Browsing by Subject "Families & Social Change"
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Disabled children and child protection: Learning from the literature through a non-tragedy lens
(2017)Disabled children experience unique vulnerabilities in the context of child protection and welfare services. Current research alludes to strong concerns about social inequality, professional responses, judgement, knowledge ... -
Elderly Husbands Caring at Home for Wives diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease: Are male caregivers really different?
(2000)In Australia, there is a dearth of literature available on men as principal carers despite reports which show that in the 60 + age group, looking after a sick spouse becomes the major form of caregiving and men as ... -
Engaging with materialism and material reality: Critical disability studies and economic recession
(2017)Critical disability studies has been accused of preoccupation with cultural, lingual and discursive matters, and in doing so failing to adequately engage with the often-harsh material reality of disability. This has ... -
Experiences of the Medication Use Process by People with Intellectual Disabilities. What a Pharmacist Should Know!
(2021)There is a scarcity of information about the experience of people with intellectual disabilities in the medication use process. Six people with intellectual disabilities consented to be interviewed by a pharmacist to ... -
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 ... -
Irish Intellectual Disability Services for Children and Austerity Measures: The Qualitative Impact of Recession through Framework Method
(2021)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 ... -
Theorizing Disability in Child Protection: Applying Critical Disability Studies to the Elevated Risk of Abuse for Disabled Children
(2020)The assumption that addressing disability-related child protection risks is the preserve of child protection academics, is perhaps the basis of the dearth of theoretical papers emerging from disability studies, on what is ... -
?They?re Always Complicated but That?s the Meaning of Family in My Eyes?: Homeless Youth Making Sense of ?Family? and Family Relationships
(2018)Analyses of the relevance of family for young people are more visible than previously within youth research. Nonetheless, understanding of the nature and meaning of family relationships for those who experience separation ...