Qualitative Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Social Work is 1. 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
Digital social work: Conceptualising a hybrid anticipatory practice42
The emotional labour of academia in the time of a pandemic: A feminist reflection33
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry29
“People look at me like I AM the virus”: Fear, stigma, and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic23
Black women and COVID-19: The need for targeted mental health research and practice22
Approaching uncertainty in social work education, a lesson from COVID-19 pandemic21
The revitalization of “Osekkai”: How the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of Japanese voluntary social work20
Place and space in social work15
Participant validation: Exploring a contested tool in qualitative research15
Amplified injustices and mutual aid in the COVID-19 pandemic15
Death, dying and bereavement care during COVID-19: Creativity in hospital social work practice14
Beyond a shared experience: Queer and trans youth navigating COVID-1914
Revealing the hidden performances of social work practice: The ethnographic process of gaining access, getting into place and impression management14
The double pandemic: Covid-19 and white supremacy14
Expanding the methodological repertoire of participatory research into homelessness: The utility of the mobile phone diary13
Social isolation continued: Covid-19 shines a light on what self-advocates know too well13
Entanglements with offices, information systems, laptops and phones: How agile working is influencing social workers’ interactions with each other and with families13
Emotional intelligence as a part of critical reflection in social work practice and research13
Covid-19, social distancing and the ‘scientisation’ of touch: Exploring the changing social and emotional contexts of touch and their implications for social work12
Parenting, privilege, and pandemic: From surviving to thriving as a mother in the academy11
Academic and family disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflexive from social work11
Discursive decisions: Signposts to guide the use of critical discourse analysis in social work10
The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil10
Professional identity of Wuhan and Hong Kong social workers: COVID-19 challenges and implications10
Disruptions, distractions, and discoveries: Doctoral students’ reflections on a pandemic9
Exploring opportunities for holistic family care of parental caregivers of children with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses9
Implications for social work teaching and learning in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflection9
Experiences of secure transport in outdoor behavioral healthcare: A narrative inquiry9
Safeguarding health equality for the disadvantaged during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned for the social work profession8
COVID-19: Where are the Nigerian social workers?8
Photovoice as a creative coping tool with the COVID-19 crisis in practical training seminar for social work students8
Centering a pedagogy of care in the pandemic8
Telehealth, friend and foe for health care social work8
When narrative practice suddenly goes online due to COVID-19 …7
“Their needs are higher than what I can do”: Moral distress in providers working with Latino immigrant families7
Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection7
A place for therapy: Clients reflect on their experiences in psychotherapists’ offices7
Resisting the politics of the pandemic and racism to foster humanity7
Will someone knock on my door? COVID-19 and social work education7
Beware the kudzu: Corporate creep, university consumers, and epistemic injustice7
The dialogue between what we are living and what we are teaching and learning during Covid-19 pandemic: Reflections of two social work educators from Italy and Spain7
Black men’s conversations about mental health through photos7
Confusing questions in qualitative inquiry: Research, interview, and analysis6
Perinatal social work during the Covid-19 pandemic: Reflecting on concepts of time and liminality6
Greenland’s emerging social conscience – Voluntary food delivery to people experiencing homelessness in Nuuk6
Professional or authentic motherhood? Negotiations on the identity of the birth mother in the context of foster care6
Studying social workers’ roles in natural disasters during a global pandemic: What can we learn?6
‘Through no fault of their own’: Social work students’ use of language to construct ‘service user’ identities6
Participatory research in a pandemic: The impact of Covid-19 on co-designing research with autistic people6
What creates the public’s impression of social work and how can we improve it?6
Harnessing Covid-19 to celebrate qualitative social work: Research and practice6
Demoralization in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: Whereto the future for young Australians?6
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa: A look at the cultural conceptualisations of social problems in Ghana6
“We are not like those who/…/sit in the woods and drink”: The making of drinking spaces by youth6
Disrupting hegemony in social work doctoral education and research: Using autoethnography to uncover possibilities for radical transformation6
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear6
Doctoral research amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: Researcher reflections on practice, relationships, and unexpected intimacy6
Global collaboration and social practices to mitigate impacts of COVID-19 in the world: a lived experience of infecting6
Community mobilization during epidemic emergencies: Insights from Kerala5
On becoming “essential”: Coronavirus lessons of ontology- from the migrant farmworker and us who consume the fruits of her labor5
Pandemic disruptions: The subversion of neoliberalism5
Hearing their voices: Youths’ experiences of unstable housing and homelessness post-care5
COVID and Camus: Reflections on The Plague, collective experience, and qualitative inquiry during a pandemic5
Constructing a conceptual framework for professional identity development in international social work students: A meta-ethnographic review5
Daily life in National Disability Insurance Scheme times: Parenting a child with Down syndrome and the disability politics in everyday places5
Perceptions of the social worker role in adult community mental health teams in England5
Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research5
Towards digitally mediated social work – the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work5
Social work undergraduates students and COVID-19 experiences in Nigeria5
Narratives, masks and COVID-19: A qualitative reflection5
“We belong to nature”: Communicating mental health in an indigenous context5
Fragile minds, porous selves: Shining a light on autoethnography of mental illness5
“Some days it’s like she has died.” A qualitative exploration of first mothers’ utilisation of artefacts associated with now-adopted children in coping with grief and loss5
Slow scholarship for social work: A praxis of resistance and creativity5
‘It was the best of times; it was the worst of times’: The impact of Covid-19 on families in the child protection process5
A reflection on living through COVID-19 as a social work professor5
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives4
In (and about) this special issue: Things are NOT normal4
Tales of precarity: A reflexive essay on experiencing the COVID pandemic as a social work educator on a precarious contract4
The scarred body: A personal reflection of self-injury scars4
Making labor visible in the food movement: Outreach to farmworkers in Michigan4
“I would say it’s alive”: Understanding the social construction of place, identity, and neighborhood effects through the lived experience of urban young adults4
Critical reflections and reflexivity on responding to the needs of LGBTQ+ youth in a global pandemic4
Emotion governance and practice resilience in the reflexive modernity: How community social workers in a low-risk Chinese city work with people from Wuhan4
Independent visiting with children in care during the pandemic: Disruptions and discoveries4
An ethic of care? Academic administration and pandemic policy4
“The pain is real”: A [modified] photovoice exploration of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness (in)visibility4
Collecting grief: Indigenous peoples, deaths by police and a global pandemic4
Working in the department of social services in the shadow of the coronavirus4
Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality4
Parent–Child Interaction Therapy: Findings from an exploratory qualitative study with practitioners and foster parents4
“The feel of the place”: Investigating atmosphere with the residents of a modernist housing estate4
Managing older adults’ fear of coronavirus disease: A new role for social work practice4
Barriers and opportunities for nontraditional social work during COVID-19: Reflections from a small LGBTQ+ nonprofit in Detroit4
Older immigrant Latino gay men and childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the Palabras Fuertes project4
Grandparenting in rural China: A culture-centered approach (CCA) to understand economic inequality and rural labor change4
“I’m meant to be his comfort blanket, not a punching bag” – Ethnomimesis as an exploration of maternal child to parent violence in pre-adolescents4
“Thanks for hearing me out”: Voices of social work students during COVID-194
Unpacking the worlds in our words: Critical discourse analysis and social work inquiry4
Migrants in Chile: Social crisis and the pandemic (or sailing over troubled water…)4
Reflections on navigating the PhD journey as a social work practitioner4
Unmasking depression: Challenging structural oppression whilst recognising individual agency3
Where has vulnerability gone?3
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research3
From critical reflection to critical professional practice: Addressing the tensions between critical and hegemonic perspectives3
Toward a conceptual model for successful transgender aging3
The power of the tongue: Inherent labeling of persons with disabilities in proverbs of the Akan people of Ghana3
The uses of small talk in social work: Weather as a resource for informally pursuing institutional tasks3
Black women social workers: Workplace stress experiences3
Humanity in social work pandemic pedagogy: Rejecting normalcy and embracing uncertainty3
“They’re not bad parents. They’ve just made bad choices.”: Mental health clinicians’ perspectives of parents involved with child protective services3
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support3
A sanctuary: Mourning the loss of the classroom during COVID3
Parents at war: A positioning analysis of how parents negotiate their loss after experiencing child removal by the state3
“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement3
Many realities, one world: Dharavi, stranded migrants, and the lockdown in India3
Praxis of cross-cultural social work practice (CCSWP): A critical discourse analysis of graduate student and faculty perspectives on cultural competence and relevant constructs3
Afghan women perceptions of gender roles, possibilities and barriers to change after settlement in Australia: A qualitative study3
Liberation-based social work theory in progress: Time to practice what I teach3
The “good” and the “bad” subject position in self-injury autobiographies3
“Why wasn’t I doing this before?”: Changed school social work practice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic3
Reflections on a pandemic: Disruptions, distractions and challenges of a clinical social worker on the frontline in New York City3
Unpacking support: A strengths-based investigation into the needs of incarcerated individuals’ loved ones3
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships3
Thinking boxes, behavioural boys and the politics of love: ‘Doing’ post-qualitative social work research3
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation3
Embodied tableaux: A drama method for social work arts-based research3
Historiography of empathy: Contributions to social work research and practice3
Reflections from Aotearoa New Zealand: Stay home, stay safe, stay strong and be kind3
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy3
Finding a path to anti-racism: Pivotal childhood experiences of White helping professionals3
Applying feminist principles to social work teaching: Pandemic times and beyond2
Weighing the options: Service user perspectives on homeless outreach services2
Honouring the artistry in qualitative social work research2
Positionality—An analytical building block2
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion2
Ethical decision-making of social workers in Spain during COVID-19: Cases and responses2
Examining the role of lived experience consultants in an Australian research study on the educational experiences of children and young people in out-of-home care2
Reframing facemasks as tools to balance individualism and social responsibility2
‘We shouldn’t be told to shut up, we should be told we can speak out’: Reflections on using arts-based methods to research disability hate crime2
Living in dual liminal states: Navigating the loss of my father and my clinical career during a pandemic2
Towards a social work of home?2
‘Becoming more confident in being themselves’: The value of cultural and creative engagement for young people in foster care – Dawn Mannay, Phil Smith, Catt Turney, Stephen Jennings and Peter Davies2
Collecting immigrant voices to inform a participant-centered dialogical facilitation method2
(How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions?2
The imaginative failure of normal: Considerations for a post-pandemic future2
Transferring from wheelchair to bed: (Re)subjectifying and partner-positioning a person with late-stage dementia in the care task2
The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on surrogacy in India: The role of social work2
Exhaustion and possibility. The wor(l)dlyness of social work in (G)local environment worlds during a pandemic2
What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot2
Meanings and expressions of co-responsibility: A small qualitative study based on the reflections from Chilean social workers involved in public-private child welfare2
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review2
You are here! Negotiating liminality in place in the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme2
Thoughts on files2
Improving Sensemaking in Social Work: A worked example with Deleuze and Art2
Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study2
“Biculturation”: Transnational social workers navigating movement into indigenous space in Aotearoa New Zealand2
Suffering, social work and the old masters2
Creating safety: Group reflections on surviving as a female, social work early career academic in the neoliberal academy2
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers2
Is that all?—Reflections on beginnings, endings, and hopeful transitions2
Questioning policy representations of women’s alcohol consumption: Implications for social work2
The relevance of biographic narratives for social workers’ professional memory, reflexivity and identity2
The lived experience of wounded helpers: A phenomenological study of social workers working with suicidal cases in mental health settings in Hong Kong2
Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences2
Shelter-based services for survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia: Experiences and perspectives of survivors2
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault2
Mindful energy and information flow: A reflective account of S.E.L.F connection during COVID-192
Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why2
Compound loss, complex grief: Social work during a pandemic2
The struggle for social work professional identity in contemporary Zimbabwe: A study on abuse of the social work title2
“Band-Aids on Bullet Holes”: Experiences of pediatric hospital social workers after 1 year of the COVID-19 pandemic2
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action2
Enriching social work research through architectural multisensory methods: Strategies for connecting the built environment and human experience2
What does it mean to ‘start where the person is at’?: Reflections on personhood in social work2
Understanding past experiences of suicidal ideation and behavior in the life narratives of transgender older adults2
Coronavirus and domestic violence: Practices for dealing with a double emergency2
The problem of professionalism: How White social workers enact Whiteness in their work with people of refugee background2
The lie of pandemic pivot and essential work2
They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse2
What COVID-19 has brought us to: Art, activism, and changes in social work education2
Exposing health inequities: Surreal snapshots from the Grand Canyon to global COVID-19 pandemic2
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research2
The role of bilingualism in Latino youth experiences of acculturation stress when living in an emerging Latino community2
Sylvia’s story: Time, liminal space and the maternal commons2
Experiences of baby removal prevention: A collective case study of mothers and community-based workers2
Ethos of science, pathos of war: Social work and pandemic rhetoric2
Pandemic and protest in 2020: Questions and considerations for social work research2
Assessing and assisting prospective adoptive parents: Social workers’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews2
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice1
‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits1
Lifting the veil: Considering the conceptualizations of racism-based trauma among social workers1
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia1
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey1
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality1
‘It was kinda like D.I.Y closure’. Using Photovoice to capture the experiences of final year social work students graduating amidst the pandemic1
Persuasion in practice: Managing diverging stances in needs assessment meetings with older couples living with dementia1
A study on positive organizational scholarship and social worker self-care in Guangdong region, China1
Working: Glimpses of the pandemic from this fine place so far from home1
Breastfeeding, social work and the rights of infants who have been removed1
Vietnamese social work practitioners’ conceptions of practice with sexual minorities1
Using ethnography to understand the lives of street sex workers1
Social work and sociology/sociology and social work: Peering back and forth1
‘Look out you rock’n’rollers, pretty soon now you’re gonna get older’: A unique study of ‘Boys to Men’ over half a century1
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention1
Examining early power dynamics within societies to protect children from cruelty1
Black girls navigate the physical and emotional landscape of the neighbourhood: Normalized violence and strategic agency1
Children’s narratives about well-being in the face of difficult life experiences: Renegotiated self-understandings as turning points1
Do the ends justify the means? Disability research in social isolation1
Visualizing multiracial identity development1
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions1
Social work and anthropology: Traversing, trading, and translating across boundaries1
A qualitative study examining the quality of working alliance as a function of the social identifies of clients and therapists during the mental health intake1
Evaluation study on social work intervention after an explosion disaster in China1
Conversation analysis in social work research: a scoping review1
Late colonial social work practice1
Policy responses: Social work in a pandemic panopticon1
Affective spaces, humour and power in 24-hour care institutions for young people in vulnerable positions1
Reflections on a pandemic and surveillance: Disruption, distractions, and discoveries in the United Arab Emirates1
A space between: Social work through the lens of a mobile tiny house encounter space1
‘It is like talking to very good robots’: Experiences of online support groups for parents with babies during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom1
“You have to continue doing the work”: Black women essential workers coping amidst the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism1
Mama! I hear your silence: Grief and COVID-19 on the Global North and South disparity1
Community life on demand in ground-floor shop spaces: A tactical place-making initiative in Hong Kong1
Victims, perpetrators, scapegoats and Russian dolls: Narrating violence within secure units for adolescents from a staff perspective1
Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach1
Cri-de-Coeur1
COVID en Español: Reflections of a trauma therapist serving Spanish-speaking Latinx survivors of violence1
Participatory photography and undocumented migration through Mexico at the intersection of social work and anthropology1
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection1
‘Any d*** can make a baby, but it takes a real man to be a dad’: Group work for fathers1
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention1
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities1
Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning1
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine1
In this issue1
COVID 19 meets changing traditional care systems for the elderly and a budding social work practice. Reflections for geriatric care in Ghana1
Life routinization and clandestine photo-taking behavior among young people in Hong Kong: Implications for social work practice1
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work1
Considering a new platform for academic campus interviews: Entering the virtual world1
The 6 A’s model of social worker associations and COVID-19: A preliminary insight1
Mental health in subsidized housing: Readiness to assist residents with mental health issues in subsidized housing from the perspectives of housing employees1
The menu of bad options: Academic leadership during the early pandemic1
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work1
Keeping violent offender rehabilitation on track: How the diffusion and redirecting of attentional focus/mood work in the GRIP program1
In this issue…p <.05 and other qualitative musings1
Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden1
Adapting to the unpredictable: The story of a Norwegian-Russian study of NGOs in the Murmansk region during a pandemic1
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience1
Memory and time travel: The time capsule challenge1
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