Recently added articles from Health and Social Work:
The emerging needs of veterans: a call to action for the social work profession.(Editorial)
Aug 01, 2009; ... The needs of the nation's veterans are changing, and as such, the profession of social work will need to adapt to the increasing demand for our services. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest employer of master's-level social workers in the nation. Social workers have ...
Childhood body mass index in community context: neighborhood safety, television viewing, and growth trajectories of BMI.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... The percentage of children six to 11 years of age who are overweight has more than doubled from 6.5 percent to 18.8 percent between the late 1970s and 2000, and the percentage of overweight adolescents ages 12 to 19 years tripled during the same period, from 6.1 percent to 17.4 percent ...
Parent mentoring and child anticipatory guidance with Latino and African American families.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Early childhood constitutes a relatively short period of human development, yet it is disproportionately important in setting the stage for optimal health and development across the life span (Starfield, 2004). Specifically, a child's health status, parental child-rearing choices around ...
Neuroplasticity, psychosocial genomics, and the biopsychosocial paradigm in the 21st century.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Like sand on a beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken. --Sharon Begley, 2007 Social work professionals in the 21st century have adopted the biopsychosocial paradigm. This paradigm, ...
Parental self-efficacy and stress-related growth in the transition to parenthood: a comparison between parents of pre- and full-term babies.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... The biological maturation of the infant during pregnancy allows time for the parents to undergo a parallel emotional process of maturation and preparation for parenthood. In the case of a premature birth, this process is cut short, producing not only a premature baby, but also premature ...