Patricia Walsh
Assistant Professor
Social Work & Social Policy
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
A qualified social worker, has specialised in child welfare and mental health practice. Completed advanced training in London and postgraduate training in child and family mental health in the Institute of Psychiatry/ Maudsley Hospital in 1989. From 1996 - 1999,a member of the management committee of Access Ireland, the first EU-funded project promoting the integration of refugees in Ireland. From 1998 - 2002,a member of the management board of a Tempus Phare project re-establishing social work education at university level in Romania. In 2002 she developed and directed a new Masters in Social Work programme in Trinity. From 2003 - 2011, a member of the Irish statutory social work regulatory body, the National Social Work Qualifications Board (NSWQB),elected as nice-chair in Jan 2008,re-elected in 2010 and served until its demise in 2012. As well as teaching and administrative responsibilities, undertakes commissioned research work in a range of areas and pro bono consultation work with selected groups.
Research Interest
Therapeutic interventions with children and families over the lifespan; (ii) bereavement support, end-of-life care and loss; (iii)solution-focused and strengths-based approaches; (iv) gender, transnationalism and migration; (v) critical perspectives on helping professions; (vi) Inclusive practice: the experiences of migrant and ethnically diverse carers and social workers in Ireland.
Publications
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Coposescu, S.(ed.), Tempus Project Evaluation: some initial findings, Models of Education in Social Work, Editura Universitatii, Transilvania, Brasov, 2001, 29 - 49 p
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Walsh, T., Griffiths, H., McColgan, M. & Ross, J., Trans-national curriculum development in Romania, Journal of Social Work Education, 24, (1), 2005, p19 - 36
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Walsh, T., Two sides of the same coin: Therapeutic interventions in child protection social work, Journal of Systemic Therapies, 25, (2), 2006, p38 - 49,
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Wilson, G., Walsh, T. & Kirby, M., Reflective Practice and Workplace Learning: the experience of MSW students, Reflective Practice, 8, (1), 2007, p1 - 15
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Wilson, G., Walsh, T., & Kirby, M., Developing Practice Learning: Student Perspectives, Social Work Education, 27, (1), 2008, p35 - 50,
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Walsh, T., Foreman, M., Curry, P., O Driscoll, S. & McCormack, M. , Bereavement Support in an Acute Hospital: an Irish model , Death Studies, 32, (8), 2008, p768 - 786
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Trish Walsh, Review Essay: Transformative Texts, Review of Social Work Dialogues: transforming the Canon in Inquiry, Practice and Education., by Stanley L. Witkin and Dennis Saleebey , Qualitative Social Work, 8, (2), 2009, p269 - 279
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Wilson, G., OConnor, E., Walsh, T. & Kirby, M. , Reflections on Practice Learning in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: Lessons from Student Experiences, Social Work Education, 28, (6), 2009, p631 - 645
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Walsh, T., Wilson, G. & O Connor, E, Local, European and Global: An Exploration of Migration Patterns of Social Workers into Ireland, British Journal of Social Work, Vol 39, (6), 2009, p1 - 18
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Therapeutic options in Child Protection and Gendered Practices in, editor(s)Brid Featherstone, Carol-Ann Hooper, Jonathan Scourfield and Julie Taylor , Gender and Child Welfare in Society, London, Wiley, 2010, pp273 - 300
