OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Work Practice 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 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
Worden’s tasks of mourning through a social work lens	5
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
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
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
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	3
“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
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
”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
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
‘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