Louise Caffrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4416205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Caffrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Caffrey |
| SIGNATURE | CAFFREY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1608-5830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Foster Placement Breakdown
While there is an extensive body of international literature on foster care placement breakdown, little attention has been given to children's lived experience of this common phenomenon. Using a scoping review method, the study collates and synthesizes what is known about care‐experienced people's lived realities of breakdown. The study followed Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) five‐stage approach to conducting scoping reviews and adopted a child‐cen…
Families’ perspectives on the impact of signs of safety in child protection services through the lens of self-determination theory
Children’s experiences of Signs of Safety
New-materialist bricolage
The purpose of this paper is to make a novel contribution to new-materialist approaches, toward advancing existing ontological debates. We present a new-materialist bricolage method that was developed from an existing interpretive Community of Practice (CofP) known as the Pivot Project research consortium. This interpretative community was used to theorise the ontological implications of research in the COVID-19 global pandemic. The specific focu…
Putting Outcomes into Practice
Of utmost concern for effective child protection and child and family services is evidence-based practice. There is an onus of accountability on providers of therapeutic services to establish the merit and cost efficiency of their work. Developing standardised evidence-based outcome measures for children and families, towards which the service provider can strive, is assuredly required as a yardstick against which progress can be measured and mod…
The challenge of implementation in complex, adaptive child welfare systems
Implementing a new initiative in any complex system is known to be deeply challenging and children’s services are no exception in this regard. Yet understanding implementation is important to support service planning as well as to avoid inappropriate (de)commissioning. Complexity-informed Realist methods are well established, especially in health sciences research, but have seen little uptake in social work, despite calls to embrace the approach.…
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory
Signs of Safety (SofS) is a popular framework for child protection social work practice, used in more than 200 jurisdictions worldwide. Although workers tend to find SofS tools easy to use, skilled application of the approach is challenging, and research has found that SofS is often not implemented as intended. This study aimed to deepen and inform the explanation (initial theory) of what key SofS tools and processes are expected to achieve in th…
Disability Data Collection in a Complex Humanitarian Organisation
In recent years, global attention to disability inclusion in humanitarian and development contexts, notably comprising disability inclusion within the Sustainable Development Goals, has significantly increased. As a result, UN agencies and programmes are increasingly seeking to understand and increase the extent to which persons with disabilities are accounted for and included in their efforts to provide life-saving assistance. To explore the eff…
How everyone’s business can become no one’s business
Patient‐initiated recruitment for clinical research
BACKGROUND: UK Hospital Trusts are charged with increasing patients' research awareness and willingness to take part in research. This includes implementing strategies to encourage patient-initiated enquiries about participation. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of a research statement inserted in outpatient letters in one clinical service, and to derive suggestions on potential steps towards increasing patient-initiated recruitment. SETTING: A…
A systems approach to policy evaluation
There is growing interest in evaluating policy implementation in ways that grapple with the complexity of the process. This article offers an example of using systems methodology to explore how the child protection policy in child contact centres has functioned in practice. Rather than just asking the traditional evaluation question ‘is it working?’ this study sought to understand how the policy was working and how it was interpreted as it intera…
A systems approach to policy evaluation
There is growing interest in evaluating policy implementation in ways that grapple with the complexity of the process. This article offers an example of using systems methodology to explore how the child protection policy in child contact centres has functioned in practice. Rather than just asking the traditional evaluation question ‘is it working?’ this study sought to understand how the policy was working and how it was interpreted as it intera…
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory
Signs of Safety (SofS) is a popular framework for child protection social work practice, used in more than 200 jurisdictions worldwide. Although workers tend to find SofS tools easy to use, skilled application of the approach is challenging, and research has found that SofS is often not implemented as intended. This study aimed to deepen and inform the explanation (initial theory) of what key SofS tools and processes are expected to achieve in th…
The challenge of implementation in complex, adaptive child welfare systems
Implementing a new initiative in any complex system is known to be deeply challenging and children’s services are no exception in this regard. Yet understanding implementation is important to support service planning as well as to avoid inappropriate (de)commissioning. Complexity-informed Realist methods are well established, especially in health sciences research, but have seen little uptake in social work, despite calls to embrace the approach.…
Putting Outcomes into Practice
Of utmost concern for effective child protection and child and family services is evidence-based practice. There is an onus of accountability on providers of therapeutic services to establish the merit and cost efficiency of their work. Developing standardised evidence-based outcome measures for children and families, towards which the service provider can strive, is assuredly required as a yardstick against which progress can be measured and mod…
How everyone’s business can become no one’s business
A systems approach to policy evaluation
There is growing interest in evaluating policy implementation in ways that grapple with the complexity of the process. This article offers an example of using systems methodology to explore how the child protection policy in child contact centres has functioned in practice. Rather than just asking the traditional evaluation question ‘is it working?’ this study sought to understand how the policy was working and how it was interpreted as it intera…
Patient‐initiated recruitment for clinical research
BACKGROUND: UK Hospital Trusts are charged with increasing patients' research awareness and willingness to take part in research. This includes implementing strategies to encourage patient-initiated enquiries about participation. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of a research statement inserted in outpatient letters in one clinical service, and to derive suggestions on potential steps towards increasing patient-initiated recruitment. SETTING: A…
How everyone’s business can become no one’s business
Disability Data Collection in a Complex Humanitarian Organisation
In recent years, global attention to disability inclusion in humanitarian and development contexts, notably comprising disability inclusion within the Sustainable Development Goals, has significantly increased. As a result, UN agencies and programmes are increasingly seeking to understand and increase the extent to which persons with disabilities are accounted for and included in their efforts to provide life-saving assistance. To explore the eff…
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory
Signs of Safety (SofS) is a popular framework for child protection social work practice, used in more than 200 jurisdictions worldwide. Although workers tend to find SofS tools easy to use, skilled application of the approach is challenging, and research has found that SofS is often not implemented as intended. This study aimed to deepen and inform the explanation (initial theory) of what key SofS tools and processes are expected to achieve in th…
The challenge of implementation in complex, adaptive child welfare systems
Implementing a new initiative in any complex system is known to be deeply challenging and children’s services are no exception in this regard. Yet understanding implementation is important to support service planning as well as to avoid inappropriate (de)commissioning. Complexity-informed Realist methods are well established, especially in health sciences research, but have seen little uptake in social work, despite calls to embrace the approach.…
Children’s experiences of Signs of Safety
New-materialist bricolage
The purpose of this paper is to make a novel contribution to new-materialist approaches, toward advancing existing ontological debates. We present a new-materialist bricolage method that was developed from an existing interpretive Community of Practice (CofP) known as the Pivot Project research consortium. This interpretative community was used to theorise the ontological implications of research in the COVID-19 global pandemic. The specific focu…
Putting Outcomes into Practice
Of utmost concern for effective child protection and child and family services is evidence-based practice. There is an onus of accountability on providers of therapeutic services to establish the merit and cost efficiency of their work. Developing standardised evidence-based outcome measures for children and families, towards which the service provider can strive, is assuredly required as a yardstick against which progress can be measured and mod…
Families’ perspectives on the impact of signs of safety in child protection services through the lens of self-determination theory
Foster Placement Breakdown
While there is an extensive body of international literature on foster care placement breakdown, little attention has been given to children's lived experience of this common phenomenon. Using a scoping review method, the study collates and synthesizes what is known about care‐experienced people's lived realities of breakdown. The study followed Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) five‐stage approach to conducting scoping reviews and adopted a child‐cen…
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works)