Browsing The Child and Family Research Centre (Scholarly Articles) by Issue Date
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Exploring Good Practice in Child and Family Services: Reflections and Considerations
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)The prospect of furthering good practice in child and family services is something that is in everybody¿s interest, service users, practitioners, policy makers, and academics alike. However, it is a task fraught with ... -
Developing Children's Participation: Lessons from a Participatory IT Project
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, advances in the sociology of childhood and the consumer rights movement have placed the spotlight on children¿s rights in society, challenging those working with children to ... -
Youth Mentoring in Ireland: Weighing up the Benefits and Challenges
(Irish Youth Work Press, 2007)Internationally, mentoring for young people has become increasingly attractive to policy makers as a micro-level response to the needs of young people deemed to be ¿at risk¿ or in need of support. The Big Brothers Big ... -
Human Flourishing: The Grounds of Moral Judgment
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Youth mentoring and the parent-young person relationship: considerations for research and practice.
(The National Youth Agency, 2008)Over recent years, youth mentoring has become increasingly popular as an intervention for young people deemed to be in need of support. There is a need, however, to pay attention to the potential impact of mentoring on ... -
Youth Mentoring as a Tool for Community and Civic Engagement: Reflections on Findings of an Irish Research Study
(Taylor and Francis, 2009-12-07)Youth mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) are traditionally considered to be a vehicle for youth development rather than community development. In fact, the notion that the one-to-one engagement that ... -
Accessing a hard to reach population: reflections on research with young carers in Ireland
(Wiley Online Library, 2012-08)In keeping with developments in children's rights, research is increasingly including the views of children. Accessing a hard to reach population of children can, however, raise significant ethical and methodological ... -
Restoring competence and confidence- non-violent resistance as a response to child-to-parent violence in Ireland
(2014)In this article, we describe some of the difficulties some parents and therapists can encounter when faced with child to parent violence. We hope to show that an adapted Non Violent Resistance Programme seems to restore ... -
A critical analysis of the implementation of service user involvement in primary care research and health service development using normalization process theory
(Wiley, 2014-07-24)Background There have been recent important advances in conceptualizing and operationalizing involvement in health research and health-care service development. However, problems persist in the field that impact on the ... -
Practical Strategies for Coping with Child-to-Parent Violence: The Non Violent Resistance Programme in Practice
(The Probation Service, 2014-10)Child to parent violence (CPV) is an emerging problem that is coming more frequently to the attention of practitioners in a wide variety of settings. This paper describes the ways in which the Probation Service and Le ... -
Enhancing family support in practice through postgraduate education
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-12-06)Family Support as a named orientation is a relatively new concept in service provision for children and their families in the Republic of Ireland. Notwithstanding this, there are a number of practitioners across a range ... -
'He told me to calm down and all that': a qualitative study of social support types in a youth mentoring programme
(Wiley, 2015-05-06)The worldwide growth in formal youth mentoring programmes over the past two decades is partly a response to the perception that young people facing adversity do not have access to supportive relationships with adults and ... -
Do primary care professionals agree about progress with implementation of primary care teams: results from a cross sectional study
(2016-11-22)Background Primary care is the cornerstone of healthcare reform with policies across jurisdictions promoting interdisciplinary team working. The effective implementation of such health policies requires understanding ... -
Exploring levers and barriers to accessing primary care for marginalised groups and identifying their priorities for primary care provision: a participatory learning and action research study
(BioMed Central, 2016-12-03)Background The involvement of patients and the public in healthcare has grown significantly in recent decades and is documented in health policy documents internationally. Many benefits of involving these groups in primary ... -
Justifying children and young people’s involvement in social research: Assessing harm and benefit
(SAGE Publications, 2017-05-29)At a time when children and young people s involvement in research is increasingly the norm, this article reflects on the importance of a well-reasoned and transparent justification for their inclusion or exclusion. It ... -
Early implementation of a family-centered practice model in child welfare: findings from an Irish study
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-16)This article reports on the outcomes of a research study on the early implementation of a strengths-based family-centred model of practice in Ireland known as the Meitheal model. The paper aims to translate the key messages ... -
Factors influencing the development of empathy and pro-social behaviour among adolescents: A systematic review
(Elsevier, 2018-07-25)Research has indicated that empathy and prosocial responding are associated with numerous emotional, psychological and social benefits. However, although adolescence is recognised as a key period for prosocial development, ... -
Outcomes for permanence and stability for children in care in Ireland: implications for practice
(Oxford University Press, 2018-09-24)This paper reports on a qualitative study of outcomes for permanence and stability for children in long-term care in Ireland. The aim of this research was to inform social work practitioners on how to enhance stability and ... -
The participation of children and young people in care: insights from an analysis of national inspection reports in the Republic of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-11-27)The term participation is widely used to refer to the involvement of children and young people in decision-making on issues that affect their lives. The Health and Information Quality Authority (HIQA) is the national ... -
Children’s perceptions of the skills needed to ‘fit in’ when starting school
(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, 2019)Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at an increased risk of experiencing lower levels of school readiness. Ready children are children who can navigate both the social and academic tasks and challenges of ...