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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care	17
Embodiment as an Instrument for Empathy in Social Work	16
Social Work E-Placements During COVID-19: Learnings of Staff and Students	15
Stressors and Supports in Postdisaster Recovery: Experiences After the Black Saturday Bushfires	14
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	13
Afro-diasporic Experiences of Highly Skilled Black African Immigrants in Australia	11
Transition Experience of Families with Young Children in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)	10
Australian Social Work: Proposed Guidelines for Articles by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authors and About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Issues	10
Simulation and Skills Development: Preparing Australian Social Work Education for a Post-COVID Reality	10
Identifying the Patterns of Family Contact for Children in Care	9
Beyond Implicit Bias: Embodied Cognition, Mindfulness, and Critical Reflective Practice in Social Work	9
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education	8
Interventions and Practice Models for Improving Health and Psychosocial Outcomes for Children in Residential Out-of-Home Care: Systematic Review	8
Attitudes of Cancer Patients to Medicinal Cannabis Use: A Qualitative Study	8
Masculine Embodiment Among Sexual Minorities in a Women’s Prison	7
Culturally Informed, Codesigned, Supportive Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People With Cancer and Their Families	7
Challenges Underlying the Involvement of Social Workers From Minority Groups in Policy Practice	7
Experiencing Aboriginal Perspectives Through the Embodied Concept of the Tree of Life: Implications for Developing a Teaching Resource	7
Civic Engagement and Loneliness in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer+ Australian Volunteers	7
Australian Social Workers’ Understandings of Technology in Practice	6
Frontline Workers’ Challenges in Hearing Children’s Voices in Family Support Services	6
Discussion of the Knowns and Unknowns of Child Protection During Pregnancy in Australia	6
What Is the Best Thing About Being an Indigenous Father in Australia?	6
Young Person–to–Mother Violence: An Integrative Review of Evidence from Australia and New Zealand	6
Afghan Women’s Barriers to Seeking Help for Domestic Violence in Australia	5

An Off-Site Supervision Model of Field Education Practice: Innovating While Remaining Rigorous in a Shifting Field Education Context	5
Contemporary Practitioner Experiences of Relational Social Work: The Case of Child Welfare	5
Embodiment: A Key to Social Workers’ Wellbeing and Attainment of Social Justice	5
Improving Services for Aboriginal Women Experiencing Sexual Violence: Working at the Knowledge Interface	5
Social Work After Tehan: Reframing the Scope of Practice	5
Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience: Seven Protective Factors	5
Deep Listening and Relationality: Cross-cultural Reflections on Practice With Young Women Who Use Violence	5
The Impact of COVID-19 for Social Work in the Intensive Care Unit, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales	5
Body, Relationship, Space: Dance Movement Therapy as an Intervention in Embodied Social Work With Parents and Their Children	5
Living with Experience in the Academy: Pressures to Disclose in Routine Research Activities	4
The Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsiveness Tools (CICRT): Creating More Culturally Responsive Social Workers	4
Social Impact Bonds and Homelessness: A Review of the Literature	4
Investigating the Sense of Smell and Its Relevance to Embodied Social Work Practice: Exploring the Literature	4
A Yarn Among Social Workers: Knowing, Being, and Doing Social Work Learning, Expertise, and Practice	4
Homeless Services in Australia: Perceptions of Homelessness Services Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Responding to the Needs of Internally Displaced Persons: A Social Work Perspective	4
Aboriginal Social Work Academics: Failure to Thrive due to Having to Fight to Survive?	4
Exploring the Embodied Habitus of Early Career Social Workers	4
Social Work and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Student Placement Model	4
Exploring Connectedness in a Time of Isolation: A Reflection on Social Work Practice in an Oncology Unit during COVID-19	4
Social Work Students’ Perceptions of Eco-Social Work in the Curriculum	4
Exploring Older Tenants’ Healthy Ageing in Privately Rented Homes	4
Social Work Students Respond to Greening Social Work Curriculum: “It is Important to See a Change in the Narrative”	4
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	4
Decolonisation: More Than a Trendy Word	4
Reflections on how COVID-19 has Influenced Social Work Practice in the Community Rehabilitation Setting	4
Transformational Mentoring Experiences for First Nations Young People: A Scoping Review	4
Contemporary Social Work Practice: Institutional Context and Graduate Outcomes	3
Using Photography to Capture Young People’s Views About Community and Local Service Delivery	3
Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perspective from China	3
First Contact Social Work: Responding to Domestic and Family Violence	3
A Narrative Inquiry Exploring Social Workers’ Understanding of Yoga and Its Application in Professional Practice	3
Teaching Mental Health Social Work: What Are We Preparing Students for?	3
First Nations Children and Families and Permanency Planning Reform: The Evidence Counts	3
Collaboration in Social Work Field Education: A Reflective Discussion on a Multiuniversity and Industry Collaboration	3
Exploring Rural and Regional Social Workers’ Perceptions and Practices of Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse	3
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Social Work in Australia	3
Outcomes for Indigenous Children in Care Presenting at a Specialist Child and Youth Mental Health Service	3
Re/Un/Discover: An Embodied Heuristic for Uncertainties in Social Work Practice	3
Indigenisation, (De)Colonisation, and Whiteness: Dismantling Social Work Education	3
Social Work, a Spiritual Kind of Work: Exploring the Experiences of Māori Social Workers	3
Barriers Preventing Indigenous Women with Violence-related Head Injuries from Accessing Services in Australia	3
Community Service Workers’ Experiences Following Australia’s Black Summer: Contextualising Rural Service Provision	2
Relative Effectiveness of Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Anxious or Depressed Young People: Rapid Review and Meta-analysis	2
Response to Crisp (2022) “Response to Papadopoulos (2022): Social Work After Tehan: Reframing the Scope of Practice”	2
The Experiences of Indigenous Students on Placement: A Scoping Review	2
An Indigenous Strengths-based Theoretical Framework	2
Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes About Reflective Practice in Australian Social Work Education and Practice	2
The Experiences of Young People Living With Cancer in Regional and Remote Australia: A Qualitative Study	2
Young Carers in Australia: Understanding Experiences of Caring and Support-Seeking Behaviour	2

The Non-Indigenous Educator Teaching Australian Aboriginal Content in Social Work Education	2
Exploring Fathers’ Experiences in Caring for Their Child on a Paediatric Oncology Ward	2
Safety Planning for Youth With Suicide Risk: A Clinical Audit	2
A Simulated Placement: Using a Mixed-Reality Learning Environment for Social Work Field Education	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
A Modern History of Child Protection in Australia: Queensland 1965–1980	2
Social Work Education and Homelessness: Mobilising Academia–Industry Partnerships to Create a Homelessness Subject	2
The Types of Scholarly Publications Produced by Australian Social Work Researchers	2
Service Users in Social Work Student Supervision: A Scoping Review	2
Developing an Intake Assessment for Domestic and Family Violence Supported Accommodation	2
Anger Following the Victorian Black Saturday Bushfires: Implications for Postdisaster Service Provision	1
Addressing Women’s Psychosocial Needs Following an Adverse Prenatal Diagnosis: Qualitative Findings Inform SARF Model Development	1
Messages for Good Practice: Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officers and Hospital Social Workers	1
Collaboration Between Child Protection and Domestic and Family Violence: A Case File Review	1
Utopian Thinking, Social Work, and Homelessness: Critiquing Ideas Regarding Welfare Dependence	1
Interprofessional Collaboration: How Social Workers, Psychologists, and Teachers Collaborate to Address Student Wellbeing	1
Social Work and Yoga: The Evolution of Practice From Talking to Moving	1
Improving Service Responses for Children and Young People Who Experience Domestic and Family Violence: A Way Forward	1
Telehealth for Social Interventions With Adolescents and Young Adults: Diverse Perspectives	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
Special Issue: Our Voices: Being Seen and Heard	1
At-risk Youth Peer Researchers Highlight Safety and “The Bonds You Make With Staff and Peers”	1
Capturing Research Impact: The Case Study of a Community Wellbeing Research Partnership	1
Service Users’ Descriptions of Recovery-Oriented Elements of a Rural Mental Health Service	1
A Grounded Theory of Living in Two Worlds: Torres Strait Islanders’ Experience of Contemporary Migration	1
Social Work: Professional Development and Training	1
Australian Students’, Educators’, and Practitioners’ Experiences of Modified Field Education Standards During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
An Examination of Churn Within Australian Family Services: A Scoping Study	1
Family Group Conferencing as an Additional Service Response to the Abuse of Older People in Australia	1
Saving Australian Social Work: The Save Social Work Australia Campaign and the Effective Use of Social Media	1
The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Parents and Young People With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)	1
Indigenous Ideas Benefit Collaborative Research Partnerships	1
Social Work and Cancer: The Unique Contribution of Social Workers	1
Supporting Pregnant Women Experiencing Homelessness	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
Embodiment Practice: Using Poi Spinning in the Healing Process	1
Community Reintegration of Long-Stay Hospitalised Mental Health Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic	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
Analysis of Employment Advertisements Requiring Working With Children Checks in Queensland, Australia	1
Enduring Familial Relationships and Identity Preservation Make Simple Adoption the Preferred Permanency Option for Children in Out-of-Home Care	1
The Consideration of Animals Within Australian Social Work Curriculum	1
An Innovative Partnership Model in Social Work Field Education	1
Hosting Australian Social Work Students on Exchange: The Search for Equity and Mutual Benefit Between the Global South and North	1
Transitioning to Professional Practice: Experiences of International Master of Social Work [MSW] Graduates from Australian Programs	1
Thought Patterns Mediate the Development of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Social Workers	1
Mental Health Service Staff on Sharing Lived Experience in the Workplace	1
Evaluating the Use of ePortfolios in Social Work Education: Assessing Student Competency in Meeting Graduate Attributes	1
Aboriginal Cultural Safety: A Case Study of Collaborative Practice at the Intersection of Family Violence and Child Protection	1
Forensic Social Work in Australian Undergraduate Social Work Education: A Generic Practice Versus Specialisation Consideration	1
Examining the Person-in-Environment Perspective among Social Work Students in China: Individual- or Society-Orientation?	1
Social Work Students’ Reflections on Self-care While Completing Field Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Interprofessional Collaboration to Develop and Deliver Domestic Violence Curriculum to Dental Students	1
Explaining Psychological Distress among Men in the Helping Professions: A Serial Mediation Model	1
Participation by Women With Physical Functional Diversity: From Inherited Oppression to Social Integration	1
Individual Responsibility and Disconnection: Practitioner Experiences of the First Wave COVID19 Lockdown	1