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Suicidal behaviour is increasingly common in closed juvenile care. As a result, social workers are more likely to control young people, for example by placing them in solitary confinement.

Under a grant from the Humboldt Foundation, Professor Robert Braun of the University of California Berkeley is conducting research on scare stories for children How were anti-Semitism, fear and children's scare stories connected in late 19th and early 20th-century Europe?

People who lost a parent to suicide face a higher risk of suicide or self-harm themselves when they reach the age their parent lived to, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Unwanted sexual behaviour is common in workplaces, but LGBTQ employees' harassment is often overlooked, co-writes Dr Cristyn Davies from the Faculty of Medicine and Health.

Life expectancy lower in the U.S. than in the United Kingdom On average, life expectancy is 78.6 years in U.S. versus 81.3 years in England and Wales, with h

EXPERT Q&A Gun violence claimed 46,728 lives in the United States last year-the third-highest number of firearm-related deaths ever recorded-including a record-high 27,300 suicides by using a gun. The data marks a significant escalation over the past decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sparking an urgent examination of contributing factors, including the role of media.

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A recent luncheon welcomed the 2024 cohort of postdoctoral scholars through the Provost's Program for Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholars and the Provost's Program for Black and Indigenous Postdoctoral Scholars.

University of Michigan study documents patients' situations, points to broadening intervention efforts at time of emergency care Study: Firearm violence and associated factors among young adults presenting to emergency departments in three cities: Baseline results from 1016/j.ypmed.

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Truancy rates have risen faster in developed English-speaking countries since the Covid-19 pandemic than in non-English-speaking countries, according to a new working paper by UCL researchers. Teenage girls are also increasingly more likely to skip school than boys across Anglophone countries. In 2022, 26% of all'Year 11 pupils in England reported playing truant at least once in the last fortnight.

Being kind to others, self-acceptance and having fun are also goals for 10- to 24-year-olds surveyed across the U.S. Key takeaways "To be safe" was the top goal for Generation Z in a survey of 1,644 10- to 24-year-olds across the U.S. Other top goals were "to be kind," "to have a lot of fun," "self-acceptance" and "to be in good shape.

Financial stress continues to impact Australians' sense of belonging, but the country's social cohesion has held strong over the past 12 months, according to a major study from The Australian National University (ANU) and the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute.

Study abstract: Census tract and neighborhood racial change and the locational decisions of financial services in Metro Detroit (DOI: 10.

University of Michigan study also explores role of U.S.-manufactured, traded firearms Study: Firearm-related threats before migrating to the USA from Latin America and the Caribbean (DOI: 10.1136/ip-2024-045369) Almost half of the migrants crossing into the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean report previously experiencing firearm-related threats or violence in their home country, according to a University of Michigan study.