Paul O’leary
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3096493 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul O’leary |
| NOMBRES | Paul |
| APELLIDO | O’leary |
| FIRMA | O’LEARY P |
| AFILIACIONES | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6084-3734 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 96 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1958 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
“Alone in my head, I did my best not to feel anything”
The over-representation of males as survivors of institutional child sexual abuse is increasingly accepted in the research literature. Despite this, there is little in the research that considers the lived experience of male survivors. This study examines the experience of male survivors through their narratives that emerged from the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013–2017). A qualitative content …
AI challenges
Child sexual exploitation and abuse
Introduction: Online services have expanded cross-cultural communication worldwide and have facilitated cross-border forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), highlighting cultural differences in conceptualisations of the crime. Methods: This article uses a case-study methodology to examine how cultural beliefs are integrated into CSEA risk assessments and policy responses in three differing cultural contexts: Malaysia, Indonesia, and …
Conceptualising Climate Violence
The term ‘climate violence’ is increasingly used to describe the intersection of climate change and violence. In the research literature, climate violence has been conceptualised in varied ways, reflected in emergent and intersecting definitions and descriptions. How concepts are understood and used in academic discourse impacts policy developments, including justice responses to violence and climate change. This paper scopes how the term ‘climat…
Male Perpetrator Interventions for Domestic and Family Violence in the Indo-Pacific
Across the Indo-Pacific, men are using violence against women at alarming rates, however current interventions in the region are failing to significantly reduce this violence. This scoping review aimed to identify how male perpetrators of domestic and family violence (DFV) were engaged in approaches to intervene with their use of violence across the Indo-Pacific region. The review also set out to examine the diversity in intervention frameworks t…
The Mission of Social Work
Why does social work need to be ‘international’
Learning from the life of Dr Jane Goodall for social work practice and humanistic practice
Adolescent to Parent Violence in the Wake of Domestic and Family Violence
Adolescent-to-parent violence (APV) is increasingly recognized as a social problem and is correlated with exposure to other types of violence in the family. Some young people using violence against parents have been exposed to domestic and family violence (DFV) and many of them are boys and most victims are mothers. Increasingly practitioners are being asked to respond to this issue yet relatively little specific services exist and knowledge on h…
Social work practice
Evidence, truth, fact, claim, belief or view? – Social work knowledge in a new dynamic world of digital information
Using mirrors and lenses for reflection in social work
Eliminating gender-based violence can unlock the solutions to ending all violence
What if it were our children
From volunteer to social worker
The way we were and the vision ahead
Employment Outcomes for Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants Who Use Opioids
In this article, we examine the relationship between self-reported opioid use and employment outcomes among Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants who applied to SSDI in 2009. We use a machine learning method to identify opioids recorded in text fields on SSDI applications. Studying outcomes for 4 years after the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) determined the application outcome, we find a negative and statistically sign…
Opioid Use Among Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants
Our study is the first to provide statistics on opioid use among U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants. We use an innovative machine-learning method to identify opioids in open-ended text fields in SSDI administrative data. We find that more than 30% of applicants between 2007 and 2017 reported using one or more opioids, a rate that is about 50% higher than in the general population. Rates of reported opioid use varied over …
The Need for a Whole of Family Response
Purpose Adolescent-to-parent violence (APV), especially son-to-mother violence, often occurs in the context of adult-perpetrated domestic and family violence (DFV). APV interventions largely focus on the behaviour of the young person using violence, and their relationship with the protective parent, often the mother. Focus on the mother-young person dyad is important yet ignores their relationships with siblings, who have also experienced DFV and…
Standing with children in situations of wars and military conflict
Children are our future. At a very critical time in world history in 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012) stated that society is best measured on its moral integrity in how it treats children. Sadly, since this famous quote, children remain caught in wars and military conflicts initiated by adults in many locations around the world
International social work is both the South and the North
Both of us, as the Co-Chief Editors of International Social Work Journal (ISWJ), have just been at the Social Work and Social Development (SWSD) World Congress in Panama City, and we are now back home. The Panama SWSD 2024 was the first time since 2018 in Dublin when our global community has got together. It was amazing to meet with old friends and comrades after all that we have seen in the last 5 years, while making new connections and colleagu…
Social work with frustrations
Social work as a shared dream’
When we practice social work, we are in a pursuit of love and social justice with hope and dream. Social dreaming about what is possible has been termed by Lawrence (2018) as the foreground to transformative thinking. A powerful force for moving beyond the status quo. Without the dream, there will be no imagination for achieving the mission impossible in the future, there will be a lack of passion for accompanying our clients in the process of ta…
International social work at the time of wars
Differential Intervention Outcomes Among Fathers Who Commit Domestic and Family Violence
Background In Western contexts, the behavior of domestically violent men is largely addressed through legal sanctions and standardised men’s behavior change programs. When domestically violent fathers remain together or in contact with their families, safety is an ongoing concern. However, program evaluations have failed to provide clear evidence for their effectiveness in addressing family violence in relation to parenting status. Part of the pr…
The Boundaries of the Social Work Relationship Revisited
In all professional relationships, there are power imbalances and the potential for discrimination and exploitation. To safeguard against such violations, the concept of professional boundaries is advocated, yet the construction of these boundaries is presented as if it is rudimentary for everyone. Historically, the professional boundaries created within the field of social work have been influenced by other professions, most notably medicine. In…
Programs for Men who Perpetrate Domestic Violence
Interagency Working in Child Protection and Domestic Violence
Integrated responses to domestic violence bring together key related areas such as child protection. This study examined important learning from an established integrated response in Queensland. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 members of the integrated response regarding the operation of the model. Progress was evident in the operation of the model, often harnessed by increased collaboration and trust. Challenges remained regard…
Inspiring hope through social work practice
Hope has dynamic features that look to the future and motivate people. Yet despite being synonymous with social work, psychological terms have tended to define hope’s perimeters. Its role in social work is often heralded, yet its unique, critical and temporal role has not been well mapped in social work theory. This article explores the use of hope in social work practice. A conceptual framework highlights the richness of hope, its application in…
Domestic Violence and Child Protection
The interface between the child protection and domestic violence sectors is often problematic, in that the two sectors operate relatively independently, with little integration. However, it is widely recognised that these sectors need to work more closely to enhance both women's and children's safety. This paper explores the processes needed for the child protection and domestic violence sectors to develop collaborative partnerships that lead to …
Ten gentle reminders to social workers in the pandemic
Once in a century, in the era of global warming and globalization, there are international warnings about the outbreak of the virus Covid-19. People from the East to the West, and from the North to the South, are facing increasing threats from potential isolation, infection and even death. We are uncertain about when it will end and where outbreaks might occur, or who is afflicted. Human interactions are tempered by uncertainty and even fear that…
Community-based child protection with Palestinian refugees in South Lebanon
Engendering hope with refugee children is an important role of those working in child protection. This article reports on one part of an evaluation of a community-based child protection project working with Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon. Validated tools were used to measure levels of hope in 222 children and young people before and after social work intervention. Results were compared to a smaller group of similar children who received…
Disrupting social work ethics
Social work locates itself as a value-based profession. The profession would not hold such status without an ethical framework and code to practice social work purpose and functions. Without ethics, we could not apply the values and theories of social work at micro- through to macrolevels of practice. Indeed, ethics ensures our operational framework and accountability to the communities we serve
Inclusivity in Interagency Responses to Domestic Violence and Child Protection
The integrated response model offers opportunities for agencies to unite to address domestic violence and its intersections with other elements of oppression including colonialism, racism, and heterosexism. This article explores the workings of a well-established integrated response in relation to minoritised populations. Thirty staff from member organisations of the integrated response participated in semi-structured interviews. Using qualitativ…
The Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Psychosexual Functioning During Adulthood
Men Who Were Sexually Abused in Childhood and Subsequent Suicidal Ideation
In the Western world, men are particularly vulnerable to suicide, so it is important to undertake research that helps explain the manifestation of suicidality. This is one of the few studies to date that have researched men who were sexually abused in childhood and their presentation of suicidal ideation, much of the previous research with this focus having been restricted to women. The study draws on a clinical sample of 147 Australian men who w…
High-Risk Cases at the Intersection of Domestic/Family Violence and Child Protection
Social work with families in the pandemic of Covid-19
We have been facing the pandemic of COVID-19 for nearly 2 years. It seems that there is still a long way to go. Humanity faces choices to either fight against it or live with the virus and its variants. During this difficult period, there is no way for us just to wait and see, we have to stand up and face it together. Family as the basic unit of our society will become our base for this battle. In fact, during the pandemic, our families have been…
Social work’s role during and after the pandemic
The seriousness and acuteness of the pandemic has quickly taken the world’s attention. This has diverted attention from many struggles for people who were already seeking some type of liberation or relief. At any one time in the world, there are many struggles for human rights occurring. COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, capturing attention and action in unprecedented ways. It has highlighted global inequalities and the political disjuncture…
Developing the social work role in the Indonesian child protection system
Indonesia is building a child protection system where primary preventions aim to support families and intervention is based on community-based care options rather than the current reliance on institutional care. Social work has been identified as the lead profession in this structural change. This requires social work to be better recognized as a profession in Indonesian society. This article outlines exploratory research in establishing a role f…
Overcoming methodological challenges in prevalence studies in developing contexts with vulnerable children
Social work research concerns itself with vulnerable populations. Methodological challenges including accessing vulnerable populations are especially acute in developing countries where systematized data is often lacking. This article presents a pilot study using respondent-driven sampling to estimate the prevalence of children engaged in commercial sexual exploitation. The results are used to illustrate the feasibility of developing multi-sector…
Using mirrors and lenses for reflection in social work
Eliminating gender-based violence can unlock the solutions to ending all violence
Worker Safety in High-risk Child Protection and Domestic Violence Cases
Purpose Few studies have investigated how high-risk domestic and family violence perpetrators threaten staff, how organizations support staff, and whether communities of practice improve service coordination and the safety of workers and the families they serve. The purpose of this article is to explore worker safety among practitioners involved in high-risk domestic and family violence and child protection cases. Methods Participatory action res…
Social work in times of Geo-Political and Military Conflict
Like a virus, the threat of Geo-Political and Military Conflict can build and quickly result in catastrophic results for human life. As individuals, we have little power to avert such tragedies. Making sense of these troubling times on our own can be demoralising. Yet collectively we have a united responsibility to value humanity in such times. We as social workers may differ in our views, but our core values of preserving human life unite us eve…
Connecting nature and the people
After reviewing and publishing numerous short essays (brief notes and voices from practice) on social work responses to the pandemic of COVID-19, we have reflected on the challenges and opportunities during this centennial crisis. We are proud of our professional peers who are working with communities during very difficult times all around the world. At the same time, we may have to confess that we have mainly focused our eyes and minds on the we…
An international profession with commonalities and differences
Both in the professional field and in the international academia, we always say that social work is an international profession with local practice and global implications. Of course, we have formed a few international or regional social work organisations for the pursuit of our ideals and exchange of ideas, such as the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and International Association …
The base of social work
Social work requires a critical and reflective understanding of its roots, foundations and rationale in order to have a collective orientation to practice. This is why we try to look into the bases of social work in the journal. After conducting review and reflection over our observation and experience, the bases of social work practice can be summarized into four categories, namely, (1) relationship-based, (2) client-based, (3) evidence-based an…
Evidence, truth, fact, claim, belief or view? – Social work knowledge in a new dynamic world of digital information
Son-to-mother violence in the aftermath of domestic violence
Wage Policy and the Health Service
Persons with Disabilities at Work
This article supplements the current literature on employment of persons with disabilities. Our data are derived from a survey of employees with disabilities at the place of their employment. More than three-quarters of the employees of the 12 gaming casinos in Atlantic City responded to a survey that inquired about their demographic characteristics, their medical conditions, and whether they were limited in the amount or kind of work they could …
A History of Wales, 1906-2000, D. Gareth Evans
Journal Article A History of Wales, 1906–2000, D. Gareth Evans Get access Paul O'leary Paul O'leary University of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 466, April 2001, Pages 517–518, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.466.517 Published: 01 April 2001
Civilizing the Urban
Out of the Shadows
Journal Article Out of the Shadows: A History of Women in Twentieth-Century Wales, Deirdre Beddoe Get access Paul O'leary Paul O'leary University of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 762–763, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.762 Published: 01 June 2001
Irish Migrants in Modern Wales
Networking Respectability
Irish migrants in nineteenth-century Britain are often seen as embodying the antithesis of the hegemonic values of respectability, temperance, self-help and mutuality that became entrenched among sections of the British working class from c.1850. This essay argues that Irish friendly and temperance societies in south Wales embraced these values and acted as networks for the dissemination of such ideals in Irish communities, assisted by the Cathol…
Mass commodity culture and identity
The ‘Labour and the Poor’ investigations of the Morning Chronicle newspaper, which charted social conditions in towns outside London in 1849–51, subjected Irish migrants in Britain to a hostile journalistic gaze. In the case of the iron-manufacturing town of Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales, the minority Irish ethnic identity was defined by observers in terms of exclusion from an emerging mass commodity culture and in opposition to the native workin…
Strategic Choices and Unintended Consequences
Concepts of strategic choice have become widely used in industrial relations, particularly as methods of understanding recent historical changes. While the operation of strategy-choosing relative to implementation has generated debate, there has been little discussion of how strategic choices can generate unintended consequences even where there are no apparent weaknesses in implementation. We discuss these issues in the context of under-explored…
Hope and Young People on the Margins
A critical aspect of social sustainability is how society encourages and supports marginalised young people to fulfil their potential. Knowledge about young people’s hopes for the future may help society to better engage with them in order to maximise their participation in creating sustainable futures. There is however little engagement with the full range of marginalised young people’s hopes and ideas about the future because much of the effort…
Public intellectuals, language revival and cultural nationalism in Ireland and Wales
This article compares the content and impact of two iconic lectures concerned with language revival in Ireland and Wales. The lectures are Douglas Hyde's ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’ of 1892 and Saunders Lewis's Tynged yr Iaith (Fate of the Language) of 1962. It explores the different types of ‘public’ addressed by these lecturers and contrasts the languages used to address those publics, as well as assessing the significance of the…
Programs for Men who Perpetrate Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence and Child Protection
The interface between the child protection and domestic violence sectors is often problematic, in that the two sectors operate relatively independently, with little integration. However, it is widely recognised that these sectors need to work more closely to enhance both women's and children's safety. This paper explores the processes needed for the child protection and domestic violence sectors to develop collaborative partnerships that lead to …
Men Who Were Sexually Abused in Childhood and Subsequent Suicidal Ideation
In the Western world, men are particularly vulnerable to suicide, so it is important to undertake research that helps explain the manifestation of suicidality. This is one of the few studies to date that have researched men who were sexually abused in childhood and their presentation of suicidal ideation, much of the previous research with this focus having been restricted to women. The study draws on a clinical sample of 147 Australian men who w…
The Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Psychosexual Functioning During Adulthood
Exploring Coping Factors amongst Men Who Were Sexually Abused in Childhood
Men who were sexually abused in childhood are overrepresented in mental health and other clinical populations. There is heterogeneity in outcomes for such men and a substantial number develop coping strategies that minimise negative consequences of abuse. However, little research has been undertaken with abused men to understand the nature of their coping. This paper reports on one arm of a major study of mental health outcomes for Australian men…
Claiming the Streets
Claiming the Streets
The Boundaries of the Social Work Relationship Revisited
In all professional relationships, there are power imbalances and the potential for discrimination and exploitation. To safeguard against such violations, the concept of professional boundaries is advocated, yet the construction of these boundaries is presented as if it is rudimentary for everyone. Historically, the professional boundaries created within the field of social work have been influenced by other professions, most notably medicine. In…
Placing the nation
The politics of national identity and place have acquired a decisive new twist in the UK since the creation of devolved governments Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1999. However, social and
Community-based child protection with Palestinian refugees in South Lebanon
Engendering hope with refugee children is an important role of those working in child protection. This article reports on one part of an evaluation of a community-based child protection project working with Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon. Validated tools were used to measure levels of hope in 222 children and young people before and after social work intervention. Results were compared to a smaller group of similar children who received…
States of Union
This review article focuses on the impact of current political debates and developments on key themes in a number of recent publications on Scottish history and politics. These include the nature of the United Kingdom as a state, the changing character of unionism as politics and ideology, the impact of the end of empire on Scottish identity and politics, the significance of the Thatcher governments, and the rise of nationalism. Recent research o…
Young mothers in Islamic contexts
Social work has a particular responsibility to develop culturally and religiously appropriate practice. Early childbearing occurs in many Muslim families and can be a sensitive issue because it is often shaped by local religious teachings. Early childbearing is associated with health and social vulnerabilities. Social work has an important role to partner with local religious leaders to support this vulnerable population. There are Islamic teachi…
Children in Brunei Darussalam
The past two decades of academic work, have cemented the idea that childhood is a social construction. As such, how children are conceptualized, educated, protected and interacted with differs from society to society, given the values inherent in each social construction. Culture, history and geography all influence the daily lives of children, and the inherent protections that children are offered in each society. This paper examines child prote…
Inspiring hope through social work practice
Hope has dynamic features that look to the future and motivate people. Yet despite being synonymous with social work, psychological terms have tended to define hope’s perimeters. Its role in social work is often heralded, yet its unique, critical and temporal role has not been well mapped in social work theory. This article explores the use of hope in social work practice. A conceptual framework highlights the richness of hope, its application in…
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