• The Sexual Superhighway Revisited: A Qualitative Analysis of Gay Men's Perceived Repercussions of Connecting in Cyberspace


• Lesbian Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Provider Perspectives on Barriers to Accessing Services


• Queering Ideas: The Descriptive and Theory-Building Potential of Qualitative Research with Lesbian and Gay Families


• Research with Sexual Minority Youths: Where Do We Go from Here?


• Trans/Gender/Sexuality: A Research Agenda

• A Complexity Approach to Psychological Well-Being in Adolescence: Major Strengths and Methodological Issues


• Pets and Human Health in Germany and Australia: National Longitudinal Results


• Subjective Well-Being, Poverty and Ethnicity in South Africa: Insights from an Exploratory Analysis


• Quality of College Life (QCL) of Students: Developing and Validating a Measure of Well-Being


• On the Relationship between the Public’s Worry about Safety from Burglary and Probabilities of Burglary: Some Evidence from Simultaneous Equation Models


• The Effect of Depressive Symptoms on the Association between Functional Status and Social Participation


• Family Life Quality and Emotional Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents with and Without Economic Disadvantage


• Monitoring Urban Quality of Life: The Porto Experience


• A Stock-Take of Green National Accounting Initiatives

• The Efficacy of the Rio Hondo DUI Court: A 2-Year Field Experiment


• Challenging the Courtesy Bias Interpretation of Favorable Clients’ Perceptions of Family Planning Delivery


• The Devil Is in the Details: Examining the Evidence for "Proven" School-Based Drug Abuse Prevention Programs


• Is Nonsmoking Dangerous to the Health of Restaurants? The Effect of California’s Indoor Smoking Ban on Restaurant Revenues

• The Public/Private Partnership behind the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation: Its Origins, Challenges, and Unresolved Issues


• Designing the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation


• Commonalities and Variations in the Cash and Counseling Programs across the Three Demonstration States


• The Research Design and Methodological Issues for the Cash and Counseling Evaluation


• Consumer Enrollment and Experiences in the Cash and Counseling Program


• Effects of Cash and Counseling on Personal Care and Well-Being


• How Does Cash and Counseling Affect Costs?


• How Caregivers and Workers Fared in Cash and Counseling


• Case Histories of Six Consumers and Their Families in Cash and Counseling


• The Future of Cash and Counseling: The Framers' View

• Shifting Ground(s): Surveying the Contested Terrain of LGBT Studies and Queer Theory


• Queer Theory, Late Capitalism, and Internalized Homophobia


• Anti-Homosexual Prejudice . . . as Opposed to What? Queer Theory and the Social Psychology of Anti-Homosexual Attitudes


• Outlaws or In-Laws? Queer Theory, LGBT Studies, and Religious Studies


• A Queer Anxiety: Assimilation Politics and Cinematic Hedonics in Relax . . . It's Just Sex


• Historicizing (Bi)Sexuality: A Rejoinder for Gay/Lesbian Studies, Feminism, and Queer Theory


• Troubling the Canon: Bisexuality and Queer Theory


• Cape Queer? A Case Study of Provincetown, Massachusetts


• Jewish Disappearing Acts and the Construction of Gender


• Desiring Mates


• Teaching Queer Theory at a Normal School


• Containing Uncertainty: Sexual Values and Citizenship


• Ferment in LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: Personal Ruminations on Contested Terrain

• Recreational Participation Among Ethnic Minorities and Immigrants in Canada and the Netherlands


• Immigration to Egypt


• Posttraumatic Growth in Latina Immigrants


• From Emigrant to Immigrant Society Transition and Change in the Republic of Ireland


• The Challenge of Providing Culturally and Linguistically Accessible Human Services in Rural and Increasingly Diverse Communities A Case Example from a Small New England State


• Operationalizing Diversity Issues in Lead Safety Education

• Does Solitary Substance Use Increase Adolescents' Risk for Poor Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes? A 9-Year Longitudinal Study Comparing Solitary and Social Users


• Comparison of Longitudinal Phenotypes Based on Number and Timing of Assessments: A Systematic Comparison of Trajectory Approaches II


• Patterns and Importance of Self-Other Differences in College Drinking Norms


• Childhood Victimization and Illicit Drug Use in Middle Adulthood


• Pubertal Maturation and Early Substance Use Risks Among African American Children


• Personality and Substance Dependence Symptoms: Modeling Substance-Specific Traits


• Trauma-Focused Imaginal Exposure for Individuals With Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Alcohol Dependence: Revealing Mechanisms of Alcohol Craving in a Cue Reactivity Paradigm


• Implicit and Explicit Measures of Alcohol and Smoking Cognitions


• Use of a Multiple-Choice Procedure With College Student Drinkers


• The Development and Initial Evaluation of the Survey of Readiness for Alcoholics Anonymous Participation


• Development and Initial Validation of an Instrument to Measure Perceived Coercion to Enter Treatment for Substance Abuse


• Family History of Alcoholism and the Stability of Personality in Young Adulthood


• Psychostimulant Users Are Sensitive to the Stimulant Properties of Alcohol as Indexed by Alcohol-Induced Cardiac Reactivity


• Smoking Cues in a Virtual World Provoke Craving in Cigarette Smokers


• Drug Abuse Risk and Protective Factors Among Black Urban Adolescent Girls: A Group-Randomized Trial of Computer-Delivered Mother-Daughter Intervention

• The Impact of Religiousness, Spirituality, and Social Support on Psychological Well-Being Among Older Adults in Rural Areas


• Spirit of Aging Rising: Cross-Cutting Thematic Modules to Enrich Foundation Graduate Social Work Courses


• A Dual Process Model of Grief Counseling: Findings from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) Study


• Spiritual Assessment in Aging: A Framework for Clinicians


• Providing Mental Health Services to Older People Living in Rural Communities


• Using Collaboration to Maximize Outcomes for a John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Enrichment Project


• Bringing the Community In: Partnerships for Aging Enrichment


• Preparing Social Work Students to Work with Grandparents in Kinship Care: An Approach to Infusion of Content Materials into Selected Core Social Work Courses


• Joy of Living: A Community-Based Mental Health Promotion Program for African American Elders


• Filipinas as Residential Long-Term Care Providers: Influence of Cultural Values, Structural Inequity, and Immigrant Status on Choosing This Work


• Listening to Seniors: Successful Approaches to Data Collection and Program Development


• Mosaic of Difference: Enhancing Culturally Competent Aging-Related Knowledge Among Social Workers

• Systemic Therapeutic Approaches with Sexual Minorities and Their Families


• Connection and Community: How the Family Pride Coalition Supports Parents and Children of GLBT Families


• Healing an Invisible Minority: How the Straight Spouse Network Has Become the Prime Source of Support for Those in Mixed-Orientation Marriages


• COLAGE: Providing Community, Education, Leadership, and Advocacy by and for Children of GLBT Parents


• Terms of Connection: Mother-Talk About Female-to-Male Transgender Children


• Guiding the Acquisition of Therapist Ally Identity: Research on the GLBT Stepfamily as Resource


• Revisiting the Sexual Orientation Matrix for Supervision: Working with GLBTQ Families


• Talking About Gender in Motion: Working with the Family of the Transgender Person


• From Otherness to Alliance: Transgender Couples in Therapy


• Finding Our Way: Guiding a Young Transgender Child

• Approaches to Treatment


• Co-Morbid Alcohol/Other Drug Abuse/Dependence and Psychiatric Disorders in Adolescent American Indian and Alaska Natives


• Group-Delivered Brief Intervention versus Standard Care for Mixed Alcohol/Other Drug Problems: A Preliminary Study


• Adult Attachment, Emotional Distress, and Interpersonal Problems in Alcohol and Drug Dependency Treatment


• The Relationship Between Codependency and Borderline and Dependent Personality Traits


• The Dilemma of Confrontation: Coping with Problem Drinking in the Family


• Developmental Issues in Older Drinkers' Decisions: To Drink or Not to Drink


• Religiousness and Spirituality as Possible Recovery Variables in Treated and Natural Recoveries: A Qualitative Study


• The Spiritual Characteristics of New Zealanders Entering Treatment for Alcohol/Other Drug Dependence

• Self-Structure and Self-Esteem Stability: The Hidden Vulnerability of Compartmentalization


• Antecedents of Men's Hostile and Benevolent Sexism: The Dual Roles of Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism


• Self-Regulation and Sexual Restraint: Dispositionally and Temporarily Poor Self-Regulatory Abilities Contribute to Failures at Restraining Sexual Behavior


• Shared Cognition as a Product of, and Precursor to, Shared Identity in Negotiations


• Power, Propensity to Negotiate, and Moving First in Competitive
  Interactions


• Personalized and Generalized Comparisons: Causes and Consequences of Variations in the Focus of Social Comparisons


• Regulatory Focus and Illusions of Control


• Does Self-Affirmation, Cognitive Processing, or Discovery of Meaning Explain Cancer-Related Health Benefits of Expressive Writing?


• Giving Up on Unattainable Goals: Benefits for Health?


• Separating Ability From Need: Clarifying the Dimensional Structure of the Need for Closure Scale


• Increasing Self-Regulatory Strength Can Reduce the Depleting Effect of Suppressing Stereotypes

• Child maltreatment, out-of-home placement and academic vulnerability: A fifteen-year review of evidence and future directions


• An evaluation of post-adoption services


• Child protection in Stockholm: A local cohort study on childhood prevalence of investigations and service delivery


• Relationship between type of placement and competencies and problem behavior of adolescents in long-term foster care


• Capturing caregiver data: An examination of kinship care custodial arrangements


• Predicting the effectiveness of the Home-Start parenting support program


• A qualitative study of 369 child welfare professionals' perspectives about factors contributing to employee retention and turnover


• Maternal welfare and employment experiences and adolescent well-being: Do mothers' human capital characteristics matter?

• Introduction to the Special Section on Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy


• Attachment-Based Intervention for Enhancing Sensitive Discipline in Mothers of 1- to 3-Year-Old Children at Risk for Externalizing Behavior Problems: A Randomized Controlled Trial


• The Efficacy of Toddler–Parent Psychotherapy to Reorganize Attachment in the Young Offspring of Mothers With Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Preventive Trial


• Changing Toddlers' and Preschoolers' Attachment Classifications: The Circle of Security Intervention


• Change in Attachment Patterns and Reflective Function in a Randomized Control Trial of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder


• Attachment as Moderator of Treatment Outcome in Major Depression: A Randomized Control Trial of Interpersonal Psychotherapy Versus Cognitive Behavior Therapy


• Resolving Attachment Injuries in Couples Using Emotionally Focused Therapy: Steps Toward Forgiveness and Reconciliation


• Clinical Assessment of Attachment Patterns and Personality Disorder in Adolescents and Adults


• Attachment, Psychotherapy, and Assessment: A Commentary


• Culture and Youth Psychopathology: Testing the Syndromal Sensitivity Model in Thai and American Adolescents


• Prioritized Assignment to Intake Appointments for Asian Americans at an Ethnic-Specific Mental Health Program


• Barriers to Mental Health Care Utilization for U.S. Cambodian Refugees


• Are Black–White Differences in Females' Body Dissatisfaction Decreasing? A Meta-Analytic Review


• Latent Variable Analysis of Coping, Anxiety/Depression, and Somatic Symptoms in Adolescents With Chronic Pain


• How Stress Management Improves Quality of Life After Treatment for Breast Cancer


• Does Reducing Withdrawal Severity Mediate Nicotine Patch Efficacy? A Randomized Clinical Trial


• Evaluating Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Stage-Based Therapies in a Population-Based Effectiveness Trial


• A Randomized Trial of a Brief Mental Health Intervention for Primary Care Patients


• Couple and Individual Adjustment for 2 Years Following a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Traditional Versus Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy


• Family Functioning and Mood Disorders: A Comparison Between Patients With Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar I Disorder


• Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety Reduction: An Examination of Specificity and Temporality

• Counting llamas and accounting for people: livestock, land and citizens in southern Bolivia


• Transformative capacity, information technology, and the making of business 'experts'


• Subjectivity, visual technology, and public culture: watching the ethnographic film, Malanggan Labadama in New Ireland


• Assembling an economic actor: the agencement of a Hedge Fund


• The nostalgia for permanence at work? The end of work and its commentators


• Re-defining 'norms': D/deaf young people's transitions to independence


• Objecting relations: the problem of the gift


• Official policies and informal transversal networks: Creating 'pan-European identifications' through sport?

Note. New content is added to IP Monday through Friday. See you again on Monday. Please note the following important work done by Dr. Robert Leighninger and colleagues in JSSW. It deserves serious attention.

Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 33, 4

• Examining the Original Grasmick Scale


• Police Education, Experience, and the Use of Force


• The Impact of Perceived Need for Treatment on Risk of Arrest and Violence Among People With Severe Mental Illness


• A Multisite Study of Community Treatment Programs for Mentally Ill Offenders With Major Mental Disorders: Design, Measures, and the Forensic Sample


• The Influence of Parental Support Among Incarcerated Adolescent Offenders: The Moderating Effects of Self-Control


• Occupational Stress, Personality Traits, Coping Strategies, and Suicide Ideation in the South African Police Service


• A Longitudinal Study of Psychological Functioning Among Juvenile Offenders: A Latent Growth Model Analysis


• Sequestering Gang Members, Burning Witches, and Subverting Due Process

• The ‘User’: Friend, foe or fetish?: A critical exploration of user involvement in health and social care


• Immigration, social cohesion and social capital: A critical review


• With friends like these: The liberalization of queer family policy


• When two dark figures collide: Evidence and discourse on drug-related crime


• Policing the housing crisis


• Outdoor play spaces in Canada: The safety dance of standards as policy


• Closed policy networks, broken chains of communication and the stories behind an ‘entrepreneurial policy’: The case of NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (NHS LIFT)

• Is the Adoption and Safe Families Act Influencing Child Welfare Outcomes for Families With Substance Abuse Issues?


• Substance Use in Maltreated Youth: Findings From the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being


• Pathways to Collaboration: Exploring Values and Collaborative Practice Between Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Treatment Fields


• How Effective Are Family Treatment Drug Courts? Outcomes From a Four-Site National Study


• Repeated Questions, Deception, and Children’s True and False Reports of Body Touch


• Development and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Community Norms of Child Neglect Scale


• Risk of Death Among Children Reported for Nonfatal Maltreatment


• Measuring the Risk of Physical Neglect in a Population-Based Sample

• On the voting power of an alliance and the subsequent power of its members


• Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Opportunity Sets


• The Chairman’s Paradox Revisited


• Utility-gap Dominances and Inequality Orderings


• Lorenz Dominance and Non-welfaristic Redistribution


• Arrow’s Axiom and Full Rationality for Fuzzy Choice Functions


• ‘One and a Half Dimensional’ Preferences and Majority Rule


• Psychology Implies Paternalism? Bounded Rationality may Reduce the Rationale to Regulate Risk-Taking

• What is Correctional About Clinical Practice in Corrections?


• Actuarial Assessment of Violence Risk: To Weigh or Not to Weigh?


• Actuarial Assessment of Risk for Reoffense Among Adult Sex Offenders: Evaluating the Predictive Accuracy of the Static-2002 and Five Other Instruments


• Personality, Criminal Behavior, and Risk Assessment: Implications for Theory and Practice


• Implementing "Corrections of Place" Ideas: The Perspective of Clients and Staff


• Graduate Students’ Experiences, Interests, and Attitudes Toward Correctional/Forensic Psychology


• Moral Reasoning of Adolescent Male Offenders: Comparison of Sexual and Nonsexual Offenders


• It’s no Riddle, Choose the Middle: The Effect of Number of Crimes and Topographical Detail on Police Officer Predictions of Serial Burglars’ Home Locations


• Crime in Adult Offspring of Prisoners: A Cross-National Comparison of Two Longitudinal Samples

• Exploring the international arena of global public health surveillance


• From the field side of the binoculars: a different view on global public health surveillance


• Resource needs to support orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa


• Diffusion of complex health innovations—implementation of primary health care reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina


• The impact of micro health insurance on Rwandan health centre costs


• The distribution of net benefits under the National Health Insurance programme in Taiwan

• A Complexity Approach to Psychological Well-Being in Adolescence: Major Strengths and Methodological Issues


• Pets and Human Health in Germany and Australia: National Longitudinal Results


• Subjective Well-Being, Poverty and Ethnicity in South Africa: Insights from an Exploratory Analysis


• Quality of College Life (QCL) of Students: Developing and Validating a Measure of Well-Being


• On the Relationship between the Public’s Worry about Safety from Burglary and Probabilities of Burglary: Some Evidence from Simultaneous Equation Models


• The Effect of Depressive Symptoms on the Association between Functional Status and Social Participation


• Family Life Quality and Emotional Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents with and Without Economic Disadvantage


• Monitoring Urban Quality of Life: The Porto Experience


• A Stock-Take of Green National Accounting Initiatives

• Dropout in a longitudinal, cohort study of urologic disease in community men


• Checklist for the qualitative evaluation of clinical studies with particular focus on external validity and model validity


• Dealing with missing data in a multi-question depression scale: a comparison of imputation methods


• Economics methods in Cochrane systematic reviews of health promotion and public health related interventions


• The stepped wedge trial design: a systematic review


• Performance of statistical models to predict mental health and substance abuse cost


• A system for rating the stability and strength of medical evidence


• Re-interpreting conventional interval estimates taking into account bias and extra-variation


• Development and validation of MIX: comprehensive free software for meta-analysis of causal research data


• Structural equation and log-linear modeling: a comparison of methods in the analysis of a study on caregivers' health


• An instrument to measure job satisfaction of nursing home administrators


• Methodological standards in non-inferiority AIDS trials: moving from adherence to compliance


• Error in statistical tests of error in statistical tests


• The relationship between quality of research and citation frequency


• Country development and manuscript selection bias: a review of published studies


• Conducting a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groups


• Increasing recruitment to randomised trials: a review of randomised controlled trials


• An alternative to the hand searching gold standard: validating methodological search filters using relative recall


• Calculating confidence intervals for impact numbers


• Meta-DiSc: a software for meta-analysis of test accuracy data


• The demise of the randomised controlled trial: bibliometric study of the German-language health care literature, 1948 to 2004


• Circular instead of hierarchical: methodological principles for the evaluation of complex interventions


• Does updating improve the methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews?


• The fading of reported effectiveness. A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials


• Optimizing search strategies to identify randomized controlled trials in MEDLINE


• Identifying systematic reviews of the adverse effects of health care interventions


• Scratch lottery tickets are a poor incentive to respond to mailed questionnaires


• Multivariable risk prediction can greatly enhance the statistical power of clinical trial subgroup analysis


• Planning a cluster randomized trial with unequal cluster sizes: practical issues involving continuous outcomes


• Using intervention time series analyses to assess the effects of imperfectly identifiable natural events: a general method and example


• Reviewer agreement trends from four years of electronic submissions of conference abstract


• Beyond logistic regression: structural equations modelling for binary variables and its application to investigating unobserved confounders


• Reproducibility of the STARD checklist: an instrument to assess the quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies


• Evaluation of QUADAS, a tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies


• Can electronic search engines optimize screening of search results in systematic reviews: an empirical study


• Does sampling using random digit dialling really cost more than sampling from telephone directories: Debunking the myths


• Maximising response to postal questionnaires – A systematic review of randomised trials in health research


• Searching for observational studies: what does citation tracking add to PubMed? A case study in depression and coronary heart disease


• Room for improvement? A survey of the methods used in systematic reviews of adverse effects

• Disciplining Bodies, Desires and Subjectivities: Sexuality and HIV-Positive Women


• Midwifery, Informed Choice, and Reproductive Autonomy: A Relational Approach


• Lesbian Mothers Living Well in the Context of Heterosexism and Discrimination: Resources, Strategies and Legislative Change


• The Absent Breast: Speaking of the Mastectomied Body


• ‘Spontaneous’ Sexual Consent: An Analysis of Sexual Consent Literature


• Lesbians and Bisexual Women in the Eyes of Scientific Psychology

• The extension of healthcare coverage and protection in relation to the labour market: Problems and policies in Latin America


• Universalism versus targeting: The vulnerability of social insurance and means-tested minimum income protection in 18 countries, 1990-2002


• Tentative evaluation of the impact of public transfers on the dynamics of poverty: The case of Russia


• Social security pensionable ages in OECD countries: 1949-2035


• Reactions to social security retirement reform proposals in the United States

• Crisis Intervention for Students of Diverse Backgrounds: School Counselors' Concerns


• Sexually Abused Children Who Exhibit Sexual Behavior Problems: Victimization Characteristics


• Determinants of Substance Abuse Among Incarcerated Adolescents: Implications for Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention


• Inmate Suicide: Prevalence, Assessment, and Protocols


• Understanding the Impact of Prior Abuse and Prior Victimization on the Decision to Forego Criminal Justice Assistance in Domestic Violence Incidents: A Life-Course Perspective


• Serial Sexual Murderers and Prostitutes as Their Victims: Difficulty Profiling Perpetrators and Victim Vulnerability as Illustrated by the Green River Case

• The role of childhood risk factors in initiation of alcohol use and progression to alcohol dependence


• Viewing videotape of themselves while experiencing delirium tremens could reduce the relapse rate in alcohol-dependent patients


• Theory of mind, humour processing and executive functioning in alcoholism


• Controlled study of brief personalized assessment-feedback for drinkers interested in self-help


• Do alcohol restrictions reduce suicide mortality


• Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with reduced quality of life among methadone patients


• Methadone in pregnancy: treatment retention and neonatal outcomes


• Effects of varying the monetary value of voucher-based incentives on abstinence achieved during and following treatment among cocaine-dependent outpatients


• A database on treating drug addiction with traditional Chinese medicine


• Corrected-QT intervals as related to methadone dose and serum level in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patients—a cross-sectional study


• Readiness for change and drug use outcomes after treatment


• What do we get for our money? Cost-effectiveness of adding contingency management


• London audit of drug-related overdose deaths: characteristics and typology, and implications for prevention and monitoring


• Smoking in the absence of nicotine: behavioral, subjective and physiological effects over 11 days

• Addressing Data Sparseness in Contextual Population Research: Using Cluster Analysis to Create Synthetic Neighborhoods


• A Unified Maximum Likelihood Approach for Analyzing Structural Equation Models With Missing Nonstandard Data


• Experimental Plans in Factorial Surveys: Random or Quota Design?


• The Joint Effect of Topic Interest and Follow-Up Procedures on the Response in a Mail Questionnaire: An Empirical Test of the Leverage-Saliency Theory in Audience Research


• Statistical Inference for Generalized Yule Coefficients in 2 x 2 Contingency Tables

• Central American Grandparents Raising Grandchildren


• Neighborhood Structural Qualities, Adolescents’ Perceptions of Neighborhoods, and Latino Youth Development


• The Relative Importance of Race and Socioeconomic Status Among Hispanic and White Students


• The Role of Parents and Partners in the Pregnancy Behaviors of Young Latinas


• The Prevalence and Comorbidity Between Delinquency, Drug Abuse, Suicide Attempts, Physical and Sexual Abuse, and Self-Mutilation Among Delinquent Hispanic Females


• Acculturation and Its Effect on Depressive Symptom Structure in a Sample of Mexican American Elders


• Examining Drinking Consequences and Reasons for Drinking in a Bilingual College Sample

• A Content Analysis of the Content Analysis Literature in Organization Studies: Research Themes, Data Sources, and Methodological Refinements


• A Longitudinal Examination of the Comparative Criterion-Related Validity of Additive and Referent-Shift Consensus Operationalizations of Team Efficacy


• In Defense of Being "Native": The Case for Insider Academic Research


• Using Indices of Group Agreement in Multilevel Construct Validation


• Using Multilevel Random Coefficient Modeling to Investigate Rater Effects in Performance Ratings


• Using a Random-Effects Model to Test Differing Conceptualizations of Multidimensional Constructs


• Integrating Implicit and Explicit Social Cognitions for Enhanced Personality Assessment: A General Framework for Choosing Measurement and Statistical Methods

• Metaphors at Work: Maintaining the Salience of Gender in Self-Managing Teams


• You Have to Show Strength: An Exploration of Gender, Race, and Depression


• Gender and Organizational Culture: Correlates of Companies' Responsiveness to Fathers in Sweden


• Stained Glass Makes the Ceiling Visible: Organizational Opposition to Women in Congregational Leadership


• Undoing Gender

• Feasibility, acceptability, and quality of Internet-administered adolescent health promotion in a preventive-care setting


• Identifying determinants of protocol adoption by midwives: a comprehensive approach


• Descriptors and accounts of alcohol consumption: methodological issues piloted with female undergraduate drinkers in Scotland


• Written medicines information for South African HIV/AIDS patients: does it enhance understanding of co-trimoxazole therapy?


• Promoting stair climbing: effects of message specificity and validation


• Focus points for school health promotion improvements in Dutch primary schools


• Health behaviour and academic achievement in Icelandic school children


• Association of substance-use behaviours and their social-cognitive determinants in secondary school students


• Fidelity of implementation in a treatment effectiveness trial of Reconnecting Youth


• How women with breast cancer learn using interactive cancer communication systems


• A randomized control trial of Internet-delivered HIV prevention targeting rural MSM


• Bystanding an abused child: testing the applicability of the stages of change construct


• Comparing the magnitude of discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS and toward people with mental illness in the Hong Kong general population

• Introduction to Special Issue on International Perspectives on Counseling Psychology


• The Current State and Future Direction of Counseling Psychology in Australia


• Counselling Psychology in Canada: Advancing Psychology for All


• Counseling Psychology in China


• Counseling Psychology in Hong Kong: A Germinating Discipline


• Counselling Psychology in India: At the Confluence of Two Traditions


• Counseling Psychology in Israel: A Virtual Specialty in Transition


• A Perspective on Counseling Psychology in Japan: Toward a Lifespan Approach


• Current Status and Prospects of Korean Counseling Psychology: Research, Clinical Training, and Job Placement


• Perspectives on Counseling Psychology: Portugal at a Glance


• Counseling Psychology in France: A Paradoxical Situation


• Transforming a Past into a Future: Counseling Psychology in South Africa


• Internationalising Counseling Psychology in the United States: A SWOT Analysis


• Internationalisation of Counseling Psychology: Constructing Cross-National Consensus and Collaboration

• Critical evaluation of the use of research tools in evaluating quality of life for people with schizophrenia


• Cluster A personality disorders: Considering the 'odd-eccentric' in psychiatric nursing


• Mental health nurses' experiences of schizophrenia rehabilitation in China and India: A preliminary study


• Evaluation of a forensic psychiatric setting to provide a graduate nurse programme


• Self-reported consequences and needs for support associated with abuse in female users of psychiatric care


• Critique of Falloon and the Optimal Treatment Project


• Perceptions of the concept of health among nurses working in mental health services: A phenomenographic study


• Evidence-based mental health nursing in Australia: Our history and our future


• Family caregivers' satisfaction with home care for mental illness in Taiwan

• A Historical Look at Psychology and the Scientist-Practitioner Model


• Foundations and Assumptions of the Scientist-Practitioner Model


• Components Necessary for the Preparation of the Scientist-Practitioner


• Is the Scientist-Practitioner Model Viable for School Psychology Practice?


• Implication of the Scientist-Practitioner Model in Counseling Psychology Training and Practice


• Educational Psychologists as Scientist-Practitioners: An Expansion of the Meaning of a Scientist-Practitioner


• The Scientist-Practitioner Model: A Rose by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose


• Analysis of the Effects of Gender and Doctoral Program Emphasis on Scientist and Practitioner Interests


• A Pilot Study Examining the Longer Term Stability of the Scientist-Practitioner Model of Training


• Reaffirming the Role of the Scientist-Practitioner Model of Training in Psychology

• 'Sifting the Wheat from the Chaff': A Two-dimensional Discriminant Analysis of Welfare State Regime Theory


• (Not) Taking Account of Precarious Employment: Workfare Policies and Lone Mothers in Ontario and the UK


• Updating the Debate on Intergenerational Fairness in Pension Reform


• Safe as Houses? Ageing in Place and Vulnerable Older People in the UK


• 'Policies Don't Protect People, It's How They Are Implemented': Policy and Practice in Protecting People with Learning Disabilities from Abuse

• Quality of life, health status and clinical outcomes in Type 2 diabetes patients


• A comparison of the health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic foot ulcers, with a diabetes group and a nondiabetes group from the general population


• Once-daily sublingual allergen-specific immunotherapy improves quality of life in patients with grass pollen-induced allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: A double-blind, randomised study


• Health-related quality of life: Hepatocellular carcinoma, chronic liver disease, and the general population


• Recovered? Association between self-perceived recovery and the SF-36 after minor musculoskeletal injuries


• Health-related quality of life after laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy: Is uterine weight a major factor?


• Health-related quality of life of firefighters and police officers 8.5 years after the air disaster in Amsterdam


• Oral health-related quality of life and somatization in the elderly


• What does quality of life mean to older frail and non-frail community-dwelling adults in the Netherlands?


• Functional status in the elderly with insomnia


• Black–white differences in health-related quality of life among older adults


• Testing relationships between clinical and non-clinical variables in xerostomia: A structural equation model of oral health-related quality of life


• Predictors of quality of life: A model based study


• Responsiveness of the EuroQol (EQ-5D) and the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) in elderly patients with femoral neck fractures


• The development of a new measure of quality of life in the management of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: the Reflux questionnaire


• Validation of the asthma impact survey, a brief asthma-specific quality of life tool


• Health status and quality of life after acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Music at Work: An Introduction


• Outside the Gates of Eden: Utopia and Work in Rock Music


• Makin' It, by Keeping It Real: Street Talk, Rap Music, and the Forgotten Entrepreneurship From "the ’Hood"


• Management and Music: The Exceptional Case of the IBM Songbook


• Fitting In: The Effects of Relational Demography and Person-Culture Fit on Group Process and Performance

• Work-Family Conflicts and Self-Rated Health Among Middle-Aged Municipal Employees in Finland


• Benefits of the Uncertainty Management Intervention for African American and White Older Breast Cancer Survivors: 20-Month Outcomes


• Understanding Exercise Behavior Among Korean Adults: A Test of the Transtheoretical Model


• Efficacy of a Computer-Based Hearing Test and Tailored Hearing Protection Intervention


• Feasibility of an Electronic Diary in Clinical Burnout


• The Relationship Between Parenting Dimensions and Adult Achievement: Evidence From the Whitehall II Study


• Effects of Expectation and Caffeine on Arousal, Well-Being, and Reaction Time


• Social Support and Behavior in a Stressful Situation in Relation to Myocardial Infarction and Mortality: Who Is at Risk? Results from Prospective Cohort Study "Men Born in 1914," Malmö, Sweden

Note. New content is added to IP Monday through Friday. See you again on Monday. Please note the following important work done by Dr. Robert Leighninger and colleagues in JSSW. It deserves serious attention.

Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 33, 4

• Developing Visibility for Aging in Social Work: The First NGSWC


• Creating Aging-Enriched Social Work Education: A Process of Curricular and Organizational Change


• Infusing Gerontology Throughout the BSW Curriculum


• Strengthening Aging Content in the Baccalaureate Social Work Curricula: What Students Have to Say


• Geriatric Enrichment: Guaranteeing a Place for Aging in the Curriculum


• Building on the Life-Span Perspective: A Model for Infusing Geriatric Social Work


• Increasing Aging Content in Social Work Curriculum: Perceptions of Key Constituents


• A Competency Approach to Curriculum Building: A Social Work Mission


• Transforming the Curriculum Through the Intergenerational Lens


• Developing Geriatric Social Work Competencies for Field Education


• Intergenerational Service-Learning: An Innovative Teaching Strategy to Infuse Gerontology Content into Foundation Courses


• Increasing Aging and Advocacy Competency: The Intergenerational Advocacy Pilot Project


• Developing an Aging Prepared Community: Collaboration Among Counties, Consumers, Professionals and Organizations


• Social Work and Aging in the Emerging Health Care World


• End-of-Life Care and Social Work Education: What Do Students Need to Know?


• Environmental Issues Affecting Elder Abuse Victims in Their Reception of Community Based Services


• Research, Macro Practice and Aging in the Social Work Education Curriculum

• Transformation and the Woman in Stiletto Pumps: Me and Mrs. B.


• The Dance


• Auspicious Experience in Social Work: The Development of One Psychodynamic Practitioner


• The Third Time was the Charm


• Pentimento


• All-In-One-Motion


• The Mother Who Didn't See Her Baby and the Hospital That Didn't See the Psychiatrist


• Interpreting the Countertransference Erection: On Transformation and the Therapist's Internal Experience


• John Coltrane and Me


• Therapeutic Intimacy: A Post-9/11 Perspective


• September 10, 2001


• In Praise of Wordless Comfort


• Transformation and Kaleidoscope Memories


• On the Bus: Toward a Career in Social Work

• Resource Utilization and Expenditures for Overweight and Obese Children


• Overweight Among Young Children in the Philadelphia Health Care Centers: Incidence and Prevalence


• Externalizing and Attentional Behaviors in Children of Depressed Mothers Treated With a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressant During Pregnancy


• Disparities in Pediatric Preventive Care in the United States, 1993-2002


• Effect of Multisource Feedback on Resident Communication Skills and Professionalism: A Randomized Controlled Trial


• Parental Satisfaction With Early Pediatric Care and Immunization of Young Children: The Mediating Role of Age-Appropriate Well-Child Care Utilization


• Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats vs Safety Belts for Children Aged 2 to 3 Years


• A Systematic Review of School-Based Interventions to Prevent Bullying

• Gender plays no role in student ability to perform on computer-based examinations


• Knowledge and attitudes about health research amongst a group of Pakistani medical students


• The impact of the implementation of work hour requirements on residents' career satisfaction, attitudes and emotions


• The research rotation: competency-based structured and novel approach to research training of internal medicine residents


• Analysis of role-play in medical communication training using a theatrical device the fourth wall


• Comparison between Long-Menu and Open-Ended Questions in computerized medical assessments. A randomized controlled trial


• Life satisfaction and resilience in medical school – a six-year longitudinal, nationwide and comparative study


• Standard setting: Comparison of two methods


• Dealing with suicidal patients – a challenging task: a qualitative study of young physicians' experiences


• Do community medicine residency trainees learn through journal club? An experience from a developing country


• Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education


• Development and evaluation of a cultural competency training curriculum


• Relationship between resident workload and self-perceived learning on inpatient medicine wards: a longitudinal study


• "That never would have occurred to me": a qualitative study of medical students' views of a cultural competence curriculum


• Using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire to teach medical students developmental assessment: a descriptive analysis


• A survey of the use of electronic scientific information resources among medical and dental students


• Impact of medical students' descriptive evaluations on long-term course development


• Evaluating the quality of interaction between medical students and nurses in a large teaching hospital


• Helping each other to learn – a process evaluation of peer assisted learning


• Medical students' perceptions in relation to ethnicity and gender: a qualitative study


• Can standardized patients replace physicians as OSCE examiners?


• Effectiveness of skills-based training using the Drink-less package to increase family practitioner confidence in intervening for alcohol use disorders

• Gay Men Living with HIV/AIDS: The Potential for Empowerment


• Empowerment: The Evolving Nature of the Relationship Between HIV/AIDS Patients and Their Physicians


• "Wearing Two Hats": Work-Related Needs of HIV-Seropositive Women Working in the HIV Field


• Facilitators and Barriers to Care for Haitian Americans with HIV or AIDS


• Thai Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Perspectives on Coping

• Confessions of a novice rational-emotive therapist


• Selecting a Counseling Theory While Scratching Your Head: A Rational-Emotive Therapist’s Personal Journey


• Rational emotive behavior therapy: A Tough-Minded therapy for a Tender-Minded profession


• Reducing REBT’s “Wince Factor:” an insider’s perspective

• Policies and Practices in Support of Family Caregivers- Filial Obligations Redefined in Sweden


• Danish Home Care Policy and the Family: Implications for the United States


• A Critical Review of Singapore's Policies Aimed at Supporting Families Caring for Older Members


• Families' Values and Attitudes Regarding Responsibility for the Frail Elderly: Implications for Aging Policy


• Commentary: What Role for the Family and Medical Leave Act in Long-Term Care Policy?


• Preliminary Experiences of the States in Implementing the National Family Caregiver Support Program: A 50-State Study


• Families, Work, and an Aging Population: Developing a Formula That Works for the Workers


• Family and Friends as Respite Providers


• The Family Caregiving Career: Implications for Community-Based Long-Term Care Practice and Policy


• Zoning, Accessory Dwelling Units, and Family Caregiving: Issues, Trends, and Recommendations


• Resident and Family Perspectives on Assisted Living


• Welfare Reform: Challenges for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren


• State Policy Decisions in the 1990s with Implications for the Financial Well-Being of Later-Life Families

• The Treatment of Depression in Older Adults in the Primary Care Setting: An Evidence-Based Review


• Physical Activity and Cognitive Function in a Cross-Section of Younger and Older Community-Dwelling Individuals


• Misremembering Colostomies? Former Patients Give Lower Utility Ratings Than Do Current Patients


• The Role of Illness Uncertainty on Coping with Fibromyalgia Symptoms


• Neighborhood, Family, and Subjective Socioeconomic Status: How Do They Relate to Adolescent Health?


• Affective and Behavioral Responses to Health-Related Social Control


• Links Between Physical Fitness and Cardiovascular Reactivity and Recovery to Psychological Stressors: A Meta-Analysis


• Can Genetic Risk Information Enhance Motivation for Smoking Cessation? An Analogue Study


• Strategies Used in Coping With a Cancer Diagnosis Predict Meaning in Life for Survivors


• Rated Helpfulness and Partner-Reported Smoking Cessation Support Across the Pregnancy-Postpartum Continuum


• Perceiver and Relationship Effects on Perceptions of HIV Status: A Naturalistic Study in a High Drug Use Sample


• Neurocognitive Influences on Health Behavior in a Community Sample

• Structure, (governance) and health: an unsolicited response


• Wealth and sexual behaviour among men in Cameroon


• Awareness and practice of patient's rights law in Lithuania


• Syphilis screening in the antenatal care: a cross-sectional study from Botswana


• Care seeking behaviour for childhood illness- a questionnaire survey in western Nepal


• Antenatal HIV testing in rural eastern Uganda in 2003: incomplete rollout of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programme?


• Demography and sex work characteristics of female sex workers in India


• Human rights, health and the state in Bangladesh


• A descriptive study of youth risk behavior in urban and rural secondary school students in El Salvador


• Community referral in home management of malaria in western Uganda: A case series study


• Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting

• Trouble en Route: Drug Trafficking and Clientelism in Rio de Janeiro Shantytowns


• A Calmly Disruptive Insider: The Case of an Institutionalized Advocacy Organization at Work


• Voice and Agency in Social Movement Outcomes


• The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests near Fort Bragg


• The Politics of Space and Culture in Santiago, Chile’s Street Markets

• The Efficacy of an Implementation Intention Intervention for Promoting Physical Activity Among Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial


• Measurement Properties of the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination (Cognistat) in Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation


• Qualitative Analysis of the Peer-Mentoring Relationship Among Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury


• Predicting Walking Intentions and Exercise in Individuals With Intermittent Claudication: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior


• Frequency and Correlates of Depression Symptoms Among Long-Term Adult Burn Survivors


• Physical Activity After Cardiac Rehabilitation: Evidence That Different Types of Self-Efficacy Are Important in Maintainers and Relapsers


• Perceived Social Support, Psychological Adjustment, and Functional Ability in Youths With Physical Disabilities


• Psychometric Properties of the Rehabilitation Therapy Engagement Scale When Used Among Individuals With Acquired Brain Injury


• Perceived Overprotection and Distress in Adults With Visual Impairment


• Emotional Distress and Urinary Incontinence Among Older Women

• The Surprisingly Rich Contours of Schizophrenia Epidemiology


• Lifetime Prevalence of Psychotic and Bipolar I Disorders in a General Population


• Elevated Prenatal Homocysteine Levels as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia


• Incidence of Hospitalization for Postpartum Psychotic and Bipolar Episodes in Women With and Without Prior Prepregnancy or Prenatal Psychiatric Hospitalizations


• A Prospective Investigation of Major Depressive Disorder and Comorbidity in Abused and Neglected Children Grown Up


• Effects of Co-occurring Cannabis Use Disorders on the Course of Bipolar Disorder After a First Hospitalization for Mania


• Cost-effectiveness of Systematic Depression Treatment Among People With Diabetes Mellitus


• Altered Pain Processing in Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder


• Trends in the Inpatient Mental Health Treatment of Children and Adolescents in US Community Hospitals Between 1990 and 2000


• Abnormal Attention Modulation of Fear Circuit Function in Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder


• Prospective Study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Coronary Heart Disease in the Normative Aging Study

• What is Correctional About Clinical Practice in Corrections?


• Actuarial Assessment of Violence Risk: To Weigh or Not to Weigh?


• Actuarial Assessment of Risk for Reoffense Among Adult Sex Offenders: Evaluating the Predictive Accuracy of the Static-2002 and Five Other Instruments


• Personality, Criminal Behavior, and Risk Assessment: Implications for Theory and Practice


• Implementing "Corrections of Place" Ideas: The Perspective of Clients and Staff


• Graduate Students’ Experiences, Interests, and Attitudes Toward Correctional/Forensic Psychology


• Graduate Students’ Experiences, Interests, and Attitudes Toward Correctional/Forensic Psychology


• Moral Reasoning of Adolescent Male Offenders: Comparison of Sexual and Nonsexual Offenders


• It’s no Riddle, Choose the Middle: The Effect of Number of Crimes and Topographical Detail on Police Officer Predictions of Serial Burglars’ Home Locations


• Crime in Adult Offspring of Prisoners: A Cross-National Comparison of Two Longitudinal Samples

• ESPA net/JESP Doctoral Researcher Prize Essay: Country-level comparisons of welfare state change measures: another facet of the dependent variable problem within the comparative analysis of the welfare state?


• Hidden change: disaggregation of welfare state regimes for greater insight into welfare state change


• Modelling an entitlement to long-term care services for older people in Europe: projections for long-term care expenditure to 2050


• ‘Old’ and ‘new’ politics of time to care: three Norwegian reforms


• Housing inequalities in an enlarged European Union: patterns, drivers, implications