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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...