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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/infographics/analyzing-president-bidens-2025-budget-2/) Analyzing President Biden’s 2025 Budget – 2
Mar 26th 2024, 15:51

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/s12954-023-00882-y/) A qualitative assessment of key considerations for drug checking service implementation
Mar 26th 2024, 15:27

With many drug-related deaths driven by potent synthetic opioids tainting the illicit drug supply, drug checking services are becoming a key harm reduction strategy. Many drug checking technologies are availab…
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/want-to-fight-climate-change-fix-housing/) Want to Fight Climate Change? Fix Housing
Mar 26th 2024, 15:01

Two of the most acute crises facing Canadians are housing and climate change. These are usually treated as separate issues, to be raised in different conversations. That’s a mistake. Climate and housing are vitally connected, and acknowledging this turns a pair of calamities into one huge opportunity.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/pag0000785/) Profiles of activity engagement and depression trajectories as COVID-19 restrictions were relaxed.
Mar 26th 2024, 13:59

Psychology and Aging, Vol 39(1), Feb 2024, 31-45; doi:10.1037/pag0000785
Given elevated depression rates since the onset of the pandemic and potential downstream implications, this research examined the association between activity engagement and depression among middle-aged and older adults postlockdown. This study aimed to (a) identify activity engagement profiles among middle-aged and older adults, (b) understand factors associated with profile memberships, and (c) compare depression trajectories across profiles as COVID-19 restrictions eased over 16 months in Singapore. This longitudinal study involved 6,568 middle-aged and older adults. Latent growth analysis was first conducted to obtain estimates of depression trajectories for each individual. Latent profile analysis was then conducted to identify different activity profiles. Finally, profile characteristics and depression trajectories across these different profiles were compared. Results indicated four profiles that varied in social and physical activity. Although digital activity was negatively associated with depression at baseline, it did not explain depression trajectories as restrictions eased. Over time, depression decreased for all profiles; however, those who were inactive on all activities except digital contact tended to experience more persistent symptoms, compared with those who were highly engaged in physical and outdoor activities. Individuals who were only active digitally tended to experience more prepandemic negative affect, were more introverted and neurotic, less open, agreeable, and conscientious, and had worse health and mobility, lower income, and lower education. Findings highlight how imprecise conceptualizations of activity engagement may obscure subtle activity engagement–depression relations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/meta-analyses-systematic-reviews/associations-between-humiliation-shame-self-harm-and-suicidality-among-adolescents-and-young-adults-a-systematic-review/) Associations between humiliation, shame, self-harm and suicidality among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review
Mar 26th 2024, 13:23

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/0739456x241230002/) Understanding How Racism and Affect Impact Public Opinions toward Affordable Housing in the United States
Mar 26th 2024, 12:58

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Ahead of Print. Using a nationwide online survey (N = 534), we investigate how individual-level characteristics and past actions are related to support of affordable housing at the neighborhood level. Several demographic characteristics, past actions, federal government trust, personal exposure, racism (symbolic racism scale), and affect (emotional connotation) are found to be significant predictors of support. We provide evidence for racism and affect being mediating factors acting in series to shape support of affordable housing. In addition to racism, individuals’ affect can potentially help explain the shift from support of hypothetical scenarios to opposition of real affordable housing development proposals and warrants continued study.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/income-share-agreements-to-finance-short-term-career-training-preliminary-findings-from-the-career-impact-bond-study/) Income Share Agreements to Finance Short-Term Career Training: Preliminary Findings from the Career Impact Bond Study
Mar 26th 2024, 12:49

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/monographs-edited-collections/health-policy-in-the-united-states-access-cost-and-quality/) Health Policy in the United States: Access, Cost and Quality
Mar 26th 2024, 12:39

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/s40359-023-01390-1/) The association between online class-related enjoyment and academic achievement of college students: a multi-chain mediating model
Mar 26th 2024, 12:27

Based on the control-value theory of achievement emotion and self-determination motivation theory, this study attempted to examine the multi-chain mediating relationships among online class-related enjoyment, …
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/wortis-v-trustees-of-tufts-college-no-sjc-13472-mass-2023/) Wortis v. Trustees of Tufts College, No. SJC-13472 (Mass. 2023)
Mar 26th 2024, 12:17

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/rev0000384/) An integrative control theory perspective on consciousness.
Mar 26th 2024, 10:57

Psychological Review, Vol 131(1), Jan 2024, 1-17; doi:10.1037/rev0000384
An integrative account of consciousness should have a number of properties. It should build upon a framework of nonconscious behavior in order to explain how and why consciousness contributes to, and addresses the limitations of, nonconscious processes. It should also encompass the primary (phenomenal), secondary (access), and tertiary (self-awareness) aspects of consciousness. A number of accounts have proposed a role for consciousness in the prediction of sensory input, yet these proposals do not address how organisms deal with multiple, unpredictable, disturbances to maintain control. According to perceptual control theory (PCT), purposiveness is the control of hierarchically organized perceptual variables via changes in output that counteract disturbances which would otherwise increase error between the current value and the reference value (goal state) of each perceptual variable. In PCT, reorganization is the process required for the adaptive modification of control systems in order to reduce the error in intrinsic systems that control essential, largely physiological, variables. The current article proposes that primary consciousness emerges from this system, and is sustained as secondary consciousness through a number of processes including the control of the integration rate of novel information via exploratory behavior, attention, imagination, and altering the mutation rate of reorganization. Tertiary consciousness arises when internally sustained perceptual information is associated with specific symbols that form a parallel, propositional system for the use of language, logic, and other symbolic systems. The hypotheses and initial research designs to test this account are provided. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/clinical-trials/massed-prolonged-exposure-for-ptsd-in-substance-use-treatment-prevail/) Massed Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in Substance Use Treatment (PREVAIL)
Mar 26th 2024, 10:56

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/video/what-does-an-increase-in-economically-inactive-people-do-to-the-economy/) What does an increase in ’economically inactive’ people do to the economy?
Mar 26th 2024, 10:29

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/guidelines-plus/vitamin-d-supplementation-in-adult-care-homes-guidance-support-material-and-assessment-sheet/) Vitamin D supplementation in adult care homes – guidance, support material and assessment sheet
Mar 26th 2024, 10:29

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/basw-launches-manifesto-for-social-work/) BASW Launches Manifesto for Social Work
Mar 26th 2024, 10:06

BASW sets out key asks of UK Political Parties ahead of a General Election being called this year.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/podcasts/the-kindness-of-strangers-lynne-segal-loree-erickson/) The Kindness of Strangers | Lynne Segal & Loree Erickson
Mar 26th 2024, 10:01

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10783903241226718/) Men’s Depression and Anxiety: Contributing Factors and Barriers to Intervention
Mar 26th 2024, 09:57

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Urban, ethnically/racially diverse, impoverished men are predisposed to experience unaddressed depression and anxiety. The overlap of these factors creates significant mental health inequity.AIMS:This study sought to capture men’s impressions of the factors that contributed to their experience of depression and anxiety as well as barriers that they experienced in pursuing intervention.METHODS:Using community-based participatory research, in the context of long-term partnerships between a department of nursing and three urban, racially/ethnically diverse, and impoverished neighborhoods, the researchers recruited 50 men ages 23–83 years. Data were collected via six homogeneous, Zoom-based focus groups composed of Black, Hispanic, and White men, respectively.RESULTS:The men identified multiple themes pertaining to modifiable and non-modifiable contributing factors that played a role in their development of depression and anxiety as well as barriers related to stigma, resource issues, and a lack of knowledge of mental illness that they faced when seeking intervention.CONCLUSIONS:Understanding men’s perspectives on the contributing factors and barriers to mental health intervention can provide an evidence base with which to address mental health inequity via tailored care, policy, and research agendas.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/a-new-way-forward-for-employment-based-immigration-the-bridge-visa/) A New Way Forward for Employment-Based Immigration: The Bridge Visa
Mar 26th 2024, 09:07

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/meta-analyses-systematic-reviews/cbm-2332-2/) The experiences of men in prison who do not receive visits from family or friends: A qualitative systematic review
Mar 26th 2024, 08:53

Abstract
Background
Visits present an opportunity for prisoners to preserve family ties and reduce isolation, but not all receive visits from family or friends whilst incarcerated.
Aims
To locate, appraise and synthesise qualitative data on the experiences of adult male prisoners (aged 18 years+) who do not receive prison visits from family or friends.
Methods
Nine electronic databases were searched from the date of their inception until March 2023. The quality of included studies was assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme checklist for qualitative studies, and data from the studies were synthesised using the thematic synthesis method.
Results
Eighteen studies from seven countries (the USA, the UK [England, Northern Ireland & Scotland], Canada, Netherlands and the Philippines) were eligible for inclusion. Three main themes emerged: (1) reasons for not receiving visits, (2) harmful effects of not receiving visits and (3) the value of volunteer visitor programmes. Practical problems were cited as interfering with visiting opportunities, but also some prisoners or families chose not to meet in prison. Loneliness and depression were extensively described as effects of not receiving visits. Qualities associated with volunteer visitors included raised self-esteem, improved mood and personal growth.
Conclusion
Narratives of the experiences of adult men in prison without visits from family or friends suggest that not only the practical difficulties of imprisonment affect visiting; barriers that prisoners themselves impose would merit further exploration, as would family and relationship dynamics during incarceration and the emotional impact of prison visits, for both prisoners and their families. There are suggestions of therapeutic as well as humanitarian benefits from volunteer visiting programmes. There is a gap in the literature about any specific effect on rebuilding family relationships.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/s12954-023-00891-x/) Racial/ethnic differences in receipt of naloxone distributed by opioid overdose prevention programs in New York City
Mar 26th 2024, 08:47

We evaluated racial/ethnic differences in the receipt of naloxone distributed by opioid overdose prevention programs (OOPPs) in New York City (NYC).
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/how-the-welfare-state-fails-the-poor/) How the Welfare State Fails the Poor
Mar 26th 2024, 07:46

Arlo Washington in the Oscar-nominated short documentary The Barber of Little Rock
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00187267241228997/) Once a job crafter, always a job crafter? Investigating job crafting in organizations as a reciprocal self-concordant process across time
Mar 26th 2024, 06:56

Human Relations, Ahead of Print. Research depicts job crafting as a desirable, ongoing employee behavior rather than a one-off event. However, insights are lacking into how employees’ active engagement in job crafting may be sustained across time. In this study, we advance a dynamic framework of how changes that follow employees’ periods of job crafting may, in turn, motivate versus impede continued crafting of one’s job role over time. Drawing from self-concordance theorizing, we propose and test a framework on how job crafting and employees’ attainment of self-concordant and organizational work goals are reciprocally related over time. Longitudinal data from a large, three-wave study collected over four years among church ministers support a positive reciprocal relationship between job crafting and self-concordant goal attainment, as well as an indirect positive relationship between job crafting and organizational goal attainment via self-concordant goal attainment. However, in line with our theorizing, organizational goal attainment did not predict subsequent job crafting. Instead, high organizational goal attainment weakened the extent to which job crafting at one time point positively related to job crafting at the next time point. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings for employees’ continued engagement in job crafting in organizations.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00208728231221359/) Authoritarian nationalism and social work
Mar 26th 2024, 05:59

International Social Work, Ahead of Print. Despite predictions that liberal democracy was ascendent as a paradigm for governance in the contemporary era, the world has witnessed an alarming rise in authoritarian nationalism. A seeming preference for open and transparent models of plural democratic government has been challenged by the global advance of despotic and repressive regimes that are organized around racial, religious, and nationalist themes. Social work, grounded in the practice and pursuit of human rights, stands in stark contrast to authoritarian nationalism and is called to act through public diplomacy and soft power to counter emergent neo-fascism.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/social-care-360-little-to-suggest-that-social-care-has-turned-a-corner/) Social care 360 – Little to suggest that social care has turned a corner
Mar 26th 2024, 04:36

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/risk-of-fractures-in-half-a-million-survivors-of-20-cancers-a-population-based-matched-cohort-study-using-linked-english-electronic-health-records/) Risk of fractures in half a million survivors of 20 cancers: a population-based matched cohort study using linked English electronic health records
Mar 26th 2024, 04:08

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/inside-the-collapse-of-the-tavistock-centre/) Inside the collapse of the Tavistock Centre
Mar 26th 2024, 03:59

The Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) was the creation of the child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Domenico Di Ceglie. Inspired by a single case he’d worked on in the early 1980s of a teenager “who was claiming that she was a boy but in a female body”, he felt children with “these rare and unusual experiences” needed a service of their own. The focus of Gids was never on changing a young person’s gender identity, but in supporting them and their families in whatever solution they settled on to best manage it.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/jech-2023-221365v1/) Embodiment of discrimination: a cross-sectional study of threats, humiliating treatment and ethnic discrimination in relation to somatic health complaints among Sami in Sweden
Mar 26th 2024, 03:49

Background
Ethnic discrimination is acknowledged as a social determinant of health for Indigenous populations worldwide. This study aimed to investigate embodiment of perceived ethnic discrimination among the Sámi population in Sweden.
Methods
A population-based health study was conducted among the Sámi population aged 18–84 years in 2021. Perceived discrimination was assessed by three variables: exposure to threat, humiliation treatment and ethnic discrimination. To capture current physical health, complaints of headache, back pain, stomach pain, sleeping problems, dizziness and tiredness were used. An overall somatic complaints score was created by summing up the six individual symptoms. The magnitude of the association between the independent variables and the outcomes was summarised with the β coefficients and prevalence ratios using 95% credible intervals (95% CrI) for inferential purposes.
Results
Overall, 4.3% reported to have been exposed to threat, 26.1% to humiliation and 11.2% and 32.3% to ethnic discrimination in the last 12 months and beyond 12 months, respectively. After mutual adjustment, threat (β=1.25; 95% CrI=0.88 to 1.60), humiliation (β=1.29; 95% CrI: 1.14 to 1.44) and the two categories of discrimination (β=0.92; 95% CI: 0.64 to 1.21 in the last 12 months and β=0.68; 95% CI: 0.54 to 0.83 beyond) remained significantly associated to the overall somatic complaints score. Similar results were found for individual complaints.
Conclusions
This study has shown a strong relationship between different expressions of perceived ethnic discrimination and a series of somatic complaints among the Sámi in Sweden. Efforts to alleviate interpersonal and institutional discrimination against the Sámi would contribute to improve their health.

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/social-workers-protest-proposal-to-increase-visit-frequency/) Social workers protest proposal to increase visit frequency
Mar 26th 2024, 03:12

Su Chao-ju (front row, second left), head of the MOHW’s Social Assistance and Social Work Department, receives the petitions from the demonstrating social workers in Taipei Wednesday.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10499091241235920/) Exploring Palliative Care Needs Among Patients With Cancer and Non-Cancer Serious Chronic Diseases: A Comparison Study
Mar 26th 2024, 02:22

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Ahead of Print. BackgroundPalliative care (PC) is integral to improving the quality of life and mitigating suffering for individuals with serious illnesses. This interdisciplinary-led study aims to comprehensively evaluate the prevalence of distressing problems and unmet needs among both cancer and non-cancer chronic disease patients and explore their need for PC.MethodsA cross-sectional, comparative, and multicenter design was conducted, involving 458 patients from eight hospitals, utilizing a self-reported Problems and Needs in Palliative Care-sv questionnaire.ResultsThe study included 276 (60.3%) patients with cancer and 182 (39.7%) with non-cancer chronic diseases. Most were 45-64 years old (n = 216, 47.2%). Patients with cancer reported a higher prevalence of physical symptoms, notably pain (n = 240, 87%) and anorexia (n = 192, 69.6%), while non-cancer patients faced more social challenges, including issues in companion relationships (n = 77, 42.3%) and discussing their disease with life companion (n = 78, 42.9%). Unmet needs were prevalent in both groups, with cancer patients having an average of 75.6% (n = 120) unmet needs, predominantly in the information (n = 145, 91.75%) and spiritual domains (n = 123, 77.8%). Non-cancer patients emphasized financial (n = 71, 66.6%) and autonomy (n = 59, 55.0%) problems. Moreover, patients in both groups with severe Charlson Comorbidity Index scores demonstrated significantly higher PC needs across all health domains.ConclusionThe study highlights the universal demand for comprehensive PC for patients with both cancer and non-cancer chronic diseases. The findings underscore the need for enhanced PC provision, especially for patients with multiple comorbidities. Further research is needed to comprehensively address psychological, social, and spiritual problems in both patient groups.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/public-attitudes-towards-immigration-and-ethnic-minorities/) Public attitudes towards immigration and ethnic minorities
Mar 25th 2024, 23:54

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