European Journal of Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Work is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work26
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit26
Call for Papers23
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills22
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes15
Programme evaluation: A primer for effectiveness, quality, and value15
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark13
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures13
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands13
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods13
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers12
Social workers’ policy practice in Italy. Exploring different professional strategies for changing policies and organisations12
COVID-19 and risk: policy making in a global pandemicCOVID-19 and risk: policy making in a global pandemic, by Andy Alaszewski, Bristol, Policy Press, 2021, 160 pp., ISBN 978-1-4473-6202-9 (ePDF), 97811
Harm, safety and belonging: exploring ‘contextual safeguarding’ with refugee youth in Europe11
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making10
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support10
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care10
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic10
Editorial10
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges9
Constructing a client category of the experience of buying sex: an explorative study of how sexuality and masculinity construct the client category of men who buy sex within social work in Sweden9
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children9
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people9
‘Is it a positive or a negative?’ Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings9
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy9
When judgment varies: the potential of AI to reduce noise in social work assessments9
Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences8
Teaching social work8
Anger as a facilitator for transformative social work with and for people with intellectual disabilities: a theoretical contribution8
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges8
Editorial7
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?7
Participatory planning and individualisation in personal social services: a case study from the Czech republic7
Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics7
Informal networks in child protection assessments: between policy and practice7
Editorial7
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention7
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory7
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”6
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification': unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway6
Understanding professionalism through the lens of newly qualified social workers6
Social work research using arts-based methods6
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers6
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate6
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering6
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services6
A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families6
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex6
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families5
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future5
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges5
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-195
Contested legacies: critical perspectives on postwar modern housing5
Collective permanent supportive housing for older adults with homelessness and substance use: enabling environments and risk environments5
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people Kulturelles Wohlbefinden und Soziale Arbeit: Konzeptionelle Ansätze u5
Diverging and converging perceptions in legitimising policy advocacy: social work advocates and policymakers at the local level5
Soziale Arbeit in guter Gesellschaft5
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care5
Understanding social work professionalism through organisational lens: a study of social workers in Sweden5
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war5
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?5
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use5
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)5
A call for ecosocial community work: challenges and possibilities for ecosocial work in local neighbourhoods in Sweden5
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents5
Life after Covid-19: the other side of the crisis4
Activation policy and discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) – introducing a multi-layered explanatory model4
Social work and the environment4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden4
Bridging theory and practice in child welfare education: preparing students for practice4
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition4
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women4
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations4
Eco-social work: Politica e lavoro sociale nella crisi ecologica (Strumenti per il servizio sociale)4
Social work and social control. ‘Supportive control’ as a key feature of social work practice4
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review4
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study4
Editorial4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries4
Mobilizing moral outrage: agonistic social work through coalition-building practices4
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective4
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts4
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services4
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education4
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps3
Critical social psychology of social class3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic3
A dialogue with Wonderhill: social work, place-making and creating spaces for new meanings3
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden3
Social work as ‘pest’ or agent of positive change: the accommodating and transformative aspects of resilience in the discursive stances of (future) Czech social workers3
Admission of an older person into a care home in Europe: exploring the dimensions of a ‘Healthy Transition’ and the potential role of social work3
Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India3
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations3
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal3
Between reflection and function: the dual study programme as a symptom of the structural transformation of social work3
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway3
Political ideology and social work3
When the outside penetrates the inside: the relationship between Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli social workers in mixed cities during the events of May 20213
Cripping the academy: Disability, access, and accountability in the light of crip spacetime3
Dilemmas faced by social workers while working with Ethiopian families in Israel: A qualitative research study3
Individual placement and support in the Scandinavian countries: a scoping review of providers’ perspectives on implementation and integration in cross-sectoral settings3
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT3
Individual and organisational resilience in social services3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe3
Language disordant social work in a multilingual word3
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden3
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession3
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work3
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)3
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?3
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers3
Balancing paternalism and child centrism: a Nordic population study on children's rights in child protection2
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance2
Is social work an endangered breed? an analysis of the challenges for social work in Malta2
A mosaic of solidarity – Exploring religion-based solidarity initiatives in Flanders (Belgium)2
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care2
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective2
Is there a need for residential care or not?2
Breaking the deadlock: defining the quality of social work in the Czech Republic through social work research2
Swedish civil society mobilises in response to refugees’ ‘bare life’2
Correction2
Youth work in a digital society?2
What do childcare professionals agree on when they propose non-kin foster care?2
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention2
Notice of duplicate publication: Social work: past, present and future2
Global perspectives on youth arts programs: how and why the arts can make a difference2
Le travail social en Europe: entre passé, présent et avenir2
Revolutionary social work: promoting systemic changes2
A new history of social work: values and practice in the struggle for social justice2
Reconceptualising professionalism in social work: a critical reflection on classical theoretical models2
Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic2
Berührungspunkte von Sozialer Arbeit und Klimawandel. Perspektiven und Handlungsspielräume2
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance2
Arab social workers navigating multiple jobs in Israel: a qualitative investigation of their experiences2
Decolonising and reframing critical social work: research and stories from practice2
Hitting the road together: how do care workers develop pedagogical praxis in relation to a positive living climate in residential youth care?2
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow2
People processing in the Swedish child welfare system: services to whom, on what grounds and what type?2
Making sense of sense-making in child protection: insights from a study exploring social workers’ practice of personal reflexivity in a statutory setting2
Isomorphism between refugee families and social workers: a socio-spatial and temporal perspective on social work in asylum centres in Belgium2
Balancing in the pandemic: how social workers respond to new risks when supporting clients who experience domestic violence2
How social and educational professionals define their contribution to youth empowerment2
Under pressure: a critical scoping review of scales and instruments used in work with people in over-indebtedness2
Alice Salomon: critical social work pioneer2
The social career of foster parents – the ambivalent meanings of money in the commitment process2
Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions2
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy2
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden2
Well-being and extended working life: A gender perspective2
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods2
The construction of the unmotivated client as a tool for solving the dilemma between control and reflexive approaches of social workers working with vulnerable children in the Czech Republic2
Do they have a voice? Perspectives on participation and democratic values in child and youth welfare2
Like having 16000 tabs open in my head ’ – unravelling the complexity of safeguarding adults at risk of exploitation2
Changes to assessments of child well-being brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic – Finnish family services and child welfare services supervisors’ perspective2
Characteristics of child participation in different types of alternative care in Croatia: adults’s and children’s perspectives2
The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform: a contribution to think about the construction of care spaces2
The materiality of home visits at the margins of community care before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic2
Social Work and the political conflict in Northern Ireland: an exploration of spatial dimensions to the provision of state services for children and young people2
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing2
‘Building a new society in the shell of the old’: the power of prefigurative politics for social work2
‘A free position in midfield' – a qualitative study of faith-based social work with people who use drugs in Sweden1
Care and order in urban spaces: social workers and security guards1
Newcomers navigating the welfare state: experiences of immigrants and street-level bureaucrats with Belgium’s social assistance system1
Theory-Practice integration of social work education in China: field education1
Neutrality is not an option: Gaza and social work ethics1
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations1
Building Blocks. A youth participatory approach to socio-spatial quality in vertical housing landscapes1
Schamdynamiken in der stationären Betreuung Jugendlicher: Eine Ethnographie der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe sowie der Behindertenhilfe (Series: Schriftenreihe der ÖFEB-Sektion Sozialpädagogik, Band 10)1
Professional understandings of men’s violence against women1
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study1
Ethical conflicts, moral distress, and moral action in social work1
The role of financial support in preventing the need for child protection services: a mixed method study on the effects and pathways of additional income support1
Between virtues and principles Czech social workers’ approaches to moral decision-making1
Frontline discretion from a Bourdieu-inspired field perspective: an ethnographic case study of a Norwegian activation measure for sick-listed employees1
Social work and social education undergraduates exploring future fields of practice: predicting career decidedness and indecision1
Datenschutz in der Pflege. Sicher und pragmatisch umsetzen nach DSGVO1
Facilitators and barriers for creating a sustainable working life for first-generation immigrants – perceptions of multiple stakeholders in Sweden1
Exit, loyalty and focus. Dutch social workers’ responses to swing-of-the-pendulum policies1
Editorial1
‘Otherness and mutual foreignness’ in helping relationships: a theoretical contribution for social work interventions with people from migration background1
Explaining social workers’ policy practice in Germany and Switzerland: the role of skills, education, and organisation1
Managing a fragile motivation within an unfit organisation: young adults’ experiences of support to achieve employment1
The social construction of capabilities in a Tamil village1
‘Adults need the refresh button’: LGBTIQ adolescents’ perceptions, resilience and beliefs regarding social support services1
New perspectives on health and social care1
Pflege in Zeiten der Pandemie. Wie sich Pflege durch Corona verändert hat1
The figure of transformation and its effects on the professional spatial practices in the field of youth welfare1
Effects of crises and neoliberalism on Spanish social workers: coping with meaningfulness, dissatisfaction, and withdrawal1
A Swedish study about how staff reason and act when they suspect domestic abuse perpetrated by informal caregivers of persons with dementia1
Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona1
Service users’ complaints concerning social workers’ professional functioning: Arabs in Israel as a case study1
Human behaviour in pandemics: social and psychological determinants in a global health crisis1
Professional intervention strategies of social work students in practice situations1
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review1
Artificial intelligence: a neoliberal tool to better manage social inequalities?1
Social workers’ intention to hold elected political office: a quantitative study based on the theory of planned behavior1
Creating a space for human flourishing: a qualitative research study on the freedom of action of persons with young-onset dementia in residential elderly care1
Ageing and Covid-19. Making sense of a disrupted world1
Editorial1
Trust and Power in the Space Between Visibility and Invisibility. Exploring Digital and Social Media Practices in Norwegian Child Welfare Services1
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance1
Digital technologies in social work: an umbrella review1
Youth perspectives as a driving force in social work innovation – trying to counteract deviance and structural vulnerability of youth at risk1
Flight and migration from Africa to Europe: contributions of psychology and social work1
Family support services reduce the demand for emergency child removals at the community level1
Exploring Islamic social work between community and the common good1
Enjeux des territoires pour l'animation socioculturelle. Actes du IXe colloque du réseau international de l'animation (series: Les cahiers HETSL, no. 57)1
Disappointments in mediation for justice-involved girls in out-of-home care: fieldwork afterthoughts1
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in Corona-Zeiten aus Sicht von Fachkräften. Eine empirische Studie zur Situation von Einrichtungen in Hamburg1
Waiting as sociality – relational waithood in Norwegian activation1
Shelters for victims of intimate partner violence and the issue of quality on an expanding quasi-market: the case of Sweden1
Inclusive child welfare services, disabled children, and their families: insights from a European comparison of social policy and social (work) practice in Austria, Iceland, and Ireland1
The home visit in social work: a systematic review of the literature1
Efficacy in working with migrant families in child welfare services: influencing factors1
Care and support for older people with intellectual disabilities beyond the pursuit of ageing ‘in place’: towards constructing a space to be(long)1
‘Contextual safeguarding across borders’: learning about the ‘contextual safeguarding’ framework and youth ‘extra-familial’ harm in Germany1
What matters and who matters to young people leaving care: a new approach to planning1
Client participation in the investigation process – communication and standardised methods in the social services1
Datenschutz im Krankenhaus. 6., aktualisierte Auflage1
Workforce profile in early childhood education and care: Trends and challenges in 33 European countries1
Exploring the role of inter-municipal cooperation in the foster care market: between collaboration and competition1
Features and outcomes of community–academic partnerships in social work: a scoping review1
Youth work in Europa1
‘It´s like you are on autopilot’: a Swedish qualitative case study of frontline social workers’ perspectives on EIS1
Social workers as politicians. A quantitative study on social workers holding elected office in Germany1
Intergenerational social mediation and youth empowerment in Marseille’s marginalised neighbourhoods1
Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?1
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