OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Social Work Practice is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
We need to (find a way to) talk about … Eco-anxiety	90
Social work and child protection for a post-pandemic world: the re-making of practice during COVID-19 and its renewal beyond it	40
Hostile relationships in social work practice: anxiety, hate and conflict in long-term work with involuntary service users	24
Moral injury, the culture of uncare and the climate bubble	13
Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) Yoga: programming with survivors of human trafficking in Uganda	8
Sharing Lived Experiences Framework (SLEF): a framework for mental health practitioners when making disclosure decisions	8
The mentoring FAN: a conceptual model of attunement for youth development settings	6
Disorganised attachment does not indicate child maltreatment	5
Climate change, fragmentation and collective trauma. Bridging the divided stories we live by*	5
A more ‘child-centred’ system? The discretionary spaces of the child protection social worker	5
Violence, role reversals, and turning points: work identity at stake at a therapeutic residential institution for adolescents	4
Worden’s tasks of mourning through a social work lens	4
Utilising ubuntu in social work practice: ubuntu in the eyes of the multimodal approach	4
Ecology, psychoanalysis and global warming: present and future traumas	4
The jewel in the corona: crisis, the creativity of social dreaming, and climate change	4
Creating the conditions for collective curiosity and containment: insights from developing and delivering reflective groups with social work supervisors	3
Applying Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to LGBT foster youth: practice implications for child welfare professionals and those working in rural settings	3
Dynamics of professional parental status disclosure in child protection work	3
Make every session count for clients! Rethinking clinical social work practice from Single Session Therapy (SST): A case illustration of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)	3
Working in complex contexts; mother social workers and the mothers they meet	3
Learning from experience – anxiety, defence and leadership in group supervision: the implications for supervision and reflective practice	3
Exploring effective practice with vulnerable young people: what does practice wisdom reveal about the working alliance?	3
Reflexivity and strategies of emotions (re)construction in social work with families in the Czech Republic	3
Rural grandparenting through a family development lens: Implications for social work practice	3
‘Caring and connected’: technology and social worker self-care	2

The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula	2
Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives	2
Promoting positive parenting: a group social work intervention in a workplace setting	2
An intercultural critical reflection model	2
Bourdieu’s contribution to psychoanalytic thinking in the context of research	1
‘Analysing a parent’s capacity to change: towards a model for child protection social workers’	1
Personalisation in disability policy and practice: an analysis through the lenses of professional actors	1
Covid-19: an intrusion of the real the unconscious unleashes its truth	1
How learning from the lived experiences of child protection social workers can help us understand the factors underpinning workforce instability within the English child protection system	1
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	1
Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals	1
With new lenses. Transcultural consultation as a tool for multicultural social work. An exploratory case study in Italy	1
Ecology, psychoanalysis, global warming and cats: fragmentation and interconnection	1
What is institutionalising for ‘looked after’ children and young people?	1
New theories for social work practice: ethical practice for working with individuals, families and communities	1
Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances	1
Implementing smartphone technology to support relational competence in foster youth: a service provider perspective	1
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	1
The evolving use of Mentalization informed thinking with the ‘Care Team’ in the Irish statutory child protection system	1
Information-giving: an approach for contemporary practice	1
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	1
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	1
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	1
Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty	1
‘One size does not fit all’: understanding the situated nature of reflective practices	1
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	1
The nature within	1
Reflective practice editorial	1
Exploring micro-skills as the underpinnings of effective social work practice	1
Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma	1
Current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents are associated with lower externalizing symptoms of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements	1
Older people’s strategies for meaningful social interactions in the context of eldercare services	1
Validation as a clinical strategy	0
A framework for a community-based programme for people with mental illness and their families in a rural setting	0
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	0
Anchoring social care and social work practice in structured reflection: introducing a model of group reflective practice	0
Personalisation as contribution-focused social work practice	0
Editorial	0
The pathways model for integrative care and the social work role: case study	0
A critical review of social work interventions and programmes that support disabled youth with their sexual well-being	0
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	0
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	0
Looking for the infant voice. How depth hermeneutics (scenic-narrative microanalysis) contributes to an understanding of how a child participates from the beginning of life	0
Time-limited adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy. A developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people	0
Children forsaken: child abuse from ancient to modern times	0
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	0
Editorial	0
Preparing a supervision model for the aftermath of Grenfell: an auto-ethnographic inquiry of relationship-based supervision	0
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	0
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	0

Process facilitation in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and social work	0
A message of hope: the challenges of relationship-based practice in a time of social distancing, but why it is more important than ever to come together	0
Embryo	0
The future of social work	0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy. A comparative European analysis	0
Imagined interactions of social workers in social work with families: how and why the practitioners talk to themselves?	0
”I don’t think a lot of people respect us” – police and social worker experiences of interagency working with looked-after children	0
Mothers accused and abused: addressing complex psychological needs	0
‘A constant battle’: the interaction of government discourse, poverty and child and family social work practice	0
Child abuse, the narrative of parents living in poverty: a critical analysis of parental and professional explanations of why a child was harmed	0
Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis. New perspectives on race, gender and sexuality	0
Learning along the Way. Further reflections on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy	0
Social workers’ assessment of a child’s need for services as ‘craftwork’ practice	0
Me me	0
This is planet B	0
Reflection	0
Looking back thinking forward	0
Editorial	0
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	0
Safeguarding young people: risks, rights, resilience and relationships	0
Encounters with liminality: - transformative practices in the building of an adoptive family	0
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	0
The anti-racist social worker: stories of activism by social care and allied health professionals The anti-racist social worker: stories of activism by social care and allied health pro	0
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	0
The experiences of reconciliation with destructive parents through imagery communication group psychotherapy	0
Poverty, social work, and social intervention: decent work as a strategy to overcome poverty after the Covid-19	0
Editorial	0
Sandplay therapy for people coping with negative symptoms of psychosis: a theoretically promising option	0
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice	0
‘Your silence will not protect you’	0
Psychoanalytic thinking on the unhoused mind	0
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	0
No room at the inn? Re-imagining social inclusion at the intersections between climate change, globalisation, homelessness, and human migration	0
Transference and countertransference from an attachment perspective: a guide for professional caregivers	0
Seeing anew: drawing on a psychosocial approach to consider vulnerability as a virtue for knowing	0
Researching the unconscious: principles of psychoanalytic method	0
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	0
Re-wilding	0
Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach	0
Building trust: supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision	0
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir The Empathy Diaries: a memoir , by Sherry Turkle, New York, Penguin Press, 2021, 384 pp., £16.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978 0 5255 6011 1	0
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings	0
Correction	0
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work	0
Editorial	0
Relationships and reciprocity; where next for strengths-based social work in adult social care?	0
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	0
Child protection and continuity breaking: challenges and paradoxes for the self-construction in a cross-border context	0
Editorial	0
“Difference which makes a difference” (Bateson, 1972): how the neurodiversity paradigm and systemic approaches can support individuals and organisations to facilitate more helpful conversations about	0
Towards a psychosocial formulation of newly qualified social worker supervision: bringing the self into supervision	0
Providing psychological consultation within children’s social care: a mixed-methods service evaluation	0
Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context	0
Editorial	0
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff	0
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	0
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	0
Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives , edited by Andrea Daly and Merrick D	0
Editorial	0
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	0
Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client	0
Editorial	0
Young people on the ‘edge of care’: perspectives regarding a residential family intervention programme using social pedagogic and systemic approaches- striving for ‘humane practice’	0
Editorial	0
The climate crisis – bursting bubbles	0
Editorial	0
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support	0
Who’s to blame? Rational and irrational reflections on responsibility following the suicide of a service user	0
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	0
Community-based Aboriginal staff taking the lead in family support: a case study of transforming practices prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Poverty: social work perspectives	0
Editorial	0
The emotional experience of continuing professional development	0