Browsing The Child and Family Research Centre (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Devaney, Carmel"
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Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe
Devaney, Carmel; Christiansen, Øivin; Holzer, Julia; MacDonald, Mandi; Matias, Marisa; Salamon, Eszter (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
Tierney, Edel; Rodriguez, Leonor; Kennan, Danielle; Devaney, Carmel; Brady, Bernadine; Canavan, John; Forkan, Cormac; Cassidy, Anne; Malone, Pat; McGregor, Caroline (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 ... -
A critical overview of the significance of power and power relations in practice with children in foster care: evidence from an Irish study
McGregor, Caroline; Devaney, Carmel; Moran, Lisa (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
Kealy, Carmen; Devaney, Carmel (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 ... -
Early implementation of a family-centered practice model in child welfare: findings from an Irish study
Devaney, Carmel; McGregor, Caroline; Cassidy, Anne (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 ... -
Enhancing family support in practice through postgraduate education
Devaney, Carmel (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 the multi-dimensionality of permanence and stability: Emotions, experiences and temporality in young people s discourses about long-term foster care in Ireland
Moran, Lisa; McGregor, Caroline; Devaney, Carmel (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 ... -
Family support and the media in Ireland: Newspaper content analysis 2014–2017
O’Connor, Patricia; McGregor, Caroline; Devaney, Carmel (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 ... -
Help seeking and help providing in Ireland
Devaney, Carmel; Rodriguez, Leonor; Cassidy, Anne (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
Devaney, Carmel; Rodriguez, Leonor; Cassidy, Anne (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 ... -
Outcomes for permanence and stability for children in care in Ireland: implications for practice
Devaney, Carmel; McGregor, Caroline; Moran, Lisa (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 ... -
Practice guidance for culturally sensitive practice in working with children and families who are asylum seekers: learning from an early years study in Ireland
McGregor, Caroline; Dalikeni, Colletta; Devaney, Carmel; Moran, Lisa; Garrity, Sheila (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 ... -
Protective support and supportive protection for families “in the middle”: Learning from the Irish context
McGregor, Caroline; Devaney, Carmel (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 ... -
Protective support and supportive protection: Critical reflections on safe practice and safety in supervision
Devaney, Carmel; Mc Gregor, Caroline (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 ... -
Youth suicide and self-harm: Latent class profiles of adversity and the moderating roles of perceived support and sense of safety
Silke, Charlotte; Brady, Bernadine; Devaney, Carmel; O’Brien, Cliodhna; Durcan, Micheal; Bunting, Brendan; Heary, Caroline (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 ...