Social Work and Social Policy (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Perspectives, Treatment Goals, and Approaches of Prevention-Specialist Mental Health Professionals in Working with Clients Attracted to Children
(2024)The provision of effective mental health services to individuals attracted to children is rapidly expanding. However, these services have not yet been integrated into general mental healthcare systems and are mainly offered ... -
Decision making by people with intellectual disabilities. A review of the literature
(2024)The right of people with intellectual disabilities to make decisions remains controversial despite the policy turn towards support promoted by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (United Nations, ... -
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective
(2024)Abuse of children with disabilities occurs at significantly higher rates than for their majority population peers. Compounding this are complex barriers to effective professional safeguarding. Rather than viewing this as ... -
Exploring Older Men's Intergenerational Friendships: Masculinities, Ageing and Ageism
(Policy Press, 2023)The importance and benefits of friendship to the well-being of older adults has been extensively explored in research. This chapter examines the social construction of older age and later life by men (aged 65 and over) ... -
Intergenerational Friendship as a Conduit for Social Inclusion? Insights from the “Book‐Ends”
(2021)Friendship is said to promote psychological and physical well‐being and increase social inclusion. Yet, intergenerational friendship has garnered little research attention due to the assumed dominance of age homophily in ... -
In exceptional times: The covid-19 pandemic, parenting and the disabling effects of mental health difficulties
(2025)Increasing uptake of the metaphor of a ‘tsunami’ of mental health problems related to covid 19, reflects widespread concern for pandemic related mental distress. Mental health may be compromised by such things as loneliness ... -
A critical history of child protection and welfare services for disabled children in the Republic of Ireland 1960 to 2023
(2025)Existing research demonstrates at least threefold higher rates of maltreatment for disabled children than for their non-disabled peers. The situation is compounded by pervasive impediments to effective safeguarding practice ... -
Book Review: Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice.
(2024)Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice is written to be a main textbook in a specialised course on social work and the environment. First published in 2018, the importance of a text- book covering environmental ... -
The vagina problem: a step too far in parent�child sex communication with young children
(2025)Parents describe a want for better sex education for their young children compared to their own myth and silence-led experiences while growing up. However, introducing the vagina has proved a challenging step too far for ... -
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 ... -
New-Materialist Bricolage: Presenting an Ontological Position for Qualitative Internet-Based Research
(2025)The purpose of this paper is to make a novel contribution to new-materialist approaches, toward advancing existing ontological debates. We present a new-materialist bricolage method that was developed from an existing ... -
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 ... -
Disability in Narrative Inquiry: A Case of Methodologically Unusable Data from a Participant with Intellectual Disability
(2024)This paper considers methodological and ethical implications of qualitative interview data that was deemed unusable for research analytic purposes, where the interviewee had an intellectual disability. Critical disability ... -
Critical Disability Studies
(2024)Critical Disability Studies (CDS), as a transformative theoretical space, has shown immense growth and change over the last decade. It offers a scholarly field and method for comprehending the human condition that maintains ... -
Shifting Mindsets; A Critical Commentary on Child Protection and Welfare, Disability, and Online Risk Through Critical Literature Review
(2024)Critical commentary is presented at the complex intersection of child protection and welfare, disability, and internet use. A profound lack of research exists on this topic. Findings from a critical literature review focus ... -
In Transit? Insights from the lived experience of lone parents claiming Jobseeker's Transitional Payment
(2024)This research, conducted in conjunction with One Family, set out to document the lived experiences of Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment (JST) recipients and to explore how JST is working ‘on the ground’. Because JST is a ... -
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. ... -
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?
(2024)The specific intention of this paper is to question how rural life may affect everyday issues of concern for disabled children and their families, including access to services, social connectedness and quality of life. A ... -
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes.
(2025)How child protection and welfare policies address the disability community is a matter of utmost importance and urgency in the context of well-established inequalities. We present a policy content analysis of national ...
