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Mental health service users' narratives of participation : consensus, dissensus and paradox
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2017)The current Irish national mental health policy (A Vision for Change, 2006) articulates a recovery-informed approach to mental health service delivery with service user participation positioned as a central element of the ... -
Exploring How Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse Experience Navigating the Irish Family Law System in Guardianship, Custody and Access. Executive Summary
(Dublin: School of Social Work & Social Policy, TCD, School of Law, UCC and Women�s Aid, 2025) -
Exploring How Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse Experience Navigating the Irish Family Law System in Guardianship, Custody and Access. Research Report
(Dublin: School of Social Work & Social Policy, TCD, School of Law, UCC and Women�s Aid, 2025) -
"I'm Going to Put on Bright Clothes now" The Process and Social Dimensions of Resilience Among Older Adults
(2025)This article focuses on older adults’ resilience following major losses. Interviews of seventeen older adults in Ireland illuminate the resilience process and its social dimensions – family, friends, social participation, ... -
Multiple Perspectives on Father Engagement in the Context of Domestic violence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2025)Background: Domestic violence (DV) is a serious human rights violation and a public health concern that impacts individuals, families, and communities around the world. While the impact of domestic violence on women, ... -
A history of safeguarding disabled children from 1840 to 1960 in the Republic of Ireland
(2025)This article provides a history of safeguarding of disabled children between 1840 and 1960 in the Republic of Ireland. Therein, safeguarding involves direct and indirect measures undertaken to promote the safety and welfare ... -
Solution-focused, strengths-based practice: An integrated and future-orientated approach to resistance in child protection and welfare service users?
(2025)This article presents a theoretical exposition of an integrated solution-focused, strengths-based perspective. It does so through a thematic review of literature. The proposition is that solution-focused, strengths-based ... -
Disability, Child Protection and the Internet: The Socio-Cultural Construction of Risk
(2025)Today, children and young people are foisted into precarious social conditions defined by the rapid encroachment of virtual media into the intricacies of contemporary life. For children with disability, technological ... -
Rapid Innovation and Adaptation in Contraceptive Care Using Telemedicine: Evaluating Impact and Sustainability at Planned Parenthood of Illinois
(2025)Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated swift, dramatic changes to the delivery of essential health care services. Numerous professional societies recommend telehealth care for contraceptive counseling and provision. ... -
A fork in the road: Probation unification in England and Wales two years on
(2025)This article presents findings from a major longitudinal research project of probation in England and Wales, arguing that the process of its ‘unification’ (re-nationalisation) continues to be a painful process whose end ... -
Care Leavers: 10 years on, A Narrative Rapid Review
(2025)International literature has demonstrated both the strengths of care experienced young people and adults and the marginalisation and disadvantage that they may face on their journeys through and out of the care system. ... -
What does Literature say about Signs of Safety? Making an Inquiry through Critical Literature Review
(2024)In child protection and welfare, Signs of Safety (SoS) provides a safety-organised, strength-based tactic. Owing to ever-increasing application of this approach in Ireland and elsewhere, SoS has come to be the national ... -
Disabled womens experiences of intimate partner abuse in Ireland: Research project report
(Women's Aid, 2024)The overall aim of this study was to achieve a deeper understanding of intimate partner abuse against disabled women in Ireland, to better provide them with support and for the improvement of the domestic violence services ... -
Towards Better Outcomes for Children and Families: Evaluation of the Implementation of an Outcomes Framework
(2024)Background: The study is a result of the partnership between Trinity College Dublin and Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, supported by New Foundations within the Irish Research Council. The primary objective of this ... -
Children's Experiences of Signs of Safety: A Scoping Review
(2024)Background and Objectives: It is increasingly recognised that children’s perceptions and experiences should be sought and heard in service design and delivery. Signs of Safety (SofS) is a popular framework for child ... -
Outcomes Measurement in Social Care: Insights from Current Evidence
(2024)Outcomes measurement and evaluation in social care services have become of increasing importance. Contemporary social care services operate in a climate where accountability, transparency and cost efficiency are key to ... -
Forgotten Victims: Recommendations for Social Care on the Impact on Children of their Parent's Incarceration
(2024)In the wake of parental incarceration, remains the plight of children who are hidden and seldom appreciated victims. In this article, findings of a novel study into key dimensions of the impact of parental incarceration ... -
Leading Change: Reproductive Rights, Empowerment and Feminist Solidarity in the Dublin Bay North Repeal the 8th Campaign
(2022)This article examines how the Dublin Bay North (DBN) Repeal the 8th activist group, an independent women-led, grassroots movement in the largest constituency in Ireland, practiced a collectivist approach to forms of ... -
Thinking Politically about Social Work in Child Protection and Welfare: A Reappropriation of the Works of Hannah Arendt
(2024)This article presents a theoretical exposition of Arendtian political philosophy for child protection and welfare social work. The aim is to better understand and inform social work in the field of child protection and ... -
Exploring feminist egalitarian discourse and sex work for the social work curriculum: A critical pedagogy
(2024)This article presents theoretical exposition of feminist egalitarian discourse for social work education by drawing on the research findings of 15 sex workers in the Republic of Ireland. The study claims that feminist ...
