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February 28, 2009
This leaflet contains information about how you can support a friend or relative who is in a violent relationship.
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Fuel poverty will hit a further 1.7 million people despite price cuts
According to a new analysis of data about the U.S. foreign-born population from the 2007 American Community Survey (ACS), a higher percentage of people born in India have a bachelors degree or higher (74 percent) than people born in any other foreign country. Egypt and Nigeria had rates above 60 percent.
Dalhousie University School of Social Work professor, Michael Ungar
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Dumpson Chair Brenda McGowan, D.S.W., and Dean Emeritus James R. Dumpson, D.S.W.
Check and Connect is a dropout prevention program for high school students with learning, emotional, and/or behavioral disabilities. Students typically enter the program in 9th grade, and are assigned a “monitor” (e.g. a graduate student, special education teacher, or community member with experience in human services), who works with them year-round as a mentor, advisor, and service coordinator. On a daily basis, monitors work with school personnel to track and document students’ attendance, behavior (e.g. detention referrals, suspensions), and academic performance (e.g. course failure, credits earned).
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Dr. James Ellor, a professor in the School of Social Work, sits in his office Wednesday afternoon. Ellor was chosen as an outstanding fellow by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.
This brief reviews provisions under the federal Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act (CAPTA) that require States to ensure that all substantiated cases of maltreated.
K Nortz | The Herald
Kitara Faltin, 19, was placed in foster care when she was 9 and left it when she was 16. Today, she has a job and is taking classes at Everett Community College. "I just want to have a normal life," Faltin said. "I know it's going to be hard."
Aberdeen City Council is consulting on the proposals
- Behavior Analysis in its Historical and Cultural Context
- Behavior and Social Issues Advances
- Propensity to Report Intimate Partner Violence in Australia: Community Demographics
- Belief in Free Will: Measurement and Conceptualization Innovations
- A Relational Frame Theory Contribution to Social Categorization
- Functional Assessment of Self-Initiated Maladaptive Behaviors: A Case Study
- New Myths and Harsh Realities: Reply to Paul on the Implications of Paul and Lentz (1977) for Generalization From Token Economies to Uncontrolled Environments
- Scientific Achievement and Editorial Board Membership
- Begin the Journey With the End in Mind
- Editorial Judgments, Quality Scholarship, and the Academy of Management's Journals
- Successful Authors and Effective Reviewers: Balancing Supply and Demand in the Organizational Sciences
- ``Circle the Wagons and Defend the Faith'': Slicing and Dicing the Data
- Investigating Faking Using a Multilevel Logistic Regression Approach to Measuring Person Fit
- Estimating Statistical Power With Incomplete Data
- Composing Group-Level Constructs From Individual-Level Survey Data
The Abecedarian Project, initiated in 1972, provided educational child care and high-quality preschool from age 0-5 to children from very disadvantaged backgrounds (most raised by single mothers with less than a high school education, reporting no earned income, 98% of whom were African-American).
- Editorial: Qualitative Research and Intercultural Communication
- Mapping the Landscape of Qualitative Research on Intercultural Communication. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Methodological Galaxy
- The Notion of Culture in Linguistic Research
- A Performative View of Language—Methodological Considerations and Consequences for the Study of Culture
- Hermeneutic Sociology of Knowledge for Intercultural Understanding
- Intercultural Communication and Competence Research through the Lens of an Anthropology of Knowledge
- Beyond the Story Itself: Narrative Inquiry and Autoethnography in Intercultural Research in Higher Education
- The Documentary Method in Intercultural Research Scenarios
- A Cultural Psychological Approach to Analyze Intercultural Learning: Potential and Limits of the Structure Formation Technique
- Multiple Methods, Communicative Preferences and the Incremental Interview Approach Protocol
- Linking the Intercultural and Grounded Theory: Methodological Issues in Migration Research
- The Same but Different—Researching Language and Culture in the Lives of Polish People in England
- Redefining Organizational Cultures: An Interpretative Anthropological Approach to Corporate Narratives
- Discourses on Drugs and Immigration: The Social Construction of a Problem
- Facilitating Group Decision-Making: Facilitator's Subjective Theories on Group Coordination
- Writing and Righting Trauma: Troubling the Autoethnographic Voice
February 27, 2009
A report to Dumfries and Galloway Council shows an increase in "reported accidents" involving its staff.
The Good Behavior Game is a 1st - 2nd grade classroom management strategy for decreasing aggressive/disruptive student behavior. In some cases, it is implemented in both 1st and 2nd grade (see study 1 below); in other cases, it is implemented only in 1st grade.
This short booklet looks at what the commission has achieved over the past five years. It explains how the commission's vision and values have been used to regulate and inspect social care.
During the past ten years, alternatives to incarceration have been imposed for between 15 and 25 percent of federal offenders. The true extent to which courts impose these alternatives is not apparent in this trend, however, because of the unique composition of the federal sentencing population.
Developed in 1992 in Oregon, SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) recruits community volunteers to tutor low-performing K-2 students in reading. The program operates statewide, serving approximately 11,000 students in 260 elementary schools each year. The Oregon business community provides significant financial assistance to the program, and many of the volunteer tutors are recruited from the business community.
This booklet contains everything parents need to know about their options for out-of-school and holiday care, how to choose and how to get the financial help available to pay for it.
Reno Gazette-Journal
Tonya and Carey Fleck stand in one of their children's rooms. Tonya Fleck has adopted children, and because of mistake with the DA's office, her identity was revealed to the children's biological parents. They said one of the biological parents has made threats to kidnap the children and blow up their house.
This bulletin includes information on some common issues arising from the Baby P case, Lord Laming's inquiry into progress on implementing the Victoria Climbie Inquiry recommendations, the latest on moving forward with a new child trafficking assessment tool, preventing bullying in schools, encouraging youngsters to fight knife crime and the Government’s campaign to alert young people to the dangers of taking cocaine.
- Soft drinks and 'desire to drink' in preschoolers
- The effect of adding group-based counselling to individual lifestyle counselling on changes in dietary intake. The Inter99 study – a randomized controlled trial
- Field validation of listings of food stores and commercial physical activity establishments from secondary data
- Distinct trajectories of leisure time physical activity and predictors of trajectory class membership: a 22 year cohort study
- A comparison of direct versus self-report measures for assessing physical activity in adults: a systematic review
- The validation of a home food inventory
- The Impact of Regular Self-weighing on Weight Management: A Systematic Literature Review
- Self-management for obesity and cardio-metabolic fitness: Description and evaluation of the lifestyle modification program of a randomised controlled trial
- Understanding breast cancer patients' preference for two types of exercise training during chemotherapy in an unblinded randomized controlled trial
- Effect of point-of-purchase calorie labeling on restaurant and cafeteria food choices: A review of the literature
- Relationships between frequency of family meals, BMI and nutritional aspects of the home food environment among New Zealand adolescents
- A Comparison of Social Skills Profiles in Intellectually Disabled Adults With and Without ASD
- Testing the Construct Validity of Dixon and Johnson's (2007) Gambling Functional Assessment
- Effects of an Informational Brochure, Lottery-Based Financial Incentive, and Public Posting on Absenteeism of Direct-Care Human Services Employees
- Personality, Alcohol Use, and Drinking Motives: A Comparison of Independent and Combined Internal Drinking Motives Groups
- The Effects of Fixed Ratio Values on Concurrent Mand and Play Responses
- Factors Associated With the Questions About Behavior Function for Functional Assessment of Low and High Rate Challenging Behaviors in Adults With Intellectual Disability
- Aerobic Exercise for Alcohol Recovery: Rationale, Program Description, and Preliminary Findings
- A Parametric Study of Cognitive Defusion and the Believability and Discomfort of Negative Self-Relevant Thoughts
- Effect of a Classroom-Based Behavioral Intervention Package on the Improvement of Children's Sitting Posture in Japan
- Neither Saints nor Wolves in Disguise: Ambivalent Interpersonal Attitudes and Behaviors in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Liberal author Naomi Wolf outlines strategic and ethical challenges Barack Obama now faces in dealing with with intelligence, surveillance, and defense industry interest groups. "I trust his intentions are good, but he's playing with fire," she says.
- New Zealand and Queensland teachers’ conceptions of learning: Transforming more than reproducing
- Self-rated estimates of multiple intelligences based on approaches to learning
- Attachment disorder, basic trust and educational psychology
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Parent Self-efficacy in Managing the Transition to School Scale
- "You are getting too old, find a man and marry”: Social Aspects of Motivation to Choose Teacher Education
- Adolescent Students' Beliefs about Aggression and the Association between Beliefs and Reported Level of Aggression: A Study of Senior High School Students in Ghana
- Can children with AD/HD learn relaxation and breathing techniques through biofeedback video games?
- The Learning and Development Survey: Further Evaluation of its Psychometric Properties
- Effect of Violating the Indicated Age Window For a Parent-Completed Child Development Screening Questionnaire
- Affective Anomia: an Interventional Focus for Attachment Disorder
Richard Wexler, executive director of the Alexandria-based coalition, says Michigan's child protection bureaucracy suffers from a "take-the-child-and-run mentality" that treats parents who lose their jobs or fail to pay their utility bills the same as those who abuse drugs or physically harm their children.
February 26, 2009
The former Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Rt Rev Richard Holloway
This short booklet looks at what the commission has achieved over the past five years. It explains how the commission's vision and values have been used to regulate and inspect social care.
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Cameron Furlow and Bea Walker pack food for a needy family at ABCCM South Ministry in Arden. Agencies that receive food from MANNA face shortages because MANNA is collecting less food donations.
To identify the health needs of children entering foster care, all 10 states we studied have adopted policies that specify the timing and scope of children’s health assessments, and some states use designated providers to conduct the assessments. All of the states we selected for study required physical examinations, most states we studied required mental health and developmental screens, and several of them required or recommended substance abuse screens for youth shortly after entry into foster care.
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Social worker Staci Pratt helps homeless people — all kinds of them — at the Wilhelmina Gill Multi-Service Center in Kansas City, Kan.
When possible, advance planning should take place soon after a diagnosis of early-stage AD while the person can participate in discussions. People with early-stage AD are often capable of understanding many aspects and consequences of legal decision making. However, legal and medical experts say that many forms of planning can help the person and his or her family even if the person is diagnosed with later-stage AD.
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Gay and lesbian activists from Beijing got together on Valentines Day for a mass pretend wedding.
The prevalence of many health-risk behaviors varies across the five Pacific Island territories, and many high school students engage in behaviors that place them at risk for the leading causes of mortality and morbidity.
The Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD–“MTA” for short–brought together 18 nationally recognized authorities in ADHD at 6 different university medical centers and hospitals to evaluate the leading treatments for ADHD, including various forms of behavior therapy and medications. The study has included nearly 600 elementary school children, ages 7-9, randomly assigned to one of four treatment modes: (1) medication alone; (2) psychosocial/behavioral treatment alone; (3) a combination of both; or (4) routine community care.
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Reunited: Sabila and Akil with their birth mother Sunama.
- Freedom, Revolt and `Citizenship': Three pillars of identity for youngsters living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro
- `I'm Just Me!': Children talking beyond ethnic and religious identities
- `Barter', `Deals', `Bribes' and `Threats': Exploring sibling interactions
- Child Poverty in Portugal: Dimensions and dynamics
- Presentation and Representation: Youth participation in ongoing public decision-making projects
- Parent Participation At School: A research study on the perspectives of children
- Children's Participation Rights in Research
- Social inequalities in mental health in Norway: possible explanatory factors
- Development and preliminary validation of the 'Caring for Country' questionnaire: measurement of an Indigenous Australian health determinant
- Determinants of self-rated health in women: a population-based study in Armavir Marz, Armenia, 2001 & 2004
- Disparities in child health in the Arab region during the 1990s
- Health insurance of rural/township schoolchildren in Pinggu, Beijing: coverage rate, determinants, disparities, and sustainability
- Sexual slavery without borders: trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation in India
- Is it possible to identify patient's sex when reading blinded illness narratives? An experimental study about gender bias
Part 2 of the pro-tv production Cries of a Teenage Soul
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Palestinian olives ready for small scale production of olive oil
An independent or direct-placement adoption is an adoption arranged privately between the birth family and the adoptive family. A placement made between families within the United States is referred to as a domestic adoption. Private adoption agencies or attorneys may assist in completing a private domestic adoption. Unlike adoption of a child from foster care through a public agency, which involves fairly minimal fees, an adoptive family will be expected to pay many of the expenses associated with a private adoption.
- A Canadian Exception to the Punitive Turn? Community Responses to Policing Practices in Winnipeg’s Inner City
- Educational Homogamy of Married and Unmarried Couples in English and French Canada
- Political Affiliation of Canadian Professors
- Are American Evangelicals More Politically Conservative Than Canadian Evangelicals? An Empirical Investigation Using Multiple Data Sources
February 25, 2009
M Webb | Herald-Dispatch
Oxycontin 80's are a commonly abused prescription pill.
The findings in this report emphasize the need for ongoing surveillance and reporting to monitor cancer incidence trends, identify populations at greatest risk for developing cancer related to tobacco use, and evaluate the effectiveness of targeted tobacco control programs and policies.
K Hatch | Reformer
Bertie and Myrtle Sprague embrace at their Brattleboro home
Continued surveillance is needed to design, implement, and evaluate public health policies and programs that can lead to a reduction in morbidity and mortality from the effects of health-risk behaviors and subsequent chronic conditions.
Prof. Louise Frey. “She had a strong commitment to group work, and to providing excellent training to students in social work practice,” says Gail Steketee, dean of SSW.
This booklet was developed by the early-stage support group at the Northwestern University Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago. The authors chose to share their thoughts and feelings because they wanted to help others who also are facing the beginning stages of dementia. Here, you'll find firsthand views about a diagnosis, what to expect, how to talk with others about the disease, and more.
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Hilton Dawson (pictured) will take over as head of the BASW from Ian Johnston in April. Before serving as MP for Lancaster and Wyre between 1997 and 2005, Dawson trained as a social worker and spent 16 years in the social care sector.
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Riverside University High School student Ebony McCovery will spend the night in a box outdoors as part of the school’s Box City fund-raiser. The event starts at 4 p.m. March 12. The project has raised $40,000 toward the $60,000 goal to build a Habitat for Humanity home for one family.
This report examines how changes in worker capabilities and job requirements over the past few decades affect the ability of older workers to work past the Social Security Early Retirement Age of 62. This issue arises because a possible reform of Social Security could raise the early retirement age.
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HELP AND HOPE: Wendy Esquibel is using a storage unit in Queen Creek for Jose’s Closet in memory of a foster child who died of leukemia after being with her for one year. Esquibel has set up the storage unit to help foster families in need. Esquibel has taken in more than 40 foster care children in the last eight years.
UNSW's world class Anxiety Disorders Clinic has proved in clinical trials that online therapy for anxiety, depression, shyness and panic is as a effective as face-to-face counselling.
- Therapeutic community drug treatment success in Peru: a follow-up outcome study
- Short scales to assess cannabis-related problems: a review of psychometric properties
- The development of multiple drug use among anabolic-androgenic steroid users: six subjective case reports
- Character pathology and neuropsychological test performance in remitted opiate dependence
- Coming to terms with the nonmedical use of prescription medications
- Conflict and user involvement in drug misuse treatment decision-making: a qualitative study
- Treatment of alcohol dependence in patients with co-morbid major depressive disorder – predictors for the outcomes with memantine and escitalopram medication
- Prevalence of nonmedical methamphetamine use in the United States
- The moderating role of parental smoking on their children's attitudes toward smoking among a predominantly minority sample: a cross-sectional analysis
- Applying Complexity and Emergence in Social Work Education
- Evaluation of Social Work Communication Skills to Allow People with Aphasia to be Part of the Decision Making Process in Healthcare
- Social Work in Ghana: A Participatory Action Research Project Looking at Culturally Appropriate Training and Practice
- Professional Doctorates—A Better Route for Researching Professionals?
- Developing Social Work in Vietnam: Issues in Professional Education
- Involving Service Users in a Problem Based Model of Teaching and Learning
- Probation Training: The Experience of Learners and Teachers
Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America, argues that bureaucracy has killed effective protesting because mass social protests in the U.S. now have a feeling of "Disneyland activism."
"It feels fake, because it is fake," she says.
B KINGSLEY | TENNESSEAN
Imani Granger laughs with friends in the cafeteria at Coles Ferry Elementary School in Lebanon. Imani, one of several homeless students at the school, lives at a shelter a few miles away.
- A Multiparadigmatic Approach to Religion in Social Work Education
- The Generalist Model: Where do the Micro and Macro Converge?
- Developing an Online Social Work Practice Course Segment: An Action Research Case Example
- Resilience amid Academic Stress: The Moderating Impact of Social Support among Social Work Students
- Longitudinal evaluation of outcomes for youth with serious emotional disturbance during two years of Children’s Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Social Work Practice with Latinos Living with HIV/ AIDS
- An Adult Education Model of Resident Participation: Building Community Capacity and Strengthening Neighborhood-Based Activities in a Comprehensive Community Initiative (CCI)
- Convergence of a strengths perspective and youth development: Toward youth promotion practice
- Love song at the end of the day: A wife's journey
- Information pathways into dementia care services: Family carers have their say
- Persistence of self in individuals with Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from language and visual recognition
- Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) patients living at home and their spousal caregivers compared with institutionalized FTD patients and their spousal caregivers: Which characteristics are associated with in-home care?
- Sense of coherence amongst male caregivers in dementia: A South African perspective
- African American caregivers: An exploration of pathways and barriers to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease for a family member with dementia
- Caring for individuals with end-stage dementia at the end of life: A specific focus on hospice social workers
- Innovative practice
- Improving services and support for people with dementia: Using a web forum to capture the views of people with dementia and their carers to inform a national audit office report
- Improving outcomes for dementia care in acute aged care: Impact of an education programme
- Person-centred home care for people with dementia: Developing a specialist service in an ethnically diverse community
February 24, 2009
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AD is a complex disease, and no single “magic bullet” is likely to prevent or cure it. That’s why current treatments focus on several different issues, including helping people maintain mental function; managing behavioral symptoms; and slowing, delaying, or preventing AD.
The primary responsibility for child welfare services rests with the States, and each State has its own legal and administrative structures and programs that address the needs of children and families. However, States must comply with specific Federal requirements and guidelines in order to be eligible for Federal funding under certain programs.
LO Baylen | Los Angeles Times
UNITY CONCERT: Korean Shil Sa Suh holds daughter Saya Okano, 6, while son Yuichiro Okano, 8, rests at her side in August at the event to reconcile Koreans and Japanese
Our project uses DYNASIM3, the Urban Institute’s dynamic microsimulation model of the U.S. population, to simulate several alternative systems of Social Security auxiliary benefits. We specifically consider earnings sharing, a system in which a husband’s and a wife’s earnings records are combined and averaged over the duration of their marriage when computing Social Security benefits.
There is a 'stigma' attached to Mount Carmel.
Barbara Renaud Gonzalez
The findings in this report indicate variations in health risk behaviors, chronic conditions, and use of preventive health screenings and health services. These findings underscore the continued need to evaluate intervention programs at the community level and to design and implement policies to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by chronic disease.
Insufficient progress has been made in the provision of healthcare to YOTs between the first and the last phase of our five-year inspection programme. Services for substance misuse, for example, were more established in YOTs and were providing a consistent and timely service to those who have offended. But although health services provided a good standard of information about substance misuse to children and young people, they did not always carry out the prevention work
necessary.
Jeremiah Swafford
Application forms for unemployment benefit have been made available on the internet in an effort to speed up processing claims.
Targeting Benefit Thieves "We're closing in" television advertisement - Cash in hand
- Using the MMPI-A to Predict Recidivism in Adjudicated Minors
- Principle-based Correctional Counseling: Teaching Health versus Treating Illness
- Capital Punishment in Texas and California: A Comparison
- From Obsession to Confession: A False Confession Paradigm in the Murder of JonBenet Ramsey
- Police Stress: Effects of Criticism Management Training on Health
- Awareness and implementation of tobacco dependence treatment guidelines in Arizona: Healthcare Systems Survey 2000
- Translating research into maternal health care policy: a qualitative case study of the use of evidence in policies for the treatment of eclampsia and pre-eclampsia in South Africa
- Medicines coverage and community-based health insurance in low-income countries
- Step-wedge cluster-randomised community-based trials: An application to the study of the impact of community health insurance
- Developing health systems research capacities through north-south partnership: An evaluation of collaboration with South Africa and Thailand
- Asking the right questions: Scoping studies in the commissioning of research on the organisation and delivery of health services
- Asking the right questions: Scoping studies in the commissioning of research on the organisation and delivery of health services
February 23, 2009
A shortage of social workers, rising caseloads and increasing paperwork are combining to blunt the effectiveness of staff looking after vulnerable children in Kent, a report has found.
• to review current arrangements for the engagement of older people and how these arrangements influence policy at all levels of government, and specifically to review Better Government for Older People (BGOP); and
• to explore options for improvement and make recommendations.
Fast track: Jason Fruen advertises his skills on a sandwich board beside the M60
The financial crisis has sparked proposals to reform the retirement income system. One component of such a system could be a new tier of retirement accounts. These accounts would augment declining Social Security replacement rates for low-wage workers and provide a buffer of security for middle- and upper-wage workers who, increasingly, will rely totally on 401(k) plans to supplement their Social Security.
Several prescription drugs are currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Treating the symptoms of AD can provide patients with comfort, dignity, and independence for a longer period of time and can encourage and assist their caregivers as well.
Dr. Kahn was the proud recipient of the first social welfare doctorate awarded by CUSSW in 1952. He taught at the Columbia University School of Social Work for 57 years -- from 1947 to 2004. Those who studied child welfare and family policy, poverty and its causes and impacts, and social welfare will remember the monumental comparative work of Dr. Kahn.
Specialized Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Available for People with PTSD and Serious Mental Illness
Youth from different parts of New York City traverse the sidewalks of Chinatown. What unfolds are several personal stories of how these men's lives and circumstances lead to homelessness.
Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder that affects 3-5 percent of all American children. It interferes with a person's ability to stay on a task and to exercise age-appropriate inhibition (cognitive alone or both cognitive and behavioral).
BL Salisbury | Washington Times
A liquor store is a popular destination on 8 Mile Road, which is traditionally known as the dividing line in the city. Immediately south of 8 Mile, the population is 80 percent nonwhite; north of the line, it's about 20 percent nonwhite.
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Demonstrating outside the Mumbai office of the Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor, who plays the game show host in “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Although the prevalence of many health-risk behaviors and health conditions related to obesity and asthma varies across Steps communities, a substantial proportion of high school students engage in behaviors that place them at risk for chronic disease.
- Clinical Social Work and Psychoanalysis: Introduction to the Special Issue
- The Relationship Between Social Work and Psychoanalysis: The Future Impact of Social Workers
- When Social Work and Psychoanalysis Meet
- The History and Status of Social Workers in the American Psychoanalytic Association
- Gertrude and Rubin Blanck: Their Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Clinical Social Work and to the Body of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
- Reflections on the Work of Professor Selma Fraiberg
- Social Work and Child Psychoanalysis: Where the Twain Shall Meet
- “A New Sort of ‘Salvation Army’”: Historical Perspectives on the Confluence of Psychoanalysis and Social Work
Cheers: Recruits at a London pub, on the UK-Pro website
While growing fiscal pressures and increasing life expectancy have prompted calls to raise retirement ages so that lifetime benefits would be concentrated in older ages, some fear that this change—without other adjustments—might harm long-career, lower-wage workers. Tying retirement benefit eligibility to years of service might protect lower-wage workers if they tend to start their careers relatively early and work more years prior to retirement than higher-wage workers. But higher disability rates and greater employment volatility could offset lower-wage workers’ early labor force starts, and lead to fewer total years of service completed.
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Yale / Psychology / Introduction to Psychology
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Kathleen Holden got her degrees in social work, but spent her career as a university administrator.
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Kathleen Holden, director of the University of Illinois' Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, poses with members of a class in Champaign.
February 19, 2009
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Sharon Palmer, coordinator of the new Check In/Check Out program at Annapolis Middle School, works with school social worker Lisa Keough. Keough’s role in the program, which tracks students’ behavior and attendance, is just one of her many duties.
Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) at home is a difficult task and can become overwhelming at times. Each day brings new challenges as the caregiver copes with changing levels of ability and new patterns of behavior. Research has shown that caregivers themselves often are at increased risk for depression and illness, especially if they do not receive adequate support from family, friends, and the community.
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From left, Nedra Talley, Estelle Bennett, Phil Spector and Ronnie Bennett in a Los Angeles recording studio in 1963.
Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vectorborne illness in the United States. The geographic distribution of cases is highly focused, with the majority of reported cases occurring in the northeastern and north-central states. During 1992--2006, the number of reported cases more than doubled. A disproportionate increasing trend was observed in children and in young males compared with other demographic groups.
Parsons The New School for Design
Students from Parsons The New School for Design designed and built bronXscape, an urban rooftop garden and outdoor kitchen for young adults transitioning out of foster care.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In most people with AD, symptoms first appear after age 60.
This page gives information on the development of a framework for higher education over the next ten to fifteen years.
MJ Lee | Globe
Alison Bromley, a social worker at Travelers Aid, sifts through clothes donations: ''One unexpected expense - an emergency room co-pay, for example - can throw you right off track."
Does having a clutch of acronyms after their names help or hinder children with multiple behaviour problems?
This report describes a behavioral experiment in a college cafeteria to assess the effects of various payment options and menu selection methods on food choices. The results indicate that payment options, such as cash or debit cards, can significantly affect food choices. College students using a card that prepaid only for healthful foods made more nutritious choices than students using either cash or general debit cards.
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Boys and Girls Alone, a four-part series that follows 10 boys and 10 girls who are left to fend for themselves for two weeks in separate Cornish cottages
AD has no known cure, and the secrets to preventing it are not yet known. But research supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and other public and private agencies offers tantalizing clues about the origins and development of AD. These findings are raising hopes that someday it might be possible to delay the onset of AD, slow its progress, or even prevent it altogether.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition that becomes apparent in some children in the preschool and early school years. It is hard for these children to control their behavior and/or pay attention. It is estimated that between 3 and 5 percent of children have ADHD, or approximately 2 million children in the United States. This means that in a classroom of 25 to 30 children, it is likely that at least one will have ADHD.
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A man reads the Sun newspaper story about Alfie Patten, the 13-year-old who fathered a child with his 15-year-old girlfriend, Chantelle Steadman.
The statistics are produced using General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) classification, for statistical purposes, of the causes of deaths, in terms of the ICD rules. An "intentional self-harm" code is used only in cases where it is clear to GROS that it is appropriate, on the basis of what was recorded on the death certificate or of information from other official sources (such as the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, a pathologist, or the doctor who certified the death) that had been received by the time that GROS "freezes" its statistical database for the calendar year, around the middle of the following year (e.g. GROS "froze" its statistical database for 2007 towards the end of June 2008).
- Culturally Specific Youth Substance Abuse Resistance Skills: Applicability Across the U.S.—Mexico Border
- Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds: Youth Violence Prevention for Acculturating Latino Families
- Latino Outcome Studies in Social Work: A Review of the Literature
- Motivational Interviewing to Affect Behavioral Change in Older Adults
- Risk Assessment Stability: A Revalidation Study of the Arizona Risk/Needs Assessment Instrument
- The Index of Attitudes Toward Homosexuals 30 Years Later: A Psychometric Study
- Exploratory and Confirmatory Analysis of the Trauma Practices Questionnaire
- Enhancing Practitioner Knowledge Through a Unique Abstracting Format Used With Research on Social Work Practice Journal Articles
- Contributions of Therapist Characteristics and Stability to Intensive In-home Therapy Youth Outcomes
- "If You Build It, They May Not Come": Lessons from a Funded Project
- Dimensions and Correlates of Client Satisfaction: An Evaluation of a Shelter for Runaway and Homeless Youth
- A Novel Group Therapeutic Format in Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Clients with Social Phobia in a Training Setting: A Case Study of One Treatment Group with Nine Clients
- Handling Multiple Levels of Data and Multiple Research Questions in an Embedded Case Study: Methodological Challenges
- When Novice Therapists Meet Their First Patients: Reflections and Questions on Training in CBT
- Further Reflections on the Therapy Training Program in Aarhus, and the Role of Case Studies in Psychotherapy Research
As Brenda, Dicki, and Boo-Boo move in and out of crack houses, rehab centers, and jail, their struggle for survival mirrors their hometown's fate.
This document presents the results of a survey carried out to determine progress in implementing the arrangements for rapid response and child death review.
February 17, 2009
The files were released under the Freedom of Information Act
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Spaniards of all ages, in the main, have a "romantic" conception of love.
This booklet is for those who provide in-home care for people with AD or related disorders. Our goal is to improve home safety by identifying potential problems in the home and offering possible solutions to help prevent accidents.
For the 46 reporting areas that have consistently reported since 1995, the number of abortions has steadily declined over the previous 10 years. The abortion rate declined from 1995 to 2000, but remained unchanged since 2000. In 2004, as in the previous years, deaths related to legal induced abortions occurred rarely.
Willie Macfadyen
The only definite way to diagnose AD is with an autopsy, which is an examination of the body done after a person dies. However, doctors can determine fairly accurately whether a person who is having memory problems has “possible AD” (the symptoms may be due to another cause) or “probable AD” (no other cause for the symptoms can be found).
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Clare Dickens, with a photograph of her son Titus. How does a child genius from a loving family fall into a spiral of mental illness, addiction and finally suicide?
Kira Pandukht formerly a social worker specializing in teenage suicide
This report presents results from the 2007 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), an annual census of facilities providing substance abuse treatment. Conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), N-SSATS is designed to collect data on the location, characteristics, and use of alcoholism and drug abuse treatment facilities and services throughout the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and other U.S. jurisdictions.
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Large Family: Yoko and Koichi Sakamoto have been foster parents to 12 children over the past 23 years, despite experiencing discrimination. Mrs. Sakamoto has become an outspoken advocate for more resources for children in need of foster homes.
Describes how four factors—presence of a caring adult, school connectedness, school success, and religiosity—affect girls’ propensity towards delinquency. The Bulletin, part of the Girls Study Group Series, draws on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The Girls Study Group was created to provide a comprehensive research foundation for understanding and responding to girls’ involvement in delinquency.
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A Healthy Steps program in the Bronx helps families like Elijah, 3, and his mother, far right, as Rahil D. Briggs, a psychologist, looks on.
There has long been a transatlantic flow of ideas between the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) in everything from cultural trends to political and economic theories and practices. In recent years this flow has included approaches to housing policy, as the public sectors in both countries have turned toward the private sector to help provide affordable housing.
- Editorial: On social and emotional wellbeing and Indigenous Australians
- 'Sometimes it’s harder to speak out things': How first year New Zealand tertiary students use informal online communication to help solve significant problems
- In young people with a depressive disorder, does diagnostic specificity matter in the prediction of suicidality?
- Polarisation and political correctness: Subtle barriers to consumer participation in mental health services
- Increasing child and adolescent mental health content in undergraduate occupational therapy, social work and nursing programs: Lessons learnt
- Sleep disruptions and mental health of primary caregivers of persons with disability due to chronic mental and physical conditions in the Australian population
- Improving mental health and wellbeing in Scotland: A model policy approach
- Does family intervention for adolescent substance use impact parental mental health? A systematic review
- Use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in identifying emotional and behavioural problems in children of parents with a mental illness in Australia
- The psychic disequilibrium of adoption: Stories exploring links between adoption and suicidal thoughts and actions
Jobcentre Plus Lone Parents
- Externalizing behaviors in preadolescents: familial risk to externalizing behaviors, prenatal and perinatal risks, and their interactions
- Predictive factors of length of inpatient treatment in anorexia nervosa
- Examining relations between psychopathology and psychopathy dimensions among adolescent female and male offenders
- Adherence and psychopathology in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis
- Everyday social and conversation applications of theory-of-mind understanding by children with autism-spectrum disorders or typical development
- Psychometric evaluation of social phobia and anxiety inventory for children (SPAI-C) and social anxiety scale for children-revised (SASC-R)
- The Cool Teens CD-ROM for anxiety disorders in adolescents
C Mikula | Canwest News Service
Dr. Frank Knoefel, right, shows patient David Jones how computers and technology in the smart apartment at Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital can help people live at home longer.
February 16, 2009
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Greens Senator Rachel Siewart wants the government to scrap plans for a 'no school, no welfare' program.
This second thematic report on the evaluation of LinkAge Plus (LAP) focuses on how the LAP approach and pilot activities result in a range of benefits for older people. The report's author finds that the LAP approach is contributing to the improvement of older people's quality of life, healthy life expectancy and active participation in society.
Most married men claim Social Security benefits at age 62 or 63, well short of the age that maximizes the expected present value of the average household’s benefits. That many married men “leave money on the table” is surprising. It is also problematic. It results in much lower benefits for surviving spouses and the low incomes of elderly widows are a major social problem. If married men delayed claiming Social Security benefits, retirement income security would significantly improve.
Scientists don’t yet fully understand what causes AD, but it is clear that it develops because of a complex series of events that take place in the brain over a long period of time. It is likely that the causes include genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors.
S Lim | The Press Enterprise
A young girl who was once a prostitute relaxes outside at Children of the Night in Van Nuys . . . Teenage prostitution is a growing problem in San Bernardino County. Children of the Night helps rescue teenage prostitutes off the streets.
When most people think of rural families, they imagine stay-at-home mothers, three or four children roaming free in the outdoors, and a father on a tractor or in the mines. Rural America is, in the country’s imagination, still a bastion of traditional values and traditional families. While certain aspects of that vision remain true, one thing has decidedly changed. Mom is no longer home in the kitchen, and dad is no longer on the tractor or in the mines.
Many people choose to give money to beggars and street children. However, El-Sawy's initiative calls upon the same people to direct their charity money towards families in need, in an attempt to reach the underprivileged across the country
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Erika Larsen in her Hoboken apartment, surrounded by the photos she took for Do1Thing.
The Child Well-being Index (CWI) represents the first attempt to create a small area index exclusively for children in England. Unlike the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), the CWI was restricted by the availability of data as many datasets are not disaggregated by age group. Data on children is largely collected through surveys which are not robust enough to be broken down to small area level.
Schools should band together to provide social workers for unruly pupils and support groups for parents, according to the government's "behaviour tsar".
Part 2 of the Pro-Tv production Brooklyn: Home to Immigrants
- Coaching as Part of a Pilot Quality Rating Scale Initiative: Challenges to—and Supports for—the Change-Making Process
- Analyzing the Impact of Gender on Depictions of Touch in Early Childhood Textbooks
- A Test of a Measure for Assessing Teachers' Judgments about Social Interaction Practices in the Preschool Years
- Promoting Health and Preventing Injury in Preschool Children: The Role of Parenting Stress
- Dental Care Issues for African Immigrant Families of Preschoolers
- Introduction to the Special Section on Dramatic Play
- "Fixing Puppets So They Can Talk": Puppets and Puppet Making in a Classroom of Preschoolers with Special Needs
- At the Zoo: Kindergartners Reinvent a Dramatic Play Area
- Building “Bob”: A Project Exploring the Human Body at Western Illinois University Preschool Center
- Primed for Change: Facilitating Factors in Problem Gambling Treatment
- Reasons for Seeking Help for a Gambling Problem: The Experiences of Gamblers Who Have Sought Specialist Assistance and the Perceptions of Those Who Have Not
- Barriers to Help-seeking for a Gambling Problem: The Experiences of Gamblers Who Have Sought Specialist Assistance and the Perceptions of Those Who Have Not
- The Prevalence and Types of Gambling Among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in New York City
- Risk Factors for Problematic Gambling: A Critical Literature Review
- Reliability, Validity, and Classification Accuracy of a Spanish Translation of a Measure of DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Pathological Gambling
- Evaluating the Problem Gambling Severity Index
- Assessing the Reliability of the Gambling Functional Assessment
The majority of Medicaid spending is driven by people with multiple chronic conditions. Greater understanding of these high-need, high-cost beneficiaries can help Medicaid stakeholders design programs to more effectively manage their care, improve their health outcomes, and reduce or control the costs of caring for them.
February 15, 2009
Under Title X of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA, P.L. 99-272), an employer with 20 or more employees must provide those employees and their families the option of continuing their coverage under the employer?s group health insurance plan in the case of certain events. The coverage, usually for 18 months, can last up to 36 months, depending on the nature of the triggering event.
Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker responsible for saving 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust.
Since 2000, the Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) has produced three English
Indices of Deprivation for Communities and Local Government and its predecessors
to allocate resources for neighbourhood renewal.
Our report notes that the Operational Improvement Plan is acknowledged to have driven up performance and made the CSA a more businesslike organisation. We have been very impressed with the drive and focus of the management team. This is reflected in a wide range of statistics, notably un-cleared applications drastically reduced, and, most important of all, much more money going to many more children
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Members of the Teen Task Force at Weston High School
Dr. Aneez Mohamed and his fiancée Chanelle Morgan died after being hit by an SUV near Granville Island
Disability is something most people do not like to think about. But the chances that you will become disabled probably are greater than you realize. Studies show that a 20-year-old worker has a 3 in 10 chance of becoming disabled before reaching retirement age. This booklet provides basic information on Social Security disability benefits and is not intended to answer all questions
University of Michigan Health System
Patient being evaluated in sleep lab.
This document gives notification of changes to legislation that mean agencies will have to carry out a one-year review of anti-social behaviour orders issued to people under 17 years of age from 1 February 2009. It also sets out how the review should be carried out.
The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA 2009) was passed in the House (H.R. 2) on January 14, 2009. The overall structure of CHIPRA 2009 is similar to its two predecessors (H.R. 976 and H.R. 3963 from the 110th Congress). Cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) indicated that H.R. 2 would increase outlays by $32.3 billion over 5 years and by $65.4 billion over 10 years.
- Translating Scientific Opportunity Into Public Health Impact: A Strategic Plan for Research on Mental Illness
- Association of Variants in DISC1 With Psychosis-Related Traits in a Large Population Cohort
- Influence of Genes and Environment on Brain Volumes in Twin Pairs Concordant and Discordant for Bipolar Disorder
- The Intricate Link Between Violence and Mental Disorder: Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions
- Risk of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms With Elevated Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone in Human Pregnancy
- Neural Bases of Social Anxiety Disorder: Emotional Reactivity and Cognitive Regulation During Social and Physical Threat
- Association Between Media Use in Adolescence and Depression in Young Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study
- Risks and Predictors of Readmission for a Mental Disorder During the Postpartum Period
- Relationship of Type 1 Cannabinoid Receptor Availability in the Human Brain to Novelty-Seeking Temperament
- Responsiveness to Drug Cues and Natural Rewards in Opiate Addiction: Associations With Later Heroin Use
- Racial Differences in Visit Duration of Outpatient Psychiatric Visits
Part 1 of the Pro-Tv production Brooklyn: Home to Immigrants
- Pat Giles, Perth, and the Politics of Dress
- Beauty Practices and the Ageing Female Body
- Connecting, Collaborating and Surviving: The Story of a Women's Studies Centre in the Australian Tropics
February 14, 2009
In recent decades, the number and severity of natural disasters has increased significantly. In 2008 alone, there was a devastating hurricane season affecting the Caribbean, catastrophic earthquakes in China and Pakistan, a worst-ever cyclone disaster in Myanmar’s history, floods
and landslides in South Asia, and drought and floods in the Horn of Africa. Humanitarian situations have also deteriorated in several ongoing and protracted emergencies, including renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and worsening food insecurity
in Zimbabwe.
In 2005, Congress created a traumatic injury insurance benefit program, known as TSGLI, to help service members with traumatic brain injury and other serious injuries with the financial burdens that they and their families face.
J Packman | Dalhousie Gazette
Patrick Daigle offers counselling to students with questions relating to sexuality.
The report presents rigorous evidence from a U.S. demonstration, that allowances can improve the lives of people with disabilities, relative to programmes that deliver agency services financed directly by the government. It also finds that, of all definitions of the extra cost of disability encountered in the literature, the 'expenditure equivalence' definition – the amount of additional income a person with a disability would require to achieve the same standard of living as a similar person without a disability - stands out as the most salient for assessing the adequacy of allowances.
Grassy Knolls by Jeremy Grand.
This document updates and builds on the 10-Year Childcare Strategy. It shows the progress that has been made since 2004 and sets out new steps to address the challenges ahead. Alongside the recent New Opportunities White Paper, it sets out some firm proposals and also identifies the case for action and the need to develop plans through discussion and consultation.
Two year-old Sanam Navsarka
Some 7.4 million children were enrolled in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in 2008 -- a four percent increase over the previous year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today. The announcement comes as Congress is debating reauthorization of SCHIP, which is projected to expand coverage to an additional four million children.
- The role of business in addressing the long-term implications of the current food crisis
- Shifting paradigms: how the fight for 'universal access to AIDS treatment and prevention' supports achieving 'comprehensive primary health care for all'
- Oil for health in sub-Saharan Africa: health systems in a 'resource curse' environment
- Adaptation costs for climate change-related cases of diarrhoeal disease, malnutrition, and malaria in 2030
- Investment in HIV/AIDS programs: Does it help strengthen health systems in developing countries?
- Global affordability of fluoride toothpaste
- Racial Differences in Parents' Distrust of Medicine and Research
- Minimal Risk in Pediatric Research as a Function of Age
- Decrease in Adolescent Cannabis Use From 2002 to 2006 and Links to Evenings Out With Friends in 31 European and North American Countries and Regions
- Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Use by Children and Adolescents in the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: Relationship With Nutrition, Food Security, Physical Activity, and Health Care Access
- Use of Inexpensive Technology to Enhance Adolescent Health Screening and Counseling
- Literacy and Child Health: A Systematic Review
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Bringing it Home: Women’s Health Work
- The Private and the Public: Family Ideology & Care of People with Disabilities
- HIV Positive Women & Health Care
- Women Abuse & Resilience in a Sample of Minority Low-income Women
- Well-Being of Nations—A Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations
- Encouraging Governments to Enhance the Happiness of Their Nation: Step 1: Understand Subjective Wellbeing
- Social Harmony in Hong Kong: Level, Determinants and Policy Implications
- Developing a Concept of Workplace Well-Being for Greater China
- Similarities and Differences Among the Taiwan, China, and Hong-Kong Versions of the WHOQOL Questionnaire
- Parallels Between Objective Indicators and Subjective Perceptions of Quality of Life: A Study of Metropolitan and County Areas in Taiwan
- Assessing Cognitive and Behavioral Coping Strategies in Children
- The Ruminative Response Style in Adolescents: An Examination of Its Specific Link to Symptoms of Depression
- Social Problem Solving as a Mediator of the Link Between Stress and Psychological Well-being in Middle-Adulthood
- Core Beliefs and History of Major Depressive Episodes in Currently Non-depressed University Students
- Fear of Blushing: No Overestimation of Negative Anticipated Interpersonal Effects, But a High-Subjective Probability of Blushing
- Strategies to Control Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: Which are Relevant and Specific in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
- Hiding the Self and Social Anxiety: The Core Extrusion Schema Measure
- Exploring Modeling-based Hypotheses in Preadolescent Girls’ and Boys’ Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression
- Pretreatment Intervention Increases Treatment Outcomes for Patients with Anxiety Disorders
- Reframing quality and impact: the place of theory in education research
- Epistemic Virtues and Cosmopolitan Learning
- Individual Assignments and Academic Dishonesty - Exploring the Learning Conundrum
- A Phenomenographic Investigation of Teacher Conceptions of Student Engagement in Learning
- Risk or Resilience? What Makes a Difference?
- Teacher Efficacy: A Comparrative Study of Hong Kong and Shanghai Primary In-Service Teachers
- Teachers' Work: Beginning Teachers' Conceptions of Competence
- Patient experiences with oily skin: The qualitative development of content for two new patient reported outcome questionnaires
- The relationship between anxiety, coping strategies and characteristics of patients with diabetes
- Development and validation of a French patient-based health-related quality of life instrument in kidney transplant: the ReTransQoL
- Body mass index and health related quality of life in elementary school children: a pilot study
- Exploring disability from the perspective of adults living with HIV/AIDS: Development of a conceptual framework
- Adalimumab improves health-related quality of life in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis compared with the United States general population norms: Results from a randomized, controlled Phase III study
- Patient satisfaction with primary care: an observational study comparing anthroposophic and conventional care
- Improvement of quality of life, anxiety and depression after surgery in patients with stress urinary incontinence: Results of a longitudinal short-term follow-up
- A comparison of EQ-5D index scores using the UK, US, and Japan preference weights in a Thai sample with type 2 diabetes
- Technology Studies to Meet the Needs of People With Dementia and Their Caregivers: A Literature Review
- Health Information Technology in Nursing Homes
- Toward a Screening Tool for Housing Accessibility Problems
- Pathways to Assisted Living: The Influence of Race and Class
- Examining What Caregivers Do During Respite Time to Make Respite More Effective
- Estimates of Induced Abortion in Mexico: What's Changed Between 1990 and 2006?
- Consistency in Women's Reports of Sensitive Behavior In an Interview Mode Experiment, Sáo Paulo, Brazil
- Factors Influencing the Timing of First Sexual Intercourse Among Young People in Nyanza, Kenya
- The Effect of Community-Based Reproductive Health Communication Interventions on Contraceptive Use Among Young Married Couples in Bihar, India
- Brain Dysfunction and Community Violence in Patients With Major Mental Illness
- A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Thinking for a Change: A "Real-World" Application
- Neuropsychological Deficits, Low Self-Control, and Delinquent Involvement: Toward a Biosocial Explanation of Delinquency
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Prisons: An Examination of Psychological Staff, Teachers, and Unit Management Staff
- Beliefs About What Works in Juvenile Rehabilitation: The Influence of Attitudes on Support for "Get Tough" and Evidence-Based Interventions
- Inferring Sexually Deviant Behavior From Corresponding Fantasies: The Role of Personality and Pornography Consumption
- A Multiparadigmatic Approach to Judeo-Christian Religion in Social Work Education
- The Generalist Model: Where do the Micro and Macro Converge?
- Developing an Online Social Work Practice Course Segment: An Action Research Case Example
- Resilience amid Academic Stress: The Moderating Impact of Social Support among Social Work Students
- Longitudinal evaluation of outcomes for youth with serious emotional disturbance during two years of Children’s Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Social Work Practice with Latinos Living with HIV/ AIDS
- An Adult Education Model of Resident Participation: Building Community Capacity and Strengthening Neighborhood-Based Activities in a Comprehensive Community Initiative (CCI)
- Convergence of a strengths perspective and youth development: Toward youth promotion practice
- More than just needles: An evidence-informed approach to enhancing harm reduction supply distribution in British Columbia
- A qualitative assessment of stakeholder perceptions and socio-cultural influences on the acceptability of harm reduction programs in Tijuana, Mexico
- High prevalence of HIV infection among homeless and street-involved Aboriginal youth in a Canadian setting
- Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
- Seroprevalence of select bloodborne pathogens and associated risk behaviors among injection drug users in the Paso del Norte region of the United States – Mexico border
- The perspectives of injection drug users regarding safer injecting education delivered through a supervised injecting facility
- The perspectives of injection drug users regarding safer injecting education delivered through a supervised injecting facility
- Fighting addiction's death row: British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Ian Pitfield shows a measure of legal courage
- A qualitative exploration of prescription opioid injection among street-based drug users in Toronto: behaviours, preferences and drug availability
- Predictors of HIV infection and prevalence for syphilis infection among injection drug users in China: Community-based surveys along major drug trafficking routes
- Stigma, social reciprocity and exclusion of HIV/AIDS patients with illicit drug histories: A study of Thai nurses' attitudes
- Assessing Cognitive and Behavioral Coping Strategies in Children
- The Ruminative Response Style in Adolescents: An Examination of Its Specific Link to Symptoms of Depression
- Social Problem Solving as a Mediator of the Link Between Stress and Psychological Well-being in Middle-Adulthood
- Core Beliefs and History of Major Depressive Episodes in Currently Non-depressed University Students
- Fear of Blushing: No Overestimation of Negative Anticipated Interpersonal Effects, But a High-Subjective Probability of Blushing
- Strategies to Control Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: Which are Relevant and Specific in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
- Hiding the Self and Social Anxiety: The Core Extrusion Schema Measure
- Exploring Modeling-based Hypotheses in Preadolescent Girls’ and Boys’ Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression
- Pretreatment Intervention Increases Treatment Outcomes for Patients with Anxiety Disorders
- Non-response in a survey among immigrants in Denmark
- Quality procedures for survey transitions - experiments, time series and discontinuities
- The Three-Step Test-Interview (TSTI): An observation-based method for pretesting self-completion questionnaires
- The Effect of Incentives on Response Rates and Panel Attrition: Results of a Controlled Experiment
- Incentives and ethnic Minorities: Results of a controlled randomized Experiment in the Netherlands
- Survivors of Stalking: Their Voices and Lived Experiences
- Words Are a Place to Stand: Journals by Young Women in Kibera, Kenya
- "You Can't Bite the Hand . . .": Domestic Violence and Human Rights
- The Time- and Context-Contingent Nature of Intersectionality and Interlocking Oppressions
- Gender Variation in Partner Abuse: Findings From a Conservative Christian Denomination
- Perceived Caregiver Burden in India: Implications for Social Services
- "I Can't Cry and Run at the Same Time": Women's Use of Distance Running
- Changing Pace
- Giving Back to the Community Through Leadership
- Ethical Decision-Making: Practices of Female and Male Superintendents
- Psychological Congruence: The Impact of Organizational Context on Job Satisfaction and Retention of Women In Technology
- Sister Katherine: An Example of Feminist Educational Leadership
- If I Had Only Known: Challenges Experienced By Women New To The Professoriate
- Mentor Functions And Outcomes: Advancing Women Within Leadership Positions In The Health And Fitness Industry
- The Impact of Social Modeling, Cultural Values, And Support Systems On The Leadership Development of Emerging Global Women Leaders
- Keeper of the Drums: Female Aboriginal Leadership and the Salience of Gender
- Women Administrators in Distance Higher Education - an Exploratory Study
- Adolescents in Transition: School and Family Characteristics in the Development of Violent Behaviors Entering High School
- Correlates of Help-Seeking Behavior Among At-Risk Adolescents
- Five Systems of Psychiatric Classification for Preschool Children: Do Differences in Validity, Usefulness and Reliability Make for Competitive or Complimentary Constellations?
- Habitual Response to Stress in Recovering Adolescent Anorexic Patients
- External and Internal Factors Influencing Happiness in Elite Collegiate Athletes
- The Effect of Parenting Stress on Child Behavior Problems in High-Risk Children with Prenatal Drug Exposure
- Adolescents with Childhood ADHD and Comorbid Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Aggression, Anger, and Hostility
- Validity of the Aberrant Behavior Checklist in a Clinical Sample of Toddlers
- Emotion Understanding in Children with ADHD
- Acculturative Family Distancing: Links with Self-Reported Symptomatology among Asian Americans and Latinos
- Predictors of Change Following Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Children with Anxiety Problems: A Preliminary Investigation on Negative Automatic Thoughts and Anxiety Control
- Cross-Sectional Study of Women with Trichotillomania: A Preliminary Examination of Pulling Styles, Severity, Phenomenology, and Functional Impact
- Race, Context, and Privilege: White Adolescents’ Explanations of Racial-ethnic Centrality
- School and Neighborhood Contexts, Perceptions of Racial Discrimination, and Psychological Well-being Among African American Adolescents
- Physiologic Responses to Racial Rejection Images Among Young Adults from African-American Backgrounds
- It Takes a Village: Protecting Rural African American Youth in the Context of Racism
- Racial Socialization and Racial Identity: African American Parents’ Messages About Race as Precursors to Identity
- African American Adolescent Engagement in the Classroom and Beyond: The Roles of Mother’s Racial Socialization and Democratic-Involved Parenting
- Ethnic Identity and Family Processes Among Adolescents from Latin American, Asian, and European Backgrounds
- Escaping Poverty and Securing Middle Class Status: How Race and Socioeconomic Status Shape Mobility Prospects for African Americans During the Transition to Adulthood
- Adolescents’ Reports of Parental Engagement and Academic Achievement in Immigrant Families
- The Constant Cycle: Day to Day Critical Action of the QUIPPED Project
- Qualitative Case Study Methodology: Study Design and Implementation for Novice Researchers
- Making a Connection between Student Achievement, Teacher Accountability, and Quality Classroom Instruction
- No Margin for Error: A Study of Two Women Balancing Motherhood and Ph.D. Studies
- Dimensions of Genocide: The Circumplex Model Meets Violentization Theory
- The Town Hall Focus Group: A New Format for Qualitative Research Methods
- Sensory Isolation in Flotation Tanks: Altered States of Consciousness and Effects on Well-being
- Giving the Spoon Back: Higher Teacher Expectations of Achievement for Students Who Are Deaf
- Keeping and Using Reflective Journals in the Qualitative Research Process
- A Qualitative Study of the Achievement Goals of Recreational Exercise Participants
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Hearing ; Senate Judiciary Committee Full Committee
February 13, 2009
Professor Martin Cave's review of social housing regulation recommended that Communities and Local Government (CLG) should establish a National Tenant Voice (NTV) to sit alongside the new regulator (The Tenant Services Authority), to give tenants a voice and expertise at a national level.
NEWSIS
“Actress Choi Jin-sil was popular and loved by everyone. Why would she commit suicide?” a student asked. “She was depressed,” another student said.
This report presents findings from a systematic review of the published review literature and evidence on the harms and benefits of alcohol consumption for children and young people.
The Government wants to provide children and young people with the best start in life and break cycles of deprivation for good. The Government's ambitious pledge in 1999 to end child poverty by 2020 has already led to 600,000 fewer children in poverty in the UK. While good progress has been made, 2.9 million children remain in poverty. The Government is determined to tackle this.
While many consumers say they care about issues such as sweatshop labor, the existence of a very small market for ethically-produced products does not reflect this sentiment. One explanation for this discrepancy is that consumers are motivated to use moral disengagement strategies to reduce cognitive dissonance when their desire for a product conflicts with their moral standards. In two studies we show levels of moral disengagement can vary based on one’s desire for a product when sweatshop labor is present.
G Wright | The Post-Standard
Carrie J. Smith, associate professor and director of the School of Social Work, at Syracuse University.
Social Security plays an important role in providing economic security for women. Nearly 60 percent of the people receiving Social Security benefits are women. In the 21st century, more women work, pay Social Security taxes and earn credit toward monthly retirement income than at any other time in our nation’s history.
People who have adopted are more likely to be men, to be over 30, to be ever married, to have given birth or fathered a child, and to have ever used infertility services than people who have not adopted.
L Skelding | AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Caseworker Grace Yeager holds a child who was put into foster care with Russ and Jan Downey, in background. The child will be placed with family members Domingo and Jennifer Espinosa, center. The state is again considering outsourcing parts of the child welfare system.
This is the Commission for Social Care Inspection’s fourth and final report on the state of social care in England. The first part of the report sets out detailed information on the range, quality and availability of social care services across the public, private and voluntary sectors. This information is based on CSCI’s findings from inspections, regulatory activity and performance assessment of councils. The second part assesses the support available to people with multiple and complex needs, and the extent to which this group of people is benefiting from the ‘personalised care’ agenda outlined in Putting People First.
Stanford University's Brian Knutson is unraveling the mysteries of human desire with state-of-the-art medical imaging. Knutson's research sheds new light on how individuals make complex financial decisions, and offers new ways for alleviating schizophrenia
Far-right groups have been accused of attacking foreigners
February 12, 2009
Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor at Hunter College School of Social Work
Financial assistance to families with children was first introduced by the Fisher Government in October 1912. It took the form of a Maternity Allowance of five pounds (over two weeks wages for an unskilled worker) paid without a means test to both married and unmarried mothers. The measure was presented as an anti-poverty measure paid as a universal payment to avoid the stigma of charity.
The aim of this guidance is to equip local authorities and other social care organisations with the tools and resources needed to plan for, and meet the challenges presented by, pandemic influenza
A Berkshire university has proposed closing its School of Health and Social Care due to "great financial pressure".
This publication is a summary report that brings together statistics produced by a range of agencies relating to the experience of women within the criminal justice system.
C OSORIO | TORONTO STAR
Trying to deal with health problems on a welfare cheque "just adds to my stress," says 45-year-old Neil Howard, seen here with his dog, Lucky.
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Bad old days...a drug dealer is apprehended.
A 50 state update on eligibility rules, enrollment and renewal procedures, and cost-sharing practices in Medicaid and SCHIP in 2009
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Developing societies tend to over fish, leading to a cycle of poverty and reef destruction.
On January 14, as the combined forces of recession and foreclosure continued their long, cruel assault on the Rust Belt, Cleveland's public school system marked the new semester with a troubling piece of data: the number of students who had been homeless at some point during the school year had jumped to 1,728. Compared with the same date in 2006, this number represented a spike of nearly 150 percent and served as further confirmation that, for all the whingeing of Wall Street executives, the poor and vulnerable have been hardest hit by the flailing economy.
First published in 2006, the Health Profile of England provides a collation of national and regional data to provide a baseline against which people can compare data from their own Local Health Profile (LHP). The 2008 report updates tables showing regional comparisons and national trends for indicators presented in Local Health Profiles, as well as a wide ranging snapshot of public health and well-being in England and a section on international comparisons.
February 11, 2009
Double Nobel laureate Marie Curie suffered severe depression
We reviewed the evidence on the barriers and drivers to the use of interactive
consumer health information technology (IT) by specific populations, namely the elderly, those
with chronic conditions or disabilities, and the underserved.
This publication provides a snapshot of the most important features of the Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicare programs.
Stacey Thomson (24) has been named Student Social Worker of the Year by the British Association of Social Workers in Scotland.
Social Security has been a basic part of American life for over 70 years. It provides a base of economic security in today’s society through a valuable package of retirement, disability and survivors insurance. About 164 million workers are earning Social Security protection, and about 50 million people receive retirement, survivors and disability benefits from Social Security.
S BLOOM | THE OLYMPIAN
During the Capital City Pride 2007 event Sunday Janice Langbehn recounts the agonizing first hours she was not allowed to see Lisa Pond,her partner of 18 years as she lay dying of a brain aneurysm at Miami hospital.
Brandy Graham holds her 6-month-old baby, Makaylah, who receives hospice care. Makaylah has a birth defect so severe that doctors say she won't live to her first birthday. Because of budget shortfalls, South Carolina is cutting the Medicaid hospice benefits for patients such as Makaylah.
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Meriah Nunn, 17, and Deborah Walnicki, 17, led an exercise for a Cabot, Vt., middle school prevention group. The group educates teenagers about drug and alcohol abuse.
The FDA announced on November 18, 2008, that offices were being opened in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China.
On the whole, people are healthier, wealthier and live longer today than 30 years ago. If children were still dying at 1978 rates, there would have been 16.2 million deaths globally in 2006. In fact, there were only 9.5 million such deaths9. This difference of 6.7 million is equivalent to 18 329 children’s lives being saved every day. The once revolutionary notion of essential drugs has become commonplace. There have been significant improvements in access to water, sanitation
and antenatal care.
Karl Deisseroth is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of light into the brain, Deisseroth can control neural activity with remarkable precision. In this short talk, Deisseroth gives an thoughtful and awe-inspiring overview of his Stanford University lab's groundbreaking research in "optogenetics".
February 10, 2009
Tessie Bregman Okin, an emeritus professor of social administration at Temple University
This statistical bulletin presents information on activity relating to community penalties in Scotland, derived from Local Authority Social Work management information systems.
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While roommate Earon Rolf works at the sink, Stepheni Hawk dresses her 2-year-old daughter.
This paper advocates for a new generation of privacy protections that allow personal health information to flow among health care entities for treatment, payment, and certain core administrative tasks without first requiring patient consent, as long as there is a comprehensive framework of rules that governs access to and disclosure of health data. Patient consent is one important element of this framework, but relying on consent would do little to protect privacy. This paper also suggests how a framework of protections can provide patients with more meaningful opportunities to make informed choices about sharing their personal health information online.
In 2008, union members accounted for 12.4 percent of employed wage and salary workers, up from 12.1 percent a year earlier, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of workers belonging to a union rose by 428,000 to 16.1 million.
In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent, and there were 17.7 million union workers.
This report provides estimates of educational attainment in the United States, including comparisons by demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Information about educational attainment among the native-born and foreign-born populations
is included.
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Dr. Yitzhak Kadman, Executive Director of the National Council for the Child, presents the 2008 Yearbook to President Shimon Peres
Girls and young women in poor societies are often deprived of various learning and income-earning opportunities that could improve their social status and living conditions. Vocational skills training is considered to be an effective way to help empower such marginalized populations. Yet, existing technical and vocational education institutions often do not cater to the needs of those girls and women with limited basic educational qualifications.
Right: Markes Tumer learns how to tie a half-Windsor knot from Knots for Kids board Chairman Jerome Ballard. The nonprofit Knots for Kids gave each of the participants a new tie.
Professor Brian Wandell tells the inspirational story of Mike May, the world-record holder for blind downhill skiing. Wandell leads a multidisciplinary team of Stanford researchers who are working together to treat the many dimensions of blindness: retinal imaging, neural connections, and social psychology.
Th e standard structure is to present a graph focused on aggregated European Union data under the commentary, and then a table with a selection of indicators/time periods for all Member States and other non-member countries on the facing page.
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Michael Phelps heads toward reporters at Meadowbrook Aquatic Center in Baltimore to answer questions during a training session Friday.
February 9, 2009
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Rick and Carolyn Norton’s home goes up for auction next month because of medical bills and unemployment.
Part D grantees reported in our survey that they provide a range of services to clients, and the majority of these grantees reported that they have not made changes to services in response to the administrative expense cap implemented in fiscal year 2007.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that world food prices spiked dramatically in the first half of 2008 and declined somewhat in the latter part of the year. From June 2007 to June 2008, FAO's food price index increased by 44%, with wheat and rice prices increasing by 90% and maize prices by 35%. The food spikes had negative social and economic impacts, especially in low income and least developed countries.
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Debbie Purdy is concerned her husband could be prosecuted
Twenty-seven years into the epidemic, AIDS continues to challenge all of our efforts. Today, for every two people who start taking antiretroviral drugs, another five become newly infected. Unless we take urgent steps to intensify HIV prevention we will fail to sustain the gains of the past few years, and universal access will simply be a noble aspiration.
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The line extends down the block from the Essex County Department of Citizen Services in East Orange.
The global financial crisis has triggered a serious slowdown in world economic growth including recession in the largest industrialized countries. Enterprises have stopped hiring and many
are laying off workers in considerable numbers. This report examines what we know already about the impact of the crisis on jobs and what we could expect from several possible scenarios of the way it might evolve in the year ahead.
This report on child injury prevention brings together all that is currently known about the various types of child injuries and how to prevent them. At the same time, it recognises that there are major gaps in knowledge.
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Sharon Shoesmith, former director of child services at Haringey council.
Michael Kekoa Ravenell is seen in this family photo.
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Fredrick Wolfe, Director of the National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases and one of the nation's most prominent critics of fibromyalgia, poses for a photo Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, at the organization's offices in Wichita, Kan. Drug companies have recently started marketing campaigns to sell drugs to treat symptoms of the disease of which not much is known.
This brief estimates baseline levels of coverage and spending for Medicaid/SCHIP (assuming steady unemployment). Then, this brief estimates for 2009 the impact of increased unemployment on health care coverage, state costs for Medicaid/SCHIP and the uninsured and the potential impact of proportional statewide budget cuts on Medicaid and SCHIP funding assuming that states maintain eligibility levels for public programs.
You can train dogs to bark or sit. But what about training mice to become happy and grow new brain cells? A Nobel Prize winning scientist has done that, and he says it could lead to new ways to treat depression in people.
February 8, 2009
In this essay, I argue for increased analyses of the social consequences of HIV/AIDS for infected black women in the United States, including examinations of the various ways in which their social and economic experiences are impacted by the interplay between their health statuses and racial, gender, and class locations. I frame the discussion by chronicling and critically assessing the body of work highlighting multiple explanations for the increased infection rates among black women, revealing the relative dearth of work that focuses on the everyday lives of women who are currently living with the disease.
A man drinks tea at a "New Year's Village for Temporary Workers" in Tokyo's Hibiya Park . . . The facility was set up for the first time this year to provide free meals and shelter in the park. About 100 people signed up to spend New Year's Eve at the village,
Today, the retirement income system — comprising Social Security and employer-sponsored pension plans — is contracting. To compensate, people need to work longer to ensure an adequate income over many years throughout retirement. A few additional years in the labor force can make a big difference. Working longer directly increases current income; it avoids the actuarial reduction in Social Security benefits; it allows people to contribute more to their 401(k) plans; and it shortens the period of retirement.
The favelas in Brazil's cities are notoriously poverty-stricken
This report describes some of the key assumptions that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) would use in estimating the effects of key elements of such proposals on federal costs, insurance coverage, and other outcomes; the evidence on which those assumptions are based; and—if the evidence points to a range of possible effects rather than a precise prediction—the factors that would influence where a proposal falls within those ranges.
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Ronald Reagan brooked no doubt that food stamps equaled welfare. Running for president in 1976 he told what became a defining tale about the “strapping young buck” in the supermarket line who used stamps to buy T-bone steaks. His first White House budget made deep food stamp cuts.
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Broward Sheriff's Office homicide investigation has determined that Robert Raimondo, a homeless man, who spent Wednesday night in a tent in the woods was killed by the uncommonly cold South Florida weather.
This report evaluates the provision of learning and skills for offenders on long custodial sentences. The findings are based upon survey visits to 19 prisons and an analysis of the reports of 10 inspections.
A recent evaluation of the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County’s Foster Children’s Project (FCP) shows a direct link between legal representation of children in foster care and their permanency outcomes.
Two cocaine users in Glasgow have become the first in the UK to be treated for a rare and life-threatening condition, linked with taking the drug.
Seen & Heard combines approaches and resources from the fields of mental health and preventive services to help very young, generally very low-income children and their families recover from traumatic events. It helps the children to talk about and process what they have experienced. It equips caregivers to offer appropriate reassurance and to re-build children’s overall sense of safety and trust. And it helps families access the concrete, basic resources (e.g., housing, health care) that need to be in place before therapeutic interventions can begin to make a real difference.
A child’s safety is an adult’s job. Children are often taught how to keep themselves safe from sexual abuse — and that’s important for them to learn — but it’s no substitute for adult responsibility. We make sure children wear seat belts. We walk them across busy streets. We store toxic household cleaners out of reach. Why, then, would we leave the job of preventing child sexual abuse solely to children?
Moving with reusable plastic bins instead of disposable cardboard boxes.
Paul Shattuck, professor of social work, discusses his research on the cost of caring for a child with special needs and how it differs state to state.
February 7, 2009
This report evaluates the provision of learning and skills for offenders on short custodial sentences. The findings are based upon survey visits to 19 prisons and an analysis of the reports of 12 inspections.
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Patients receive intravenous injections at a hospital in Beijing . . . Chinese government is working to improve social welfare for the elderly, as the country starts to feel the pressure from its huge elderly population, according to Vice Premier Hui Liangyu.
While cost sharing is required in each of these countries, each has a number of specific policies to limit the impact on people and families with significant health care needs and low incomes. The brief provides an overview of each country’s health care system, its cost-sharing policies, and the cost-sharing exemptions and limits that help protect people with low incomes, certain medical conditions or high medical costs, and other characteristics from burdensome, excessive costs.
/>Janine L. Gallinar, social worker at Centro de Salud Damiliar La Fe, spoke with Julian Sanchez on Friday. Sanchez said he was living in alleys, weighed 100 pounds and had gangrene in one of his legs before social workers helped him recover.
The recommendations in this document are directed towards anyone involved in planning, conducting, approving or supporting information collection on sexual violence in humanitarian settings. They are offered to inform the process of ensuring that the exercise is justified, conducted in a safe and ethical manner, and that data are used appropriately.
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Paul Krugman
It’s as if the dismal economic failure of the last eight years never happened — yet Democrats have, incredibly, been on the defensive. Even if a major stimulus bill does pass the Senate, there’s a real risk that important parts of the original plan, especially aid to state and local governments, will have been emasculated.
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Sharon Shoesmith, former Director of Child Services at Haringey Council.
Graduate School of Social Work’s Sanford Schram, co-author of the upcoming book Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race
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Teens who spend long hours watching television are at higher risk for depression as adults, a new study finds.
Although health and employment shocks are fairly common at older ages and often derail retirement savings plans, Social Security’s disability insurance, spouse and survivor benefits, and progressive benefit formula may provide important protections. By contrast, traditional employer-sponsored pension benefits may be especially vulnerable to health and employment shocks immediately before benefit take-up, because pension wealth generally grows rapidly near the end of the career and workers forfeit these increases if they separate early. This study examines the impact of disability onset and job layoffs on Social Security wealth, traditional employer-sponsored pension wealth, and other household wealth
To ensure that youth awaiting foster care placement receive all the rights and benefits to which they are entitled, the practitioners interviewed for this publication recommend several specific implementation strategies.
Dr Jiko Luveni
Application forms for unemployment benefit have been made available on the internet in an effort to speed up processing claims.
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.
How does one confront racism in todays world? What factors contribute to the racism and oppression people face? In an effort to stimulate critical thinking about these issues, Simmons College, Associate Professor Gary Bailey will address these questions and others regarding racism and oppression in relation to sociopolitical issues, economic factors, and historical themes. Bailey also will provide a framework for confronting racism and oppression.
February 6, 2009
CONCERNED: Regional officer for the GMB Janet Adams is concerned about changes Aberdeenshire Council are proposing. Raymond Besant
State and local legislatures are increasingly questioning what the public is getting back for its property tax and sales tax exemptions of nonprofit hospitals. While the focus has generally been on a particular public-type service, charity care, this paper also examines two other forms of public-good outputs--research and education--to determine whether the subsidized nonprofit hospitals provide more than do for-profit hospitals. Utilizing data reported to the State of California by all hospitals in the State, over time, the paper also distinguishes between the reported provision of charity care and bad debt, a distinction that provides hospitals with some measure of reporting discretion.
This briefing paper, by the Towards 4+5 Research Programme Consortium, focuses on the Evidence-Based Policymaking (EBPM) movement which currently dominates public health research, policy and practice. It finds that EBPM has been successful in raising awareness about the importance of research for policy. However powerful international decision-makers, researchers and donors continue to play a central role in shaping how research is developed and used, both internationally and nationally.
This paper reviews the history of the regression discontinuity design in psychology, statistics, and economics. The design was invented by Donald T. Campbell in 1958. He and a group of Northwestern University colleagues in both psychology and statistics worked on the design and its analysis until the early 1980s, with Campbell's student William Trochin then carrying on the work.
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President Lee Myung-bak speaks with a caller at a phone-counseling center in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday. Lee instructed his administration to strengthen the social safety net for the poor.
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Nandita Das, the actress, who has a master’s degree in social work, is deeply concerned about social justice.
Monmouth University of Social Work student Jillian Tomiak and Luciand Feirrera, from Star Transport, load boxes of books into a truck.
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It's not just your imagination: The brain perceives the concentric circles of the famous Rotating Snakes optical illusion as rotating, but the image is static.
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It's not just your imagination: The brain perceives the concentric circles of the famous Rotating Snakes optical illusion as rotating, but the image is static.
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Protest at Michigan State Capitol during governor’s State of the State address.
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.
Hellen Nyangoya (centre left).
The Life Skills Training program is similar in many respects to services provided in numerous locations throughout the United States (i.e., classroom- and practicum-based training), though there are special aspects as well. There is an extensive outreach component, and the community college locale enables youths to be served in their communities and also exposed to community college campuses.
Erica G. Foldy, NYU Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management, discusses how to enable teams of social workers to be more effective.
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Debbie Purdy at the Royal Courts of Justice with her husband, Omar Puente.
February 5, 2009
Missouri’s failure to properly care for the mentally ill endangers communities, citizens and families. Here is a window into one woman’s quest to get help for her son.
A trial reunification is a continuation of the out-of-home placement episode, so return to out-of home care as a result of ending a trial reunification is not considered a re-entry into out-of-home care if it does not exceed time limits for a trial reunification. Trial reunification should only be used when it is anticipated that the child will remain with his or her parent(s) and a return to outof- home care is unlikely, except for short-term or respite placements with the out-of-home care provider.
Boosting assets enables individuals and households to invest in life goals and to enhance long-term economic stability and social protections. This fact sheet, drawn from Asset Building and Low-Income Families, presents an array of key statistics.
More young adults used cigars in the past month in 2007 (11.8 percent) than in 2002 (11.0 percent), although the prevalence rate peaked in 2004 at 12.7 percent
A review of antipsychotic drugs has been postponed until spring
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Social workers discussing a case.
As the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and broader health care reform efforts are considered, important policy questions include where eligibility thresholds should be set for public coverage and how much latitude states should have in setting their thresholds.
Family Team Decision-Making (FTDM) is an intervention for children and families that have entered the child welfare system. In the United States, FTDM is an intervention that is being increasingly implemented by social service agencies.
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As she starts to sort out the regulation of social workers in the wake of the Baby P tragedy, David Brindle finds Rosie Varley, chair of the General Social Care Council determined to remould the profession's image and culture
If you are reading this foreword, you may be one of the dedicated and entrepreneurial individuals who, during the past several decades and with the support of public funding and private investments, have helped create many new programs aimed at improving outcomes for youth. If you are a part of one of these newly formed organizations—or organizations that have expanded their missions and services—then you know the serious challenges to your organization’s survival.
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Azeri photographer Rena Effendi's new series "House of Happiness" looks at the troubled lives of women affected by the heroin trade in the Fergana Valley.
Recession does not stop donations to non-profits agencies
February 4, 2009
Although both Social Security and Medicare have experienced enormous public support in the past, in the last decade critics have called the programs into question as bad investments, financially unsustainable, and ready for major reforms. At the policy elite level, the discussion about Social Security and Medicare has gone from a politics of consensus in which there was widespread support and relatively few public expressed differences of opinion to what might be called a politics of dissensus where disagreement has been heated.
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Hesed House homeless soccer team practices in an empty warehouse.
This paper reviews literature on the prevalence of illness and household coping strategies in rural China, and determines the questions needed to be answered through further research. Existing studies provide evidence that ill-health risks has become more complex in rural China. Due to tremendous socioeconomic changes chronic non-communicable illnesses have become a leading cause of death.
The Council on Social Work Education took 13,859 square feet for its new headquarters at 1701 Duke St.
The overall unemployment rate, now 7.2 percent, reached a 15-year high in December 2008. More than 11.1 million Americans were out of work last month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (2009) data, and 3.8 million private-sector nonfarm jobs have disappeared since the current recession began in December 2007. Some analysts, including those at Goldman Sachs, expect the unemployment rate to reach 9 percent by the end of 2009.