OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child & Family 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Vulnerability and Children with Disabilities: Vision from a Chinese Context	33
What criteria do foster care workers take into account when recommending foster children's visiting arrangements with their birth parents	28
Lesbian and gay individuals' path into foster parenting in Norway—Barriers and facilitators at the person and system levels	21
Reintegration of street‐connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme	17
Deinstitutionalization of children in residential care facilities: Experiences and perceptions of professionals in Ghana	16
Digitisation of Sibling and Social Relationships of Vulnerable Children in the Czech Republic: Implications for Digital Social Work	15
‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England	15
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden	15
Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia	14
Issue Information	13
The roles of moral sensitivity and father presence on the relationship between violent video game exposure and aggression among left‐behind adolescents	13
Improving Emotional and Social Development in Preschool Children: Exploring the Effects of Mindfulness‐Based Mandala Intervention in Social Work Practice in Macao	13
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems	12
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Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana	12
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience	11
Effective strategies for socio‐educational intervention during the process of transition to adult life of unaccompanied minors from Africa	11
Child placement in the community: Socio‐religious challenges for Druze social workers in Israel	10
Staff experience of a new approach to family safeguarding in OxfordshireChildren's Social Care Services	10
The ‘virtuous’ cycle of parental empowerment: Partnering with parents to safeguard young people from exploitation	10
Online Sexual Exploitation Among Adolescents in Tanzania: Exploring the Stigmas of Victimization and Help‐Seeking	10
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care	9
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources	9
When young people age out of care: Foster care in a life course and network perspective	9
Sequential Dual Mediating Effects of Smartphone Dependence and Aggression on the Relationship Between Negative Parenting Attitudes and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents	9

Authority Over Investigation Decisions in Child Welfare Services: How is it Distributed Among Social Workers, Managers and Citizen Representatives?	8
Revisiting the influence of community social capital indices on child maltreatment rates: The moderating effects of place	8
A qualitative study on parental mediation of rural‐to‐urban migrant children's smartphone use in China: Concerns, strategies and challenges	8
Experiences of Young People Leaving Children's Homes as a Form of Institutional Care: A Qualitative Study	8
Professionals' Insights on Supervision in Portuguese Residential Care	8
Working and caring for a disabled adopted child during a pandemic	8
Is participation always appropriate? Social workers' perspectives on when to exclude children from conversations about contact visits	8
Issue Information	8
A Pilot Study of the Usefulness of a Strength‐Based, Systemic and Trauma‐Informed Training Programme for Early Help Practitioners	8
‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence	7
The importance of clinician courtroom testimony for children exposed to domestic violence	7
Neglecting to consider early emotional development after abuse and/or neglect: Insights and recommendations from child welfare providers	7
Does parent report of child physical abuse and supervisory neglect differ by method of study recruitment or mode of survey administration?	7
Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes	7
Issue Information	7
Using Family Needs Assessments to Guide Place‐Based Services for Vulnerable Families: Lessons From the COVID‐19 Pandemic	7
Developing a model for child participation in child welfare services	7
Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation	7
Is There an Unrecognized Potential Pool of Foster Carers?	7
‘I never win’: How children and staff in residential facilities experience meaningful participation	7
The Cycle of Violence: Childhood Abuse, Illicit Drug Use and Adult Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration	7
‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers	6
Relationships Between Psychological Flexibility, Psychological Capital and Marital Quality Amongst Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	6
Shared and unique characteristics of school, cyber and family victimization among school‐aged children in Hong Kong	6
Children of Divorced Parents—The Limitations of One‐Size‐Fits‐All Interventions	6
A structural equation model investigating the relationships among online and offline social capitals and child polyvictimization	6
Parenting through the lenses of risk and othering: Constructions of parental cannabis use in child protection court proceedings	6
‘The secret sauce’: Experience of a group‐based intervention for Black and Latino fathers	6
Gender differences in cyberbullying tolerance, traditional bullying victimization and their associations with cyberbullying perpetration among Beijing adolescents	6
A step of faith: The experiences of street children in search of survival in Nakuru City, Kenya and its implications on policy	6
Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care	6
Care Leaving and Social Capital: Reflections on Findings From an Exploratory Intercountry African Study	5
Examining the Likelihood of Being Referred to the Child Welfare Services in Sweden: Influences at the Individual, Peer and School‐Area Levels	5
Unpacking the Relationship Between COVID‐19‐Related Stress and Quality of Life Among High School Students: A Socio‐Ecological Resilience Perspective	5
“Trying to be positive in the face of the storm”: The experiences of independent college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Parental care in trajectories of forced migration: Ruptures and changing conditions for family life	5
Readiness for independent living of youth in residential childcare: A comparative study	5
Risk and protective factors associated with grandparent kinship caregivers' psychological distress in COVID‐19: Kinship license status as a moderator	5
Authenticity, power and the case record: A textual analysis of the participation of children and young people in their child protection conference	5
Caregiver or care receiver: Adolescents' experience of caregiving to a parent with severe mental illness: A qualitative study	5
The Impact of Emotional Dissonance on Turnover Intent in Child Welfare Social Work: Test of a Moderated Mediation Model	5
Pathways to parenting stress reduction among parents in South Africa	5
Effects of maternal adverse child experiences on parental maltreatment of children: An empirical study of mediating factors among Japanese mothers	5
‘I Wouldn't Be Here Without Them’: An Explorative Study of Workplace Friendships and Well‐Being in Child and Family Social Workers	5
Military‐Connected Adolescents' Coping Strategies and Psychological Well‐Being: The Moderating Role of Family Functioning	5
CORRIGENDUM	5
A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development	5
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during COVID‐19: Findings from an Australian survey	5
Nowhere to go: Housing pathways of college students with foster care and homelessness experience	5
A solution‐focussed cognitive group intervention for event anxiety in vulnerable children: A randomized controlled trial	5

Are low academic achievers less resilient? Resilience of low and high academic achievers in Mainland China	4
Family conflict as ontological (in)security for young people with experiences of homelessness	4
Fostering supportive interactions in the neighbourhood: Using visualized narratives	4
Residential Status Disparities in Social Participation and Quality of Life Among Chinese Children: The Mediating Role of Social Skills and Smartphone Addiction	4
Vulnerabilities among children of rag‐pickers: Examining health inequalities in the context of sustainable development goal 3	4
‘Wishes and feelings’: Misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings	4
Responding to social and emotional vulnerability: Child welfare investigations involving older adolescents	4
Navigating the Labyrinth: Challenges Faced by Child Protection Officers in Polygamous Bedouin Families in Israel	4
‘I Don't Know What I'd Do if My Kid Was Being Violent to Me, but These Parents Just Keep Pushing Through’: A Narrative Inquiry of Practitioner Responses to Child to Parent Violence	4
Implementing the Power to Kids programme in home‐based (foster) care: Identifying the SAFETY approach	4
Factors supporting resilience during out‐of‐home care: Experiences of former child welfare clients in Finland	4
The social support systems of mothers with problematic substance use in their infant's first year	4
‘All in all … it begins with love’: The meanings of parental love in the context of child risk and protection among Israeli Ultra‐Orthodox Jewish parents	4
Effectiveness of a trauma‐informed intervention in a deinstitutionalization programme in rural Rwanda	4
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?	4
Family Experience of Detention for Migratory Reasons: Findings From a Qualitative Systematic Review	4
Accessibility of social services and ICT‐based services for children with disabilities and their families	4
Self‐justification in decision‐making: Chinese child welfare workers' inconsistency of perceptions and experiences matters in reporting child abuse	4
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse	4
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence	4
Stigma‐related barriers to participation in support groups for children: Social workers' experiences and destigmatizing strategies	4
Evaluating the impact of a community‐based livelihood intervention on child protection: A mixed method approach	4
Fathers' Experiences in Parenting Autistic Children: A Qualitative Study	4
Parent–child relationship and parents' psychological well‐being among Malaysian families amid pandemic: The role of stress and gender	4
Harsh Versus Supportive (Grand)parenting Practices and Child Behaviour Problems in Urban Chinese Families: Does Multigenerational Coresidence Make a Difference?	4
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth	4
Linking neighbourhood safety and children's internalizing and externalizing problems: Mediating role of maternal depression	4
‘The Cycle of Sibling Bullying’: Exploring the Links Between Sibling Bullying Victimization, External Support and Parent–Child Decision‐Making in Multichild Families	3
Biographical histories of gendered parental substance use: Messages from mothers to professionals as to what interventions help or hinder journeys of recovery	3
‘Disability is not a word we use’: Social workers' professional judgements about support for disabled young people leaving care	3
The reflection of desire for revenge and revenge fantasies in drawings and narratives of sexually abused children	3
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Child Maltreatment in Families Receiving Mandatory Versus Voluntary Child Protection Support: A Matched Cohort Study	3
Social Support System and Vulnerable Children in Need: Toward 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 3 ‘Good Health and Well‐Being’ (Part I)	3
Link between Internet addiction and depression and roles of social withdrawal and school belonging	3
Analysing bully‐victim formation through symbolic interactionism: A case study in China	3
How Do Child Welfare Workers Understand and Practice Child Participation?	3
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship	3
Strategies to increase fathers' engagement in child protection investigations due to domestic partner abuse in Sweden	3
The effects of mindfulness on mother–child relationships and maternal well‐being during the first COVID‐19 lockdown in Israel	3
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families	3
Stress Mindset Relates to Better Mental Health in Parents of Children With Special Needs: A Path Analysis Study	3
Social bonds, Internet usage time and bullying involvement: A study of rural secondary school students in China	3
The quality and developmental pathways in sibling relationships: A qualitative study of Norwegian children admitted to child welfare service care	3
Substance use and other factors associated with child welfare case duration: Looking beyond out of home care	3
‘Talk to Us, Not About Us’: Children's Understandings and Experiences of Participation in Australian Family Law	3
Infant Vulnerability to Court Decision‐Making Processes Regarding OOHC: Perspectives of Frontline Workers	3
Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant	3
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood: Risk and protective factors throughout their life course	3
Exploring the mechanisms explaining the quality of sibling relationships when children are taken into care: A qualitative study of Norwegian children	3
Whose benefactors? Whose beneficiaries?—Negotiating help at the intersection between the family and the state	3
The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Early Help: Critical reflections from embedded social care research	3
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Positive development of orphans in kinship care: The role of family stability	3