OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Social Work 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Online Education in Social Work, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Challenges: A Scoping Review	31
Social Work E-Placements During COVID-19: Learnings of Staff and Students	14
Embodiment as an Instrument for Empathy in Social Work	12
Stressors and Supports in Postdisaster Recovery: Experiences After the Black Saturday Bushfires	12
The Use of Common Humanity Scenarios to Promote Compassion in Healthcare Workers	11
Social Work Interventions in Cancer Care	10
Ending Australia’s Status as a “Leaving Care Laggard”: The Case for a National Extended Care Framework to Lift the Outcomes for Young People Transitioning From Out-of-Home Care	9
Social Work: Possibilities for Practice in Residential Aged-care Facilities	9
Transition Experience of Families with Young Children in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)	9
Australian Social Work: Proposed Guidelines for Articles by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authors and About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Issues	9
Violence Prevention Strategies for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review	9
Afro-diasporic Experiences of Highly Skilled Black African Immigrants in Australia	9
Beyond Implicit Bias: Embodied Cognition, Mindfulness, and Critical Reflective Practice in Social Work	8
Simulation and Skills Development: Preparing Australian Social Work Education for a Post-COVID Reality	8
Working It Out – Hospital Social Work in the Midst of a Pandemic	8
Child Labour Versus Realising Children’s Right to Provision, Protection, and Participation in Ghana	8
Problematising Disability: A Critical Policy Analysis of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme	8
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care	8
Healthy Lifestyle Programs in Out-of-Home Care: Implementing Preventative Trauma-informed Approaches at Scale	7
Which Models of Supervision Help Retain Staff? Findings From Australia’s Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault Workforces	7
Identifying the Patterns of Family Contact for Children in Care	7
Dying in Hospital during COVID-19: Isolation, Despair, and Moral Distress	7
The Efficacy of a Child Protection Training Program on the Historical Welfare Context and Aboriginal Trauma	6
Transnational Social Workers’ Understanding of Australian First Nations Perspectives in Statutory Child Protection	6
Health Staff Responses to Domestic and Family Violence: The Case for Training to Build Confidence and Skills	6

Experiencing Aboriginal Perspectives Through the Embodied Concept of the Tree of Life: Implications for Developing a Teaching Resource	6
The Social Harms Outweigh the Benefits: A Study of Compulsory Income Management in Greater Shepparton and Playford	6
Interventions and Practice Models for Improving Health and Psychosocial Outcomes for Children in Residential Out-of-Home Care: Systematic Review	6
Elder Abuse Identification by an Australian Health Service: A Five-Year, Social-Work Audit	6
Culturally Informed, Codesigned, Supportive Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People With Cancer and Their Families	6
The Voices of “At Risk” Young People About Services They Received: A Systematic Literature Review	6
Social Love: The Power of Love in Social Work	6
Frontline Workers’ Challenges in Hearing Children’s Voices in Family Support Services	5
Social Work After Tehan: Reframing the Scope of Practice	5
Challenges Underlying the Involvement of Social Workers From Minority Groups in Policy Practice	5
Creating Cultural Safety as an Aboriginal Teacher in a Class of Non-Aboriginal University Students	5
Independent Mental Health Advocacy: A Model of Social Work Advocacy?	5
An Off-Site Supervision Model of Field Education Practice: Innovating While Remaining Rigorous in a Shifting Field Education Context	5
COVID and Telehealth in a Child Adolescent Mental Health Clinic	5
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education	5
Attitudes of Cancer Patients to Medicinal Cannabis Use: A Qualitative Study	5
Social Work Doctoral Education in Australia: The Case for Further Development	5
The Impact of COVID-19 for Social Work in the Intensive Care Unit, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales	5
The Impact of COVID-19 on a Social Work Student	5
Embodiment: A Key to Social Workers’ Wellbeing and Attainment of Social Justice	5
Afghan Women’s Barriers to Seeking Help for Domestic Violence in Australia	4
Exploring Older Tenants’ Healthy Ageing in Privately Rented Homes	4
Aboriginal Social Work Academics: Failure to Thrive due to Having to Fight to Survive?	4
Contemporary Practitioner Experiences of Relational Social Work: The Case of Child Welfare	4
Body, Relationship, Space: Dance Movement Therapy as an Intervention in Embodied Social Work With Parents and Their Children	4
Young Person–to–Mother Violence: An Integrative Review of Evidence from Australia and New Zealand	4
Pursuing Equity in Social Work Education: Democratising Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Australian Social Workers’ Understandings of Technology in Practice	4
Exploring the Embodied Habitus of Early Career Social Workers	4
The Production and Dissemination of Australian Social Work Scholarship: A Citation Analysis	4
Reflections on how COVID-19 has Influenced Social Work Practice in the Community Rehabilitation Setting	4
Exploring Connectedness in a Time of Isolation: A Reflection on Social Work Practice in an Oncology Unit during COVID-19	4
Income Management of Government Payments on Welfare: The Australian Cashless Debit Card	4
Masculine Embodiment Among Sexual Minorities in a Women’s Prison	4
Social Work End-of-Life Care Interventions for Patients and their Families in Hospital	4
Civic Engagement and Loneliness in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer+ Australian Volunteers	4
Making Continuing Professional Development Relevant and Accessible in Regional Social Work	4
Going Against the Grain	4
Re/Un/Discover: An Embodied Heuristic for Uncertainties in Social Work Practice	3
First Contact Social Work: Responding to Domestic and Family Violence	3
Collaboration in Social Work Field Education: A Reflective Discussion on a Multiuniversity and Industry Collaboration	3
Social Work in the Oncology Setting Compared to Social Work in General Medical Settings: An Analysis of Findings From a Multisite Australian Social Work Practice Audit	3
Investigating the Sense of Smell and Its Relevance to Embodied Social Work Practice: Exploring the Literature	3
What Is the Best Thing About Being an Indigenous Father in Australia?	3
Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perspective from China	3
Exploring Rural and Regional Social Workers’ Perceptions and Practices of Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse	3
Discussion of the Knowns and Unknowns of Child Protection During Pregnancy in Australia	3
Involvement of Social Workers in the Community Service Provision System for the Older People in Urban China	3
A Preliminary Conceptualisation of the Social Work Field Liaison Role through Collaborative Practice	3
Outcomes for Indigenous Children in Care Presenting at a Specialist Child and Youth Mental Health Service	3

Using Photography to Capture Young People’s Views About Community and Local Service Delivery	3
Overcoming Future Professionals’ Fear of Digital Storytelling	3
A Service Response to the Pandemic: Open Circle and Restorative Justice During COVID-19	3
Social Work, a Spiritual Kind of Work: Exploring the Experiences of Māori Social Workers	3
A Narrative Inquiry Exploring Social Workers’ Understanding of Yoga and Its Application in Professional Practice	3
Homeless Services in Australia: Perceptions of Homelessness Services Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
The Experiences of Young People Living With Cancer in Regional and Remote Australia: A Qualitative Study	2
The Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsiveness Tools (CICRT): Creating More Culturally Responsive Social Workers	2
Response to Crisp (2022) “Response to Papadopoulos (2022): Social Work After Tehan: Reframing the Scope of Practice”	2
The Non-Indigenous Educator Teaching Australian Aboriginal Content in Social Work Education	2
Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes About Reflective Practice in Australian Social Work Education and Practice	2
Service Users in Social Work Student Supervision: A Scoping Review	2
Improving Services for Aboriginal Women Experiencing Sexual Violence: Working at the Knowledge Interface	2
Social Work and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Student Placement Model	2
Evaluation of a Paediatric Trauma Social Worker Service	2
Social Work Students’ Attitudes Towards Indigenous People: An Empirical Study in Taiwan	2
COVID-19 Reflections on Inpatient Rehabilitation	2
Student Participation in Study Abroad Programs: Social Justice Implications for Tertiary Education	2
Young Carers in Australia: Understanding Experiences of Caring and Support-Seeking Behaviour	2
Social Impact Bonds and Homelessness: A Review of the Literature	2
Barriers Preventing Indigenous Women with Violence-related Head Injuries from Accessing Services in Australia	2
Australian Social Work Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Call for Papers	2
The Experiences of Indigenous Students on Placement: A Scoping Review	2
Teaching Mental Health Social Work: What Are We Preparing Students for?	2
Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience: Seven Protective Factors	2
Responding to the Needs of Internally Displaced Persons: A Social Work Perspective	2
Children and Young People in the Care System: Relational Practice in Working with Transitions and Challenges	2
Oncology Social Workers’ Responses to and Reflections on COVID-19	2
Social Work Education and Homelessness: Mobilising Academia–Industry Partnerships to Create a Homelessness Subject	2
A Modern History of Child Protection in Australia: Queensland 1965–1980	2
Contemporary Social Work Practice: Institutional Context and Graduate Outcomes	2
The Types of Scholarly Publications Produced by Australian Social Work Researchers	2
Reflections on Working From Home During Lockdown 1.0	2
Decolonisation: More Than a Trendy Word	2
Starting Out: Beginning Practice as Hospital Social Worker Under COVID-19	2
Capturing Research Impact: The Case Study of a Community Wellbeing Research Partnership	1
Individual Responsibility and Disconnection: Practitioner Experiences of the First Wave COVID19 Lockdown	1
Developing an Intake Assessment for Domestic and Family Violence Supported Accommodation	1
Relative Effectiveness of Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Anxious or Depressed Young People: Rapid Review and Meta-analysis	1
Family Group Conferencing as an Additional Service Response to the Abuse of Older People in Australia	1
Social Work Students’ Perceptions of Eco-Social Work in the Curriculum	1
Safety Planning for Youth With Suicide Risk: A Clinical Audit	1
Utopian Thinking, Social Work, and Homelessness: Critiquing Ideas Regarding Welfare Dependence	1
Aboriginal Cultural Safety: A Case Study of Collaborative Practice at the Intersection of Family Violence and Child Protection	1
Deep Listening and Relationality: Cross-cultural Reflections on Practice With Young Women Who Use Violence	1
Transformational Mentoring Experiences for First Nations Young People: A Scoping Review	1
Psychosocial Intervention During COVID-19 in a Hospital Mortuary: A Social Worker’s Reflection	1
Response to Papadopoulos (2022): Social Work After Tehan: Reframing the Scope of Practice	1
Impact of a Global Pandemic on Scope and Diversity of Social Work Research and Practice: Complexity Theory a Lens to Review Current Thinking	1
A Grounded Theory of Living in Two Worlds: Torres Strait Islanders’ Experience of Contemporary Migration	1
Analysis of Employment Advertisements Requiring Working With Children Checks in Queensland, Australia	1
Social Work Students Respond to Greening Social Work Curriculum: “It is Important to See a Change in the Narrative”	1
Community Reintegration of Long-Stay Hospitalised Mental Health Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Hosting Australian Social Work Students on Exchange: The Search for Equity and Mutual Benefit Between the Global South and North	1
Responding to a Crisis: Social Work Profession, Policy, and Practice	1
Thought Patterns Mediate the Development of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Social Workers	1
Enhancing Direct Practice with Forgotten Australians: What is the Experience of Service Providers?	1
Social Work and Yoga: The Evolution of Practice From Talking to Moving	1
Young People’s Support Needs During the Military–Civilian Transition: “I Would Have Been a Very Different Person if There was More Support Available”	1
Examining the Person-in-Environment Perspective among Social Work Students in China: Individual- or Society-Orientation?	1
Embodiment Practice: Using Poi Spinning in the Healing Process	1
Participation by Women With Physical Functional Diversity: From Inherited Oppression to Social Integration	1
Indigenisation, (De)Colonisation, and Whiteness: Dismantling Social Work Education	1
A Love of Truth and a Love of Service: The Social Work Legacy of Leonard Tierney	1
Collaboration Between Child Protection and Domestic and Family Violence: A Case File Review	1
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Social Work in Australia	1
Saving Australian Social Work: The Save Social Work Australia Campaign and the Effective Use of Social Media	1
Social Work and Cancer: The Unique Contribution of Social Workers	1
Messages for Good Practice: Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officers and Hospital Social Workers	1
A Yarn Among Social Workers: Knowing, Being, and Doing Social Work Learning, Expertise, and Practice	1
An Examination of Churn Within Australian Family Services: A Scoping Study	1
Telehealth for Social Interventions With Adolescents and Young Adults: Diverse Perspectives	1
Special Issue: Our Voices: Being Seen and Heard	1