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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration45
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work23
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit21
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills19
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes17
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work15
Writing skills for social work students15
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work15
Call for Papers13
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands12
The impact of neurobiological sciences on family placement policy and practice12
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark12
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods11
Editorial11
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands11
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures11
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support10
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), 97810
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic9
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden9
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices9
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people8
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children8
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care8
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making8
Teaching social work7
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges7
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective7
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work7
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
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 Sweden6
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy6
Are they waiting for the welfare state or Godot? Reflections from people who lost their jobs or incomes during Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey6
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?6
‘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
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory6
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention6
A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families5
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?5
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design5
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers5
Editorial5
Editorial5
The politics and economics of Brexit5
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services5
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)5
Humanities at the crossroads: reflections on theory, culture and resistance5
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex5
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate5
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering5
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future5
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-195
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”5
Social work research using arts-based methods5
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice4
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges4
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war4
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education4
Editorial4
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review4
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis4
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution4
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use4
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care4
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents4
Activation policy and discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) – introducing a multi-layered explanatory model4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden4
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective4
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
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Providing help or restrictions? Frontline workers’ understandings of behavioural conditionality for health-related social insurance and social assistance benefit in a joined-up governance context4
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women4
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents4
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families4
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people4
Life after Covid-19: the other side of the crisis4
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness4
Ambivalence in activation encounters4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries4
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review4
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations4
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services3
Social workers’ risk assessment in child protection: the problem of disagreement and a lack of a precise language about risk3
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers3
Critical social psychology of social class3
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India3
Editorial3
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
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study3
L’Accompagnement social et la mort3
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal3
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts3
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps3
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work3
Editorial3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT3
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care3
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe3
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
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?3
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study3
Berührungspunkte von Sozialer Arbeit und Klimawandel. Perspektiven und Handlungsspielräume2
Hitting the road together: how do care workers develop pedagogical praxis in relation to a positive living climate in residential youth care?2
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services2
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-192
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden2
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession2
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)2
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations2
Alice Salomon: critical social work pioneer2
Decent incomes for All: Improving policies in Europe2
Gendered domestic violence and abuse in popular culture2
Under pressure: a critical scoping review of scales and instruments used in work with people in over-indebtedness2
What do childcare professionals agree on when they propose non-kin foster care?2
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures2
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden2
‘In the end you’re no longer the kid from the children’s home, you‘re just yourself’: Resilience in care leavers over 252
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden2
Notice of duplicate publication: Social work: past, present and future2
Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic2
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
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy2
The materiality of home visits at the margins of community care before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic2
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway2
Political ideology and social work2
Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members2
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing2
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work2
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective2
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review1
Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona1
Efficacy in working with migrant families in child welfare services: influencing factors1
Learning to be a social worker: students experiencing dilemmas during actions taken within critical action learning1
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study1
Balancing paternalism and child centrism: a Nordic population study on children's rights in child protection1
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow1
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention1
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)1
A new history of social work: values and practice in the struggle for social justice1
Bedtime stories from inside – family practices and affinities in families with incarcerated fathers1
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations1
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
Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?1
The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform: a contribution to think about the construction of care spaces1
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance1
Family support services reduce the demand for emergency child removals at the community level1
Myths, narratives and welfare states: the impact of stories on welfare state development1
Human behaviour in pandemics: social and psychological determinants in a global health crisis1
Social interactions among nonparental adults and parents in the neighbourhood: a mixed-method vignette study1
Professional understandings of men’s violence against women1
Global perspectives on youth arts programs: how and why the arts can make a difference1
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors1
Balancing in the pandemic: how social workers respond to new risks when supporting clients who experience domestic violence1
Changes to assessments of child well-being brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic – Finnish family services and child welfare services supervisors’ perspective1
Making sense of sense-making in child protection: insights from a study exploring social workers’ practice of personal reflexivity in a statutory setting1
Breaking the deadlock: defining the quality of social work in the Czech Republic through social work research1
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods1
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance1
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care1
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences1
Youth work in a digital society?1
Datenschutz im Krankenhaus. 6., aktualisierte Auflage1
Newcomers navigating the welfare state: experiences of immigrants and street-level bureaucrats with Belgium’s social assistance system1
Examining the association of the subjective experience of poverty, adverse and positive childhood experiences in the adult population of Slovenia1
‘Adults need the refresh button’: LGBTIQ adolescents’ perceptions, resilience and beliefs regarding social support services1
Disappointments in mediation for justice-involved girls in out-of-home care: fieldwork afterthoughts1
Care and support for older people with intellectual disabilities beyond the pursuit of ageing ‘in place’: towards constructing a space to be(long)1
Swedish civil society mobilises in response to refugees’ ‘bare life’1
Professional intervention strategies of social work students in practice situations1
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 Republic1
Is there a need for residential care or not?1
Well-being and extended working life: A gender perspective1
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
Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counseling and the health professions1
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden1
‘I’m actually your worst nightmare’: intergenerational dialogues of social workers in search of the political1
Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions1
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance1
Facilitators and barriers for creating a sustainable working life for first-generation immigrants – perceptions of multiple stakeholders in Sweden1
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification1
The encounter between professional and cultural values of social workers in the Arab sector in Israel: dilemmas, difficulties and challenges1
Unaccompanied young refugees in the European Union: a perennial limbo situation studied in a longitudinal perspective1
Ethical conflicts, moral distress, and moral action in social work1
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘deservingness’ and ‘promising victimhood’0
Caring neighbourhoods: maintaining collective care under neoliberal care reforms0
Macht in der Sozialen Arbeit: Interaktionsverhältnisse zwischen Kontrolle, Partizipation und Freisetzung Macht in der Sozialen Arbeit: Interaktionsverhältnisse zwischen Kontrolle, Parti0
The double-edged sword – abused women’s experiences of digital technology0
Against critical thinking in health, social care and social work0
Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state0
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe0
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
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work. A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 20190
Editorial: a new year, a new aim and scope0
The contribution of school social work to climate change education and mental health support0
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?0
The challenge of controlling COVID-19. Public health and social care policy in England during the first wave0
Sensitive research in social work0
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services0
Modelling work-family conflict and turnover intention among social workers in China: the roles of job burnout and job satisfaction0
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice0
Editorial: embracing the ambiguity0
The meaning of care: how relationships can strengthen the wellbeing and participation of young people in residential care0
Examining narratives of Swedish care-leaving bureaucracy from a lived citizenship perspective: framing the problem in political terms0
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece0
Exploring the role of creativity in frontline social work: perspectives from social workers and managers in integrated neighbourhood teams in the Netherlands0
Editorial0
Theorien der Sozialen Arbeit. Ein Kompendium und Vergleich / Sozialpolitik für die Soziale Arbeit0
International social work and forced migration: developments in African, Arab and European countries0
Producing space through social work: Lefebvre’s social production of space and the history of social work in the Netherlands0
European social work after 1989: east-west exchanges between universal principles and cultural sensitivity0
Handbook on austerity, populism and the welfare state0
Solving global problems through local solutions: a transcontinental dialogue between Asia and Europe (Guest Editorial)0
Resilient social workers’ perspective on their professional work during the COVID-19 pandemic. An interpretative phenomenological analysis0
Practicing social work in deprived communities. Competencies, methods, and techniques0
Editorial0
Social glocalisation and education. Social work, health sciences, and practical theology perspectives on change0
Emotional practices of care and expectations of cost-effectiveness in social work with children and families in Denmark0
Expectations through retrospective narratives of aging trans women’s encounters with the Swedish welfare state0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy: a comparative European analysis0
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries0
Human growth and development in children and young people: theoretical and practice perspectives0
Editorial0
Social work competence in disaster management: an integrative review0
Social problems in the age of COVID-19. Vol 1. US perspectives. Vol. 2. Global perspectives Social problems in the age of COVID-19. Vol 1. US perspectives. Vol. 2. Global perspectives0
Who exits? A mixed methods analysis of determinants of turnover intention among Hungarian social workers0
Betwixt and between: qualitative findings from a study on a specialist social work service for Travellers in Ireland0
Social Work and attention to the social dimension of eating disorders: an international systematic review0
Social work leadership and management. Current approaches and concepts for social and human service organisations0
Navigating growth: practicum instructors’ approaches to teaching in German mandatory social work practicum placements0
Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy0
Integration and differentiation in collaboration between services for youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET)0
Editorial: Scopes and limits for mediation with young people. Lessons learnt and proposals for social workers0
Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care0
The complexity of constructing empowerment measuring instruments: a delphi study*0
Ethical dilemmas in policy practice: a Conceptual Framework0
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order0
A new role for the social services: fighting unemployment in the time of Covid-190
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work0
Social work competencies: a descriptive analysis on practice behaviours among Romanian social workers0
Home and family in alternative care – how Finnish legislation creates opportunities for belonging0
Social work and migration: the Spanish case0
Excluded voices in inclusive child and youth welfare services0
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