School of Social Work and Social Policy: Recent submissions
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Social care work and social work in Ireland: A comparative analysis of standards of proficiency
(2024)This article provides a timely intervention to debates and scholarship about the professional regulation of social work and social care. In Ireland, the recent commencement of the statutory regulation of social care by ... -
Disability and Child Protection
(2024)The intention for this chapter is to offer a high-level overview of key issues at the intersection of child protection and disability. Owing to an expanding body of research, it is clear that disability presents unique and ... -
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 ... -
A Participatory Action Research Study on Separated Migrant Youth Experiences in Northern France
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2024)This thesis examines separated young people’s transitions to adulthood in Northern France. The emergent research literature on separated children and youth has identified the transition to adulthood as a particularly ... -
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 ... -
Your Battles Inspire Me: Inclusion Experiences of Children with Intellectual Disability in Chinese Primary Classrooms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2024)Children with intellectual disabilities have been accessing general educational settings at primary education stage in international and Southwest Chinese contexts. Despite the lengthy existence of the phenomenon, the ... -
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 ... -
From Direct Provision to Housing: A Qualitative Study of the Housing Journeys of Refugees in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2024)This thesis examines the housing journeys of refugees in Ireland, with a particular focus on the transition from Direct Provision to housing. In Ireland and elsewhere, a significant body of literature has examined refugees? ... -
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 ...
