Background: Environmental climate change is an urgent concern for Pacific Islanders with significant impact on place along with bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual influences likely to affect communities’ wellbeing. Future generations will bear the burden. Indigenous scholars have begun to address climate-based place changes; ...

Using empirical evidence to inform social work practice is consistent with the profession's commitment to beneficence and avoiding harm. Thirty years of prevention research has produced a wealth of tested-and effective programs that target known risk and protective factors for social, emotional, and behavioral health. Ineffective ...

Despite a prolific amount of available evidence-based practices (EBPs), health and mental health interventions have not been implemented as anticipated. Patients relegated to the core safety net, a subset of the safety net with a mission or legal mandate to care for vulnerable populations, face even greater obstacles to ...

How young people conceptualize and cognitively represent their futures- as full of positive potential or constraints and negative possibilities--bears influence on their developmental trajectories. Future orientation is demonstrated to be associated with a range of health risk behaviors and outcomes. Further, positive future ...

While risky sexual behavior can lead to negative consequences such as sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy, sexual behavior also is a healthy part of human development. By understanding the social and cognitive processes that influence sexual behavior choices during adolescence and young adulthood, we will ...