OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Social Work is 3. 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
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
Transition Experience of Families with Young Children in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)	10
Beyond Implicit Bias: Embodied Cognition, Mindfulness, and Critical Reflective Practice in Social Work	9
Identifying the Patterns of Family Contact for Children in Care	9
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
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education	8
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
Masculine Embodiment Among Sexual Minorities in a Women’s Prison	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
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
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
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
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
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
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