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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Corona crisis and the erosion of ‘the social’ – giving a decisive voice to the social professions28
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review18
The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights17
Exploring stress, coping, and health outcomes among social workers17
‘Perhaps I should be working with potted plants or standing at the fish counter instead?’: newly educated social workers’ reflections on their first years in practice14
Using risk factor statistics in decision-making: prospects and challenges14
Burnout in Health Social Work: an international systematic review (2000–2020)14
Social workers use of knowledge in an evidence-based framework: a mixed methods study13
Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe: (dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments13
Governing the family: immigrant parents’ perceptions of the controlling power of the Norwegian welfare system12
Integrated care for individuals with mental illness and substance abuse – the example of the coordinated individual plan in Sweden11
Practitioner perspectives on the implementation of an electronic information system to enforce practice standards in England10
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice10
Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?10
Social workers in politics–a qualitative analysis of factors influencing social workers’ decision to run for political office9
The dignity circle: how to promote dignity in social work practice and policy?9
The importance of relationships in the encounter between NAV staff and young, vulnerable users. An action research study8
Resilience of child protection social workers: a scoping review8
Social work during the Covid-19 pandemic: staying close while maintaining social distancing8
Transformative practice: social work practice with vulnerable young people7
Using intuition in social work decision making7
Collaborative research and development: a typology of linkages between researchers and practitioners7
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?7
How congruent is person-centred practice with labour activation policy? Person-centred approach to vocational interventions on immigrant jobseekers in Norway7
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures7
Other ‘lenses’: a training programme for social workers and others working with asylum seekers and migrants in Italy7
Exploring populations view on thresholds and reasons for child protection intervention – comparing England, Norway, Poland and Romania7
The meaning of professionalism in activation work: frontline managers’ perspectives7
‘But what are we doing to that baby?’ Attachment, psy-Speak and designed order in social work6
The struggle over the character of social services: conceptualising hybridity and power6
Preparing students for social work practice in contemporary societies: insights from a transnational research network6
Refugee ‘crisis’ and social services in Greece: social workers’ profile and working conditions6
Professionals’ tinkering with standardised tools: dynamics involving actors and tools in child welfare practices6
Implementing the Individual Placement and Support approach in institutional settings for employment and mental health services – perceptions and challenges from a case study in Denmark6
Coordinated individual care planning and shared decision making: staff perspectives within the comorbidity field of practice6
Should we take their children? Caseworkers’ negotiations of ‘good enough’ care for children living with high-conflict parents6
Politics, preoccupations, pragmatics: a race/ethnicityreduxfor social work research6
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution5
The personal is political: reframing individual acts of kindness as social solidarity in social work practice5
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: on waiting within the asylum process in Sweden5
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among young people in secure state care and their non-incarcerated peers – a qualitative, descriptive and comparative study5
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work. A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 20195
Strengthening the working alliance between social workers and parents living in households with low income5
Politicisation processes in everyday practice with refugees: the experiences of Israeli and German social workers5
The impact of social support on emotional exhaustion and workplace bullying in social workers5
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
Community work and citizen activism as a response to the crisis in Spain: gender, poverty and social exclusion5
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work5
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration4
Child-researcher relationships in child protection research. An integrative review4
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow4
The encounter between professional and cultural values of social workers in the Arab sector in Israel: dilemmas, difficulties and challenges4
Social work and the Roma community: elements to improve current practices4
Outcomes in adulthood among former child welfare services recipients: findings from a Norwegian registry study covering two decades4
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order4
Is there a shared social work signature pedagogy cross-nationally? Using a case study methodology to explore signature pedagogy in England, Israel, Finland, Spain and Sweden4
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Loïc Wacquant, the concept of the ‘centaur state' and social work: the case of the Czech Republic4
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-194
Enhancing reflectivity in social, care and health professionals – identifying students’ abilities and needs4
Gender and ethnicity in social assistance assessments of single applicants with substance abuse problems4
Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level4
Trust and Power in the Space Between Visibility and Invisibility. Exploring Digital and Social Media Practices in Norwegian Child Welfare Services4
Marginalised groups protest against social welfare and public health: conceptualising the challenge for social workers4
Working conditions, health and exhaustion among social workers in Germany4
Constructions of childhood: the assessment of respite care for children with disabilities in Sweden4
Social justice, first? The policy action of South European social workers’ professional organisations in the shadow of austerity4
‘In the end you’re no longer the kid from the children’s home, you‘re just yourself’: Resilience in care leavers over 253
Therapeutic content in Swedish residential care for children and youth – managers choices and the reasoning behind3
‘Informed consent’ in consensual child welfare: some reflections on its controversial nature3
Structural disavowal and personal inundation of responsibility – a local perspective on pressure on mental health front-line professionalsStrukturell ansvarsfraskrivelse og individuell ansvarsoversvøm3
The relevance of practice development for professionalisation of social work3
Ambivalence in activation encounters3
Academic self-efficacy and future work skills in unaccompanied foreign minors: structural equation analysis according to residence time3
Experiences of family caregivers with day-care centers for elders in Southern China: a qualitative study3
The potential for civic and political engagement practice in social work as a means of achieving greater rights and justice for marginalised youth3
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents3
Social work research and human rights: where do we go from here?3
‘Easy ride or born to be wild'? The travelling of evidence-based social work to Sweden3
Into the swampy lowlands. Evaluating family group conferences3
Perspectives on organizational structure and social services’ work with clients – a narrative review of 25 years research on social services3
The double-edged sword – abused women’s experiences of digital technology3
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control3
From silence to recognition: Swedish social services and the handling of honor-based violence3
The unfinished democratisation of family service systems: parental consent and children’s viewpoints on receiving support in child and family welfare in Sweden3
Smooth sailing with the occasional ‘culture shock’: the experiences of Romanian social workers in England3
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design3
‘They should cook borsch, chop wood … ’: contemporary images of social work in the context of welfare policy reforms in Russia’s print media3
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex3
Professional caring in affective services: the ambivalence of emotional nurture in practice3
What matters while assessing quality of social services? Stakeholders’ perspective in Czechia3
‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work3
Smart welfare and slow digital poverty: the new face of social work3
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece3
Moving forward, waiting or standing still? Service users’ experiences from a Norwegian labour activation programme3
Policy values related to support for care leavers with disabilities3
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work3
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context3
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy3
Self-rated child maltreatment, behavioural problems, and contacts with welfare and police authorities – longitudinal community data2
Factors affecting user participation for nursing home residents with dementia: a critical interpretive synthesis2
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance2
Inscrutable patchwork: exploring inconsistencies in the history of twentieth-century residential childcare2
Holding hope and mastering the possible: mapping resilient moves of asylum-seeking and refugee families post arrival2
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study2
When your source of livelihood also becomes the source of your discomfort: the perception of work–family conflict among child welfare workers2
Unaccompanied young refugees in the European Union: a perennial limbo situation studied in a longitudinal perspective2
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study2
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review2
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden2
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care2
Human rights as an opportunity and challenge for social work in a changing Norwegian welfare state2
Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism as waiting in the migration and unemployment complexes in England and Sweden2
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review2
Dealing with risk in situations of poverty: when complexity in frontline practice becomes wallpaper for organisational policy2
Spiritual diversity in social work practice. The heart of helping third edition2
The research circle as a strategy for developing knowledge about children’s participation in child welfare services2
Variables of community social work and their interconnections in socio-spatial excluded neighbourhoods – example of the Czech Republic2
Examining self-care practice frequency among social workers: an international comparison2
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations2
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors2
Implementing attachment and biobehavioral catch-up in Norway: experiences from CWS parents, clinicians and leaders2
The unreflective practitioner: a pilot study on functional stupidity and social work2
The use of discretion in decision-making by social workers at child protection services in Italy2
Prerequisites for empowerment: a study of procurement documents for the provision of care in Swedish nursing homes2
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work2
Comparative social work practices with young refugee and asylum seeker: the European experiences2
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care2
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services2
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘deservingness’ and ‘promising victimhood’2
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance2
Be ready for the clash of powers: theorising power for teaching policy practice in social work2
Promoting financial capability within the field of social work practice among families with children: a systematic review2
General support versus individual work support: a qualitative study of social workers and therapists in collaboration meetings within individual placement and support2
Studying in challenging times – a longitudinal study on social work students’ situations during the Covid-19 pandemic2
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness2
Ethical transformations: developing ethical competencies for the social professions through action research2
Medication management in Swedish nursing homes: an ethnographic study of resistance, negotiation and control2
Examining the association of the subjective experience of poverty, adverse and positive childhood experiences in the adult population of Slovenia1
Social work in an assembly line? The development of specialisation in child welfare and further internal division of work between 2003 and 20181
Digital social work: tools for practice with individuals, organizations, and communities1
Emotional practices of care and expectations of cost-effectiveness in social work with children and families in Denmark1
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective1
Caring neighbourhoods: maintaining collective care under neoliberal care reforms1
Addressing the needs of people in prison: the case of prison work1
Swedish citizenship through multicultural parenting: parental support as a learning practice for migrant parents in Sweden1
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work1
‘I want to be one of them’: a study using photovoice to explore the inequities of floating children in China1
Editorial: why the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a children’s right reflex1
Cultural adaptation – between the cultural and the political: youth work in Israel’s unrecognised Bedouin villages1
‘I’m actually your worst nightmare’: intergenerational dialogues of social workers in search of the political1
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention1
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis1
Collective participation of children and young people in child welfare services – opportunities and challenges1
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study1
Towards an agonistic social work: a framework for political action and radical practice1
Time for and timing in social work with vulnerable families: responding to needs in neoliberal times1
Psychometric properties of a modification of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) for child protection services1
Front-line work in activation and targeting of re-qualification programmes: lessons from the Czech Republic1
Is discrimination a driving force behind the over-representation of children with an immigrant background in Swedish out-of-home care? A quantitative study from Stockholm City1
Social work and the COVID-19 pandemic. International insights1
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession1
Bedtime stories from inside – family practices and affinities in families with incarcerated fathers1
Solidary authority – conceptualising relations of care in statutory social work with vulnerable children and families1
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification1
Subjective experience of health, personal health resources and beliefs: supporting a lifeworld approach to social work in youth health1
Dream ore reality? The presence of Social Practice Development in social work practice1
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?1
Focus on client needs – A study on frontline legal aid in the Netherlands1
Social interactions among nonparental adults and parents in the neighbourhood: a mixed-method vignette study1
Social work and migration: the Spanish case1
Critical social psychology of social class1
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective1
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care1
Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care1
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)1
Radical help – how we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state1
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences1
Social work competence in disaster management: an integrative review1
Social exclusion in cross-national perspective: actors, actions, and impacts from above and below1
Cripping time in eldercare: waiting for the home care service1
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
‘Enjoy poverty’: introducing a rhetorical approach to critical reflection and reflexivity in social work education1
Designated officials’ approaches to judging serious incidents: an analysis of incident reports in care for older people, disability services and family services in Sweden1
Betwixt and between: qualitative findings from a study on a specialist social work service for Travellers in Ireland1
ICT training in Spanish non-formal education: a revolution in the making1
Preventing and redressing exploitation. Methods of anti-trafficking social work outreach in Northern Italy1
Caring about competition in eldercare? Staff groups, nursing homes, and Swedish market-inspired reforms1
Coping strategies in life stories of young adults with foster care backgrounds1
How children and young people understand and experience individual participation in social services for children and young people: a synthesis of qualitative studies1
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe1
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children1
Changes to assessments of child well-being brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic – Finnish family services and child welfare services supervisors’ perspective1
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices1
Effects of crises and neoliberalism on Spanish social workers: coping with meaningfulness, dissatisfaction, and withdrawal1
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services1
An assessment of Portuguese social professionals awareness of human trafficking1
Deinstitutionalisation and recommunalisation in Estonia and Hungary: a tale of two states1
Social work competencies: a descriptive analysis on practice behaviours among Romanian social workers1
‘What’s important to me is to get people moving.’ Fostering social resilience in people with severe debt problems1
Social Work and attention to the social dimension of eating disorders: an international systematic review1
Mothering in the context of fathers’ problematic alcohol use1
Social workers’ intention to hold elected political office: a quantitative study based on the theory of planned behavior1
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families1
Facilitators and barriers for implementation of community-based mental health interventions in Western and Eastern Europe - a systematic literature review0
Old and high: a guide to understanding the neuroscience and psychotherapeutic treatment of baby-boom adults’ substance use, abuse, and misuse0
Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation0
Forschungsethik in der Sozialen Arbeit. Prinzipien und Erfahrungen (Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, Band 23) Forschungsethik in der Sozialen Arbeit. Prinzipien und Er0
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands0
Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state0
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes0
‘With a little social support … ’: assessing the moderating effect of social support on risk factors and mental well-being among youth0
Editorial0
Critical thinking and the process of evidence-based practice0
People and climate change. Vulnerability, adaptation, and social justice0
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in Corona-Zeiten aus Sicht von Fachkräften. Eine empirische Studie zur Situation von Einrichtungen in Hamburg Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in Corona-Z0
Participatory social work: research, practice, education0
Writing skills for social work students0
Influences of the far right on social work in Germany: systematic attacks and daily shifts0
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition0
Honouring Hans-Uwe Otto0
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work0
Exploring social work0
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance , by Paul Mason, London, Penguin, 2022, 320 pp., ISBN-13: 978-00
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods0
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark0
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries0
New philanthropy, social impact and social work: insights from the Italian case0
Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit: Annual review of social work and social pedagogy in Austria0
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care: Knowledge and Theory0
Editorial0
Datenschutz in der Pflege. Sicher und pragmatisch umsetzen nach DSGVO Datenschutz in der Pflege. Sicher und pragmatisch umsetzen nach DSGVO , by Thomas Althammer with co0
Possibilities and pitfalls: exploring social welfare professionals’ experiences with interpersonal process recall followed by focus group discussions0
European social work after 1989: east-west exchanges between universal principles and cultural sensitivity0
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations0
The impact of neurobiological sciences on family placement policy and practice0
How social workers face ethical dilemmas? Strategies of resolution and associated variables0
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy: community views and discretionary patterns0
Ubuntu-based social work: what can social workers in Global South learn from Ubuntu to promote children welfare in communities?0
Social exclusion in a post-industrial city: towards a critical urban social work perspective0
Identifying and responding to domestic abuse in the older population: key challenges and complexities0
‘Educating for peace’: conflict, division and social work education in Cyprus0
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills0
Social workers’ risk assessment in child protection: the problem of disagreement and a lack of a precise language about risk0
Everyday citizenship and people with dementia0
Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counseling and the health professions0
European Social Work – A Compendium0
Expressive arts for social work and social change0
The application of the legal principle of proportionality in the practice of social work0
Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy0
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