I will not make any comments about Rachel Dolezal’s mental health, because unlike the thousands of people on social media who have rushed to diagnose her with a range of mental disorders, I do not have a degree in clinical psychology, and have not had an opportunity to meet her. Moreove...
Tim taught me more than anyone about the scrupulous respect and heartfelt compassion required to work successfully with the homeless and seriously mentally ill and, by extension, to all clients in need. Tim’s an outstanding social worker and leader—a straight shooter, courteous, respectful, and...
1). In fact, there is a near complete discordance between the lowest income sub-city units and highest incidence sub-city units observed most clearly in Bogotá, Mexico City, and Lima, and to a lesser degree in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. By contrast, overall concordance is difficult...
“Why Do I Care What’s Similar?” Probing Challenges in AI-Assisted Child Welfare Decision-Making through Worker-AI Interface Design Concepts. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 454-470). Week 4 – Evaluating (individual) predictions and decisions Dawid,...
Based on the social cognitive model and on the psychology of working theory, this research aims to study the job and life satisfaction of apprentices, considering proactive personality, person-supervisor and person-group fit, occupational self-efficacy,
Kahn (1990) has addressed what he called personal engagement in work, trying to evaluate to what degree workers would be engaged physically, cognitively, and emotionally in what they are producing. Work engagement is “characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption” (Schaufeli and Bakker, ...
but of these only 270 had completed their undergraduate degree at a Russell Group university, and only 10 had attended Oxford or Cambridge. This means that only 9.7 per cent of people who started training to be a social worker through the master’s route in 2011/12 came from a selective ...
Jean Rodriguez, who's 73-years-old, told us her retirement checks had been withheld for the past two years. A former school cafeteria worker, she started receiving benefits in 2014. But four years later, she and her husband Glenn were asked to come to the local Social Securit...
Esther Villa was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and has lived in South Phoenix for 20 years. For half of those years, she has worked with Unlimited Potential, an organization that has helped Esther obtain her GED, earn her community health worker license and eventually become the Director of Oper...
“Of course, this could conceivably be a case of near unbelievable luck: A flawed analysis based on wrong assumptions gave an unusually large causal effect estimate – but the misguided result just happened to be correct. We can imagine how the research team huddled nervously around the computer...