OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Guidance & Counselling 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
Graduate students’ perceptions of the career construction interview	42
Development of vocational gender stereotype attitudes scale (VGSA) for adolescents	36
The mediating role of cultural intelligence and cognitive flexibility in the relation between effective counsellor characteristics and multicultural counselling competencies of counsellors in Turkey	23
A qualitative study of counselling students’ experience with premature termination	22
Childhood trauma and PTSD in Turkish university students: self-compassion as a mediating protective factor	20
Why undergraduates could hit the skids in higher education: a four-stage socialisation-based understanding of academic failure	16
A framework for defining a guidance approach support: typology, concepts, and practice guidelines	15
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	12
Empathy as a bridge between psychological flexibility and cultural humility: evidence from counsellor candidates	10
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	9
Introduction to issue 53 volume 2	8
AI awareness and career education in Chinese higher education: serial mediation effects on self-efficacy, employability confidence, and employability	8
Institutional and psychological predictors of university students’ mental health help-seeking intentions	8
Job-seeking self-efficacy: an Irish scale for assessing the guidance and coaching needs of job seekers	8
Perception of online education during COVID-19: Online Photovoice (OPV) and ecological systems theory	8
Effects of mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) among women undergraduates in enhancing positive mental health	8
Exploring calling to farming careers in the United Kingdom: a scoping review	7
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors: expectations and experiences of graduating students in Sweden	7
Is dharma the same as calling? Considering religio-cultural context in cross-cultural calling research	7
University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying	7
Factors shaping compassion and self-compassion in UK volunteer mental health workers: a thematic analysis	6
Let me check my phone: smartphone addiction and its links to life satisfaction and psychological resilience	6
Can decent work lead to greater life satisfaction? Exploring the mediating and moderating role of positivity in teachers	6
On becoming a counsellor: a posthuman reconfiguring of identity formation for counsellors-in-training	6
Lessons learnt in distance sandtray therapy: perspectives and experiences from counsellors-in-training in Taiwan	5

Navigating school-to-work transitions during COVID-19 in Türkiye: a qualitative analysis of graduating students’ narratives	5
Functional modes and social well-being as a protector of mental health during COVID-19	5
The exclusion experienced by adolescents plays a mediating role in the effect of their insecure attachments on their depressive experiences: a cross-sectional study among high school students in Turke	5
The reflections of COVID-19 pandemic to counselling: bibliometric analysis of online psychological counselling research	5
Business school students’ motivations and intentions to pursue a project management career	5
The relationship between psychological flexibility and career adaptability as resources to promote well-being	5
Counselling and career guidance in Asia	4
A profile analysis investigation of perfectionism, time perspective in relation to career decision making	4
Chinese and non-Chinese parents’ perceptions of school counselling in Hong Kong: a mixed-methods cross-cultural comparison	4
Perceived social support, resilience and career adaptability among Malaysian university students: a structural equation model	4
Cognitions or metacognitions?: the role of automatic thoughts and metacognitive beliefs about rumination in explaining depressive symptoms	4
Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach	4
Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press	4
A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief	4
Counsellors’ position in the child–teacher-parent axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders	4
Evaluating the structure and quality of mixed method studies in Turkish counselling and guidance research	4
Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change	4
Career agency of immigrants participating in employment interventions in Norway	4
Stress and coping among parents of children with hearing impairment: a scoping review	4
A critical review of contemporary concepts of agency in the field of career guidance: life-design counselling and a systems theory framework	4
Rethinking work: essays on building a better workplace	4
Navigating multisystemic issues: a qualitative exploration of school counsellors’ consultation experiences with immigrant parents	3
The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators	3
The role of careers work in addressing the awarding gap for Black students: reflecting on the experiences of students at one post-1992 university in England	3
Common factors therapy: a principle-based treatment framework	3
Preserving the planet and promoting well-being	3
The effectiveness of self-healing intervention program on pain-related anxiety and the severity of perceived pain in patients with migraine	3
Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy	3
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review	3
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	3
Beyond counselling: why universities need lifestyle social work	2
Multicultural counselling supervision in Türkiye	2
The role and relevance of the pedagogic contexts in training adult careers professionals	2
Understanding the link between financial wellbeing and life satisfaction for emerging adults: the moderator role of employment status	2
Development of the counsellor personal wellness and professional wellbeing assessment	2
The mediating role of self-esteem in the correlation between perceived parenting style and subjective well-being of young adults in university	2
Contours of humanistic ecopsychotherapy	2
Psychological counsellors awareness of cognitive biases: a qualitative study based on vignettes	2
Crisis in education: a comprehensive review of student burnout and school dropout with a focus on psychological and cognitive flexibility	2
Effectiveness of psychodynamic-oriented counselling intervention in reducing psychological distress in university students seeking help	2
Smartphone addiction and psychological wellbeing among adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of academic procrastination and school burnout	2
Vocational interest measures across Africa: a scoping review	2
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural counselling integrated with psychoeducation for hypertensive patients: a pilot study	2
Career decision-making difficulties in adolescents: the role of parental perfectionism, irrational career beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty	2
Undergraduates’ social-emotional learning and perceived future employability: mediation by career engagement	2
Measuring the ABC of life skills: life skills scale revision and standardisation for adult population	2
Lessons for career guidance from return-on-investment analyses in complex education-related fields	2
Career counselling mid-career laid-off workers	2
Cognitive information processing: synergizing theory, research and practice	2
“Jack of all trades”? Exploring the dual role of the subject teaching guidance counsellor in Irish schools	2

Professional needs of psychological counsellors in China: a comprehensive investigation utilising the ERG theory	2
The adverse impacts of all-institutional mental health and wellbeing policies on university careers guidance	2
The link between adolescents’ self-regulation skills and creativity: the mediation of critical thinking	2
The effects of suppression of positive and negative emotions on loneliness in Turkish University-attending emerging adults: does gender make a difference?	2
Towards intersectional and anti-racist career guidance	2
Evaluating the preliminary efficacy of a career counselling programme for youth transitioning out of a juvenile justice facility	2
Relationship between meaning in life and well-being in adolescents: a meta-analytic systematic review	2
Enhancing career adaptability among high school students: a systematic program approach	2
The influence of psychological flexibility on eudaimonic well-being: the mediating role of meaning in life and resilience	2
Intersectionality of rural community, geography and gender in the careers of young adults	2
Do insight and altruism lead to flourishing through providing self-compassion in mental health professional candidates?	2
The fear of sexual boundary violations and false allegations in male counselling practice	2
Therapists’ self-efficacy and experiences managing clinical risk in teletherapy: a mixed methods exploration	2
Systemic case-study explorations of the career development of middle-aged male immigrants from New Zealand working in the Australian rideshare industry	2
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Young Person’s Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)	2
Career counselling for cancer survivors	2
Vocational identity as a mediator in the relationship between mindfulness and career adaptability among graduates in the early career stage	2
Multifaceted investigation of occupational wellbeing profiles among guidance counsellors	2
Making sense of mental health: a qualitative study of student counsellors	2
Calling’s dimensions and career development among undergraduate students	2
Barriers and facilitators to delivery of a webchat mental health helpline service for young people: a qualitative study using the Behaviour Change Wheel	2
Using a Delphi technique to build a competency framework for full-time counselling teachers in Taiwan	1
The wellbeing and work engagement of school counsellors in Southeast Asia: a self-determination theory perspective	1
Building therapeutic alliances in digital mental health counselling: an overview of challenges and best practices	1
The interplay between psychological capital, social support, and occupational self-efficacy in shaping school counsellors’ well-being in the context of wartime	1
Gender moderates the relationships between childhood abuse experiences and mental disorders later in life: a cross-sectional study among university students in Turkey	1
Tests and Assessments in Counseling A Case by Case Exploration, 1st Edition	1
Adolescents who turn to service providers for guidance: the perspectives of informal sources of support	1
Subjective well-being: self-forgiveness, coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and the role of resilience?	1
Fast thinking, faster bias: intuitive decision style drives jumping to conclusions in career exploration	1
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole	1
The perceived usefulness of a degree as a function of discipline	1
Single-session counselling for self-stigma-seeking psychological help and distress among Pakistani students; a pre-test–post-test	1
Effectiveness of laughter therapies on students’ mental health: a meta-analytic review	1
The sound of silence: deconstructing notions of inclusion in career guidance on exploring the experience of deaf people	1
A thematic analysis of psychotherapy supervisor confidence	1
Career guidance practitioners’ understandings of social justice in four European Countries	1
Calling, careers, and career counselling	1
Should I stay or should I go? A pre-registered test of the bright and dark sides of calling across Italy and Japan	1
Decent work, subjective underemployment and psychological flexibility: a model test for employees in Turkey	1
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working: a literature review	1
The shortened version of the proactive career orientation scale and its mediated associations with career success. A multi-sample longitudinal examination	1
Who to be? A narrative exploration of postgraduates’ desired future during the school-to-work transition	1
Curiosity, collaboration and co-creation: using Grand Challenges to develop employability and tackle 21st Century problems	1
Social support and resilience mediate the relationship of stress with satisfaction with life and flourishing of youth	1
A phenomenological analysis of the role and well-being challenges experienced by professional International School Counsellors	1
Examining the psychometrics of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory Short Form in a sample of Turkish adolescents: confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory and network analysis	1
The career difficulties of university students in the UK: a qualitative study of the perceptions of UK HE career practitioners	1
The effectiveness of a five-session workshop on the distress of international students in Finland – a pilot study	1
From high school guidance to career contentment: assessing the impact of career intervention on subject choice and satisfaction	1
The complex role played by creativity and competitive attitude on career self-efficacy among adolescents	1
A pilot study in narrative approach of an adolescent parenting program for enhancing parenting competency during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong	1
The mediator role of job stress in the relationship between the mental workload and burnout of school counsellors	1
Telesupervision in counselling and psychotherapy: a systematic review of the literature	1
Investigation of relationships between academic self-efficacy, life goals and subjective well-being of middle school students	1
The art of becoming: exploring self-awareness and emotional regulation through art therapy	1
Enhancing ethical codes with artificial intelligence governance – a growing necessity for the adoption of generative AI in counselling	1
Improving the professional ethics learning experiences of psychological counsellors in the personal and professional decision-making process	1
Understanding the associations between the five-factor model, harmful alcohol consumption and problematic internet use in university students	1
The impact of expressive writing on psychological well-being: exploring demographic and personal moderators in a quasi-experimental study	1
Better bored than burned-out? Cynicism as a mediator between boredom at work and exhaustion	1