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I was reading some commentary on Axios this morning that remarked on the “dizzying pace of this milestone.” It’s a wonderful reminder that while progress can be slow, action can be fast.
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Community Psychology is all about participation and action. We want to take good ideas and make sure they have their intended impact. A major part of that mission is making sure these good ideas get out of journals and into the hands of community-based research and practitioners. As part of our sponsorship of this week’s […]
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PubTrawlr is sponsoring SCRA Conference 2021! Only one week until the biennial Society for Community Research and Action Conference starting on June 22. SCRA is Division 27 of the American Psychological Association, focusing on Community Psychology. If you’re anything like my sons or my wife, you likely have no idea what community psychology is.
Read more →Recently, we wrote about recent trends in health equity research. Health equity is growing in prominence among researchers and community practitioners because, well, health outcomes are different for different populations. At PubTrawlr, we find this unacceptable and immoral.
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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 recent findings. Inspired by some of our recent work tracking health equity, along with the welcome news that suicides seemingly declined during early days of […]
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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 thin month for community psychology publications: only 35 total. Still, we can extract some interesting insights from what people are publishing on.
Read more →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. With the corner turning on COVID and more activities coming back, we plan to enjoy this weekend. That said, let’s get the retraction report out […]
Read more →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 effectively look through the scientific literature and apply it to your own studies and work.
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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 further health and wellness (broadly defined) in the places in which people live. Because of that, community psychology is deeply rooted in a common value […]
Read more →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 focus, the core idea is that the evidence that we synthesize can be scaled down to help individuals working on small-scale projects do their work […]
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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 Needs and Strengths (CANS). (A bit of a mouthful.) There are some really interesting ideas in here about how to support kids’ success and health […]
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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 scientific abstract should actually be the opposite of all those things: explicit, precise, and detached. An abstract is the beginning and end of every scientific […]
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