OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Guidance & Counselling is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Online therapy: lessons learned from the COVID-19 health crisis	29
Counsellors’ experiences of online therapy	18
“Why universities need to actively combat Sinophobia”: racially-traumatic experiences of Chinese international students in the United States during COVID-19	17
Labour market integration of young refugees and asylum seekers: a look at perceived barriers and resources	16
Work volition, decent work, and work fulfilment, in the formal and informal economy in Burkina Faso	15
Profiling student mental health and counselling effectiveness: lessons from four UK services using complete data and different outcome measures	14
Increasing students’ career readiness through career guidance: measuring the impact with a validated measure	14
Social support and resilience mediate the relationship of stress with satisfaction with life and flourishing of youth	13
Construction And factorial validation of a short version of the Academic Motivation Scale	13
Mediating role of psychological resilience in the relationship between mindfulness and nomophobia	13
The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees	11
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	11
Decent work, inclusion and sustainability: a new era lies ahead	11
Grief and functional impairment following COVID-19 loss in a treatment-seeking sample: the mediating role of meaning	11
Enhancing agency in career development via cognitive information processing theory	10
Social-emotional learning and career development in elementary settings	9
Career development learning in childhood: a critical analysis	8
Proactive personality and the job search outcomes: the mediating role of networking behaviour	8
Virtual reality as a psychotherapeutic tool: current uses and limitations	8
Co-agency: reconsidering agency in guidance practice	8
The psychology of pandemics: preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious disease	8
How vocational education teachers and managers make sense of career guidance	7
Building better futures: decent work, inclusion and careers support services in the UK	7
Problem representations of employability in higher education: using design thinking and critical analysis as tools for social justice in careers education	7
Single-session chairwork: overview and case illustration of brief dialogical psychotherapy	7

Career development learning in childhood: a collaborative guidance approach in Spanish low-income contexts	6
Characteristics of longer-term versus transitional NEETs in Hong Kong: implications for career support services	6
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	6
The enabling role of employment guidance in contemporary public employment services: A work-first to life-first typology	6
Young workers without formal qualifications: experience of work and connections to career adaptability and decent work	6
Relationships among life satisfaction, meaning in life and need satisfaction with mixture structural equation modelling	6
Menopause and body image: the protective effect of self-compassion and mediating role of mental distress	6
Intrapersonal, social, environmental-societal influences and career development learning during childhood	6
Theorising career guidance policymaking: watching the sausage get made	5
Compassion-focused grief therapy	5
Braiding western and eastern cultural rituals in bereavement: an autoethnography of healing the pain of prolonged grief	5
Psychological risk factors for depression in the UK general population: derailment, self-criticism and self-reassurance	5
Career guidance and counselling: the nature and types of career-related teacher social support in Hong Kong secondary schools	5
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	5
Impacts of shortening the length of career guidance: implications for practice, professionalism, service delivery and social justice	5
Bullying discussions in UK female influencers’ YouTube comments	5
Processes and outcomes of individual career counselling for different types of clients: a latent profile analysis replication and extension	4
Identifying strengths in response to social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic among pre-university students in Singapore: a thematic enquiry	4
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	4
The experiences of school counsellors in Hong Kong: implications for policy innovation	4
Evaluating the REP-S brief resilience intervention for students in higher education: a multi-study mixed-methods programme of research	4
Helpful aspects of counselling for young people who have experienced bullying: a thematic analysis	4
Fear of COVID-19 and academic stress among Palestinian university students during the pandemic: the mediating role of mental health	4
Career exploration as a foundation for career developmental learning and academic success in childhood	4
The mediating role of depression and anxiety on the relationship between mindfulness and college adjustment	4
Life satisfaction of counsellor supervisees: the role of counselling self-efficacy, trait anxiety and trait hope	4
Rewriting grief following bereavement and non-death loss: a pilot writing-for-wellbeing study	4
Towards intersectional and anti-racist career guidance	4
Career and cultural context: collective individualism, egalitarianism and work-centrality in the career thinking of Norwegian teenagers	4
Guidance counsellors’ work as a transformative activity: supporting social justice through advocacy	3
Gratitude as a path to human prosperity during adverse circumstances: a narrative review	3
Revitalising decent work through inclusion: toward relational understanding and action	3
Life themes of a slash worker in Hong Kong identified through a Career Construction Interview	3
A reflection on the value of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for promoting good mental health in the workplace: a service user perspective	3
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	3
Portrait of a scientist: in conversation with Hubert Hermans, founder of Dialogical Self Theory	3
Trust, inflammatory biomarkers and adversity: a novel investigation and clinical implications	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
The taboo of mental health problems, stigma and fear of disclosure among Asian international students: implications for help-seeking, guidance and support	3
Improving career decision making of highly skilled workers: designing interventions for the unemployed and discouraged	3
Virtual reality enhanced Dialectical behavioural therapy	3
Fostering teachers’ career education competencies: test of a training programme	3
The relationship between psychological flexibility and career adaptability as resources to promote well-being	3
Determination of resilience factors in individuals who tested COVID-19 positive	3
Career development and internal migration: a Scottish case study	3
These roots that bind us: using writing to process grief and reconstruct the self in chronic illness	3
Treatment of obsessive morbid jealousy with cognitive analytic therapy: a mixed-methods quasi-experimental case study	2
Supporting bereaved students in higher education: student perspectives	2
The ideal partner: gender-occupation congruence and incongruence	2
Career-specific parental behaviors and career adapting responses in Croatian early and late adolescents	2

International graduate students and cultural competency in counselling services: directions for health practitioners	2
The 100-year life: living and working in an age of longevity	2
Relationship between preference for solitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of mindfulness	2
Study and career counselling in Swedish adult education	2
Vocational identity and students’ college degree choices: a preliminary study.	2
Play-based parent training programme supporting Hong Kong kindergarten children in social competence development	2
Therapists’ views on the use of questions in person-centred therapy	2
Career life as a game: an overlooked metaphor for successful career transitions	2
Motivations: a study of why some counsellors choose to become counsellors	2
A critical exploration of the “agile career”: a means of exposing the politics and economy of precarity via the lens of dromology	2
Practical applications of a social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy: the relational equality in education framework (REEF)	2
Critical perspectives on childhood career development learning: expanding horizons	2
Career sailboat: a model for enhancing career decision-making self-efficacy among job-seekers	2
Gender differences in intentions to seek personal counselling: the mediating role of social self-concept	2
On epistemic justice in career guidance	2
“I’ve finally got my expression”: the anchoring role of identity in changing from an organisation-based career to a protean career path	2
Theorising agency for socially just career guidance and counselling scholarship and practice	2
Approaches to quality assurance in school-based career development: policymaker perspectives from Australia	2
Elementary school teachers’ satisfaction with their collaboration with counsellors: effects of teacher attitudes, teacher expectations and counsellor professional traits	2
Making sense of mental health: a qualitative study of student counsellors	2
Career counselling Chinese youth in North America	2
Contrasting narratives: a randomised control study comparing Conflict Analysis and narrative disclosure	2
Experiences of adolescents and their guardians with a school-based combined individual and dyadic intervention	2
Why choose a career in teaching? Exploring motivational factors that influence the decision to teach	2
Analyzing the effects of the flipped classroom method on counselling students’ competencies and effective counselling characteristics in ethics class	2
Adolescents who turn to service providers for guidance: the perspectives of informal sources of support	2
Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press	2
Narratives of experiences of presence in bereavement: sources of comfort, ambivalence and distress	2
Effectiveness of psychodynamic-oriented counselling intervention in reducing psychological distress in university students seeking help	2
Work values of Filipino college students	2
Patterns of online seeking and providing help among adolescents: a preliminary study	2
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	2
A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief	2
Business school students’ motivations and intentions to pursue a project management career	2
Post-racial unrest, #Blackintheivory and the US election: is multiculturalism still necessary?	2
Meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction: navigating the complexities of bereaved families	2
Personal agency and organisational attachment: A career capital perspective	2
Helpful and unhelpful processes in psychological therapy for female substance users: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	2