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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ambivalence in activation encounters36
Old and high: a guide to understanding the neuroscience and psychotherapeutic treatment of baby-boom adults’ substance use, abuse, and misuse21
The impact of neurobiological sciences on family placement policy and practice18
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition17
Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy12
Writing skills for social work students11
European social work after 1989: east-west exchanges between universal principles and cultural sensitivity11
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis11
Social work research from a gender perspective into intimate partner violence against older women in Spain10
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills9
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods9
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work9
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands8
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control8
The unfinished democratisation of family service systems: parental consent and children’s viewpoints on receiving support in child and family welfare in Sweden8
Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state8
Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counseling and the health professions8
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes7
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services6
Identifying and responding to domestic abuse in the older population: key challenges and complexities6
Forschungsethik in der Sozialen Arbeit. Prinzipien und Erfahrungen (Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, Band 23)6
‘What’s important to me is to get people moving.’ Fostering social resilience in people with severe debt problems6
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration6
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work6
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in Corona-Zeiten aus Sicht von Fachkräften. Eine empirische Studie zur Situation von Einrichtungen in Hamburg6
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work6
New philanthropy, social impact and social work: insights from the Italian case6
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice6
Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level6
‘With a little social support … ’: assessing the moderating effect of social support on risk factors and mental well-being among youth5
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review5
Intercultural mediation and the state’s surveillance of motherhood: contradictions disclosing coloniality of relationships, racialisation, and emotional control5
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective5
Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions5
Latino gangs in Spain: from the Latin Kings & Queens to the Dominican don’t play5
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden5
Social workers’ risk assessment in child protection: the problem of disagreement and a lack of a precise language about risk5
Time for and timing in social work with vulnerable families: responding to needs in neoliberal times5
Call for Papers5
Datenschutz in der Pflege. Sicher und pragmatisch umsetzen nach DSGVO5
Self-rated child maltreatment, behavioural problems, and contacts with welfare and police authorities – longitudinal community data5
Social exclusion in a post-industrial city: towards a critical urban social work perspective5
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance5
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy: community views and discretionary patterns5
Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism as waiting in the migration and unemployment complexes in England and Sweden4
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness4
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries4
‘I’m actually your worst nightmare’: intergenerational dialogues of social workers in search of the political4
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)4
Ageing and Covid-19. Making sense of a disrupted world4
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care4
Social work leadership and management. Current approaches and concepts for social and human service organisations4
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods4
The impact of social support on emotional exhaustion and workplace bullying in social workers4
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work4
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences4
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece4
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit4
Home and family in alternative care – how Finnish legislation creates opportunities for belonging4
Social workers in politics–a qualitative analysis of factors influencing social workers’ decision to run for political office4
Excluded voices in inclusive child and youth welfare services4
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden4
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures4
‘Educating for peace’: conflict, division and social work education in Cyprus4
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance4
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study4
Efficacy in working with migrant families in child welfare services: influencing factors3
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands3
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making3
Care and support for older people with intellectual disabilities beyond the pursuit of ageing ‘in place’: towards constructing a space to be(long)3
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations3
Structural disavowal and personal inundation of responsibility – a local perspective on pressure on mental health front-line professionalsStrukturell ansvarsfraskrivelse og individuell ansvarsoversvøm3
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices3
Governing through bureaucratically imposed waiting: on stuckedness among asylum seekers and refugees waiting for residence permits in Sweden3
Europäische Gesellschaften zwischen Kohäsion und Spaltung: Rolle, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven sozialer Arbeit (Series: Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, volume 25)3
Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation3
Children’s routes to participation in support groups: motives, barriers, and benefits from children’s and parent’s perspectives3
Ubuntu-based social work: what can social workers in Global South learn from Ubuntu to promote children welfare in communities?3
Influences of the far right on social work in Germany: systematic attacks and daily shifts3
Outcomes in adulthood among former child welfare services recipients: findings from a Norwegian registry study covering two decades3
Professional understandings of men’s violence against women3
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark3
Studying in challenging times – a longitudinal study on social work students’ situations during the Covid-19 pandemic3
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order3
‘Because otherwise she’s not doing her job – if she doesn’t listen’: children’s and parents’ views on participation in the assessment process according to the Swedish Disability Act3
The application of the legal principle of proportionality in the practice of social work3
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work3
Editorial2
Social workers’ experiential accounts of complex intervention development for youth and families in practice settings2
Disappointments in mediation for justice-involved girls in out-of-home care: fieldwork afterthoughts2
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps2
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal2
Editorial2
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 support2
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: on waiting within the asylum process in Sweden2
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 Norway2
How social workers face ethical dilemmas? Strategies of resolution and associated variables2
Editorial2
Gender and ethnicity in social assistance assessments of single applicants with substance abuse problems2
Practicing social work in deprived communities. Competencies, methods, and techniques2
Facilitators and barriers for implementation of community-based mental health interventions in Western and Eastern Europe - a systematic literature review2
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work2
Editorial2
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Perspectives on transitions in refugee education: ruptures, passages, and re-orientations2
Editorial: why the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a children’s right reflex2
L’Accompagnement social et la mort2
Everyday citizenship and people with dementia2
Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit: Annual review of social work and social pedagogy in Austria2
Building community and family resilience: Research, policy, and program (Emerging issues in family and individual resilience (EIIFR) series)2
Solving global problems through local solutions: a transcontinental dialogue between Asia and Europe (Guest Editorial)2
‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work2
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), 9782
The complexity of constructing empowerment measuring instruments: a delphi study*2
Social interactions among nonparental adults and parents in the neighbourhood: a mixed-method vignette study2
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?2
The challenge of controlling COVID-19. Public health and social care policy in England during the first wave2
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden2
Critical social psychology of social class2
Implementing attachment and biobehavioral catch-up in Norway: experiences from CWS parents, clinicians and leaders2
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors2
Social glocalisation and education. Social work, health sciences, and practical theology perspectives on change2
Brexit in the workplace: A psychology of survival?1
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe1
Editorial1
Discretion for whom? Local policies and the agency problem between politicians and care managers in Swedish social service1
‘Enjoy poverty’: introducing a rhetorical approach to critical reflection and reflexivity in social work education1
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review1
The proportion and utilisation of formal kinship and network care in Norway and Denmark: a comparative study1
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers1
Rights-based social work as a practice. The role of child welfare social work in the repatriations of Finnish children from the camps in north-eastern Syria1
Laïcité, émancipation et travail social1
Democratic participation in residential youth care – A matter of structure or relations?1
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations1
How children and young people understand and experience individual participation in social services for children and young people: a synthesis of qualitative studies1
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study1
Construction of discretion-related characters in social work with persons with disabilities in Finland1
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)1
Editorial1
Exploring the spatial turn in social work: a bibliometric and narrative analysis of the Latin American and Global North literature1
Family support services reduce the demand for emergency child removals at the community level1
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study1
Innovative skills to increase cohesion and communication in couples1
Contested and unheard voices within the asylum framework – participation challenges of unaccompanied minors in Germany and Norway1
Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences1
Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona1
Negotiating safety and vulnerability in everyday life: perspectives of UK older people from participative research1
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession1
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work1
Editorial1
Promoting financial capability within the field of social work practice among families with children: a systematic review1
Enhancing reflectivity in social, care and health professionals – identifying students’ abilities and needs1
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care1
Myths, narratives and welfare states: the impact of stories on welfare state development1
Perceptions of the professional self-concept of social workers in the context of the stress Covid-19 experience: a cross-sectional study1
Professional intervention strategies of social work students in practice situations1
Editorial1
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people1
Under the surface of the professional practice the challenge of anti-oppressive practice in forced migration1
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic1
Child and youth welfare and the climate crisis – conceptual enlargements from eco-social work and socio-spatial approaches1
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children1
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges1
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT1
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support1
Therapeutic content in Swedish residential care for children and youth – managers choices and the reasoning behind1
Social work and its methods not only in the context of direct work with seniors living with dementia1
A qualitative study of youth and child participation in Norwegian specialist child welfare services support measures: dilemmas, ideals, and outcomes1
Finding traces of everyday life in unusual places: looking beyond case files in German and Scottish residential child care1
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance1
Reflexive professionalisation in social work practice development, research, and education: the vital challenge of democratic citizen participation1
Solidary authority – conceptualising relations of care in statutory social work with vulnerable children and families1
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work1
Possibilities and pitfalls: exploring social welfare professionals’ experiences with interpersonal process recall followed by focus group discussions1
Human growth and development in children and young people: theoretical and practice perspectives0
Service users’ complaints concerning social workers’ professional functioning: Arabs in Israel as a case study0
Enjeux des territoires pour l'animation socioculturelle. Actes du IXe colloque du réseau international de l'animation (series: Les cahiers HETSL, no. 57)0
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work. A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 20190
Ambivalences of inclusion in society and social work. Research-based reflections in four European Countries0
A Swedish study about how staff reason and act when they suspect domestic abuse perpetrated by informal caregivers of persons with dementia0
Global perspectives on youth arts programs: how and why the arts can make a difference0
The voice of social workers in the Italian reception field: criticalities and solutions through the photovoice technique0
Social work in post-war and political conflict areas. Examples from Iraqi-Kurdistan and beyond0
Editorial0
Editorial: embracing the ambiguity0
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents0
Handbook of transnational families around the World0
Balancing in the pandemic: how social workers respond to new risks when supporting clients who experience domestic violence0
Caring neighbourhoods: maintaining collective care under neoliberal care reforms0
Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic0
Waiting as sociality – relational waithood in Norwegian activation0
Resilient social workers’ perspective on their professional work during the COVID-19 pandemic. An interpretative phenomenological analysis0
‘The first initial bit was trying to get her to speak to me’: trauma informed relationship-based practice with female offenders in care0
The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights0
Developing care experienced young peoples’ participation as peer researchers in an inter-disciplinary study: applying the ‘Ability-Motivation-Opportunity’ framework0
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective0
Configuring social assistance: conceptualizations and implications of the adoption of robotic process automation in the Swedish personal social services0
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design0
A new role for the social services: fighting unemployment in the time of Covid-190
The IBIC – a tool for social work? Social documentation, language, and persons with psychiatric disabilities0
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations0
Wie der Sozialstaat digital wurde. Die Computerisierung der Rentenversicherung im geteilten Deutschland0
Managing a fragile motivation within an unfit organisation: young adults’ experiences of support to achieve employment0
Alltag und Soziale Arbeit in der Corona-Pandemie. Einblicke in Perspektiven der Adressat*innen0
Politics for social workers: a practical guide to effecting change0
The contribution of school social work to climate change education and mental health support0
Editorial0
An assessment of Portuguese social professionals awareness of human trafficking0
Well-being and extended working life: A gender perspective0
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification0
Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care0
Effects of crises and neoliberalism on Spanish social workers: coping with meaningfulness, dissatisfaction, and withdrawal0
Care and order in urban spaces: social workers and security guards0
Academic self-efficacy and future work skills in unaccompanied foreign minors: structural equation analysis according to residence time0
Regrets among social workers in welfare bureaus: different types and coping mechanisms0
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy: a comparative European analysis0
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 Ireland0
Working with young people: a social pedagogy perspective from Europe and Latin America0
Sensitive research in social work0
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care0
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 Republic0
Editorial0
Modelling work-family conflict and turnover intention among social workers in China: the roles of job burnout and job satisfaction0
Decent incomes for All: Improving policies in Europe0
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice0
Exploring stakeholder perspectives to facilitate the implementation of shared decision-making in coordinated individual care planning0
Exit, loyalty and focus. Dutch social workers’ responses to swing-of-the-pendulum policies0
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future0
Integration and differentiation in collaboration between services for youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET)0
The flexibility of family co-ordinators in complex family interventions: building relations over time with families living in sustained poverty0
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good – narratives in applications for debt reconstruction in Sweden0
New perspectives on health and social care0
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow0
Collective participation of children and young people in child welfare services – opportunities and challenges0
Editorial0
Providing help or restrictions? Frontline workers’ understandings of behavioural conditionality for health-related social insurance and social assistance benefit in a joined-up governance context0
Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?0
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe0
Social work competencies: a descriptive analysis on practice behaviours among Romanian social workers0
Editorial0
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents0
Dissenting social work: critical theory, resistance and pandemic0
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?0
Social Work: Past, Present and Future0
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)0
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention0
Dealing with risk in situations of poverty: when complexity in frontline practice becomes wallpaper for organisational policy0
Involving user representatives in the evaluation of the quality of social services – from a pilot to a large-scale project in Slovakia0
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