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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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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 storyboards led to dynamic interactions…it was FUN. In lieu of abstract harvesting, let’s take a brief minute to look at some of the words and […]
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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 there, and we need to draw conclusions. We decided to comb through the last 101 days of health equity and health equity-adjacent research to see […]
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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 of the participant spread. To help the audience stay on top of recent articles, we did a quick synthesis of the last month of published […]
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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 in elementary school. How might we explain our work to them?
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We’re trying out a new format this month as we here at PubTrawlr transition to a new architecture. You’ll still be able to find the most up-to-date synthesis and recommendations. For whatever reason, it was a pretty light month: Thirty-Eight articles across these four journals.
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Here’s something a little outside our normal content. We are presenting this week (May 3, 2021) on the use of web-scraping to better understand context. While this doesn’t concern the translation of scientific findings, it does concern how these findings are implemented. We’ve long noted that the stuff that PubTrawlr does is just the first […]
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In one early-ish episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard confronts the android Commander Data in his quarters. Although Data has no emotion, he is mired in self-doubt and confusion after losing at a game he thought he would easily win. Data futilely searches for something, something that explains the loss; a malfunctioning […]
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