Shan Holt
Biographic Data
| ID | 251766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shan Holt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shan |
| FAMILY NAME | Holt |
| SIGNATURE | HOLT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8510-9109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pathways to Help-Seeking
Research demonstrates a higher prevalence of intimate partner abuse perpetrated against disabled women, than for their majority-population non-disabled peers. Compounding this disadvantage, are disability-specific barriers to help-seeking including the lack of accessible and inclusive domestic violence services. This article entails a presentation of research findings that is twofold. Findings of a survey of domestic violence services are present…
Enduring Silences
Existing research indicates that disabled women are subjected to intimate partner abuse (IPA) at a higher rate than their majority population peers. This article presents in-depth qualitative findings of research on six disabled women's stories of IPA from Ireland. Six cross-cutting themes are presented, emergent from qualitative thematic analysis. These are, respectively, Physical violence and disability; Coercive control and disability; Economi…
Women with disabilities experiencing domestic violence and abuse
Causes, Consequences, and Recovery for Children with Experiences of Domestic and Family Violence
Children’s experiences of Signs of Safety
A Brief Report on Empowering Children and Young People through Participation
Purpose Understanding children’s experiences of living with domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is central to a child-centered, rights-based approach to working with children and young people. However, the tension between children’s right to be heard and their need to be protected from harm can often mean that those opportunities are experienced as tokenistic. In response to this concern about the reality of children’s participation in the context …
Post-separation Child Contact and Domestic Violence and Abuse
Purpose This article addresses a gap in empirical knowledge on post-separation contact in the context of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) for children with disabilities. The intersection of disability and DVA is explored through the mother’s perspective and brings to the fore the unique experiences of children with disabilities in the post-separation contact space. Methods Known to be a difficult to reach population, the experience of disabled c…
Social Workers Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has put increased pressure on health and social service providers, including social workers who continued front line practice throughout the pandemic, engaging with some of the most vulnerable in society often experiencing multiple adversities alongside domestic violence and abuse (DVA). Movement restrictions and stay-at-home orders introduced to slow the spread of the virus, paradoxically leave these families …
Post-Separation Contact and Domestic Violence
On the Margins
Reconceptualizing the Child Victim in the Police Response to Domestic Violence
European Research on Children, Adolescents and Domestic Violence
A voice or a choice? Children’s views on participating in decisions about post-separation contact with domestically abusive fathers
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child explicitly calls for children to be granted the right to participate in legal proceedings that affect them. Despite this legal obligation and an evolving consensus that recognises children as social and competent actors, this rhetoric has struggled to achieve translation into meaningful practice reality, particularly when decisions are being made about contact arrangements for children wher…
Domestic Violence and the Paradox of Post-Separation Mothering
This paper reports selectively on findings from a mixed-methods study to consider the paradoxical post-separation position many women find themselves occupying when child contact necessitates the continued and mainly unmonitored presence of abusive men in their lives and the lives of their children (Holt, 2011). Having engendered blame and being held responsible for the exposure of their children to domestic abuse, mothers may find themselves res…
Quality’ contact post-separation/divorce
Keyworking in residential child care
The voice of the child in family law
Listen to Me! Children's experiences of domestic violence
This paper reports on a study undertaken in the Republic of Ireland during 2005 and is based on the experiences of children and young people who have lived with domestic violence. The objectives of the study were to explore the impact of domestic violence on children, identify their needs and recommend appropriate interventions to be brokered through a centrally based women's support service. Data were gathered from 70 participants, including 37 …
Child protection social work and men's abuse of women
This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study of the response of social workers within a community care setting, in a large Dublin suburb, to cases involving men's abuse of women. This research aims to focus on what child protection workers do regarding this abuse, and what they say about what they do, thereby giving readers a sense of the action taking place in this social work team. The data, generated from both qualitative and quanti…
The Anatomy of a Marriage
Keyworking in residential child care
A voice or a choice? Children’s views on participating in decisions about post-separation contact with domestically abusive fathers
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child explicitly calls for children to be granted the right to participate in legal proceedings that affect them. Despite this legal obligation and an evolving consensus that recognises children as social and competent actors, this rhetoric has struggled to achieve translation into meaningful practice reality, particularly when decisions are being made about contact arrangements for children wher…
European Research on Children, Adolescents and Domestic Violence
Child protection social work and men's abuse of women
This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study of the response of social workers within a community care setting, in a large Dublin suburb, to cases involving men's abuse of women. This research aims to focus on what child protection workers do regarding this abuse, and what they say about what they do, thereby giving readers a sense of the action taking place in this social work team. The data, generated from both qualitative and quanti…
Post-Separation Contact and Domestic Violence
Reconceptualizing the Child Victim in the Police Response to Domestic Violence
A Brief Report on Empowering Children and Young People through Participation
Purpose Understanding children’s experiences of living with domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is central to a child-centered, rights-based approach to working with children and young people. However, the tension between children’s right to be heard and their need to be protected from harm can often mean that those opportunities are experienced as tokenistic. In response to this concern about the reality of children’s participation in the context …
Post-separation Child Contact and Domestic Violence and Abuse
Purpose This article addresses a gap in empirical knowledge on post-separation contact in the context of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) for children with disabilities. The intersection of disability and DVA is explored through the mother’s perspective and brings to the fore the unique experiences of children with disabilities in the post-separation contact space. Methods Known to be a difficult to reach population, the experience of disabled c…
Domestic Violence and the Paradox of Post-Separation Mothering
This paper reports selectively on findings from a mixed-methods study to consider the paradoxical post-separation position many women find themselves occupying when child contact necessitates the continued and mainly unmonitored presence of abusive men in their lives and the lives of their children (Holt, 2011). Having engendered blame and being held responsible for the exposure of their children to domestic abuse, mothers may find themselves res…
On the Margins
The voice of the child in family law
The Anatomy of a Marriage
Child protection social work and men's abuse of women
This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study of the response of social workers within a community care setting, in a large Dublin suburb, to cases involving men's abuse of women. This research aims to focus on what child protection workers do regarding this abuse, and what they say about what they do, thereby giving readers a sense of the action taking place in this social work team. The data, generated from both qualitative and quanti…
Listen to Me! Children's experiences of domestic violence
This paper reports on a study undertaken in the Republic of Ireland during 2005 and is based on the experiences of children and young people who have lived with domestic violence. The objectives of the study were to explore the impact of domestic violence on children, identify their needs and recommend appropriate interventions to be brokered through a centrally based women's support service. Data were gathered from 70 participants, including 37 …
Quality’ contact post-separation/divorce
Keyworking in residential child care
The voice of the child in family law
Domestic Violence and the Paradox of Post-Separation Mothering
This paper reports selectively on findings from a mixed-methods study to consider the paradoxical post-separation position many women find themselves occupying when child contact necessitates the continued and mainly unmonitored presence of abusive men in their lives and the lives of their children (Holt, 2011). Having engendered blame and being held responsible for the exposure of their children to domestic abuse, mothers may find themselves res…
A voice or a choice? Children’s views on participating in decisions about post-separation contact with domestically abusive fathers
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child explicitly calls for children to be granted the right to participate in legal proceedings that affect them. Despite this legal obligation and an evolving consensus that recognises children as social and competent actors, this rhetoric has struggled to achieve translation into meaningful practice reality, particularly when decisions are being made about contact arrangements for children wher…
Reconceptualizing the Child Victim in the Police Response to Domestic Violence
European Research on Children, Adolescents and Domestic Violence
On the Margins
Post-Separation Contact and Domestic Violence
Social Workers Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has put increased pressure on health and social service providers, including social workers who continued front line practice throughout the pandemic, engaging with some of the most vulnerable in society often experiencing multiple adversities alongside domestic violence and abuse (DVA). Movement restrictions and stay-at-home orders introduced to slow the spread of the virus, paradoxically leave these families …
Children’s experiences of Signs of Safety
A Brief Report on Empowering Children and Young People through Participation
Purpose Understanding children’s experiences of living with domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is central to a child-centered, rights-based approach to working with children and young people. However, the tension between children’s right to be heard and their need to be protected from harm can often mean that those opportunities are experienced as tokenistic. In response to this concern about the reality of children’s participation in the context …
Post-separation Child Contact and Domestic Violence and Abuse
Purpose This article addresses a gap in empirical knowledge on post-separation contact in the context of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) for children with disabilities. The intersection of disability and DVA is explored through the mother’s perspective and brings to the fore the unique experiences of children with disabilities in the post-separation contact space. Methods Known to be a difficult to reach population, the experience of disabled c…
Causes, Consequences, and Recovery for Children with Experiences of Domestic and Family Violence
Pathways to Help-Seeking
Research demonstrates a higher prevalence of intimate partner abuse perpetrated against disabled women, than for their majority-population non-disabled peers. Compounding this disadvantage, are disability-specific barriers to help-seeking including the lack of accessible and inclusive domestic violence services. This article entails a presentation of research findings that is twofold. Findings of a survey of domestic violence services are present…
Enduring Silences
Existing research indicates that disabled women are subjected to intimate partner abuse (IPA) at a higher rate than their majority population peers. This article presents in-depth qualitative findings of research on six disabled women's stories of IPA from Ireland. Six cross-cutting themes are presented, emergent from qualitative thematic analysis. These are, respectively, Physical violence and disability; Coercive control and disability; Economi…
Women with disabilities experiencing domestic violence and abuse
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Poison control (14 works) · Domestic violence (13 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (13 works) · Suicide prevention (13 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works)