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 2020-03-01 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
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care	8
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
Dying in Hospital during COVID-19: Isolation, Despair, and Moral Distress	7
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
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
Making Continuing Professional Development Relevant and Accessible in Regional Social Work	4
Going Against the Grain	4
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
Homeless Services in Australia: Perceptions of Homelessness Services Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
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