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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	54
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	12
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	10
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	10
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	8
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	8
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	7
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	6
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	5
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	5
Reflective practice editorial	5
Working in complex contexts; mother social workers and the mothers they meet	4
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	4
Time-limited adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy. A developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people	4
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	4
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	4
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	3
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	3
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	3
Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) Yoga: programming with survivors of human trafficking in Uganda	3
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	2
Editorial	2
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	2
The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery	2
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	2

Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families	2
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	2
Editorial	2
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	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
An intercultural critical reflection model	1
Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis. New perspectives on race, gender and sexuality	1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality	1
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems	1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)	1
Editorial	1
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff	1
Editorial	1
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	1
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	1
The future of social work	1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	1
Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client	1
Looking back thinking forward	1
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	1
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	1
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	1
Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances	1
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work	1
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings	1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	1
Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty	0
The role of intuition in social work practice: differing understandings and attitudes	0
Poverty, social work, and social intervention: decent work as a strategy to overcome poverty after the Covid-19	0
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	0
Involved but not included: young carers’ experiences of professional support while growing up with a parent with mental ill-health	0
Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma	0
Editorial	0
Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice	0
Emotional labour in child and family social work teams: a hybrid ethnography	0
The relational recession in social work: adult social care in the age of austerity	0
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research	0
Negotiating differences in the workplace: the Filipino and Indonesian caregiver trainees in Japan	0
Nigel Elliott	0
”I don’t think a lot of people respect us” – police and social worker experiences of interagency working with looked-after children	0
Poverty: social work perspectives	0
Towards a psychosocial formulation of newly qualified social worker supervision: bringing the self into supervision	0
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	0
Personalisation in disability policy and practice: an analysis through the lenses of professional actors	0
Information-giving: an approach for contemporary practice	0
First-stage development of a Team as Secure Base questionnaire using a Delphi study	0
Process facilitation in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and social work	0
Challenges and opportunities in collaborative approaches to responding to intimate partner violence: insights from social workers and police in Sweden	0
Christianity as coping mechanisms for migrants with mental health challenges in Australia: social work implications	0
Learning from experience – anxiety, defence and leadership in group supervision: the implications for supervision and reflective practice	0

Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context	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
The role of teams in social worker wellbeing and retention	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
Utilising ubuntu in social work practice: ubuntu in the eyes of the multimodal approach	0
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice	0
Special issue on social work teams	0
A framework for a community-based programme for people with mental illness and their families in a rural setting	0
Safeguarding young people: risks, rights, resilience and relationships	0
Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach	0
The ‘team’ in child and family social work: exploratory findings from a longitudinal study on factors influencing the retention of child and family social workers in England	0
Sharing formulations and interpretations with interview participants in psychoanalytically informed research: some considerations	0
Sandplay therapy for people coping with negative symptoms of psychosis: a theoretically promising option	0
Sharing Lived Experiences Framework (SLEF): a framework for mental health practitioners when making disclosure decisions	0
Current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents are associated with lower externalizing symptoms of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements	0
Our journey with an AI assistant offering narrative therapy on WhatsApp	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
Validation as a clinical strategy	0
The evolving use of Mentalization informed thinking with the ‘Care Team’ in the Irish statutory child protection system	0
A nostalgic reflection on the importance of teamwork for a novice social worker	0
‘Mentors need mentors’: the perspectives of adolescent cross-age mentors of colour about their instructors’ supports	0
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	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
‘Caring and connected’: technology and social worker self-care	0
Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983–2021	0
Relationships and reciprocity; where next for strengths-based social work in adult social care?	0
The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula	0
Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives , edited by Andrea Daly and Merrick D	0
The words may limit our understanding: reflexive research, affect and embodied writing	0
How can teams in social work be strengthened? An example from a two-year project among social workers in child welfare	0
Learning from each other. An autoethnographic exploration of two child welfare systems with a north-south perspective – Norway and Botswana	0
Child protection and continuity breaking: challenges and paradoxes for the self-construction in a cross-border context	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
A more ‘child-centred’ system? The discretionary spaces of the child protection social worker	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
Children forsaken: child abuse from ancient to modern times	0
The Race Conversation. An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue	0
Social workers’ assessment of a child’s need for services as ‘craftwork’ practice	0
Personalisation as contribution-focused social work practice	0
Imagined interactions of social workers in social work with families: how and why the practitioners talk to themselves?	0
What is institutionalising for ‘looked after’ children and young people?	0
The emotional experience of continuing professional development	0
Creating the conditions for collective curiosity and containment: insights from developing and delivering reflective groups with social work supervisors	0
Editorial	0
Social work and child protection for a post-pandemic world: the re-making of practice during COVID-19 and its renewal beyond it	0
Older people’s strategies for meaningful social interactions in the context of eldercare services	0
Editorial	0
Transference and countertransference from an attachment perspective: a guide for professional caregivers	0
Self-care among Slovenian social workers: understanding and barriers to self-care	0
Promoting positive parenting: a group social work intervention in a workplace setting	0
‘One size does not fit all’: understanding the situated nature of reflective practices	0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy. A comparative European analysis	0
Anchoring social care and social work practice in structured reflection: introducing a model of group reflective practice	0
‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’: the role of the team as secure base in social workers’ sensemaking	0
The experiences of reconciliation with destructive parents through imagery communication group psychotherapy	0
Invisible authors: an ethnography of the social life of social work assessment	0
Editorial	0
Building trust: supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision	0
Narrative therapy and older adults living alone: a qualitative study in Mainland China	0
Social workers’ experience with the concept of empowerment: voices from the disability field	0
Providing psychological consultation within children’s social care: a mixed-methods service evaluation	0
Trauma and transition into adulthood: African refugee and asylum-seeking care leavers in London	0
The anti-racist social worker: stories of activism by social care and allied health professionals	0
Health social worker discourses on research knowledge utilisation – ideal in theory, distance in practice?	0
Editorial	0
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research	0
‘A constant battle’: the interaction of government discourse, poverty and child and family social work practice	0
Approved Mental Health Professionals: Teamwork, ‘Safety Nets’ and ‘Buckling Under’	0
Gendered organisational and professional discourses of emotions in ‘macho’ social work: ethnographic insights	0
Correction	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
Verbal abuse of service users by professionals in social services: qualitative analysis of reported events in Finland	0
Retention and turnover in social work practice: what role do trusting colleagues, overtime, and workload play in job satisfaction?	0
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support	0
Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives	0
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	0
The pathways model for integrative care and the social work role: case study	0
Community-based Aboriginal staff taking the lead in family support: a case study of transforming practices prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic	0