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Local housing authorities are responsible for meeting the priority housing and support needs of the local community, regardless of tenure. Under the Government's policies to develop their 'community leadership' role and implement Supporting People, they also have an increasing responsibility, with social services and other services, to support needs in the community. The Chartered Institute of Housing has published good practice guidance on housing and services for people with support needs, outlined in this article.

86 male university students completed an assessment battery regarding their attitudes towards women and beliefs about sexual violence, as well as their own intentions to be sexually violent. They read five vignettes depicting different situations in which women were raped, and answered questions about what they thought happened in the vignettes, i.e. whether the actions depicted were rape. Results showed only one of the constructs, acceptance of sexual violence, predicted men's ability to recognize rape scenarios, whereas hostility towards women, adversarial sexual beliefs, rape myth acceptance and sex role stereotyping were not significant after acceptance of sexual violence was accounted for. Furthermore, men's acceptance of sexual violence mediated the relationship of their perceptions of rape vignettes and their self-reported intentions to be sexually violent. Implications for further research in sexual violence and interventions to prevent acts of aggression towards women are discussed.
Key words: rape, sexual aggression, violence against women.

The predictive validity of the Juvenile Sexual Offense Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool–II (JSORRAT-II) was evaluated using an exhaustive sample of 11- to 17-year-old male juveniles who offended sexually (JSOs) between 2000 and 2006 in Iowa ( n = 529). The validity of the tool in predicting juvenile sexual recidivism was significant (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC] = .70, 99% confidence interval [CI] = [.60, .81], d = 0.70). Non-significant predictive validity coefficients were observed for the prediction of non-sexual forms of recidivism. Additional analyses were undertaken to test hypotheses about the tool's performance with various subsamples. The age of the JSO at the time of the index sexual offense and time at risk outside secure facility placements interacted significantly with JSORRAT-II scores to predict juvenile sexual recidivism. The implications of these findings for practice and research on the validation of risk assessment tools are discussed.

With the focus on student achievement, nationwide attempts are being made to improve schoolsand school systems. In these reforms teachers are the single most important factor (Darling-Hammond 1997; Wilson, Floden, and Ferrini-Mundy 2001). Teacher preparation programs have aunique opportunity and responsibility, therefore, to have a significant impact on teacher quality.Central to the ability to do so is a comprehensive understanding of what factors constituteteacher quality.

An estimated 85 million pregnancies were unintended worldwide in 2012, which is 40% of all pregnancies (Sedgh, Singh, Hussain, 2014). Knowledge about how to use different methods of contraception correctly is vital to their success. The aim of this research was to evaluate the efficacy of an ultra-short, computerized personal feedback intervention to increase 34 college students' knowledge about different methods of contraception and compare them to 34 students who did not receive the intervention. Students who participated in the intervention improved their factual knowledge about contraception and also indicated marginally higher intentions to use condoms in future sexual interactions after the personalized feedback intervention as compared to students in a control condition. Implications for settings in which very brief interventions to improve knowledge regarding contraception and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention are desirable are discussed.
Key words: college student health, contraception, personalized computerized feedback, STI prevention.

A fascinating exploration into the neuroscientific evidence on 'mind reading'. In addition, it provides a thorough analysis of both legal and moral accounts of privacy, with chapters written by leading academics from the fields of psychology neuroscience, philosophy, and law.

IntroductionThe management of fever can be a stressful situation for caregivers of young children. Accessing emergency departments and urgent care centres (ED/UCCs) due to concerns about fever and the potential consequences of child fever is common, despite fever rarely being considered a medical emergency.
Objectives and ApproachDetermine the non-compliance rate with public health advice for self-care at home for young children (3-35 months) with a fever. Non-compliance was defined based on the presence of a record of healthcare use within 72 hours following a call to a nurse telephone triage line, Health Link (HL), and receiving a self-care recommendation. Callers between October 2015-March 2016 were identified and linked with four databases: registry files, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System; Inpatient-Discharge Abstract Database and Physician Claims (N = 879). Overall non-compliance rate and descriptive analysis by child age, caregiver age, geography, and call time were completed.
ResultsThe overall non-compliance rate with HL advice was 35.6%. Among callers, 17.5% visited an ED/UCC, 1.1% had an inpatient hospital admission, and 21.3% visited a physician's office. Among the patients that utilized health care services after the HL call, 13.6% only visited ED/UCC, 18% only visited a physician's office, and 4% utilized more than one type of health care service. Callers in rural and rural remote areas had lower odds of visiting a physician's office compared to the urban areas (p-value <0.01). No significant differences were found by child age, caregiver age or time of call.
Conclusion/ImplicationsFindings of this study suggest that approximately one-third of callers are not following the telephone triage advice, potentially leading to unnecessary increased burden on the healthcare system. Further study is warranted to examine reasons for non-compliance. Strategies to increase compliance in caregivers should be explored.