OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Guidance & Counselling is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Online therapy: lessons learned from the COVID-19 health crisis	22
Do hope and meaning of life mediate resilience and life satisfaction among Latinx students?	22
The emotional pay-off of staying gritty: linking grit with social-emotional learning and emotional well-being	18
“Why universities need to actively combat Sinophobia”: racially-traumatic experiences of Chinese international students in the United States during COVID-19	15
Labour market integration of young refugees and asylum seekers: a look at perceived barriers and resources	14
A framework to think of school and career guidance in a VUCA world	13
Work volition, decent work, and work fulfilment, in the formal and informal economy in Burkina Faso	12
Counsellors’ experiences of online therapy	12
Profiling student mental health and counselling effectiveness: lessons from four UK services using complete data and different outcome measures	11
Construction And factorial validation of a short version of the Academic Motivation Scale	11
Mediating role of psychological resilience in the relationship between mindfulness and nomophobia	10
The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees	10
Reducing psychological distress and improving student well-being and academic self-efficacy: the effectiveness of a cognitive university counselling service for clinical and non-clinical situations	9
Increasing students’ career readiness through career guidance: measuring the impact with a validated measure	9
Social-emotional learning and career development in elementary settings	8
Decent work, inclusion and sustainability: a new era lies ahead	8
Metaphor analysis in vocational counselling: moving from intuitive to reliable metaphor identification	8
Subjective well-being in university students: what are the impacts of procrastination and attachment styles?	8
Guidance teachers’ and support staff's experience of working with pupils with mental health difficulties in two secondary schools: an IPA study	8
Enhancing agency in career development via cognitive information processing theory	8
Building better futures: decent work, inclusion and careers support services in the UK	7
Client-centred therapeutic relationship conditions and authenticity: a prospective study	7
The psychology of pandemics: preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious disease	7
Transitions into work for young people with complex needs: a systematic review of UK and Ireland studies to improve employability	7
Efficacy of a group career construction intervention with urban youth of colour	6

Grief and functional impairment following COVID-19 loss in a treatment-seeking sample: the mediating role of meaning	6
Gratitude: the state of art	6
Effects of dysfunctional attitudes and depression on academic procrastination: does self-esteem have a mediating role?	6
Career development learning in childhood: a collaborative guidance approach in Spanish low-income contexts	6
Psychometric properties of a Cyberbullying Inventory for university students	6
Social support and resilience mediate the relationship of stress with satisfaction with life and flourishing of youth	6
Career development learning in childhood: a critical analysis	5
Virtual reality as a psychotherapeutic tool: current uses and limitations	5
Proactive personality and the job search outcomes: the mediating role of networking behaviour	5
Bullying discussions in UK female influencers’ YouTube comments	5
Career guidance policy documents: translation and usage	5
How vocational education teachers and managers make sense of career guidance	5
Young workers without formal qualifications: experience of work and connections to career adaptability and decent work	5
Intrapersonal, social, environmental-societal influences and career development learning during childhood	5
The enabling role of employment guidance in contemporary public employment services: A work-first to life-first typology	5
Compassion-focused grief therapy	5
Problem representations of employability in higher education: using design thinking and critical analysis as tools for social justice in careers education	5
Theorising career guidance policymaking: watching the sausage get made	4
Braiding western and eastern cultural rituals in bereavement: an autoethnography of healing the pain of prolonged grief	4
Organisational and personal predictors of work engagement in India	4
Development of self-care behaviours in counsellors-in-training through an experiential self-care course: an action research	4
Identifying strengths in response to social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic among pre-university students in Singapore: a thematic enquiry	4
Helpful aspects of counselling for young people who have experienced bullying: a thematic analysis	4
Characteristics of longer-term versus transitional NEETs in Hong Kong: implications for career support services	4
Digital health support – a good thing, but not for me: experiences of family caregivers and healthcare staff	4
Life satisfaction of counsellor supervisees: the role of counselling self-efficacy, trait anxiety and trait hope	4
Single-session chairwork: overview and case illustration of brief dialogical psychotherapy	4
Co-agency: reconsidering agency in guidance practice	4
Career guidance and counselling: the nature and types of career-related teacher social support in Hong Kong secondary schools	4
Career and cultural context: collective individualism, egalitarianism and work-centrality in the career thinking of Norwegian teenagers	4
For a postcolonial turn in career guidance: the dialectic between universalisms and localisms	4
Virtual reality enhanced Dialectical behavioural therapy	3
Psychological risk factors for depression in the UK general population: derailment, self-criticism and self-reassurance	3
Building a radical career imaginary: using Laclau and Mouffe and Hardt and Negri to reflexively re-read Ali and Graham’s counselling approach to career guidance	3
Therapists’ perceptions of their use of self-disclosure (and nondisclosure) during cross-cultural exchanges	3
A reflection on the value of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for promoting good mental health in the workplace: a service user perspective	3
Career development and internal migration: a Scottish case study	3
A process-focused case series of a school-based intervention aimed at giving young people choice and control over their attendance and their goals in therapy	3
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	3
A school-based case series to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a PCT-informed psychological intervention that combines client-led counselling (Method of levels) and a parent–child activity	3
Relationships among life satisfaction, meaning in life and need satisfaction with mixture structural equation modelling	3
Impacts of shortening the length of career guidance: implications for practice, professionalism, service delivery and social justice	3
Revitalising decent work through inclusion: toward relational understanding and action	3
Menopause and body image: the protective effect of self-compassion and mediating role of mental distress	3
Contrasting narratives: a randomised control study comparing Conflict Analysis and narrative disclosure	3
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	3
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	3
The role and relevance of theory in careers professionalisation and practice	3
Integrating discursive validation in career counselling: an emancipatory strategy to foster decent working trajectories and social justice	3
Guidance counsellors’ work as a transformative activity: supporting social justice through advocacy	3

Determination of resilience factors in individuals who tested COVID-19 positive	3
Rewriting grief following bereavement and non-death loss: a pilot writing-for-wellbeing study	3
Life themes of a slash worker in Hong Kong identified through a Career Construction Interview	3
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	3
Psychometric properties of the Session Rating Scale 3.0 in a Spanish clinical sample	3
Career exploration as a foundation for career developmental learning and academic success in childhood	3
Social-emotional health in higher education: a psychometric evaluation with Turkish students	3