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The paper discusses a study concerning children and adolescents attending a youth project in Limerick
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Taking account of the needs and views of children is problematic, particularly in Ireland where children have been "owned" by their parents and social policy has been directed at the family rather than the individual child. The 1980s and 1990s may be said to be the decades where abuse, in its many forms, reared its head and Irish society was forced to sit up and take notice of more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Child & Youth Services,
Vol: 29 Page: 1-27 2007
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This article discusses perspectives on risk, at risk, and resiliency in children and adolescents attending a youth project in limerick and factors associated with greater adversity and vulnerability
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It is impossible to make global generalisations about children and youth from a phenomenological inquiry into the experiences of such a limited number of participants in just one city, Limerick, Ireland, and one case, St. Augustine's. The goal of phenomenological research is, however, not to seek generalisations but to expose the individual. case, so I have endeavoured to use a more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Child & Youth Services,
Vol: 29 Page: 269-290 2007
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This article discusses resilience in children attending a youth project in Limerick
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It may be said that risk and resilience lie at two ends of a spectrum co-dependent on each other for existence. This chapter explores the concept of resiliency noting that it is used interchangeably within and between discourses and that there remains much disagreement around which factors constitute vulnerability and invulnerability. Gordon and Song (1994), for example, found that more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Child & Youth Services,
Vol: 29 Page: 57-69 2007
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