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1. Chapter 1: Snowflake Children

The paper discusses a study concerning children and adolescents attending a youth project in Limerick

Abstract:

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...

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Republic of Ireland

Child & Youth Services, Vol: 29 Page: 1-27 2007

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2. Chapter 10: Children and Youth: The Evolution of At Risk to "High Promise" Youth

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

Abstract:

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...

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Child & Youth Services, Vol: 29 Page: 269-290 2007

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