Researcher takes on 'empathy fatigue' in workplace
(Medical Xpress) -- A nurse refuses to help an ailing alcoholic who is upset to find a hospital detox unit closed. A hospital clerk brushes off a deceased woman's grieving family as they try to pay her...
View ArticleCutting through the 'bull' of high-energy, high-alcohol drinks
(Medical Xpress) -- Caffeinated-alcoholic beverages (CABs) were banned from the U.S. market in November 2010 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which noted serious health incidents at university...
View Articleuok? Text messages - even automated ones - can soothe the disconnected soul
(Medical Xpress) -- Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California,...
View ArticleToolkit to help those with psychiatric disabilities reach educational goals
(Medical Xpress) -- All too often, when individuals experience a mental health impairment, it derails their education. Researchers at the Office of Mental Health Research and Training at the University...
View ArticlePakistan claims progress in tribal polio vaccination
Pakistan Tuesday claimed progress in vaccinating thousands of children against polio in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan which had been inaccessible due to unrest for about three years.
View ArticleCharting locations of marijuana dispensaries in L.A.
(Medical Xpress)—With the debate over medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles still in full fury, Bridget Freisthler, an associate professor of social welfare at UCLA's Luskin School of Public...
View ArticleProfessors propose ethical intervention strategies to address hoarding
The TV shows make it look dramatic. A hoarder, someone who has accumulated so many piles of junk and possessions he can barely move in his own home, is nearly buried alive. But the problem is no...
View ArticleL.A.'s poorer neighborhoods underserved by human services nonprofits, study...
Poorer neighborhoods in Los Angeles County have less access than other local communities to nonprofit organizations that provide shelter, food, job training, alcohol and substance abuse counseling, and...
View ArticleNeck injuries linked to high costs for patients and spouses
Patients with neck injuries incur increased health and social costs—which also affect their spouses and may begin years before the initial injury, reports a study in the March 1 issue of Spine.
View ArticleExplaining Schwarzenegger: Men, biceps and the politics of getting what you want
This weekend I gained a grudging appreciation for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Governator, not the Terminator. Having watched Arnie's political rise and fall from afar, he always seemed an odd chimera....
View ArticleTeenage physical fitness reduces the risk of suicidal behavior later in life
Being in good physical shape at 18 years of age can be linked with a reduced risk of attempted suicide later in life. So says a study of over one million Swedish men conducted by researchers at the...
View ArticleMale Holocaust survivors have a longer life-expectancy
Male Holocaust survivors have a longer life expectancy compared to those who didn't experience the Holocaust, according to a recent study conducted at the University of Haifa jointly with Leiden...
View ArticleS. Korea to tax lip jobs and priests
The South Korean government plans to exploit the country's obsession with plastic surgery by extending taxes to popular procedures like lip jobs to help fund spiralling social welfare costs.
View ArticleLiberia to vaccinate 100,000 children
Health officials in Liberia have launched a campaign to vaccinate some 100,000 children against pneumonia.
View ArticleProject helps states mine data to improve services for kids
When children are placed in foster care, the ultimate goal is to give them the best possible services to achieve permanency, either by returning them home or finding a stable, supportive home...
View ArticleResearch team makes progress on system to screen for trauma in foster youths
Researchers in the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare have completed initial efforts to learn more about adoption and the foster care system in Kansas, particularly about the challenges and...
View ArticleDenying mental qualities to animals in order to eat them
(Medical Xpress) -- New research by Dr Brock Bastian from UQ's School of Psychology highlights the psychological processes that people engage in to reduce their discomfort over eating meat.
View ArticleChild welfare investigation predicts mental health problems in young children
A study published in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that young children who have been investigated for maltreatment by child welfare...
View ArticleMost discontinue mental health services as they transition to adulthood,...
(Medical Xpress)—A new study by researchers at the Silver School of Social Work has found that among 60 young adults with a history of significant mental health difficulties, few used psychiatric...
View ArticleYoung people need financial support and guidance when they age out of foster...
As the economy and job market continue to recover, many young adults have moved in with their parents to save money. For teens and 20-somethings who grew up in foster care, saving money is especially...
View ArticleNegative public images hamper child welfare investigators
Even parents who have had no contact with child welfare agencies believe negative stereotypes about social workers and the likely outcomes of abuse or neglect investigations, misconceptions that...
View ArticleHard to make us personally or financially responsible for our health
Free and equal access to medical treatment has been a staple of the Danish welfare state, but more and more Danes express the view that people treated for lifestyle diseases like smoker's lungs or...
View ArticleNew era in child welfare focused on the overall well-being of each child
The timing of Jessica Strolin-Goltzman's arrival on campus less than three years ago couldn't have been more fortuitous for the university, the state, and most importantly, children in foster care....
View ArticleFixing Massachusetts' troubled foster care system
Last week, the death of a 2-year-old foster child in Auburn, Massachusetts, drew widespread attention to the state's troubled child welfare system. As criticism of its Department of Children and...
View ArticlePolicy shift improves outcomes for addressing cases of child neglect
Child protection services personnel respond to some 3 million reports of maltreatment per year, including child neglect and physical or sexual abuse. Although families are dealing with a variety of...
View ArticleStudy tracks migration of chronically homeless mentally ill adults to...
A study by Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Dr. Julian Somers reveals that a growing number of those experiencing longstanding homelessness and mental disorders in Vancouver's Downtown...
View ArticleUndocumented migrants may suffer from severe psychological distress
Undocumented migrants are an especially vulnerable group with regard to their health status, living conditions, and barriers to access to health care and social welfare. In a study that explored 90...
View ArticleProfessor canvasses LGBT community to help health advocates fight a...
It's the Tuesday night before Christmas as Ian W. Holloway tucks his 2-year-old daughter Sofía into bed and prepares to leave his home.
View ArticleDealing with the pain, and rewards, of pediatric oncology social work
Stephanie Denzer, a May graduate of the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, spent the spring semester doing an internship working with young cancer patients and their families at the Mayo Clinic in...
View ArticleStudy suggests social workers lack tools to identify potential chronic child...
Neglect accounts for more than 75 percent of all child protection cases in the United States, yet, despite this alarming frequency, child welfare workers lack effective assessment tools for identifying...
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