International Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of International Social Work is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The experience of violence of Syrian women living in Konya: An intersectional study through the narratives of service providers51
Designing and compiling the protocol of specialized interventions of hospital social workers in crisis situations in Iran20
Romanians’ fears linked to the social work system: Too many people take advantage without needing help20
Beyond the state: Developments and trends in critical social work in Switzerland and Hungary18
News from our societies – ICSW: No one left behind: social welfare for everyone everywhere on the planet17
Indigenous methods and knowledge: Maternal health policy and practice in Ethiopia, Africa17
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)16
Factors associated with the prevalence of diarrhoea among children in rural areas of Enugu State, Nigeria: Practice considerations for social workers11
Troubled times: Canadian social workers’ early adversities, mental health, and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic10
What theories and methods do social workers report using in their practice? A scoping review10
Research knowledge utilisation among Swedish health social workers: Influence of higher education, job tenure and workplace10
Writing reports in social work: Characteristics, correctness and style9
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)9
‘I can’t bear giving my baby away’: Negotiation of reproductive rights of migrant domestic workers and implications for social work9
Working and learning from home during COVID-19: International experiences among social work educators and students9
Social work with frustrations: What can we do? How do we stay hopeful?9
Enhancing social work education’s diversity-oriented perspective by integrating refugees into higher education: Experiences from the ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany9
Social work in the face of emerging technologies: A technological acceptance study in 13 countries8
Nordic welfare chauvinism: A comparative study of welfare chauvinism in Sweden, Norway and Finland8
A systematic review of qualitative social work articles: Exploring embodiment from 2000 to 20198
Child Well-Being and Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Social Work Practice and Acknowledging their Sacrifices8
Feminisms in social work and social care: Backwards, forwards or something in between8
International social work is both the South and the North8
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)7
Moral distress in South African child protection social workers: A qualitative study7
Community social workers as social entrepreneurs: Lessons from Israel7
A closer look at Thailand’s COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the health and education of children with invisible disabilities7
Coping strategies among middle-aged and older cancer survivors in Japan: A qualitative study7
Reaching invisible internally displaced persons: Doing social work in postconflict settings7
Supervision of supervisory practice: From idea to practice7
Policy response for disadvantaged groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: Vietnam experiences7
Impact of fly-in fly-out on the family dynamics of male miners7
Cartography of Southern Feminisms: Contributions of decolonial feminisms and community feminisms7
‘What’s at stake?’ An exploration on the merits and drawbacks of the Welcome Corps Program, a private sponsorship of refugees6
Does macrosocial orientation matter in frontline social workers’ professional identity? Considering the critical factors of social work development in China6
Professional concepts in preventing and countering Islamist radicalization: Insights from practitioners in Germany6
Resisting politics of authoritarian populism during COVID-19, reclaiming democracy and narrative justice: Centering critical thinking in social work6
Building social work capacity in Ukraine in times of war: The role of global social work engagement5
The child-friendly cities concept in China: A prototype case study of a migrant workers’ community5
Improving field education for social work in Vietnam: Intern supervisors’ perspectives of the current state and potential solutions5
Evolution of values in China: Disembedding factors and structural transformation5
The state of eco-social work training in Canada: Transformative praxis for climate constrained futures5
Gendered dimensions of health in refugee situations: An examination of sexual and gender-based violence faced by refugee women in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda5
The importance of keeping a social perspective during pandemic times: Social psychiatry in Sweden5
Toward an inclusive digital economy for all: Perspectives from an intersectional feminist social work lens5
The taken children of Ukraine5
Care and rehabilitation institutions for people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Polish experiences5
The influence of leisure-based community activities on neighbourhood support and the social cohesion of communities in Spain5
News from our societies – ICSW: How to strengthen intergenerational solidarity for sustainable well-being? The key role of citizen participation in super-diverse societies5
Addressing disaster fatigue: A SAFE framework for enhancing disaster resilience in social work5
Findings from a European, cross-national project study on service user participation: Implications for social work policy, practice and education4
News from our societies – ICSW: Building a better world4
Social work self-care education informed during the pandemic: Experience, reflection, and suggestion4
The link between burnout and social-occupational variables in Spanish social workers4
Continuity of care for drug users in prison and beyond: A qualitative insight4
‘Special Sections’ call for papers4
What makes social work research distinct? A comparison of three Latin American and three Anglophone countries4
Experiences of middle-class fathers of children with autism spectrum disorders in the context of hegemonic masculinity: The case of Turkey4
Social exclusion of US immigrants in the 21st century: A systematic review of qualitative studies4
Nature-based interventions in social work practice and education: Insights from six nations4
Working in disasters: What social workers can do?4
Exploring semester abroad as a model for developing competencies for international social work4
Is COVID-19 related workload related to Chinese social workers’ mental health? A moderated mediation model of compassion burnout and emotional regulation4
Inclusive integrated care for LGBTQ+ families: An exploratory qualitative study in the United Kingdom3
Financial capability training for social workers in Singapore: Towards more effective practice3
News from our societies – ICSW: Weaving alliances3
News from our societies: IFSW Social workers play a crucial role in achieving SDGs – reflections from the 27th IFSW Asia-Pacific conference, November 20233
News from our societies: IASSW3
Environmental social work through the African philosophy of Ubuntu: A conceptual analysis3
‘Earthquake of the century’ and its aftermath: Reflections on social work practices implemented in the first hours of the disaster at a hospital in Türkiye3
The perceived importance of educational qualifications and professional development/continuous education for social work administrators: A case of the NASW-KY chapter3
Barriers to the community participation of persons with disabilities: Insights from ableist microaggressions3
The way we were and the vision ahead: A 5-year review and renewal of International Social Work3
Social work in a global context: The case of Ghana3
Experiences and challenges of Arab social workers in Israel with community violence3
The doctor, development and (un)sociable monkey: An autoethnography of a social worker3
News from our societies: ICSW – Towards the summit of the future3
Psychosocial and integration needs of unaccompanied children in Greece3
Manifestations and drivers of secondary trauma among service providers working with Syrian refugees: A mixed-methods study from Istanbul, Turkey3
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)3
The unique and the invariant in the field of social work: The comparison of Lithuania, Japan, and the United States3
Is indigenisation a social justice risk? Exploring indigenisation of social work in Africa through the lens of universalism versus relativism of social work ethics and values3
Work-related stressors accompanying school social workers while assessing children’s well-being: A comparative study between Germany and Finland3
Structured peer group supervision: Systematic case reflection for constructing new perspectives and solutions2
Application of social work in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals for children: A case study from Abkhazia2
Career commitment among social workers: The contribution of personal, organizational, and vocational factors2
‘I am man, I am woman’: Gendered experiences of refugee resettlement in the United States2
Juxtaposing indigenous evidence-based models in India with concept of Ubuntu: Implications for psychiatric social work practice2
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)2
Human insecurity and psychological well-being in migrants hosted in a Nigerian transit center: A qualitative exploration on risk and protective factors2
Professionalization of social work in colonial India: Glancing at the history of social work in India before 19362
Using mobile apps in social work behavioral health care service: The case for China2
Social work practice in the era of economic uncertainties2
International graduates of social work in Australia: A longitudinal study of those who struggle to develop professional identity2
Youth participation in community governance: A participatory design program in Beijing2
Embedding preventive lawyering principles in preventive social work as a response to clients with complex problems in the post-Covid-19 era: An opinion piece2
COVID-19 feminist framework and biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective for social workers and mental health practitioners to manage violence, abuse, and trauma against children, women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ2
Bibliometric analysis of social work in the COVID-19 pandemic2
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese)2
Enhancing environmental wellbeing: What social workers can learn from hybrid business activities2
Stepping-up social work services among families displaced by war2
Identifying Nigerian literature to inform culturally relevant social work education: A scoping review2
Does goal ambiguity influence the program structure of nonprofit human service organizations?2
Serving Chinese adolescents in the digital age: A grand challenge for social work2
Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world2
Positioning structural social work in Indian context2
Roles of health care social workers in a multi-professional team: A qualitative study in the context of China2
Social work graduates’ professional socialisation and identity: Perceptions and experiences of social workers and supervisors2
The environment has rights: Eco-spiritual social work through ubuntu philosophy and Pachamama: A commentary2
News from our societies – ICSW: From the Windhoek Declaration on Social Policy and Social Protection in Africa, to the Lisbon Declaration for the Development of Social Work and Humanitarian 2
A narrative review of the international literature on social work within the military2
The struggle to find theory2
The role of social work practitioners and human service professionals in long-term disaster recovery after the 2016 Alberta wildfires in Canada2
Erratum to International Social Work Volume 65 Issue 11
The feelings of living in poverty and depending on social assistance: An exploratory study on gender differences in Dibao families in China1
Familisation and defamilisation processes of social safety net: Low-income families’ welfare participation experiences in Shanghai and Taipei1
Indigenous social work with older persons: An international perspective1
Social workers’ adaptation in times of pandemic crisis: A Hong Kong case1
Resilience-based intervention for youth: An initial investigation of school social work program in Kuwait1
The impact of teaching culture online during COVID-191
Authoritarian nationalism and social work1
Deconstructing bias: The decision-making process among child protective service workers in Chile1
Research with cancer patients and their caregivers: A dyadic reflection by social work researchers1
Whose life matters? A call for social work action in response to a global humanitarian crisis1
Child bride, a story that never ends: A look at experiences of Iranian women1
Perspectives on psychosocial support services for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and child victims of abuse in Türkiye1
Abstracts (French, Spanish)1
Let not the world change us: Critical consciousness as a moderator in the relationship between role stress and burnout among social workers in China1
Environments for intuitive decision-making: A theoretical framework for assessing intuitive-reasoning in social work1
Formulating and teaching a course in international social work: Some curriculum and pedagogical insights from the Indian context1
Workplace friendships while teleworking during COVID-19: Experiences of social workers in Australia1
National Strategy for a Barrier-Free Environment: Problems, tolerance and implementation1
Lived experience: A constant companion for the social work relationship1
How does the service quality in refugee camps, affect the satisfaction of Syrian immigrants?1
News from our societies – ICSW: Beyond the pandemic: Challenges for social welfare1
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)1
Ubuntu among the ‘born frees’: Exploring the transmission of social values through community engagement in South Africa1
Recruiting and nurturing social workers in Hong Kong and Australia1
Can certification improve the professional competence of Chinese social workers?1
Global trends in forced migration: Policy, practice and research imperatives for social work1
Association between child, early, and forced marriage and extreme weather events: A mixed-methods systematic review1
Non-governmental organizations’ enablers of asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe1
How the environment is conceptualised and represented globally in social work codes of ethics1
Health social work with migrants: Constructing a specialist profession1
News from our societies: IFSW1
Social work response to the earthquake disaster in the Middle East: Syria and Turkey as a case study1
Perceptions of stigma toward mental illness in Arab society in Israel1
Gendered experiences of loneliness during COVID-19 isolation: Insights for intersectional feminist social work – the case of Çankaya/Ankara, Turkey1
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese)1
Serving the affected: Role of social workers during the pandemic1
ISW Journal Prize 20241
Improvement in the psychological resilience of rural left-behind children: The influence of social services from 15 social organisations1
The role of social work in the healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa1
The aftermath: Community workers as place-makers in conflict-riven societies1
ISW Journal Prize 20211
‘Everybody needs to be on board’: Individual and organisational youth worker experiences of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training and implementation in a multi-cultural Singaporean context1
Developing supervision of social work supervisors and their practice in Singapore: A cross-national collaboration1
Is the natural environment important to social work education and practice? Perspectives from social work students in Queensland, Australia1
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)1
Responding to COVID-19 in social work field education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States1
Supervision framework for international field education in India: Shared knowledge and experiences of supervisors from India, Israel, and Australia1
Perspectives on being mothered and on negotiating the transition to motherhood: A qualitative study of low-income single mothers in Botswana1
A bridge over the troubled water: The roles and functions of social workers in the divided world1
Back to future: International social work in the new era1
Raising the ‘environmental question’ in social work in Canada and Scotland1
Improving LGBTQ+ mental health in Southeast Asia through social work: Insights from the Philippines1
Learning through simulation: A systematic literature review of the use of virtual reality and augmented reality in social work education1
Vietnamese social work practitioners’ preparedness to practise with sexual minorities: Training and self-reported confidence1
Alienated social workers in China’s communities: The impacts of role stress, professional efficacy, and state interventions1
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa: Reflections of social workers1
Social work students and teachers responding to internally displaced persons’ need of shelter in Ukraine in spring 2022: Service learning and recognition1
United we stand, and divided we fall: A call to action for the decolonisation of social work in Africa1
‘Respect’ and ‘justice’ for whom? Culturally irresponsive ethical practices with refugee communities1
‘Brick’ or ‘Bridge’? – The roles and functions of Chinese social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Addressing the issue of child sexual abuse in Pakistan: A conceptual analysis1
Challenge and opportunity: Making sense of the ‘first lockdown’ experience of families with young children and health and social care practitioners in Southend-on-Sea (the United Kingdom)1
The role of social workers in long-term care for older adults: A mixed-methods systematic review in Europe and North America from 2000 to 20221
A no man’s land – social work in ‘in-between’ conflict settings: Ethical challenges and dilemmas in Kufr Aqab1
Surviving on the margins: Volunteers’ agency to survive poverty and vulnerability in Zimbabwe1
Indigenization and authentization of epistemology in China’s social work: Moving beyond Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism1
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese)0
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)0
Developmental social work training programmes in the Global South: A scoping review0
Mentoring social work adjunct educators: A collaborative autoethnography provides a blueprint for support0
Critical realist discourse analysis of Chinese parents of children with dyslexia0
Pathways to organizational commitment: Workplace empowerment and engagement among Spanish social workers0
Disrupting social work ethics0
News from our societies - IA: Social solidarity and the future of social work0
Discourse analysis of conception of masculinity among Chinese male sexual abuse survivors0
Empowering Kibera during political change: A case study through a Freirean lens0
News from our societies: ICSW: A decade of global activities on social protection floors0
Social work interventions to provide adequate psychosocial services in South African schools0
What has been done for social workers’ self-care practice? A systematic review of interventions0
Managing social policy in the emerging welfare regime of governance: What Indonesia can learn from South Korea’s experience0
Ubuntu and its potential impact on the international social work profession0
To be or not to be: A meaning-making process for migrant Hong Kong social workers in England0
International social work at the time of wars0
ISW Journal Prize0
Community responses to LGBT+ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the COVID-19 confinement in Madrid0
Perceived effects of digitalization on social work in Finland: A network analysis approach0
Social work and management: Interdisciplinary education from an international perspective in South America0
Food security and social protection in times of COVID-190
Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social work profession0
Decolonizing social work: Lessons for social work practice and education from the Jamaican Diaspora transnational movement0
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)0
Gaps between academia and practice: Perspectives on new graduates’ readiness for social work practice in Georgia0
Recognising common developments and trends across Western child welfare systems: A comparison of Italy, Norway and Slovenia0
Bridging the gaps in service delivery: Using social audit as tool of social work practice – Insights from short-term training course0
Practice reflection: How social workers can use an intersectionality lens to understand recent older refugees falling through the cracks in services: Using Vancouver, Canada, as an example0
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)0
Addressing the essential skills competency in teaching among social work educators in Malaysian public universities0
Workers needed to foster improved academic performance: Perspectives of social workers and education officers in Ghana0
Motivational factors among social work undergraduates in online education during the post-COVID-19 era0
Understanding the complexity of domestic violence service delivery through the lived experiences of domestic violence advocates0
Possibilities of using the humanistic ethics and psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm in establishing a relationship with a client within the context of anti-oppressive social work0
News from our societies – IFSW: Social work and co-building a new eco-social world0
Professional training for strengthening the bond between intervention agent and participant in a psychosocial poverty alleviation programme0
Global social work working conditions and wellbeing0
‘From volunteer to social worker’0
Establishing the relevance of the Ubuntu philosophy in social work practice: Inspired by the Ubuntu World Social Work Day, 2021 celebrations and the IFSW and IASSW’s (2014) Global Definition of Social0
Indigenization–internationalization debate and Bangladesh strategies in international social work and women’s development0
AI and social work0
‘I have built an office for myself in the sauna’ – The well-being of social workers in liminal space during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic0
The mediating effects of resilience on psychological distress in social workers in Singapore and South Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic0
News from our societies – ICSW: Building a better world0
‘Thrown into a pit’: Early-career social workers’ preparedness for practice0
Minority group local government mayors and their relations with welfare bureau social workers0
Beyond institutions: Non-governmental organisations’ beneficiaries’ role in poverty reduction0
Food insecurity and social capital during COVID-19: A cross-national qualitative study of communities from South Africa and the United States0
The association between trajectories of marital status and successful aging varies by sex: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)0
News from our societies – IFSW: Respecting diversity through joint social action0
Validation of the social provisions scale in a sample of undergraduate students of social work in Spain0
Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Wellbeing0
Social work, neoliberalism, and post-disaster intervention: The 1985, 2010, and 2015 Chilean earthquakes0
Digital social work0
Social welfare services in protracted displacement: When should state social workers cease to serve people displaced by war?0
Assessing professional integration of clients’ religion and spirituality beliefs in practice0
Utilisation of a cultural perspective in child welfare expert assessments in Norway0
Developing a complexity-informed approach to hospital end-of-life care for people with dementia and their families0
Advancing community engagement within the context of tribal social work0
The potential value of home visits as experienced by social workers belonging to the minoritized Arab population in Israel0
Cultural adaptation of a trauma-informed mind-body intervention for survivors of human trafficking0
Decolonising social work practice field education: A scoping review0
Indigenous knowledge and social work education in Nigeria: Challenges and need for sustainable development0
The art of not-knowing: Valuing diversity and intercultural competences in international social work education0
Rethinking the residual policy response: Lessons from Hong Kong older women’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic0
Using living experience and practitioner research to create unique programmes providing help for caregivers, professionals and students to increase support for children living with Foetal Alcohol Spec0
Toward development and validation of a child maltreatment pictorial card tool0
Social work field education in the United Arab Emirates: Emerging standards, opportunities, and challenges0
The effect of climate change anxiety on social work students in Turkey0
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