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New research suggests that helping inner-city children gain social and emotional skills can help them improve in basic reading, writing and mathematics.
A report published in School Psychology Quarterly outlines the findings of a randomized trial indicating that a holistic approach to education is needed to nurture a range of skills and capacities to help children become healthy and competent adults.
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When David Bond learned that suicide is the second-leading cause of death for teenagers and young adults nationwide, he felt spurred to action.
That passion only increased when he discovered that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youths are approximately four times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual teens and young adults.
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To say that William Vega is a man in demand would be a bit of an understatement.
As a Provost Professor at USC, he holds appointments in psychiatry, preventive medicine, family medicine, psychology, and gerontology, not to mention his main role at the USC School of Social Work, where he serves as executive director of the Roybal Institute on Aging.
“It’s an all-out effort and it’s taking all my energy and aspirations,” he acknowledged. “I’ve been more than willing to do it because I feel it’s part of my mission here.”
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The Los Angeles Unified School District is identifying students whose parents are on active military duty, city and district officials announced at Leland Street Elementary in San Pedro.
LAUSD is the largest school district in the country to ask whether a student has a parent serving on active duty or as a veteran or with the National Guard or Reserves, said USC School of Social Work Professor Ron Avi Astor, who researches the needs of children with ties to the military.
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Nationwide, the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) estimates that there are four million children whose parents have served our country since 9/11. The vast majority of children in veteran and military families are being educated in civilian public schools. These families and students are resilient, proud, and idealistic, but many have also borne the burdens of this long and intense military conflict. The entire family serves when there is a war.
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A new book edited by scholars from the USC School of Social Work offers an innovative and comprehensive overview of how social workers can improve their practice in increasingly complex and global contexts.
In Transformative Social Work Practice, editors Erik Schott and Eugenia Weiss, both clinical associate professors at the USC School of Social Work, sought to redefine the practice of social work to respond to new challenges facing the profession.
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On the surface, he seemed like a major success.
The man wasn’t using drugs or relying on the emergency room for medical care. He had his own apartment and had severed negative ties from his days living on the streets of Los Angeles. But Jack Lahey could tell something wasn’t right.
“He was low risk because he was completely isolated,” Lahey said. “We asked him, how do you like your life? He said, ‘I don’t like it, but it’s OK.’ It was so beautifully sad.”
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Experiencing the loss of a loved one is an inevitable part of life.
By the time they graduate from high school, 90 percent of children will have faced the death of a family member or friend. But surprisingly few people who work closely with children, including teachers and other school personnel, know how to talk about death and loss with their students.
David Schonfeld wants to change that.
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One of first U.S. Department of Defense-funded research projects of LGBT population
Researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles will collaborate on a first-of-its-kind study of the experiences of LGBT service members in the military.
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A new book tracing the development of an innovative approach to addressing homelessness is now available.