Mary Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6594-9194 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Measuring collaboration quality in the context of Barnahus and Children’s Advocacy Centers: A thematic and measure review
Multi-agency collaboration is central to integrated response models like the Barnahus and Children’s Advocacy Centers in operationalizing children’s rights; yet defining and measuring the quality of this collaboration remains a significant challenge for researchers and policymakers. This review aims to identify the underlying dimensions of collaboration quality in responses to child abuse and examine the degree to which existing instruments addre…
Social workers’ views and experiences of self-care practices: A qualitative interview study
Self-care is increasingly advocated as necessary for improving social workers’ wellbeing. However, it remains a contested term, with limited understanding of social workers’ views and experiences of what it constitutes in practice. This qualitative study employed semi-structured interviews with nine social workers from three local authorities in Scotland. Informed by vulnerability theory, a six-phase thematic analysis was applied to explore socia…
Self-care in social work: An imperative or beyond reach
In recent years, the self-care of social workers has become a focus for research and practice in recognition of the demands of the social work role. As part of a research project to explore ways to embed self-care into a social work degree programme at a Scottish university, a narrative literature review was undertaken to examine existing research on self-care for social work students and practitioners. This article reports on the findings from t…
Caregiver role strain in caring for vulnerable persons living with HIV: Correlates of caregiver and care recipient reports
Informal care of family and friends is important for the health and well-being of disadvantaged persons living with HIV (PLWH). Caregiver role strain may threaten the function and continuity of their main relationships and their health impacts. Data were from a disadvantaged, primarily African American, sample of PLWH care recipients. Caregiver role strain was operationalized as a latent factor measured by variables including PLWH's perceptions o…
‘Because I'm a kid …’: The struggle for recognition of children and young people involved in child and family social work
Children's participation in decision‐making remains a key focus of social work practice. Yet the protection and participation of children in our society remains a setting of tension for children, families and practitioners. Drawing on evidence from a retrospective qualitative study on Family Group Conferencing, this paper uses the lens of recognition theory to highlight the experiences of young people more broadly in the social work system. The s…
Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project
Knowledge Exchange is considered a way that research might be operationalised beyond the academy, both within policy and practice. This article seeks to analyse knowledge exchange as a method of bringing field, research and policy together. It does so through the case study of a social work knowledge exchange project, ‘Recognition Matters’. This co-produced project brought together two separate research studies undertaken by the authors. These st…
The value of recognition theory to Family Group Conferencing and child-care and protection
Much has been written over the past thirty years within the international social work literature on Family Group Conferencing as a process of decision making. Yet, the theories that frame our understanding of how Family Group Conferencing contributes towards family outcomes are less distinct. This article makes an original contribution to this literature by proposing the use of recognition theory as a beneficial lens for understanding the Family …
Navigating the gendered academy: Women in social work academia
Women fare less well than men across all academic disciplines: they are less likely to be promoted, they earn less, and many more professors are men. There has, however, been little analysis to date of the experience of women in social work education, a discipline that has historically had higher representation of female staff and students. This study set out to explore women in the social work academy through a case-study of social work educatio…
Reimagining child welfare outcomes: Learning from Family Group Conferencing
This article reports on a qualitative study, which sought to retrospectively understand the contribution family group conferencing (FGC) makes to longer‐term outcomes for children at risk of entering State care and their families. Eleven case examples of FGC were studied from five local government areas across Scotland. Each example included the perspectives of different stakeholders in the process: children, their parents/carers and extended fam…
You Feel It in Your Body’: Narratives of Embodied Well-Being and Control among Women Who Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine during Pregnancy
In Western societies, women’s use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) during pregnancy and labor is increasingly ubiquitous, yet there have been few in-depth explorations of the lived experience of women who use CAM and little critical analysis of CAM’s contribution to women’s overall experience of pregnancy and childbirth. This paper explores women’s narrative accounts of CAM use during pregnancy and childbirth to help uncover the me…
New documentary ecologies: Emerging platforms, practices and discourses
"New documentary ecologies: emerging platforms, practices and discourses." Journal of Media Practice, 17(1), pp. 119–120
Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian communities in the world: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Studies
The editors of Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian Communities in the World have set themselves a broad aim: an examination of the construction, negotiation, and recreation of identities by ‘Arabic-sp
Pregnancy, risk perception and use of complementary and alternative medicine
Pregnancy and childbirth are events of major significance in women’s lives. In western countries women are increasingly using complementary and alternative medicine during this time. However, there is little research exploring the factors that are influential in women’s motivations to use complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy and childbirth. This article draws on data from a narrative-based study designed to explore women’s expe…
Divided Town
Reimagining child welfare outcomes: Learning from Family Group Conferencing
This article reports on a qualitative study, which sought to retrospectively understand the contribution family group conferencing (FGC) makes to longer‐term outcomes for children at risk of entering State care and their families. Eleven case examples of FGC were studied from five local government areas across Scotland. Each example included the perspectives of different stakeholders in the process: children, their parents/carers and extended fam…
Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian communities in the world: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Studies
The editors of Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian Communities in the World have set themselves a broad aim: an examination of the construction, negotiation, and recreation of identities by ‘Arabic-sp
Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project
Knowledge Exchange is considered a way that research might be operationalised beyond the academy, both within policy and practice. This article seeks to analyse knowledge exchange as a method of bringing field, research and policy together. It does so through the case study of a social work knowledge exchange project, ‘Recognition Matters’. This co-produced project brought together two separate research studies undertaken by the authors. These st…
The value of recognition theory to Family Group Conferencing and child-care and protection
Much has been written over the past thirty years within the international social work literature on Family Group Conferencing as a process of decision making. Yet, the theories that frame our understanding of how Family Group Conferencing contributes towards family outcomes are less distinct. This article makes an original contribution to this literature by proposing the use of recognition theory as a beneficial lens for understanding the Family …
Divided Town
Pregnancy, risk perception and use of complementary and alternative medicine
Pregnancy and childbirth are events of major significance in women’s lives. In western countries women are increasingly using complementary and alternative medicine during this time. However, there is little research exploring the factors that are influential in women’s motivations to use complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy and childbirth. This article draws on data from a narrative-based study designed to explore women’s expe…
New documentary ecologies: Emerging platforms, practices and discourses
"New documentary ecologies: emerging platforms, practices and discourses." Journal of Media Practice, 17(1), pp. 119–120
Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian communities in the world: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Studies
The editors of Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian Communities in the World have set themselves a broad aim: an examination of the construction, negotiation, and recreation of identities by ‘Arabic-sp
You Feel It in Your Body’: Narratives of Embodied Well-Being and Control among Women Who Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine during Pregnancy
In Western societies, women’s use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) during pregnancy and labor is increasingly ubiquitous, yet there have been few in-depth explorations of the lived experience of women who use CAM and little critical analysis of CAM’s contribution to women’s overall experience of pregnancy and childbirth. This paper explores women’s narrative accounts of CAM use during pregnancy and childbirth to help uncover the me…
Reimagining child welfare outcomes: Learning from Family Group Conferencing
This article reports on a qualitative study, which sought to retrospectively understand the contribution family group conferencing (FGC) makes to longer‐term outcomes for children at risk of entering State care and their families. Eleven case examples of FGC were studied from five local government areas across Scotland. Each example included the perspectives of different stakeholders in the process: children, their parents/carers and extended fam…
Navigating the gendered academy: Women in social work academia
Women fare less well than men across all academic disciplines: they are less likely to be promoted, they earn less, and many more professors are men. There has, however, been little analysis to date of the experience of women in social work education, a discipline that has historically had higher representation of female staff and students. This study set out to explore women in the social work academy through a case-study of social work educatio…
Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project
Knowledge Exchange is considered a way that research might be operationalised beyond the academy, both within policy and practice. This article seeks to analyse knowledge exchange as a method of bringing field, research and policy together. It does so through the case study of a social work knowledge exchange project, ‘Recognition Matters’. This co-produced project brought together two separate research studies undertaken by the authors. These st…
The value of recognition theory to Family Group Conferencing and child-care and protection
Much has been written over the past thirty years within the international social work literature on Family Group Conferencing as a process of decision making. Yet, the theories that frame our understanding of how Family Group Conferencing contributes towards family outcomes are less distinct. This article makes an original contribution to this literature by proposing the use of recognition theory as a beneficial lens for understanding the Family …
Caregiver role strain in caring for vulnerable persons living with HIV: Correlates of caregiver and care recipient reports
Informal care of family and friends is important for the health and well-being of disadvantaged persons living with HIV (PLWH). Caregiver role strain may threaten the function and continuity of their main relationships and their health impacts. Data were from a disadvantaged, primarily African American, sample of PLWH care recipients. Caregiver role strain was operationalized as a latent factor measured by variables including PLWH's perceptions o…
‘Because I'm a kid …’: The struggle for recognition of children and young people involved in child and family social work
Children's participation in decision‐making remains a key focus of social work practice. Yet the protection and participation of children in our society remains a setting of tension for children, families and practitioners. Drawing on evidence from a retrospective qualitative study on Family Group Conferencing, this paper uses the lens of recognition theory to highlight the experiences of young people more broadly in the social work system. The s…
Social workers’ views and experiences of self-care practices: A qualitative interview study
Self-care is increasingly advocated as necessary for improving social workers’ wellbeing. However, it remains a contested term, with limited understanding of social workers’ views and experiences of what it constitutes in practice. This qualitative study employed semi-structured interviews with nine social workers from three local authorities in Scotland. Informed by vulnerability theory, a six-phase thematic analysis was applied to explore socia…
Self-care in social work: An imperative or beyond reach
In recent years, the self-care of social workers has become a focus for research and practice in recognition of the demands of the social work role. As part of a research project to explore ways to embed self-care into a social work degree programme at a Scottish university, a narrative literature review was undertaken to examine existing research on self-care for social work students and practitioners. This article reports on the findings from t…
Measuring collaboration quality in the context of Barnahus and Children’s Advocacy Centers: A thematic and measure review
Multi-agency collaboration is central to integrated response models like the Barnahus and Children’s Advocacy Centers in operationalizing children’s rights; yet defining and measuring the quality of this collaboration remains a significant challenge for researchers and policymakers. This review aims to identify the underlying dimensions of collaboration quality in responses to child abuse and examine the degree to which existing instruments addre…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (7 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works)