Sally G. Mathiesen

TL;DR: In this article, a review of course titles and descriptions within MSW programs and law programs was conducted for identification of human rights content, and the results suggest a dearth of human-rights content in social work curricula and a great disparity between schools of social work and schools of law in the integration of human right in graduate level education.

TL;DR: This analysis provides national estimates about entry into intensive or restrictive settings for youth in out-of-home care and at what point in their first out- of-home episodes and for what reasons youth entered such settings.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the deterioration in health associated with increased years lived in the US may be an effect of immigrants’ exposure to California’s environmental determinants of human health rather that the loss of culture-specific protective factors.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of school change on academic progress and behavioral problems and found no statistically significant relationships between number of school changes and academic progress as hypothesized, however, school change was significantly correlated with an increase in behavioral problems, and almost 50% of youth lagged behind their expected grade in school according to their age.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended a 1990 study and presented multiple measures for assessing journal quality and found that journal rankings have changed since 1990 and are considerably different from the SSCI ratings.