Film Reviews – Karen Zgoda, LMSW

Filmmaker Brandon Ruckdashel has deftly answered the call for #HollywoodMustDoBetter with his film Grinder. I'm certain that it had been included in GLAAD's Studio Responsibility Index (2016), it would have received a good rating for avoiding many common stereotypes of films dealing with LGBT issues. It's too easy for an impressionable teenager searching for affirmation and love …

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Being ‘socially frail’ comes with health risks for older adults

Social frailty is a corollary to physical frailty, a set of vulnerabilities (including weakness, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, slowness, and low physical activity) shown to increase the risk of falls, disability, hospitalization, poor surgical outcomes, admission to a nursing home, and earlier death in older adults. The post Being ‘socially frail’ c […]

Frequency of Physical Activity Done with a Companion: Changes Over Seven Years in Adults Aged 60+ Living in an Australian Capital City

Journal of Aging and Health, Ahead of Print. Objectives:This study examined how often adults 60+ years were physically active with a partner, close family, friends, and neighbors, over 7 years. Methods: Data from 2062 adults living in an Australian capital city were collected using a mail survey at four time points and analyzed using multinomial logistic […] […]

A pragmatic trial evaluating the effectiveness of web versus live training in functional behavior assessment and interventions among special educators

Abstract This study adopted a pragmatic trial with randomization to investigate the relative effectiveness of web versus live training on special educators’ competence and perceived skills in functional behavior assessments (FBA) and behavior interventions. Pragmatic trials seek to determine the effectiveness of an intervention in a real-world setting to ens […]

Evaluating caregivers arrangement of infant sleeping environments in the home

Abstract Sleep-related infant deaths are one of the top causes of infant mortality in the United States. A few behavior analytic studies have examined behavioral skills training to teach adults to arrange safe infant sleeping environments. These studies were conducted in an analogue environment, and no data were collected outside the training setting. The pu […]

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