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

Article	Citations
Graduate students’ perceptions of the career construction interview	34
The mediating role of cultural intelligence and cognitive flexibility in the relation between effective counsellor characteristics and multicultural counselling competencies of counsellors in Turkey	24
A qualitative study of counselling students’ experience with premature termination	24
Development of vocational gender stereotype attitudes scale (VGSA) for adolescents	23
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	19
“Mirror, mirror on the wall … ”: A person-centred approach to appearance distress	18
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	13
The ideal partner: gender-occupation congruence and incongruence	12
Narratives of experiences of presence in bereavement: sources of comfort, ambivalence and distress	12
A framework for defining a guidance approach support: typology, concepts, and practice guidelines	11
Effects of mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) among women undergraduates in enhancing positive mental health	11
Job-seeking self-efficacy: an Irish scale for assessing the guidance and coaching needs of job seekers	10
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	10
On becoming a counsellor: a posthuman reconfiguring of identity formation for counsellors-in-training	9
A critical exploration of the “agile career”: a means of exposing the politics and economy of precarity via the lens of dromology	8
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors: expectations and experiences of graduating students in Sweden	8
A reflection on the value of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for promoting good mental health in the workplace: a service user perspective	8
Institutional and psychological predictors of university students’ mental health help-seeking intentions	7
Exhaustion and job satisfaction among internal and external outplacement counsellors	7
University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying	7
The psychology of pandemics: preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious disease	6
The reflections of COVID-19 pandemic to counselling: bibliometric analysis of online psychological counselling research	6
Co-agency: reconsidering agency in guidance practice	6
Counselling and career guidance in Asia	6
Perception of online education during COVID-19: Online Photovoice (OPV) and ecological systems theory	6

Business school students’ motivations and intentions to pursue a project management career	6
Career life as a game: an overlooked metaphor for successful career transitions	6
Fostering teachers’ career education competencies: test of a training programme	6
Is dharma the same as calling? Considering religio-cultural context in cross-cultural calling research	6
Play-based parent training programme supporting Hong Kong kindergarten children in social competence development	6
The relationship between psychological flexibility and career adaptability as resources to promote well-being	6
A profile analysis investigation of perfectionism, time perspective in relation to career decision making	5
Career agency of immigrants participating in employment interventions in Norway	5
Assimilation in bereavement: charting the process of grief recovery in the case of Sophie	5
Screening in schools: the acceptability and feasibility of guidance counsellors using YouthCHAT	5
A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief	5
Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change	5
Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach	5
Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press	5
“I’ve finally got my expression”: the anchoring role of identity in changing from an organisation-based career to a protean career path	5
Counsellors’ position in the child–teacher-parent axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders	4
Personal agency and organisational attachment: A career capital perspective	4
Career development learning in childhood: a critical analysis	4
Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy	4
Relationship between preference for solitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of mindfulness	4
A critical review of contemporary concepts of agency in the field of career guidance: life-design counselling and a systems theory framework	4
Processes and outcomes of individual career counselling for different types of clients: a latent profile analysis replication and extension	4
Rethinking work: essays on building a better workplace	4
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	4
Counsellors’ experiences of online therapy	4
Chinese and non-Chinese parents’ perceptions of school counselling in Hong Kong: a mixed-methods cross-cultural comparison	4
Counselling approaches to support former gang members in constructing new careers	4
Social-emotional learning and career development in elementary settings	4
The effectiveness of self-healing intervention program on pain-related anxiety and the severity of perceived pain in patients with migraine	4
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review	3
Writing the self in bereavement: a story of love, spousal loss, and resilience	3
The effect of a mindfulness-based stress reducing programme on tolerance of ambiguity, rumination, and metacognitive awareness in infertile women	3
Vocational identity and students’ college degree choices: a preliminary study.	3
Comparison of social representations of NEETs in active young French adults and NEETs themselves	3
Online therapy: lessons learned from the COVID-19 health crisis	3
Preserving the planet and promoting well-being	3
The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators	3
Practical applications of a social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy: the relational equality in education framework (REEF)	3
How to Think Like a … Behavior Analyst: Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life (Second Edition)	3
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Young Person’s Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)	2
Impacts of shortening the length of career guidance: implications for practice, professionalism, service delivery and social justice	2
Measuring the ABC of life skills: life skills scale revision and standardisation for adult population	2
Therapists’ self-efficacy and experiences managing clinical risk in teletherapy: a mixed methods exploration	2
Development of the counsellor personal wellness and professional wellbeing assessment	2
Telesupervision in counselling and psychotherapy: a systematic review of the literature	2
Cognitive information processing: synergizing theory, research and practice	2
Grief memoirs and the reordering of life: on resilience, loneliness, and writing	2
Towards intersectional and anti-racist career guidance	2
Critical perspectives on childhood career development learning: expanding horizons	2
Career counselling for cancer survivors	2

Multifaceted investigation of occupational wellbeing profiles among guidance counsellors	2
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective	2
The gifts of compassion	2
The role and relevance of the pedagogic contexts in training adult careers professionals	2
Making sense of mental health: a qualitative study of student counsellors	2
These roots that bind us: using writing to process grief and reconstruct the self in chronic illness	2
Navigating the matrix: career development and the responsibilisation of employability in Australia	2
Lessons for career guidance from return-on-investment analyses in complex education-related fields	2
Self-critical perfectionism, beliefs about emotions, emotional disclosure, and depression in young adults: a mediational analysis	2
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	2
Career counselling mid-career laid-off workers	2
Vocational interest measures across Africa: a scoping review	2
Effectiveness of psychodynamic-oriented counselling intervention in reducing psychological distress in university students seeking help	2
Strength-based school counsellors’ experiences of counselling in New Zealand	2
Smartphone addiction and psychological wellbeing among adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of academic procrastination and school burnout	2
The effects of suppression of positive and negative emotions on loneliness in Turkish University-attending emerging adults: does gender make a difference?	2
Intersectionality of rural community, geography and gender in the careers of young adults	2
The drama therapy decision tree – connecting drama therapy interventions to treatment	2
Systemic case-study explorations of the career development of middle-aged male immigrants from New Zealand working in the Australian rideshare industry	2
Compassion-focused grief therapy	2
Do insight and altruism lead to flourishing through providing self-compassion in mental health professional candidates?	2
Professional needs of psychological counsellors in China: a comprehensive investigation utilising the ERG theory	2
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural counselling integrated with psychoeducation for hypertensive patients: a pilot study	2
The adverse impacts of all-institutional mental health and wellbeing policies on university careers guidance	2
Calling’s dimensions and career development among undergraduate students	2
Vocational identity as a mediator in the relationship between mindfulness and career adaptability among graduates in the early career stage	2
Career decision-making difficulties in adolescents: the role of parental perfectionism, irrational career beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty	2
“I am lost in that reality, and I'm just playing the game”: a qualitative study exploring gaming behaviour and its effect on young adults in India	1
Creating space for praxis in adult and employment guidance: collaborative development of the model of enabling employment guidance (MEEG)	1
The 100-year life: living and working in an age of longevity	1
Why choose a career in teaching? Exploring motivational factors that influence the decision to teach	1
Counselling self-Efficacy beliefs among international counselling students	1
Better bored than burned-out? Cynicism as a mediator between boredom at work and exhaustion	1
Meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction: navigating the complexities of bereaved families	1
Restorative Embodiment and Resilience	1
Understanding the associations between the five-factor model, harmful alcohol consumption and problematic internet use in university students	1
Enhancing ethical codes with artificial intelligence governance – a growing necessity for the adoption of generative AI in counselling	1
International graduate students and cultural competency in counselling services: directions for health practitioners	1
Using a Delphi technique to build a competency framework for full-time counselling teachers in Taiwan	1
The effectiveness of a five-session workshop on the distress of international students in Finland – a pilot study	1
The impact of cultural experiences on mental health, career readiness and decision making in late adolescence: an international school qualitative interview study	1
Embedding wellbeing in career development practice: trialling a new structure for guidance conversations in Scotland and Wales	1
Social support and resilience mediate the relationship of stress with satisfaction with life and flourishing of youth	1
Love in the present tense – A book review Love in the present tense: a bereaved mum’s story , Nina Praske, Great Britain, St Albans, Critical Publishing, 2020, 320 pp.,	1
The sound of silence: deconstructing notions of inclusion in career guidance on exploring the experience of deaf people	1
The perceived usefulness of a degree as a function of discipline	1
The mediator role of job stress in the relationship between the mental workload and burnout of school counsellors	1
The career difficulties of university students in the UK: a qualitative study of the perceptions of UK HE career practitioners	1
Reflective practice through clinical supervision: implications for professional and organisational sustainability	1
Grief tending through the wilderness: toward a poetic consciousness for adult survivors of childhood trauma	1
Subjective well-being: self-forgiveness, coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and the role of resilience?	1
Investigation of relationships between academic self-efficacy, life goals and subjective well-being of middle school students	1
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working: a literature review	1
Mind the gap! Cognitive-motivational determinants of career decision-making in postsecondary school transitions	1
The experiences of school counsellors in Hong Kong: implications for policy innovation	1
Using character connection journaling to develop cultural empathy	1
Treatment of obsessive morbid jealousy with cognitive analytic therapy: a mixed-methods quasi-experimental case study	1
Conceive culture and action in counselling	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
A phenomenological analysis of the role and well-being challenges experienced by professional International School Counsellors	1
Menopause and body image: the protective effect of self-compassion and mediating role of mental distress	1
Theorising agency for socially just career guidance and counselling scholarship and practice	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
Self-reported childhood sexual abuse and attachment in early adulthood among university students	1
Work values of Filipino college students	1
Adolescents who turn to service providers for guidance: the perspectives of informal sources of support	1
Intrapersonal, social, environmental-societal influences and career development learning during childhood	1
Curiosity, collaboration and co-creation: using Grand Challenges to develop employability and tackle 21st Century problems	1
Applying Lacan’s four discourse model in career counselling at the postgraduate level	1
Bullying discussions in UK female influencers’ YouTube comments	1
The Hero’s Journey: constructing continuity from discontinuity in millennial career changers’ narratives	1