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Keep virtual mental health visits after coronavirus pandemic
COVID-19 has brought an abrupt halt to typical daily life and has transformed our reliance on technology beyond what we...
Read moreCall special session to expand Medicaid in the name of COVID-19
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas legislature have rejected Medicaid expansion even...
Read morePadilla recognized as 2020 SSWR Fellow
Yolanda Padilla, Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor in Child Welfare at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, has been...
Read moreNew project: Mapping veteran service organizations
Combined Arms has partnered with the Steve Hicks School of Social Work’s Institute for Military and Veteran Family Wellness to...
Read moreIs the body positivity social movement toxic?
The body positivity movement is not an equal-opportunity provider of positivity. In fact, promoting positivity may be missing the point...
Read moreMcRoy inducted into NASW Pioneers program
Ruth McRoy, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor Emerita, has been inducted into the NASW Social Work Pioneers® program, which was...
Read moreTED Talk: Dean Zayas on child separation at the US-Mexico border
How does psychological trauma affect children’s developing brains? In this powerful TED talk, Steve Hicks School of Social Work Dean...
Read moreBusch-Armendariz receives Hamilton Book Award
Professor Noël Busch-Armendariz received the 2019 Robert W. Hamilton Book Award – Textbook for Human trafficking: Applying research, theory, and...
Read moreDoctoral student in winning team for the President's Award for Global Learning
Doctoral student Christian Vazquez is a member of the team that won the 2019-20 President’s Award for Global Learning for...
Read moreUniversal design for inclusive science
In the October issue of the Observer, the magazine of the Association for Psychological Science, Postdoctoral Fellow Nazanin Heydarian discusses...
Read more$2.5 million research award from NIDILRR
Professor Sandy Magaña has been awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant to study obesity in Latino children with developmental disabilities....
Read moreChoi and DiNitto on older adults' cannabis use
Professors Namkee Choi and Diana DiNitto were among a small group of national experts invited to contribute to a special...
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