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Here today gone tomorrow : an exploratory study of Housing with Care development for people with dementia in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Housing with Care (HWC) for older people is unusual and HWC for people with dementia even more unusual in Ireland where long term care of older people is confined to nursing home care in almost all cases. This qualitative ... -
Heroin initiation and risk : an ethno-epidemiological approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)This thesis provides an in-depth exploration into the process of heroin and injecting initiation among young people in Ireland. It also presents a detailed investigation of risk perception and behaviour during the early ... -
Hoping and coping: Understanding the experience of people with malignant glioma
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2019)Overall median survival for malignant glioma or ‘brain tumour’ is limited; few patients will survive longer than two years, while many will live in a prolonged state of dependency with high attendant care needs, early ... -
How did kinship care emerge as a significant form of placement for children in care? A comparative study of the experience in Ireland and Scotland
(2020)A notable development in child welfare provision in recent decades has been growth in certain jurisdictions of formal kinship care as a type of placement for children needing ‘out of home’ care. This trend raises the ... -
How Disability and Other Socio-Economic Factors Matter to Children s Socio-Emotional Outcomes: Results from a Longitudinal Study Conducted in Ireland
(2020)Children with disabilities experience significantly poorer socio-emotional outcomes than their peers without disabilities. However, research evidence is scarce about children with both disability and migration background, ... -
How everyone's business can become no one's business: a systems study of interprofessional referral to child contact centres
(2020)Research suggests that interprofessional working is key to child protection but it is also challenging since misunderstandings and omissions can easily occur. This article explores interprofessional working in referrals ... -
'I've changed so much within a year': care leavers' perspectives on the aftercare planning process
(2019)Increasing the participation of children and young people in matters related to their care and aftercare is regarded as international best practice. While research demonstrates that children and young people benefit from ... -
Identifying the Key Concerns of Irish Persons with Intellectual Disability.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Internationally, people with intellectual disability are socially marginalized, and their rights under the United Nations Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) are often ignored. AIMS: ... -
Immigrants in 'investment houses' : a qualitative study of immigrant life in the private rented sector in a rural Irish town
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This thesis explores the housing and settlement experiences of immigrants living in a rural region of Ireland. The research was initiated in 2009, when a period of increased in-migration to Ireland from 1994 - 2009, was ... -
The impact on social relationships of moving from congregated settings to personalized accommodation
(2017)A natural experiment contrasted the social relationships of people with intellectual disabilities (n = 110) before and after they moved from congregated settings to either personalized accommodation or group homes. Contrasts ... -
In the Front Line of Integration: Young people managing migration to Ireland
(Children's Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, 2010)The primary aim of this research is to document and explore the experiences of a range of young people aged 15 to 18 who have migrated to Ireland. The experience of teenagers is particularly important for understanding ... -
Inclusive sex education : narratives of good practice from Ireland and Sweden
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)Sex education for young people can take many forms and can promote diverse theoretical, political and social perspectives on sexuality and the body. The ways that sex education modalities function, the challenges they meet, ... -
Irish Intellectual Disability Services for Children and Austerity Measures: The Qualitative Impact of Recession through Framework Method
(2019)Intellectually disabled children experience unique vulnerabilities related to poverty. The literature further identifies strong concerns for service delivery and practice with intellectually disabled children in the context ... -
It's been a good move - transitions into care : family caregivers', persons' with dementia, and formal staff members' experiences of specialist care unit placement
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2013)Specialist care units (SCUs) are segregated purpose-built long-term care (LTC) settings specifically designed to cater for the complex needs of people with dementia (PwDs). Whilst beneficial outcomes of these units for ... -
'It's nice to see someone coming in': Exploring the Social Objectives of Meals-on-Wheels
(2010)Despite the fact that meals-on-wheels have both nutritional and social aspects, there is a paucity of research on the social objectives of the service. This article set out to develop our understanding of the social objectives ... -
Journeys from discomfort to comfort: how do university students experience being taught and assessed by adults with intellectual disabilities?
(2021)From 2016-17, academics at a leading Irish university collaborated with a group of self- advocates with intellectual disabilities to co-design, co-deliver, and co-assess an entire disability module for third-year undergraduate ...
