Mairead Dolan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mairead Dolan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mairead |
| FAMILY NAME | Dolan |
| SIGNATURE | DOLAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards best practice
Limitations of instruments adopting consensus and actuarial approaches are well documented when assessing risk of abusive behaviour. Whilst the consensus approach is flexible and useful for structuring information, it relies upon the practitioner's ability to combine information and apply knowledge of empirical research. The actuarial approach involves a graduated probability measure in the form of a score that determines the likelihood of a part…
Decision Making in Social Work with Families and Children
Social work practice occurs under difficult circumstances and often involves using incomplete, conflicting and inaccurate information to carry out complex assessments. Personal and organisational factors impact upon practitioner perceptions and work practices may contribute to errors associated with biased judgement. In the field of social work with families and children, poor decisions have been associated with child injuries and deaths. To assi…
Identifying Gender Differences in an Australian Youth Offender Population
The study examined gender differences in risk factors for violence in a sample of 213 male and female youths held in Youth Justice Centres in Victoria, Australia. Although violence risk factors are considered to be commensurate across gender, a growing body of international literature is categorizing gender-specific criminal trajectories. The study aimed to investigate this concept in an Australian juvenile context. Through the use of a widely va…
The utility of the Savry across ethnicity in Australian young offenders
This research identified the presence and severity of salient risk factors for violence and assessed the predictive validity of the Structured Assessment of Violent Risk in Youth (SAVRY) for an Australian young male offender cohort held in detention. As the bulk of previous research has focused on European and North American Caucasian youth, comparisons were made between participants from Australian ethnic subgroups: English-Speaking Background (…
Parental substance misuse and compliance as factors determining child removal
Criminally violent victimisation in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Overall, our findings suggest that substance abuse (particularly drug abuse) is a key predictor of violent victimisation based on criminal statistics. The latter has implications for mental health professions involved in the care planning and community management of patients with major mental illness and work points to the importance of substance abuse treatment in the prevention of victimisation as well as violence perpetration
Linking illicit substance misuse during pregnancy and child abuse
In most A ustralian states, legislation makes provision for professionals to report their concerns about the future welfare of an unborn child to appropriate authorities. The legislation establishes guidance for the implementation of family supports to minimize future child protection involvement. Given the legislation and the potential benefits, empirical research linking substance misuse during pregnancy and child protection involvement is rela…
The HCR–20 and post‐discharge outcome in male patients discharged from medium security in the UK
The Historical Clinical Risk–20 (HCR–20) [Webster et al., 1997a,b] is a structured clinical judgement 20–item risk assessment scale, which was developed for use in Canadian forensic facilities. Data on the HCR–20 in UK samples is limited. We examined the predictive validity of the HCR–20 in relation to post‐discharge outcomes in male medium secure patients who had a history of violent offending. HCR–20 scores (omitting the psychopathy item) at th…
Decision Making in Social Work with Families and Children
Social work practice occurs under difficult circumstances and often involves using incomplete, conflicting and inaccurate information to carry out complex assessments. Personal and organisational factors impact upon practitioner perceptions and work practices may contribute to errors associated with biased judgement. In the field of social work with families and children, poor decisions have been associated with child injuries and deaths. To assi…
Towards best practice
Limitations of instruments adopting consensus and actuarial approaches are well documented when assessing risk of abusive behaviour. Whilst the consensus approach is flexible and useful for structuring information, it relies upon the practitioner's ability to combine information and apply knowledge of empirical research. The actuarial approach involves a graduated probability measure in the form of a score that determines the likelihood of a part…
Parental substance misuse and compliance as factors determining child removal
The utility of the Savry across ethnicity in Australian young offenders
This research identified the presence and severity of salient risk factors for violence and assessed the predictive validity of the Structured Assessment of Violent Risk in Youth (SAVRY) for an Australian young male offender cohort held in detention. As the bulk of previous research has focused on European and North American Caucasian youth, comparisons were made between participants from Australian ethnic subgroups: English-Speaking Background (…
The HCR–20 and post‐discharge outcome in male patients discharged from medium security in the UK
The Historical Clinical Risk–20 (HCR–20) [Webster et al., 1997a,b] is a structured clinical judgement 20–item risk assessment scale, which was developed for use in Canadian forensic facilities. Data on the HCR–20 in UK samples is limited. We examined the predictive validity of the HCR–20 in relation to post‐discharge outcomes in male medium secure patients who had a history of violent offending. HCR–20 scores (omitting the psychopathy item) at th…
Criminally violent victimisation in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Overall, our findings suggest that substance abuse (particularly drug abuse) is a key predictor of violent victimisation based on criminal statistics. The latter has implications for mental health professions involved in the care planning and community management of patients with major mental illness and work points to the importance of substance abuse treatment in the prevention of victimisation as well as violence perpetration
Linking illicit substance misuse during pregnancy and child abuse
In most A ustralian states, legislation makes provision for professionals to report their concerns about the future welfare of an unborn child to appropriate authorities. The legislation establishes guidance for the implementation of family supports to minimize future child protection involvement. Given the legislation and the potential benefits, empirical research linking substance misuse during pregnancy and child protection involvement is rela…
Identifying Gender Differences in an Australian Youth Offender Population
The study examined gender differences in risk factors for violence in a sample of 213 male and female youths held in Youth Justice Centres in Victoria, Australia. Although violence risk factors are considered to be commensurate across gender, a growing body of international literature is categorizing gender-specific criminal trajectories. The study aimed to investigate this concept in an Australian juvenile context. Through the use of a widely va…
The utility of the Savry across ethnicity in Australian young offenders
This research identified the presence and severity of salient risk factors for violence and assessed the predictive validity of the Structured Assessment of Violent Risk in Youth (SAVRY) for an Australian young male offender cohort held in detention. As the bulk of previous research has focused on European and North American Caucasian youth, comparisons were made between participants from Australian ethnic subgroups: English-Speaking Background (…
Parental substance misuse and compliance as factors determining child removal
Decision Making in Social Work with Families and Children
Social work practice occurs under difficult circumstances and often involves using incomplete, conflicting and inaccurate information to carry out complex assessments. Personal and organisational factors impact upon practitioner perceptions and work practices may contribute to errors associated with biased judgement. In the field of social work with families and children, poor decisions have been associated with child injuries and deaths. To assi…
Towards best practice
Limitations of instruments adopting consensus and actuarial approaches are well documented when assessing risk of abusive behaviour. Whilst the consensus approach is flexible and useful for structuring information, it relies upon the practitioner's ability to combine information and apply knowledge of empirical research. The actuarial approach involves a graduated probability measure in the form of a score that determines the likelihood of a part…
Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works)