SAGE Podcast

Our inaugural podcast features interviews with Robert Ruiter on evaluating time differences between adults and adolescents when faced with risky traffic situations (volume 17 issue 3) and Judy Slome Cohain's editorial on urban legends surrounding hospital births and planned home births (volume 17 issue 4).

Our inaugural podcast features interviews with Robert Ruiter on evaluating time differences between adults and adolescents when faced with risky traffic situations (volume 17 issue 3) and Judy Slome Cohain's editorial on urban legends surrounding hospital births and planned home births (volume 17 issue 4).

Arnold Danzig, co-editor for the March 2012 volume, interviews A.G. Rud, Washington State University, about his article, "The Struggle Between Individualism and Communitarianism: The Pressure of Population, Prejudice, and the Purse."

In this podcast, Dr Simon Wallace discusses his research on immersive virtual environments for children with autism (published in volume 14, issue 3) of the journal Autism

This podcast features a discussion between the authors Kenneth Fung, Hung-Tat (Ted) Lo, Rani Srivastava and Lisa Andermann about their article on cultural competence in mental health institutions for the special issue published in volume 49 issue 2 of Transcultural Psychiatry

The research aims were to (a) explore how correctional facility nurses in Montana perceived the balance between the autonomy required in their field and their scope of practice rights, and (b) contrast the correctional nursing specialty from the more traditional nurse setting. Twenty percent of Montana correctional nurses surveyed said there are times where they simply have to work beyond their state scope of practice boundaries. Respondents were most likely to report that the greatest differences in nursing process related to assessment and interventions. Nurses emphasized their feelings of safety, noting that in this practice setting safety takes the highest priority. Participants also said that correctional nursing had a stigma compared to other specialties.

Dr. Jean Bartunek, associate editor of JABS as well as Ethics Adjudication Chair and past president of the Academy of Management, discusses her commentary in the JABS June 2012 issue.

JMK Editor Terry Witkowski interviews Cliff Shultz, guest editor of the March 2012 special issue on Vietnam.

Grounded in social structure and personality, life course, and status attainment perspectives of social psychology, the Youth Development Study (YDS) has followed a cohort of teenagers from the beginning of high school through their mid-thirties. Evidence for the effective exercise of agency derives from diverse adolescent work patterns leading to outcomes that are consistent with youth's earlier goals, motivations, and resources. Thus, the socioeconomic career begins well before the completion of formal education. The YDS has revealed multiple pathways of contemporary transition to adulthood, the circumstances surrounding parental residential and financial support to their transitioning children, and the cessation of deviant behavior as adult roles are acquired. Agentic pathways during this period are significant precursors of success during subsequent economic downturn. The new YDS Second Generation Study is well poised to address the impacts of parental trajectories on the adjustment and well-being of children.

Walter Solomon discusses the story of his son Robert, the motivation behind his new book Autism and Understanding and how to get started using the Waldon Approach

In this report, Apparent Permeability (Papp) and Efflux data demonstrate how an automated procedure, when compared to manual processing, provides a method that is less variable and is capable of delivering a more accurate assessment of a compound's absorption characteristics.

TVNM Editor Vicki Mayer interviews Wade Rathke about his article, which contrasts the caricature of HBO's "Treme" with the unique culture and people of New Orleans.

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief Anne Merewood PhD, MPH, IBCLC, interviews Italian researchers Riccardo Davanzo MD PhD, and Giorgio Zauli MD PhD, about their article "Human Colostrum and Breast Milk Contain High Levels of TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand (TRAIL)", published Online First in the Journal of Human Lactation. This paper found that colostrum and mature human milk contain 400 times and 100 times, respectively, the level of TRAIL found in the blood. The authors discuss the implications of their findings with regard to the cancer-prevention properties of human milk, and areas of ongoing and future research.

This article suggests that the way in to sociology may not always be through the front door. The authors demonstrate how students in a three-day campus diversity program develop a sociological imagination despite not having a formal affiliation with the sociology department. In particular, students demonstrate a move from color blindness into racial consciousness and a shift from individual prejudice into institutional privilege when understanding both diversity issues and their own personal biographies. In short, despite not knowing the phrase, they develop a sociological imagination. While the goal is not to diminish the significance of traditional sociology classrooms, the authors argue that programs like theirs may diminish resistance to learning about privilege and inequalities once students enter the classroom. Such programs may also have the benefit of attracting students to the discipline and creating a more welcoming environment for related programs and events on campus. It is one model of public sociology that other campus communities may mirror outside of the traditional classroom environment.

There is a lack of outcome evidence for alcohol interventions for offenders whose crime is alcohol related. In this study, the authors report the intermediate outcomes of a feasibility study for a randomized controlled trial of an alcohol-related violence intervention. Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drinkers (COVAID) was tested with sentenced prisoners in the United Kingdom. Participants were 115 adult men who were randomly allocated to COVAID or treatment as usual. Measures were the Alcohol-Related Aggression Questionnaire (ARAQ), the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI-2), the Eysenck Impulsivity, Venturesome, and Empathy Scale (IVE), and the Controlled Drinking Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSES). After the intervention, participants allocated to COVAID reported significantly greater improvement on the ARAQ Alcohol-Aggression subscale and all CDSES subscales. No significant differences were obtained for the STAXI-2 or the IVE. COVAID may have the potential to fill a gap in treatment provision for offenders whose crimes of violence are alcohol related.