Browsing Social Work and Social Policy (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Family meeting or Care Planning Meeting? : a Multidisciplinary Team action research study in a hospital setting
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)Care Planning Meetings (CPM's) are regularly conducted in hospital settings where patient, family members and the MDT meet to exchange information, plan for the future and facilitate decision-making. In the Age Related ... -
From Direct Provision to Housing: A Qualitative Study of the Housing Journeys of Refugees in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2024)This thesis examines the housing journeys of refugees in Ireland, with a particular focus on the transition from Direct Provision to housing. In Ireland and elsewhere, a significant body of literature has examined refugees? ... -
An Garda Síochána: Culture, challenges, and change
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)An Garda Síochána: Culture, challenges, and change is an exploration and understanding of the organisational culture of An Garda Síochána Ireland's National Policing Organisation. While the Gardaí or officers are often in ... -
Gender and career progression in the financial services
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2013)This thesis is an exploration of gender and how it affects career progression within the financial services in Ireland. Research has found that the financial services is a particularly difficult industry for women in terms ... -
Here today gone tomorrow : an exploratory study of Housing with Care development for people with dementia in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Housing with Care (HWC) for older people is unusual and HWC for people with dementia even more unusual in Ireland where long term care of older people is confined to nursing home care in almost all cases. This qualitative ... -
Heroin initiation and risk : an ethno-epidemiological approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)This thesis provides an in-depth exploration into the process of heroin and injecting initiation among young people in Ireland. It also presents a detailed investigation of risk perception and behaviour during the early ... -
Hoping and coping: Understanding the experience of people with malignant glioma
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2019)Overall median survival for malignant glioma or ‘brain tumour’ is limited; few patients will survive longer than two years, while many will live in a prolonged state of dependency with high attendant care needs, early ... -
How do typically developing siblings of autistic children experience the parent child relationship? A qualitative study of attachment and ambiguous loss in young children living in Ireland
This thesis is about children, childhood and the parent child relationship in Ireland in the context of Autism Spectrum Disorder and these issues are explored qualitatively, primarily from the typically developing child’s ... -
"I'm struggling but I'm not suffering" The lived experience of persons with young onset dementia in Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)Abstract: I m struggling but I m not suffering The lived experience of persons with young onset dementia in Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis This PhD thesis is an exploration of the lived experiences ... -
Immigrants in 'investment houses' : a qualitative study of immigrant life in the private rented sector in a rural Irish town
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This thesis explores the housing and settlement experiences of immigrants living in a rural region of Ireland. The research was initiated in 2009, when a period of increased in-migration to Ireland from 1994 - 2009, was ... -
Inclusive sex education : narratives of good practice from Ireland and Sweden
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)Sex education for young people can take many forms and can promote diverse theoretical, political and social perspectives on sexuality and the body. The ways that sex education modalities function, the challenges they meet, ... -
It's been a good move - transitions into care : family caregivers', persons' with dementia, and formal staff members' experiences of specialist care unit placement
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2013)Specialist care units (SCUs) are segregated purpose-built long-term care (LTC) settings specifically designed to cater for the complex needs of people with dementia (PwDs). Whilst beneficial outcomes of these units for ... -
Keeping Mum' : a qualitative study of women drug users' experience of preserving motherhood in Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2008)According to academic accounts, it is not uncommon for women who use illicit drugs to be culturally portrayed in negative stereotypical terms as ‘unfeminine’, 'unclean' and 'immoral'. Nowhere is this more evident than when ... -
Limited English proficient (LEP) immigrants in Ireland's District Court
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)The methodology used is exploratory, and Involves a triangulation of four research methods. The first method is ethnographic non-participant observation; over the course of seven months hundreds of cases were observed in ... -
The Lived Experiences of Young Adults who Grew Up in Foster Care with Permanence: A Qualitative Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)This qualitative doctoral study examines the current lives and lived experiences of a group of young adults who grew up in foster care with permanence. A key objective was to gain insights into whether or how, growing up ... -
Living on the borderline: The lived experience of young migrants and refugees growing up on the Thailand-Myanmar border
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2018)This study is an exploration of the lived experience of young people growing up in contexts of displacement and lack of documentation along the Thailand-Myanmar border. The evolving nature of cross-border population flows ... -
Marginal figures? - child detention in the Republic of Ireland : a history of the present
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis explores the practices and systems of child detention in the Republic of Ireland with reference to the past. Methodologically and theoretically the thesis is informed by a 'history of the present' approach. ... -
Marriage is not an anti-viral agent' : the transformation of sexual health policy in the initial decade of HIV/AIDS in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)The aim of this thesis, based on archival records and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, was to assess the extent to which HIV/AIDS may be said to have had a transformative effect on Irish sexual health ... -
“Maybe I will have a good life in the future…”: The lives, experiences and choices of rural girls as they negotiate different pathways to urban secondary schools in Ethiopia.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2018)This study seeks to fill a gap in our understanding of the phenomenon of the migration of rural girls to urban secondary schools in Ethiopia, from the perspectives of rural girls themselves. Specifically the study investigates ... -
Multiple perspectives on the police response to children present at a domestic violence incident: an Irish case study
The expanding recognition of the negative impact that exposure to domestic violence can have on children, has led to a focus on the response of professionals, in particular the police, who have been identified as first ...