Catching up with…Suicide Research
There’s an urgent need for mental health researchers and practitioners to stay up to date with research on suicidology. Practitioners, though, often struggle to find time to really dig into… Read More
Author: Jon Scaccia
May 2021 in Community Psychology
Before we close the book on May 2021 and get charged up for the upcoming SCRA conference, let’s take a last minute to look backward! It was kind of a… Read More
Stopping the Paper Mills: May’s Retraction Report
Here in the United States, Memorial Day weekend represents the official-unofficial start of summer. We Americans like to celebrate with parades, flag-waving, picnics, cook-outs, baseball; all the nice stereotypical things…. Read More
PubTrawlr’s Spring Cleaning
Notice something different? Why, we’ve reformatted our blog to make it easier for you to search and browse the latest in implementation updates! Our goal is to help you more… Read More
Explain It Like I’m Five: Equity, Community Psychology, and NLP
Community Psychology is a misunderstood field. It’s not people who sit on couches talking about problems. Instead, community psychology looks to build people, organizations, and systems up. We want to… Read More
I Ran for School Board, Lost, and Still Won
Let’s start with values. I think it’s pretty important to have an impact in the places that we live. Although a lot of my work, including PubTrawlr, has a global… Read More
Explain It Like I’m Five: Machine Learning & Kids’ Behavioral Health
My colleague Ali Jaffar sent me this recent article: A machine learning approach for identifying predictors of success in a Medicaid-funded, community-based behavioral health program using the Child and Adolescent… Read More
5 Things That Should Be in Every Scientific Abstract
In scientific literature, the word abstract is an oxymoron. Allow me to explain. When I think of the word “abstract,” I think of words like: implicit, subtextual, emotional. But a… Read More
A Brief Twitter Recap of #GIC2021
The Global Implementation Conference has just wrapped. Despite my own personal ambivalence toward online gatherings, the whole thing went on without a hitch. The content was great; the presentations and… Read More
Checking In With: Health Equity Research
We were at a conference earlier this week that focused on implementing evidence-based practices to effectively address health equity. It’s a big problem because there’s a lot of evidence out… Read More
The GIC special. April in Implementation Science
The GIC conference just kicked off, and it’s stupendous to be able to connect with implementation researchers and practitioners the world over. We wish we would have gotten a screenshot… Read More
Explain It Like I’m Five: 5335 Days of Implementation Science
Our Advisory Board member Dr. Victoria Scott and I (Jonathan) recently put out an article on some of the methods we use here at PubTrawlr. We also both have kids… Read More