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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 the available literature to consider the impact of risk factors on young people who use and misuse substances and whether social exclusion and psychiatric disorders constitute important risk factors
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The present review examines the available literature to consider the impact of risk factors on young people who use and misuse substances. We discuss the existing evidence to argue that social exclusion and psychiatric disorders constitute the important risk factors in the development of substance misuse. We examine the role that risk factors play by considering recent studies of more...
Geography:
International
Current Opinion in Psychiatry,
Vol: 15 Page: 355-360 2002
Helen D. Bushell; Ilana Crome; Richard Williams
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The aim of this study was to examine the profile of client and service use - of schools counselling service - between September 2004 and December 2005
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Research reported in recent years highlights that many children and young people living in Northern Ireland are struggling to cope with a range of complex issues in their daily lives. The lack of accessible and appropriate professional support means that many children and young people carry these issues to school, where their struggle to cope manifests as behaviour problems contributing more...
International Classification:
Education
Categories:
schools counselling service
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 13 Page: 95-115 2007
Aisling McElearney; Gary Adamson; Mark Shevlin; Anne Tracey; Bronagh Muldoon; Selina Roosmale-Cocq
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This article provides an overview of the workshops and papers presented at the National Children's Bureau Conference entitled Dealing with Feelings: Promoting and Supporting Young
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Provides an overview of the workshops and papers presented at the National Children's Bureau Conference entitled Dealing with Feelings: Promoting and Supporting Young People's Emotional Health. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) more...
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 13 Page: 153-162 2007
Ãine McGinnity
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This article seeks to highlight the resilience-enhancing potential for vulnerable young people of roles and relationships in the domains of recreation and work
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This paper seeks to highlight the resilience-enhancing potential for vulnerable young people of roles and relationships in the domains of recreation and work. The paper explores its theme through a specific focus on the needs of young people in long-term care. The paper has four sections: the first deals with some key conceptual propositions relevant to understanding resilience-related more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Journal of Social Work Practice,
Vol: 22 Page: 37-50 2008
Robbie Gilligan
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The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between same-sex attraction, experience of bullying in school and mental health measured using the 12-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ12)
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This article reports on the relationship between same-sex attraction, experience of bullying in school and mental health measured using the 12-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ12). A random sample of 16 year olds, drawn from the Child Benefit Register, was invited to take part in the 2005 Young Life and Times survey, which is a postal survey carried out in Northern more...
International Classification:
Other - same-sex attraction
Categories:
same-sex attraction
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Journal of Youth Studies,
Vol: 11 Page: 33-46 2008
Helen McNamee; Katrina Lloyd; Dirk Schubotz
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The aim of this study was to examine how social disadvantage is translated into serious risks to health and personal development in the Northern Ireland context
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In Northern Ireland, young people exist in a health environment where the experience of social disadvantage is translated into serious risks to health and personal development. The years of political conflict have tended to obscure these health problems, and it is important that the difficulties faced by young people are examined and contextualized within the social, economic and more...
International Classification:
Other - social disadvantage
Categories:
social disadvantage; health risks;
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 13 Page: 281-295 2007
Gerry McAleavy; Patrick McCrystal
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This study sought to explore and better understand the mechanisms through which peer-related social factors operate to encourage young people to smoke
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Previous research has indicated that young people are under considerable social pressure to take up smoking. This study has therefore sought to explore and better understand the mechanisms through which peer-related social factors operate to encourage young people to smoke. Individual qualitative interviews were held with adolescent children aged 11-12 years (N = 102) within youth clubs more...
International Classification:
Drugs - smoking
Categories:
smoking
Geography:
Northern Ireland
British Journal of Social Psychology,
Vol: 44 Page: 397-414 2005
Barbara J. Stewart-Knox; Julie Sittlington; Jorun Rugkåsa; Sheila Harrisson; Margaret Treacy; Pilar Santos Abaunza
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The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of reported suicidal thoughts and acts in (a) a school-based sample of Irish adolescents, and (b) in adolescents attending a community child and family mental health service.
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Suicide and attempted suicide are now major public health problems in Ireland. It is observed that little is known about the mental health needs of Irish young people. Suicidal acts, depressive disorders and social exclusion are known to be risk factors for future suicide but few young people with these risk factors are in contact with medical or mental health services. The aim of the more...
International Classification:
External causes of morbidity and mortality - Intentional self-harm - suicidal
Categories:
suicidal thoughts
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine,
Vol: 18 Page: 82-86 2001
Jo Rowley; Kathleen Ganter; Carol Fitzpatrick
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This article discusses suicides in Northern Ireland in the context of what is known about global and regional trends with respect to gender and age, and change over time
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Suicides in Northern Ireland are examined in the context of what is known about global and regional trends with respect to gender and age, and change over time. For Northern Ireland, suicide numbers and rates are plotted for 10-24 year olds from 1967 to 2005. Questions are raised about the validity of officially registered suicides in the light of inverse correlations with accidents, more...
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 13 Page: 435-443 2007
Mike Tomlinson
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The aim of this study was to examine the spending pattern of money by young people, and its important when investigating drug use during adolescence
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It is now common for young people in full-time compulsory education to hold part-time jobs. However, while the 1990s experienced a rise in illicit drug use particularly among young people and an increase in the level of interest in identifying factors associated with drug use, little attention has been paid to the influence of the money young people have to spend and its potential links more...
International Classification:
Drugs - investigating use
Categories:
investigating drug use
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy,
Vol: 14 Page: 19-28 2007
Patrick McCrystal; Andrew Percy; Kathryn Higgins
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The aim of this study was to examine relationship between racist harassment and children and young people in Northern Ireland.
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This paper looks at the relationship between racist harassment and children and young people in Northern Ireland. It reviews the evidence from police records of cases where children and young people have been subjected to and victimised by such harassment, abuse and violence, and uses the same data to reveal the role of young people as perpetrators of racist harassment-both to young more...
International Classification:
Other - racist
Categories:
racist harassment
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 9 Page: 129-139 2003
Neil Jarman
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The aim of this study was to examine learning realized through a partnership with children and young people, reflecting first on the difficulties in working directly with the issues of experience and identity within the context of ongoing conflict
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From January 2000 to December 2002 Save the Children worked in partnership with a group of young people, concerning their experience of the conflict and their invisibility within the new political context in Northern Ireland. This paper will consider the learning realized through this partnership with children and young people, reflecting first on the difficulties in working directly more...
International Classification:
Education and violence
Categories:
conflict
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 9 Page: 217-227 2003
Peter Bryson
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The aim of this study was to examine who young people in Ireland and Slovenia regard as heroes
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Digital culture is becoming increasingly global and accessible. It is important to see how participation in the European Union (EU) global economic culture is changing young people's self-images. Representations of heroic figures in questionnaires given to Irish (n = 239) and Slovenian (n = 389) samples of 15-year-olds were examined to assess the extent to which heroes originated in more...
International Classification:
Other - young people's heroes
Categories:
young people's heroes
Geography:
International
Irish Journal of Psychology,
Vol: 26 Page: 137-148 2005
Hugh Gash; Barbara Bajd
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