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Infusing MSW programs with disability studies and disability justice: How to create explicit curriculum
(2022-03-02)MSW students will work with a significant number of people with disabilities and thus need to learn about disability as both a descriptive and a political identity. While new curriculum resources and competencies developed ... -
Monitoring the Monitors: Medicaid Integration of Passive Remote Monitoring Technology.
(2019)Implementation of passive remote monitoring is advancing faster than our knowledge base about appropriate and ethical use. For all the media and research attention these technologies are getting, there has been very little ... -
Assessing an Adapted Approach to Communities That Care for Child Maltreatment Prevention
(2019)Objective: Communities That Care (CTC) is an evidence-based community mobilization model designed to prevent problematic adolescent behaviors such as delinquency and substance use by organizing community coalitions that ... -
Positive Youth Development Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Conceptual Framework and Systematic Review of Efficacy
(2019-01-24)Purpose: Positive youth development (PYD) has served as a framework for youth programs in high-income countries since the 1990s and has demonstrated broad behavioral health and developmental benefits. PYD programs build ... -
CARING FOR WASHINGTON’S OLDER ADULTS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: INTERVIEWS WITH ORGANIZATION LEADERS ABOUT THE STATE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES
(2020-10-09)The COVID-19 pandemic presents significant and costly disruptions to social service and health care systems. Eight in ten deaths from the COVID-19 virus in the U.S. have occurred in people age 65 and older (CDC, 2020). In ... -
Why older adults and their children disagree about in-home surveillance technology, sensors, and tracking
(2019)Background and Objectives: Despite the surveilling nature of technologies that allow caregivers to remotely monitor location, movements, or activities, the potential differences in comfort with remote monitoring between ... -
Monitoring the monitors: Medicaid integration of passive remote monitoring technology
(2019)Implementation of passive remote monitoring is advancing faster than our knowledge base about appropriate and ethical use. For all the media and research attention these technologies are getting, there has been very little ... -
Promoting SBIRT Training for Social Work Students Across Field Settings
(2019)We report on our experience of implementing an interprofessional social work SBIRT training program in which didactic content was integrated with field education opportunities to practice SBIRT in various practice settings. ... -
A Hard Pill to Swallow: Ethical Problems of Digital Medication
(2018-10)Late last year news broke that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the inaugural digital medication, Abilify MyCite (AMC) (FDA, 2017). AMC uses digital technology embedded in the medication to track ingestion ... -
Cameras on beds: The ethics of surveillance in nursing home rooms
(2019-02-22)Surveillance cameras are increasingly being deployed in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, with insufficient attention to what is ethically fraught about this way of assuaging concerns about abuse and other ... -
Why older adults and their children disagree about in-home surveillance technology, sensors, and tracking
(2019-05)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite the surveilling nature of technologies that allow caregivers to remotely monitor location, movements, or activities, the potential differences in comfort with remote monitoring between ... -
Social development measures associated with problem behaviors and weight status in Australian adolescents
(Springer, 2015-08)During the adolescent years, substance use, anti-social behaviours and overweight/obesity are amongst the major public health concerns. We investigate if risk and protective factors associated with adolescent problem ... -
Peer group patterns of alcohol-using behaviors among early adolescents in Victoria, Australia, and Washington State, United States
(Wiley, 2016-12)The goal of this study was to examine and cross-nationally compare the peer group patterns of alcohol-drinking behaviors among cohorts of early adolescents (ages 11-14 years) in Victoria, Australia, and Washington State, ... -
Using Communities That Care for Community Child Maltreatment Prevention
(APA, 2016-03)The prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders among children and adolescents is a national priority. One mode of implementing community-wide MEB prevention efforts is through evidence-based community ... -
Psychometric properties of the Transitions From Foster Care Key Leader Survey
(Elsevier, 2016-04)This study summarizes the development and piloting of the Transitions from Foster Care Key Leader Survey (TFC-KLS), an instrument designed to measure change in systems serving young people transitioning from foster care ... -
A randomized controlled trial of a long-term professional mentoring program for children at risk: Outcomes across the first 5 years
(Springer, 2017-11)Child outcomes due to a paid professional mentoring program, Friends of the Children (FOTC), were investigated across the first 5 years of an ongoing multi-site randomized controlled trial. Participants were 278 children ... -
Evidence-based prevention for adolescent substance use
(Elsevier, 2016-07)Due to the significant consequences of adolescent substance use behaviors, researchers have increasingly focused on prevention approaches. The field of prevention science is based on the identification of predictors of ... -
Translating grand challenges from concept to community: The “Communities in Action” experience
(Society for Social Work and Research, 2017-02)This article provides an example of how one social work school created a community partnership to translate grand challenges from concept to concrete local projects to meet Grand Challenges for Social Work goals. The Grand ... -
Literature Review of Relative and Non-Relative Foster/Adoptive Parent Factors Related to Placement Stability and Permanence for Children and Youth
(National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents, 2018)The Administration on Children, Youth & Families, Children’s Bureau funded the development of a national training initiative to prepare foster and adoptive parents to effectively parent children exposed to trauma and to ... -
Literature & Resource Review: Characteristics of Successful Foster, Adoptive and/or Kinship Caregivers of American Indian, Alaska Native, First Nations and Native Hawaiian (AIAN/FN/NH) Children and Suggested Training Themes for these Parents
(University of Washington School of Social Work in partnership with Spaulding for Children; Child Trauma Academy; The Center for Adoption Support and Education; North American Council on Adoptable Children; National Council for Adoption; and Northeastern State University, 2018)The Administration on Children, Youth & Families, Children’s Bureau funded the development of a national training initiative to prepare foster and adoptive parents to effectively parent children exposed to trauma and to ...
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