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Parenthood pursuits : couples' experiences of infertility and its treatment - an Irish case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis is based on prospective longitudinal research with 34 couples over a two-year period (2005-2007) as they underwent an IVF/ICSI cycle in a Dublin-based clinic. Couples were interviewed at four time points: before ... -
Participant or bystander? : Explaining the nature of older people's participation in the acute hospital discharge process in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)Discharge from acute hospital can represent a major life transition for older people with complex or chronic illnesses. Their participation in decision-making about future care and its location is essential to their human ... -
Participatory Action Research with Colombian Immigrants
(2009)This article describes a participatory needs assessment process in which Colombian immigrants in Chicago collaborated with university researchers to identify their common concerns and implement self-help efforts to address ... -
Patients' perceptions of services and preferences for care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A review
(2012)Background: Service providers and service users often have different perspectives on health and social care services. Design: We have undertaken a systematic review of empirical data between 1988 to March 2011 relating ... -
Peasantry and the search for the Irish welfare state
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2007)This thesis attempts to provide a reconceptualisation of the origins of Irish social policy. It begins by trying to place Ireland in the comparative debates on 'worlds of welfare'. It proceeds further by using established texts ... -
Pedagogical approaches in inclusive research
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2023)This chapter explores pedagogical approaches to learning about research methods in inclusive research, which is conducted with people with the label of intellectual disability rather than on them. The authors belong to ... -
Perspectives on austerity: The impact of the economic recession on children with intellectual disability
(2017)In 2008, the Republic of Ireland descended into the deepest period of economic recession since the Great Depression of 70 years before. In the aftershock of recession, research suggests that it has been the nation’s children ... -
Placing Irish Social Work in a Global Context: Assembling International Comparisons Through the Literature
(2020)There is an absence of literature that places social work practice in Ireland within a global context. This circumstance is obstructive to students and practitioners of social work in Ireland, who must increasingly demonstrate ... -
Policy Silences and Poverty in Ireland: An Argument for Inclusive Approaches
(2024)Policy documents shape and inform policy but they are not neutral objects. Policy documents can also silence through the exclusion and omission of discrete knowledges transmitted through testimony and lived experience. ... -
Pregnant Box: What Happens When Opera Enacts an Embodied Analysis of Concealing Pregnancy
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)This chapter discusses a project that originated as policy-commissioned research initiated by Health Service practitioners to address concerns about recurring presentations of ‘concealed pregnancy’ to health care settings ... -
Proficiency within Professionalisation: A Social Constructionist Critique of Standards of Proficiency for Social Care Workers in the Republic of Ireland
(2020)Major change is underway in Irish social care. Toward the professionalisation of social care workers in the Republic of Ireland, standards of proficiency were drafted and published in 2017 by the Social Care Workers ... -
Protection as a Human Fundamental Need: Re-Conceiving Signs of Safety for Social Work in the Republic of Ireland
(2021)Large scale reform of statutory child protective services in the Republic of Ireland is underway, prompted by adoption of the national strengths-based and safety-organised practice approach, known as ‘Signs of Safety.’ ... -
Public Health Directives in a Pandemic: Paradoxical Messages for Domestic Abuse Victims in Four Countries
(2022)When the COVID-19 pandemic manifested urgent concerns were raised around the globe about the increased risk that public health restrictions could pose for victims of domestic abuse. Governments, NGOs and community services ... -
Putting outcomes into practice: The implementation of a framework of outcomes measures within a child and family service
(2024)Of utmost concern for effective child protection and child and family services is evidence-based practice. There is an onus of accountability on providers of therapeutic services to establish the merit and cost efficiency ... -
A Qualitative Life Course Study of the Educational Pathways of Care-experienced Adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)The central role of education in relation to promoting positive outcomes in adulthood is well-established in existing literature (Hammond & Feinstein, 2006; Nicaise, 2012). However, a growing body of evidence points to ... -
Quality of life and anti-dementia drugs : an exploration of the experiences of people living with dementia and their care-partners
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Dementia is a chronic, progressive, incurable disease that has a major impact on the quality of life of people diagnosed and their families. Some anti-dementia medications exist (cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine) ... -
Redemption theory : Redeeming the sins of the father : grandfathers' experiences and practices in a border community in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2017)Exploring the extant literature on grandparents reveals that, in many cases ‘grandparent’ is de facto synonymous with ‘grandmother’. The world of the grandfather remains elusive, although evidence is emerging that recognise ... -
Relationship-based social work : a 'thirdspace' in responding to trauma
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This practitioner research study explores people’s lived experience of trauma leading to their engagement with the social work service of a hospital emergency department. It further explores the elements of responsive ...