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Do Pets Help Prison Inmates?
Larch Corrections Center inmates William Lozano, left, and Richard Amaro and their foster cat Clementine. Photo courtesy of Steven Lane, The Columbian. The behavior of inmates at Larch Corrections...
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Making the Invisible, Visible
Photo courtesy of CBC Radio Canada. Guns are such a big part of life in rural America that social workers must remind families that young people can use them to suicide, according to a new study...
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Asian Americans who are domestic violence victims rarely get help
Photo courtesy of PsychCentral.com. Asian Americans who are victims of domestic violence rarely get help from health providers or authorities, an alarming trend considering this is the fastest growing...
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Anxiety in mothers caused by poverty, not mental illness
Photo by Lucy Nicholson of Reuters is courtesy The Atlantic. The 2011 Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) was very common among the poorest mothers...
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Welfare Reforms Have Hurt Poorest Americans
Photo courtesy of MLive.com. Welfare reform has benefited poor families who are able to find jobs but has had made it harder for some of the nation’s poorest families to get benefits, according to...
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For Asians in Portland, Ore. the model minority label is misleading
Children sing at a Chinese language school in Portland, Ore. Photo courtesy of the Portland Tribune. There is a myth that Asian Americans are the model minority, enjoying higher educational levels and...
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Family Meals Don’t Benefit Children
Photo courtesy of gourmetbetty.com. According to conventional wisdom and previous studies, shared meals help families cement relations and bolster children’s academic performances. But a new study...
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Marriage, education blunt effects of childhood abuse
Photo by Flickr/Southworth Sailor. People who suffer abuse early in life are more likely to suffer from mental illness or abuse drugs and alcohol as adults. However, a study from the University of...
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Social Worker Studying Best Practices in Aging from Around the World
Merl Hokenstad. Photo courtesy of Case Western Reserve University. The elderly should be given more retirement options, including the ability to continue to work part-time or start small businesses in...
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Helping Stepdads Adjust
Stepfathers often get a bad rap. Communication is a key to their becoming good parents, a new study says. Photo courtesy of msnbc.com. A key to making sure stepfathers succeed as parents is to ensure...
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Women who are abused unlikely to get mental healthcare
Photo courtesy of ThirdAge.com. Women abused by an intimate partner are far more likely to get medical attention than mental health care to treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and other...
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Children who are spanked act more aggressively
iStockphoto.com. Jane Norton. Children who are spanked tend to be more aggressive, according to a study from the Columbia University School of Social Work. The study found that nine-year-olds who were...
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Social Worker concerned PMDD in women could be overdiagnosed
Photo courtesy of WomenHealthZone.com. Some women experience crippling depression, anxiety and tension during the time leading up to menstruation. The symptoms usually disappear as soon as their...
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Study of single mothers shows need for full Affordable Care Act funding
Professor Chi-Fang Wu. Photo courtesy of the University of Illinois. Single mothers who are underemployed went without health insurance longer than women who are fully employed or those who have no...
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See what a 20-minute talk with a social worker can do
Photo courtesy of brainline.org. People who bump their heads in a bicycle, car or other accident may leave the hospital thinking they feel fine. But they may later suffer from nausea, dizziness and...
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Study finds doing child protection social work can harm health
Child protection social workers in Ruth Neil’s study reported sleep issues and other problems related to their work. Photo courtesy of the Guardian. Researcher Ruth Neil interviewed 12 social workers...
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Wealth masks elderly poverty problem in Florida town
“Ann” fell on hard times after she made a bad investment. Photo courtesy of Gulfshore Life Magazine. Naples is a wealthy beach resort town on Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast but appearances can be...
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NASW member studying two sets of twins separated at birth
Photo of the twins courtesy of the New York Times Magazine. Due to a hospital error, two sets of identical twins in Columbia were mixed up. The two pairs of children grew up in two different households...
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Financial Social Work Model Helps People Better Manage Money
Reeta Wolfsohn A three-year research pilot program in Erie, PA has shown the Financial Social Work Model helps people better manage their money and decrease debt, according to this article on...
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New study explores parents’ role in LGBT adolescent conversion therapy
LGBT adolescents who undergo conversion therapy are more likely to attempt to die by suicide, suffer from depression or underperform in school. More than half of adolescent people who are LGBT are...
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