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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 ... -
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 ... -
Children in special care and detention : someone else's problem
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Detaining children has a long and turbulent history in Ireland as the publication of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report demonstrated in 2009. This was the result of a 10 year inquiry into the industrial and ... -
Children's voices, adults' choices : the voice of the child through the Guardian ad litem in child care proceedings in the Irish District Courts
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)Provision for hearing children’s wishes and feelings and according them due weight in judicial and administrative matters that affect them is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In relation ... -
Coming to terms with loss : explaining how people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis engage with healthcare services
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), is a rapidly progressive and terminal neurological condition. ALS is a highly disabling condition and people with ALS ordinarily engage with ... -
Conducting disability research with people from diverse ethnic groups: Challenges and opportunities
(2008)This study identified challenges and available supports for conducting research and engaging in outreach and dissemination activities with people with disabilities from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Seventy nine researchers ... -
A consensus statement on how to conduct inclusive health research
(Wiley, 2019)Background: The active involvement of people with intellectual disabilities in research, or inclusive research, is relatively common. However, inclusive health research is less common, even though it is expected to lead ... -
Constructions of older people and their care during the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland: A Grounded Theory analysis of official discourses
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)Beginning in March 2020, the Irish government implemented among Europe's most stringent and sustained lockdown measures to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Identified early on as a group at particularly high risk, older ... -
Convergent spaces: Intersectional analysis of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish safeguarding work
(2020)The core argument of this paper is that intersectionality provides a constructive conceptual lens for the convergence of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish child protection and welfare. The utility ... -
Corporeality and Critical Disability Studies: Toward an Informed Epistemology of Embodiment
(2021)This paper forms an intervention into debates about the corporeality of impairment and ‘bodies that matter’ in critical disability studies. Toward informing the epistemology of embodiment present in critical disability ... -
Critical Disability Studies
(2024)Critical Disability Studies (CDS), as a transformative theoretical space, has shown immense growth and change over the last decade. It offers a scholarly field and method for comprehending the human condition that maintains ... -
Critical disability studies and quarter life crisis: Theorising life stage transitional crisis for disabled emerging adults
(2022)This paper forms an intervention into existing literature on the life stage transitional crisis of emerging adulthood, commonly referred to as quarter life crisis. Whilst among existing analyses, aspects such as gender and ... -
Critical Disability Studies and the Affirmative Non-Tragedy Model: Presenting a Theoretical Frame for Disability and Child Protection
(2024)The purpose of this article is to present an integrated theoretical frame for the subject matter of disability and child protection. Substantive complexities, alluded to in existing literature, surround disability in child ... -
Critical Disability Studies, Corporeality and Child Maltreatment: Theorizing the Somatechnics of Self and Other.
(2023)This paper presents a bespoke postmodern reading of the corporeality and somatechnics of self and other. It situates itself within the transformative transdisciplinary space of critical disability studies. Therein, it ...