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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
From discomfort to accountability: exploring an ethical relational approach to teaching anti-racism and decolonisation in a Canadian introductory social work classroom	21
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	14
Editorial	9
The role of play in social work education, training, and practice	8
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	8
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	6
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	6
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	6
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	5
Information and communication technology in shelters for mothers with children: a preliminary study from the staff perspectives	5
Thinking the unthinkable: ‘white liberal’ defences against understanding in anti-racist training	5
Ungrievable lives: precariousness, grievability and power in social work practice	4
Sensuous knowledge: a black feminist approach for everyone	4
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	4
Why war in Ukraine and in Europe? Psychoanalysis, trauma and resiliency	4
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	4
How does work support influence the relationship between stress and job satisfaction? (A Quantitative Study of Social Workers in the UK)	4
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	4
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	4
Well-being, digitisation, and social work: participatory strategies for inclusive digitisation in social services. The Catalan case	4
Editorial	3
The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery	3
Editorial	3
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families	3
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	3

Green Social Work and climate resilience: analysing the psychosocial impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers in rural Tamil Nadu	3
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	3
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	3
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	3
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	3
Follow the leader: anxiety, managerialism and basic assumption dependency in children and family social work decision-making	3
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	2
Keeping our heads: preserving therapeutic values in a time of change	2
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	2
What works when building a children’s therapy programme in the context of the HIV/AIDS crisis? An emic perspective of resilience	2
Effects of Groupwork intervention on problem-solving abilities in forensic psychiatric In-patients	2
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	2
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	2
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	2
Editorial	2
The new role of social work: the social worker-client relationship in the digitalised society as hotline-level bureaucracy	1
Women and migratory processes in La Rioja (Spain). Narratives based on experience and Social Work	1
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research	1
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	1
Transcendental tales? An auto-ethnographic exploration of the coloniality of secularism: some reflections for social work education	1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)	1
Inequality and social work	1
Social dreaming as a method for exploring the unthought known behind decolonisation in higher education	1
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems	1
Healing in relationships, the power of equine-assisted mental health interventions	1
Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983–2021	1
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research	1
A qualitative exploration of recognition and judgement in social work practice with street children in Ghana	1
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice	1
Sustaining and developing social work knowledge and skills in a changing world	1
Looking back thinking forward	1
Effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions to reduce stress among social workers- a meta-analysis	1
Indian perspectives on single-session therapy: an initial qualitative study with psychiatric social workers	1
Editorial	1
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	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
Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice	1
Containment as a lived experience	1
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality	1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	1
The future of social work	1
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	1
The importance of social work in a challenging world	1