Veel sociaal werkers hebben te maken met verslavingsproblematiek en met problematisch middelengebruik. Ze werken dan naast en samen met artsen en psychologen, vanuit hun eigen deskundigheid. Dat valt niet altijd mee: de medische bril en de psychologisch-therapeutische bril zijn vrij helder geslepen. …

Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of the growing social media …

Excessive alcohol consumers are in need for effective and targeted thiamine interventions to prevent the development of Korsakoff’s syndrome. Coercive home health care might be a solution to reach excessive alcohol consumers. In many parts of the world, an expansion is seen of more coercive community …

Frontiers are usually zones of trafficking, and the moving boundaries of knowledge are no exception. There you may encounter the weird and adorable creatures known as paradoxes. One of my favorites is the sorites paradox, or ‘paradox of the heap’.