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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
We need to (find a way to) talk about … Eco-anxiety	100
Social work and child protection for a post-pandemic world: the re-making of practice during COVID-19 and its renewal beyond it	42
Hostile relationships in social work practice: anxiety, hate and conflict in long-term work with involuntary service users	25
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	7
A more ‘child-centred’ system? The discretionary spaces of the child protection social worker	6
Climate change, fragmentation and collective trauma. Bridging the divided stories we live by*	6
The jewel in the corona: crisis, the creativity of social dreaming, and climate change	5
Disorganised attachment does not indicate child maltreatment	5
Utilising ubuntu in social work practice: ubuntu in the eyes of the multimodal approach	5
Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives	4
Ecology, psychoanalysis and global warming: present and future traumas	4
Violence, role reversals, and turning points: work identity at stake at a therapeutic residential institution for adolescents	4
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	4
Worden’s tasks of mourning through a social work lens	4
Applying Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to LGBT foster youth: practice implications for child welfare professionals and those working in rural settings	3
Creating the conditions for collective curiosity and containment: insights from developing and delivering reflective groups with social work supervisors	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
Rural grandparenting through a family development lens: Implications for social work practice	3
Dynamics of professional parental status disclosure in child protection work	3

Promoting positive parenting: a group social work intervention in a workplace setting	2
‘Caring and connected’: technology and social worker self-care	2
The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula	2
An intercultural critical reflection model	2
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	1
‘One size does not fit all’: understanding the situated nature of reflective practices	1
Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances	1
The nature within	1
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	1
Reflective practice editorial	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
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
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
Implementing smartphone technology to support relational competence in foster youth: a service provider perspective	1
The evolving use of Mentalization informed thinking with the ‘Care Team’ in the Irish statutory child protection system	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
Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma	1
Older people’s strategies for meaningful social interactions in the context of eldercare services	1
Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty	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
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	1
”I don’t think a lot of people respect us” – police and social worker experiences of interagency working with looked-after children	1
The experiences of reconciliation with destructive parents through imagery communication group psychotherapy	1
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	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
‘A constant battle’: the interaction of government discourse, poverty and child and family social work practice	1