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 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
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
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
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
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
Counsellors’ position in the child–teacher-parent axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders	4
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
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
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
Telesupervision in counselling and psychotherapy: a systematic review of the literature	2
Grief memoirs and the reordering of life: on resilience, loneliness, and writing	2
Critical perspectives on childhood career development learning: expanding horizons	2
Making sense of mental health: a qualitative study of student counsellors	2
Career counselling for cancer survivors	2
Navigating the matrix: career development and the responsibilisation of employability in Australia	2
Multifaceted investigation of occupational wellbeing profiles among guidance counsellors	2
Lessons for career guidance from return-on-investment analyses in complex education-related fields	2
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	2

The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective	2
Vocational interest measures across Africa: a scoping review	2
The gifts of compassion	2
The role and relevance of the pedagogic contexts in training adult careers professionals	2
These roots that bind us: using writing to process grief and reconstruct the self in chronic illness	2
Self-critical perfectionism, beliefs about emotions, emotional disclosure, and depression in young adults: a mediational analysis	2
Career counselling mid-career laid-off workers	2
Effectiveness of psychodynamic-oriented counselling intervention in reducing psychological distress in university students seeking help	2
The drama therapy decision tree – connecting drama therapy interventions to treatment	2
Strength-based school counsellors’ experiences of counselling in New Zealand	2
Compassion-focused grief therapy	2
Do insight and altruism lead to flourishing through providing self-compassion in mental health professional candidates?	2
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural counselling integrated with psychoeducation for hypertensive patients: a pilot study	2
Smartphone addiction and psychological wellbeing among adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of academic procrastination and school burnout	2
Calling’s dimensions and career development among undergraduate students	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
Systemic case-study explorations of the career development of middle-aged male immigrants from New Zealand working in the Australian rideshare industry	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
Vocational identity as a mediator in the relationship between mindfulness and career adaptability among graduates in the early career stage	2
Therapists’ self-efficacy and experiences managing clinical risk in teletherapy: a mixed methods exploration	2
Career decision-making difficulties in adolescents: the role of parental perfectionism, irrational career beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty	2
Development of the counsellor personal wellness and professional wellbeing assessment	2
Cognitive information processing: synergizing theory, research and practice	2
Towards intersectional and anti-racist career guidance	2
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Young Person’s Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)	2