International Social Work

Article	Citations
News from our societies – ICSW: No one left behind: social welfare for everyone everywhere on the planet	33
Regional disparities in life satisfaction of female social workers: An empirical study based on CSWLS 2019 data	16
Romanians’ fears linked to the social work system: Too many people take advantage without needing help	15
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	13
Designing and compiling the protocol of specialized interventions of hospital social workers in crisis situations in Iran	13
Research knowledge utilisation among Swedish health social workers: Influence of higher education, job tenure and workplace	13
Troubled times: Canadian social workers’ early adversities, mental health, and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
What theories and methods do social workers report using in their practice? A scoping review	11
Revisiting professional autonomy and structural constraints: Relational work in anti-drug social work	11
Mental health impact of setbacks in global LGBTQ+ rights: Perspectives from Asia	11
‘I can’t bear giving my baby away’: Negotiation of reproductive rights of migrant domestic workers and implications for social work	10
IASSW news	10
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	9
Studying how comparative data studies can contribute to macro social work: Insights from the Childcare Gap Policy Study Project	9
Social work with frustrations: What can we do? How do we stay hopeful?	9
Writing reports in social work: Characteristics, correctness and style	9
International social work is both the South and the North	9
A systematic review of qualitative social work articles: Exploring embodiment from 2000 to 2019	9
‘Between the social worker and the rabbi’: Help-seeking perspectives of Ultraorthodox IPV survivors and insights into social work practice	8
‘What’s at stake?’ An exploration on the merits and drawbacks of the Welcome Corps Program, a private sponsorship of refugees	8
Community social workers as social entrepreneurs: Lessons from Israel	8
Professional concepts in preventing and countering Islamist radicalization: Insights from practitioners in Germany	8
Evidence for the impact of the human rights-based approach in social policy and programming: A scoping review	8
Impact of fly-in fly-out on the family dynamics of male miners	8
Social work in an information-intensive era: Digitalization in social work practices, expertise, training, and research	7

A closer look at Thailand’s COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the health and education of children with invisible disabilities	7
Moral distress in South African child protection social workers: A qualitative study	7
Silencing the professional voice: Institutional barriers and policy implications for Bedouin social workers in Israel	7
Reaching invisible internally displaced persons: Doing social work in postconflict settings	7
News from our societies – ICSW: How to strengthen intergenerational solidarity for sustainable well-being? The key role of citizen participation in super-diverse societies	6
Addressing disaster fatigue: A SAFE framework for enhancing disaster resilience in social work	6
The child-friendly cities concept in China: A prototype case study of a migrant workers’ community	6
Building social work capacity in Ukraine in times of war: The role of global social work engagement	6
The state of eco-social work training in Canada: Transformative praxis for climate constrained futures	6
The taken children of Ukraine	6
Climate denial as disavowal: Applications for social work education and practice	6
Improving field education for social work in Vietnam: Intern supervisors’ perspectives of the current state and potential solutions	6
Why does social work need to be ‘international’?	5
‘Special Sections’ call for papers	5
Findings from a European, cross-national project study on service user participation: Implications for social work policy, practice and education	5
Working in disasters: What social workers can do?	5
What makes social work research distinct? A comparison of three Latin American and three Anglophone countries	5
Evolution of values in China: Disembedding factors and structural transformation	5
Social work in the digital age: Towards adopting artificial intelligence in social work	5
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	5
Organizational career support, perception of social work development, and career self-management of Chinese social workers: A structural equation modeling	5
2025 Frank Turner Best paper award	4
Mapping the landscape of disability in social work research: A bibliometric analysis	4
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	4
Barriers to the community participation of persons with disabilities: Insights from ableist microaggressions	4
Experiences of middle-class fathers of children with autism spectrum disorders in the context of hegemonic masculinity: The case of Turkey	4
The link between burnout and social-occupational variables in Spanish social workers	4
Strategies for promoting gender equality in Rwanda: How do the actors describe their work?	4
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	4
Psychosocial and integration needs of unaccompanied children in Greece	4
News from our societies: IFSW Social workers play a crucial role in achieving SDGs – reflections from the 27th IFSW Asia-Pacific conference, November 2023	4
Nature-based interventions in social work practice and education: Insights from six nations	4
Climate change, disasters, and global events: Prioritization of communication, practice education and student mental health in social work disaster frameworks	4
Is COVID-19 related workload related to Chinese social workers’ mental health? A moderated mediation model of compassion burnout and emotional regulation	4
Financial capability training for social workers in Singapore: Towards more effective practice	4
Juxtaposing indigenous evidence-based models in India with concept of Ubuntu: Implications for psychiatric social work practice	3
Manifestations and drivers of secondary trauma among service providers working with Syrian refugees: A mixed-methods study from Istanbul, Turkey	3
News from our societies: IASSW	3
Inclusive integrated care for LGBTQ+ families: An exploratory qualitative study in the United Kingdom	3
Social work in a global context: The case of Ghana	3
Bibliometric analysis of social work in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
A feminist analysis of narratives about adult survivors of child sexual abuse in Australian peer-reviewed literature	3
Listening to the child: Lessons from Estonia’s ‘Out of the Circle’ restorative practice model	3
Standardized services and trimmed cases: Institutional ethnography in social work projects for drug addicts	3
Social work and global conflict: An integrated framework for practice	3
News from our societies: ICSW – Towards the summit of the future	3
The way we were and the vision ahead: A 5-year review and renewal of International Social Work	3
The unique and the invariant in the field of social work: The comparison of Lithuania, Japan, and the United States	3
Solidarity as a value, emotion, and practice: Arab social work students’ perceptions in a multicultural society	3
Roles of health care social workers in a multi-professional team: A qualitative study in the context of China	3

Social work graduates’ professional socialisation and identity: Perceptions and experiences of social workers and supervisors	3
Risk factors in women experiencing homelessness from an ecological and intersectional perspective: A systematic review	3
Voices of postgraduate social work students: Reflections on fertility and reproductive decision-making in the UAE	3
Metaphorical analysis of social worker candidates’ perceptions of homeless people	3
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 values	3
Experiences and challenges of Arab social workers in Israel with community violence	3
News from our societies – ICSW: Weaving alliances	3
Conceptualization of child safety and mental health by parents in two Global South contexts of disadvantage	3
Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world	3
‘Earthquake of the century’ and its aftermath: Reflections on social work practices implemented in the first hours of the disaster at a hospital in Türkiye	3
Evidence, truth, fact, claim, belief or view? – Social work knowledge in a new dynamic world of digital information	2
Examining studies conducted with LGBTIQA+ individuals in the field of social work in Turkey between 2015 and 2025: A systematic review	2
International graduates of social work in Australia: A longitudinal study of those who struggle to develop professional identity	2
News from our societies: IFSW	2
Stepping-up social work services among families displaced by war	2
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	2
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	2
The aftermath: Community workers as place-makers in conflict-riven societies	2
Ethics of care for carer service and policy: The conceptualisation and implications for social workers	2
School social workers’ discretionary practice in Sweden: The need for professional creativity	2
Religion and spirituality as a source of resilience among social workers: A strength-based perspective	2
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	2
Environments for intuitive decision-making: A theoretical framework for assessing intuitive-reasoning in social work	2
AI challenges: Five tips for social work	2
Social work education in the shadow of uncontrolled growth: The case of Türkiye	2
Identifying Nigerian literature to inform culturally relevant social work education: A scoping review	2
The Model United Nations (MUN) as a simulation tool embedding decolonisation pedagogy in international social work education	2
The struggle to find theory	2
News from our societies: IASSW	2
A narrative review of the international literature on social work within the military	2
How does the service quality in refugee camps, affect the satisfaction of Syrian immigrants?	2
Serving Chinese adolescents in the digital age: A grand challenge for social work	2
Supervision framework for international field education in India: Shared knowledge and experiences of supervisors from India, Israel, and Australia	2
A coding system to interpret prisoners’ perceptions and attributions, associated with psychological distress and the type of crime	2
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	2
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 2022	2
The role of social work practitioners and human service professionals in long-term disaster recovery after the 2016 Alberta wildfires in Canada	2
News from our societies – ICSW: From the Windhoek Declaration on Social Policy and Social Protection in Africa, to the Lisbon Decl	2
Supporting children in cases of assisted dying: Guidance for social workers	2
Improvement in the psychological resilience of rural left-behind children: The influence of social services from 15 social organisations	2
‘I am man, I am woman’: Gendered experiences of refugee resettlement in the United States	2
Youth participation in community governance: A participatory design program in Beijing	2
United we stand, and divided we fall: A call to action for the decolonisation of social work in Africa	2
Whose life matters? A call for social work action in response to a global humanitarian crisis	2
Indigenous social work with older persons: An international perspective	2
The feelings of living in poverty and depending on social assistance: An exploratory study on gender differences in Dibao families in China	2
Developing supervision of social work supervisors and their practice in Singapore: A cross-national collaboration	2
Social work practice for togetherness in a divided world	1
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	1
A phenomenological study of addiction recovery at a model drug abuse center, Social Welfare Department, Punjab, Pakistan	1
Can certification improve the professional competence of Chinese social workers?	1
Social work research ethics in China: A scoping review of research involving human subjects during COVID-19	1
Forthcoming study on participation in the age of AI	1
Bridging worlds: Unveiling challenges in community interpreting in Israel	1
The Mission of Social Work: Stepping forward for the unheard, unseen, and forgotten people	1
Beyond the classroom: Practitioner reflections on fieldwork placement models in Zimbabwe’s social work education	1
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese)	1
Alienated social workers in China’s communities: The impacts of role stress, professional efficacy, and state interventions	1
“Things are really not in order here” : Self‑help groups as a community‑led welfare architecture in volatile settings	1
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	1
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa: Reflections of social workers	1
Exploring social capital as a strategy for social work practice in China: A qualitative inquiry	1
ISW Journal Prize 2024	1
Should there be international standards for qualitative social work research? A commentary on utility, contradictions, and reframing to principles	1
Social work students and teachers responding to internally displaced persons’ need of shelter in Ukraine in spring 2022: Service learning and recognition	1
News from our societies: IFSW	1
Gendered experiences of loneliness during COVID-19 isolation: Insights for intersectional feminist social work – the case of Çankaya/Ankara, Turkey	1
Non-governmental organizations’ enablers of asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe	1
Improving LGBTQ+ mental health in Southeast Asia through social work: Insights from the Philippines	1
Psychosocial and vulnerability factors affecting well-being of migrant mothers from Latin America: A scoping review	1
Creating a world social work map: The need for an International Social Work Observatory (ISWO)	1
Authoritarian nationalism and social work	1
Exploring social workers’ self-care in Spain: Strategies, barriers, and proposals	1
Back to future: International social work in the new era	1
Consequences of forced conjunction: Social work’s struggles for independence from sociology in mainland China	1
Learning through simulation: A systematic literature review of the use of virtual reality and augmented reality in social work education	1
Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries	1
Is the natural environment important to social work education and practice? Perspectives from social work students in Queensland, Australia	1
Perspectives on being mothered and on negotiating the transition to motherhood: A qualitative study of low-income single mothers in Botswana	1
‘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 context	1

Association between child, early, and forced marriage and extreme weather events: A mixed-methods systematic review	1
Assembling social determinants of health: COVID-19 vaccination inequities for international students in Canada	1
Lived experience: A constant companion for the social work relationship	1
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	1
Crowds, culture, and children: Safeguarding young lives in Mongolia’s public assemblies	1
News from our Societies: IFSW	1
‘Brick’ or ‘Bridge’? – The roles and functions of Chinese social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Singapore’s refreshed social compact and its implications for social work practice in Singapore	1
Familisation and defamilisation processes of social safety net: Low-income families’ welfare participation experiences in Shanghai and Taipei	1
‘Raising their voices’: Explaining the policy practice of minority social workers in multicultural societies	1
Conceptualizing anti-Asian bullying faced by East Asian adolescents in Canadian schools arising from the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of social workers	1
Residential care settings for children in the Philippines: Examining their transnational and neocolonial characteristics and the implications for children’s social welfare	1
Research with cancer patients and their caregivers: A dyadic reflection by social work researchers	1
Factors influencing the turnover intention of social workers: A meta-analysis	1
Layers of loneliness: A qualitative study on social isolation in midlife using ecological systems theory	1
Standing with children in situations of wars and military conflict	1
National Strategy for a Barrier-Free Environment: Problems, tolerance and implementation	1
Towards developing ethical capacities in social work practice in Africa: Case study and critical commentary from Uganda	1
Social work-led case management in Hong Kong: A relational analysis	1
Rural areas and social work: Reflection on research in German-speaking countries	1
News from the international organisations for International Social Work	1
Social work response to the earthquake disaster in the Middle East: Syria and Turkey as a case study	1
A good casework relationship and Buddhist philosophy	1
Perspectives on psychosocial support services for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and child victims of abuse in Türkiye	1
Levels of compassion fatigue in social workers: Professional practice duration and public or private entity type as moderator variables	1
The role of social workers in psychosocial interventions and filling the gaps in refugee protection regulations	1
Integrated social policy as an engine of sustainable development: Lessons from global practice: ICSW advocacy for integrated social policies for inclusive and sustainable development at the second wor	1
Let not the world change us: Critical consciousness as a moderator in the relationship between role stress and burnout among social workers in China	1
Gender equality, human development, and financial resilience: Country-level mediating pathways and international implications	1