Call for Papers
Social Development Issues
Deadline: (contact)
Social Development Issues, sponsored by the International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD), is a refereed journal published three times a year, in February, July, and November, that serves as a scholarly forum linking multiple disciplines, nations, and cultures. The journal's purpose is to promote consideration of issues that affect social justice as well as the development and well being of individuals and their communities. The journal is committed to the advancement of social, cultural, political, and economic theories including policy and practice (and their interrelationship) within a global context. To engage our readers and to ponder about human rights issues theoretically, Social Development Issues is planning three special issues on "Social Development, Democracy and Human Rights." The schedule for the three issues is as follows.
1. "Social development, Democracy and Human Rights in Asia" Volume 35 (2). (2013), guest editor: Sudershan Pasupuleti (Sudershan.Pasupuleti@utoledo.edu)
2. "Social development, Democracy and Human Rights in South America" Volume 36 (3). (2014), guest editor: Rosemary A. Barbera (rbarbera@monmouth.edu)
3. "Social development, Democracy and Human Rights in Africa" Volume 37 (1). (2015), guest editor: Margaret Lombe (lomba@bc.edu)
Please contact any of the three special issue guest editors depending upon your regional interests. Click here for the Journal's website.  

Call for Submissions
Society for Research in Child Development
Deadline: September 20, 2012
The Governing Council and Program Committee of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) invite you to submit for the 2013 Biennial Meeting to be held at the Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. Preconference events will be held on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. The interdisciplinary and international character of SRCD is strongly supported through its Biennial Meetings. Empirical, theoretical, historical, and methodological submissions from investigators around the globe in all disciplines related to the field of child development are welcome. The Society also encourages submissions from students, both graduate and undergraduate. Click here for more information. 

Call for Proposals
National School Social Work Conference
Deadline: September 15, 2012
The School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA) would like to invite you to join us in beautiful San Diego beginning Wednesday, March 20 until Saturday, March 23, 2013 for the 16th National School Social Work Conference. The annual SSWAA Conference is the only national conference devoted exclusively to the School Social Work profession! Attend numerous CEU sessions lead by nationally recognized leaders in the profession focusing on issues and skills critical to School Social Workers. Spend time networking with colleagues from around the country and the world as you exchange intervention strategies and best practices. Visit our exhibit hall showcasing innovative resources, educational services and numerous products to restock your libraries, assessment tool kits and treasure chests of activities. Click here for more information. 

Call for Submissions
International Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Deadline: November 1, 2012; December 31, 2012
The International Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ISIPT) is pleased to invite you to the 5th International Meeting of the ISIPT in Iowa City, Iowa. The conference will be held June 13-15, 2013, with pre-conference workshops June 10-12. The Conference program includes both scientific presentations and clinical training in IPT. These include presentations and training workshops in IPT, IPT for adolescents, IPT for groups, and IPT for eating disorders. Click here to read more. 

Call for Papers
Journal of Forensic Social Work
Deadline: contact
The Journal of Forensic Social Work is the principal journal guiding practitioners and researchers involved in day-to-day practice issues with the legal system. The journal is devoted to increasing the general knowledge base, promoting evidence-based and ethically informed practice, improving services for victims and offenders of crime, and setting guidelines and practice standards for the provision of forensic mental health services. The Journal of Forensic Social Work addresses a broad range of issues faced by social workers and other professionals who practice in the judicial arena. The journal was established to provide a forum for the discussion of important policy and social justice issues within forensic practice as well as the dissemination of empirical research on legal issues, systems of care, and on the management and treatment of victims of crime and criminal offenders. The journal addresses contemporary forensic practice issues to provide practitioners, social researchers, and students with leading-edge information in an ever evolving field. Click here for more information. 

Call for Papers
Social Work in Mental Health
Deadline: contact
Social Work in Mental Health is an exciting contribution from the editors of our highly respected journal, Social Work in Health Care. This journal offers quality articles on clinical practice, education, research, collaborative relationships, mental health policy, and the delivery of mental health care services. This scholarly, creative, and lively journal presents material valuable to social workers in all sectors of mental health care. It is devoted to social work theory, practice, and administration in a wide variety of mental health care settings. Social Work in Mental Health will help you improve your practice in these areas, demonstrating the vital role of social services in mental health care delivery systems. We are seeking articles on innovative programs in mental health including hospital-based services, community services and the exciting work of creative individual practitioners. We are also seeking articles addressing special populations, such as psych rehab and/or PTSD or similar programs. Click here for submission information. 

 

Call for Abstracts
Association of Oncology Social Work Annual Conference
Deadline: September 10, 2012
Sitting amidst desert and mountains and extending to the border of Mexico, San Diego looks onto the horizon of the vast Pacific Ocean. As we look at the rapidly changing landscape of health care, oncology social workers will be at the helm to guide and navigate patients through the rough waters of cancer and cancer treatment. True to the historical evolution of this wonderful city, the 2013 conference will focus on emerging issues in psychosocial oncology and the development of creative strategies and professional skills to face and tackle those challenges. We will set our collective sails to create a safety net of evidence-based care to meet the ever changing needs of our patients. Click here for more information. 

Setting Up Health Insurance Exchanges: What Are States Doing? 

Health insurance exchanges form the backbone of the private insurance reforms called for in the Affordable Care Act, as they will create a marketplace in each state for small employers and individuals without job-based health insurance to buy comprehensive health coverage, with premium subsidies available for those with low or moderate incomes. In a new Commonwealth Fund issue brief, health law and policy expert Sara Rosenbaum and her team at George Washington University analyze the choices being made by the group of states that, together with the District of Columbia, have already begun establishing exchanges, either through legislation or executive order. While the brief reveals a great deal of variation in approach, it also shows a common tendency by states to accord their new exchanges considerable flexibility in making decisions about how they will operate and what standards they will apply to the insurance products sold. You can also use our new interactive map that displays state actions taken on health insurance exchanges. The map shows where states are in the continuum of establishing exchanges and provides detail about key exchange provisions in those states that have already passed exchange laws or issued executive orders. We will update this map over time. Click here to read more. 

 

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking comments through August 20 on ways to improve quality measurement through health IT. As a part of its initiative to identify possibilities and pathways to the next generation of health IT enabled quality measurement, AHRQ has issued a Federal Register notice for "Request for Information (RFI) on Quality Measurement Enabled by Health IT." The RFI seeks ideas and input from the public across diversified stakeholder groups on successful strategies and remaining challenges in the creation of health IT-enabled quality measure development and reporting. AHRQ encourages from health IT system developers, vendors, payers, quality measure developers, clinicians, and health care consumers. In addition, AHRQ will host a national Web conference on July 31 at 1:30 p.m. ET to provide additional information on the RFI and review highlights of the report Quality Measurement Enabled by Health IT: Overview, Possibilities, and Challenges. AHRQ staff will review highlights of the report and convene a dialogue about how to capture quality through health IT. Participants will learn about current initiatives to measure health care quality and possibilities for the next generation of health IT-enabled quality measurement. Click here for more information. 

Child Maltreatment Research, Policy and Practice for the Next Decade
Building on a Phase 1 workshop summary, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee will conduct a full study that will culminate in an updated version of the 1993 NRC publication entitled Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect. Similar to the 1993 report, the updated report resulting from this study will provide recommendations for allocating existing research funds and also suggest funding mechanisms and topic areas to which new resources could be allocated or enhanced resources could be redirected. To this end, the committee will:
-Build on the review of literature and findings from the evaluation of research on child abuse and neglect;
-Identify research that provides knowledge relevant to the programmatic, research, and policy fields; and
-Recommend research priorities for the next decade, including new areas of research that should be funded by public and private agencies and suggestions regarding fields that are no longer a priority for funding. 

It is expected that the committee will give special consideration to the following key topics: preventing child maltreatment and promoting wellbeing; intervention and evidence-based practices; implementation and dissemination; strategies aimed at community, society, place-based or system level changes; parent, family and community engagement; biological, neurobiological and research on child maltreatment; culturally relevant and meaningful practice; and future directions for child maltreatment research methods and measurement. Click here to read more.