School of Social Work and Social Policy: Recent submissions
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Strengths and Affirmations: Practitioners Views of Disability and Child Protection Through an Affirmative Lens
(2021)This article presents an exposition of an affirmative model of disability for child protection in Ireland. Seated at the intersection of disability and child protection are unique and substantial risks. In this paper, a ... -
An Exploration of how the Concept of Recovery in Mental Health is Socially Constructed and how it Impacts on the Delivery of Mental Health Services - an Irish Case Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)Background & Purpose:The concept of recovery has become a central debate in mental health systems. It is a philosophy which struggles to translate from policy to practice. This research explored the concept of recovery ... -
Literature on Professional Social Work and Controversies Surrounding Roman Catholicism in the Republic of Ireland: Adapting the Dynamic Model
(2022)Critical commentary on the literature addresses the relationship between Roman Catholicism and professional social work in the Republic of Ireland. The context is a series of highly publicized clerical-abuse scandals and ... -
"The world is losing this little girl": An exploration of hospital-based Children's End of Life Care through a Narrative Lens
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)The death of a child is a profound and life-changing loss for all families. The majority of children continue to die in hospital due to the nature of the child's illness, the suddenness of their deterioration, and, at ... -
The Dynamics of Family Homelessness in Ireland: A Mixed Methods Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)Available data in many European countries, Australia and the United States indicate that family homelessness has increased, generating intense discussion and debate about the emerging nature of this phenomenon and how it ... -
Narrative and Remaking Social Futures in Times of Pandemic Crisis: The Story-Making and Story-Telling of the Heroic Nurse
(2021)Heroes come in many forms. We propose that through times of Covid-19 pandemic crisis, practices of story-making and story-telling have radically reconceived contemporary archetypes of heroism. Many health and social care ... -
Hybrid Placement Model: A Social Work Teaching and Learning Resource http://hdl.handle.net/2262/96780
(TCD, 2020)The Hybrid Placement model blends different contexts for practice-based learning: on-site, off-site, online and reflective practice. It has evolved in response to changed work practices in social work service delivery, ... -
Devices for illuminating defended subjectivities in complex qualitative case interpretation: An example from recent BNIM practice
(2021)For a long time now, fairly central to what has emerged as ‘psychosocial studies’ has been the notion of psychosocietal ‘defendedness’. This is the psychoanalytic notion that people (not excluding social science researchers) ... -
We're dragging our heels but there is enough evidence to support making facemasks mandatory
(Irish Independent, 2020)During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) has been advising the Clinical Expert Advisory Group in supporting the National Public Health Emergency Team. Most recently, Hiqa reviewed ... -
How we work: Reflecting on ten years of inclusive research
(2021)Inclusive research has gained momentum internationally. However important critiques of this approach query whether inclusive research reinforces perceptions of deficit and contribute to exclusionary practices. This paper ... -
"I'm struggling but I'm not suffering" The lived experience of persons with young onset dementia in Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)Abstract: I m struggling but I m not suffering The lived experience of persons with young onset dementia in Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis This PhD thesis is an exploration of the lived experiences ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The self at work: Understanding the experience of community placement in activation schemes in a post-recession context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)This thesis aims to explain how long-term unemployed welfare recipients taking part in activation schemes made sense of their experiences of unemployment, job-seeking and placement as they deliberated their past, present ... -
Trajectories of social justice within social stratification: towards a Bourdieusian reading of social class for social workers
(2022)Social class refers to hierarchal social stratification of society, which, from a Bourdieusian theoretical lens, can be enacted across social, cultural, economic and symbolic lines (Bourdieu, 1977; Waquant, 2006). For ... -
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 ... -
Proficiency within Professionalisation: A Social Constructionist Critique of Standards of Proficiency for Social Care Workers in the Republic of Ireland
(2020)Major change is underway in Irish social care. Toward the professionalisation of social care workers in the Republic of Ireland, standards of proficiency were drafted and published in 2017 by the Social Care Workers ... -
Extended care: Global dialogue on policy, practice and research
(2020)Young people who are taken up into the care system (including foster, formal kinship and residential or group care) traditionally have to leave care at age 18, the generally accepted age of adulthood. Research globally ...
