Spending a week crammed in a small house in East Austin with eight other people may not be an ideal Spring Break for most UT students. And yet, this was the choice of social work undergraduates Cassandara Najera, Sarah Hudson, and Renee Palma. This spring, the three of them signed up for… read more
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Professor Cossy Hough has partnered with alumni Will Francis (MSSW ’10) and Anna Stelter (MSSW ’16) to launch 70% (socialworkershealthpolicy.com), a blog about health policy, the social determinants of health, and social workers’ commitment to advance good health in their places of practice. Why 70%? That’s the estimated influence of… read more
Bullying, ethnicity, and depression
Doctoral student Hannah Szlyk and colleagues examined the relation between depression and general versus ethnic-biased bullying among 534 Latino students in a large North Carolina school district. They found that ethnic-biased and verbal or relational bullying had a direct effect on depression while general and physical bullying did not. Results… read more
