International Social Work

Article	Citations
Ubuntu and its potential impact on the international social work profession	42
Social workers helping each other during the COVID-19 pandemic: Online mutual support groups	34
Global standards for social work education and training	28
Stand against anti-Asian racial discrimination during COVID-19: A call for action	26
Emotional well-being and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Guidelines for social work practice	19
Social work and COVID-19: A gap in Nigeria’s intervention	13
Impacts of COVID-19 on refugees and immigrants in the United States: A call for action	13
Global trends in forced migration: Policy, practice and research imperatives for social work	13
8 minutes and 46 seconds of ‘I Can’t Breathe’: A call for anti-racist feminist solidarity amid COVID-19	13
Global social work working conditions and wellbeing	13
Environmental social work through the African philosophy of Ubuntu: A conceptual analysis	13
Hong Kong under COVID-19: Roles of community development service	12
A systematic review of the roles of social workers in inclusive education for children with disabilities	11
African migrants and stress coping strategies in Australia: Implications for social work	11
Older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic – Forgotten and stigmatized?	11
Social exclusion, mental health, and social well-being among African immigrants in the United States	10
Social work with families in the pandemic of COVID-19: Ten challenges facing families	10
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 Social	10
Interdisciplinary bridging response teams for field hospitals in Wuhan during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Perceptions of stigma toward mental illness in Arab society in Israel	9
Responding to COVID-19 in social work field education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States	9
Care and rehabilitation institutions for people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Polish experiences	9
Gendered dimensions of health in refugee situations: An examination of sexual and gender-based violence faced by refugee women in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda	8
Leaving no one behind: Intellectual disability during COVID-19 in Africa	8
Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social work profession	8

Resisting politics of authoritarian populism during COVID-19, reclaiming democracy and narrative justice: Centering critical thinking in social work	8
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 LGBTQ	7
The influence of leisure-based community activities on neighbourhood support and the social cohesion of communities in Spain	7
Deconstructing bias: The decision-making process among child protective service workers in Chile	7
Challenges in adapting field placement during a pandemic: A Jamaican perspective	7
Reimagining Indigenised social work in Uganda: Voices of practitioners	7
The experience of violence of Syrian women living in Konya: An intersectional study through the narratives of service providers	7
Considerations for integrating technology into social work practice: A content analysis of nine professional social work associations’ Codes of Ethics	7
Practising social work groups online: Practitioners’ reflection on the COVID-19 outbreak	6
Does macrosocial orientation matter in frontline social workers’ professional identity? Considering the critical factors of social work development in China	6
COVID-19 and mental health services delivery at Ingutsheni Central Hospital in Zimbabwe: Lessons for psychiatric social work practice	6
Nature-based interventions in social work practice and education: Insights from six nations	6
Working and learning from home during COVID-19: International experiences among social work educators and students	6
Managing social policy in the emerging welfare regime of governance: What Indonesia can learn from South Korea’s experience	6
Development of research on social work practice in mainland China: Context, challenges, and opportunities	6
Child protection social workers facing the Covid-19 challenge	6
Understanding professional distress through social representations: Investigating the shared experience of healthcare social workers in Canada	5
Social workers’ adaptation in times of pandemic crisis: A Hong Kong case	5
Lived experience: A constant companion for the social work relationship	5
Community responses to LGBT+ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the COVID-19 confinement in Madrid	5
Toward an inclusive digital economy for all: Perspectives from an intersectional feminist social work lens	5
Clinical intervention with autistic adolescents and adults during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of clinicians and their clients	5
Citizenship and multicultural social work: Challenges and opportunities of ethnic minority youth in political engagement in Hong Kong	5
Indigenization and authentization of epistemology in China’s social work: Moving beyond Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism	5
Disrupting social work ethics	5
When field isn’t field anymore: Innovating the undergraduate social work field experience in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Rethinking the residual policy response: Lessons from Hong Kong older women’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Addressing the issue of child sexual abuse in Pakistan: A conceptual analysis	4
‘We were social ICUs’: Qualitative study on the perception of the impact of Covid-19 on social work professionals in Spain	4
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	4
Creating alternative interventions in social work to promote socio-economic development in South Africa: Lessons from selected social enterprises	4
A global review of violence prevention plans: Where are the men and boys?	4
An international profession with commonalities and differences: Social work responses to COVID-19 where local is global and vice versa	4
Providing virtual suicide prevention groups for people experiencing suicidality: Pivoting service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Poverty in Arab-Palestinian society in Israel: Social work perspectives before and during COVID-19	4
All people matter – Global vaccine equity and human rights: An urgent macro social work challenge	4
A review of Indigenous social work around the world: Concepts, debates and challenges	4
Supervision of supervisory practice: From idea to practice	4
Non-governmental organizations’ enablers of asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe	4
Factors associated with the prevalence of diarrhoea among children in rural areas of Enugu State, Nigeria: Practice considerations for social workers	4
The link between burnout and social-occupational variables in Spanish social workers	4
Burnout and mindfulness among social workers in Spain: A structural equation model of mindfulness and areas of worklife as burnout predictors	3
The role of social work in the healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa	3
Supervisory relationship in cyber supervision: Implications for social work supervision	3
Peace, love, and justice: A participatory phenomenological study of psychosocial well-being in Afghanistan	3
The environment has rights: Eco-spiritual social work through ubuntu philosophy and Pachamama: A commentary	3
Connecting nature and the people: Environmental social work	3
Resilience-based intervention for youth: An initial investigation of school social work program in Kuwait	3
Assembling social determinants of health: COVID-19 vaccination inequities for international students in Canada	3
The immigration of social workers: From Zimbabwe to England	3

The state of eco-social work training in Canada: Transformative praxis for climate constrained futures	3
Social work in the face of emerging technologies: A technological acceptance study in 13 countries	3
Community social workers as social entrepreneurs: Lessons from Israel	3
Nordic welfare chauvinism: A comparative study of welfare chauvinism in Sweden, Norway and Finland	3
Troubled times: Canadian social workers’ early adversities, mental health, and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Food security and social protection in times of COVID-19	3
AI and social work	3
A critical review of Chinese and international social work: Walking a tightrope between local and global standards	3
The importance of keeping a social perspective during pandemic times: Social psychiatry in Sweden	3
Application of social work in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals for children: A case study from Abkhazia	3
Child Well-Being and Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Social Work Practice and Acknowledging their Sacrifices	3
How the environment is conceptualised and represented globally in social work codes of ethics	3
Personal and environmental factors associated with self-reported resilience among social workers	3
Structured peer group supervision: Systematic case reflection for constructing new perspectives and solutions	2
Back to future: International social work in the new era	2
Policy response for disadvantaged groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: Vietnam experiences	2
Compassion fatigue among social workers in juvenile offender systems in Chile	2
Living arrangements and intergenerational support among older Chinese: Does the gender of the co-resident adult children make a difference?	2
Social work education in Turkey at the crossroads: An analysis of educational trends and socio-political context in a historical perspective	2
‘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	2
The factors affecting curriculum design of social work degree programs in Mainland China: Accounts of social work educators	2
The impact of teaching culture online during COVID-19	2
Indigenous knowledge and social work education in Nigeria: Challenges and need for sustainable development	2
Workplace friendships while teleworking during COVID-19: Experiences of social workers in Australia	2
The child-friendly cities concept in China: A prototype case study of a migrant workers’ community	2
The art of not-knowing: Valuing diversity and intercultural competences in international social work education	2
Critical realist discourse analysis of Chinese parents of children with dyslexia	2
Can certification improve the professional competence of Chinese social workers?	2
News from our societies – IFSW: The incredible journey of the global agenda continues	2
National Strategy for a Barrier-Free Environment: Problems, tolerance and implementation	2
Minority group local government mayors and their relations with welfare bureau social workers	2
Social exclusion of US immigrants in the 21st century: A systematic review of qualitative studies	2
The different roles of productive aging activities in the life satisfaction of older adults in urban and rural China	2
COVID-19 and the calls of humanistic social work: Exploring the developmental-clinical social work concerns of the pandemic	2
Social work with refugees: Examining social workers’ role and practice in times of crisis in Greece	2
Community social work in Hong Kong during COVID-19: Intervention strategies to address social injustices	2
Recognising common developments and trends across Western child welfare systems: A comparison of Italy, Norway and Slovenia	2
Parenting for Child Development: The development and preliminary pilot of a parenting intervention to reduce violence against children in Papua New Guinea	2
Child bride, a story that never ends: A look at experiences of Iranian women	2
Social work in times of Geo-Political and Military Conflict	2
Surviving on the margins: Volunteers’ agency to survive poverty and vulnerability in Zimbabwe	2
Socioeconomic development initiatives and women’s experiences of marital violence in rural Bangladesh	2
The utilisation of Ubuntu across cultures: A case study of a rural development programme in China	2
Social workers’ migration to the United Kingdom: Comparing social networks, job and life satisfaction post-migration	2
COVID-19 and client violence toward healthcare social workers in Chile	2
‘Brick’ or ‘Bridge’? – The roles and functions of Chinese social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Enhancing environmental wellbeing: What social workers can learn from hybrid business activities	2
Serving Chinese adolescents in the digital age: A grand challenge for social work	2
Professionalization of social work in colonial India: Glancing at the history of social work in India before 1936	2
Decolonising social work with Nepali women	1
Investigating the influence of the Catholic Church on social work in the Philippines: An exploration of policy, practice and education	1
Identification work: Ambivalence, qualms and resistance in social workers’ identification of trafficking victims	1
News from our societies – IASSW: Supporting development of social work education around the world: Still a contemporary challenge	1
HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes among social work students: A comparative study	1
Understanding the complexity of domestic violence service delivery through the lived experiences of domestic violence advocates	1
Human insecurity and psychological well-being in migrants hosted in a Nigerian transit center: A qualitative exploration on risk and protective factors	1
Raising the ‘environmental question’ in social work in Canada and Scotland	1
One more has been killed: Implications for service provision for persons with intellectual disability in recent Hong Kong	1
Discourse analysis of conception of masculinity among Chinese male sexual abuse survivors	1
The effect of climate change anxiety on social work students in Turkey	1
Using mobile apps in social work behavioral health care service: The case for China	1
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
Urgency and relevance of feminist social work to curb domestic violence amid COVID-19	1
Exploring semester abroad as a model for developing competencies for international social work	1
Ubuntu among the ‘born frees’: Exploring the transmission of social values through community engagement in South Africa	1
A longitudinal study of intergenerational transmission of poverty in Hong Kong across the 2010s: Social investment, homeownership and mother’s education	1
Cartography of Southern Feminisms: Contributions of decolonial feminisms and community feminisms	1
Recognition, social work and homelessness	1
Motivation, social work and immigration: Job satisfaction according to a qualitative and quantitative evaluation	1
‘All social work takes place in a macro context’: The gap between international social work training and practice	1
Gendered experiences of loneliness during COVID-19 isolation: Insights for intersectional feminist social work – the case of Çankaya/Ankara, Turkey	1
Are residential care homes really bad for children? Voices of alumni of residential child and youth care in Trinidad and Tobago	1
The invisible frontiers: Mental health and turnover intention among Egyptian social workers	1
A bridge over the troubled water: The roles and functions of social workers in the divided world	1
Indigenous social work with older persons: An international perspective	1
A structural social work approach to oral health care in Nepal	1
The doctor, development and (un)sociable monkey: An autoethnography of a social worker	1
The feelings of living in poverty and depending on social assistance: An exploratory study on gender differences in Dibao families in China	1
A no man’s land – social work in ‘in-between’ conflict settings: Ethical challenges and dilemmas in Kufr Aqab	1
Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries	1

Continuity of care for drug users in prison and beyond: A qualitative insight	1
Social work for tomorrow in the new normal	1
Learning through simulation: A systematic literature review of the use of virtual reality and augmented reality in social work education	1
Dealing and Living with OMICRON in the Pandemic: What Did We Learn and What Should We Do?	1
An exploration of teachers’ perceptions of Syrian students in Turkey and implications for school social work	1
A long-distance wake-up call for the social work profession: From hardship to friendship	1
Golden opportunities for resolving students’ emotional disturbance in learning social work values: A 3Ps approach in f ieldwork practicum	1
Social work post-disaster response in Iran: A case study of the 2019 mass flooding in Poldokhtar, Lorestan	1
Positioning structural social work in Indian context	1
Strategic processes to further the professional status of social work in Nigeria	1
Formulating and teaching a course in international social work: Some curriculum and pedagogical insights from the Indian context	1
Thinking about offender social reintegration: A case study of one NGO programme in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa	1
Perspectives on being mothered and on negotiating the transition to motherhood: A qualitative study of low-income single mothers in Botswana	1
An exploratory study on the challenges faced by social workers working with transnational families in Singapore	1
Social work research ethics in China: A scoping review of research involving human subjects during COVID-19	1
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	1
‘Respect’ and ‘justice’ for whom? Culturally irresponsive ethical practices with refugee communities	1
Psychosocial and integration needs of unaccompanied children in Greece	1
The mediating effects of resilience on psychological distress in social workers in Singapore and South Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Challenges for social work with older people in the first COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency in Portugal	1
Developing a complexity-informed approach to hospital end-of-life care for people with dementia and their families	1
COVID-19 and child welfare policy in Chile: The experience of front-line workers	1
What theories and methods do social workers report using in their practice? A scoping review	1
Coparenting autistic children during COVID-19: Emerging insights from practice	1
News from our societies – IFSW: Social work and co-building a new eco-social world	1
‘Raising their voices’: Explaining the policy practice of minority social workers in multicultural societies	1
Connecting the dots: Neighbourhood House and institutional accessibility	1
Career commitment among social workers: The contribution of personal, organizational, and vocational factors	1
Serving the affected: Role of social workers during the pandemic	1
Five pillars of well-being for social work in times of local and global challenges	1
Association between child, early, and forced marriage and extreme weather events: A mixed-methods systematic review	1
Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world	1
Challenges in making school social work a reality in Brazilian schools	1
Navigating the clinician-researcher role in health social work: Reflections from practice	1
Feminisms in social work and social care: Backwards, forwards or something in between	1
Addressing food insecurity in Africa: Strategies for ensuring child-sensitive social protection	0
Planning for future care provision for children living with disabilities: A cross-cultural consideration	0
News from our societies: IFSW Social workers play a crucial role in achieving SDGs – reflections from the 27th IFSW Asia-Pacific conference, November 2023	0
News from our societies: IFSW	0
News from our societies – ICSW: No one left behind: social welfare for everyone everywhere on the planet	0
‘I can’t bear giving my baby away’: Negotiation of reproductive rights of migrant domestic workers and implications for social work	0
Designing and compiling the protocol of specialized interventions of hospital social workers in crisis situations in Iran	0
Beyond the state: Developments and trends in critical social work in Switzerland and Hungary	0
Alienated social workers in China’s communities: The impacts of role stress, professional efficacy, and state interventions	0
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	0
Undocumented migrants: A special category of concern for social work services	0
Mentoring social work adjunct educators: A collaborative autoethnography provides a blueprint for support	0
‘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	0
Financial technology (Fintech): A social work response	0
‘Thrown into a pit’: Early-career social workers’ preparedness for practice	0
Validation of the social provisions scale in a sample of undergraduate students of social work in Spain	0
Inclusive integrated care for LGBTQ+ families: An exploratory qualitative study in the United Kingdom	0
A practical study of the main transformations from social welfare to social development in Lesotho: Success factors, challenges and prospects	0
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	0
Gaps between academia and practice: Perspectives on new graduates’ readiness for social work practice in Georgia	0
Abstracts (French, Spanish)	0
Indigenous methods and knowledge: Maternal health policy and practice in Ethiopia, Africa	0
International social work is both the South and the North	0
Designing and developing a virtual reality escape game for youth vocational rehabilitation	0
Enhancing social work education’s diversity-oriented perspective by integrating refugees into higher education: Experiences from the ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany	0
Thanks to Reviewers	0
A systematic review of cultural competence educational techniques in social work education	0
News from our societies: ICSW – Towards the summit of the future	0
News from our societies - IAASW: Social Workers and Social Work Educators as Agents and Teachers of Peace	0
Interdisciplinary Bridging Response Teams in the COVID-19 outbreak aid provision in China	0
The association between trajectories of marital status and successful aging varies by sex: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)	0
Exploring the state of Qatar’s child protection system through the lens of frontline social workers	0
The unique and the invariant in the field of social work: The comparison of Lithuania, Japan, and the United States	0
Juxtaposing indigenous evidence-based models in India with concept of Ubuntu: Implications for psychiatric social work practice	0
News from our societies: IFSW	0
News from our societies – ICSW: A new social contract	0
Residential care settings for children in the Philippines: Examining their transnational and neocolonial characteristics and the implications for children’s social welfare	0
Research knowledge utilisation among Swedish health social workers: Influence of higher education, job tenure and workplace	0
News from our societies – ICSW: Weaving alliances	0
Manifestations and drivers of secondary trauma among service providers working with Syrian refugees: A mixed-methods study from Istanbul, Turkey	0
Social work in Azerbaijan: Achievements and challenges of the profession	0
Beyond institutions: Non-governmental organisations’ beneficiaries’ role in poverty reduction	0
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa: Reflections of social workers	0
A phenomenological study of addiction recovery at a model drug abuse center, Social Welfare Department, Punjab, Pakistan	0
Work-related stressors accompanying school social workers while assessing children’s well-being: A comparative study between Germany and Finland	0
‘Social work as a shared dream’	0
Consequences of client violence towards the social worker: A systematic review	0
Psychological distress, work–family conflict and family life satisfaction: A quantitative study of social workers in the UK	0
Whose life matters? A call for social work action in response to a global humanitarian crisis	0
Degrading a global COVID-19 contagion: Charting a holistic social work response	0
Bridging the gaps in service delivery: Using social audit as tool of social work practice – Insights from short-term training course	0
Social work with frustrations: What can we do? How do we stay hopeful?	0
Social work and mutuality	0
News from our societies – IASSW: The importance of education	0
The way we were and the vision ahead: A 5-year review and renewal of International Social Work	0
Motivational factors among social work undergraduates in online education during the post-COVID-19 era	0
ISW Journal Prize 2023	0
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	0
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)	0
News from our societies: IFSW - Co-Building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind	0