Thomas Mackrill
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Mackrill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackrill |
| SIGNATURE | MACKRILL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Danish National Center for Grief |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0838-6596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Supporting vulnerable students facing adverse life conditions in vocational education – challenges and possibilities
Students and staff at three Danish vocational education colleges were interviewed about: students’ adverse life conditions and their impact on students’ participation in their education; students’ challenges accessing psychosocial support; the organisational framework for identifying and supporting vulnerable students. The study found a series of issues. First, transitioning from a troubled childhood to a satisfactory adult life and dealing with …
How Children Experience the Outcomes of a Family-Based Grief Intervention - “Losing Someone Like This is a Downer. But You’re Not Alone and We Will Get Through it”
This study explored the experiences of children and their surviving parent regarding their outcomes after participating in a Danish combined family and group grief intervention for parental bereavement. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted post counselling with six boys and six girls aged 9-15 years and their remaining parent. The families described six grief-related outcomes: improved mood connected with social re-engagement, ac…
Writing letters to my dead parent in group therapy for parental bereavement - young adult experiences
This qualitative interview study explored 11 young adult clients' initial experiences of writing letters to their deceased parent in group therapy for parental bereavement. The focus was on: the clients' responses to first hearing about letter-writing; the clients' first encounters with the method in group sessions, and the clients' first experiences of writing letters at home. The method made immediate sense to many of the clients. Experiencing …
Referring young people to psychosocial support in the context of a youth active labour market/education strategy
This study explores how experienced Danish caseworkers who work with young people at municipal job centres justify and make decisions regarding referring young clients to psychosocial interventions. Twelve caseworkers and a line manager from two municipalities were interviewed. A thematic analysis was conducted. Key themes were: in-house and out-of-house collaboration; referral as an ongoing process; matching the young person with the service pro…
Measuring the Quality of Statutory Social Workers’ Communication Skills with Young People
Statutory meetings are at the core of social work practice, yet there is no quantitatively tested common set of criteria for assessing statutory social workers’ communication skills with young people. Reliably measuring such skills is important for the training and supervision of social workers as well for drawing conclusions about whether such skills impact service users’ outcomes. To fill this gap, we developed a new measure, the My Social Work…
Implementing Routine Outcome Monitoring in Statutory Children’s Services
Implementing routine outcome measurement in psychosocial interventions – a systematic review
What can the use of Feedback Informed Treatment teach us about involving children, young people and caregivers in statutory casework
This study explores the use of Feedback Informed Treatment to improve the involvement of children, young people and caregivers in statutory casework in Children’s Services in a Danish municipality. Feedback Informed Treatment involves monitoring a client’s wellbeing at the beginning of sessions and monitoring the working alliance at the end of sessions. Two years of fieldwork were undertaken in connection with researching and writing a manual for…
The MySocialworker app system – a pilot interview study
An app system was developed in Denmark by caseworkers and clients from three municipalities, a software company, and a University College. The app system enabled young clients to track their wellbeing, positive behaviours, disturbances in their lives, and their experiences of interventions on smartphones. Statutory caseworkers could follow the change in their client’s situation and have an overview of all their clients on a web interface. This ar…
Online video supervision for statutory youth caseworkers – a pilot study
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel online video-based approach to supervision for statutory caseworkers. Caseworkers recorded a video of their meetings with their clients and sent the video to their supervisor. The supervisor selected clips in the video. They held an online meeting where they reviewed the clips, and the supervisor gave feedback and they reflected together. The caseworker then used what they had learnt in thei…
Key misconceptions when assessing digital technology for municipal youth social work
Municipal youth protection work has become infused with digital technology, and yet there is still limited research on how to assess the impact of digital technology on municipal youth social work. This article reviews a range of misconceptions regarding the assessment of digital technology for youth social work in municipal contexts. This review was generated in connection with the development of an app system for communication between young cli…
Developing scales for apps together - youth and municipal case worker perspectives
This article reports the initial findings of a Danish action research project aiming to develop a digital tool that young persons could use to inform their municipal case workers about their wellbeing. The project vision was an integrated system with a smartphone interface for young persons, and a web interface for case workers, whereby both parties could track how the young persons were doing. Three meetings were held between researchers, softwa…
Goal Consensus and Collaboration in Psychotherapy
Goal consensus and collaboration has proved to be significant for treatment outcome. Why this is the case has not been studied. The terms suggest a technical rationale; that increased attention to consensus and collaboration will lead to a more efficient use of therapeutic resources on the part of both client and therapist. However, an existential rationale is also a possibility. This study explores such a rationale. When therapists focus on goal…
Constructing Client Agency in Psychotherapy Research
Certain researchers lay claim to focusing on client agency and offer examples of client agency in their work. However, research that focuses on client agency does so in very different ways. In the psychotherapy research literature, there are few reflections about the various ways in which client agency is constructed. This article offers such reflections. First, an existential definition of agency is introduced. Then, two general models that gras…
Aspects of Structure and Dynamics at a Refugee Centre in Denmark
This article presents an empirical analysis that is part of a practice research project carried out at a Danish Red Cross refugee centre in Copenhagen. It focuses on the relation between the individual refugee and the receiving institution. It points out how the organizational structure of a particular refugee centre enables discord between refugees and centre workers as well as among the centre staff. It analyses some of the dynamics of the conf…
Key misconceptions when assessing digital technology for municipal youth social work
Municipal youth protection work has become infused with digital technology, and yet there is still limited research on how to assess the impact of digital technology on municipal youth social work. This article reviews a range of misconceptions regarding the assessment of digital technology for youth social work in municipal contexts. This review was generated in connection with the development of an app system for communication between young cli…
Constructing Client Agency in Psychotherapy Research
Certain researchers lay claim to focusing on client agency and offer examples of client agency in their work. However, research that focuses on client agency does so in very different ways. In the psychotherapy research literature, there are few reflections about the various ways in which client agency is constructed. This article offers such reflections. First, an existential definition of agency is introduced. Then, two general models that gras…
What can the use of Feedback Informed Treatment teach us about involving children, young people and caregivers in statutory casework
This study explores the use of Feedback Informed Treatment to improve the involvement of children, young people and caregivers in statutory casework in Children’s Services in a Danish municipality. Feedback Informed Treatment involves monitoring a client’s wellbeing at the beginning of sessions and monitoring the working alliance at the end of sessions. Two years of fieldwork were undertaken in connection with researching and writing a manual for…
Online video supervision for statutory youth caseworkers – a pilot study
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel online video-based approach to supervision for statutory caseworkers. Caseworkers recorded a video of their meetings with their clients and sent the video to their supervisor. The supervisor selected clips in the video. They held an online meeting where they reviewed the clips, and the supervisor gave feedback and they reflected together. The caseworker then used what they had learnt in thei…
Aspects of Structure and Dynamics at a Refugee Centre in Denmark
This article presents an empirical analysis that is part of a practice research project carried out at a Danish Red Cross refugee centre in Copenhagen. It focuses on the relation between the individual refugee and the receiving institution. It points out how the organizational structure of a particular refugee centre enables discord between refugees and centre workers as well as among the centre staff. It analyses some of the dynamics of the conf…
Aspects of Structure and Dynamics at a Refugee Centre in Denmark
This article presents an empirical analysis that is part of a practice research project carried out at a Danish Red Cross refugee centre in Copenhagen. It focuses on the relation between the individual refugee and the receiving institution. It points out how the organizational structure of a particular refugee centre enables discord between refugees and centre workers as well as among the centre staff. It analyses some of the dynamics of the conf…
Constructing Client Agency in Psychotherapy Research
Certain researchers lay claim to focusing on client agency and offer examples of client agency in their work. However, research that focuses on client agency does so in very different ways. In the psychotherapy research literature, there are few reflections about the various ways in which client agency is constructed. This article offers such reflections. First, an existential definition of agency is introduced. Then, two general models that gras…
Goal Consensus and Collaboration in Psychotherapy
Goal consensus and collaboration has proved to be significant for treatment outcome. Why this is the case has not been studied. The terms suggest a technical rationale; that increased attention to consensus and collaboration will lead to a more efficient use of therapeutic resources on the part of both client and therapist. However, an existential rationale is also a possibility. This study explores such a rationale. When therapists focus on goal…
Developing scales for apps together - youth and municipal case worker perspectives
This article reports the initial findings of a Danish action research project aiming to develop a digital tool that young persons could use to inform their municipal case workers about their wellbeing. The project vision was an integrated system with a smartphone interface for young persons, and a web interface for case workers, whereby both parties could track how the young persons were doing. Three meetings were held between researchers, softwa…
Online video supervision for statutory youth caseworkers – a pilot study
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel online video-based approach to supervision for statutory caseworkers. Caseworkers recorded a video of their meetings with their clients and sent the video to their supervisor. The supervisor selected clips in the video. They held an online meeting where they reviewed the clips, and the supervisor gave feedback and they reflected together. The caseworker then used what they had learnt in thei…
Key misconceptions when assessing digital technology for municipal youth social work
Municipal youth protection work has become infused with digital technology, and yet there is still limited research on how to assess the impact of digital technology on municipal youth social work. This article reviews a range of misconceptions regarding the assessment of digital technology for youth social work in municipal contexts. This review was generated in connection with the development of an app system for communication between young cli…
The MySocialworker app system – a pilot interview study
An app system was developed in Denmark by caseworkers and clients from three municipalities, a software company, and a University College. The app system enabled young clients to track their wellbeing, positive behaviours, disturbances in their lives, and their experiences of interventions on smartphones. Statutory caseworkers could follow the change in their client’s situation and have an overview of all their clients on a web interface. This ar…
Implementing routine outcome measurement in psychosocial interventions – a systematic review
What can the use of Feedback Informed Treatment teach us about involving children, young people and caregivers in statutory casework
This study explores the use of Feedback Informed Treatment to improve the involvement of children, young people and caregivers in statutory casework in Children’s Services in a Danish municipality. Feedback Informed Treatment involves monitoring a client’s wellbeing at the beginning of sessions and monitoring the working alliance at the end of sessions. Two years of fieldwork were undertaken in connection with researching and writing a manual for…
Implementing Routine Outcome Monitoring in Statutory Children’s Services
Referring young people to psychosocial support in the context of a youth active labour market/education strategy
This study explores how experienced Danish caseworkers who work with young people at municipal job centres justify and make decisions regarding referring young clients to psychosocial interventions. Twelve caseworkers and a line manager from two municipalities were interviewed. A thematic analysis was conducted. Key themes were: in-house and out-of-house collaboration; referral as an ongoing process; matching the young person with the service pro…
Measuring the Quality of Statutory Social Workers’ Communication Skills with Young People
Statutory meetings are at the core of social work practice, yet there is no quantitatively tested common set of criteria for assessing statutory social workers’ communication skills with young people. Reliably measuring such skills is important for the training and supervision of social workers as well for drawing conclusions about whether such skills impact service users’ outcomes. To fill this gap, we developed a new measure, the My Social Work…
How Children Experience the Outcomes of a Family-Based Grief Intervention - “Losing Someone Like This is a Downer. But You’re Not Alone and We Will Get Through it”
This study explored the experiences of children and their surviving parent regarding their outcomes after participating in a Danish combined family and group grief intervention for parental bereavement. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted post counselling with six boys and six girls aged 9-15 years and their remaining parent. The families described six grief-related outcomes: improved mood connected with social re-engagement, ac…
Writing letters to my dead parent in group therapy for parental bereavement - young adult experiences
This qualitative interview study explored 11 young adult clients' initial experiences of writing letters to their deceased parent in group therapy for parental bereavement. The focus was on: the clients' responses to first hearing about letter-writing; the clients' first encounters with the method in group sessions, and the clients' first experiences of writing letters at home. The method made immediate sense to many of the clients. Experiencing …
Supporting vulnerable students facing adverse life conditions in vocational education – challenges and possibilities
Students and staff at three Danish vocational education colleges were interviewed about: students’ adverse life conditions and their impact on students’ participation in their education; students’ challenges accessing psychosocial support; the organisational framework for identifying and supporting vulnerable students. The study found a series of issues. First, transitioning from a troubled childhood to a satisfactory adult life and dealing with …
Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Danish (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works)