British Journal of Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Social Work is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dilemmas and Decision Making in Residential Childcare, Abbi Jackson79
Protecting Social Workers as Human Rights Defenders in a Dangerous World52
Improving the quality of contacts during foster care: Learnings from foster families52
The practice of social work documentation in an age of automatization: a case from a Danish municipal job centre32
Voices of Women Exposed to Honour-Based Violence: On Vulnerability, Needs and Support from Social Services30
Revisiting radical integrated research and practice for contemporary social work24
An Autoethnographic Perspective of Life Story Work23
Understanding the education of children and young people in residential care: A systematic review of barriers and enablers23
The inter-relationship between parental problems and ethnic background: How do they impact on entry into local authority care?21
The Contributions of First Nations Voices to the Australian Public Debate over the Criminalisation of Coercive Control21
Traits, Vision, and Professionalism of Social Workers in China20
Book Review – Social work and social welfare: an invitation, 7th edn, Vithya Murugan, Annah Kay Bender, and Marla Berg-Weger20
Understanding systemic-digital challenges in using digital technology to address intimate partner and domestic violence among migrant populations: A scoping review19
Mental Health Family Carer Experiences during COVID-19: A Rapid Scoping Review of the International Literature17
Service Utilisation of an Innovative Mental Health Counselling Clinic17
The Effects of Decent Work and Social Support on Enhancing Collective Psychological Ownership Amongst Young Adult Social Workers16
Managing Risk and Uncertainty in the Context of Child Protection Decision Making16
Reflection on the leadership of social work in Taiwan from 10 social welfare laws entrusted with mandates15
Transitions and continuities: a farewell from the editors15
Fractional belonging: The experience of Bulgarian and Zimbabwean migrants living in Australia15
Motivational interviewing training for child and family social workers in Finland: An exploratory evaluation study15
A Child in the Middle, Catherine Chanter15
Understanding training and support needs of foster carers of infants in out-of-home care14
In Response to the Editorial for the BJSW 54(4), Lived versus Living Experience by Dominic Watters14
Book Review – Social work and social philosophy: A guide for practice, Chris L. Clark and Stewart Asquith14
An A–Z of Social Work Theory (1st Editions), Malcom Payne13
Social Work Practice During Times of Disaster: A Transformative Green Social Work Model for Theory, Education and Practice in Disaster Interventions13
Towards Digital Adaption: An Exploration of Chinese Social Workers’ Experiences of Digital Service Challenges and Coping Strategies in the Context of COVID-1913
Person-centred process?: Procedural fairness and Care Act 2014 needs assessments13
The Meaning of Online Social Work Education for Students and Faculty during COVID-19: Between Preservation and Change13
Co-Design with People with Lived Experience: Designing Resources to Communicate with Children and Young People in Care about their Family Time Contact Visits13
Perceptions of Safe Staffing, Self-Reported Mental Well-being and Intentions to Leave the Profession among UK Social Workers: A Mixed Methods Study12
Young adults’ service disengagement: Not applying, refusing to participate, or dropping out of welfare services12
Measuring the outcomes of support after suicide: A modified Delphi study12
Validity and Reliability of the Arabic Version of the Short Form Social Well-Being Scale12
The ‘Powers of Horror’: Abjection, Critical Realism and Social Work12
Street-level social workers and social policy: A historical case-study in Israel12
The Sacrificed Children: Listening to the Voices of Former Young Carers Supporting Parents with Mental Illness12
Domestic Violence Survivors Who Became Anti-domestic Violence Volunteers: A Qualitative Study in China12
Eco-transformational leadership framework for social workers to promote climate and ecological justice12
Older People, Loneliness, Social Isolation and Technological Mitigations: Utilising Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic as we Move Forward12
Beyond formal authority: Cultural perspectives on informal leadership in social work practice11
‘Listen Very Carefully, We Will Say This Only Once (Again)’ Dead Ends to Politicisation in Social Work11
Social Workers’ Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Social Work Practice in Schools: A Scoping Review11
Em-Path: An empathic leadership framework with social workers’ perspectives at the core11
Research and training fellowships as a mechanism for building research capacity in social care: An evaluation of the fellowship component of a capacity-building programme in England11
Producing spaces of care in public urban places: Discovering relations between social workers’ work knowledge and social spaces10
Transforming Social Work Field Education, New Insights from Practice, Research and Scholarship, Edited by Julie L. Drolet, Grant Charles, Sheri M. McConnell, and Marion Bogo10
Measuring outcomes experienced by users of community services—The development of the community services outcomes tree and the associated survey template10
Social work’s role in both direct practice and advocacy to sustain tenancies and prevent homelessness10
Mobilizing feminist disability studies for expansive social work scholarship10
Interprofessional Perspectives of Mental Health Crisis for Nursing, Health, and the Helping Professions, Kris Deering and Joanne Williams, eds10
Strategic Information: A Qualitative Study on the Use of Digital Curriculum Vitae for Social Work with Vulnerable Clients10
Principles of Practice by Principal Social Workers, Tanya Moore (ed.)9
Practitioner Research for Social Work, Nursing and the Health Professions. Payam Sheikhattari, Michael T. Wright, Gillian B. Silver, Cyrilla van der Donk and Bas von Lanen9
If We Know What Works, Why Aren't We Doing It?9
Connecting leadership in social work: Preparing master students to lead social practice development9
Practices and knowledge of socio-environmental organisations and movements in Maule, Chile and Antioquia, Colombia9
Job Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic amongst Social Workers: A Comparison between Chinese Mainland and Macao9
Trauma as the ‘Belief That the World is a Dangerous Place’: The Obfuscation of Systemic Violence in Social Work’s Discourses of Trauma9
A Political History of Child Protection: Lesson for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand, Ian Kelvin Hyslop9
The Need for Practicable Normative Right-based Social Work Practice in Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services9
Climbing the not-for-profit leadership ladder in Australia: Equity, diversity, and inclusion9
Resisting Dogmatism in Social Work Knowledge Generation: Theorising, Social Justice and Implications for Social Work Doctoral Education9
Pumps and poetry9
Integrated Care: Reflections on Change in Health Services, Axel Kaehne9
What is the Scope and Contribution of Lived Experience in Social Work? A Scoping Review9
Using the Capability Approach in Social Work with Children Experiencing Post-Separation Parental Stalking8
Leading by example? Culture, change, and strength-based social work8
Correction to: Towards a Synthesised Directional Map of the Stages of Innovation in Children’s Social Care8
Managing emotions and occupational demands: A phenomenological exploration of the experiences of child exploitation support workers8
Resilience and Resistance in the Community Sector: Organisational Challenges and Responses by the Australian DFV Sector in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic8
Barriers to High-quality Therapy Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Analysis of Street-level Policy Practice of Therapy Service Organisations in China8
The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies, Peter Beresford, Jasna Russo (Eds)8
Intervention Pathways following a Social Work Assessment: An Analysis of National Administrative Data for Children’s Social Care in England8
The Relationship between Workplace Support and Turnover intention amongst Chinese Social Workers: A Moderated Mediation Model8
Between Us and Them: Deaf Bedouin Women’s Perception of the Role of Social Workers8
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Lifelong Links Intervention for Reducing Homelessness amongst Care Leavers8
Gambling Harms in Adult Social Care: Developing an ‘Introductory’ Question to Identify Gambling Harms Among Service Users8
The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work—Second Edition, Frederic G. Reamer8
‘I had the full support of my family! This family support tops everything else’: Facilitators for Arabs with disabilities in Israel to lead meaningful, independent, and dignified lives by applying sel8
How Effective are Current Joint Working Practices between Children and Family Social Workers and Mental Health Care Coordinators, in Supporting Families in which there is a Primary Care-giver, with a 8
Understanding services provided to children in DFV shelters: Exposing the ‘invisible’ work8
A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial to Improve Social Problem-Solving Skills of Kunjing Children without Sufficient Parental Care8
Correction to: Impact of Family Group Conference Referrals at Pre-Proceedings Stage on Child Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial8
The Impact of Social Work Supervision on Interns’ Employment Intention: New Evidence from Mainland China8
Labels Are for Jars Not People—Emancipatory Approaches to Working with Young Disabled People, Mark Harrison8
‘Pregnancy and birth are uncertain anyway’: Practitioner perspectives on problems encountered by migrant ethnic minority women8
Practice Education in Social Work: Achieving Professional Standards (3rd Edition), Paula Beesley and Sue Taplin8
Expectations versus Reality: Achieving Impact from Social Work Practitioner Research in Challenging Circumstances7
‘But isn’t that normal?’: Australian foster parent’s experiences of parental abuse by children in their care7
Communities of Support for Care-Experienced Mothers7
The barriers and facilitators to help-seeking: What young people in the UK Say: A systematic review7
‘Shown love from the brokenness of a system’: Themes from a Poetic Inquiry Reimagining Child Welfare7
Reflections on social work leadership in paediatric palliative care: A collaborative model in Catalonia7
Hybrid Working: Is It Working… and at What Cost? Exploring the Experience of Managers in Child Protection: Social Work7
Inter-Professional Education and Collaborative Practice in Social Work: Associations between Youth Work Practitioners’ Experience in Inter-Professional Learning, Creative Self-Efficacy and Innovative 7
Older Adult Homicide: Investigating Case, Victim and Perpetrator Characteristics in a National Sample from England and Wales7
Temporary Agency Workers in the Personal Social Services—Doing Core Tasks in the Periphery7
Career Choice Motivations and Emotional Experience Amongst Chinese Social Workers: The Role of Organizational Identity7
Vicarious trauma in disaster situations: Social workers’ experiences with Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe7
Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients’ Supportive Care Needs—A Social Work Perspective7
Examining the existing knowledge base for enablers of family recovery in mental health: A scoping review7
Secondary traumatization of child protection officers in Bedouin society in Israel7
Social Care Responses to Children who Experience Criminal Exploitation and Violence: The Conditions for a Welfare Response7
The prevalence and experience of children on the sex offender register in England and Wales7
Joy and sadness among social workers in Italy: An exploration through group concept mapping7
Social Work Law: Applying the Law in Practice, Michelle Evans and Denise Harvey6
Social work: leading by inclusion, not authority6
Research on emotional design of elderly care service platform based on deep neural networks6
Book Review – Social work and simulations: teaching practice, research, policy, and social injustices6
‘I’m just one soldier of many in the battle against stigma’: Young people’s experiences developing an anti-stigma resource6
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients Experiencing Family Violence Presenting to an Australian Health Service6
Post-Proceedings Support in a Family Drug and Alcohol Court6
Problematising ‘Fused Principles’ in Discourses of Preventative Social Care: Interpreting the Implementation of National Social Services Legislation in Wales, UK6
Obituary: John Small6
Practising Feminism for Social Welfare—A Global Perspective, Ruth Phillips6
Coproduction with Service Users in Adult Social Work: A Study of Service Users’ and Social Workers’ Experiences in Northern Ireland6
A Common Purpose? Social Work Students’ Social Justice Related Views in Finland and the island of Ireland6
Age Differences in Perceived Preparedness for the Continuation of COVID-19 Pandemic: Important Role of Social Support6
Socio-emotional adjustment in children attending family centres: The role of the parent–child relationship6
Factors affecting the policy role of social workers in local government leadership positions6
Unsettling Discourses of Cross-Cultural Social Work Practice: Moving from Theoretical Debates to Interrogating and Transforming Praxis6
Follow-up of the educational pathway of youths living in child welfare institutions in Norway6
Coalition and Multi-Positionality Research Teams: A Nuanced Approach for Anti-Oppressive Research6
Scholarship on LGBTQIA+ migrants in the social work field: A scoping review6
Family Carers and Caring: What’s It All About, Alisoun Milne and Mary Larkin6
Mental Health Social Work Practice: Navigating Tensions6
‘The Great Oblivion’—An Autoethnographic Depiction of Social and Personal Recovery After Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT)6
Intensity and Variable Attention: Counter Narrating ADHD, from ADHD Deficits to ADHD Difference6
Dynamics of Change in Poverty Measures amongst Social Service Users in Israel: A Comparison of Standard Care and a Poverty-Aware Programme6
Discharging Care Orders in England and Wales: A New Typology of Applications and Outcomes6
‘Being that hopeful person’: The contribution of social workers to older people’s well-being6
Book Review - Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts, Brené Brown6
Book Review - Social Work, Housing, and Homelessness, Robert Hagan, Anya Ahmed6
Reflections on Making Co-production Work: The Reality of Co-production from an Insider Perspective6
Exploration of Chinese social workers’ experiences of ethical decision-making in practice: A phenomenological study6
Understanding the Needs of Children Living with Parental Substance Misuse: Perspectives from Children and Practitioners6
Workplace role conflict toward social workers: Evidence from China6
Fabricated or induced illness in England: Examining mortality and serious harm6
Neonate Simulators: Creatively Engaging Social Work Students in Understanding Risks of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy6
Social work practice with self-neglect and homelessness: Findings from vignette-based interviews6
No quick fixes: Multi-agency working to improve information-sharing on men and keep children safe6
Listening to children, holding parents accountable: Social workers’ perspectives on children and parents in child welfare services6
Practice research on social work responses to a community health crisis in Hong Kong’s public housing estates5
Facilitators of and barriers to a three-day intensive group cognitive behavioural therapy-based programme for social anxiety among Chinese college students: A qualitative study5
What is Life Story Work? How defining approaches can bring clarity to research, training, and practice5
Embedding Learning as a Practice of Value: Learning from the Experiences of Early Career Social Workers in Scotland5
Children’s participation in social work research. A secondary data analysis of an umbrella review of children’s participation in child welfare5
‘We Had No One but Ourselves’: Barriers to help-seeking and resilience among Arab-Palestinian adolescents in Israel during war5
Relationality: The Inner Life of Public Policy Raul P. Lejano and Wing Shan Kan5
How Do Child Welfare Social Workers Assess the Leadership of Their First-line Managers? A 15-Year Perspective5
Systematic Review of Service User and Carer Involvement in Qualifying Social Work Education: A Decade in Retrospect5
The Importance of Collective Actors for Social Work Policy Practice: Lessons from the German Case5
Different types of depression literacy and their impacts on reducing personal stigma towards late-life depression in older adults: Results from a pre-and-post intervention study5
Book Review – Social work, social welfare, and social development in Nigeria: a postcolonial perspective. Mel Gray and Solomon Ahmadasun5
Language transition trauma and the monolingualism of social work education in India: A reflexive thematic analysis5
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma5
Care and growth as core principles for social work leadership underpinned by a feminist anti-colonial ethos5
Reluctant to reflect on love: A video-elicited study of youth participation in child protection meetings5
Learning social justice in social work education in the changing sociopolitical context: Experiences of undergraduate students in Hong Kong5
Improving the lives of older people: Challenges and potential of gerontological social work5
Also Vietnamese, but not one of us: Emic–etic perspectives and self-awareness in conducting health studies with Vietnamese-origin older adults and their family caregivers across contexts5
Extending the period of aftercare: Effects on children with experience from child welfare services5
Bowlby, Attachment and the Potency of a ‘Received Idea’5
Can a licenced community worker qualify as a professional social worker?—Evidence from China5
Social work leadership beyond social media: Reflections of a Nigerian student leader5
‘Mind the Gap’: Extending Outcome Measurement for Accountability and Meaningful Innovation5
Surviving Violence, Ambiguity and Oneself: The Experience of Child Protection Workers in Chile5
Being a part of the community and working within it: Arab child protection officers in Israel and their unique challenges5
Social work professional organizations. Initial steps for filling a gap5
Complexity Theory and Child Protection and Welfare: A Tool of Hindsight and/or a Tool to Assist Improved Decision Making in Child Protection and Welfare Work5
Prioritizing others over oneself: The virtues of social workers and their contribution to trust-building with clients5
Capital, collaboration, and identity: A Bourdieusian analysis of social work in multi-disciplinary team practice5
Revisiting a Positive Living Group Climate as a Citizenship Climate: A Socio-Spatial Perspective on Residential Youth Care5
Inconvenient Truth: Challenges to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Social Work Education and Practice5
The Working Mechanisms Underpinning Mental Health Experts by Experience Involvement in Direct Teaching: An Abductive Conceptual Framework5
Autistic Parents’ Personal Experiences of Parenting and Support: Messages from an Online Focus Group5
Navigating surveillance: The experience of prenatal women who use or who are in treatment for using drugs5
How do differences and similarities in confidence for the future between parents and children affect the educational development of adolescents?5
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong: Exploring the Gaps in COVID-19 Prevention Practices from a Social Justice Framework5
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the COVID-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study5
How identity integration of community corrections offenders improves their social adaptation: An empirical study in China5
Green parenting: Investigating the impact of personal, social, and environmental factors on ecofriendly childcare5
Social Work Research in the UK: A View through the Lens of REF20215
Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners: A Survival Guide, Helen Kara5
Why Didn’t Anyone Understand? Why Didn’t Anyone Ever Stand in the Way? Detecting Child Abuse in Out-of-Home care Setting: The Role of Safeguard and Protection Systems and Social Workers5
Reclaiming Indigenous Palestinian social work in the shadow of genocide through the living praxis of the Cactus Social Work Leadership Model5
Neuroqueer in/and social work: A scoping review of theory and practice4
Social work in the era of ‘fluid certainties’4
Use of Linked Administrative Adult Social Care Data for Research: A Scoping Review of Existing UK Studies4
Telling Stories of Practice in the Neo-liberal Context of English Social Work4
Wishful thinking is not enough: Political advocacy and the leadership of the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education4
Book Review – Messy social work: learning from frontline practice with children and families. Richard Devine4
Future dialogues: Our vision for global, transdisciplinary and practice–research exchange4
Mental health and psychosocial well-being of Ukrainian social work students affected by Russia’s full-scale invasion4
The effect of child protection attitudes on child protection decision-making: The mediating role of person perceptions4
Social Work and the ‘Social Doctor’: Bowlby, Social Reproduction and ‘Common Sense’4
The Evidence-Based Frame, Vis-à-Vis Rogerian Q Sort Method: ∑(A+B) ÷ (1.1) = Q Hall’s Mathematical Equation4
‘I cannot transform myself into a pay slip’: Statutory social work as a support structure for precarious migrant workers’ labour struggles in Finland4
Examining the Mediator of Emotional Exhaustion and the Moderator of Work Support in the Association Between Person–Job Fit and Mental Health: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample of Social4
Barriers to effectively safeguarding and protecting children from Gypsy and Traveller backgrounds: A thematic analysis of Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews in England4
Photography in Social Work and Social Change: Theory and Applications for Practice and Research, Matthias J. Naleppa, Kristina M. Hash and Anissa T. Rogers4
Pathways to young Namibian mothers’ high school engagement: The role of Afrikan wellbeing practices4
It ‘supercharged our ability to empathise’: Safeguarding practitioners’ experiences of a trauma-informed approach to child–parent separation4
Book Review - The Routledge Handbook of Disability, Crime, and Justice, Stephen J. Macdonald and Donna Peacock4
Socioeconomic challenges and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Mediating effects of financial resilience and moderating roles of gender4
The ‘Right to an Upbringing’—Contrasting Early German and English Child Welfare Legislation for a Case Study in Comparative Social Work History4
Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform, Richard Humphries4
Leadership in grassroots innovations: The role of social workers in community driven co-creation, narrative building, and inclusion4
Ontological (In)security in Early Career Social Work during COVID-19: Experiences in Scotland4
The challenge of social work-led case management: A qualitative study of community-based home care for older adults4
Decision-maker influences and perceptual disparities in child maltreatment among Chinese child social workers: The mediating impact of social work professional identity4
Social work education leadership and gender inequality in Australia4
A socio-ecological exploration of suicidal ideation among people with care experience4
Child Protection in Irish Primary Schools: Supports and Challenges in the Role of Designated Liaison Person for Child Protection4
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: The Victim Journey, Carole Murphy and Runa Lazzarino4
Inequality and Social Work, Rick Hood4
The context-specific nature of rural social work practice: Findings from a scoping review4
Systematic Bibliographic Database Searching for an Overview of Reviews: A Practical Guide Using Children’s Participation as a Case Study4
A Social Work Model of Historical Trauma4
Un/heard, un/informed, un/involved: Meaningful participation for young people receiving child welfare services4
‘You become a bit more of a person and a bit less of an institution’: How space shapes social relations in child welfare work in a local community4
Care at Home for People Living with Dementia—Delaying Institutionalization, Sustaining Families Christine Ceci and Mary Ellen Purkis4
Outreach Work in ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Communities: A Critical Analysis of Task Shifting, Contact Making, Establishing Credibility and on-the-Spot, Solution-Focused Assistance4
Work with People in Mental Distress Who Access Spirituality/Religion4
How the rights-based approach can help social work deliver social justice outcomes: Lessons from housing rights activism in Scotland4
Writing as Social Work: Thematic Review of the Literature4
‘Changing the rules of the game’: Communication and power in digital relationships in child welfare services4
‘A lot of social workers don’t seem to understand or realize the harm that they cause’: Disabled young people’s experiences with sexual well-being in social work practice4
Social Workers Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse during the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Professional Burnout as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Pandemic-Related Stress and Social Care Workers’ Mental Health4
Dimensions of trust and tension in discharge proceedings4
‘Like Solving a Jigsaw Puzzle’: The Role of Journal Writing in Social Work Students’ Professional Development4
People with Disabilities and Labour Market Barriers: The Perspectives of Israeli Social Workers4
Mental Health Workforce Knowledge about LGBTIQ Identities and Related Responsiveness: A Mixed Methods Approach4
Impact of Family Group Conference Referrals at Pre-Proceedings Stage on Child Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial4
Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work (3rd Edition), Chris Dyke4
Book Review - Social work in war-torn contexts: ‘From that Moment There Was No Peace’, Shulamit Ramon and Darja Zaviršek4
Becoming a Social Work Manager, Angie Bartoli4
Emotional labor in community governance: A case study of community workers in China4
The Shifting Labour Process in Professional Care: Recreating Dominance and the Managerialised Mental Health Social Worker4
Promoting staff retention in social work: Identifying the ‘push’ and the ‘pull’ factors from the perspective of newly qualified social workers4
Theatre and professional training: The Trame method4
Psychosocial Professionals in Chilean Justice Institutions. Reflections Based on the Experiences and Practice of Psychologists and Social Workers4
Revitalizing equity, diversity, and inclusion in social work4
Meditation and Empowerment of Female Trauma Survivors with Co-Occurring Disorders: Implications for Social Work Practice4
‘You Say One Thing Wrong, and Your Children Are Gone’: Exploring Trauma-Informed Practices in Foster and Kinship Care3
Revisiting the Global Social Work Definition: How Social Workers Define the Profession a Decade Later?3
bell hooks’s Legacy and Social Work: A Distillation of Her Key Ideas about Love and Some Implications for Social Work Practice3
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