Browsing The Child and Family Research Centre (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ...