• Adjusting Actuarial Violence Risk Assessments Based on Aging or the Passage of Time


• The Relationship of Statistical and Psychological Risk Markers to Sexual Reconviction in Child Molesters


• Social Information Processing, Experiences of Aggression in Social Contexts, and Aggressive Behavior in Adolescents


• Predictive Validity of the Joint Risk Matrix With Juvenile Offenders: A Focus on Gender and Race/Ethnicity


• Development and Field Test of a Gender-Informed Security Reclassification Scale for Female Offenders


• Stress and Burnout Among Prison Personnel: Sources, Outcomes, and Intervention Strategies


• Computer Equivalency of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised in a Nonincarcerated Population


• A 10-Year Update of "Review and Critique of Empirical Studies of Rape Avoidance"

• Meaning versus measurement: why do 'economic' indicators of poverty still predominate?


• Gender justice: the World Bank's new approach to the poor?


• Researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa


• Participation, education, and pluralism: towards a new extension ethic


• Strategising prevention: a critical review of local initiatives to prevent female sex trafficking


• The human organisation: challenges in NGOs and development programmes


• NGOs and the dynamics of the Egyptian labour market


• Development versus enjoyment of life: a post-development critique of the developmentalist worldview


• Gender equality - whose agenda? Observations from Cameroon


• Generosity undermined: the Cotonou Agreement and the African Growth and Opportunity Act


• Capacity building through secondment of staff: a possible model in emergencies?


• Evaluating HIV/AIDS education programmes in Ugandan secondary schools


• 'Strong nets catch fish': promoting pro-poor partnerships in Bangladesh


• Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh


• Adult learning and literacy learning for livelihoods: some international perspectives


• Ni Vanuatu women graduates: what happens when they go home?

• Introducing the Issue


• Intergenerational Social Mobility: The United States in Comparative Perspective


• Intergenerational Mobility for Women and Minorities in the United States


• Making It in America: Social Mobility in the Immigrant Population


• Early Childhood Development and Social Mobility


• U.S. Elementary and Secondary Schools: Equalizing Opportunity or Replicating the Status Quo?


• The Role of Higher Education in Social Mobility


• Children's Health and Social Mobility


• “Culture” and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: The Prevention Paradox

• The impact of gestational stress and prenatal growth on emotional problems in offspring: a review


• Antidepressants in child and adolescent depression: where are the bugs?


• Preadult onset vs. adult onset of major depressive disorder: a replication study


• Predictors of long-term work disability in Major Depressive Disorder: a prospective study


• Clinical indices of familial depression in the Swedish Twin Registry


• Parsing the clinical phenotype of depression: the need to integrate brief depressive episodes


• Economic costs of minor depression: a population-based study


• Toward a better understanding of the pathophysiology of OCD SSRI responders: QEEG source localization


• Mental distress and quality of life in the hard of hearing


• A growth in bipolar disorder?

• Anxiety Sensitivity and Panic Attacks: A 1-Year Longitudinal Study


• Anxiety Sensitivity: A Missing Piece to the Agoraphobia-Without-Panic Puzzle


• Cognitive Errors, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Anxiety Control Beliefs: Their Unique and Specific Associations With Childhood Anxiety Symptoms


• Anxiety Sensitivity As a Prospective Predictor of Alcohol Use Disorders


• Development and Initial Examination of a Brief Intervention for Heightened Anxiety Sensitivity

• Relational Contracting Between Local Authorities and Independent Fostering Providers: Lessons in Conducting Business for Child Welfare Managers


• Cyber-bullying and Harassment of Teenagers: The Legal Response


• Children's Confidentiality at the Crossroad: Challenges for the Scottish Children's Hearing System


• Your Shout! Looked After Children's Perspectives on the Children Act 1989


• The 'Respect Action Plan': Something New or More of the Same?

• Quality of life in South Africa – The First Ten Years of Democracy


• Household Budgets as a Social Indicator of Poverty and Inequality in South Africa


• The Links between Migration, Poverty and Health: Evidence from Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s Plain


• Crime and perceptions after a decade of democracy


• The Heart in Haart: Quality of Life of Patients Enrolled in the Public Sector Antiretroviral Treatment Programme in the Free State Province of South Africa


• Measuring and understanding the well-being of South Africans: Everyday quality of life in South Africa


• Changes in the quality of life of Durban’s people


• Satisfied and dissatisfied South Africans: results from the General Household Survey in international comparison

• Cluster analysis in illness perception research: A Monte Carlo study to identify the most appropriate method


• Lay perceptions of serious illnesses: An adapted version of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) for healthy people


• Illness representations in young people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome


• The role of illness perceptions, coping and evaluation in care-seeking among people with type 1 diabetes


• Transitions into and out of caregiving: Health and social characteristics of mid-age Australian women


• Does couple identity mediate the stress experienced by caregiving spouses?


• Women's reflections upon their past abortions: An exploration of how and why emotional reactions change over time

• Romantic Relationships Trajectories of African American Gay/Bisexual Adolescents


• Types and Precipitants of Growth and Decline in Emerging Adulthood


• A Longitudinal Study of Perceived Differences in Parental Control and Parent-Child Relational Qualities in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong


• The Role of Organized Activities in Facilitating Social Adaptation Across the Transition to College

• Intimacy, Orgasm Likelihood, and Conflict Predict Sexual Satisfaction in Heterosexual Male and Female Respondents


• Sex Therapy through the Internet for Men with Sexual Dysfunctions: A Pilot Study


• The Effect of Male Erectile Dysfunction on the Psychosocial, Relationship, and Sexual Characteristics of Heterosexual Women in the United States


• Premature Ejaculation: The Scope of the Problem


• Itch and Burning Pain in Women with Partial Vaginismus with or without Vulvar Vestibulitis

• Careers for creature lovers


• Work more, earn more: Occupations that pay a premium for longer workweeks


• Jobs in weddings and funerals: Working with the betrothed and the bereaved


• Length of unemployment by occupation, 2006

• Monitoring health risk behavior of Dutch adolescents and the development of health promoting policies and activities: the E-MOVO project


• Australian parents' views on their 5–6-year-old children's food choices


• From innovation to practice: initiation, implementation and evaluation of a physician-based physical activity promotion programme in Finland


• The contribution of health discussion groups with students to campus health promotion


• Assessment of condom use among Bolivian truck drivers through the lens of social cognitive theory


• Understanding community perceptions of health and social needs in a rural Balinese village: results of a rapid participatory appraisal


• Evaluation of a national programme to reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections: effects on consumer awareness, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour in Australia


• Becoming a health promoting school: evaluating the process of effective implementation in Scotland


• Ottawa to Bangkok: changing health promotion discourse


• How to change environmental conditions for health

• The public perception of clinical psychologists: A discursive analysis


• Development of community psychology in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand


• Field supervisors' assessments of trainee performance: Are they reliable and valid?


• Peer review process: Assessments by applicant-nominated referees are biased, inflated, unreliable and invalid


• Modelling skill acquisition in acquired brain injury


• Accuracy of the Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR) and National Adult Reading Test (NART) when estimating IQ in a healthy Australian sample


• Guide to questioning children during the free-narrative phase of an investigative interview


• Intimate partner violence: What are the impacts on children?

• Communities Versus Networks: The Implications on Innovation and Social Change


• Communities, Places, and Social Networks


• Verba Volant, Scripta Manent: The Discontinuity Effect of Explicit Media


• The Territorial Dimension of the Knowledge Economy: Collective Learning, Spatial Changes, and Regional and Urban Policies


• Ecologies of Innovation: Symbolic Aspects of Cross-Organizational Linkages in the Design Sector in an Australian Inner-City Area


• The Cato Manor Development Project in Durban, South Africa: Urban Development Through Innovation


• Midlife Communities of Practice: Experiences and Alignment


• The Symbolic Dimension of Innovation Processes


• The Way We Do Things Around Here: Specification Versus Craft Culture in the History of Building

• Risk Management in Public–Private Partnership Contracts


• War as Rent-Seeking: A Public Choice Perspective on the Pacific War


• The Property Rights Approach to Nonprofit Organization: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation


• The Organizational Architecture of Nonprofit Governance: Economic Calculation Within an Ecology of Enterprises


• Contending Approaches and Models for Rationalizing Chinese Public Organizations: The Case of Western China

Read Richard Smith's editorial in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - Reed-Elsevier’s hypocrisy in selling arms and health

Note. New content is added to IP Monday through Friday. See you again on Monday.

• An Exploration of the Utility of a Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Measure


• The Impact of Social Desirability and Expectation of Feedback on Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace


• Emotional Intelligence and Propensity to be a Teamplayer


• Emotional Intelligence and Gifted Children


• Emotional Intelligence and Self-Esteem Mediate Between Perceived Early Parental Love and Adult Happiness

• Quality of life in age-related macular degeneration: a review of the literature


• Impact, distress and HRQoL among Malaysian men and women with a mobility impairment


• Combining scores from different patient reported outcome measures in meta-analyses: when is it justified?


• Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) scale for long-term cancer survivors in a sample of breast cancer survivors


• Measuring health-related quality of life in adolescents and young adults: Swedish normative data for the SF-36 and the HADS, and the influence of age, gender, and method of administration


• Assessing responsiveness of generic and specific health related quality of life measures in heart failure


• Development and validation of the short version of the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWB-S)


• Gynecologic oncology patients' satisfaction and symptom severity during palliative chemotherapy


• Positive and negative affect and oral health-related quality of life


• Health-related quality of life of Canadian children and youth prenatally exposed to alcohol


• The use of the SF-36 questionnaire in adult survivors of childhood cancer: evaluation of data quality, score reliability, and scaling assumptions


• Psychometric evaluation and predictive validity of Ryff's psychological well-being items in a UK birth cohort sample of women


• The PedsQL™ Present Functioning Visual Analogue Scales: preliminary reliability and validity


• Gender associated differences in determinants of quality of life in patients with COPD: a case series study


• The validity and responsiveness of three quality of life measures in the assessment of psoriasis patients: results of a phase II study


• A comprehensive review of 46 exercise treatment studies in fibromyalgia (1988–2005)


• Control and Prevention Health-Related Quality of Life (CDC HRQOL) items in adults with arthritis


• A promising method for identifying cross-cultural differences in patient perspective: the use of Internet-based focus groups for content validation of new Patient Reported Outcome assessments


• Health-related quality of life in children with newly diagnosed cancer: a one year follow-up study


• Interpreting the results of patient reported outcome measures in clinical trials: The clinician's perspective


• Measuring health-related quality of life in young adolescents: Reliability and validity in the Norwegian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL) generic core scales


• Factors influencing agreement between child self-report and parent proxy-reports on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales


• The validity of self-rated health as a measure of health status among young military personnel: evidence from a cross-sectional survey


• Cross-diagnostic validity in a generic instrument: an example from the Functional Independence Measure in Scandinavia


• Decomposition of sources of income-related health inequality applied on SF-36 summary scores: a Danish health survey


• Validation of the Burden Index of Caregivers (BIC), a multidimensional short care burden scale from Japan

• The Role of Economic Resources and Human Capital with Woman Abuse


• Educational Status and Savings Performance in Individual Development Accounts


• A Survey of Social Policy Placements in BSW Education


• State Response to Substance-Abusing TANF Recipients: The Challenge for Welfare Policy

• Rethinking Depression: An Ethnographic Study of the Experiences of Depression Among Chinese


• Defensive Avoidance of Disapproval: The Relationship of a Defensive Style to Physical and Mental Health


• Strategic Choices in the Psychotherapy of a "Fragile" Patient


• Increasing Genetic Education for Psychiatric Residents


• An Exploratory Project on the State of Quality Measures in Mental Health at Academic Health Centers

• Premarital Cohabitation, Husbands' Commitment, and Wives' Satisfaction with the Division of Household Contributions


• The Role of Husbands' Supportive Communication Practices in the Lives of Employed Mothers


• Family Work Performance and Satisfaction: Gender Ideology, Relative Resources, and Emotion Work


• The Impact of Parental Remarriage on Children: A Meta-Analysis


• Gender Differences in Adolescent Perceptions of Parent-Adolescent Openness in Communication and Adolescent Empathy

• The psychological science of addiction


• Alcohol tax cuts and increase in alcohol-positive sudden deaths—a time-series intervention analysis


• Alcohol and violence: use of possible confounders in a time-series analysis


• Identifying drunkenness in the night-time economy


• A randomized controlled trial of Minnesota day clinic treatment of alcoholics


• The monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) gene, family function and maltreatment as predictors of destructive behaviour during male adolescent alcohol consumption


• Attentional re-training decreases attentional bias in heavy drinkers without generalization


• Methadone maintenance treatment: the balance between life-saving treatment and fatal poisonings


• Exploring the relationship between genetic and environmental influences on initiation and progression of substance use


• Effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary standardized management model in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in drug addicts engaged in detoxification programmes


• Treatment setting and baseline substance use severity interact to predict patients' outcomes


• Predictors of mortality among injecting and non-injecting HIV-negative drug users in northern Thailand


• The impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on treatment outcomes for heroin dependence


• Trends and college-level characteristics associated with the non-medical use of prescription drugs among US college students from 1993 to 2001


• Allocation of substance use disorder patients to appropriate levels of care: feasibility of matching guidelines in routine practice in Dutch treatment centres


• Childhood social disadvantage and smoking in adulthood: results of a 25-year longitudinal study


• Effects of rapid smoking on post-cessation urges to smoke

• Prevalence of Heart Disease --- United States, 2005


• QuickStats: Percentage of Trauma-Related Visits to Emergency Departments, by Transport Mode and Patient Age Group --- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, United States, 2003--2004

• How do we increase problem drinkers' self-efficacy? A nurse-led brief intervention putting theory into practice


• Safety first? The impact of domestic abuse on women's treatment experience


• A 24-week outcome following buprenorphine maintenance among opiate users in India


• Influences of norm proximity and norm types on binge and non-binge drinkers: examining the under-examined aspects of social norms interventions on college campuses


• Can you trust self-reports among injectable drug users in clinical setting?

• Continuity and Change in Premarital Sex in Vietnam


• Unwanted Pregnancy and Associated Factors Among Nigerian Women


• Using Strength of Fertility Motivations to Identify Family Planning Program Strategies


• Relationship Between HIV Risk Perception and Condom Use: Evidence from a Population-Based Survey in Mozambique


• Domestic Violence and Symptoms of Gynecologic Morbidity Among Women in North India


• Choice Is Empowering: Getting Strategic About Preventing HIV Infection in Women

• Addressing Racial Disparities in Social Welfare Programs: Using Social Equity Analysis to Examine the Problem


• A Comparative Analysis of Stakeholder Power in the Mexican and U.S. Health Care Systems


• Institutional and Community-Based Long-Term Care: A Comparative Estimate of Public Costs


• The Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004: A Study in the Political Economy of Drug Policy


• "Missing" Domestic Violence Victims in Welfare Caseloads: The Discrepancy Between Administrative and Survey Disclosure Rates

• What are the sources of feelings of incompetence in experienced therapists?


• Help-seeking and paranormal beliefs in adherents of mainstream religion, alternative religion, and no religion


• Counsellor facial expression and client-perceived rapport


• Issues in brief counselling with postgraduate research students


• Conjoint therapy and domestic violence: Treating the individuals and the relationship


• "Making things better": Personal construct counselling for young children


• Assessing and predicting supervisors' evaluations of psychotherapists - an empirical study


• The effects of metacognitive training on the academic achievement and happiness of Esfahan University conditional students


• Researching psychotherapy integration: A heuristic approach

• High risk behaviors of injection drug users registered with harm reduction programme in Karachi, Pakistan


• Continued spread of HIV among injecting drug users in southern Sichuan Province, China


• Substitution treatment for opioid addicts in Germany


• Roadside sobriety tests and attitudes toward a regulated cannabis market


• Overdose prevention for injection drug users: Lessons learned from naloxone training and distribution programs in New York City


• Rates of inappropriate antiretroviral prescription among injection drug users


• Factors associated with premature mortality among young injection drug users in Vancouver


• Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers


• HIV seroprevalence among participants at a Supervised Injection Facility in Vancouver, Canada: implications for prevention, care and treatment


• HIV seroprevalence among participants at a Supervised Injection Facility in Vancouver, Canada: implications for prevention, care and treatment


• Barriers to the dissemination of four harm reduction strategies: a survey of addiction treatment providers in Ontario


• Expressive writing for high-risk drug dependent patients in a primary care clinic: A pilot study


• Vulnerability to HIV infection among sex worker and non-sex worker female injecting drug users in Dhaka, Bangladesh: evidence from the baseline survey of a cohort study


• Evaluation of herbal cannabis characteristics by medical users: a randomized trial


• Therapeutic challenges in hepatitis C-infected injection drug using patients


• Harm reduction services for British Columbia's First Nation population: a qualitative inquiry into opportunities and barriers for injection drug users


• Assessing the feasibility of harm reduction services for MSM: the late night breakfast buffet study


• Methodology for the Randomised Injecting Opioid Treatment Trial (RIOTT): evaluating injectable methadone and injectable heroin treatment versus optimised oral methadone treatment in the UK


• A review of the evidence for the effectiveness of primary prevention interventions for Hepatitis C among injecting drug users


• High HCV seroprevalence and HIV drug use risk behaviors among injection drug users in Pakistan


• Insite: Canada's landmark safe injecting program at risk


• Patient, prisoner or person?


• Smoking marijuana in public: the spatial and policy shift in New York City arrests, 1992–2003


• Expansion of opiate agonist treatment: an historical perspective


• Opiate users' knowledge about overdose prevention and naloxone in New York City: a focus group study


• Evaluating methamphetamine use and risks of injection initiation among street youth: the ARYS study


• Policy makers ignoring science and scientists ignoring policy: the medical ethical challenges of heroin treatment


• Deconstructing anti-harm-reduction metaphors; mortality risk from falls and other traumatic injuries compared to smokeless tobacco use


• Injury associated with methamphetamine use: A review of the literature


• Aiming at Tobacco Harm Reduction: A survey comparing smokers differing in readiness to quit


• Profiles of risk: a qualitative study of injecting drug users in Tehran, Iran


• Initiation of opiate addiction in a Canadian prison: a case report


• Risk factors associated with injection initiation among drug users in Northern Thailand


• Elevated rates of HIV infection among young Aboriginal injection drug users in a Canadian setting


• Sterile syringe access and disposal among injection drug users newly enrolled in methadone maintenance treatment: a cross-sectional survey


• HIV/AIDS prevalence and behaviour in drug users and pregnant women in Kashgar Prefecture: Case report


• The war on marijuana: The transformation of the war on drugs in the 1990s


• Development and validation of an Opioid Attractiveness Scale: a novel measure of the attractiveness of opioid products to potential abusers


• Injection drug use and HIV/AIDS in China: Review of current situation, prevention and policy implications


• The Readiness Ruler as a measure of readiness to change poly-drug use in drug abusers


• Patterns of drug use among a sample of drug users and injecting drug users attending a General Practice in Iran


• Potential community and public health impacts of medically supervised safer smoking facilities for crack cocaine users

• Supporting the Placements of Children Adopted Out of Care


• Belonging and Connection to School in Resettlement: Young Refugees, School Belonging, and Psychosocial Adjustment


• Fostering Futures: A Preventive Intervention Program for School-age Children in Foster Care


• Drawings vs. Narratives: Drawing as a Tool to Encourage Verbalization in Children Whose Fathers are Drug Abusers


• Applying a Traditional Individual Psychotherapy Model to Equine-facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP): Theory and Method


• Resilience as a Predictor of Depressive Symptoms: A Correlational Study with Young Adolescents


• Facilitating Treatment Attendance in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: A Community Study


• Outcome of Patients Attending a Specialist Educational and Mental Health Service for Social Anxiety Disorders


• The Applicability of Webster-Stratton Parenting Programmes to Deaf Children with Emotional and Behavioural Problems, and Autism, and Their Families: Annotation and Case Report of a Child with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

• Seeing Red or Feeling Blue: Differentiated Intergroup Emotions and Ingroup Identification in Soccer Fans


• Emotion and Prejudice: Specific Emotions Toward Outgroups


• The Past and the Pending: The Antecedents and Consequences of Group-Based Anger in Historically and Currently Disadvantaged Groups


• The Influence of Inequality, Responsibility and Justifiability on Reports of Group-Based Guilt for Ingroup Privilege


• Vessels with Gold or Guilt: Emotional Reactions to Family Involvement Associated with Glorious or Gloomy Aspects of the Colonial Past


• Explanation and Intergroup Emotion: Social Explanations as a Foundation of Prejudice-Related Compunction


• Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Inferences of Secondary Emotions and Intergroup Helping


• The Impact of Intergroup Emotions on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland

• Challenges to Academic Conduct and their Implications for University Staff Employment


• Professor or Knowledge Worker? The Politics of Defining Faculty Work


• "Big is Beautiful." Organisational Change in Universities in the United Kingdom: New Models of Institutional Management and the Changing Role of Academic Staff


• Multiple Employment as an Additional Source of Revenue: Under What Conditions Can it be of Advantage to Both Academics and Universities?


• New Approaches to Staff Recruitment in Higher Education


• Staff Recruitment in Higher Education: Country and Institutional Experiences - The Case of Serbia


• The Attractiveness of the Academic Workplace in Germany


• Multiple Employment Issues at the "Babe-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania: A Case Study


• The Restructuring of Academic Work: Themes and Observations


• The Bologna Process: The Impact of Higher Education Reform on the Structure and Organisation of Doctoral Programmes in Germany

• The life and death of a course


• The common first year programme: some lessons from a construction science course


• Conceptions of effective teaching in higher education: extending the boundaries


• 'Teaching is a co-learning experience': academics reflecting on learning and teaching in an 'internationalized' faculty


• The use and misuse of student evaluations of teaching


• Learning to write in higher education: students' perceptions of an intervention in developing understanding of assessment criteria


• Effects of teacher clarity and student anxiety on student outcomes


• Student-centred and teacher-centred learning environments: what students think


• Alienation and engagement: exploring students' experiences of studying engineering


• Validating a Steiner-Waldorf teacher education programme

• Competency-based strategies for injury control and prevention curriculums in undergraduate medical education


• The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey


• Psychological determinants of risk taking by children: an integrative model and implications for interventions


• Attitudes associated with behavioral predictors of serious road traffic crashes: results from the GAZEL cohort


• Occupational physical demands and same-level falls resulting in fracture in female workers: an analysis of workers’ compensation claims


• How many employees receive safety training during their first year of a new job?


• Quality of hospital discharge data for injury prevention


• Retrospective baseline measurement of self-reported health status and health-related quality of life versus population norms in the evaluation of post-injury losses


• Geomatics in injury prevention: the science, the potential and the limitations


• Preventing suicide by jumping: the effect of a bridge safety fence


• Evaluation of the health effects of the new driving penalty point system in the Lazio Region, Italy, 2001–4


• The economic cost of road traffic crashes in an urban setting

• As Development Seeks to Empower: Women from Mexico and Niger Challenge Theoretical Categories


• "Go it Alone" Poverty in a Small City: Pockets of Poor Housing, the Scrutiny of "Busybodies," and Difficulty Accessing Support


• Of Witches, Welfare Queens, and the Disaster Named Poverty: The Search for a Counter-Narrative


• State Minimum Wage Laws: Examining the Case of Illinois


• Ongoing Challenges in the Understanding of Rural Poverty


• The Culture of Collateral Damage: A Genealogy

• Changes in Formal Sex Education: 1995–2002


• Social, Demographic and Situational Characteristics Associated with Inconsistent Use of Oral Contraceptives: Evidence from France


• Young Teenagers and Older Sexual Partners: Correlates and Consequences for Males and Females


• Acculturation and the Sexual and Reproductive Health Of Latino Youth in the United States: A Literature Review


• Expanding Access to Emergency Contraception Through State Systems: The Washington State Experience


• Title X in California

• Interpersonal Relations or Jokes of Social Structure? Laughter in Social Work


• Finding A Place in the World: The Experience of Recovery from Severe Mental Illness


• The Role of Self-efficacy in Recovery from Serious Psychiatric
  Disabilities: A Qualitative Study with Fifteen Psychiatric Survivors


• Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma across Three Generations: A Preliminary Study


• Ethnomethodology for Social Work

Read all about it at the Open Letter to NASW Regarding "Adherence Initiative for Schizophrenia" Sponsored by Janssen, L.P. site. For instance:

"We see your reply of December 6 as dismissive and as trivializing important issues for the social work profession. We, and apparently others, believe that you are continuing to overlook unstated assumptions underlying this initiative and the strategic significance of collaboration with a pharmaceutical company. NASW should, for the sake of social work values and ethics and the welfare of our clients, reconsider its position on this initiative."

Note. New content is added to IP on Moday through Friday. As this coming Monday is a holiday we'll see you again on Tuesday.

• Controversies revisited


• Lack of insurance, reassurance, and safety assurance


• Uninsured in America: problems and possible solutions


• Effect of providing information about normal test results on patients' reassurance: randomised controlled trial


• Improved effectiveness of partner notification for patients with sexually transmitted infections: systematic review

• Psychological Adjustment in Children and Families Living with HIV


• Brief Report: Assessing the Impact of Rating Scale Type, Types of Items, and Age on the Measurement of School-Age Children’s Self-Reported Quality of Life


• Teachers’ Perceptions of and Responses to Adolescents with Chronic Pain Syndromes


• Examining the Influence of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology: An Empirical Approach


• Prevalence and Correlates of Early Onset Asthma and Wheezing in a Healthy Birth Cohort of 2- to 3-Year Olds


• Pediatric Asthma Morbidity: The Importance of Symptom Perception and Family Response to Symptoms


• Decision-Making Competence and Adherence to Treatment in Adolescents with Diabetes


• Brief Report: Effect of Intravenous Methotrexate Dose and Infusion Rate on Neuropsychological Function One Year after Diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia


• Family Mediators and Moderators of Treatment Outcomes Among Youths with Poorly Controlled Type 1 Diabetes: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial


• Appraisal and Coping with Daily Stressors by Pediatric Patients with Chronic Abdominal Pain


• Prospective Psychological Evaluation of Pediatric Heart and Heart–Lung Recipients


• Brief Report: The Risk of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Mothers of Children Diagnosed with Pediatric Cancer and Type I Diabetes


• Externalizing Behaviors and Minor Unintentional Injuries in Toddlers: Common Risk Factors?

• The high frequency of manic symptoms in fibromyalgia does influence the choice of treatment?


• Resistant social anxiety disorder response to Escitalopram


• Adaptation and validation of the Portuguese version of the Lithium Knowledge Test (LKT) of bipolar patients treated with lithium: cross-over study


• Validation of the Edinburgh postpartum depression scale in a population of puerperal women in Mexico


• Validation of the Portuguese version of the Lithium Attitudes Questionnaire (LAQ) in bipolar patients treated with lithium: cross-over study


• Pain and psychiatry: a critical analysis and pharmacological review


• Own and parental war experience as a risk factor for mental health problems among adolescents with an immigrant background: results from a cross sectional study in Oslo, Norway


• Eating and weight related cognitions in people with Schizophrenia : A case control study


• A relationship between oxytocin and anxiety of romantic attachment


• Depression in mothers of children with thalassemia or blood malignancies: a study from Iran


• Characteristics of HCV positive patients in an Italian urban psychiatric unit


• Predictive factors for polypharmacy among child and adolescent psychiatry inpatients


• Antidepressants and inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review


• Lithium treatment and thyroid abnormalities


• Needs for care among patients with schizophrenia in six European countries: a one-year follow-up study


• General practitioners' self-perceived ability to recognize severity of common mental disorders: an underestimated factor in case identification?


• Admissions for personality disorders in Italy from 1988 to 1998


• An open label follow-up study on amisulpride in the add-on treatment of bipolar I patients


• The quality of life among persons with severe mental illness enrolled in an assertive community treatment program in Japan: 1-year follow-up and analyses


• Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and generalised anxiety disorder in adolescents after a natural disaster: a study of comorbidity


• Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural group therapy for inpatients


• A randomized controlled trial of a psychoeducational group program for unipolar depression in adults in Norway (NCT00319540)


• Prevalence of diabetes, metabolic syndrome and metabolic abnormalities in schizophrenia over the course of the illness: a cross-sectional study


• A major depression prognosis calculator based on episode duration


• Work, identity and health


• Pharmacological treatment of ambulatory schizophrenic patients in Belgium


• Hannover study on long-stay hospitalization – part I: prediction of long-stay hospitalisation in cases of chronic mental illness


• Hannover study on long-stay hospitalization – part I: prediction of long-stay hospitalisation in cases of chronic mental illness


• Topiramate plus citalopram in the treatment of Compulsive-Impulsive Sexual Behaviors


• Attitudes and beliefs among patients treated with mood stabilizers


• Traumatic events, PTSD, and psychiatric comorbidity in forensic patients – assessed by questionnaires and diagnostic interview


• Muscle dissatisfaction in young adult men


• Outcome assessment of the VADO approach in psychiatric rehabilitation: a partially randomised multicentric trial


• Substance abuse in first-episode schizophrenic patients: a retrospective study


• Helping to prioritise interventions for depression and schizophrenia: use of Population Impact Measures


• The accuracy of the Italian version of the Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) for the screening of bipolar disorders and comparison with the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) in a clinical sample


• Association of Huntington's disease and schizophrenia-like psychosis in a Huntington's disease pedigree

• Smoke-free world for children's welfare: Perceptions of smoking in preadolescence


• School-based children's saving accounts for college: The I Can Save program


• Improving health services for foster youth: Multidisciplinary and multistakeholder perspectives and recommendations


• Informal and formal supports and maternal child-rearing practices in at-risk and non at-risk psychosocial contexts


• Research on the caretaking of children of incarcerated parents: Findings and their service delivery implications


• School performance trajectories after the advent of reported maltreatment


• Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial for evaluating the effectiveness of the Big Brothers Big Sisters community match program at the national level

• An economic perspective on Malawi's medical "brain drain"


• Lessons from a small country about the global obesity crisis


• Overweight in the Pacific: links between foreign dependence, global food trade, and obesity in the Federated States of Micronesia


• Can the ubiquitous power of mobile phones be used to improve health outcomes in developing countries?


• Globalization and local response to epidemiological overlap in 21st century Ecuador


• Antibiotic resistance as a global threat: Evidence from China, Kuwait and the United States


• Toward a treaty on safety and cost-effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and medical devices: enhancing an endangered global public good


• Uneven dietary development: linking the policies and processes of globalization with the nutrition transition, obesity and diet-related chronic diseases


• The developing world in The New England Journal of Medicine


• Globalization, migration health, and educational preparation for transnational medical encounters


• HIV/AIDS mitigation strategies and the State in sub-Saharan Africa – the missing link?

• Work Trajectories, Income Changes, and Food Insufficiency in a Michigan Welfare Population


• Ida Cannon, Ethel Cohen, and Early Medical Social Work in Boston: The Foundations of a Model of Culturally Competent Social Service


• Public Funding and Enrollment in Formal Child Care in the 1990s


• Alterable Predictors of Educational Attainment, Income, and Crime: Findings from an Inner-City Cohort


• State Responses to the Family Formation Goals of Welfare


• How Do Drug Use and Social Relations Affect Welfare Participation?

• Older Indigenous Australians: their integral role in culture and community


• Use of and satisfaction with Community Aged Care Packages in the eastern suburbs of Sydney


• The oral health and treatment needs of community-dwelling older people in a rural town in Western Australia


• Timed stance performances reflect differences in age, prevalence of comorbidities, medication use, fall history and activity level: Early screening for balance loss is indicated


• Recruiting older participants to a randomised trial of a community-based fall prevention program


• Development of the interpersonal dependency scale for older adults


• The site-specific epidemiology of hip fracture in the Australian Capital Territory with projections for the first half of the 21st century: Implications for clinical management and health services planning

• Restoration and Retribution: How Including Retributive Components Affects the Acceptability of Restorative Justice Procedures


• Support for Harsh Criminal Sanctions and Criminal Justice Beliefs: A Social Dominance Perspective


• Why We Punish in the Name of Justice: Just Desert versus Value Restoration and the Role of Social Identity


• Explaining School Corporal Punishment: Evangelical Protestantism and Social Capital in a Path Model


• Making the Sexual Harassment of Others Self-Relevant: The Roles of Identity Salience and Value Affirmation


• Evaluating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa