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Many family caregivers report positive benefits from caregiving including developing a greater sense of purpose in one’s life, but caregiving can also be a source of physical and emotional stress.
Findings from several studies suggest that many family caregivers suffer from mental health problems. Some research shows that between 40 to 70 percent of caregivers have clinical symptoms of depression.
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Once intimidating and foreign, research is slowly but surely becoming a common pursuit in the master’s program at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
During a recent symposium hosted by the Phi Alpha Honor Society, several master’s students described their recent forays into the research world, from spending time with chronically homeless individuals who had just received housing to refining an application for tablet computers designed to help older adults in Taiwan manage their diabetes.
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Social work pioneer Suzanne Dworak-Peck ’65, MSW ’67, has donated a historic $60 million to endow and name the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, cementing its standing as one of the world’s most innovative institutions within the discipline and strengthening its renowned educational and research programs. The gift is one of the largest contributions from an individual to a school of its kind.
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In today’s tech age, growing up without access to a computer and the Internet is a major disadvantage.
For most adolescents, it’s not an issue; 90 percent of teens in the United States have a computer in their home. However, it’s a different story for youth in foster care.
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A typical nightmare scenario goes something like this: Robots first replace autoworkers on the assembly line. Then they move into white-collar jobs, writing articles, drafting legal documents and reading X-rays. Finally, the robots, growing ever smarter through machine learning and Big Data, displace even the most highly trained workers. The result: Unemployment rates skyrocket and the economy craters.
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One-fourth of all online comments at the end of news articles about sexual assault and rape include victim-blaming statements, new research out of the University of Southern California shows.
The study examined 52 articles and found that only one did not contain comments offering support for the accused perpetrator, the study said. Victim-blaming statements appeared in 1,097 of the 4,239 comments ― or just over 25 percent of them.
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They crowd onto the roofs of trains and buses. They cross miles of open desert in the blistering sun. They face robbery, rape and violence.
It’s a dangerous and traumatic journey for many unaccompanied children and adolescents heading north from Central America toward countries like Mexico and the United States. But it’s a risk they are willing to take to escape one of the world’s deadliest regions.
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Penelope Trickett, the David Lawrence Stein/Violet Goldberg Sachs Professor of Mental Health at the USC School of Social Work, died July 15 in San Pedro, California, of complications from heart failure. She was 73 years old.
“This is indeed a sad moment,” said William Vega, provost professor at USC and executive director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging. “We have lost a truly dedicated and talented colleague who gave everything for the important social justice issues she was committed to.”
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A trio of new assistant professors joining the USC School of Social Work this fall is continuing the school’s trend toward diverse and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Daniel Hackman, Mónica Pérez Jolles and B.K. Elizabeth Kim have multifaceted research interests that range from exploring how early life socioenvironmental factors influence later risk of psychopathology and health problems to examining how to improve services and opportunities for vulnerable children and their caregivers.