Browsing School of Social Work and Social Policy by Title
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La construcci?n de redes sociales y de amistad. Un instrumento para dise?ar buenas pr?cticas de apoyo a las personas con discapacidad intelectual. [Building up social networks and friendships. A good practice design tool to support people with intellectual disabilities.]
(Grao, 2021)Las relaciones interpersonales significativas son esenciales para desarrollar y gestionar una red social de apoyo y están intrínsecamente relacionadas con la participación y la inclusión social. La investigación a nivel ... -
Learning from the Literature on Social Work and Social Care with Children: The Utility of a Jansson Framework of Policy-Practice
(2021)his article presents critical commentary on the relationship between wider policy in Ireland for children, and the practice of social workers and social care workers who work with children on the ground level. An overview ... -
Life Stories of the Economic Recession: Biographical Narrative Interpretative Method (BNIM) and the Lived Experience of Disability in Times of Austerity
(2019)In 2008, Ireland was impacted by global economic recession. Recession in Ireland was exceptionally severe and contrasted starkly to extraordinary prosperity immediately before. A comprehensive field of statistical data has ... -
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 ... -
Literature on Professional Social Work and Controversies Surrounding Roman Catholicism in the Republic of Ireland: Adapting the Dynamic Model
(2022)Critical commentary on the literature addresses the relationship between Roman Catholicism and professional social work in the Republic of Ireland. The context is a series of highly publicized clerical-abuse scandals and ... -
A Literature Review to Inform the Development of a National Framework for Person-Centred Planning in Disability Services
(HSE & NDA on behalf of National New Directions Implementation Group, 2017)This literature review on person centred planning (PCP) was commissioned by the Health Service Executive and the National Disability Authority (NDA) to inform the development of a national framework on PCP across services ... -
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 ... -
Making Acquaintance: Compatibility of Critical Disability Studies Conventions with Child Protection and Welfare Social Work Practice in Ireland.
(2021)Substantial research evidence alludes to concerns, practical impediments, inefficiencies and injustices in Child Protection and Welfare (CPW) work with children with disabilities. Meanwhile, individualised perspectives and ... -
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 ... -
Migrant Women and Gender Based Violence in Ireland: Policy, Research & Practice
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Migrants, Welfare Systems and Social Citizenship in Ireland and Britain: Users or Abusers?
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)Public discourse on migrant interactions with state welfare systems has often assumed exploitative motivations on the part of migrants, with charges of welfare tourism a recurring theme among segments of the political ... -
Missing Links: The Somatechnics of Decolonisation
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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 ... -
Narrative and Remaking Social Futures in Times of Pandemic Crisis: The Story-Making and Story-Telling of the Heroic Nurse
(2021)Heroes come in many forms. We propose that through times of Covid-19 pandemic crisis, practices of story-making and story-telling have radically reconceived contemporary archetypes of heroism. Many health and social care ... -
Navigating multi-locality in rural-urban and return migration: a study of young migrant mothers' experience in Beijing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)During the past decades, China has witnessed one of the biggest waves of rural-urban migration in human history. Despite the ever-rising prevalence, theorisation of rural-urban migration still largely lacks specification ...