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Explain it like I’m Five: Community Psychology

PubTrawlr is sponsoring SCRA Conference 2021! Only one week until the biennial Society for Community Research and Action Conference starting on June 22. SCRA is Division 27 of the American Psychological Association, focusing on Community Psychology. If you’re anything like my sons or my wife, you likely have no idea what community psychology is.

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Commentary

Catching up with…Racism and Health

Recently, we wrote about recent trends in health equity research. Health equity is growing in prominence among researchers and community practitioners because, well, health outcomes are different for different populations. At PubTrawlr, we find this unacceptable and immoral.

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Commentary

Catching up with…Suicide Research

There’s an urgent need for mental health researchers and practitioners to stay up to date with research on suicidology. Practitioners, though, often struggle to find time to really dig into recent findings. Inspired by some of our recent work tracking health equity, along with the welcome news that suicides seemingly declined during early days of […]

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Commentary

May 2021 in Community Psychology

Before we close the book on May 2021 and get charged up for the upcoming SCRA conference, let’s take a last minute to look backward! It was kind of a thin month for community psychology publications: only 35 total. Still, we can extract some interesting insights from what people are publishing on.

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Commentary

Stopping the Paper Mills: May’s Retraction Report

Here in the United States, Memorial Day weekend represents the official-unofficial start of summer. We Americans like to celebrate with parades, flag-waving, picnics, cook-outs, baseball; all the nice stereotypical things. With the corner turning on COVID and more activities coming back, we plan to enjoy this weekend. That said, let’s get the retraction report out […]

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PubTrawlr News

PubTrawlr’s Spring Cleaning

Notice something different? Why, we’ve reformatted our blog to make it easier for you to search and browse the latest in implementation updates! Our goal is to help you more effectively look through the scientific literature and apply it to your own studies and work.

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EL5

Explain It Like I’m Five: Equity, Community Psychology, and NLP

Community Psychology is a misunderstood field. It’s not people who sit on couches talking about problems. Instead, community psychology looks to build people, organizations, and systems up. We want to further health and wellness (broadly defined) in the places in which people live. Because of that, community psychology is deeply rooted in a common value […]

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News

I Ran for School Board, Lost, and Still Won

Let’s start with values. I think it’s pretty important to have an impact in the places that we live. Although a lot of my work, including PubTrawlr, has a global focus, the core idea is that the evidence that we synthesize can be scaled down to help individuals working on small-scale projects do their work […]

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EL5

Explain It Like I’m Five: Machine Learning & Kids’ Behavioral Health

My colleague Ali Jaffar sent me this recent article: A machine learning approach for identifying predictors of success in a Medicaid-funded, community-based behavioral health program using the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS). (A bit of a mouthful.) There are some really interesting ideas in here about how to support kids’ success and health […]

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Commentary

5 Things That Should Be in Every Scientific Abstract

In scientific literature, the word abstract is an oxymoron. Allow me to explain. When I think of the word “abstract,” I think of words like: implicit, subtextual, emotional. But a scientific abstract should actually be the opposite of all those things: explicit, precise, and detached. An abstract is the beginning and end of every scientific […]

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Social media analysis

A Brief Twitter Recap of #GIC2021

The Global Implementation Conference has just wrapped. Despite my own personal ambivalence toward online gatherings, the whole thing went on without a hitch. The content was great; the presentations and storyboards led to dynamic interactions…it was FUN. In lieu of abstract harvesting, let’s take a brief minute to look at some of the words and […]

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Monthly recap

Checking In With: Health Equity Research

We were at a conference earlier this week that focused on implementing evidence-based practices to effectively address health equity. It’s a big problem because there’s a lot of evidence out there, and we need to draw conclusions. We decided to comb through the last 101 days of health equity and health equity-adjacent research to see […]

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