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This study represents one element of a research project carried out into the mental health needs of children and young people with experiences of care in Northern Ireland.
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This paper represents one element of a research project carried out into the mental health needs of children and young people with experiences of care in Northern Ireland. Focusing exclusively on qualitative data collected from 51 young people in care and aftercare, it discusses in the first instance how the challenges and difficulties faced by young people can manifest themselves in more...
International Classification:
Other - impact of research project
Categories:
The impact of research project on
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 13 Page: 417-434 2007
Christine Mullan; Siobhán McAlister; Fiona Rollock; Lelia Fitzsimons
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This article discusses policies and practices in several European countries concerning interactions between child welfare and community mental health services in meeting the needs of children with mentally ill parents
Abstract:
Compared policies and practices in several European countries concerning interactions between child welfare and community mental health services in meeting the needs of children with mentally ill parents. Social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, pediatricians, and therapists responded to case vignettes within group discussions. Ss also reported perceptions of responses more...
Geography:
International
Child Abuse Review,
Vol: 10 Page: 351-365 2001
Rachael Hetherington; Karen Baistow
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The aim of this study was to examine the characteristics of children with disabilities who meet the British legal definition of 'looked after' children
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Little is known about the characteristics of children with disabilities who meet the British legal definition of 'looked after' children. Data were obtained on 108 such children living within one geographical area in Northern Ireland and who spent 90 days or more in a 12-month period living away from the family home. However, this figure may under-estimate the numbers, given the more...
International Classification:
Disabilities - non specific
Categories:
disabilities
Geography:
Northern Ireland
British Journal of Social Work,
Vol: 34 Page: 561-576 2004
Roy McConkey; Theresa Nixon; Elizabeth Donaghy; Donna Mulhern
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The aim of this study was to examine physiotherapy services and alternative therapies by children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy
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Describes the use of physiotherapy services and alternative therapies by children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy (CP). Subjects were 212 parents of children aged 4-14 yrs with moderate to severe CP were identified from the Northern Ireland Cerebral Palsy Register and a random subsample of their pediatric physiotherapists. Service use among families was high; on average the more...
International Classification:
Diseases of the nervous system - Cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes - cerebral palsy
Categories:
physiotherapy services; cerebral palsy
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child: Care, Health and Development,
Vol: 28 Page: 469-477 2002
Jackie Parkes; M. Donnelly; H. Dolk; N. Hill
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This case report discusses the author's multi-modal therapeutic practice with a 7-year-old boy referred to the Family Trauma Centre, following paramilitary assaults on his father.
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The focus of this paper is on the author's multi-modal therapeutic practice with a 7-year-old boy referred to the Family Trauma Centre, following paramilitary assaults on his father. The work also addresses the boy's experience of domestic violence. The work is contextualised in terms of the "Peace Process" in Northern Ireland, including the establishment of the Family Trauma more...
International Classification:
Health service provision
Categories:
multi-modal therapeutic practice
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 10 Page: 193-203 2004
Stephen Coulter
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