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A case study analysis of person-centred-planning for people with intellectual disability following their transfer from institutional care
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)Person centred planning (PCP) has an essential part to play in ensuring self determination for the lives of people with intellectual disability. It is typically taken as an indicator to the quality of services and it is ... -
A history of youth justice in Ireland : opening up space in government
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis outlines a history of juvenile justice in Ireland. However, it does not amount to a straightforward narrative history, rather, it draws inspiration from the later writings of Michel Foucault, specifically his ... -
A Long Hello to Beveridge : social security in the Republic of Ireland, 1981 - 2007
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This thesis analysed the development of social security in the Republic of Ireland from 1981 to 2007, by providing a theoretically informed account of changes in expenditure, law and policy. The central argument of the ... -
A study of the management and treatment of substance mususe problems in a Regional Health Board in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2009)This study presents the findings of a research project conducted within a Regional Health Board in Ireland and aimed at evaluating the way in which the public health service responds to alcohol-related problems; the study ... -
Acceptance and decision making in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from a life-course perspective
(2014)Researchers have explored perceptions of health care services among people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but little is known about how and why people with ALS engage with services. We undertook a grounded theory ... -
Alcohol, illicit drugs and health promotion in Ireland, 1945-1996
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2000)Introduction: The health and social problems associated with the consumption of alcohol and of illict drugs have long been causes of concern in international public health circles. Empirical syudies (Bruun et al, 1975; ... -
All Strings Attached : Migrant Poverty, Legal Status and the Welfare State: conditionality of legal status and the determination of third-country national poverty in western Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)The thesis sets out to account for variations in migrant poverty across states in Western Europe, specifically the poverty of third-country nationals (TCNs). The intersecting literatures on the welfare state, migration and ... -
An exploratory study of club-based sports participation by older people in Ireland, Australia and Japan
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2013)Older people's sports participation is a conspicuous trend in the world today. However, most research studying older people's physical activities concentrate on physiological aspects, rather than socio-gerontological ... -
Assemblage analysis: an experimental new-materialist method for analysing narrative data
(2020)Recently social constructionist and poststructuralist theories, and the methodologies they have informed, have been criticised for focusing excessively on human discourse and human action whilst overlooking the importance ... -
At the Front Door. Child Protection Reporting in a Changing Policy and Legislative Context.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2018)Aim: While a number of Irish studies have been conducted on the ?work world? of child protection and welfare services, reporting trends have not been interrogated in any depth. The primary aim of this doctoral study was ... -
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes.
(2024)How child protection and welfare policies address the disability community is a matter of utmost importance and urgency in the context of well-established inequalities. We present a policy content analysis of national ... -
Book Review: Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice.
(2024)Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice is written to be a main textbook in a specialised course on social work and the environment. First published in 2018, the importance of a text- book covering environmental ... -
Caring for a family member with intellectual disability and epilepsy
(2014)Purpose To examine the caregiving impact of those who support a family member with intellectual disability and epilepsy. Methods An online, qualitative international survey was conducted via the auspices of the ... -
Changes in the self-rated well-being of people who move from congregated settings to personalized arrangements and group home placements
(2017)A natural experiment contrasted the self-rated well-being of people with intellectual disabilities (n = 75) and those with enduring mental health problems (n = 44) after they moved to new accommodation and support options, ... -
Child abuse reporting in Ireland and the socio-legal implications of introducing a mandatory reporting law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)This study presents a detailed exploration of Ireland's evolving child abuse reporting procedures and an examination of emergent child protection theories. Information is also drawn from a cross-jurisdictional study of ... -
Child Protection and Welfare During the COVID 19 Pandemic: Revisiting the Value of Resilience-Building, Systems Theory, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma-Informed Approaches
(2023)The purpose of this paper is to present a reading of child protection and welfare practice in the recent covid 19 pandemic, with reference to several popular concepts in social work. The focus is on the relevance of these ... -
Child sexual abuse : underneath the state response
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2007)This study explores the ways in which the social problem of child sexual abuse is conceptualised and responded to within state and social systems in the Republic of Ireland, with an especial focus on the Irish state child ... -
Children at transition from primary school reflecting on what schools are for ??? narratives of connectedness, (mis)recognition and becoming
(2021)This article draws on a school-based case study carried out in Scotland with 11–12-year-olds reflecting on their views and experiences of school before transitioning from primary to secondary school. Drawing on Honneth’s ...