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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion67
Reviewer list40
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia31
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear30
Professional identity of Wuhan and Hong Kong social workers: COVID-19 challenges and implications18
Late colonial social work practice17
Oscillations, boundaries and ethical care: Social work practitioner-researcher experiences with qualitative end-of-life care research15
A useful, clever bloke?15
‘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 crime15
Reflections on the thoughts of Norman Denzin: His connections to the once and future social work qualitative research13
Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts12
What does it mean to ‘start where the person is at’?: Reflections on personhood in social work12
In this issue…Onward!11
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention10
In (and about) this special issue: Things are NOT normal10
Stories of building friendships during long-term recovery from problematic substance use9
‘I’m going to take my power back and do whatever I can’: The self-efficacy of survivors of intimate partner strangulation and their engagement in research interviews9
In this issue … insights and understandings9
Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study9
‘A home to dream love into’ – An autoethnographic analysis of mothering with mental illness9
To be faithful to ourselves, we pay a price”: Jane F. Gilgun’s journey as a feminist qualitative social work practice researcher9
Many realities, one world: Dharavi, stranded migrants, and the lockdown in India8
Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth8
The lie of pandemic pivot and essential work8
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality7
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes: Deaf experts’ experience of routine social work practice7
Older immigrant Latino gay men and childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the Palabras Fuertes project7
In this issue7
Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding7
“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement7
Working: Glimpses of the pandemic from this fine place so far from home7
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing7
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation7
Thoughts on files7
Centering a pedagogy of care in the pandemic7
The double pandemic: Covid-19 and white supremacy6
Domestic violence and abuse across the life course: Considerations for practice and research6
Will someone knock on my door? COVID-19 and social work education6
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions6
Social work and the idea of object6
The voices of Japanese and U.S. elementary-school aged children with disabilities: Navigating stigmatization within peer groups6
“The pain is real”: A [modified] photovoice exploration of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness (in)visibility6
Experiences of secure transport in outdoor behavioral healthcare: A narrative inquiry6
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work6
Barriers and opportunities for nontraditional social work during COVID-19: Reflections from a small LGBTQ+ nonprofit in Detroit6
Traditional wellness therapy6
Coronavirus and domestic violence: Practices for dealing with a double emergency6
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 care6
What it means to be human, what it means to be hurt, and what it means to thrive6
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers6
Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement5
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research5
Book review: Breaking apart intimate partner violence and abuse5
Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people5
From critical reflection to critical professional practice: Addressing the tensions between critical and hegemonic perspectives5
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine5
In this issue5
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories5
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action5
Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection5
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action5
In this issue… Qualitative insights advancing inclusion and understanding5
The emotional labour of academia in the time of a pandemic: A feminist reflection5
Thinking boxes, behavioural boys and the politics of love: ‘Doing’ post-qualitative social work research5
Connecting in resettlement: An examination of social support among Congolese women in the United States5
Jane Fenton, Social work for lazy radicals: Relationship building, critical thinking and courage in practice5
Book Review: How to write a phenomenological dissertation: A step-by-step guide5
Persuasion in practice: Managing diverging stances in needs assessment meetings with older couples living with dementia5
Experiences of parents of autistic children who adopted a cat5
What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot4
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis4
Baraza as method: Adapting a traditional conversational space for data collection and pathways for change4
Situated knowledge-making in dynamic collaboration: A reflexive case study of social work practice research in mainland China4
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions4
Experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic: From the perspective of an MSW student4
Thematic analysis: A practical guide4
A sanctuary: Mourning the loss of the classroom during COVID4
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research4
Digital social work: Conceptualising a hybrid anticipatory practice4
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand4
Participatory research in a pandemic: The impact of Covid-19 on co-designing research with autistic people4
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience4
Narratives, masks and COVID-19: A qualitative reflection4
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams4
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review4
Moving on: Reflections on time well spent4
In this issue… exploring identities, methodologies, and lived experiences in social work practice4
An ethic of care? Academic administration and pandemic policy4
In this issue …4
Honouring the artistry in qualitative social work research4
Parents at war: A positioning analysis of how parents negotiate their loss after experiencing child removal by the state4
Community-based participatory action research with LGBTQIA+ youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections from a collaborative autoethnography4
Applying feminist principles to social work teaching: Pandemic times and beyond4
The struggle for social work professional identity in contemporary Zimbabwe: A study on abuse of the social work title3
Worker collectivity in child welfare: Mobilising action and commitment through team meetings3
In this issue…A reader’s positionality3
Social workers’ constructions of parents to children in foster care3
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection3
Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older deafblind people3
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison3
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café3
“Do I understand you right then?”: (re)formulations of users’ initial problem descriptions in social services’ online chat3
Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why3
In this issue…with a note on context3
Meanings and expressions of co-responsibility: A small qualitative study based on the reflections from Chilean social workers involved in public-private child welfare3
Thanks to reviewers3
Somali parenting in Western contexts: Acculturative stressors and family strengths3
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants3
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review3
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice3
The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse3
Finding beauty in the beast: Pandemic meditations and the humanities in social work3
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period: Considerations for reflexive, community-oriented and power-sensitive research practices3
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction3
Assessing and assisting prospective adoptive parents: Social workers’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews3
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention3
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare3
Care, concern, and Covid-19: Academic and personal positionalities in social work education3
Compound loss, complex grief: Social work during a pandemic3
Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach3
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships3
Book Review: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty3
Themes do not emerge. An editor’s reflections on the use of Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis3
In this issue…3
Each day perishing: A meditation on chaos, time, the virus3
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives3
Mama! I hear your silence: Grief and COVID-19 on the Global North and South disparity2
Towards digitally mediated social work – the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work2
‘Through no fault of their own’: Social work students’ use of language to construct ‘service user’ identities2
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy2
In this issue…Situating social work in the life worlds of people we work with2
Catherine Clark Kroeger and James R Beck, Women, Abuse, and the Bible: How scripture can be used to hurt or heal2
Navigating multiple identities in the American workplace: Microaggression and the caribbean diaspora2
Ethos of science, pathos of war: Social work and pandemic rhetoric2
Older adults’ experiences of being at a senior summer camp—A phenomenographic study2
“When we talk about intimate partner violence we talk in an adult way” – Social workers’ descriptions of intimate partner violence between teenagers2
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology: A nurturing space for storytelling, achievement and research2
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support2
Exploring indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the indigenous connectedness framework2
Confusing questions in qualitative inquiry: Research, interview, and analysis2
‘I like checking in on myself’: Control group experiences in a strengths-based addiction recovery study, with implications for self-monitoring and measurement reactivity2
A meta-ethnographic synthesis of lived experience of spouse caregivers in chronic illness2
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study2
Studying social workers’ roles in natural disasters during a global pandemic: What can we learn?2
Social work undergraduates students and COVID-19 experiences in Nigeria2
The white light vibrations of Norman K. Denzin2
Assisting clients’ departure: On the multimodal organization of closings in social work2
Using ethnography to understand the lives of street sex workers2
Reflections on a pandemic: Disruptions, distractions and challenges of a clinical social worker on the frontline in New York City2
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry2
‘Look out you rock’n’rollers, pretty soon now you’re gonna get older’: A unique study of ‘Boys to Men’ over half a century2
Unpicking social work practice skills: Warmth and respect in practice2
How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices1
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey1
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work1
In this issue…1
A study on positive organizational scholarship and social worker self-care in Guangdong region, China1
Double jeopardies and hidden consequences: The reach of Covid-19 from birth to end of life1
Who knows what about you? Managing topic shifts during ‘conversational’ social care assessments in England1
Navigating grief and pregnancy loss through online story telling1
Policy responses: Social work in a pandemic panopticon1
The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil1
Still waters run deep: The invisible life of working mothers with disabilities in Lithuania1
What COVID-19 has brought us to: Art, activism, and changes in social work education1
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault1
Understanding past experiences of suicidal ideation and behavior in the life narratives of transgender older adults1
On becoming “essential”: Coronavirus lessons of ontology- from the migrant farmworker and us who consume the fruits of her labor1
Global collaboration and social practices to mitigate impacts of COVID-19 in the world: a lived experience of infecting1
Age logics in social work: The case of harm reduction for people over the age of 50 with long-term substance use problems residing in wet eldercare facilities in Sweden1
“Why wasn’t I doing this before?”: Changed school social work practice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic1
Co-designing a relational ethical decision-making framework with Aboriginal Elders and young people to address health inequities1
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa: A look at the cultural conceptualisations of social problems in Ghana1
Black women social workers: Workplace stress experiences1
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research1
Toward a creative and imaginative research approach: Collage as a method of inquiry in social work1
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 Spain1
Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality1
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research1
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing1
“The doctors have more questions for us”: Geographic differences in healthcare access and health literacy among transgender and nonbinary communities1
Is that all?—Reflections on beginnings, endings, and hopeful transitions1
Member checking: A brief metalogue of a career interview1
Understanding service navigation pathways and service experiences among homeless populations1
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy1
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
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review1
Pandemic disruptions: The subversion of neoliberalism1
Living in dual liminal states: Navigating the loss of my father and my clinical career during a pandemic1
Unpacking support: A strengths-based investigation into the needs of incarcerated individuals’ loved ones1
The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on surrogacy in India: The role of social work1
A journey towards resurgence: Reflections from a graduate of the master of social work based in Indigenous knowledges program1
Mental health in subsidized housing: Readiness to assist residents with mental health issues in subsidized housing from the perspectives of housing employees1
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters1
Breastfeeding, social work and the rights of infants who have been removed1
Navigating fierce love during the pandemic: Reflections of a Pinay Scholar Warrior1
Approaching uncertainty in social work education, a lesson from COVID-19 pandemic1
Life routinization and clandestine photo-taking behavior among young people in Hong Kong: Implications for social work practice1
Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision?1
Navigating uncertainty1
Understanding Muslims’ interactions with non-Muslims: Laying the foundation for culturally sensitive social work engagement1
Social work and anthropology: Traversing, trading, and translating across boundaries1
Examining facilitator experiences delivering an intervention to system-involved women with mental illnesses1
Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences1
The “good” and the “bad” subject position in self-injury autobiographies1
The problem of professionalism: How White social workers enact Whiteness in their work with people of refugee background1
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work1
Women and homelessness1
‘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
In this issue1
Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State1
The role of phone mediation: Social workers’ and vulnerable clients’ role performances in mediated welfare encounters1
Perception of leadership challenges within the Norwegian child welfare services: A Gordian knot1
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