Browsing by Subject "Social Work"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
From dissent to authoritarianism: What role for social work in confronting the climate crisis?
(2022)INTRODUCTION: As the environmental crisis deepens and the effects begin to emerge in the form of disruptive and destructive climate events, more nation-states have ostensibly committed to carbon net zero by 2050. Achieving ... -
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, ... -
'I've changed so much within a year': care leavers' perspectives on the aftercare planning process
(2019)Increasing the participation of children and young people in matters related to their care and aftercare is regarded as international best practice. While research demonstrates that children and young people benefit from ... -
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 ... -
One More Adversity: The lived experience of care leavers in Ireland during the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Professional Reputation and Identity in the Online World
(2013)The interface between new entrants to professional disciplines, professional reputation management and social media usage is an under-researched and little understood phenomenon. A small-scale study on social media usage ... -
Supportive relationships with trusted adults for children and young people who have experienced adversities: Implications for social work service provision
(2023)Adverse childhood experiences encompass both direct harm, such as abuse and neglect, and indirect harm via family issues, including parental substance abuse and mental illness. They create significant risks for problems ... -
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 ... -
"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 ...