Current Publications & Research

  • Stability in Foster Care: The Child's Voice

  • Family Contact: The Child's Voice

    Family Contact: The Child’s Voice

  • The Everyday Guide to Attachment, Play, Connection & Emmotional Release

  • The Child Attachment Relationship (CAR) Guide

  • The Voice of Children in Social Work Assessments

Further Publications & Articles

O’Reilly, L. (2013) The Voice of the Child in Social Work Assessments: What they Say? Or what they Play?’ Lambert Academic Publishers, Germany. https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Children-Social-Work-Assessments/dp/3659444006/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&...

O’Reilly, L. (2014) ‘The Voice of the Child in Social Work Assessments: What they Say? Or what they Play?’ Executive Summary. The Irish Social Worker.

O’Reilly, L. and Dolan, P. (2016) The Voice of the Child in Social Wok Assessments: Age-appropriate Communication with Children, British Journal of Social Work, 46(5), pp.1191 – 1207. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcv040

O’Reilly, L. and Dolan, P. (2017) The Use of Play Skills during Child Protection Assessments; building relationships with children to explore attachment relationships, The Routledge Handbook of Global Child Welfare, Dolan, P. (2017), Routledge Publishers, London https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315672960/chapters/10.4324/9781315672960-32 https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Handbook-Welfare-International-Handbooks-ebook/dp/B06WVDP1YK/ref=sr...

O’Reilly, L. (2021) IASW Book Review “The Everyday Guide to Attachment, Play, Connection & Emotional Release”, The Irish Social Worker, Winter 2021.