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news & new scholarship from around the world 11.23.09information for practice May 2009 archives
May 31, 2009
The trustees’ report shows some deterioration in the program’s long-run outlook, a finding that was widely expected. Nevertheless, the report does not depict a program in crisis.
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Adam Coughlan, 29, received a bachelor's degree in social work in 2005.
For most U.S. workers and their families, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) provides protection against a key source of economic insecurity-the loss of earnings due to disability. Today, 9.3 million Americans-disabled workers, their spouses, and dependent children-rely on SSDI to replace lost wages. This primer provides an overview of the SSDI program, including who is covered, what benefits they receive, how the program is administered, and how it is financed.
R CHARLES | Taranaki Daily News
GRAND DAY: Janice Jessiman spent 4 1/2 years studying for a Bachelor in Applied Social Science
The Genworth Cost of Care Survey was the first to publish cost of care results across 90 regions, touching every state. This year, Genworth expands the scope of the survey to help families, public policy representatives, financial planners and advisors, and others answer the question “What is the cost of long term care in my area?”
A large government-sponsored clinical trial associates antipsychotic medications with weight gain, girth, and harmful metabolic effects in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Data from the most recent National Survey of Adolescents and other studies indicate that one in four children and adolescents in the United States experiences at least one potentially traumatic event before the age of 162, and more than 13 % of 17-year-olds—one in eight—have experienced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their lives.
Chris Beckett, social worker by day - and science fiction writer by night.
Chris's latest collection of short stories, titled The Turing Test
Stephanie Sabouni faces charges of faking city Administration for Children's Services documents. But she doesn't seem too worried on her Facebook page
The aims of the review were to provide an accessible summary of relevant literature on adolescent neglect and to draw out the implications for further developments on this topic and to inform the preparation of guides for multi-disciplinary teams and for young people.
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Jude Pinkerton says a 'mental fog' descended after she began taking paroxetine. She was put on Prozac in January last year for depression, which she attributes to a stressful job as a social worker. It was the first time the Wellington woman had had any psychological problems and she had never harmed herself nor thought about committing suicide. The depression lifted, but she had an allergy to an ingredient of Prozac and a GP in October put her on an alternative antidepressant, Loxamine, a generic version of paroxetine.
This report describes the impact of Pathways to Work (Pathways) on those aged between 18 and 24 at the start of their claim for Incapacity Benefit (IB) within the original seven pilot areas and the first two groups of expansion areas (those areas where Pathways was introduced in October 2005 and April 2006).
- A comparison of two methods for estimating odds ratios: Results from the National Health Survey
- Improving quality indicator report cards through Bayesian modeling
- Estimating preferences for a dermatology consultation using Best-Worst Scaling: Comparison of various methods of analysis
- Statistical methods to correct for verification bias in diagnostic studies are inadequate when there are few false negatives: a simulation study
- Using reflexivity to enhance in-depth interviewing skills for the clinician researcher
- Use of the Oxford Handicap Scale at hospital discharge to predict Glasgow Outcome Scale at 6 months in patients with traumatic brain injury
- Maximising response rates in household telephone surveys
A specific program designed to teach women to recognise active labour may be beneficial through potentially decreasing the incidence of early admission to hospital, increasing women's confidence, feelings of control and empowerment, and decreasing their anxiety. . . . There is not enough evidence to evaluate the use of a specific set of criteria for self-diagnosis of active labour.
May 30, 2009
Highland Council cannot meet demands from the public for affordable homes because of a lack of government funding, councillors have claimed.
Policies to extend working lives—and delay the claiming of Social Security benefits—are viewed as a necessity by many experts. One of the leading proposals to extend working lives is to increase the earliest eligibility age in Social Security. The major problem with raising the earliest eligibility age is that doing so would inflict very real hardship on some older workers.
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Gloria and David Smith founded a nonprofit organization that runs an HIV/AIDS education and prevention program in Africa.
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Gloria and David Smith founded a nonprofit organization that runs an HIV/AIDS education and prevention program in Africa.
Co-production emphasises that people are not passive recipients of services and have assets and expertise which can help improve services. Co-production is a potentially transformative way of thinking about power, resources, partnerships, risks and outcomes, not an off-the-shelf model of service provision or a single magic solution.
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Alie Trudeau and her boyfriend Drew Bergen pose for a picture with the children of the orphanage they help run in Nimule, Sudan in July 2008. The couple will return to the orphanage this summer and perform a variety of tasks, such as bandaging skinned knees, helping with schoolwork and performing general parental tasks.
This video provides a popular introduction to the issue. At the time, drug therapies often used today were not available. The only such therapy mentioned is insulin injection. Electroshock is shown as a treatment for depression. There is a vague discussion of brain surgery - perhaps a reference to lobotomy. A version of group therapy is also shown. Psychoanalysis is briefly referenced.
For health care professionals on the front lines of providing mental health and trauma care to Latino children and families in the United States–Mexico border region, it is crucial to understand the diverse cultural, socioeconomic, environmental, and political factors that daily impact the lives of their clients/patients. Equally important, such clinicians need to implement culturally competent care while simultaneously addressing the families’ misconceptions and knowledge gaps about the causes of mental health problems and their treatment.
Parents want practical, flexible help and may express the desire for a ‘breather’ from the physical and emotional demands of caring for their child. At the same time, they often express the wish that relationships between themselves and their disabled child could be more ‘ordinary’ and they did not always have to perform caring, nursing and other roles.
Hospitals that play music to premature babies help them grow and thrive, mounting evidence suggests.
To determine operational and analytical characteristics of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) in international settings and to explore factors that may affect recruitment of most-at-risk populations using RDS, we reviewed HIV biological and behavioral surveillance studies that used this method outside of the United States . . . . This review has shown that RDS is an effective technique, when designed and implemented appropriately, to sample most-at-risk populations for HIV biological and behavioral surveys.
To inform America's youth about the important connection between drug use and HIV infection the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) launched The "Learn the Link" campaign. The campaign includes the "After the Party" public service ads (PSA) where an HIV-positive teenager recounts the night she went to a party and under the influence of drugs and alcohol engaged in risky sexual behavior that resulted in HIV infection.
- Evaluation of a Computer-based Patient Education and Motivation Tool on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice towards Influenza Vaccination
- Hopelessness and Suicidal Behavior among Chinese, Thai and Korean College Students and Predictive Effects of the World Health Organization’s WHOQOL-BREF
- Physician-based Tobacco Smoking Cessation Counseling in Belgrade, Serbia
- Historical Research: A Thematic Analysis of Convention and Conference Themes for Selected Professional Health Education Associations from 1975 to 2009
- Correlates of Cigarette Smoking among Male Chinese College Students in China- A Preliminary Study
This publication covers a range of outcome indicators for children who have been continuously looked after for at least 12 months in England. Indicators include absences, exclusions and employment status at the end of year 11.
Although only 18 percent of respondents reported that the economic crisis was having a substantial impact on the mental health of their patients, 70 percent said that because of the crisis their patients were having to choose between psychiatric care and other basic needs.
May 29, 2009
T Manjula is helping the community radio concept to catch on
In 2005, the prevalence of self-reported disabilities among civilian noninstitutionalized U.S. adults aged ≥18 years was 21.8%, and the total estimated population reporting a disability was 47.5 million. The proportion of persons reporting a disability increased with age (18--44 years, 11.0%; 45--64 years, 23.9%; and ≥65 years, 51.8%) . . . and was significantly higher among women (24.4%; CI = 23.7--25.1) compared with men (19.1%; CI = 18.5--19.7) overall and in all age groups
This guide was written to educate policymakers about the scope and impact of childhood trauma, to offer effective solutions that can be implemented with the support of informed public policy, and to provide information about additional resources.
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Jeanette Dy, 37, suffered broken bones after attempting to escape her abusive employer by jumping from the balcony of the apartment she was working in as a domestic helper in Kuwait. Manila, Philippines
Designed to give you the information you’ll need to help support children who have experienced sexual abuse. From dealing with the shock of disclosure to coping with the emotional impact of navigating the legal system, these resources will help you and your child move past the pain, and realize that it is possible to transcend trauma.
The old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) made this history of itself, the Border Patrol, earlier agencies, and immigration generally.
This First Look report uses data from the 2007-08 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) to examine a range of issues dealing with school crime and safety, such as the frequency of school crime and violence, disciplinary actions, and school practices related to the prevention and reduction of crime. SSOCS is the primary source of school-level data on crime and safety for NCES.
Results of a survey conducted in California and Minnesota on how social insurance is taught in colleges and universities is supplemented by extensive teaching aids and bibliographies.
Brand name antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, and antidementia agents all experienced manufacturer price increases that exceeded general inflation.
This document outlines the role that schools and local authorities can play in improving the attainment of children in care.
There's rarely room in children's books for scenes of slaughter and pictures of people being impaled, so why does one author want to change this?
- Termination of pregnancy due to Thalassemia major, Hemophilia, and Down's Syndrome: the views of Iranian physicians
- Alternatives to project-specific consent for access to personal information for health research: Insights from a public dialogue
- Evidence-based ethics – What it should be and what it shouldn't
- Evaluation of the quality of informed consent in a vaccine field trial in a developing country setting
- Patients' perception and actual practice of informed consent, privacy and confidentiality in general medical outpatient departments of two tertiary care hospitals of Lahore
- Understanding and retention of the informed consent process among parents in rural northern Ghana
- Informed consent in Sri Lanka: A survey among ethics committee members
M HENSEN | Sun Media
The chapel on the grounds of the London Psychiatric Hospital is still often used for weddings. The Chapel of Hope was built by patients in 1884.
Of the 3.2 million youth who graduated from high school from October 2007 to October 2008, 2.2 million (68.6 percent) were attending college in October 2008. College enrollment rates were 71.5 percent for young women and 65.9 percent for young men.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) was developed in the early 1970s as a response to the closing down of psychiatric hospitals. ACT is a team-based approach aiming at keeping ill people in contact with services, reducing hospital admissions and improving outcome, especially social functioning and quality of life . . . . ACT is a clinically effective approach to managing the care of severely mentally ill people in the community. ACT, if correctly targeted on high users of in-patient care, can substantially reduce the costs of hospital care whilst improving outcome and patient satisfaction. Policy makers, clinicians, and consumers should support the setting up of ACT teams.
In part because of rejection rates during the World War II draft, concerns about the health - including mental health - of the U.S. population developed in the 1940s. The issue was further spotlighted by efforts to deal with readjustment of returning veterans. Hollywood films such as "Spellbound" (1945) and "The Snakepit" (1948) also highlighted the issue. This video provides a popular introduction to the issue.
May 28, 2009
Hagop recalls the scariest times when battles raged outside the hospital
There are both advantages and disadvantages for carers and families. Support arrangements are needed to ensure successful implementation. . . Older people and people with complex needs may need greater time and support to help them get the most from individual budget schemes, particularly the cash direct payment option.
M Rainey | Star-Ledger
The Greystone Hospital complex in July 2008. Court-appointed group Doe v. Klein Monitoring Committee has decided to continue to its watchdog duties.
This is the Government's response to a report on people with mental health problems and learning difficulties in the criminal justice system.
This review examines the extent to which offenders with mental health problems or learning disabilities could, in appropriate cases, be diverted from prison to other services and the barriers to such diversion.
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This colorful illustration, created by the renowned Equador-born artist Jose Ortega, appears in Mental Health: A Guide for Latinos and Their Families.
This research examines the routes in and out of problem gambling, including the motivations, attitudes and self-perceptions of fifty gamblers and problem gamblers.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | B COLEMAN
Gov. Mike Beebe talks with Dr. Mickael Hollomon, program medical director for UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute-Northwest, during a tour of the new Behavioral Health Unit at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale last month. The new unit began accepting patients earlier this month.
S Biddle | Washington Post
Mathy Milling Downing, left, was alarmed when a mental health test was suggested for her daughter Caroline, right, after the suicide of Caroline's sister.
The ‘systems’ model helps identify which factors in the work environment support good practice, and which create unsafe conditions in which poor safeguarding practice is more likely. It provides a way of thinking about front-line practice and a method for conducting case reviews.
This meta-analysis of 11 treatment outcome studies evaluated 18 specific treatments of sexual behavior problems (SBP) as a primary or secondary target. Specifically, it examines relations among child characteristics, treatment characteristics (including practice elements), and short-term outcome (including sexual and general behavior problems) . . . . Results question current treatments for children with SBP that are based on ASO models of treatment without caregiver involvement.
Food and mealtimes are a high priority for older people and affect their quality of life. . . Malnutrition affects over 10 per cent of older people.
- Public Education Matters: Reclaiming Public Education for the Common Good in a Global Era
- “Under pressure I fall back to being a teacher…” Confronting Contending Desires for Schooling and Teaching in a Middle School Reform Project
- Feathers in the Nest: Establishing a Supportive Environment for Women Researchers
- Teenage Technological Experts’ Views of Schooling
- The Production of Australian Professional Development Policy Texts as a Site of Contest: The Case of the Federal Quality Teacher Programme
- Selling Education Through “Culture”: Responses to the Market by New, Non-Government Schools
NIDA Director, Nora Volkow meets with 100 students in Harlem, at the High School for Math Science and Engineering at City College in New York City for an open discussion.
Cardinal Brady said that the 2002 deal should be revisited
May 27, 2009
This report is the first in a series of components on housing for the 55+ market and is based on data from the most recent American Housing Surveys (AHS) from the U.S. Census Bureau. Although the data covers all types of housing and households, the research concentrates on age qualified active adult communities, other non-age-qualified 55+ owner-occupied communities (not explicitly age-restricted but nevertheless occupied primarily by people age 55+), and age restricted rental communities.
Widespread abuse at Catholic institutions was documented
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The simple fact is most Americans start collecting Social Security retirement benefits at far too young an age. The typical American begins collecting within one of year of turning 62, the earliest age possible.
Unfortunately, acquaintance rape is very common. In some surveys, as many as one in four young women reported being verbally or physically pressured into having sex during the past year, while one in 10 high school girls—and one in 20 boys—reported being forced into sex at some point in their lives. More than one third of acquaintance rape victims are between the ages of 14 and 17.
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The former Christian Brothers industrial school at Letterfrack Co. Galway.
People with disabilities are often at a distinct disadvantage in the labor market. A key challenge facing policymakers is how to design public programs—and encourage private employers—to effectively support people with disabilities in their efforts to secure and retain employment and achieve economic self-sufficiency.
Two-thirds of 6,600 primary care physicians surveyed in 60 U.S. communities said they are unable to obtain outpatient mental health care for their patients, according to a report by researchers from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) published in April's Health Affairs.
This guidance gives advice on whether section 130B of the Mental Health Act 1983 allows independent mental health advocates to see information in patients’ records that would not be disclosed directly to the patient and, if so, whether they may share that information with patients.
Combined data from SAMHSA's 2002 to 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health were used to provide average annualized estimates of the number of children under age 18 living with a substance abusing parent, that is, a parent who was dependent on or abused alcohol or an illicit drug.
Father John Owen claimed gay men were to blame for paedophilia in the Catholic church
High school senior, Lillian Rosen, talks to the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. Nora Volkow, about the latest findings from the most recent annual survey of teen drug abuse - the Monitoring the Future survey.
- Towards a Formative Assessment of Classroom Competencies (FACCs) for postgraduate medical trainees
- The characteristics of depressive symptoms in medical students during medical education and training: a cross-sectional study
- A generalizability study of the medical judgment vignettes interview to assess students' noncognitive attributes for medical school
- Medical students' and facilitators' experiences of an Early Professional Contact course: Active and motivated students, strained facilitators
- Self- and peer assessment may not be an accurate measure of PBL tutorial process
- Integrated online formative assessments in the biomedical sciences for medical students: benefits for learning
- The influence of the cultural climate of the training environment on physicians' self-perception of competence and preparedness for practice
- An educational game for teaching clinical practice guidelines to Internal Medicine residents: development, feasibility and acceptability
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Authorities place a man in custody. Raids by about 1,400 local, state and federal law enforcement officers targeted members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, which has a strong presence in the small city.
Regular aerobic exercise during pregnancy appears to improve (or maintain) physical fitness. Available data are insufficient to infer important risks or benefits for the mother or infant. Larger and better trials are needed before confident recommendations can be made about the benefits and risk of aerobic exercise in pregnancy.
This review examines what is known about the ways in which children and families directly and indirectly signal their need for help and to what extent practitioners are equipped to recognise and respond to these indications. It also looks at whether the evidence suggests that professional response could be swifter.
May 26, 2009
This study was conducted for AARP via telephone by International Communications Research. A nationally representative sample of 1,035 adults ages 25 and older completed interviews between February 27th and March 8th, 2009
A Franco | Associated Press
An anti-narcotics officer opens packages of cocaine in August before burning them in Panama City.
The children of the camps: Moves are underway to protect these innocent victims of war
The scheme focuses on race, disability and gender equality and sets out the approach to equality in prisons and probation areas.
A constitutional amendment allowing the federal government to regulate child labor was introduced in the 1920s and appeared likely to pass, as this video shows. It ultimately did not pass. But changed Supreme Court attitudes allowing Congress to regulate economic affairs made the amendment redundant. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 included child labor regulations.
This report summarises research on the impact of support staff on schools and pupils. In particular, it looks at teaching assistants supporting pupils with additional needs. The report mainly relates to primary schools.
Mark was diagnosed with epilepsy six years ago. His memory has been affected and his lifestyle has changed, but in some ways for the better
Dean Videka whose research interests include vulnerable children and families receiving child welfare and mental health services, is currently Vice President for Research at the State University of New York at Albany and a Distinguished Service Professor.
NYUSSW is committed to building knowledge and educating professionals for leadership to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Established in 1953, social work education at NYU has had a distinguished history of service, research, and scholarship addressing the most pressing problems of a complex urban environment, and the needs of our most vulnerable citizens. The Schools priorities reflect the primary obligations of the social work profession - to advance the cause of social justice and promote the ideals of a humane society.
This dissertation uses a large, nationally representative panel dataset and a propensity score matching technique to assess the impact of bully victimization on a range of 10 delinquency outcomes measured over a six-year period. Results show that victimization prior to the age of 12 years is significantly predictive of the development of several delinquent behaviors, including running away from home, selling drugs, vandalism, theft, other property crimes, and assault.
Staffing levels, as measured by the average number of caseworkers statewide, increased from 3,139 employees in fiscal year 2004 to 4,104 employees in fiscal year 2007, a 31 percent increase. Caseloads for CPS caseworkers who perform investigations significantly decreased from a daily average of 42.8 cases per investigator in fiscal year 2005 to a daily average of 25.3 cases per investigator in fiscal year 2007.
Artane Boys Industrial School, now called St David's, which was named in the Ryan Commission report
Christine Buckley, a former resident of the Goldenbridge Industrial School in Dublin and founder of the survivors' group Aislinn, was angered by the comments of Vincent Nichols, the new Archbishop of Westminster, who described as "courageous" members of the clergy who admitted abusing children.
"He's a disgrace, an utter disgrace. Yet again he is protecting abusers and minimising (their abuse) by talking about the work they did," she said.
Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich argues that anti-abortion policies harm women's rights, while family planning programs raise levels of education. "When you refuse to give women access to safe abortion, all it does is kill women," Ehrlich states.
DCSF: The child, the family and the GP - Tensions and conflicts of interest in safeguarding children
This research sought to explore the nature and consequences of tensions and conflicts of interest for GPs in safeguarding children and how these are seen and responded to from a range of professional, parental and child perspectives and managed in order to promote best practice.
Puntland leader lays founding rock
This meta-analysis (N = 110,092) assessed the efficacy of HIV-prevention interventions across samples with higher and lower concentrations of Latinos/Latin Americans. Findings indicated that groups with higher percents of Latinos increased condom and HIV-related knowledge to a lesser extent than groups with lower percents of Latinos/ Latin Americans.
- Differential response rates in postal and Web-based surveys in older respondents
- Response Order, Party Choice, and Evaluations of the National Economy: A Survey Experiment
- Using Cognitive Interviews to Evaluate the Spanish-Language Translation of Dietary Questionnaire
- Comparing Sampling and Estimation Strategies in Establishment Populations
- A Monte Carlo sample size study: how many countries are needed for accurate multilevel SEM?
- Survey on prevalence and risk factors on HIV-1 among pregnant women in North-Rift, Kenya: a hospital based cross-sectional study conducted between 2005 and 2006
- The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania
- Socio-economic factors associated with delivery assisted by traditional birth attendants in Iraq, 2000
- Stakeholder perceptions of mental health stigma and poverty in Uganda
- A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study
- Knowledge of modifiable risk factors of Coronary Atherosclerotic Heart Disease (CASHD) among a sample in India
- Measuring the health impact of human rights violations related to Australian asylum policies and practices: a mixed methods study
- Early Educational Opportunities for Children of Hispanic Origins
- The Difficult Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth in the US: Implications for the State as Corporate Parent
- "Will they just pack up and leave?" – attitudes and intended behaviour of hospital health care workers during an influenza pandemic
- Assessment of the multidisciplinary education for a major change in clinical practice; a prospective cohort study
- Racial differences in long-term adherence to oral antidiabetic drug therapy: a longitudinal cohort study
- Survey of motivation for use of voluntary counseling and testing services for HIV in a high risk area of Shenyang, China
- Hospital discharge planning and continuity of care for aged people in an Italian local health unit: does the care-home model reduce hospital readmission and mortality rates?
- An Exploratory Study on Adolescents Experiences of Using ICQ (I Seek You)
- Role of the Elected Panchayat Samity Members in National Health and Family Welfare Programs: A Case Study
- Interpretive Research Aiming at Theory Building: Adopting and Adapting the Case Study Design
- Lived Experiences of Adult Children Who Have a Parent Diagnosed with Parkinsons Disease
- Mas' Making and Pedagogy: Imagined Possibilities
- Developing Understanding of Research-based Pedagogy with Preservice Teachers: An Instrumental Case Study
- The Search for an Explanation: Breast Cancer in the Context of Genetic Inheritance
- Analyzing Qualitative Data about Hospitalized Children: Reflections on Bodily Expressions
- Teaching Qualitative Research Methods through Service-Learning
- Exploring How Factors Impact the Activities and Participation of Persons with Disability: Constructing a Model Through Grounded Theory
- Efficacy of a multifaceted podiatry intervention to improve balance and prevent falls in older people: study protocol for a randomised trial
- The COACH prompting system to assist older adults with dementia through handwashing: An efficacy study
- Frailty Intervention Trial (FIT)
- Do the malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) and Birmingham nutrition risk (BNR) score predict mortality in older hospitalised patients?
- Effectiveness of a mobile smoking cessation service in reaching elderly smokers and predictors of quitting
- A standard procedure for creating a frailty index
- Cost effectiveness of preventing falls and improving mobility in people with Parkinson disease: protocol for an economic evaluation alongside a clinical trial
- Measuring care of the elderly: psychometric testing and modification of the Time in Care instrument for measurement of care needs in nursing homes
- Risk factors for falls with severe fracture in elderly people living in a middle-income country: a case control study
- The Lausanne cohort Lc65+: a population-based prospective study of the manifestations, determinants and outcomes of frailty
- Tourists’ and Residents’ Values for Maintaining Working Landscapes of the ‘Old West’
- Metro-nonmetro Economic Growth and Convergence in the Plains States - Rethinking the Rural-Urban Relationship in a Global Economy
- Why are They Moving Away? Comparing Attachment to Place in the Great Plains to the Rest of the Nation
- “You Really Ought to Give Iowa a Try:” Tourism, Community Identity, and the Impact of Popular Culture in Iowa
- Prognosis in Schizophrenia and the Role of Subjectivity
- Beating the Odds—Nothing Is Impossible, Its Just a Road Less Traveled
- Desire, Disease, and the Origins of the Dopaminergic System
- Does the Concept of "Sensitization" Provide a Plausible Mechanism for the Putative Link Between the Environment and Schizophrenia?
- Psychosocial Treatment Programs for People With Both Severe Mental Illness and Substance Misuse
- Questioning an Axiom: Better Prognosis for Schizophrenia in the Developing World?
- Is Prognosis in the Individual, the Environment, the Disease, or What?
- Dissecting the Heterogeneity of Schizophrenia Outcomes
- Commentary on Alex Cohen et al: "Questioning an Axiom: Better Prognosis for Schizophrenia in the Developing World"
- What Did the WHO Studies Really Find?
- Cross-National Comparisons: Problems in Interpretation When Studies Are Based on Prevalent Cases
- Inefficient Face Detection in Schizophrenia
- The Phenomenological Critique and Self-disturbance: Implications for Ultra-High Risk ("Prodrome") Research
- The multiple selves and realities of a Māori researcher
- The Māori social science academy and evidence-based policy
- Nā Rangi tāua, nā Tūānuku e takoto nei: Research methodology framed by whakapapa
- Te Korowai Ākonga: A catalyst for change in teacher education at Te Wānanga o Āotearoa
- Benefits of a Māori immersion programme
- Supervision of Māori doctoral students: A descriptive report
- Does the domestic violence act discriminate against Māori?
- Language re-vitalisation and cultural transformation
- Treatment: "Just What the Preacher Ordered"
- Using Computerized Adaptive Testing to Reduce the Burden of Mental Health Assessment
- Commentary: Are We Ready for Computerized Adaptive Testing?
- Familiarity With and Use of Accommodations and Supports Among Postsecondary Students With Mental Illnesses
- Commentary: The Importance of Accommodations in Higher Education
- The Impact of Cost Sharing on Antidepressant Use Among Older Adults in British Columbia
- Benzodiazepine Use and Expenditures for Medicare Beneficiaries and the Implications of Medicare Part D Exclusions
- Perceived Stigma and Mental Health Care Seeking
- Medical Clinic Characteristics and Access to Behavioral Health Services for Persons With HIV
- Community Determinants of Latinos' Use of Mental Health Services
- Rates and Risk Factors by Ethnic Group for Suicides Within a Year of Contact With Mental Health Services in England and Wales
- Meso-level Comparison of Mental Health Service Availability and Use in Chile and Spain
- Law & Psychiatry: Sex Offenders in the Community: Are Current Approaches Counterproductive?
- Best Practices: Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: The Harris County Community Behavioral Health Program
- Personal Accounts: Reflections on Adherence to a Medications Regimen
- Barriers to Care for Antenatal Depression
- A Disease Management Program for Families of Persons in Hong Kong With Dementia
- Collaboration Between Psychiatrists and Clergy in Recognizing and Treating Serious Mental Illness
- Computerized Screening for Alcohol and Drug Use Among Adults Seeking Outpatient Psychiatric Services
- Challenges for Consultation–Liaison Psychiatry in the 21st Century
- Confidentiality in the Age of HIPAA: A Challenge for Psychosomatic Medicine
- Misdiagnosed Delirium in Patient Referrals to a University-Based Hospital Psychiatry Department
- Quality of Life in Individuals With Serious Mental Illness and Type 2 Diabetes
- Parental Bonding and Alexithymia in Adults With Fibromyalgia
- Evidence of Exacerbated Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia Patients With Comorbid Diabetes
- Gastroenterologists’ Perceptions of Need and Availability of Psychiatric Services for Patients With Hepatitis C
- Risk Factors for Major Depressive Disorder and the Psychological Impact of Hysterectomy: A Prospective Investigation
- Selection of Donors for Adult Living-Donor Liver Donation: Results of the Assessment of the First 205 Donor Candidates
- Overlap, Comorbidity, and Stability of Somatoform Disorders and the Use of Current Versus Lifetime Criteria
- Antipsychotic-Induced Hyperprolactinemia and Delusion of Pregnancy
- Pharmaceutical patents and the quality of mental healthcare in low- and middle-income countries
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its potential impact on the use of restraint
- A pilot personality disorder outreach service: development, findings and lessons learnt
- Managing perinatal mental health disorders effectively: identifying the necessary components of service provision and delivery
- Liaison psychiatry services in Wales
- Supplementary prescribing: a new way of working for psychiatrists and nurses
- A ‘dual diagnosis’ community psychiatric nurse service in Lanarkshire: service innovation
- Audit of availability and awareness of guidelines for the management of confusion in older patients on general wards
- Bridging the gap between the university and the NHS: health services research in psychiatry
- Back to basics – getting involved in public education
- Introduction
- Linking Social Capital to Small-worlds: A look at local and network-level processes and structure
- Gender clustering in friendship networks: some sociological implications
- Measures and Meanings: Exploring the Ego-Net of Helen Kirkpatrick Watts, Militant Suffragette
- Formalising Symbolic Interactionism
- Brokerage roles between cliques: a secondary clique analysis
- The Ethical Boundaries of Forensic Psychiatry: A View from the Ivory Tower
- Commentary: 1982 Was AAPL's Year of Living Dangerously
- Commentary: Is Ethical Forensic Psychiatry an Oxymoron?
- Commentary: Mapping a Changing Landscape in the Ethics of Forensic Psychiatry
- Alan Stone and the Ethics of Forensic Psychiatry: An Overview
- Ethics and Forensic Psychiatry: Translating Principles Into Practice
- Stone's Views of 25 Years Ago Have Now Shifted Incrementally
- The Ethics of Forensic Practice: Reclaiming the Wasteland
- Amnesia and Crime: A Neuropsychiatric Response
- Commentary: A Response to Wortzel and Arciniegas About Amnesia and Crime
- Do Bus Accidents Cause Nonepileptic Seizures?: Complex Issues of Medicolegal Causation
- Post-Katrina Juvenile Competency Determinations: A Tale of Two Systems
- Naked Suicide
- Consent in Incompetent Patients
- Miranda Waiver in a Juvenile
- Right to Refuse Treatment
- Competence to Stand Trial
- Immunity for Professional Review Committees
- Methamphetamine-Induced Psychosis and Diminished Capacity to Form Intent to Kill: Ultimate Issue in Expert Testimony
- Competency to Stand Trial and to Waive the Sixth Amendment Right to Self-Representation
- Editors' introduction
- Behind the Beehive buzz: sources of occupational stress for New Zealand policy officials
- Doing science in a culture of accountability: compliance through resistance to alienation and estrangement
- I get by with a little help from my friends ... at work
- The health status of New Zealand workers: an analysis of the New Zealand Health Survey 2002/03
- Parental leave and work-family balance among employed parents following childbirth: an exploratory investigation in Australia and New Zealand
- Healthy humour: using humour to cope at work
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Sleep in Pediatric Medical Populations
- Polysomnography and Self-reported Sleep, Pain, Fatigue, and Anxiety in Children with Active and Inactive Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Brief Report: Sleep Disturbances following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood
- Prevalence and Predictors of Significant Sleep Disturbances in Children Undergoing Ambulatory Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Sleep Disturbances in School-age Children with Chronic Pain
- Symptoms of Sleep Apnea and Polysomnography as Predictors of Poor Quality of Life in Overweight Children and Adolescents
- Sleep Disruptions in Parents of Children and Adolescents with Chronic Illnesses: Prevalence, Causes, and Consequences
- Practices and Provisions for Parents Sleeping Overnight with a Hospitalized Child
- Gender Differences in Sleep, Fatigue, and Daytime Activity in a Pediatric Oncology Sample Receiving Dexamethasone
- Brief Report: The Temporal Relationships Between Sleep, Cortisol, and Lung Functioning in Youth with Asthma
- Brief Report: Daily Mood as a Mediator or Moderator of the Pain–Sleep Relationship in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
- Nocturnal Awakenings and Pediatric Injury Risk
- Commentary: The Importance of Sleep in Pediatric Chronic Pain—A Wake-up Call for Pediatric Psychologists
- Residual Symptom Recovery From Major Affective Episodes in Bipolar Disorders and Rapid Episode Relapse/Recurrence
- Elevated Inflammation Levels in Depressed Adults With a History of Childhood Maltreatment
- A Longitudinal Twin Study of Fears From Middle Childhood to Early Adulthood: Evidence for a Developmentally Dynamic Genome
- A Second Look at Prior Trauma and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Effects of Subsequent Trauma: A Prospective Epidemiological Study
- Change in Depressive Symptoms During the Prodromal Phase of Alzheimer Disease
- Achievement and Maintenance of Sustained Response During the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study Continuation and Maintenance Therapy
- Comparing Drug-Related Hospital Morbidity Following Heroin Dependence Treatment With Methadone Maintenance or Naltrexone Implantation
- Introductory: The Global Potential of Pragmatism
- Adjectival and Generic Pragmatism: Problems and Possibilities
- Pragmatism, Experience, and the Given
- Back to the Concrete: A Pragmatist Response to Oppression
- After Ontotheology: Reciprocal, Caring, Creative, and Right Relationships
- Moral Perfectionism: Ethical Theory from a Pragmatic Approach
- Rortyian Hope
- Rorty on Politics, Culture, and Philosophy: A Defence of his Romanticism
- Rorty on Science and Politics
- Rorty's Neopragmatism and the Imperative of the Discourse of African Epistemology
- Two Dogmas of Rorty's Pragmatism
- Neopragmatism and the Question of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Stanley Fish
- A Recent Guide to the Study of Pragmatism
- Models as a high-risk group: the health implications of a size zero culture
- Specialised alcohol treatment services are a luxury the NHS cannot afford
- Virtual reality study of paranoid thinking in the general population
- Congenital anomalies and early functional impairments in a prospective birth cohort: risk of schizophrenia-spectrum disorder in adulthood
- Attributional style and depression
- Psychosocial and clinical correlates of suicidal acts: results from a national population survey
- Severity of depressive episodes during the course of depressive disorder
- Prognosis of adolescent partial syndromes of eating disorder
- Integrated multidisciplinary diagnostic approach for dementia care: randomised controlled trial
- Effects of cannabidiol on schizophrenia-like symptoms in people who use cannabis
- Anxiety disorders in mothers and their children: prospective longitudinal community study
- Prevalence and correlates of non-fatal suicidal behaviour among South Africans
- Growing older in Malta: experiences of British retirees
- Age Changes in Subjective Work Ability
- Characteristics of multiple-diseased elderly in Swedish hospital care and clinical guidelines: Do they make evidence-based priority setting a “mission impossible”?
- Short Sleep Duration in Infancy and Risk of Childhood Overweight
- Effect of Weight, Sleep Duration, and Comorbid Sleep Disorders on Behavioral Outcomes in Children With Sleep-Disordered Breathing
- Actigraphic and Parental Reports of Sleep Difficulties in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Parent-Reported Sleep Problems During Development and Self-reported Anxiety/Depression, Attention Problems, and Aggressive Behavior Later in Life
- Sleep Problems in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Prevalence and the Effect on the Child and Family
- Development of Sleep-Wake Schedules During Childhood and Relationship With Sleep Duration
- Agreement Rates Between Actigraphy, Diary, and Questionnaire for Children's Sleep Patterns
- Longitudinal Study of Preschool Sleep Disturbance: The Predictive Role of Maladaptive Parental Behaviors, Early Sleep Problems, and Child/Mother Psychological Factors
- Continuation Treatment With Antidepressants in Child and Adolescent Major Depression
- Augmenting Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: The STEPPS Program
- Cannabis, Inhibitory Neurons, and the Progressive Course of Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia Candidate Genes: Are We Really Coming Up Blank?
- Issues for DSM-V: Night Eating Syndrome
- Treatment of Depression by Maimonides (1138–1204): Rabbi, Physician, and Philosopher
- No Longer Bound by Stigma
- Teaching Supportive Psychotherapy to Psychiatric Residents
- Investigation Into the Cause of Death of a 56-Year-Old Man With Serious Mental Illness
- Fluoxetine Versus Placebo in Preventing Relapse of Major Depression in Children and Adolescents
- Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) for Outpatients With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial and 1-Year Follow-Up
- Excessive Brain Volume Loss Over Time in Cannabis-Using First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients
- No Significant Association of 14 Candidate Genes With Schizophrenia in a Large European Ancestry Sample: Implications for Psychiatric Genetics
- Depression and Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality: Evidence From the EPIC-Norfolk United Kingdom Prospective Cohort Study
- Frailty: different tools for different purposes?
- Elder abuse and neglect
- The prevalence of elder abuse and neglect: a systematic review
- Educating nursing home staff on fracture prevention: a cluster randomised trial
- Changes in the prevalence of chronic disease and the association with disability in the older Dutch population between 1987 and 2001
- Self-rated health and a healthy lifestyle are the most important predictors of survival in elderly women
- What predicts compliance rates with hip protectors in older hospital in-patients?
- Aripiprazole augmentation in poor insight obsessive-compulsive disorder: a case report
- Voxel-based structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of patients with early onset schizophrenia
- Risk factors predict post-traumatic stress disorder differently in men and women
- The clinical-familial correlates and naturalistic outcome of panic-disorder-agoraphobia with and without lifetime bipolar II comorbidity
- Revisiting the Dexamethasone Suppression Test in unipolar major depression: an exploratory study
- Communication between secondary and primary care following self-harm: are National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines being met?
- A multidimensional classification of public health activity in Australia
- Educating the public health workforce: issues and challenges
- How do government health departments in Australia access health economics advice to inform decisions for health? A survey
- Strengthening field-based training in low and middle-income countries to build public health capacity: lessons from Australia's Master of Applied Epidemiology Program
- The future of public health: the importance of workforce.
- Health research policy: a case study of policy change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research
- Regulatory axes on food advertising to children on television
- Selecting interventions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption: from policy to action, a planning framework case study in Western Australia
- Using performance-based regulation to reduce childhood obesity
- Increasing the options for reducing adverse events: Results from a modified Delphi technique
- The Other Side of the Stethoscope
- Our Fallen Peers: A Mandate for Change
- Observations on Burnout in Family Medicine and Psychiatry Residents
- Personal Health Care of Residents: Preferences for Care Outside of the Training Institution
- Prevalence of Health-Related Behaviors Among Physicians and Medical Trainees
- Physician Impairment: Is It Relevant To Academic Psychiatry?
- A Conceptual Model of Medical Student Well-Being: Promoting Resilience and Preventing Burnout
- Work Hours Regulations for House Staff in Psychiatry: Bad or Good for Residency Training?
- Linking Learning and Health: A Pilot Study of Medical Students’ Perceptions of the Academic Impact of Various Health Issues
- Medical Student Health Promotion: The Increasing Role of Medical Schools
May 25, 2009
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The British don't talk about death, says a survey, because they fear it. So if you are going to have a chat about, for want of a better word, dying, how might it go?
Social Security insures families against the loss of income caused by retirement, disability, or death, with nearly universal coverage; Social Security insurance covers 94 percent of workers in paid employment and self-employment. The program has been a success; however, Social Security has a long-term solvency challenge.
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Arcelia Escamilla, left, speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Ford at the Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center in Los Angeles about her son Kevin Tlatoa, 6, who needs eye surgery. The state’s Healthy Families insurance program covers most of the cost of the visit.
The prevalence of co-existing mental health and substance use problems (termed ‘dual diagnosis’) may affect between 30 and 70 per cent of those presenting to health and social care settings. There is growing awareness of the serious social, psychological and physical complications of the combined use of substances and mental health problems.
The student was named as Juan Carlos Amaro, age undisclosed, who was studying social work at the UCV.
Indicates that nearly 50 million people in rural America face challenges accessing health care. Not only do these Americans face higher rates of poverty, they report more health problems, are more likely to be uninsured, and have less access to a primary health care providers than do Americans living in urban areas.
The old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) made this history of itself, the Border Patrol, earlier agencies, and immigration generally. This is Part One.
Bolivia's indigenous people are among the country's poorest
The Commission was established on 23 May, 2000, pursuant to the “Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000” and given three primary functions:
* to hear evidence of abuse from persons who allege they suffered abuse in childhood, in institutions, during the period from 1940 or earlier, to the present day;
* to conduct an inquiry into abuse of children in institutions during that period and, where satisfied that abuse occurred, to determine the causes, nature, circumstances and extent of such abuse; and
* to prepare and publish reports on the results of the inquiry and on its recommendations in relation to dealing with the effects of such abuse.
Following the case of ‘Baby P’, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, the Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, acted decisively. On 17 November 2008 he commissioned me to provide an urgent report on the progress being made across the country to implement effective arrangements for safeguarding children.
Artane Industrial School in Dublin, was certified for 830 boys. This was almost four times the size of any other school in the State.
A deal struck by the Fianna Fail-led coalition in 2002 limited the amount religious orders would pay at €127m (£111m), but the state could end up paying 10 times that amount.
Dr. Stephen McCurdy of the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health, Western Center of Agricultural Health and Safety presents the third part of an update on pesticides and health. The focus of this program is the effects of pesticides on reproductive health.
Intensive interventions, unsuited to primary care or population prevention programmes, provide only minimal reductions in blood pressure during long-term trials. Further evaluations to assess effects on morbidity and mortality outcomes are needed for populations as a whole and for patients with elevated blood pressure.
Overall, 60.9% of students who ever smoked cigarettes daily tried to quit smoking cigarettes . . . The prevalence of this behavior did not vary by grade but was higher among female students (67.3%) than male students (55.5%) (t = 11.8, p = 0.001), and higher among black students (68.1%) than Hispanic students (54.1%) (t = 2.2, p = 0.03). No other differences were found by race/ethnicity.
May 24, 2009
Opium trafficking provides the Taliban with much of its income
This report reviews State licensing, monitoring, and oversight practices for assisted living facilities. Prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), it also lists and describes State agency Web sites that offer information to help individuals and families learn about and choose an assisted living facility.
A key part of the Government’s alcohol harm reduction strategy is to monitor changes in drinking habits over time and to identify what factors are potentially contributing to the rising levels of consumption. This study is a systematic review of research relevant to trends in alcohol consumption over the last 20 to 30 years in the UK.
Robert Carter is concerned he may have over-gambled
The definition of domestic violence varies depending on the context in which the term is used. A clinical or behavioral definition is "a pattern of assaultive and/or coercive behaviors, including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks, as well as economic coercion, that adults or adolescents use against their intimate partners."
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Matthew Crosby as a little boy in the late 60s
This letter gives information about the scope and purpose of funding for all councils with adult social services responsibilities in England to demonstrate how to deliver stroke care for adults in the community.
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Plaintiff's attorney Michael Pfau, right, presents former Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen with documents during a court proceeding in a lawsuit against the Seattle Archdiocese over child sex abuse by a priest in the 1970s. On Monday, Hunthausen testified that he couldn't recall having a conversation with Topel about O'Donnell, despite a notation from a priest personnel board record showing that the two bishops were going to discuss the priest's residence.
The World Hunger Series: Hunger and Markets appears at a crucial time. Food prices are at high levels, there is a severe global financial crisis, and vulnerable households around the world are endangering their future health, education and productivity by reducing both the quality and the quantity of their food intake.
Patrick Walsh, 53, who was taken from his mother aged two because she left her husband. He was sent to Artane Boys' School where he endured sexual assault, hunger and fear for 14 years
This Dublin building used to house the Artane Industrial School, run by the Christian Brothers between 1871 and 1966. "It was common during the night to be woken by individuals interfering with you sexually," said Mr Hayes. "When you informed the Christian Brothers yourself you were beaten up as a result of it and threatened by the very people, such as the monitors and such people, who perpetrated these acts."
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Jackie, a 7-year-old Liberian girl who is recovering from being raped, jumps rope at a shelter for girls in Monrovia.
Elaine Bernard Pt5 Unions in America
Although the majority of FS IQs changed by less than 6 points, 14% changed by 10 points or more. The author suggests that the results of IQ assessment should be treated with more caution than previously thought.
May 23, 2009
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A man who lost a leg during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake making his way home amid the ruins. Natural disasters have a disproportionate affect on the world's billions of urban poor, according to a United Nations survey of the past 30 years.
A health insurance exchange can make it possible to organize health insurance markets more efficiently and effectively than takes place today. Because so many different problems must be addressed in the insurance marketplace in order for all to have meaningful and affordable coverage, an entity like an exchange is needed to coordinate tasks and guide markets to comply with consumer protections and compete in cost-efficient ways. While not a panacea for all that ails the health system, carefully designed, an exchange can be a vehicle that facilitates and monitors the movement of the system toward many national health reform goals.
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The Rev. Donald McGuire has been convicted of sexual abuse. He was once a spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa and her religious order of nuns, is one of the most influential religious figures convicted in the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal.
Why do societies continue to encourage such psychotic criminality with tax exemptions and public funding?
The study encompasses five California counties, 53 BIPs that provided client data, and over 1,000 men enrolled in BIPs. The study found that the strongest predictors of success in treating offenders convicted of a criminal domestic violence offense were the individual characteristics of the offenders, not the features of batterer intervention programs of the attributes of the court jurisdiction.
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In his autobiography, Colm O'Gorman courageously describes being abused by a Catholic priest
This review provides a number of recommendations for DCSF to consider, including that personal, social, health and economic education should become part of the statutory national curriculum in both primary and secondary phases.
Parenting an adopted preschooler is very similar to parenting any preschooler. As parents, you should not ignore the fact that your child is adopted or their experiences prior to the adoption. But you need not worry unnecessarily about these issues, either.
Although more than 1,000 people had told the commission they suffered physical and sexual abuse, the findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions - in part because the Christian Brothers successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report.
This paper provides a systematic review of the previous 37 studies conducted in children and adolescents from communities, as well as in special populations that examined the association between bullying experiences and suicide, with an emphasis on the strengths and limitations of the study designs. Despite methodological and other differences and limitations, it is increasingly clear that any participation in bullying increases the risk of suicidal ideations and/or behaviors in a broad spectrum of youth.
A neurologist explains how Tourette's, a combination of involuntary movements and sounds, affects around 1% of UK schoolchildren. He explains different treatments and where to find support
The issues of the potential role and degree of preparedness of nursing homes in public health emergencies have emerged, but there is little understanding about them. To address them, focus groups were conducted to collect information about disaster- and bioterrorism-related planning activities among nursing homes in five States and southern California.
Fr. Robert Osborne. Osborne left the Marianist high school in Kirkwood, Vianney, in 2006 when he was sued for allegedly molesting a teenage student that same year. Several other former students have come forward with allegations that they were abused by him as kids.
May 22, 2009
Recent growth in wage inequality has important implications for Social Security solvency and benefit distributions. Because only earnings below the taxable maximum are subject to payroll taxes, concentrated wage growth among higher earners generates less revenue than more evenly distributed growth. Social Security's progressive benefit formula increases benefit payouts when shares of workers with low wages grow. We use a dynamic microsimulation model to examine aggregate and distributional consequences of alternative scenarios about future wage growth. We find that relatively modest changes in assumptions about wage differentials generate marked changes in projected Social Security benefits, poverty, and long-term financing status.
As we enter the new millennium, the Nation is confronted with the enormous challenge of preparing to meet the demands of an aging society. In the face of current demographic trends, increasing health care costs, and concerns about the quality of health care, the financing and delivery of care for older people is a critical health care policy challenge. Health services research is needed to assure that older people do indeed benefit from recent advances in biomedical, clinical, and behavioral and social science research with respect to a host of aging- related issues.
During WW2, substantial numbers of women workers were employed in factory jobs to replace men who were in the military. The intent, however, was that after the War, the men would return to those jobs and women would go back to traditional pursuits. There was a notable drop in female workforce participation after the War, but thereafter female participation rose for the rest of the 20th century. This brief clip made during the War illustrates the intended displacement.
Dean Videka, whose research interests include vulnerable children and families receiving child welfare and mental health services, is currently Vice President for Research at the State University of New York at Albany and a Distinguished Service Professor. Dean Videka was dean of the School of Social Welfare at SUNY-Albany from 1989 to 1999. Her tenure was notable for its many successes, including establishing dual degree programs in social work and sociology and social work and human development, a 400% increase in annual fund gifts, and a 200% increase in externally funded grants.
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Exceeding “recommended limits” may or may not presage a drinking problem.
This compendium has been developed through the best information available to our office, and has been discussed with the Inspector General community. We trust this compendium will serve as a tool for agencies to use in identifying programs that are available to provide assistance during a disaster.
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A man looks at the People Cross in phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday May, 20, 2009. A fiercely debated, nine-year investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades _ and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation. High Court Justice Sean Ryan on Wednesday unveiled the 2,600-page final report of Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse, which is based on testimony from thousands of former students and officials from more than 250 church-run institutions.
Policymakers and youth advocates have begun to focus greater attention on young people who are not working or in school. Generally characterized as “disconnected,” these youth may also lack strong social networks that provide assistance in the form of employment connections and other supports such as housing and financial assistance. Without attachment to work or school, disconnected youth may be vulnerable to experiencing negative outcomes as they transition to adulthood. The purpose of the report is to provide context for Congress about the characteristics of disconnected youth, and the circumstances in which they live.
Concern about child welfare has risen sharply since a report into the death of Baby P last year. As one of Britain's leading child protection charities marks its 125th anniversary it's sobering to think when it started animals had more rights than children
Drumming up interest - note the knight with shield protecting vulnerable child
This booklet describes some of the forms harassment may take and sets out what people can do if they are being harassed or are threatened with illegal eviction.
Camperdown Care Home, in Dundee’s Garry Terrace.
Data from four clinical trials involving a total of 444 patients with MDD were identified and combined using a random effects model. There was no statistically significant difference in terms of remission rates or response rates at week 1, week 2, or at endpoint between the two treatment groups (SSRI+T3 coinitiation therapy vs. SSRI monotherapy).
Carys's father committed suicide six years ago. She and her mother Jenny explain how they have dealt with their loss since that time.
May 21, 2009
Over the past several decades, the volatility of family income has increased markedly, and own earnings volatility has remained relatively flat. Volatility may affect retirement wealth, depending on whether volatility affects accrued pension contributions or withdrawals or earnings credited toward future Social Security benefits. This project assesses the effect of the volatility of individual and family earnings on asset accumulation and projected retirement wealth using survey data matched to administrative earnings records.
Tom Lawson will work on EU, WHO project this year.
While MPs are living it up, we're expected to tighten our belts to pay for the economic crisis. In Greenwich, where I am a trade union representative, the council's latest cuts proposals will mean that care managers, responsible for putting together care packages for the elderly, will lose up to £5,000 a year from their salary. Mental health social workers are to lose £400 a month and the children's social work team based at the local Queen Elizabeth Hospital is to be disbanded despite all the concerns raised about child protection.
This report summarises research that finds that disabled people are at greater risk of experiencing violence or hostility than the wider population. It also sets out the actions the commission will take to promote disabled people’s safety and security.
Caryl Phillips’s latest novel touches on the struggles of the Windrush generation
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Misty Cockerill says she's better off than many other crime victims and even calls herself lucky after rising from her 1995 ordeal.
A number of common threads emerge throughout the cases discussed in this paper. In some cases, women’s initiatives are challenging and transforming the nature of dominant institutions and identities. Many of the case studies demonstrate a strategic use of gender roles, with women often choosing to use approaches which are readily accessible to them in their daily lives, and capitalizing on the commonly-held images of women as peace-makers.
Compiled by Westat Inc., this report examines the questionnaires, surveys, and other instruments currently in use to assess the services and quality of care in assisted living facilities across the United States. These tools include consumer-reported instruments, expert observational instruments, and provider-reported tools that evaluate services offered, the physical and cultural environments, staff issues, activities, social support, and contractual issues.
Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE/NUPGE) President Carol Furlong
Victims of child abuse at Catholic institutions in the Irish Republic have expressed anger that a damning report will not bring about prosecutions.
Consequences: John Maitland Evans, chief executive, councillor Gordon Kemp, leader, councillor Dorothy Turner, cabinet member for care services at Vale of Glamorgan, and Philip Evans defend their errors
This booklet explains the basic rules about bringing a residential tenancy (or licence) to an end.
Drug interactions associated with methadone and their clinical significance are still poorly understood in general. Many tertiary drug information references and review articles report interactions associated with methadone in a general sense, much of which is theoretical and not verified by case reports, much less well-designed clinical trials. The majority of drug interaction reports that do exist were performed in the MMT population, which may differ significantly from chronic pain or cancer pain populations.
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Detective Inspector Bruce Good stands next to New Zealand's largest drug haul, $95 million worth of methamphetamine, plus arms and ammunition found in a house raid.
Dr. Doni Whitsett discusses sects and cults.
May 20, 2009
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Illicit Recreation: Two men use drugs along the Tijuana River near the US-Mexican border in Tijuana, Mexico. The number of addicts in Mexico has grown by 50 percent in the past six years as drug cartels splinter and the US border is tightened.
The Asia-Pacific region is home to 4.1 billion people – more than 60 per cent of the world’s population. But population growth has been slowing: since 2000, it has fallen to 1.1 per cent per year. Growth is higher in the landlocked developing countries at 1.9 per cent, in the least developed countries at 1.8 per cent, and in the small island developing States at 1.7 per cent. In the middle-income economies, on the other hand growth is only 1.0 per cent, and in the high-income economies only 0.2 per cent.
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In order to overcome or even to simply withstand adversity, we need, most of all, to feel hope and to believe that we matter: that we are here for a reason—the world deeply needs us—and our efforts make a difference to us and to others.
The document presents a snapshot of the situation of women in South Asia and an overview of the processes that have been at work in South Asia, both to promote the advancement of women and to identify gaps between the years 2000 –2005. Giving a comprehensive picture of where the various South Asian countries are in their journey to implement the BPFA, it reflects the varied mosaic and contrasts of South Asia.
K Hamilton | NY Times
Aggrieved Janice Langbehn, with her children, Danielle, 15; David, 13; and Katie, 12 (back to camera), has sued the hospital that treated her partner.
A strong maternal-infant (or caregiver-infant) bond provided through psychosocial stimulation is essential for positive child development. The formation of this bond at the beginning of life is an essential step that sets the stage for cognitive, emotional, and social development later in life. Feeding and other care practices provide opportunities for psychosocial stimulation and help to establish a positive attachment between caregiver and child.
As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers havefound new evidence that "American Dream" achievements like wealth, fame and image are not the keys to happiness.
Latinos in the South — many of whom came here to escape crushing poverty in their home countries — are encountering widespread hostility, discrimination and exploitation.
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Violet Smith poses for a photo in her home in City Island. She lost her grandson Gary Gunzl in 2008 due to a heroin overdose.
Guardian
Dawn Howley on her experience of care as a teenager
USC School of Social Work 4/20/09
It can be concluded that little has been published about the impact of environmental factors on community participation. Many studies do not clearly define the concept of community participation. Research on the impact of environmental factors on community participation so far seems not to be based on a theoretical framework. Most studies focused on the impact of services on community participation in general.
This report describes the effect of a redesigned, electronic version of the "Home Health Certification and Plan of Care" (Form CMS-485) on the completeness of patient referral information and provision of evidence-based home health care. It also describes the development and pilot testing of a Web-based system ("e-transitions") that provides electronic access to this information and allows alerts to be designed and generated when appropriate.
The database was proposed after the death of Victoria Climbie
May 19, 2009
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports the number and frequency of work-related injuries and illnesses in private industry each year. BLS also provides detailed information on the circumstances of the injury or illness and the characteristics of the worker for cases that involve 1 or more days away from work. The data, which come from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, identify the industrial, occupational, and worker groups having relatively high risks of job-related injury and illness. The data also provide the means to focus attention on the severity of the incidents and how they occurred.
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Vickie Wrigglesworth at Noah's Ark pre-nursery, where she earns around £600 a month despite having a degree and early years professional status.
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) defines a “traumatic event” as one in which a person experiences, witnesses, or is confronted with actual or threatened death or serious injury, or threat to the physical integrity of oneself or others. A person’s response to trauma often includes intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
Lawrence Kaplan, who has taught British and American history at the City College of New York, spent his formative years in Rockaway. Carol P. Kaplan is a practicing social worker and an associate professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of employment of people with disabilities in the Federal Government and to make recommendations for improving federal hiring and advancement of employees with disabilities. The paper summarizes the legal authorities and policy guidance, the responsibilities of various federal agencies charged with ensuring equal opportunity in federal employment, barriers to hiring and advancement, provisions for reasonable accommodations, and agency initiatives.
Because long-term care has evolved since an of Institute of Medicine report, this research report examines the characteristics of adult long-term care users. In analyzing the care, the report distinguishes between community-based and institutional care and also the age of recipients.
When the women who led the strikers at the Dagenham Ford plant marched on Westminster in 1968 they carried a banner with the words "We want sexual equality". Unfortunately, it had not unfurled and read simply "We want sex". The wolf whistles and car horns that supported them en route cheered them on nonetheless.
Children and young people in custody 2006-2008: An analysis of the experiences of 15-18-year-olds in prison by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Youth Justice Board
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Cathy and Richard in the bedroom of the child placed with them.
Because of possible additive or interactive drug effects, data from SAMHSA's 2006 and 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health were pooled to examine the likelihood of multiple concurrent substance use. The measure used to define concurrent substance use for this report was illicit drug use during or within 2 hours of last alcohol use.
Elaine Bernard: Anti-union laws made it harder to organize
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Unlike the rest of us, Berliners are surprisingly relaxed about the global recession
Conclusions There are few evaluations of emergency department-based interventions for alcohol problems. Future evaluations should use consistent outcome measures and report effect sizes. The existing evidence suggests that interventions are effective in reducing subsequent alcohol-related injuries.
May 18, 2009
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Patrons wait outside basic-needs center Casa Catalina to receive food assistance. Director Sister Joellen Tumas estimates the center has served more than 25,000 individuals this year already.
The one-third drop in the S&P 500 index between year-end 2007 and 2008 raises concerns about retirement security since Americans now hold more equities through their retirement plans. Those near retirement will fare the worst because they have no time to recoup their losses. Midcareer workers will fare better because they have more time to rebuild their wealth. They may even gain income if they buy stocks at low prices and get above-average rates of return. High-income groups will be the most affected because they are most likely to have financial assets and to be invested in the stock market.
Building Futures East works in some of the North East’s most deprived areas such as Newcastle’s East End.
The Assisted Living Disclosure Collaborative aims to help assisted living consumers differentiate between individual facilities on several domains, including services available; pricing information; admission and discharge criteria; staffing information; and resident rights, house rules, and life safety. Workgroups are collaborating to develop uniform consensus information (data items and definitions) that can be used to describe the services and characteristics of individual assisted living residences.
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Canada has been named by Forbes Magazine as one of the world's happiest countries.
Among the participating IDUs, 31.8% reported sharing syringes, and 33.4% reported sharing injection equipment during the preceding 12 months . . . Syringes were shared most commonly among non-Hispanic white IDUs (40.2%) and persons aged 25--34 years (38.6%). Overall, 81.7% of the IDUs reporting having vaginal sex, and 62.6% reported having unprotected vaginal sex; 47.2% had more than one opposite-sex partner during the preceding 12 months. The prevalence of having unprotected vaginal sex was highest among those aged 18--24 years (67.4%). The prevalence of having more than one opposite-sex partner was highest among those aged 25--34 years (57.6%)
Dr. David Kessler argues that methods cigarette companies use to transform nicotine from a "moderately reinforcing substance" into a highly addictive final product, are similar to how the food industry transforms sugar, fat and salt into junk foods that people crave.
Generally, mortality patterns in 2006, such as the age-adjusted death rate declining to a record historical low, were consistent with long-term trends. Life expectancy increased between 2005 and 2006.
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FORLORN A number of vacant buildings along Seymour Avenue.
Every State permits transfer of guardianship authority over a child from a parent to another adult when the child has no other parent available to assume responsibility for care and custody of the child. A traditional guardianship is used to provide for the care of a child in the event of the parent's death or permanent disability and is generally regarded as a permanent transfer of custody and authority from the parent to the guardian.
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Andrew Kurdziel, with his daughter Angelica, 10, is disabled and receives food stamps. He was among the first wave of individuals to benefit from the federal stimulus package.
This report describes the WIC program—how it works, its history, program trends, and the characteristics of the population it serves. It also examines current issues facing WIC, focusing mainly on those with important economic implications.
Although one of the main reasons for the interest in organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) is the potential consequences of these behaviors, no study has been reported that summarizes the research regarding the relationships between OCBs and their outcomes. . . . Results, based on 168 independent samples (N = 51,235 individuals), indicated that OCBs are related to a number of individual-level outcomes, including managerial ratings of employee performance, reward allocation decisions, and a variety of withdrawal-related criteria
Benny, aged 12, accidently killed himself in 2007. His four siblings Joe, Jacob, Eddie and Anna explain how they have coped since his death.
Information on educational attainment is collected annually in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS). The ACS reached its full sample size in 2005 and is now the largest household survey of the United States with an annual sample of approximately 3 million addresses. The ACS provides estimates of the nation, as well as states, metropolitan areas, and more specific geographic areas.
In the shadows ... stalkers face tough new laws.
May 17, 2009
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Bonfils Mada voted Tuesday at John Henderson elementary school.
Chronically poor people engage weakly, if at all, in economic growth, due to the multiple deprivations and adverse socioeconomic relationships they experience. Growth is necessary, but not sufficient, to tackle chronic poverty. The form that growth takes is critical. It is not enough to have growth solely in the sectors where poor people are most represented (e.g. agriculture). Substantial poverty reduction requires transformative growth and large-scale structural change.
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DAVID NIVEN, the debonair actor who wrote Hollywood’s funniest memoirs, confessed shortly before he died that he had once been in such despair that he tried to kill himself but the gun failed to go off, according to a new book.
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Shirley Ryan says she does not understand why a ramp cannot be quickly built on her home.
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the issue as well as statistics and tips for what one can do to help homeless victims of sexual assault.
Governance processes – with their emphasis on principles of accountability, transparency, responsiveness and inclusiveness – should be a means to social transformation. But despite this potential, they are failing to deliver on gender equality, and women are having to struggle to get their voices heard and needs met.
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A memorial in the 200 block of North 13th Street to remember Ayveionse M. Cruz-Carter.
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This information sheet describes child welfare concerns associated with parental substance abuse and examines some of the initiatives that have been implemented in the United States to improve the delivery of treatment services to parents whose children have been removed from their care due to substance abuse-related concerns.
James Purnell added: "We want to give young people the chance to work and make real difference by funding new jobs in companies working to build a better Britain."
A 2 page fact sheet that talks about sexual abuse in prisons and jails across the U.S.
After three decades of war, Afghanistan is one of the world's widow capitals. They are ridiculed as prostitutes when they go shopping, and many are unable to rent their own homes.
A meta-analysis of 41 studies examined the effect of choice on intrinsic motivation and related outcomes in a variety of settings with both child and adult samples. Results indicated that providing choice enhanced intrinsic motivation, effort, task performance, and perceived competence, among other outcomes.
May 16, 2009
The standard of care of the terminally ill in the NHS in England has been criticised by MPs.
Mariah Carey dressed down for her role as a social worker in new film Precious, a look far removed from her usual glamorous image
Immigrant Women and Sexual Violence highlights the common experiences of immigrant women who are victims of sexual violence, the legal protections and public benefits available, and practices and suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of services provided to immigrant women.
State-of-the-art new apartments for older people – the first of their kind for North Manchester - have been given the green light by Manchester City Council.
Individuals can claim Social Security at any age from 62 to 70 although most claim at 62 or soon thereafter. Those who delay claiming receive increases that are approximately actuarially fair. We show that expected present value calculations substantially understate both the optimal claim age and the losses resulting from early claiming because they ignore the value of the additional longevity insurance acquired as a result of delay.
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"Most women wanted to remain anonymous and couldn't think of themselves in a positive light so they were asked to choose the most expressive part of their body, encouraging them to think positively about themselves," explains Sonalle. "They had complete control over the images chosen; working in digital allowed them to see the images immediately."
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Children from an orphanage in Gomoa Fetteh, Ghana.
It will take time for your grandchildren to feel safe and secure in their new home with you. You can encourage these good feelings in a number of ways.
Trainees take part in a course for those who are finding jobs abroad.
The Resource Guide was created primarily to support community-based child abuse prevention professionals who work to strengthen communities and support parents, caregivers, and their children. However, others such as policymakers, parent educators, family support workers, health care providers, program administrators, teachers, child care providers, mentors, and clergy, also will find the resources useful.
Conclusions: Fathers should not be excluded from parent training and should be encouraged to attend. Further research should seek to understand how parent-training programs might better meet the needs of fathers.
Harry Kreisler welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning historian David M. Kennedy to discuss what can be learned from The Great Depression. Professor Kennedy analyzes the genius of Roosevelt's leadership, the tragedy of Herbert Hoover, the relationship between FDR's short term goals to deal with the economy and his long term goals to establish a new political coalition and create institutions to stabilize American capitalism and more equitably distribute its resources. Kennedy draws parallels with the current global economic crisis and the lessons that the Obama administration could learn from the New Deal.
May 15, 2009
The article begins by reviewing up-to-date research suggesting that the rate of false reporting for sexual assault is in the range of 2-8%. It also critiques prior research suggesting that the rate of false reporting is far higher, and explores the reasons why this issue is so challenging for professionals in the field.
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Ariane, 30, travelled from Berlin to give a paper about the legal situation in Germany, where she says decriminalisation has improved the conditions of many sex workers. She fears the consequences of Smith's legislation being proposed in the UK. She says Bouvard's pictures 'show the complexity of sex worker life', without resorting to the usual extreme stereotypes of 'victimhood or glamour'.
Violent conflict drives people into chronic poverty, as they lose assets and access to markets, and as public provision of social spending falls. Policies to reduce chronic poverty and inequality may help lessen the potential for violent conflict. Persistent poverty can be a factor in the outbreak of conflict, if it leads to increased social discontent, or if organised violence offers some of the poor a better livelihood than peace.
Care (whether paid or unpaid) is crucial to human well-being and to the pattern of economic development. Some analysts emphasize the significance of care for economic dynamism and growth. Others see care in much larger terms, as part of the fabric of society and integral to social development.
The language used about social workers – mainly staff working with children – is hostile, speculative and often perjorative. Frequently stories show a lack of knowledge about the social work role and often breaking editorial guidelines in refusing to give a right of reply.
J Schrier | The Saginaw News
SVSU student Amelia S. Jacobs, 23, of Rochester Hills, has cerebral palsy and uses a power chair to get around campus. She is a social work student.
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Minister for Children Barry Andrews at the publication of the report
Workers who say they are very confident about having enough money for a comfortable retirement this year hit the lowest level in 2009 (13 percent) since the Retirement Confidence Survey started asking the question in 1993, continuing a two-year decline.
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Social worker. Amelia Gentleman spends a week with a child protection unit in north London.
This research explores the effectiveness of both existing and new questions on poverty, for use in the British social attitudes survey. It considers among other things whether the public believe child poverty exists in Britain today, what it is and who is responsible for tackling it.
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This year, the study of child abuse is coming of age as a medical specialty. In November, the first medical board exam will be offered in a new official specialty, child abuse pediatrics.
Meta-analysis was used to review 148 independent studies comparing the relative effectiveness of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic goal structures in promoting early adolescents' achievement and positive peer relationships. . . . As predicted by social interdependence theory, results indicate that higher achievement and more positive peer relationships were associated with cooperative rather than competitive or individualistic goal structures.
By analyzing the relationship between program characteristics and residents’ child abuse knowledge, we found that pediatric programs provide far more training and resources for child abuse education than emergency medicine and family medicine programs. As leaders, pediatricians must establish the importance of this topic in the pediatric education of residents of all specialties.
The Scottish Government is to pour more than £5.2 million into identifying and treating people suffering from alcohol problems in Tayside and Fife
Explore the challenges of teen pregnancy and parenting and learn how communities can come together to reduce teen pregnancy.
May 14, 2009
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Until recently, police departments have had little solid research to guide their instincts. But now forensic scientists have begun testing techniques they hope will give officers, interrogators and others a kind of honesty screen, an improved method of sorting doctored stories from truthful ones.
Nonimmigrants are foreign nationals granted temporary entry into the United States. The major purposes for which nonimmigrant admission may be authorized include temporary visits for business or pleasure, academic or vocational study, temporary employment, and to act as a representative of a foreign government or international organization.
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This pooch can even press the answer button on the phone when it rings. See related story:
Called to heal
A 2 page fact sheet that talks about the devastating consequences of sexual violence in detention and the extreme challenges that survivors must face.
Currently, development research is mainly assessed in terms of its contribution to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular MDG1: to halve absolute poverty by 2015. However, achieving the first MDG would still leave some 800 million people living in absolute poverty and deprivation – many of whom will be chronically poor. Their lives are extremely difficult and, being marginalised, their story is rarely told.
USCSocialWork. Dr. Doni Whitsett discusses sects and cults.
The size and costs of the two largest federal disability programs, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), have increased dramatically in the last decade. Despite three decades of advocacy and legislation designed to expand employment opportunities for people with disabilities, the number who work has remained persistently low. With expanding federal deficits and new budget pressures, there is a compelling need to learn if more disability beneficiaries can work and reduce their dependence on cash assistance — without increasing poverty.
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A Metairie lawmaker who once suggested paying women on welfare to be sterilized is back with a new welfare proposal today. Rep. John Labruzzo wants everyone in Louisiana who applies for or receives welfare benefits to take a drug test.
The Rhode Island Standard of Need (RISN) provides a realistic standard for measuring the economic well-being of families and single adults. The RISN uses the costs of housing, food, transportation, health care, child care and other basic necessities to calculate a no-frills budget for families with two young children and for single adults. The RISN also demonstrates how Food Stamps, tax credits and subsidies for child care and health care (RIte Care) help close the gap between income and basic need expenses.
Leigh Roubideaux’s daughters were taken by CPS in 2008
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Adrian Dunne his wife Ciara with their daughters Shania (14 mths) and Leanne (3)
The SESRC obtained 698 interviews and 8 partially completed interviews over the 18-week calling period. The cooperation rate for the telephone survey was 80%. The overall response rate was 42%. There is no sample error, since the entire population of youth, age 15 to 18, in foster care was included in the survey.
This booklet describes some of the progress that has been made over the last year, with examples of its real impact on individuals, families and communities. It also tells you what our next priorities will be.
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Catherine Glen, who was subjected to abuse at Kerelaw residential school in Ayshire
Student documentary by Jessica Sandoval, Mayra Lopez, and Leticia Sotelo that analyzes the lives of families forced to reside in motels because of steep housing/rental prices. The video zooms in on the lives of two California families forced to live in motels, showing the kinds of sacrifices and difficulties theyve had to deal with while trying to afford a sustainable lifestyle.
May 13, 2009
Dr. Darlyne Bailey has been appointed dean and professor of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and special assistant to the president for community partnerships at Bryn Mawr College.
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Al and Helga Fry told CBC reporter Kathy Tomlinson their grandchildren suffered needlessly because of ministry decisions.
This policy brief builds on VSO’s earlier work, Gendering AIDS: women, men, empowerment, mobilisation,2 and highlights the crisis in delivering equitable health care for people living with HIV & AIDS, and the overwhelming burden it places on women and girls; it identifies changes that VSO is advocating for and provides recommendations to key stakeholders for policy and programme change.
Case Western Reserve University-led collaboration tests whether new fluorescent lighting developed by GE can synchronize hospitalized patients sleep-wake cycles.
She had studied the U.S. economy for 20 years before she took up her Cabinet post and she was FDR's industrial commissioner from 1928 to 1932 while he was governor of New York. Together they watched the Great Depression arrive and cast its shadow across the U.S. landscape.
The Personalisation Papers – the key product of the Service Development Group – have now been published. They are 3 papers that have been pulled together in to a single publication - 'Personalisation: A Shared Understanding', 'Commissioning for Personalisation' & 'A Personalised Approach to Support and Care Services'
In need of a hot meal: Wallace and Lillian Rowley are in too poor health to cook, yet they do not meet the criteria to qualify for meals on wheels... because they are capable of dressing themselves
There is increasing interest among policymakers in exploring ways for rental subsidy programs to encourage tenants to work and strive for self-sufficiency. Most experts agree that, to achieve these goals, reform efforts should focus on new rent policies or other financial incentives to encourage work and asset-building. Some advocate for better employment services tailored to the needs of assisted tenants, and some call for work requirements as a condition of getting and keeping housing assistance. These goals have inspired a variety of policies and programs over the years, but convincing evidence of “what works” is scant, making it difficult to decide on the best options.
Maintaining an outstanding system of higher education requires investments in the faculty members who cultivate the human capital upon which our economy’s recovery and future growth will depend. Sadly, the record of the last three decades shows that, when measured by the inflation-adjusted salaries paid to college faculty members or by the proportion of college courses taught by full-time tenure-line faculty, our nation is failing at this task.
Former prison boss Eddie Frizzell, Chair of the Kerelaw Independent Inquiry, made several recommendations designed to prevent the wide-scale abuse from happening elsewhere.
Parenting an adopted preschooler is very similar to parenting any preschooler. As parents, you should not ignore the fact that your child is adopted or their experiences prior to the adoption. But you need not worry unnecessarily about these issues, either.
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Madonna in 2007, with her daughter, Lourdes, and her son David Banda, whom she adopted from Malawi.
This publication surveys student income and expenditure in the 2007-2009 academic year. It covers both full-time and part-time students at higher education institutions and further education colleges including the Open University.
In this extended video interview, Jennifer shares the story of her lifelong battle with morbid obesity and how bariatric surgery helped her to transform her life.
Eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) is the most prevalent eating disorder (ED) diagnosis. In this meta-analysis, the authors aimed to inform Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders revisions by comparing the psychopathology of EDNOS with that of the officially recognized EDs: anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge eating disorder (BED).
Iverclyde Council’s education and social work chief Ian Fraser has been suspended.
May 12, 2009
Presented by Linda Katz at the Rhode Island State Nurses Assocation Annual Conference
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Jo van den Eynden, 85, would like to see her daughter Joanne, 53, who has cerebral palsy, in supported accommodation.
Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being. How can we move towards a world in which individuals and society recognise and value the importance of different forms of care, but without reinforcing care work as something that only women can or should do?
This 2 page fact sheet talks about sexual violence in detention and how the general public knows so little about the reality of sexual abuse behind bars.
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Michael A. Deas, a nephew and former employee of Councilman Larry Seabrook’s.
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Members of the Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK), a group of internationally adopted Koreans, Korean nationals and diasporic Koreans researching the history of international adoption in South Korea, perform at Jongno located in Seoul
The mission of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children through age 4 who are at nutritional risk. WIC provides nutritious foods to supplement diets, nutrition education, and referrals to health care and other social services.
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Sister Mary Paul Janchill. In 1953, she graduated from St John’s University. She went on to earn a master’s degree in social work from Catholic University, in 1955, and a doctorate in social work from Columbia, in 1968.
This report presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources--the National Crime Victimization Survey, the School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the School Survey on Crime and Safety and the School and Staffing Survey. Data on crime away from school are also presented to place school crime in the context of crime in the larger society.
According to the health ministry, a total of 2,553 children were adopted last year - the lowest number on record, largely due to the slowing overall growth rate. Of them, 1,303 were adopted by Korean parents while 1,250 found homes overseas.
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A doctor examines a child from a poor family. Many experts said the State should invest more in social welfare, including healthcare.
For the youth on both sides of the El Paso- Juárez border persistent drug violence is a way of life.
Conclusions: Mixed evidence for PST as a depression treatment is found. The combined use of PST and antidepressant treatment has more favorable outcomes compared with PST alone for social work practice.
May 11, 2009
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Many Hands: A construction worker in the village of Shui Kou Miao helps rebuild a home destroyed by last year's quake. More than 100 groups, Chinese and foreign, now participate in postquake efforts, and many are volunteers.
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Acid Survivors Foundation organised press conference at the National Press Club on Sunday on the occasion of the first international conference of the acid survivors.
This report presents results from an evaluation of the Achieve program in Cleveland. Run by the organization Towards Employment, Achieve provided on-site services in the workplace to increase retention among low-wage workers. It is among 16 models being tested by MDRC in the national Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project under contract to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with additional support from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
There are nearly 1 in 50 people living with paralysis -- approximately 6 million people. That's the same number of people as the combined populations of Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. And that number is nearly 40 percent higher than previous estimates showed.
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Mental health activist Ray Sanford
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Volunteer Paul Stamison of Woodbridge bags groceries from the food pantry to fill an order for a client at ACTS in Dumfries
This report aims to outline the main trends in income distribution and poverty in Chile, as well as the role of social policy in these areas. The report includes five sections. First, it discusses recent trends in income inequality and poverty, including a brief overview of the data available in the country. Second, it describes the country’s social protection programs, including with respect to coverage, financing and distributional impact. The third section examines how social policy has affected poverty reduction in recent decades, which is followed by an analysis of the relative stability of income inequality and its relation to public policy instruments. Section five presents future trends in social policy and their potential impact on inequality and poverty.
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Serena Hanson married her high school sweetheart and has four children. Clockwise from upper left are children Shawn, Derek, Sarah and Chloe.
One of the most worrisome aspects of the growing tide of obesity in the United States is the high rate of overweight among children. Over one in five young children, ages 2 to 5, are at risk of being overweight. The number of children at risk of being overweight has grown in the past two decades, as has the number of young children whose families participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Are these increases connected?
The review demonstrated that state anxiety is defined and measured using both psychological and physiological parameters. Music listening had a consistently positive and statistically significant effect on reducing psychological parameters of pre-procedural state anxiety. However, the results from the measurement of various pre-procedural physiological parameters failed to reveal any consistent positive changes in patients who had listened to music. This calls into question the adequacy of the theories in this area which link anxiety and the automated and central nervous systems and the effect that music listening may have on these processes and physiological responses.
With unemployment rising steadily for the first time since the early 1990s, the adequacy of JSA (the social security benefit paid to people who are unemployed and looking for work) is a matter of acute importance. Taking account of inflation, its value has not changed in thirty years.
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Survivors of sexual assault decorated jeans as part of an art exhibit called 2009 Survivors Speak: Wear Your Voice.
Ian Stulberg, moderator, is a graduate of the UCLA School of Social Welfare and part-time faculty member for the USC School of Social Work, where he teaches a popular survey course on LGBT issues. Ian currently works for the Los Angels Gay & Lesbian Center, one of the world's largest LGBT organizations, as the director of mental health services.
May 10, 2009
This report synthesises the findings of separate research and reports on thirteen Muslim ethnic diaspora communities in England as part of the Understanding Muslim Ethnic Communities research project.
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Nikolai Alexeyev, second left, speaking at a news conference where he announced a gay pride parade Tuesday.
More Americans are recognizing the benefits of growing their own produce, including improved quality, taste, and cost savings. In 2008, gardeners spent a total of $2.5 billion to purchase seeds, plants, fertilizer, tools, and other gardening supplies to grow their own food. According to NGA estimates, on average a well-maintained food garden yields a $500 return when considering a typical gardener’s investment and the market price of produce.
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Why have federal disability costs skyrocketed? Is it because of fraud, an increase in the number of the truly disabled, or are there larger problems with the program?
This section presents information on the numbers of deaths which were known to be, or are thought likely to be, the result of intentional self-harm.
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, between 1992 and 2000, 63% of completed rapes, 65% of attempted rapes, and 74% of completed and attempted sexual assaults against females were not reported to the police.
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Dr Yuri Melini who was awarded the Frontline protection of Human Rights Defenders Award, is seen in Dublin City Hall, Ireland . . . Dr Yuri Melini , a leading Guatemalan environmentalist who recently survived an assassination attempt won an international human rights award Friday for his efforts to stop the rapid growth of mines in the mineral-rich Central American nation.
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Xiu Ping Jiang, in an undated photo, has spent more than a year in jail and faces deportation. Her illness has complicated the process.
Adderall® is the brand name for an amphetamine formulation that is prescribed for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and for narcolepsy. Under the Controlled Substance Act, Adderall® is classified as a Schedule II drug because of its high potential for abuse and dependence. Data for this report on nonmedical use of Adderall® was collected as part of SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Nonmedical use is defined as use without a prescription belonging to the respondent or use that occurred simply for the experience or feeling the drug caused.
For social workers, the issues of peace and social justice are interlinked. Without a radical reappraisal of priorities throughout the world, millions will continue to live in extreme poverty. Such poverty is a denial of the human spirit. It limits the potential of human development. Physical poverty is matched by poor nutrition, poor health and poor education.
The two most common forms of dementia in people under the age of 70 are Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. The Alzheimer's disease patient doesn't remember what he had for breakfast. The frontotemporal dementia patient behaves abnormally -- she's inappropriately familiar with people, is indifferent to questions and speaks rudely. The explanation for the differences can be seen under the microscope.
Sixteen reports were identified, including three randomized controlled trials. Most of the reviewed studies used qualitative or quasi-experimental designs, did not include comparison or control groups, had small or selective sample sizes, lacked behavioral measures of alcohol consumption, and/or had no follow-up, low follow-up rates, or short follow-up intervals.
May 9, 2009
This letter sets out the level of private finance initiative credits available for adult social care schemes in the 2009 Department of Health bidding round and the process that must be followed to apply for them.
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Maria Shriver serves as an executive producer on HBO's "The Alzheimer's Project."
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Results: For 2005, a total of 15,495 fatal incidents involving 15,962 violent deaths occurred in the 16 NVDRS states included in this report. The majority (56.1%) of deaths were suicides, followed by homicides and deaths involving legal interventions (29.6%), violent deaths of undetermined intent (13.3%), and unintentional firearm deaths (0.7%).
Patients who passed through Abbasiya's gates were not expected to emerge again. Lawmakers in Egypt have passed the country's first new mental health legislation in more than 60 years.
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Jane Smith (not her real name) was sexually abused as a child. The trauma of that experienced caused Smith to have seizures in her thirties.
The paper examines the growth incidence curves (GICs) for specific information on what happens to the poorest in comparison to the poor and national average growth rates. The GICs clearly show that using aggregate measures of growth, poverty and inequality hides much of the variation across different populations.
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Gaynor Arnold is an author and a social worker. As government plans to boost social services recruitment are dismissed as inadequate, she defends a job that has been openly scorned and reviled
Bullying does not only happen in normal school hours, it can happen anywhere. Children who are badly bullied in school are more likely than others to be bullied outside of it too. This guidance is aimed at managers, social workers and other staff in Children's Homes. It outlines the possible bullying that might occur in Children's Homes and describes steps to prevent it and respond to it effectively.
Social workers must commit themselves to enhancing the well being of women and girls as an essential aspect of the profession's ethical and practice commitment to human rights. This special commitment to women of all ages is necessary because in all national and cultural contexts women and girls do not have equal access to the tangible and intangible benefits of being members of human society.
Frontotemporal dementia affects regions of the brain that cause aberrant changes in behavior and emotion. Loved ones face great challenges, first dealing with the puzzling symptoms and efforts to get an accurate diagnosis, and later facing the fact that the personality of the person they have loved is no longer present. The disease presents leaves families isolated and challenges by health care issues.
Findings indicated that groups with higher percents of Latinos increased condom and HIV-related knowledge to a lesser extent than groups with lower percents of Latinos/ Latin Americans. Moreover, groups with greater percents of Latinos/Latin Americans only benefited from intervention strategies that included threat-inducing arguments, whereas groups with lower percents of Latinos/Latin Americans benefited from numerous strategies.
Activists are demonstrating around the world to call for urgent and effective protection of civilians in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). About 150 activists came together in London on Wednesday, ahead of a key meeting of the UN Security Council. They gathered in front of the home of the UK Prime Minister, at 10 Downing Street, to urge him to take immediate and decisive action.
May 8, 2009
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Typical high-functioning alcoholics, or H.F.A.’s as Ms. Benton calls them, are in denial about their abuse of alcohol. Coworkers, relatives and friends often enable the abusive behavior to continue by refusing to acknowledge and confront it.
Reports findings from the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey. Data on the number of gangs, gang members, and gang-related homicides in larger cities, suburban counties, smaller cities, and rural counties are provided to accurately reflect youth gang activity in the United States. Based on survey results, it is estimated that nearly 3,550 jurisdictions across the United States experienced gang activity in 2007.
Ed Balls has announced initiatives to entice social workers back to their jobs
A woman embraces the child who gave her a carnation during a Social Welfare Center event for the elderly living alone.
Unauthorized immigrants living in the United States are more geographically dispersed than in the past and are more likely than either U.S. born residents or legal immigrants to live in a household with a spouse and children. In addition, a growing share of the children of unauthorized immigrant parents—73%—were born in this country and are U.S. citizens.
Dean Kelly, chief executive at Synarbor
Statistical neighbour models provide one method for benchmarking progress. For each LA, these models designate a number of other LAs deemed to have similar characteristics. These designated LAs are known as statistical neighbours. Any LA may compare its performance (as measured by various indicators) against its statistical neighbours to provide an initial guide as to whether their performance is above or below the level that might be expected.
Behavioral challenges in persons with Alzheimers Disease often lead to poor clinical outcomes and increased suffering for patients and families. In this presentation, Dr. Ladson Hinton, of UC Davis provides an overview of the range of behavioral problems in persons with Alzheimerss Disease and related disorders, the assessment of behavioral problems, non-pharmacological approaches to behavior management, pros and cons of medication use in treating behavioral problems. The emphasis is on current treatment guidelines and practical approaches for the busy primary care clinician.
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Caught, jailed: Guatemalan immigrants sit in a prison in Agua Prieta, Mexico, awaiting deportation after the exhausted group of 16 was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents and handed over to the Mexican authorities.
Clarification of the role and function of the Chief Social Work Officer will support local authorities and elected members in ensuring that this statutory post not only enhances professional leadership and accountability, but provides a key support and added value to a local authority and its partners in delivering positive outcomes locally.
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Youths appeared to be in control of central Athens for several hours on Monday night, looting and setting fire to shops, destroying banks and attacking ministries. Clouds of tear gas filled the streets.
This document, part of a suite of guidance on preventing bullying outside schools, is aimed at local authority anti-bullying co-ordinators, children’s trust anti-bullying leads and community safety teams It outlines the possible bullying that might occur in the community and describes steps to prevent it and how to respond to it effectively. This guidance is also relevant for local authority managers involved in commissioning services for children and young people.
Professional social workers are committed to basic ethical principles, as reflected in the IFSW International Code of Ethics. Not least is their belief that each human being is a person of unique value, whose dignity and right to life and liberty must be preserved. It follows from this that there is a right to seek asylum from persecution. Further, there is an ethical commitment to the development of human potential.
Dr. Mark L. Willenbring is the director of the Treatment and Recovery Research Division at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Johnny Farmer describes how his four-year-old daughter Holly was diagnosed with a squint and the operation and subsequent treatment that has cured it.
Although rigorous and systematic, this review was hampered by differing definitions, samples, measures, and analyses among these studies. However, the findings of this review reinforce the importance of workers' commitment to child welfare, self-efficacy, and low levels of emotional exhaustion as important personal factors for staying, and supervisory and co-worker support and salary and benefits as important organizational factors affecting retention.
May 7, 2009
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April, a graduate student who works at the center, wears a beeper on her hip throughout the day as she walks through the freshly painted purple hallways, greeting clients with an energetic smile.
This guidance is aimed at managers, staff and volunteers in youth activities, clubs and groups – including local authority and third sector providers, and voluntary management committees. It outlines the possible bullying that might occur in youth activities and describes steps to prevent it and respond to it effectively.
The program is part of BU's master's program in social work and public administration and the students are the ones who actually approved the type and amount of the proposals.
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Governor John E. Baldacci of Maine speaking to reporters at the bill-signing ceremony
For many professionals working in the field of sexual assault, one of the most pressing questions is: “What can we do to prevent it?” Practitioners have been designing and implementing rape prevention programs for decades, and researchers have been evaluating them for almost as long. The purpose of this article is to summarize the answers we have so far, because the good news is that we have learned some important lessons along the way regarding the prevention of adult and adolescent sexual assault.
The ticking of the pensions timebomb is deafening. Could radical reform of the welfare system and a rising birth rate spare us, asks Edmund Conway.
Federal expenditures for USDA’s food assistance programs totaled $60.7 billion in fiscal 2008, 11 percent more than in the previous fiscal year—the largest percentage increase in 16 years. Fiscal 2008 marked the eighth consecutive year in which food assistance expenditures exceeded the previous historical record amount.
This paper studies the process of growth, poverty and poverty persistence in a panel data set covering 15 communities across rural Ethiopia 1994-2004. It describes growth and the evolution of poverty, illustrating both considerable growth and poverty reduction. It highlights the presence of ‘chronic’ poverty, people that appear poor relatively persistently in the data.
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“To finally get a job, it feels, good,“ Sholana Woolridge says of her cafeteria job at Richmond’s Thompson Middle School.
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Like most addiction, the problem is not actually the internet — it’s the real life. The internet feels “productive” — go grocery shopping! Answer emails! Post photos! — while new parenting can feel like an endless round of laundry. The internet feels interactive, while being at home with a newborn can feel isolating.
This report presents the overall conclusions of Sir Alan Steer’s review of pupil behaviour issues. It builds on findings from four interim reports and makes a total of 47 recommendations under three themes: legal powers and duties, supporting the development of good behaviour and raising standards higher.
Life for women in Kenya can be hard. For women living in one of the largest slums in the world, life can be devastating. With remarkable access to the inner areas of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, this film introduces just a few of the thousands of women, whose daily lives are blighted by poverty and serious human rights violations.
The International Labour Organisation estimates that there are between 80 and 100 million migrant workers in the world today. Women account for a significant portion of these workers, and in some countries they make up more than half of the migrant worker population. Indeed, many analysts speak of the increasing feminisation of migration. This feminisation results from a number of global forces in which gender roles and sex discrimination are intertwined with globalisation.
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Most people are adamant: They would never do it. Ever. Never deliberately inflict pain on another person, just to obtain information. Ever artificially inflate the value of some financial product, just to take advantage of others’ ignorance. Certainly never, ever become a deadbeat and accept a government bailout.
Parents with a documented history of child physical abuse or child neglect also are distinguished from non-maltreating parents by the levels of aversiveness, positivity, and involvement they display during interactions that constitute the parent–child relationship.
May 6, 2009
South Oak Crossing Apartments along the light-rail line in south Charlotte, a 192-unit complex, typifies the city's approach to affordable housing. Low-income families live among those earning higher wages.
Over the past several years, the U.S. Congress has expressed concern about support for basic behavioral and social sciences research (bBSSR) at the NIH. The Congress recognizes and the NIH agrees that continued basic research in the behavioral and social sciences is vital in order for the agency to fulfill its role as the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation and to achieve its mission of science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
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We now believe that schizophrenia comprises several different disease processes and often has a more benign course. We have begun to speak not only of remission, but even of recovery — and hope. Hope is what Harry presented to me at his most recent appointment — along with a request that raised the hairs on the back of my neck. He wanted me to sign off on his application for a driver’s license.
This is a report of a national study of mental health services for older people in England. The study combined an analysis of national data with visits to a representative sample of mental health trusts. It makes 14 recommendations.
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Owner Don Tagatac (right) of Trauma Scene Cleaning Management, as employee Elvin Ferreras (left) carries debris out of a Times Sq. apartment and into a waiting dumpster.
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Owner Don Tagatac (right) of Trauma Scene Cleaning Management, as employee Elvin Ferreras (left) carries debris out of a Times Sq. apartment and into a waiting dumpster.
The majority of those who needed alcohol treatment either did not perceive the need for treatment or did not receive it. Of those who needed alcohol treatment in the past year, 8.1% received treatment at a specialty treatment facility, 4.5% did not receive treatment but felt they needed it, and 87.4% neither received nor perceived a need for alcohol treatment. Among those who did not receive alcohol treatment but felt they needed it, only 27.9% actually made an effort to get treatment in the past year.
Growth incidence analysis involves calculating the amount of growth in some welfare-indicator (e.g. income, life expectancy) at each quantile (e.g. quartile, decile, or percentile) of the distribution of that indicator. This information, and its graphical representation in the form of a growth incidence curve (GIC), gives a much fuller picture of changes in social welfare and poverty over any given period than can be provided by a single figure, such as the rate of per capita income growth, or the reduction in the poverty headcount.
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William Marshall, a senior caseworker for Sarasota County, prepares to bury the remains of 52-year old Ronald Lewis, whose body was unclaimed and no family was found.
Libby Cataldi, author of 'Stay Close,' and her son Jeff, who’s been clean for three years.
This document, part of a suite of guidance on preventing bullying outside schools, is aimed at student services and other further education college staff. It outlines the possible bullying that might occur in further education colleges and describes steps to prevent it and respond to it effectively.
The collection and use of information about and by individuals is at the heart of social work practice, as recognised in the IFSW International Code of Ethics. Because of its perceived attractions in the administration of social welfare services, computerisation is of growing importance. However, the new technology changes existing power relations and places a renewed responsibility on professionals to consider its implications for their services and for the interests of their clients and service users.
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Chris Woodhead was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2006
John Votta, 67, is out there every school day, shouting at drivers and telling N.Y.U. students when to cross the street and when to wait.
The review found tentative evidence that community engagement as part of a multifaceted approach to health promotion may have positive effects and could be cost-effective. To improve the evidence base for community engagement, future studies need to involve communities more closely at all stages of the research in order to fully capture the community's priorities and perspectives, and appropriately assess the value added and opportunity cost of engagement.
May 5, 2009
Dangerous mix: It iis easier to overdose on GBL than heroin
PK Morley | Times-Dispatch
With months of living in her small Subaru behind her, Edie Winbourne transitioned to a motel with help from Embrace Richmond and A Place To Start, a program of Virginia Supportive Housing.
IFSW is called upon to reconsider the social workers' contributions to older persons given the demographic projections of an increasing older population, technological advancements, and medical research, all of which predict longevity and better health in general for the older population in the 21st century.
B Ward | The Chronicle
Peter Vincent credits the Care Not Cash program with turning his life around. He sits in his small room in the McAllister Hotel in San Francisco, CA.
Hospitals, care homes, local authorities and primary care trusts have a statutory duty to make sure that the person made subject to the authorisation and assessment process is supported to understand what is happening to them, and that they are made aware of their rights and entitlements.
In social work and social care services a fundamental resource in this often complex and difficult area is the workforce. So, along with personalisation of services, a key ambition we have been pursuing through Changing Lives and elsewhere, is to ensure we have a confident, competent and valued workforce.
Andrew Turnell is an international child protection expert
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Mary Seville napped at the top of a stairwell on Corinth Street in downtown Dallas, where she planned to spend the night Tuesday. On any given night, there are at least 1,000 chronically homeless people in Dallas.
YM JAMES | Charlotte Observer
Tanya Johnson has her hands and arms full with daughters Blessing, 2, Muhaiya, 6, and Princess, 5, at her mother's house, where they used to eat dinner before crowding into Johnson's van to sleep at night.
* Combined data from SAMHSA's 2002 to 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health were used to provide average annualized estimates of the number of children under age 18 living with a substance abusing parent, that is, a parent who was dependent on or abused alcohol or an illicit drug.
* Over 8.3 million children (11.9%) lived with at least one parent who was dependent on or abused alcohol or an illicit drug during the past year.
The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to provide a brief overview of the research on lifetime exposure to violence and the long-term health consequences, and 2) to examine how assessment for lifetime exposure to violence can create a pathway to prevention and address the long-term consequences of exposure to violence over the lifespan.
Narrative reviews such as Robert Martinson's landmark paper summarised evaluations of rehabilitation programmes and concluded that there was little evidence of treatment efficacy. By the 1980s, however, the findings from quantitative reviews or meta-analysis overturned widespread pessimism about intervention and led to the conclusion that treatment, on average, does have positive effects even if modest in size.
TIMES CHANGE: Attitudes towards, and care at, the Henry Bennett Centre have changed in the decade since it opened.
An expert explains toddler tantrums, why they happen and ways to deal with them.
May 4, 2009
Undercover filming revealed care companies short-changing the elderly
The social, behavioral and economic (SBE) sciences are focused on human behavior and the actions of groups and organizations at every level. Research information provided by the SBE sciences can provide policy-makers with evidence and information that may help address many current challenge areas in society, including education, healthcare, the mitigation of terrorism, the prevention of crime, the response to natural disasters, and a better understanding of our rapidly changing global economy.
He's hell-bent on breaking patterns of rural despair but the forecast is bleak for this man in black
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Rural outreach worker Ivan Lister talks with mixed farmer Keith Dean, who has battled depression amid ongoing drought.
It is important that the Changing Lives agenda is recognised and owned at a local level, with service providers at all levels taking responsibility for making the aspirations of Changing Lives a reality. As such we will continue to develop opportunities to promote this message and raise the Changing Lives profile in general, and promote and deliver information from the programme, in to the programme and across the sector.
Presenting the report at the Miklin Hotel in Kumasi, Nana Oye Lithur, the Regional Co-ordinator of CHRI, said despite the shocking realities, families of patients still preferred the prayer camps because they were less expensive than psychiatric hospitals.
HIV/AIDS is no longer striking primarily men. Today, more than 20 years into the epidemic, women account for nearly half the 40 million people living with HIV worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa, 57 per cent of adults with HIV are women, and young women aged 15 to 24 are more than three times as likely to be infected as young men. Despite this alarming trend, women know less than men about how HIV/AIDS is transmitted and how to prevent infection, and what little they do know is often rendered useless by the discrimination and violence they face.
This leaflet has been produced to help trans people and their families understand about the experiences of trans people, their rights and their choices. It also helps healthcare staff to understand their role when caring for trans people.
Martin Gill, center, holds his foster children John, left, and James, who he adopted four years ago.
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J. G., a former foster child of Judith Leekin’s, on Tuesday in Florida. Ms. Leekin misused subsidies meant for child care.
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The special cellphone, set on vibrate, begins to whir. Throughout North Carolina, anonymous teenagers are texting questions to it about sex.
IFSW considers it necessary to re-evaluate the contribution social workers can make in the areas of policy-making, development of programmes implementation, and evaluation of services for young people. IFSW recognises that social workers have a contribution to make, not only in directly assisting young people, but also in identifying and suggesting remedies for problems faced by them.
Results: Seven studies are located that met the inclusion criteria. At posttest, treatment had small effects in the four outcome domains over alternative interventions and was reduced still further at follow-up. Conclusion: Parent-involved treatment confers some advantage over comparison conditions (typically child-only treatment).
Sacked: Clive Preece, Maria Ward and Gillie Christou. Celia Hitchen (not pictured) was also dismissed
IFSW believes that it is vital for prospective migrants to obtain comprehensive, easy-to-understand information regarding the consequences of emigration. This information should include all aspects which facilitate better adaptation to the new living conditions, use of the social services and assistance in the receiving country. The history and customs of the receiving country, the language, rights and obligations, education, cultural activities etc., should all be the subject of pre-departure information. Information regarding likely employment and accommodation is a key element.
Dr. Susan Levy of the University of Pennsylvania reviews the quality of evidence for many commonly used complementary and alternative treatments for autism and highlights lessons learned from studies of two commonly used treatments.
May 3, 2009
At a time when Latinos are interacting more than ever with police, courts and prisons, their confidence in the U.S. criminal justice system is closer to the low levels expressed by blacks than to the high levels expressed by whites, according to a pair of nationwide surveys by the Pew Research Center
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Job seekers queue up outside the social welfare office in Cumberland Street Dun Laoghaire.
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Dr. Ann Nichols, Arizona State University School of Social Work: Tucson
US data from the CDC
Break the Cycle believes that minor teens should be able to access the same legal protections as adult victims of domestic violence, including civil domestic violence protection or restraining orders, and that state domestic violence laws should explicitly state the rights and responsibilities of minors under the law. Break the Cycle believes that all teens over the age of 12 should have the right to petition for protection on their own behalf and that domestic violence protection orders should be available against minor abusers.
D Gee | Buffalo News
Neighborhood blight such as this section on Ruhland Street is to be addressed by one of the four working groups of the anti-poverty plan unveiled Wednesday
This report from the Children’s Rights Director for England details the experiences of children living in children's homes.
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Kimberly Ricketts, Department of Children and Families commissioner, at her 2008 nomination hearing.
K Lorenzi | Rapport
Food bank employees in Gassaway, West Virginia.
This research looked to identify young people who underachieved at key stage four relative to key stage three attainment and explore the relationship to their post-16 destinations.
David has been an alcoholic for 25 years but hasn't drunk for the last four. He describes how his addiction started and the effect it had on his health and relationships
This article reports a meta-analysis of personality–academic performance relationships, based on the 5-factor model, in which cumulative sample sizes ranged to over 70,000.
May 2, 2009
This document is intended to raise awareness of the Valuing People Now strategy for people with learning disabilities. It also supports good practice locally and across all sectors.
This multidisciplinary exhibition presents the range of ways madness and art interacted in Vienna, from designs for utopian psychiatric spaces to the drawings of patients confined in them. It explores the influence of psychiatry on early modernism and encourages us to reflect on how we deal with mental illness 100 years on.
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Social worker Colleen Dier of Milwaukee lights a candle on Tuesday to commemorate a homeless person who died in the past year, during a memorial service for the homeless at St. Benedict the Moor.
This document sets out guidance for questions about a person's ordinary residence in relation to which local authority should act as the supervisory body.
Ask cigarette smokers why they light up and one answer you're likely to hear is that it relieves stress. . . But if that's the goal, it's not at all clear that cigarettes deliver the goods. Half (50%) of all smokers say they "frequently" experience stress in their daily lives, compared with just 35% of those who once smoked and have now quit and 31% of those who never smoked.
Fred Gigliotti decided to go into social work after his father — who had owned a hairdressing salon and raised Fred in middle-class Yardley — lost his business and fell into homelessness.
The 2008 State Preschool Yearbook is the sixth in a series of annual reports profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States.
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Frank McAlpin
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Jessi Gonzalez, 30, right joins nearly 100 other L.A. County social workers who contend “systemic problems” lead to such deaths. They protested at a county supervisors' meeting.
Intended for Iowa child welfare caseworkers, this practice bulletin explains expectations for caseworkers to engage fathers involved in the child welfare system.
Studies have suggested a high prevalence of mental health symptoms among youths in the juvenile justice system, with the highest prevalence among girls and whites compared to boys and other races. This multisite, archival study examined whether sex and race differences, when they exist, were consistent across U.S. juvenile justice programs.
Working in an airport gift shop, standing in line for free cheese, sharing a bowl of soup for dinner... these are the all-too-typical coping strategies adopted by the working poor among the contingent faculty who are now the overwhelming majority of the professoriate. In part 2 of our interview, Cary Nelson discusses the abjection of the professoriate and the role of the AAUP in pushing back against the callous, systematic exploitation of students and faculty by university management.
These letters give further detail on the strategy for children and young people’s health and the announcement of funding for disabled children within primary care trust allocations.
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Community Services Agency Associate Director Maureen Wadiak highlights fresh and selective food donations as one strategic area where local groups can make a big difference.
May 1, 2009
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Private Johnson, by sheltered housing resident Patrick Lannon, on show at the Paracetamol Soup exhibition in Manchester.
Hospitals, care homes, local authorities and Primary Care Trusts have a statutory duty under MCA DOLS legislation to make sure that the person made subject to the authorisation and assessment process is supported to understand what is happening to them; and that they are made aware of their rights and entitlements under the MCA DOLS.
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Dr. Philip Popple, School of Social Work interim dean, delivers a speech among faculty, students, alumni and guests at the 2009 Night of Excellence in the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton hotel in Arlington on Friday. The ceremony celebrated the 40th anniversary of the School of Social Work through fundraising for the Honored Faculty Scholarship Fund and prospects for the school’s future.
This guidance is part of a programme of work to ensure that people with autistic spectrum conditions receive the right support to live life independently and to the full, exercising choice and control over decisions that affect their lives.
Julian Bond, NAACP Chairman, debates Dalton Conley, NYU Dean of Social Sciences, about the psychological harm of affirmative action. Conley argues that all unequal admissions such as legacy, donor, and athletic admissions are subject to stigmatization.
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that that most youths have been exposed to some kind of substance use prevention message - - whether having seen or heard an alcohol or drug prevention message through the general media, participated in special classes about drugs or alcohol, or talked with a parent about the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, or drug use.
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Mark Brown, editor of One in Four, a magazine aimed at people with mental health problems, says there has never been a better time to have a mental health difficulty.
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Influenza patients during the 1918 epidemic in an emergency hospital at Camp Funston at Fort Riley, Kansas.
This report from the Children’s Rights Director for England details the experiences of young people living in secure care. Secure units are children’s homes that have been specially approved by the Government to ‘restrict liberty’ – that is, to lock young people inside the home for a period of time.
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Vickie Wrigglesworth at Noah's Ark pre-nursery, where she earns around £600 a month despite having a degree and early years professional status.
In this position paper, we will describe seven key principles that should be addressed regarding child welfare practice and research in rural and tribal populations. These principles include legal, political and cultural factors contributing to differences in practice and outcomes as well as suggestions for child welfare research philosophy and practice.
This study draws together findings on parental attachment to, and teaching behaviours with, children. It used a longitudinal dataset to analyse how they vary for different groups of parents.
Knowledge of effective ways of coping with HIV is critical to help individuals with HIV maintain the best possible psychological and physical well-being. The purpose of the present article is to determine, through meta-analysis, the strength of the evidence regarding 2 questions: (a) Which types of coping are related to psychological and physical well-being among people with HIV? and (b) Do contextual (pre?post introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies [HAART]; time since diagnosis), measurement (HIV-related event vs. generic prompts for coping measurement), or individual (gender) variables affect the extent to which coping is related to physical and psychological well-being?
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Since February, the Social Democrat Johanna Sigurdardottir (right) has served as interim prime minister in crisis-stricken Iceland. Years ago, she railed at her male colleagues: "My time will come." Now, it's the women who are in power in Reykjavik.
About one in 400 children born alive has cerebral palsy. An expert explains causes, symptoms and treatment