International Social Work

Article	Citations
Practising ethically during COVID-19: Social work challenges and responses	160
Social work and COVID-19 pandemic: An action call	79
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on international students in Canada	74
Reducing social worker burnout during COVID-19	49
Lessons learned from COVID-19: Being known in online social work classrooms	47
Ten gentle reminders to social workers in the pandemic	38
COVID-19 and beyond: Social work interventions for supporting homeless populations	35
Ubuntu and its potential impact on the international social work profession	35
Social work practice education and training during the pandemic: Disruptions and discoveries	35
Pandemic sex workers’ resilience: COVID-19 crisis met with rapid responses by sex worker communities	34
COVID-19, Prolonged Grief Disorder and the role of social work	29
International student experiences in Queensland during COVID-19	27
Social workers helping each other during the COVID-19 pandemic: Online mutual support groups	27
Working with refugees during COVID-19: Social worker voices from Turkey	24
News from our societies – IFSW: COVID-19: The struggle, success and expansion of social work – Reflections on the profession’s global response, 5 months on	23
COVID-19 experience among slum dwellers in Nairobi: A double tragedy or useful lesson for public health reforms?	23
Stand against anti-Asian racial discrimination during COVID-19: A call for action	22
Examining COVID-19 and HIV: The impact of intersectional stigma on short- and long-term health outcomes among African Americans	22
Global standards for social work education and training	22
Emotional well-being and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Guidelines for social work practice	19
The more you know, the less you fear: Reflexive social work practices in times of COVID-19	18
Recasting social workers as frontline in a socially accountable COVID-19 response	18
Post-disaster social work research: A scoping review of the evidence for practice	18
The role of social work in the field of education during COVID-19	16
Firewalls: A necessary tool to enable social rights for undocumented migrants in social work	15

Reflections on Israeli hospital-based social work with COVID-19 patients and their families	15
COVID-19: Health disparities and social determinants of health	13
Unwed single mothers in South Korea: Increased vulnerabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Impacts of COVID-19 on refugees and immigrants in the United States: A call for action	12
COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: What lessons for social work education and practice?	12
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intercountry adoption and international commercial surrogacy	11
Coping with grief, loss, and well-being during a pandemic: A collaborative autoethnography of international educators during COVID-19	11
Social work and COVID-19: A gap in Nigeria’s intervention	11
African migrants and stress coping strategies in Australia: Implications for social work	11
From coronavirus to ‘hunger virus’: Mapping the urgency of social work response amid COVID-19 pandemic in Africa	10
Global trends in forced migration: Policy, practice and research imperatives for social work	10
8 minutes and 46 seconds of ‘I Can’t Breathe’: A call for anti-racist feminist solidarity amid COVID-19	10
Hong Kong under COVID-19: Roles of community development service	10
Care and rehabilitation institutions for people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Polish experiences	9
Interdisciplinary bridging response teams for field hospitals in Wuhan during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Social work with families in the pandemic of COVID-19: Ten challenges facing families	9
Older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic – Forgotten and stigmatized?	9
Social work’s role during and after the pandemic: Keeping vigilant and hopeful on human rights	9
Creating solace and hope during COVID-19: An innovative Internet-based social work intervention	9
Community work, love and the indigenous worldview of buen vivir in Peru	9
The response of Jordanian society and social workers to the COVID-19 crisis	9
Social workers of the world unite! A call to unionize the social work profession	9
Global social work working conditions and wellbeing	8
Environmental social work through the African philosophy of Ubuntu: A conceptual analysis	8
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	8
Rethinking the transformative role of the social work profession in Albania: Some lessons learned from the response to COVID-19	8
A quality function deployment–based resource allocation approach for elderly care service: Perspective of government procurement of public service	8
The conundrum of old age and COVID-19 responses in Eswatini and Zimbabwe	8
Leaving no one behind: Intellectual disability during COVID-19 in Africa	7
COVID-19 and older adults in Africa: Social workers’ utilization of mass media in enforcing policy change	7
Statutory neglect and care in a pandemic	7
Globalisation and social work education in the Republic of Ireland: Towards informed transnational social work for transnational problems such as COVID-19	7
Reimagining Indigenised social work in Uganda: Voices of practitioners	7
Navigating the territories of transition: An exploration of the experiences of transnational social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand	7
Social exclusion, mental health, and social well-being among African immigrants in the United States	7
The health and well-being of LGBTQ people in mainland China: The role of social work	7
Social assistance institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Polish social workers	7
Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social work profession	7
Perceptions of stigma toward mental illness in Arab society in Israel	6
A systematic review of the roles of social workers in inclusive education for children with disabilities	6
Responding to COVID-19 in social work field education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States	6
The place of social work in improving access to health services among refugees: A case study of Nakivale settlement, Uganda	6
Gendered dimensions of health in refugee situations: An examination of sexual and gender-based violence faced by refugee women in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda	6
Working and learning from home during COVID-19: International experiences among social work educators and students	6
Considerations for integrating technology into social work practice: A content analysis of nine professional social work associations’ Codes of Ethics	6
Vulnerability of children in Botswana during COVID-19	6
Managing social policy in the emerging welfare regime of governance: What Indonesia can learn from South Korea’s experience	5
Social workers’ adaptation in times of pandemic crisis: A Hong Kong case	5
Child protection social workers facing the Covid-19 challenge	5
Practising social work groups online: Practitioners’ reflection on the COVID-19 outbreak	5

Understanding professional distress through social representations: Investigating the shared experience of healthcare social workers in Canada	5
Rights-based social work in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Validating tools for education and practice	5
Challenges in adapting field placement during a pandemic: A Jamaican perspective	5
The professionalization of social work in Israel’s Arab society	5
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	5
News from our societies – ICSW: COVID-19 – Five tests we face	5
Community responses to LGBT+ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the COVID-19 confinement in Madrid	4
Chinese women revising meanings of marriage and divorce: Comparing women who divorced in the 1990s and 2000s	4
Staying resilient, compassionate and ethical: Social work at the front line of the pandemic	4
The experience of violence of Syrian women living in Konya: An intersectional study through the narratives of service providers	4
Shifting senses of solidarity and belonging in the internal migration pathways of citizens in ger areas in Ulaanbaatar: A social work perspective	4
When field isn’t field anymore: Innovating the undergraduate social work field experience in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
An international profession with commonalities and differences: Social work responses to COVID-19 where local is global and vice versa	4
Is the deinstitutionalisation of alternative care a ‘wicked problem’? A qualitative study exploring the perceptions of child welfare practitioners and policy actors in Thailand	4
Feeding Indigenous people in Canada	4
Rethinking the residual policy response: Lessons from Hong Kong older women’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Deconstructing bias: The decision-making process among child protective service workers in Chile	4
Does macrosocial orientation matter in frontline social workers’ professional identity? Considering the critical factors of social work development in China	4
Development of research on social work practice in mainland China: Context, challenges, and opportunities	4
Factors associated with the prevalence of diarrhoea among children in rural areas of Enugu State, Nigeria: Practice considerations for social workers	4
Clinical intervention with autistic adolescents and adults during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of clinicians and their clients	4
Multidimensional perspective of the poverty and dynamics of middle-aged and older adults in Taiwan	4
A review of Indigenous social work around the world: Concepts, debates and challenges	4
Social work with a person in the crisis of homelessness in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland: Problems and challenges	4
How religious women students of social work in Israel experience academe	4
COVID-19 and mental health services delivery at Ingutsheni Central Hospital in Zimbabwe: Lessons for psychiatric social work practice	4
Disrupting social work ethics	4
The intersection and parallels of Aboriginal peoples’ and racialized migrants’ experiences of colonialism and child welfare in Canada	4
Resisting politics of authoritarian populism during COVID-19, reclaiming democracy and narrative justice: Centering critical thinking in social work	4
Exploring factors influencing social workers’ attitudes toward evidence-based practice: A Chinese study	4
Creating alternative interventions in social work to promote socio-economic development in South Africa: Lessons from selected social enterprises	3
The immigration of social workers: From Zimbabwe to England	3
Peace, love, and justice: A participatory phenomenological study of psychosocial well-being in Afghanistan	3
Exploring the influence of transnationalism on the immigrant integration process: The case of Ghanaians’ transnational housing activities in Toronto, Canada	3
Lived experience: A constant companion for the social work relationship	3
Connecting nature and the people: Environmental social work	3
Informal care of older adults with chronic life-limiting illness in Africa: An integrative review	3
Let’s not return to business as usual: Integrating environmental and social wellbeing through hybrid business models post COVID-19	3
A global review of violence prevention plans: Where are the men and boys?	3
The influence of leisure-based community activities on neighbourhood support and the social cohesion of communities in Spain	3
Citizenship and multicultural social work: Challenges and opportunities of ethnic minority youth in political engagement in Hong Kong	3
Addressing the issue of child sexual abuse in Pakistan: A conceptual analysis	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
Indigenization and authentization of epistemology in China’s social work: Moving beyond Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism	3
All people matter – Global vaccine equity and human rights: An urgent macro social work challenge	3
Application of social work in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals for children: A case study from Abkhazia	3
‘We were social ICUs’: Qualitative study on the perception of the impact of Covid-19 on social work professionals in Spain	3
Child Well-Being and Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Social Work Practice and Acknowledging their Sacrifices	3
Resilience-based intervention for youth: An initial investigation of school social work program in Kuwait	3
‘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
Poverty in Arab-Palestinian society in Israel: Social work perspectives before and during COVID-19	2
Critical knots, tensions, and daily resistances in the work against commercial sexual exploitation of children: A reflection from Chilean practitioners	2
A call for action against COVID-19 – Experience of the Social Workers’ Syndicate in Lebanon	2
COVID-19 and the calls of humanistic social work: Exploring the developmental-clinical social work concerns of the pandemic	2
Recognising common developments and trends across Western child welfare systems: A comparison of Italy, Norway and Slovenia	2
A critical review of Chinese and international social work: Walking a tightrope between local and global standards	2
The importance of keeping a social perspective during pandemic times: Social psychiatry in Sweden	2
Compassion fatigue among social workers in juvenile offender systems in Chile	2
The environment has rights: Eco-spiritual social work through ubuntu philosophy and Pachamama: A commentary	2
The utilisation of Ubuntu across cultures: A case study of a rural development programme in China	2
Providing virtual suicide prevention groups for people experiencing suicidality: Pivoting service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The impact of teaching culture online during COVID-19	2
Informal social protection actors: A focus on women self-help groups in Kenya	2
Assembling social determinants of health: COVID-19 vaccination inequities for international students in Canada	2
Incentive-based Social Welfare Administration in Indonesia: Implications for sustainable development in women’s and children’s protection	2
Toward an inclusive digital economy for all: Perspectives from an intersectional feminist social work lens	2
Supervisory relationship in cyber supervision: Implications for social work supervision	2
Social work in the face of emerging technologies: A technological acceptance study in 13 countries	2
Supervision of supervisory practice: From idea to practice	2
Agency and exploitation: Two sides of one coin? Women’s experiences of selling sex and engaging with NGOs in Dhaka	2
Socioeconomic development initiatives and women’s experiences of marital violence in rural Bangladesh	2
‘Kufunika kwa mtundu/fuko’ (Family circle): Understanding experiences of grandparents raising grandchildren in Malawi	2
Human rights and education for Gambian young women during COVID-19: Recommendations for social policy and practice	2
Preliminary lessons learned from facilitating group work for justice-involved women in rural communities: A case study in an Alabama correctional facility in the era of COVID-19	2
The role of social work in the healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa	2
What small NGOs can deliver: A case study of a Canadian community-based project making fabric scrub caps for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Professionalization of social work in colonial India: Glancing at the history of social work in India before 1936	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
News from our societies – IFSW: The incredible journey of the global agenda continues	2

Challenges for social work with older people in the first COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency in Portugal	1
Exploring semester abroad as a model for developing competencies for international social work	1
The factors affecting curriculum design of social work degree programs in Mainland China: Accounts of social work educators	1
Perspectives on being mothered and on negotiating the transition to motherhood: A qualitative study of low-income single mothers in Botswana	1
COVID-19 and client violence toward healthcare social workers in Chile	1
Developing a complexity-informed approach to hospital end-of-life care for people with dementia and their families	1
Parenting for Child Development: The development and preliminary pilot of a parenting intervention to reduce violence against children in Papua New Guinea	1
The different roles of productive aging activities in the life satisfaction of older adults in urban and rural China	1
Continuity of care for drug users in prison and beyond: A qualitative insight	1
The missing group? Situating transnational contacts in defamilisation research	1
Troubled times: Canadian social workers’ early adversities, mental health, and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Social work research ethics in China: A scoping review of research involving human subjects during COVID-19	1
Help-seeking behaviors and practices among Fijian women who experience domestic violence: An exploration of the role of religiosity as a coping strategy	1
Navigating the clinician-researcher role in health social work: Reflections from practice	1
A longitudinal study of intergenerational transmission of poverty in Hong Kong across the 2010s: Social investment, homeownership and mother’s education	1
Nature-based interventions in social work practice and education: Insights from six nations	1
Social work field education in Vietnam: Challenges and recommendations for a better model	1
Enhancing environmental wellbeing: What social workers can learn from hybrid business activities	1
Strategic processes to further the professional status of social work in Nigeria	1
Returning to their roots: Examining the reintegration experiences of returned Indigenous migrant youth in Guatemala	1
Using mobile apps in social work behavioral health care service: The case for China	1
A bridge over the troubled water: The roles and functions of social workers in the divided world	1
Non-governmental organizations’ enablers of asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe	1
Social work with refugees: Examining social workers’ role and practice in times of crisis in Greece	1
Social work in the social distancing era in Korea: A reflective essay	1
An exploratory study on the challenges faced by social workers working with transnational families in Singapore	1
Personal and environmental factors associated with self-reported resilience among social workers	1
Workplace friendships while teleworking during COVID-19: Experiences of social workers in Australia	1
How the environment is conceptualised and represented globally in social work codes of ethics	1
Discourse analysis of conception of masculinity among Chinese male sexual abuse survivors	1
Social work education in Turkey at the crossroads: An analysis of educational trends and socio-political context in a historical perspective	1
Child bride, a story that never ends: A look at experiences of Iranian women	1
Serving the affected: Role of social workers during the pandemic	1
Burnout and mindfulness among social workers in Spain: A structural equation model of mindfulness and areas of worklife as burnout predictors	1
Critical realist discourse analysis of Chinese parents of children with dyslexia	1
Urgency and relevance of feminist social work to curb domestic violence amid COVID-19	1
Food security and social protection in times of COVID-19	1
A structural social work approach to oral health care in Nepal	1
Coparenting autistic children during COVID-19: Emerging insights from practice	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
AI and social work	1
Social work post-disaster response in Iran: A case study of the 2019 mass flooding in Poldokhtar, Lorestan	1
A door opening from Syria to Turkey; migration and the process of social acceptance and accommodation: Hatay and Karabuk provinces	1
Surviving on the margins: Volunteers’ agency to survive poverty and vulnerability in Zimbabwe	1
Dealing and Living with OMICRON in the Pandemic: What Did We Learn and What Should We Do?	1
Living arrangements and intergenerational support among older Chinese: Does the gender of the co-resident adult children make a difference?	1
Golden opportunities for resolving students’ emotional disturbance in learning social work values: A 3Ps approach in f ieldwork practicum	1
Indigenous knowledge and social work education in Nigeria: Challenges and need for sustainable development	1
Are residential care homes really bad for children? Voices of alumni of residential child and youth care in Trinidad and Tobago	1
Feminisms in social work and social care: Backwards, forwards or something in between	1
Formulating and teaching a course in international social work: Some curriculum and pedagogical insights from the Indian context	1
‘Raising their voices’: Explaining the policy practice of minority social workers in multicultural societies	1
National Strategy for a Barrier-Free Environment: Problems, tolerance and implementation	1
Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries	1
COVID-19 India: An insight into the impact of lockdown and community behavioural response	1
Social exclusion of US immigrants in the 21st century: A systematic review of qualitative studies	1
The child-friendly cities concept in China: A prototype case study of a migrant workers’ community	1
‘Respect’ and ‘justice’ for whom? Culturally irresponsive ethical practices with refugee communities	1
Soup kitchens: The stigma of being poor and the construction of social identity	1
A no man’s land – social work in ‘in-between’ conflict settings: Ethical challenges and dilemmas in Kufr Aqab	1
‘I never hoped for anything . . . now I have other plans’: The role of microfinance in HIV intervention for women who use drugs and engage in sex work in Kazakhstan	1
Psychosocial and integration needs of unaccompanied children in Greece	1
The art of not-knowing: Valuing diversity and intercultural competences in international social work education	1
A long-distance wake-up call for the social work profession: From hardship to friendship	1
Understanding the complexity of domestic violence service delivery through the lived experiences of domestic violence advocates	1
COVID-19 and child welfare policy in Chile: The experience of front-line workers	1
The link between burnout and social-occupational variables in Spanish social workers	1
News from our societies – IFSW: Social work and co-building a new eco-social world	1
Serving Chinese adolescents in the digital age: A grand challenge for social work	1
Cartography of Southern Feminisms: Contributions of decolonial feminisms and community feminisms	1
Gendered experiences of loneliness during COVID-19 isolation: Insights for intersectional feminist social work – the case of Çankaya/Ankara, Turkey	1
Child welfare workers’ resilience and coping styles in Ankara, Turkey	1
Motivation, social work and immigration: Job satisfaction according to a qualitative and quantitative evaluation	1
Thinking about offender social reintegration: A case study of one NGO programme in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa	1
Reflecting on a second-migration experience: Issues and implications for social work practice	1
Connecting the dots: Neighbourhood House and institutional accessibility	1
Minority group local government mayors and their relations with welfare bureau social workers	1
‘All social work takes place in a macro context’: The gap between international social work training and practice	1
News from our societies – IASSW: Co-creating a Global Agenda for 2020–2030 to build social and international solidarity	1
Factors contributing to child sexual abuse in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia: Police and perpetrators’ perspectives	1