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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social work and child protection for a post-pandemic world: the re-making of practice during COVID-19 and its renewal beyond it	46
Hostile relationships in social work practice: anxiety, hate and conflict in long-term work with involuntary service users	32
Climate change, fragmentation and collective trauma. Bridging the divided stories we live by*	11
Sharing Lived Experiences Framework (SLEF): a framework for mental health practitioners when making disclosure decisions	10
Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) Yoga: programming with survivors of human trafficking in Uganda	8
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	7
A more ‘child-centred’ system? The discretionary spaces of the child protection social worker	6
Utilising ubuntu in social work practice: ubuntu in the eyes of the multimodal approach	6
Creating the conditions for collective curiosity and containment: insights from developing and delivering reflective groups with social work supervisors	5
Current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents are associated with lower externalizing symptoms of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements	5
Worden’s tasks of mourning through a social work lens	5
Learning from experience – anxiety, defence and leadership in group supervision: the implications for supervision and reflective practice	4
Working in complex contexts; mother social workers and the mothers they meet	4
Make every session count for clients! Rethinking clinical social work practice from Single Session Therapy (SST): A case illustration of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)	4
Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives	4
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	3
‘Caring and connected’: technology and social worker self-care	3
Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma	3
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	3
”I don’t think a lot of people respect us” – police and social worker experiences of interagency working with looked-after children	2
The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula	2
Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty	2
An intercultural critical reflection model	2
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	2
Implementing smartphone technology to support relational competence in foster youth: a service provider perspective	2

Promoting positive parenting: a group social work intervention in a workplace setting	2
Older people’s strategies for meaningful social interactions in the context of eldercare services	2
‘A constant battle’: the interaction of government discourse, poverty and child and family social work practice	1
Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client	1
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	1
Personalisation in disability policy and practice: an analysis through the lenses of professional actors	1
What do child protection social workers consider to be the systemic factors driving workforce instability within the English child protection system, and what are the implications for the UK Governmen	1
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff	1
Information-giving: an approach for contemporary practice	1
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	1
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	1
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	1
Towards a psychosocial formulation of newly qualified social worker supervision: bringing the self into supervision	1
A critical review of social work interventions and programmes that support disabled youth with their sexual well-being	1
Relationships and reciprocity; where next for strengths-based social work in adult social care?	1
Providing psychological consultation within children’s social care: a mixed-methods service evaluation	1
Reflective practice editorial	1
The experiences of reconciliation with destructive parents through imagery communication group psychotherapy	1
“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	1
The role of intuition in social work practice: differing understandings and attitudes	1
What is institutionalising for ‘looked after’ children and young people?	1
‘One size does not fit all’: understanding the situated nature of reflective practices	1
A framework for a community-based programme for people with mental illness and their families in a rural setting	1
Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances	1
Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach	1
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	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
The evolving use of Mentalization informed thinking with the ‘Care Team’ in the Irish statutory child protection system	1
With new lenses. Transcultural consultation as a tool for multicultural social work. An exploratory case study in Italy	1
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	0
Process facilitation in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and social work	0
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research	0
Editorial	0
Researching the unconscious: principles of psychoanalytic method	0
Too hot to handle? Unthought anxiety and parallel process in social work supervision	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
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	0
Negotiating differences in the workplace: the Filipino and Indonesian caregiver trainees in Japan	0
Editorial	0
Community-based Aboriginal staff taking the lead in family support: a case study of transforming practices prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Editorial	0
The relational recession in social work: adult social care in the age of austerity	0
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	0
The Race Conversation. An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue	0
The words may limit our understanding: reflexive research, affect and embodied writing	0
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	0
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	0

Poverty: social work perspectives	0
“The truth that no one wants to see.” Social work practice, human rights and aesthetic mediation in a group of people experiencing homelessness in Seville (Spain)	0
Building trust: supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision	0
‘I was detecting a kind of, a from the heart kind of dialogue’: understanding the role of reflective spaces for transitional safeguarding innovation	0
Looking back thinking forward	0
Safeguarding young people: risks, rights, resilience and relationships	0
Editorial	0
Our journey with an AI assistant offering narrative therapy on WhatsApp	0
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	0
Transference and countertransference from an attachment perspective: a guide for professional caregivers	0
Poverty, social work, and social intervention: decent work as a strategy to overcome poverty after the Covid-19	0
Time-limited adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy. A developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people	0
Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis. New perspectives on race, gender and sexuality	0
Editorial	0
Challenges and opportunities in collaborative approaches to responding to intimate partner violence: insights from social workers and police in Sweden	0
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice	0
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support	0
Verbal abuse of service users by professionals in social services: qualitative analysis of reported events in Finland	0
Nigel Elliott	0
Social workers’ assessment of a child’s need for services as ‘craftwork’ practice	0
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	0
Imagined interactions of social workers in social work with families: how and why the practitioners talk to themselves?	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
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	0
Anchoring social care and social work practice in structured reflection: introducing a model of group reflective practice	0
Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context	0
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings	0
Correction	0
Children forsaken: child abuse from ancient to modern times	0
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	0
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	0
Validation as a clinical strategy	0
Child protection and continuity breaking: challenges and paradoxes for the self-construction in a cross-border context	0
Sandplay therapy for people coping with negative symptoms of psychosis: a theoretically promising option	0
The anti-racist social worker: stories of activism by social care and allied health professionals	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
Involved but not included: young carers’ experiences of professional support while growing up with a parent with mental ill-health	0
Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives , edited by Andrea Daly and Merrick D	0
Personalisation as contribution-focused social work practice	0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy. A comparative European analysis	0
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	0
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work	0
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	0
The future of social work	0
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	0
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	0
The emotional experience of continuing professional development	0
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research	0
Editorial	0
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	0
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	0
Editorial	0
Social workers’ experience with the concept of empowerment: voices from the disability field	0
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	0
Sharing formulations and interpretations with interview participants in psychoanalytically informed research: some considerations	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
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	0
Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983–2021	0
Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice	0
Editorial	0
Gendered organisational and professional discourses of emotions in ‘macho’ social work: ethnographic insights	0
Editorial	0
The pathways model for integrative care and the social work role: case study	0
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	0
Self-care among Slovenian social workers: understanding and barriers to self-care	0
Editorial	0