcare providers in meeting the needs of patients and their families.
Pink: I'd be a social worker if I didn't sing
January 17, 2009
The Department, in partnership with the Audit Commission and the Local Government Association, commissioned this external review to better understand how to strengthen support to local partners in using local information and research in decision-making.
M Argles | Guardian
Lord Jones said of his dealings with civil servants: "I was amazed, quite frankly, at how many people deserved the sack."
Bipolar disorder, also commonly known as manic depression, is a brain disorder that causes shifts in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function. The symptoms of bipolar disorder can result in damaged relationships, difficulty in working or going to school, and even suicide. There are generally periods of normal mood as well, but left untreated, people with bipolar disorder continue to experience these shifts in mood.
This is the second of our regular reports to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the impacts of the credit crunch and recession on rural economies and communities. It covers the December 2008 period.
F Baron | Guardian
Obesity has nearly doubled in the past 14 years. So what is life like for seriously overweight people? 'The more depressed I get about it, the more I eat' ... Julie Worboys.
The National Health Plan Collaborative has created this toolkit of resources, lessons, best practices and case studies to help other health plans join the effort to reduce disparities. The toolkit shares what the Collaborative's members have done to develop and test new methods of measuring and addressing racial and ethnic disparities so that other health care decision-makers and leaders can learn from this work, implement these best practices and make the case for addressing the unacceptable differences in health care and health outcomes for health plan members throughout the country.
AP | A Cubillos
Mothers carrying their emaciated children line up at the WFP and Save the Children Clinic for emergency food and medical care in Baie d'Orange, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. The U.N. World Food Program is calling for countries to donate $100 million to help Haiti fight chronic malnutrition and stave off famine-like conditions. Four tropical storms and hurricanes in 2008 battered the impoverished Caribbean nation at harvest-time, killing at least 793 people, decimating agriculture and causing $1 billion of damage to irrigation works, bridges and roads.
P Lodato | DP
Mayor Michael Nutter speaks at the Fifth Anniversay Gala for the Penn School of Social Work.
Remittances – the money that migrants send home – are a key element in the socio-economic reality of many conflict-affected and post-conflict countries. However, conceptual frameworks for explaining the dynamics of remittances in conflict-affected settings are lagging behind emerging empirical evidence. This paper first explores relevant conceptual models from the literature on labour migration, and outlines some of their limitations. Second, it focuses on aspects of conflict-induced migration – specifically, the causation of migration, the situation of family left behind and the post-migration situation of refugees – that may have implications for the remittance behaviour of those affected.
NIMH ADHD Publication Cover
A detailed booklet that describes ADHD symptoms, causes, and treatments, with information on getting help and coping.
R Bennett | NY Times
Arline Bencosme, right, with her son J. J., 14, avoided eviction after she fell behind on the rent. But the group that helped her is soon to lose its state financing.
M Munk | Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Residents in Recife, Brazil, exercise in the Academia de Cidade program.
Can sleeping pills do more harm than good? Join us for this provocative and informative program exploring the new class of "improved" sleeping pills. According to recent research by Daniel Kripke, M.D., professor of psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine, sleeping pills may increase depression and lead to a higher incidence of certain diseases. Sleeping pills may actually shorten people's lives.
This report sets out progress made in tackling the over-representation of young black people in the criminal justice system.
January 16, 2009
A social worker at Doncaster Council claims the cases of at least 60 children who may be at risk are being ignored because of a backlog of work.
Having good mental health throughout life does not ensure immunity from severe depression, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety disorders and other disorders in the senior years of life. In fact, some studies show elderly people are at greater risk of mental disorders and their complications than are younger people. However, many of these illnesses can be accurately diagnosed and treated.
"You wonder if you are going to wake up or if someone is going to find you"
No cash assistance program for low-income working families is as widely received as the earned income tax credit (EITC). In 2006 (the last year for which data are available), 23 million households received a total of $44.4 billion in reduced taxes and payments. The share of eligible families receiving EITC benefits is far higher than for public assistance programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and food stamps (now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), presumably because EITC is provided through the tax system and does not require application through a separate agency. But the EITC is an unreliable safety net for low-income families during a recession, particularly as unemployment rates climb.
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Social work intern Sabrina Wong takes a call on the Women Helping Women Help-Line in Metuchen. She says callers often cycle through "a roller coaster of emotions."
State unemployment insurance programs provide weekly unemployment benefits to eligible workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. . . . While over 90 percent of jobs in the United States are covered by unemployment insurance, not all unemployed workers receive benefits. In fact, only 36.3 percent of the unemployed in 2007 received benefits. Some choose not to claim benefits, and others who do apply are found ineligible because they did not earn enough or work long enough before losing their jobs.
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A bread line in San Francisco during the Great Depression
Medicaid is a federal/state partnership that does much more than provide health insurance for the poor. Medicaid is our nation's largest health insurer, covering one in six Americans. It covers two-thirds of nursing home residents, one in five persons under age 65 with chronic disabilities, more than one-quarter of children, and well over one-third of all births.
M Williamson | Washington Post
Lindsey Nelson gets ready to head out for the day after sleeping in an area that falls within the city's inaugural security perimeter.
In 11 of Ohio’s 14 largest districts, average teacher salaries are lower in schools with the highest concentration of students from low-income families than in schools with the fewest low-income students.
Comprising a national study and four sub-studies, this report presents a range of data collected from service users, providers, family members, youth advocates, and state and county system leaders across the child serving spectrum. The report then uses these data to identify state- and federal-level policy implications and recommendations with the goal of promoting improved mental health service delivery through policy reform.
C Court | PA
Mr Balls attacked the “excuses culture” that exists in school communities where head teachers and governors blame pupils’ background for below-par GCSE results.
Much industry was privatised following the break up of the Soviet Union
This review aimed to assess the efficacy of cognitive-behavioural approaches (CBT) in addressing the immediate and longer-term sequelae on children who have been sexually abused. Ten studies were identified that met the inclusion criteria for the review in which a total of 847 children participated. The evidence suggests that CBT may have a positive impact on the sequelae of child sexual abuse, but most results were statistically non-significant.
U-M professor Ed West offers insight into how being raised bi-racial can broaden understanding of cultural differences
January 15, 2009
Information on health insurance coverage and access to and use of health care for the non-institutionalized population in Massachusetts. This report summarizes the results of that new survey, including the finding that more than more than 97 percent of Massachusetts residents have health insurance, with only 2.6 percent of state residents remaining uninsured.
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Outside Doncaster Council House
Unemployment rates begin to rise rapidly at the start of a recession. During the 1974–75 and 1980–82 recessions, the unemployment rate’s decline coincided with the end of the recession. But the downturns of 1990–91 and 2001 saw unemployment continue to climb even after the recessions ended, declining only a year or more after the economy had started growing again.
iStockphoto | OK Keat
People with a higher caffeine intake, from sources such as coffee, tea and caffeinated energy drinks, are more likely to report hallucinatory experiences such as hearing voices and seeing things that are not there.
E LIEBOWITZ | ABC
Ted Levine, who played the serial killer Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, is Dr. Robert Banger in Wonderland.
The purpose of this study was to understand what Americans age 45 and older think about miracles and miraculous events, including what they believe about divine healings, guardian angels, the circumstances under which someone may receive a miracle, and how miraculous events have changed their outlook on life.
Even in the absence of intentional discrimination, most women in this country also are likely to lose substantial amounts of income due to something we at the Center for American Progress Action Fund have termed the “career wage gap.”
The unprecedented reductions come as millions are losing their jobs and insurance. They are so steep that the federal rescue package may not be able to revive them.
This Issue Brief provides estimates of the number and percentage of homeschooled students in the United States in 2007 and compares these estimates to those from 1999 and 2003. In addition, parents’ reasons for homeschooling their children in 2007 are described and compared to 2003.
MCT | P BECK
Alex, center, and friends Arielle LaBrecque, left, and Greg Foakes share a lighter moment during their AP English Literature class at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills, Mich. Alex, 17, a ward of the state, refuses to let his foster-care situation define him.
This site explains how the law now allows people to make decisions to refuse treatments including those that sustain life. Many people want to achieve a natural and dignified death, this is one way to help achieve it.
This report examines the policy and practice surrounding the use of restraint in young offender institutions, secure training centres and secure children's homes.
Innovative educator and social justice advocate Joseph Berney explores his path to stop education from trying to get people to fit into society, and start to get people to change it.
In October, we reported that Britain's 13,900 care homes are to face a new complaints system and tougher inspections. After a huge response from our readers, The Times launches a three-part series on the state of nursing homes
January 14, 2009
About one in five midlife and older adults have had their health negatively affected by the current economic downturn, and about one in six are not confident about being able to afford medical care next year.
They came for a better life, but these Polish workers are living under a railway bridge in London
In FY 2007-08, Florida’s Medicaid program appropriated $16.2 billion to provide health care benefits to some of the state’s most needy citizens. Florida’s program is among the largest in the country, serving approximately 2.1 million people each month. In a February 2008 report from the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, estimates of fraud, waste and abuse in Florida’s Medicaid program ranged from five percent to 20 percent. Just taking the average of these estimates, which is 12.5 percent, fraud, waste and abuse could amount to as much as $2 billion each year.
Number of beggars and operations carried out in Selangor between January and November 2008
Anxiety disorders differ from normal feelings of nervousness. Untreated anxiety disorders can push people into avoiding situations that trigger or worsen their symptoms. People with anxiety disorders are likely to suffer from depression, and they also may abuse alcohol and other drugs in an effort to gain relief from their symptoms. Job performance, school work, and personal relationships can also suffer.
A Ahmed
The exhibition reflects the journeys people make to reach freedom - both physically and emotionally
Existing evidence suggests that there is a U-shaped relationship between age and happiness, where happiness is the lowest in the middle age, when controlling for income and education and other personal characteristics. On the other hand, there is no clear pattern between old age and happiness without the use of controls. Thus, it is not ageing as such, which results in declining happiness, but rather the circumstances associated with ageing.
Providence Journal | B Breidenbach
Thanks to Operation Snowflake, Dave Faucher, 25, now has a part-time job and a bed in a shelter.
12 girls are confirmed victims of sexual abuse and neglect because they were married at ages ranging from 12 to 15. There were 43 girls removed from the ranch from the ages of 12 to 17 – which means thatmore than one out of every four pubescent girls on the ranch was an underage marriage. 262 other children were subjected to neglect because parents failed to remove their child from a situation in which the child would be exposed tosexual abuse committed against another child within their families or households
F Baron | Guardian
John McCaffrey's school and his friends have come to terms with his illness.
In this panel on The Future of Radical Scholarship, participants explore meaningful and systematic ways to guide teaching, research, and archive-building that recuperates the radical tradition.
This report sets out progress made in tackling the over-representation of young black people in the criminal justice system.
Yvonne Evans (front) and Dana Mitchell of Charlotte clean a kitchen at Hall House recently. Officials hope to house 100 families in the units.
January 13, 2009
On 12 October 2007, the Provincial Government passed Law nr. 10/2007 concerning new provisions for supporting persons in need of long-term care. This Policy Brief highlights the main features of this new scheme as well as the political and developmental process behind it.
R Grierson
Dorothy Rowe complained to the corporation that her comments about depression, for the Radio 2 programme What Do You Believe?, had been so heavily edited that the final version misrepresented her views.
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.
G Jenson | Clarion-Ledger
Charles Araujo, a behavior specialist for Jackson Public Schools, says he has been "involved in social work for more than 30 years." He worked 17 years at the state Department of Human Services, which is struggling to retain caseworkers.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed life-threatening events such as natural disasters, serious accidents, terrorist incidents, war, or violent personal assaults like rape. People who suffer from PTSD often relive the experience through flashbacks or nightmares, have difficulty sleeping, and feel detached or estranged.
S Butts | Edmonton Journal
A crisis network of nurses and police officers regularly visits the city's troubled residents. Some are lonely and tormented, others need to be hospitalized. Nurse Peter Vermeulen, left, and police Const. Em Chan, both on the Police and Crisis Team, travel in an unmarked police car
The refugee regime is generally considered to be predicated on the persecution of individuals – specific targeting based on personal beliefs and activities – but this does not mean that refugees should or can be studied as individuals outside social networks. The most crucial and basic social grouping is the family, fulfilling a host of functions in human life. For this reason, family unity is recognized as important for human development and well-being. For refugees and other forced migrants, family unity cannot be taken for granted, as the situations that cause displacement commonly disperse families.
J Graham | Grace Episcopal Church
Yoshio Nakada was known for his frequent singing, gentle nature and bright smile.
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. The indicators are organized into seven sections, each focusing on a domain relevant to children's lives.
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by Paul Collier
Measures to help people who have been out of work for more than six months are to be unveiled by the government.
Russell Barkley, Ph.D., discusses the recent advancements in understanding the nature and subtyping of ADHD as well as recent discoveries in what might cause the disorder and medications that might help treat ADHD.
This Statistical First Release (SFR) provides information about children looked after in England for the year ending 31 March 2008. The figures are based on returns collected from all 150 English local authorities.
January 12, 2009
The report reviews approaches and lessons learned from Medicare’s experience with various cost-containment strategies, including both legislative and administrative initiatives since the mid-1970s.
Age Concern says the government has not been doing enough to help
In 2006, 67% of all rural AIDS cases among adults and adolescents were reported from the South, 14% were reported from the Midwest, 12% were reported from the Northeast, and 7% were reported from the West.
EM Suarez | Globe
Odoi Odotei, community development director for the Hope Fellowship Church of Cambridge, which hosted the outdoor meals in Davis and Porter squares: It's ''simply not right to be asked not to reach out to those in need.''
Findings from this survey show the importance AARP members in Georgia place on having services and policies that support family caregivers and the older adults who rely on them.
Almost a half of Ukrainian pensioners have already received their January pensions, according to the press service of the Labor and Social Policy Ministry.
Analyzes the substantial gap in wages between men and women, and then measures that gap in the context of women’s educational achievements and the continuing discrimination against women in the workplace, with attention to the impact of the issues of health and child care. This analysis of the complex and interrelated problems facing working women reveals both that women are subject to pay discrimination and that the inequities between white women and women of color are as striking as those between women and men.
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A long line of jobless and homeless men wait outside to get a free dinner at New York City's municipal lodging house in 1932. At the peak of the Great Depression, 27 per cent of Canadians and 25 per cent of Americans were out of work.
The Expanded Public Works Programme is one of South African government’s short-to-medium term programmes aimed at providing additional work opportunities coupled with training. It is a national programme which covers all spheres of government and state-owned enterprises. The EPWP is a programme which cuts across all government departments and all spheres of government. Under the EPWP all government bodies are required to make a systematic effort to target the unskilled unemployed.
R AMBO | Honolulu Advertiser
A permanent memorial was erected at the pedestrian overpass from which Cyrus Belt was allegedly thrown by his neighbor, Matthew Higa, nearly a year ago.
From 2006 to 2007, the number of America’s children that live in poverty grew by nearly half a million. Indeed in 2007, the child poverty rate reached a level, 18%, not seen in this country for more than a decade. Furthermore, the number of children who live just above the poverty line (between 100% and 125% of the Federal Poverty Level) also grew by about 100,000 children from 2006 to 2007.
The issue of children living with domestic violence is now recognised as a matter for concern in its own right by both government and key children’s services agencies. The link between child physical abuse and domestic violence is high, with estimates ranging between 30% to 66% depending upon the study. In 2002, nearly three quarters of children subject of a child protection plan) lived in households where domestic violence occurs.
PhotoVoice project puts focus on environmental justice
A Brazilian government official takes notes as he talks with workers about to be freed.