European Journal of Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Work is 0. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review36
The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights21
Burnout in Health Social Work: an international systematic review (2000–2020)18
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice18
Practitioner perspectives on the implementation of an electronic information system to enforce practice standards in England15
Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?14
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work. A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 201912
Integrated care for individuals with mental illness and substance abuse – the example of the coordinated individual plan in Sweden11
Using intuition in social work decision making11
Resilience of child protection social workers: a scoping review11
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance10
Implementing the Individual Placement and Support approach in institutional settings for employment and mental health services – perceptions and challenges from a case study in Denmark10
Social workers in politics–a qualitative analysis of factors influencing social workers’ decision to run for political office10
‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work9
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work9
Exploring populations view on thresholds and reasons for child protection intervention – comparing England, Norway, Poland and Romania8
The impact of social support on emotional exhaustion and workplace bullying in social workers8
The encounter between professional and cultural values of social workers in the Arab sector in Israel: dilemmas, difficulties and challenges8
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?8
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures8
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: on waiting within the asylum process in Sweden7
‘But what are we doing to that baby?’ Attachment, psy-Speak and designed order in social work7
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order7
The struggle over the character of social services: conceptualising hybridity and power7
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘deservingness’ and ‘promising victimhood’6
Social work and the Roma community: elements to improve current practices6
The unfinished democratisation of family service systems: parental consent and children’s viewpoints on receiving support in child and family welfare in Sweden6
Child-researcher relationships in child protection research. An integrative review6
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution6
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations6
Outcomes in adulthood among former child welfare services recipients: findings from a Norwegian registry study covering two decades6
Moving forward, waiting or standing still? Service users’ experiences from a Norwegian labour activation programme6
Smart welfare and slow digital poverty: the new face of social work6
Perspectives on organizational structure and social services’ work with clients – a narrative review of 25 years research on social services6
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration6
Coordinated individual care planning and shared decision making: staff perspectives within the comorbidity field of practice6
The double-edged sword – abused women’s experiences of digital technology5
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow5
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context5
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy5
Enhancing reflectivity in social, care and health professionals – identifying students’ abilities and needs5
Trust and Power in the Space Between Visibility and Invisibility. Exploring Digital and Social Media Practices in Norwegian Child Welfare Services5
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe5
Providing help or restrictions? Frontline workers’ understandings of behavioural conditionality for health-related social insurance and social assistance benefit in a joined-up governance context5
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services5
Gender and ethnicity in social assistance assessments of single applicants with substance abuse problems5
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents5
Factors affecting user participation for nursing home residents with dementia: a critical interpretive synthesis5
Strengthening the working alliance between social workers and parents living in households with low income5
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis5
When your source of livelihood also becomes the source of your discomfort: the perception of work–family conflict among child welfare workers4
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-194
Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism as waiting in the migration and unemployment complexes in England and Sweden4
Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level4
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification4
Caring neighbourhoods: maintaining collective care under neoliberal care reforms4
Social work research and human rights: where do we go from here?4
Towards an agonistic social work: a framework for political action and radical practice4
‘In the end you’re no longer the kid from the children’s home, you‘re just yourself’: Resilience in care leavers over 254
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study4
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work4
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control4
What matters while assessing quality of social services? Stakeholders’ perspective in Czechia4
Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care4
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex4
‘Easy ride or born to be wild'? The travelling of evidence-based social work to Sweden4
Professional caring in affective services: the ambivalence of emotional nurture in practice4
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece4
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden4
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work4
From silence to recognition: Swedish social services and the handling of honor-based violence4
Prerequisites for empowerment: a study of procurement documents for the provision of care in Swedish nursing homes4
Working conditions, health and exhaustion among social workers in Germany4
Therapeutic content in Swedish residential care for children and youth – managers choices and the reasoning behind3
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review3
‘Informed consent’ in consensual child welfare: some reflections on its controversial nature3
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study3
Social work competencies: a descriptive analysis on practice behaviours among Romanian social workers3
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services3
Holding hope and mastering the possible: mapping resilient moves of asylum-seeking and refugee families post arrival3
Examining self-care practice frequency among social workers: an international comparison3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession3
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors3
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care3
Medication management in Swedish nursing homes: an ethnographic study of resistance, negotiation and control3
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design3
Ambivalence in activation encounters3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India3
Unaccompanied young refugees in the European Union: a perennial limbo situation studied in a longitudinal perspective3
Promoting financial capability within the field of social work practice among families with children: a systematic review3
Structural disavowal and personal inundation of responsibility – a local perspective on pressure on mental health front-line professionalsStrukturell ansvarsfraskrivelse og individuell ansvarsoversvøm3
Support groups for informal caregivers of people with dementia as opportunities for empowerment in Estonia3
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness3
Academic self-efficacy and future work skills in unaccompanied foreign minors: structural equation analysis according to residence time3
Smooth sailing with the occasional ‘culture shock’: the experiences of Romanian social workers in England3
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work2
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children2
Balancing in the pandemic: how social workers respond to new risks when supporting clients who experience domestic violence2
General support versus individual work support: a qualitative study of social workers and therapists in collaboration meetings within individual placement and support2
Swedish citizenship through multicultural parenting: parental support as a learning practice for migrant parents in Sweden2
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)2
Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic2
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review2
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)2
Effects of crises and neoliberalism on Spanish social workers: coping with meaningfulness, dissatisfaction, and withdrawal2
Frontline discretion from a Bourdieu-inspired field perspective: an ethnographic case study of a Norwegian activation measure for sick-listed employees2
Developing and integrating professional resilience: influencing factors for social workers as students and new practitioners2
ICT training in Spanish non-formal education: a revolution in the making2
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance2
How children and young people understand and experience individual participation in social services for children and young people: a synthesis of qualitative studies2
The complexity of constructing empowerment measuring instruments: a delphi study*2
Betwixt and between: qualitative findings from a study on a specialist social work service for Travellers in Ireland2
Implementing attachment and biobehavioral catch-up in Norway: experiences from CWS parents, clinicians and leaders2
Bedtime stories from inside – family practices and affinities in families with incarcerated fathers2
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences2
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention2
Self-rated child maltreatment, behavioural problems, and contacts with welfare and police authorities – longitudinal community data2
Dealing with risk in situations of poverty: when complexity in frontline practice becomes wallpaper for organisational policy2
Psychometric properties of a modification of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) for child protection services2
Cripping time in eldercare: waiting for the home care service2
Variables of community social work and their interconnections in socio-spatial excluded neighbourhoods – example of the Czech Republic2
Examining the association of the subjective experience of poverty, adverse and positive childhood experiences in the adult population of Slovenia2
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study2
Ubuntu-based social work: what can social workers in Global South learn from Ubuntu to promote children welfare in communities?2
Ethical transformations: developing ethical competencies for the social professions through action research2
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work2
Coping strategies in life stories of young adults with foster care backgrounds2
Studying in challenging times – a longitudinal study on social work students’ situations during the Covid-19 pandemic2
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
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care2
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 Ireland2
‘What’s important to me is to get people moving.’ Fostering social resilience in people with severe debt problems2
‘I want to be one of them’: a study using photovoice to explore the inequities of floating children in China2
Determining interventions for vulnerable families: the nature of disagreement and consensus-seeking2
The research circle as a strategy for developing knowledge about children’s participation in child welfare services2
Be ready for the clash of powers: theorising power for teaching policy practice in social work2
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective2
Social work and migration: the Spanish case1
A Swedish study about how staff reason and act when they suspect domestic abuse perpetrated by informal caregivers of persons with dementia1
‘I’m actually your worst nightmare’: intergenerational dialogues of social workers in search of the political1
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families1
Cultural adaptation – between the cultural and the political: youth work in Israel’s unrecognised Bedouin villages1
Time for and timing in social work with vulnerable families: responding to needs in neoliberal times1
Social workers’ intention to hold elected political office: a quantitative study based on the theory of planned behavior1
Collective participation of children and young people in child welfare services – opportunities and challenges1
Social Work and attention to the social dimension of eating disorders: an international systematic review1
Developing welfare technology to increase children’s participation in child welfare assessments: an empirical case in Sweden1
Solidary authority – conceptualising relations of care in statutory social work with vulnerable children and families1
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices1
Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway1
Dream ore reality? The presence of Social Practice Development in social work practice1
Negotiating safety and vulnerability in everyday life: perspectives of UK older people from participative research1
Emotional practices of care and expectations of cost-effectiveness in social work with children and families in Denmark1
Social interactions among nonparental adults and parents in the neighbourhood: a mixed-method vignette study1
Regrets among social workers in welfare bureaus: different types and coping mechanisms1
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care1
Changes to assessments of child well-being brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic – Finnish family services and child welfare services supervisors’ perspective1
Integration and differentiation in collaboration between services for youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET)1
‘With a little social support … ’: assessing the moderating effect of social support on risk factors and mental well-being among youth1
Social work and the COVID-19 pandemic. International insights1
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective1
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills1
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing1
Social work and quality: advantages and difficulties for implementation in Spain1
Designated officials’ approaches to judging serious incidents: an analysis of incident reports in care for older people, disability services and family services in Sweden1
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention1
Discretion for whom? Local policies and the agency problem between politicians and care managers in Swedish social service1
How social workers face ethical dilemmas? Strategies of resolution and associated variables1
Influence of role stress on Spanish social workers’ burnout and engagement: the moderating function of recovery and coping1
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work1
Focus on client needs – A study on frontline legal aid in the Netherlands1
Critical social psychology of social class1
Theoretical underpinnings of active labour market programmes implemented by municipal and non-governmental organisations in Sweden1
Sensitive research in social work1
‘Educating for peace’: conflict, division and social work education in Cyprus1
Front-line work in activation and targeting of re-qualification programmes: lessons from the Czech Republic1
Managing a fragile motivation within an unfit organisation: young adults’ experiences of support to achieve employment1
Deinstitutionalisation and recommunalisation in Estonia and Hungary: a tale of two states1
‘Good parenting’ among middle-class families: a narrative positioning analysis of Norwegian child welfare workers’ stories1
An assessment of Portuguese social professionals awareness of human trafficking1
Social work competence in disaster management: an integrative review1
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory1
Caring about competition in eldercare? Staff groups, nursing homes, and Swedish market-inspired reforms1
‘Enjoy poverty’: introducing a rhetorical approach to critical reflection and reflexivity in social work education1
Possibilities and pitfalls: exploring social welfare professionals’ experiences with interpersonal process recall followed by focus group discussions1
Teamwork in social work: What are we actually talking about?1
Reflexive professionalisation in social work practice development, research, and education: the vital challenge of democratic citizen participation1
Social workers as politicians. A quantitative study on social workers holding elected office in Germany1
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?1
Preventing and redressing exploitation. Methods of anti-trafficking social work outreach in Northern Italy1
Editorial: why the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a children’s right reflex1
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Practicing social work in deprived communities. Competencies, methods, and techniques0
Datenschutz in der Pflege. Sicher und pragmatisch umsetzen nach DSGVO0
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), 9780
Identifying and responding to domestic abuse in the older population: key challenges and complexities0
The challenge of controlling COVID-19. Public health and social care policy in England during the first wave0
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes0
Everyday citizenship and people with dementia0
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands0
European Social Work – A Compendium0
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe0
Expressive arts for social work and social change0
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations0
European social work after 1989: east-west exchanges between universal principles and cultural sensitivity0
Exploring social work0
The impact of neurobiological sciences on family placement policy and practice0
Social work leadership and management. Current approaches and concepts for social and human service organisations0
Intercultural mediation and the state’s surveillance of motherhood: contradictions disclosing coloniality of relationships, racialisation, and emotional control0
L’Accompagnement social et la mort0
Social workers’ risk assessment in child protection: the problem of disagreement and a lack of a precise language about risk0
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective0
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 support0
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in Corona-Zeiten aus Sicht von Fachkräften. Eine empirische Studie zur Situation von Einrichtungen in Hamburg0
Solving global problems through local solutions: a transcontinental dialogue between Asia and Europe (Guest Editorial)0
New philanthropy, social impact and social work: insights from the Italian case0
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden0
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark0
Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit: Annual review of social work and social pedagogy in Austria0
Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counseling and the health professions0
Social workers’ experiential accounts of complex intervention development for youth and families in practice settings0
The application of the legal principle of proportionality in the practice of social work0
Social work research from a gender perspective into intimate partner violence against older women in Spain0
Honouring Hans-Uwe Otto0
Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy0
Ageing and Covid-19. Making sense of a disrupted world0
Old and high: a guide to understanding the neuroscience and psychotherapeutic treatment of baby-boom adults’ substance use, abuse, and misuse0
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries0
Social exclusion in a post-industrial city: towards a critical urban social work perspective0
Editorial0
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy: community views and discretionary patterns0
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance0
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations0
Forschungsethik in der Sozialen Arbeit. Prinzipien und Erfahrungen (Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, Band 23)0
Social glocalisation and education. Social work, health sciences, and practical theology perspectives on change0
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work0
Contested and unheard voices within the asylum framework – participation challenges of unaccompanied minors in Germany and Norway0
Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state0
Editorial0
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers0
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods0
Influences of the far right on social work in Germany: systematic attacks and daily shifts0
Writing skills for social work students0
Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation0
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition0
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit0
Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions0
Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona0
Latino gangs in Spain: from the Latin Kings & Queens to the Dominican don’t play0
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