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'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 ... -
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 ... -
Learning from the Literature on Social Work and Social Care with Children: The Utility of a Jansson Framework of Policy-Practice
(2019)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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
