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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
(2018)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 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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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
(2020)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 and quarter life crisis: Theorising life stage transitional crisis for disabled emerging adults
(2020)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 ... -
Cui bono? : the development of the Irish National Quality Standards for Residential Care Standards for Older People
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)Over the last fifteen years, it has become popular for governments to develop regulations through "regulatory negotiation", i.e. with input from key stakeholders of the regulated sector in question. Proponents have argued ... -
The 'Dance' of Kinship Care in England and Ireland: Navigating a course between regulation and relationships
(2013)There has been a significant growth in the use of formal kinship care in the UK and Ireland in the last 20 years. The paper charts some of the reasons for the ‘organic growth’ of kinship care and the multiple dynamics that ... -
Degrees of freedom : punishment, personal life and place in Dublin's North Inner City
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis presents the findings of a four year research project exploring the experience and meaning of punishment in Dublin’s North Inner City, a place which is home to many ex-prisoners as well as current prisoners ... -
Designing a child-centred, quantitative measure of inter-ethnic relations : a mixed methods approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)The main objective of the current body of research was to design and validate a broad and coherent, child-centred quantitative measure of inter-ethnic relations. Specifically, it sought to construct a measure that addressed ... -
Developing Early Years Professionalism
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Disabled children and child protection: Learning from the literature through a non-tragedy lens
(2017)Disabled children experience unique vulnerabilities in the context of child protection and welfare services. Current research alludes to strong concerns about social inequality, professional responses, judgement, knowledge ... -
Discourse and religious doctrine: Professional social work and the moral regulation of the body in Roman Catholic Ireland
(2020)The moral and practical regulation of sexuality and associated risk has been traditionally bound by Catholic religious doctrine in the Republic of Ireland. Over the last century, however, the emergence of professional ...
