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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia	26
Children expressing their views in child protection casework: Current research and their rights going forward	25
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?	19
‘It's making his bad days into my bad days’: The impact of coronavirus social distancing measures on young carers and young adult carers in the United Kingdom	18
Work and resilience: Care leavers' experiences of navigating towards employment and independence	18
The intergenerational transmission of family violence: Mothers' perceptions of children's experiences and use of violence in the home	16
Family well‐being during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy: Gender differences and solidarity networks of care	15
Mechanisms that mitigate the effects of child poverty and improve children's cognitive and social–emotional development: A systematic review	13
What is known about the LGBTQ perspective in child welfare services: A scoping review	12
‘It's not fair’: Custodial grandparents' access to services and supports in Australia	12
Perceived stress, resources and adaptation in relation to the COVID‐19 lockdown in Spanish foster and non‐foster families	11
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during COVID‐19: Findings from an Australian survey	11
Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care	11
Beyond co‐occurrence: Addressing the intersections of domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse	10
‘We are unlikely to return to the same world, and I do not want it to destroy my future.’ Young people's worries through the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Parenting Black children in White spaces: Skilled African migrants reflect on their parenting experiences in Australia	10
Unrecognized: Kinship care by young aunts, siblings and other young people	10
Journeys of culturally connecting: Aboriginal young people's experiences of cultural connection in and beyond out‐of‐home care	10
An exploratory study of the impact of COVID‐19 on foster parenting	9
An exploration of how gender stereotypes influence how practitioners identify and respond to victims (or those at risk) of child sexual exploitation	9
How do child welfare referrals in Sweden match children's self‐reporting of severe exposure?	9
Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children	9
The nature and prevalence of kinship care: Focus on young kinship carers	9
Understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families involved in the child welfare system: Technological capital and pandemic practice	9
‘You need to understand the extent of the bubble we grew up in’: The religio‐cultural aspects of sibling's sexual dynamics—Perspectives of Orthodox Jewish adults	8

Behavioural problems of adolescents in secure residential youth care: Gender differences and risk factors	8
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory: A realist synthesis of Signs of Safety	8
Children living with parental substance misuse: A cross‐sectional profile of children and families referred to children's social care	8
The parenting skill development and education service: Telehealth support for families at risk of child maltreatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Multi‐system factors impacting youth justice involvement of children in residential out‐of‐home care	8
Family ‘turning point’ experiences and the process of youth becoming homeless	7
I do it for the children, and it's not a walk in the park: Parents' stories about how to maintain cooperative co‐parenting during the divorce process	7
‘Because I'm a kid …’: The struggle for recognition of children and young people involved in child and family social work	7
Accelerated adulthood, extended adolescence and the care cliff: Supporting care leavers' transition from care to independent living	7
Adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness and happiness in Chinese college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Mobile phone parenting in work‐separated Chinese families with young children left behind: A qualitative inquiry into parenting dimensions and determinants	7
Being child‐centred: Factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making in child protection	7
Using outcome measures in child protection work	7
School belonging and hope among at‐risk youth: The contribution of academic support provided by youths' social support networks	7
Residential care as an alternative care option: A review of literature within a global context	6
Mental health, adverse life events and health service use among Norwegian youth in the child welfare system: Results from a population‐based study	6
Parental monitoring by foster parents, youth behaviours and the youth–foster parent relationship	6
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families	6
Understanding Islamophobia through the eyes of American Muslim children: Religious bullying and school social work interventions	6
Risk and protective factors associated with grandparent kinship caregivers' psychological distress in COVID‐19: Kinship license status as a moderator	6
The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, health and life satisfaction in adults with care experience: The mediating role of attachment	6
‘Wishes and feelings’: Misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings	6
A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development	5
Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century	5
Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant	5
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems	5
Exploring mechanisms of change in a dyadic relationship intervention for siblings in foster care	5
Family dynamics in kinship care	5
A narrow focus in research on emotional abuse: A scoping review of definitions and descriptions on emotional abuse in research on child welfare and social work	5
Family engagement during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for school social work	5
Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals	5
How are policies implemented in children's services? Developing an initial programme theory to evaluate the implementation of the new Child Sexual Exploitation guidance in Wales	5
Feasible interventions for children in foster care according to service users and practitioners	5
Child welfare in non‐metro and rural communities: Experiences of child‐serving professionals addressing substance use	5
Family treatment court participation and permanency in a rural setting: Outcomes from a rigorous quasi‐experiment	5
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience	5
Is the Incredible Years parenting programme predictive of case closure in child protection services for neglect? A quasi‐experimental study	4
Realizing the potential of a strengths‐based approach in family support with young people and their parents	4
Authenticity, power and the case record: A textual analysis of the participation of children and young people in their child protection conference	4
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood: Risk and protective factors throughout their life course	4
Research into unaccompanied refugee minors in family foster care: Promoting adaptive functioning?	4
The role of visits and parent–child relationship quality in promoting positive outcomes for children of incarcerated parents	4
Child maltreatment and substance abuse: Unaccompanied children and adverse outcomes in long‐term foster care in the United States	4
Parental stress and children's school performance: Are locals doing better than rural‐to‐urban migrants in Beijing?	4
Involvement of children and young people in care order decision‐making—A Danish perspective	4
Families with parental mental illness: Studying a home‐based intervention program	4
The ambivalent visit: Children's experiences of relating with their fathers during staying in shelters for women survivors of domestic violence	4
‘A learning experience’: Disciplinary and parenting practices among Native American families	4
Negotiating master narratives: The practice of ‘counterstorying’ in children's personal narratives about family‐related adversities	4
The attitudes and beliefs of the child protection workforce and why they matter to children who live with violence	4

‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence	4
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship	4
‘If my parents find out, I will not see my phone anymore’: Who do children choose to disclose online sexual solicitation to?	4
Dating violence in adolescents in residential care: Frequency and associated factors	4
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes	4
Child ADHD and anxiety: Parent mental health literacy and information preferences	4
Developing a programme theory for the Systemic Practice Model in children's social care: Key informants' perspectives	4
Editorial: Transitions from care to adulthood—Persistent issues across time and place	4
Building financial capability in youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood	4
Piloting the Mockingbird Family™ in Australia: Experiences of foster carers and agency workers	4
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources	4
Shared and unique characteristics of school, cyber and family victimization among school‐aged children in Hong Kong	3
Leaving care in Norway in a historic and current perspective: As a function of the Nordic welfare model	3
Exploring history in the social ecology of care leaving: Northern Ireland as illustration	3
Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory	3
Moving from ‘what we know works’ to ‘what we do in practice’: An evidence overview of implementation and diffusion of innovation in transition to adulthood for care experienced young people	3
Parents' experiences of family team meetings in child welfare	3
Beyond survival: Strengthening community‐based support for parents receiving a family service intervention	3
Suicidality among children and youth in Nordic child welfare services: A systematic review	3
Family involvement in child welfare services: The association between socio‐economic status and self‐reported parenting practices	3
Readiness for independent living of youth in residential childcare: A comparative study	3
“Being one, but not being the same”: A dyadic comparative analysis on ethnic socialization in transcultural foster families in the Netherlands	3
Predictors of child participation in child welfare emergency placements—A Norwegian case file study	3
Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes	3
Breaking bad news: Child welfare workers' informing parents of care order proceedings	3
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care	3
Intervention programme for fathers who use domestic and family violence: Results from an evaluation of Caring Dads	3
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence	3
Parent–child relationship and parents' psychological well‐being among Malaysian families amid pandemic: The role of stress and gender	3
Relationships matter: Exploring the implementation of the Quality Parenting Initiative and the foster parent experience	3
How does family homelessness impact on children's development? A critical review of the literature	3
Differences in the reactions of adolescents to family violence	3
Conventional and expanded adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and maternal functioning among low‐income Black mothers	3
Action research with caseworkers: Responding to and reflecting on the impacts of COVID‐19 on birth family contact	3
Family‐centred practice and family outcomes in residential youth care: A systematic review	3
Are children in foster care in better psychological health than children in institutions? What factors influence the outcome?	3
‘They became my second family’: Children's relational lives and relationship‐based practice in residential care in the Philippines	3
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse	3
Characterization of groups of siblings in residential child care in Spain	3
Predictors of reunification and other types of exit for maltreated children using shelter services in Serbia	3
Mind the gap: Parental and professional perceptions of ‘risk’ for children living in poverty	3
A structural equation model investigating the relationships among online and offline social capitals and child polyvictimization	3