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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

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	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
Children expressing their views in child protection casework: Current research and their rights going forward	16
Creating a better kinship environment for children in Ghana: Lessons from young people with informal kinship care experience	16
Work and resilience: Care leavers' experiences of navigating towards employment and independence	14
The intergenerational transmission of family violence: Mothers' perceptions of children's experiences and use of violence in the home	14
Aboriginal parents' experiences of having their children removed by statutory child protection services	14
Honneth and positive identity formation in residential care	13
Factors associated with the decision to investigate child protective services referrals: A systematic review	11
Recognition in the lives of unaccompanied children and youth: A review of the key European literature	11
Parenting Black children in White spaces: Skilled African migrants reflect on their parenting experiences in Australia	10
‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants	10
Judging parental competence: A cross‐country analysis of judicial decision makers' written assessment of mothers' parenting capacities in newborn removal cases	10
Family well‐being during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy: Gender differences and solidarity networks of care	9
Unrecognized: Kinship care by young aunts, siblings and other young people	9
Perceived stress, resources and adaptation in relation to the COVID‐19 lockdown in Spanish foster and non‐foster families	9
What is known about the LGBTQ perspective in child welfare services: A scoping review	9
Mechanisms that mitigate the effects of child poverty and improve children's cognitive and social–emotional development: A systematic review	9
‘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	9
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during COVID‐19: Findings from an Australian survey	9
Cumulative socio‐contextual risk and child abuse potential in parents of young children: Can social support buffer the impact?	9
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people	9
An exploratory study of the impact of COVID‐19 on foster parenting	8
How do child welfare referrals in Sweden match children's self‐reporting of severe exposure?	8
Influences on children's voices in family support services: Practitioner perspectives	8

Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care	8
Keeping children safe? Advancing social care assessments to address harmful sexual behaviour in schools	8
The nature and prevalence of kinship care: Focus on young kinship carers	8
Beyond co‐occurrence: Addressing the intersections of domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse	8
Female care leavers' journey to young adulthood from residential care in South Africa: Gender‐specific psychosocial processes of resilience	8
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory: A realist synthesis of Signs of Safety	7
Burnout and secondary trauma among forensic interviewers	7
‘It's not fair’: Custodial grandparents' access to services and supports in Australia	7
Mobile phone parenting in work‐separated Chinese families with young children left behind: A qualitative inquiry into parenting dimensions and determinants	7
An exploration of how gender stereotypes influence how practitioners identify and respond to victims (or those at risk) of child sexual exploitation	7
Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children	7
Bringing men in from the margins: Father‐inclusive practices for the delivery of parenting interventions	7
‘Because I'm a kid …’: The struggle for recognition of children and young people involved in child and family social work	7
Caregiver depression and child behaviour problems: A longitudinal mixed effects approach	7
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?	7
Understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families involved in the child welfare system: Technological capital and pandemic practice	6
Care leaver needs and accessibility: Findings from the first large‐scale project in Switzerland	6
Risk and protective factors associated with grandparent kinship caregivers' psychological distress in COVID‐19: Kinship license status as a moderator	6
Multi‐system factors impacting youth justice involvement of children in residential out‐of‐home care	6
‘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	6
Understanding Islamophobia through the eyes of American Muslim children: Religious bullying and school social work interventions	6
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	5
Children living with parental substance misuse: A cross‐sectional profile of children and families referred to children's social care	5
‘Wishes and feelings’: Misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings	5
Family ‘turning point’ experiences and the process of youth becoming homeless	5
Review of benefits and risks for children in open adoption arrangements	5
Sleep among youths in foster care: Associations with potentially traumatic events, PTSD and mental health	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
Being child‐centred: Factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making in child protection	5
The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, health and life satisfaction in adults with care experience: The mediating role of attachment	5
Quality of experience in residential care programmes: Retrospective perspectives of former youth participants	5
Socioeconomic deprivation and social capital in kinship carers using a helpline service	5
Family violence and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms in Chinese children: The role of parental alienation and child emotion regulation	5
Accelerated adulthood, extended adolescence and the care cliff: Supporting care leavers' transition from care to independent living	5
Interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people's lived experiences of therapeutic residential care	5
A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development	4
Developing a programme theory for the Systemic Practice Model in children's social care: Key informants' perspectives	4
Building financial capability in youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood	4
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families	4
Is the Incredible Years parenting programme predictive of case closure in child protection services for neglect? A quasi‐experimental study	4
Family engagement during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for school social work	4
Parental stress and children's school performance: Are locals doing better than rural‐to‐urban migrants in Beijing?	4
Families with parental mental illness: Studying a home‐based intervention program	4
Exploring mechanisms of change in a dyadic relationship intervention for siblings in foster care	4
Feasible interventions for children in foster care according to service users and practitioners	4
Family dynamics in kinship care	4
Negotiating master narratives: The practice of ‘counterstorying’ in children's personal narratives about family‐related adversities	4
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	4
Psychotherapy for child welfare cases: Clinicians' and parents' perspectives	4
Using outcome measures in child protection work	4

Family treatment court participation and permanency in a rural setting: Outcomes from a rigorous quasi‐experiment	4
Adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness and happiness in Chinese college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Differential associations of threat and deprivation with emotion understanding in maltreated children in foster care	4
School belonging and hope among at‐risk youth: The contribution of academic support provided by youths' social support networks	4
Child welfare in non‐metro and rural communities: Experiences of child‐serving professionals addressing substance use	4
Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant	4
Mental health, adverse life events and health service use among Norwegian youth in the child welfare system: Results from a population‐based study	4
Behavioural problems of adolescents in secure residential youth care: Gender differences and risk factors	4
Thrown back: Reintegration experiences of National Guard/Reserve mothers of young children	4
Parental monitoring by foster parents, youth behaviours and the youth–foster parent relationship	4
Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century	3
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship	3
Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals	3
The ambivalent visit: Children's experiences of relating with their fathers during staying in shelters for women survivors of domestic violence	3
Knowledge exchange, foster care and early education: Introducing treasure baskets to foster carers of young children	3
Editorial: Transitions from care to adulthood—Persistent issues across time and place	3
Mothers living homeless in Madrid (Spain): Characteristics, vulnerabilities and relationships with their children	3
Exploring history in the social ecology of care leaving: Northern Ireland as illustration	3
‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence	3
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care	3
Involvement of children and young people in care order decision‐making—A Danish perspective	3
The parenting skill development and education service: Telehealth support for families at risk of child maltreatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood: Risk and protective factors throughout their life course	3
Differences in the reactions of adolescents to family violence	3
‘It's so much better than contact’: A qualitative study exploring children and young people's experiences of a sibling camp in the United Kingdom	3
Piloting the Mockingbird Family™ in Australia: Experiences of foster carers and agency workers	3
Child maltreatment and substance abuse: Unaccompanied children and adverse outcomes in long‐term foster care in the United States	3
Characterization of groups of siblings in residential child care in Spain	3
Parents' experiences of family team meetings in child welfare	3
Lovers for a time, mothers for life: Ecosystemic analysis of blended family experiences of lesbian mothers and stepmothers	3
The school experience of children in residential care: A multiple case study	3
‘They became my second family’: Children's relational lives and relationship‐based practice in residential care in the Philippines	3
The role of visits and parent–child relationship quality in promoting positive outcomes for children of incarcerated parents	3