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Understanding Risk During Adolescence

The aim of risk education is to improve young people’s risk decision making so that they can act on their intentions to behave in safe and healthy ways through:

✓ Awareness of hazards

✓ Assessing the probability of both beneficial and harmful outcomes associated with a particular activity or behaviour


Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series

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The Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice series from Learning Matters is aimed at busy social work and health care practitioners who are looking to enhance their skills and extend their knowledge.


Can (and should) happiness be a policy goal?

Los Angeles, CA - How does an individual’s happiness level reflect societal conditions?  A new article out today in the first issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS) finds that similar to how GDP measures the effectiveness of economic policies, happiness can and should be used to evaluate the effectiveness of social policies.


SAGE launches new open access journal Global Qualitative Nursing Research

Los Angeles, CA - SAGE is delighted to announce the launch of a new, international open access journal for the qualitative study of nursing, Global Qualitative Nursing Research (GQNR)

GQNR is a rigorously peer-reviewed open access journal that will publish qualitative research on topics important to nurses including nursing, care, health, and illness. Special sections of the journal will include ethics, methodological development, developing the theoretical base of nursing, establishing evidence, and application to practice.



Republicans trust science - except when it comes to health insurance and gay adoption

Los Angeles, CA. A new study finds that while Democrats are generally more “pro-science” than other political groups, Republicans are also inclined to defer to science across a range of policy issues. In fact, there are only four issues where Republicans exhibit less trust than independents: global warming, evolution, gay adoption, and mandatory health insurance. This new study is part of the March 2015 issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.



Nursing textbooks to help students succeed in practice

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From evidence-based practice and academic skills to decision-making and leadership, our 2022 textbooks are here to help nursing students and trainee nursing associates develop the confidence and knowledge to thrive in nursing practice.




SAGE to begin publishing OTJR: Occupation, Participation, and Health

Official Publication of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF)

Los Angeles, CA - SAGE announces today that it will begin publishing OTJR: Occupation, Participation, and Health, a leading occupational therapy journal of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation beginning in January, 2015.


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