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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; ... -
The position of social work within the child protection and welfare system in Ireland : a history of present 1991-1862
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2001)The objective of this thesis is to examine the present position of social work within the statutory - child protection and welfare system in Ireland. Its aim is to demonstrate the way in which social work has come to occupy ... -
Theorising welfare state development : a case study of social insurance in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2003)This thesis has attempted to account for the development of social insurance in post-war Ireland by providing a theoretically informed analysis of the genesis of, and outcomes in, the 1952 Social Welfare Act. It begins ... -
Young people, drugs and risk : an ethnography of drug use in a Dublin inner-city community
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2004)This ethnographic study of drug use is based in a socially disadvantaged Dublin locality with a lengthy history of concentrated drug problems. The study set out to investigate drug use and non-use among young people living ... -
Using children's drawings as data in child-centred research
(Psychological Society of Ireland, 2006)Child-centred research shows a respect for children and promotes their entitlement to be considered as persons of value and persons with rights. With the growing interest in this approach to psychological research, researchers ... -
Exploring the aspirations of Kolkatan (Calcuttan) Street Children using drawings
(Universidad de Almeria / Asociacion de Analisis del Comportamiento, 2007)The aims of the present study were to represent the aspirations of Kolkatan street children and to draw comparisons across gender and between children "on the streets" and "off the streets". The participants were 151 Street ... -
Negotiating changed contexts and challenging circumstances : the experiences of unaccompanied minors living in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2007)This PhD study explores the experiences of asylum-seeking teenagers who have arrived in Ireland unaccompanied by parents or guardians (unaccompanied minors). The arrival of these young people is a very recent phenomenon ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sentencing in Ireland : an exploration of the views, rationales, and sentencing practices of district and circuit court judges
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2008)This thesis reports the findings of an exploratory study on the nature of sentencing in the District and Circuit Courts in Ireland. At the time of this study, two key claims had been made about sentencing in Ireland. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Role of Grandparents in Divorced and Separated Families
(Family Support Agency and Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, 2009)Despite the rapid and extensive changes in patterns of partnership formation and dissolution, there has been a dearth of information on the effect of divorce and separation on nuclear and extended families in Ireland. ... -
The Role of Grandparents in Childcare in Ireland: Towards a Research Agenda
(Social Care Ireland, 2009)This paper discusses the role of grandparents in informal childcare in Ireland. It considers how recent demographic change and government policy on childcare have the potential to place greater pressures on the provision ... -
Nutritional Status of Irish Older People in Receipt of Meals-on-Wheels and the Nutritional Content of Meals Provided
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)BACKGROUND: Research has suggested that meals-on-wheels recipients can be at risk for poor nutritional status. Despite this, few countries have statutory minimum requirements for the nutrient content of meals-on-wheels. ... -
Risking work and working risk : a phenomenology of the risk environment of prostitution in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2009)The focus of this thesis is on the lived experiences of women in prostitution in Ireland. The limited knowledge base on the Uved realities of those engaged in prostitution in Ireland was a compelling rationale for undertaking ... -
Social and physical ecologies of childhood : a case study of children's perspectives on their neighbourhood
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2009)This study set out to gain a greater understanding of children's lived experience in their neighbourhood informed by ecological models of Bronfenbrenner (1979) and Gibson (1979) and taking a constructivist, exploratory ... -
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 ... -
The contact connundrum : exploring children's experiences of post-separation contact with domestically abusive fathers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2009)This thesis presents an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of post-separation child contact between a defined sample of children and their fathers living in Ireland, where there has been a pre-separation history of ... -
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 ...
