Browsing The Child and Family Research Centre (Scholarly Articles) by Issue Date
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Practice guidance for culturally sensitive practice in working with children and families who are asylum seekers: learning from an early years study in Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-01-09)This article is based on a study of two early years services in the West of Ireland which was attended mostly by asylum seekers. Using a sample of the findings for illustration, we discuss how the study captured an example ... -
A critical overview of the significance of power and power relations in practice with children in foster care: evidence from an Irish study
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-14)This paper is based on findings from an Irish study of permanence and stability outcomes for children in long-term care which involved biographical narrative interviews with 27 children, young people, parents and foster ... -
Relational dynamics in formal youth mentoring programmes: A longitudinal investigation into the association between relationship satisfaction and youth outcomes
(Elsevier, 2019-05-18)Youth mentoring is defined as a close, interpersonal relationship between a young person and a more experienced adult. The quality of the youth-mentor relationship is critical to youth mentoring interventions and thus it ... -
Social values and civic behaviour among youth in Ireland: The influence of social contexts
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07-16)As youth civic engagement is widely considered important for social cohesion and democracy, concerns have been expressed regarding a perceived decline in civic and political engagement among young people throughout the ... -
Protective support and supportive protection for families “in the middle”: Learning from the Irish context
(Wiley, 2019-08-08)This paper critically examines the relationship between statutory family support and child protection using the case study of Ireland. It builds on the work of Devaney and McGregor (2017) to offer an additional contribution ... -
Exploring the multi-dimensionality of permanence and stability: Emotions, experiences and temporality in young people s discourses about long-term foster care in Ireland
(SAGE Publications, 2019-08-28)This paper focuses on qualitative findings on how young people in long-term foster care in Ireland interpret permanence and stability. We focus principally on subjective and relational permanence, emphasising the significance ... -
Help seeking and help providing in Ireland
(Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies, 2019-12)Recent developments in the Irish child welfare system have involved a targeted move towards the provision of accessible help at a more timely point for children, young people and their families. It is widely accepted that ... -
Help seeking and help providing in Ireland
(Association of Children's Welfare Agencies (ACWA) and the NSW Family Services (FamS), 2019-12)Recent developments in the Irish child welfare system have involved a targeted move towards the provision of accessible help at a more timely point for children, young people and their families. It is widely accepted that ... -
Conceptualising coping and resilience in the context of socio-political and economic change: Generational perspectives from Slovenia
(Routledge, 2020-06-09)The significance of a wider social context in building youth resilience has recently been recognised, with the suggestion that resilience research requires a move from individual-level experience to wider social practices, ... -
Empathy, social responsibility, and civic behavior among Irish adolescents: A socio-contextual approach
(SAGE Publications, 2020-12-09)Research suggests that empathy and positive social values are important drivers of youth prosocial and civic action. However, theory and research indicate that young people’s civic behaviors are also shaped by their ... -
Family support and the media in Ireland: Newspaper content analysis 2014–2017
(Routledge, 2021-01-15)The objective of this paper is to inform a critical analysis of how the media portray family support in Ireland. Findings of a content analysis carried out on national and regional Irish newspapers between 2014 and 2017 ... -
Developing, implementing and critiquing an evaluation framework to assess the extent to which a child’s right to be heard is embedded at an organisational level
(Springer, 2021-08-10)The national Child and Family Agency in Ireland, in 2015, undertook an ambitious three-year programme of work to embed a child s right to be heard in its culture and operations. In parallel to its implementation, the authors ... -
Children’s participation in practice: comparing the views of managers and practitioners in an early intervention and prevention programme
(Emerald, 2022-03-17)Purpose Participation is the active involvement of children and young people in decision-making regarding issues that affect their lives. It is crucial in the context of child protection and welfare systems and how they ... -
Protective support and supportive protection: Critical reflections on safe practice and safety in supervision
(MDPI, 2022-07-18)This paper was based on a framework for practice and supervision based on `protective-support and supportive-protection¿ (PS-SP) that can be used to discuss and plan for practice in a way that maximises the capacity of ... -
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-11-19)This paper considers how Family Support is conceptualised in the European context with respect to its primary beneficiaries. The central question considers the focus of concern in a child welfare system and what it means ... -
Youth suicide and self-harm: Latent class profiles of adversity and the moderating roles of perceived support and sense of safety
(Springer, 2023-03-24)Research suggests that exposure to adversity can lead to an increased risk of experiencing suicidal and self-injurious thoughts or behaviours, but few studies have examined whether different patterns of adversity are ... -
Culture and parenting: Polish migrant parents’ perspectives on how culture shapes their parenting in a culturally diverse Irish neighbourhood
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-05-26)While it is now widely acknowledged that child-rearing practices vary culturally, there has been little research or consideration on how cultural difference is experienced by Polish immigrant parents in Ireland. This paper ... -
Designing futures through student engagement: A policy futures perspective
(SAGE Publications, 2023-06-12)Futures research is gaining increased prominence in educational research and development (Tesar, 2021), and particularly now as we emerge from the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has provided a lever for change and an ...