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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit19
Writing skills for social work students18
Call for Papers17
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work17
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands17
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods15
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures14
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands13
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes12
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills12
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers12
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work12
Programme evaluation: A primer for effectiveness, quality, and value11
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
Social workers’ policy practice in Italy. Exploring different professional strategies for changing policies and organisations11
Editorial11
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark11
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support10
Harm, safety and belonging: exploring ‘contextual safeguarding’ with refugee youth in Europe10
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic9
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care9
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden9
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making9
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices9
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children8
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective8
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people8
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy8
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work8
Teaching social work7
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?7
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children7
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 Sweden7
Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences7
Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics7
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate6
Editorial6
‘Is it a positive or a negative?’ Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings6
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges6
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering6
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention6
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory6
Editorial6
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”6
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges6
Humanities at the crossroads: reflections on theory, culture and resistance6
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?5
Social work research using arts-based methods5
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice5
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents5
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services5
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-195
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex5
A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families5
The politics and economics of Brexit5
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war5
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers5
Are they waiting for the welfare state or Godot? Reflections from people who lost their jobs or incomes during Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey5
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification': unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway5
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future5
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people5
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness4
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care4
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution4
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective4
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents4
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design4
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women4
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
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services4
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study4
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden4
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education4
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)4
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges4
Soziale Arbeit in guter Gesellschaft4
A call for ecosocial community work: challenges and possibilities for ecosocial work in local neighbourhoods in Sweden4
Understanding social work professionalism through organisational lens: a study of social workers in Sweden4
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families4
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations4
Ambivalence in activation encounters4
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts4
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition4
Eco-social work: Politica e lavoro sociale nella crisi ecologica (Strumenti per il servizio sociale)4
Collective permanent supportive housing for older adults with homelessness and substance use: enabling environments and risk environments4
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care4
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use4
Editorial4
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries4
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic3
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations3
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
Dilemmas faced by social workers while working with Ethiopian families in Israel: A qualitative research study3
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden3
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work3
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
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT3
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
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps3
L’Accompagnement social et la mort3
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden3
Language disordant social work in a multilingual word3
Political ideology and social work3
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe3
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work3
Critical social psychology of social class3
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations3
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-193
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures3
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
Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members3
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway3
Editorial3
Le travail social en Europe: entre passé, présent et avenir2
Characteristics of child participation in different types of alternative care in Croatia: adults’s and children’s perspectives2
A mosaic of solidarity – Exploring religion-based solidarity initiatives in Flanders (Belgium)2
A dialogue with Wonderhill: social work, place-making and creating spaces for new meanings2
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services2
Arab social workers navigating multiple jobs in Israel: a qualitative investigation of their experiences2
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context2
Balancing paternalism and child centrism: a Nordic population study on children's rights in child protection2
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective2
What do childcare professionals agree on when they propose non-kin foster care?2
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy2
Under pressure: a critical scoping review of scales and instruments used in work with people in over-indebtedness2
The materiality of home visits at the margins of community care before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic2
Alice Salomon: critical social work pioneer2
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention2
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
Breaking the deadlock: defining the quality of social work in the Czech Republic through social work research2
Decent incomes for All: Improving policies in Europe2
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing2
Isomorphism between refugee families and social workers: a socio-spatial and temporal perspective on social work in asylum centres in Belgium2
Notice of duplicate publication: Social work: past, present and future2
Hitting the road together: how do care workers develop pedagogical praxis in relation to a positive living climate in residential youth care?2
Berührungspunkte von Sozialer Arbeit und Klimawandel. Perspektiven und Handlungsspielräume2
Correction2
Gendered domestic violence and abuse in popular culture2
Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic2
Well-being and extended working life: A gender perspective2
Making sense of sense-making in child protection: insights from a study exploring social workers’ practice of personal reflexivity in a statutory setting1
Learning to be a social worker: students experiencing dilemmas during actions taken within critical action learning1
Frontline discretion from a Bourdieu-inspired field perspective: an ethnographic case study of a Norwegian activation measure for sick-listed employees1
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification1
Youth work in Europa1
Professional understandings of men’s violence against women1
Examining the association of the subjective experience of poverty, adverse and positive childhood experiences in the adult population of Slovenia1
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review1
Ethical conflicts, moral distress, and moral action in social work1
Shelters for victims of intimate partner violence and the issue of quality on an expanding quasi-market: the case of Sweden1
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
Efficacy in working with migrant families in child welfare services: influencing factors1
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods1
Working conditions, health and exhaustion among social workers in Germany1
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study1
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care1
Care and support for older people with intellectual disabilities beyond the pursuit of ageing ‘in place’: towards constructing a space to be(long)1
Myths, narratives and welfare states: the impact of stories on welfare state development1
‘I’m actually your worst nightmare’: intergenerational dialogues of social workers in search of the political1
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance1
Bedtime stories from inside – family practices and affinities in families with incarcerated fathers1
Exploring the role of inter-municipal cooperation in the foster care market: between collaboration and competition1
A new history of social work: values and practice in the struggle for social justice1
Is there a need for residential care or not?1
Non-abusing mothers’ formal support needs after child sexual abuse disclosure: the case of North Cyprus1
The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform: a contribution to think about the construction of care spaces1
The settlement house movement revisited: a transnational history1
Changes to assessments of child well-being brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic – Finnish family services and child welfare services supervisors’ perspective1
Between virtues and principles Czech social workers’ approaches to moral decision-making1
Do they have a voice? Perspectives on participation and democratic values in child and youth welfare1
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)1
Social workers’ intention to hold elected political office: a quantitative study based on the theory of planned behavior1
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences1
Flight and migration from Africa to Europe: contributions of psychology and social work1
Unaccompanied young refugees in the European Union: a perennial limbo situation studied in a longitudinal perspective1
Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona1
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations1
Professional intervention strategies of social work students in practice situations1
Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions1
Schamdynamiken in der stationären Betreuung Jugendlicher: Eine Ethnographie der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe sowie der Behindertenhilfe (Series: Schriftenreihe der ÖFEB-Sektion Sozialpädagogik, Band 10)1
Youth work in a digital society?1
‘Adults need the refresh button’: LGBTIQ adolescents’ perceptions, resilience and beliefs regarding social support services1
Balancing in the pandemic: how social workers respond to new risks when supporting clients who experience domestic violence1
Family support services reduce the demand for emergency child removals at the community level1
Global perspectives on youth arts programs: how and why the arts can make a difference1
What matters and who matters to young people leaving care: a new approach to planning1
Social Work and the political conflict in Northern Ireland: an exploration of spatial dimensions to the provision of state services for children and young people1
Editorial1
Swedish civil society mobilises in response to refugees’ ‘bare life’1
The figure of transformation and its effects on the professional spatial practices in the field of youth welfare1
Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counseling and the health professions1
Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?1
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance1
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors1
Datenschutz im Krankenhaus. 6., aktualisierte Auflage1
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance1
Pflege in Zeiten der Pandemie. Wie sich Pflege durch Corona verändert hat1
‘Contextual safeguarding across borders’: learning about the ‘contextual safeguarding’ framework and youth ‘extra-familial’ harm in Germany1
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden1
Disappointments in mediation for justice-involved girls in out-of-home care: fieldwork afterthoughts1
Human behaviour in pandemics: social and psychological determinants in a global health crisis1
Is social work an endangered breed? an analysis of the challenges for social work in Malta1
Newcomers navigating the welfare state: experiences of immigrants and street-level bureaucrats with Belgium’s social assistance system1
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow1
Facilitators and barriers for creating a sustainable working life for first-generation immigrants – perceptions of multiple stakeholders in Sweden1
Editorial0
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work. A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 20190
Social work leadership and management. Current approaches and concepts for social and human service organisations0
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘deservingness’ and ‘promising victimhood’0
Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy0
Integration and differentiation in collaboration between services for youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET)0
A new role for the social services: fighting unemployment in the time of Covid-190
Digitalisation and meaningful frontline work: insights from the Danish public employment services0
Editorial0
Social glocalisation and education. Social work, health sciences, and practical theology perspectives on change0
Home and family in alternative care – how Finnish legislation creates opportunities for belonging0
Arab minority social workers’ interventions in taboo topics: challenges and coping mechanisms0
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services0
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order0
Going beyond dichotomous political discourses about children’s participation and voice: unfolding the complexities of children’s needs in and around supervised contact in Denmark0
Betwixt and between: qualitative findings from a study on a specialist social work service for Travellers in Ireland0
Exploring the role of creativity in frontline social work: perspectives from social workers and managers in integrated neighbourhood teams in the Netherlands0
Expectations through retrospective narratives of aging trans women’s encounters with the Swedish welfare state0
Multilocal housing arrangements of young people in residential care0
Editorial: Scopes and limits for mediation with young people. Lessons learnt and proposals for social workers0
Practicing social work in deprived communities. Competencies, methods, and techniques0
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work0
Coping within constrained social care: emotion work, collective rulemaking, and prioritisation in Nordic eldercare0
Excluded voices in inclusive child and youth welfare services0
Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state0
Emotional practices of care and expectations of cost-effectiveness in social work with children and families in Denmark0
Idle time of accelerating wheel? Navigating temporal complexity in social work during the pandemic collapse0
European social work after 1989: east-west exchanges between universal principles and cultural sensitivity0
Who exits? A mixed methods analysis of determinants of turnover intention among Hungarian social workers0
Interprofessional service network practices in the family centre context0
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?0
The double-edged sword – abused women’s experiences of digital technology0
The challenge of controlling COVID-19. Public health and social care policy in England during the first wave0
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece0
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries0
The meaning of care: how relationships can strengthen the wellbeing and participation of young people in residential care0
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