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Physical injuries and the psychological effects of war can have devastating consequences on the sexual functioning of service members and veterans.
Despite recent advances in protective gear, members of the U.S. military face a serious risk of genital injuries due to improvised explosives and other unique aspects of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Psychosocial challenges, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, can also exacerbate issues with sexual functioning and libido.
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When a traumatic football injury led to more than a month in the hospital and 15 surgeries for Wyatt Driscoll, the 17-year-old and his family got to know the U.S. health care system all too well.
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Heather Halperin, clinical associate professor of field education at the USC School of Social Work, has been selected to receive the National Association of Social Workers Lifetime Achievement Award by the California Chapter’s San Fernando Valley Local Unit for her decades-long career dedicated to the welfare of children and families, as well as the training and education of future social workers.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters believes her job is to fight for the care and support of seniors, especially on the issues of Alzheimer’s disease, elder abuse, housing and quality healthcare, she said at the inaugural Advocates for African American Elders public event held in February, congratulating the similarly focused advocacy group on its outreach to the African-American community to ensure a decent quality of life for all seniors.
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Michalle Mor Barak, the Lenore Stein-Wood and William S. Wood Professor in Social Work and Business in a Global Society Professor at the USC School of Social Work, has received a $35,000 grant from the Borchard Foundation’s Center on International Education to hold an international colloquium at the Chateau de la Bretesche in Missillac, France.
The Borchard Foundation offers four grants a year to academicians interested in creating a bridge between France and the United States through scholarship and creativity in cultural, academic and public affairs.
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People with severe mental illness die an average of 20 to 30 years younger than the general population, an alarming trend that caught the attention of John Brekke, a professor with the USC School of Social Work.
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Associate Professor Helen Land has been named senior editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services, which will join the five other publications held at the USC School of Social Work.
Land, who has been with the journal since its inception 10 years ago, will work with an esteemed group of co-editors that include professors Larry Gant of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, Nathan Linsk of the University of Illinois School of Social Work in Chicago, and Dexter Voisin of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
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Charles Kaplan, research professor and associate dean of research at the USC School of Social Work, has been recognized by Drug and Alcohol Dependence, one of the top journals in the addictions field, as being among the top 5 percent of the journal’s reviewers.
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Aileen Hongo calls them ladies.
This small act of politeness may seem like nothing to most people. But as she sits in a folding chair next to these women — these ladies — Hongo recognizes that for many of them, even the most basic courtesies may be all that they will ever know.
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A vigorous debate on the globalization of social work capped off a weeklong gathering of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) hosted by the University of Southern California, allowing a diverse group of participants to share their perspectives on the consequences of cultural and scholarly exchange across geographic boundaries.