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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Elementary school teachers’ satisfaction with their collaboration with counsellors: effects of teacher attitudes, teacher expectations and counsellor professional traits	29
Reflective practice through clinical supervision: implications for professional and organisational sustainability	18
Applying Lacan’s four discourse model in career counselling at the postgraduate level	17
A qualitative study of counselling students’ experience with premature termination	17
Living with loss	16
Healing wounds: exploring the hyphen in son-father relations as an adult child of an alcoholic	15
The impact of expressive storytelling on grieving: how narrative writing can help us actively and effectively process and reconcile the loss of a loved one	14
The literature of loss: elegy writing as a therapeutic strategy for coping with grief	14
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	12
The effectiveness of self-healing intervention program on pain-related anxiety and the severity of perceived pain in patients with migraine	11
Addressing the elephant in the room: how erotic transference is identified and understood in therapy	10
Vocational identity and students’ college degree choices: a preliminary study.	9
Understanding the associations between the five-factor model, harmful alcohol consumption and problematic internet use in university students	9
Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy	8
International doctoral students of counsellor education: becoming multicultural advocates	8
Career and cultural context: collective individualism, egalitarianism and work-centrality in the career thinking of Norwegian teenagers	8
Graduate students’ perceptions of the career construction interview	8
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	8
Measuring the ABC of life skills: life skills scale revision and standardisation for adult population	7
Counsellors’ experiences of HIV status disclosure to children living with HIV in Uganda	7
These roots that bind us: using writing to process grief and reconstruct the self in chronic illness	7
Careers Hubs: pilot of a place-based school improvement network in England	7
The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators	6
Validation of the existential gratitude scale (EGS) in India and its relationship with spiritual well-being and distress	6
The mediating role of cultural intelligence and cognitive flexibility in the relation between effective counsellor characteristics and multicultural counselling competencies of counsellors in Turkey	6

Development of vocational gender stereotype attitudes scale (VGSA) for adolescents	6
Relationship between preference for solitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of mindfulness	6
Theorising agency for socially just career guidance and counselling scholarship and practice	6
Construction And factorial validation of a short version of the Academic Motivation Scale	6
A phenomenological analysis of the role and well-being challenges experienced by professional International School Counsellors	5
Performing artists’ career trajectory from a career construction perspective	5
Work values of Filipino college students	5
Systemic case-study explorations of the career development of middle-aged male immigrants from New Zealand working in the Australian rideshare industry	5
The sound of silence: deconstructing notions of inclusion in career guidance on exploring the experience of deaf people	5
Intersectionality of rural community, geography and gender in the careers of young adults	5
Telesupervision in counselling and psychotherapy: a systematic review of the literature	5
What are the determinants of career preferences? The case of high school students in Chile	5
Preserving the planet and promoting well-being	4
Education, aspiration and upward social mobility: working class British women	4
Decent work, inclusion and sustainability: a new era lies ahead	4
Writing the self in bereavement: a story of love, spousal loss, and resilience	4
Career exploration as a foundation for career developmental learning and academic success in childhood	4
A meta-study of the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling (BJGC): an analysis of publication characteristics from 2000–2019	4
“Mirror, mirror on the wall … ”: A person-centred approach to appearance distress	4
The career coaching toolkit	4
Profiling student mental health and counselling effectiveness: lessons from four UK services using complete data and different outcome measures	4
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review	4
Emerging psychoactive drugs and the common life events among adolescents in a Nigerian rehabilitation centre	4
Career and career guidance in the Nordic Countries	4
Social support and resilience mediate the relationship of stress with satisfaction with life and flourishing of youth	4
Counselling of immigrant students in schools – the development of shared understanding between advisers and students	3
On epistemic justice in career guidance	3
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	3
Self-reported childhood sexual abuse and attachment in early adulthood among university students	3
The effect of a mindfulness-based stress reducing programme on tolerance of ambiguity, rumination, and metacognitive awareness in infertile women	3
Comparison of social representations of NEETs in active young French adults and NEETs themselves	3
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	3
International graduate students and cultural competency in counselling services: directions for health practitioners	3
The wisdom of your body: Finding healing, wholeness, and connection through embodied living The wisdom of your body: Finding healing, wholeness, and connection through embodied living	3
Treatment of obsessive morbid jealousy with cognitive analytic therapy: a mixed-methods quasi-experimental case study	3
Longitudinal associations between COVID-19 burnout and mindfulness among counsellor candidates: a two-wave cross-lagged study	3
The Hero’s Journey: constructing continuity from discontinuity in millennial career changers’ narratives	3
How to Think Like a … Behavior Analyst: Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life (Second Edition)	3
An evaluation of a pilot counselling model in Hong Kong for individuals with mild-to-moderate psychological issues	3
Adolescents who turn to service providers for guidance: the perspectives of informal sources of support	3
Career guidance for nursing education: a mixed-method study in high schools	3
The ideal partner: gender-occupation congruence and incongruence	3
Intrapersonal, social, environmental-societal influences and career development learning during childhood	2
Job-seeking self-efficacy: an Irish scale for assessing the guidance and coaching needs of job seekers	2
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) in borderline personality disorder: a case report on the efficacy of longer treatment duration	2
From career to calling: a depth psychology guide to soul-making work in darkening times	2
Narratives of experiences of presence in bereavement: sources of comfort, ambivalence and distress	2
Program evaluation in school counseling: improving comprehensive and developmental programs	2
Interdisciplinary insights on interpersonal relationships	2
Fear of COVID-19 and academic stress among Palestinian university students during the pandemic: the mediating role of mental health	2

Online therapy: lessons learned from the COVID-19 health crisis	2
A framework for defining a guidance approach support: typology, concepts, and practice guidelines	2
Embedding wellbeing in career development practice: trialling a new structure for guidance conversations in Scotland and Wales	2
Smartphone addiction and psychological wellbeing among adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of academic procrastination and school burnout	2
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	2
Explore career via the iceberg metaphor: an Satir Growth Model-based career intervention in enhancing college freshmen' career adaptability	2
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural counselling integrated with psychoeducation for hypertensive patients: a pilot study	2
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working: a literature review	2
On becoming a counsellor: a posthuman reconfiguring of identity formation for counsellors-in-training	2
Enhancing ethical codes with artificial intelligence governance – a growing necessity for the adoption of generative AI in counselling	2
Restorative Embodiment and Resilience	2
Practical applications of a social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy: the relational equality in education framework (REEF)	2
Effects of mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) among women undergraduates in enhancing positive mental health	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	2
Using critical psychology in analysis of career guidance and counselling	2
Meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction: navigating the complexities of bereaved families	2
Institutional and psychological predictors of university students’ mental health help-seeking intentions	2
Investigation of relationships between academic self-efficacy, life goals and subjective well-being of middle school students	2
Subjective well-being: self-forgiveness, coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and the role of resilience?	2
Perception of online education during COVID-19: Online Photovoice (OPV) and ecological systems theory	2
Improving career decision making of highly skilled workers: designing interventions for the unemployed and discouraged	2
Career guidance and counselling: the nature and types of career-related teacher social support in Hong Kong secondary schools	2
Relationships between character strengths, internalising and externalising problems among adolescents: a latent class analysis	2
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective	2
A not-knowing, values-based and relational approach to counselling education	2
Career sailboat: a model for enhancing career decision-making self-efficacy among job-seekers	2
Referring young people to psychosocial support in the context of a youth active labour market/education strategy	2
Re-authoring career narratives: exploring identity in contemporary careers practice	2
Career development and internal migration: a Scottish case study	2