Qualitative Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Social Work is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Digital social work: Conceptualising a hybrid anticipatory practice56
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry51
The emotional labour of academia in the time of a pandemic: A feminist reflection38
Black women and COVID-19: The need for targeted mental health research and practice29
“People look at me like I AM the virus”: Fear, stigma, and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic29
Approaching uncertainty in social work education, a lesson from COVID-19 pandemic28
The revitalization of “Osekkai”: How the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of Japanese voluntary social work21
The double pandemic: Covid-19 and white supremacy18
Amplified injustices and mutual aid in the COVID-19 pandemic17
Academic and family disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflexive from social work16
Emotional intelligence as a part of critical reflection in social work practice and research15
Beyond a shared experience: Queer and trans youth navigating COVID-1915
Covid-19, social distancing and the ‘scientisation’ of touch: Exploring the changing social and emotional contexts of touch and their implications for social work15
Death, dying and bereavement care during COVID-19: Creativity in hospital social work practice15
Parenting, privilege, and pandemic: From surviving to thriving as a mother in the academy14
Towards digitally mediated social work – the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work14
Social isolation continued: Covid-19 shines a light on what self-advocates know too well13
Implications for social work teaching and learning in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflection13
Professional identity of Wuhan and Hong Kong social workers: COVID-19 challenges and implications12
Discursive decisions: Signposts to guide the use of critical discourse analysis in social work11
Disruptions, distractions, and discoveries: Doctoral students’ reflections on a pandemic11
Centering a pedagogy of care in the pandemic10
The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil10
COVID-19: Where are the Nigerian social workers?10
Telehealth, friend and foe for health care social work10
Photovoice as a creative coping tool with the COVID-19 crisis in practical training seminar for social work students10
Beware the kudzu: Corporate creep, university consumers, and epistemic injustice9
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear9
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 Spain9
Experiences of secure transport in outdoor behavioral healthcare: A narrative inquiry9
‘Through no fault of their own’: Social work students’ use of language to construct ‘service user’ identities9
Doctoral research amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: Researcher reflections on practice, relationships, and unexpected intimacy8
Resisting the politics of the pandemic and racism to foster humanity8
Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection8
When narrative practice suddenly goes online due to COVID-19 …8
“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 loss8
Will someone knock on my door? COVID-19 and social work education8
Safeguarding health equality for the disadvantaged during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned for the social work profession8
Confusing questions in qualitative inquiry: Research, interview, and analysis8
Disrupting hegemony in social work doctoral education and research: Using autoethnography to uncover possibilities for radical transformation8
Demoralization in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: Whereto the future for young Australians?7
Slow scholarship for social work: A praxis of resistance and creativity7
Studying social workers’ roles in natural disasters during a global pandemic: What can we learn?7
Narratives, masks and COVID-19: A qualitative reflection7
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa: A look at the cultural conceptualisations of social problems in Ghana7
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research7
The problem of professionalism: How White social workers enact Whiteness in their work with people of refugee background6
Participatory research in a pandemic: The impact of Covid-19 on co-designing research with autistic people6
“The pain is real”: A [modified] photovoice exploration of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness (in)visibility6
Harnessing Covid-19 to celebrate qualitative social work: Research and practice6
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 Kerala6
Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research6
COVID and Camus: Reflections on The Plague, collective experience, and qualitative inquiry during a pandemic6
What creates the public’s impression of social work and how can we improve it?6
“Thanks for hearing me out”: Voices of social work students during COVID-196
Migrants in Chile: Social crisis and the pandemic (or sailing over troubled water…)6
Fragile minds, porous selves: Shining a light on autoethnography of mental illness6
Social work undergraduates students and COVID-19 experiences in Nigeria6
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
Afghan women perceptions of gender roles, possibilities and barriers to change after settlement in Australia: A qualitative study6
Unpacking the worlds in our words: Critical discourse analysis and social work inquiry6
On becoming “essential”: Coronavirus lessons of ontology- from the migrant farmworker and us who consume the fruits of her labor6
Transferring from wheelchair to bed: (Re)subjectifying and partner-positioning a person with late-stage dementia in the care task5
Weighing the options: Service user perspectives on homeless outreach services5
Emotion governance and practice resilience in the reflexive modernity: How community social workers in a low-risk Chinese city work with people from Wuhan5
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 meaning5
Unpacking support: A strengths-based investigation into the needs of incarcerated individuals’ loved ones5
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation5
Many realities, one world: Dharavi, stranded migrants, and the lockdown in India5
Historiography of empathy: Contributions to social work research and practice5
Critical reflections and reflexivity on responding to the needs of LGBTQ+ youth in a global pandemic5
Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality5
“Why wasn’t I doing this before?”: Changed school social work practice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic5
An ethic of care? Academic administration and pandemic policy5
“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement5
Tales of precarity: A reflexive essay on experiencing the COVID pandemic as a social work educator on a precarious contract5
Collecting grief: Indigenous peoples, deaths by police and a global pandemic5
The scarred body: A personal reflection of self-injury scars5
Pandemic disruptions: The subversion of neoliberalism5
Conversation analysis in social work research: a scoping review5
Where has vulnerability gone?5
Older immigrant Latino gay men and childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the Palabras Fuertes project5
A reflection on living through COVID-19 as a social work professor5
Managing older adults’ fear of coronavirus disease: A new role for social work practice4
Coronavirus and domestic violence: Practices for dealing with a double emergency4
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection4
The struggle for social work professional identity in contemporary Zimbabwe: A study on abuse of the social work title4
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 care4
Toward a conceptual model for successful transgender aging4
Exhaustion and possibility. The wor(l)dlyness of social work in (G)local environment worlds during a pandemic4
‘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 Davies4
Liberation-based social work theory in progress: Time to practice what I teach4
Independent visiting with children in care during the pandemic: Disruptions and discoveries4
“They’re not bad parents. They’ve just made bad choices.”: Mental health clinicians’ perspectives of parents involved with child protective services4
Barriers and opportunities for nontraditional social work during COVID-19: Reflections from a small LGBTQ+ nonprofit in Detroit4
Compound loss, complex grief: Social work during a pandemic4
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives4
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action4
They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse4
(How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions?4
Grandparenting in rural China: A culture-centered approach (CCA) to understand economic inequality and rural labor change4
Working in the department of social services in the shadow of the coronavirus4
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research4
In (and about) this special issue: Things are NOT normal4
Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why4
Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach4
Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden4
Connecting in resettlement: An examination of social support among Congolese women in the United States4
Pandemic and protest in 2020: Questions and considerations for social work research4
Innovative technology-enhanced social work service during COVID-19: How ‘Garden on the Balcony’ promoted resilience, community bonds and a green lifestyle4
The uses of small talk in social work: Weather as a resource for informally pursuing institutional tasks4
Making labor visible in the food movement: Outreach to farmworkers in Michigan4
Reflections on a pandemic: Disruptions, distractions and challenges of a clinical social worker on the frontline in New York City3
Thematic analysis: A practical guide3
Social workers’ constructions of parents to children in foster care3
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review3
“I Don’t Know What World I Live in Anymore”: Social work student narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic3
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work3
The lived experience of wounded helpers: A phenomenological study of social workers working with suicidal cases in mental health settings in Hong Kong3
From critical reflection to critical professional practice: Addressing the tensions between critical and hegemonic perspectives3
An exploration of young people’s experiences relating to stability and permanence throughout their care journey3
The lie of pandemic pivot and essential work3
Reflections from Aotearoa New Zealand: Stay home, stay safe, stay strong and be kind3
Humanity in social work pandemic pedagogy: Rejecting normalcy and embracing uncertainty3
Black women social workers: Workplace stress experiences3
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support3
Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences3
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships3
Applying feminist principles to social work teaching: Pandemic times and beyond3
What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot3
Exposing health inequities: Surreal snapshots from the Grand Canyon to global COVID-19 pandemic3
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers3
Questioning policy representations of women’s alcohol consumption: Implications for social work3
‘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 crime3
Positionality—An analytical building block3
Adapting to the unpredictable: The story of a Norwegian-Russian study of NGOs in the Murmansk region during a pandemic3
Understanding past experiences of suicidal ideation and behavior in the life narratives of transgender older adults3
The “good” and the “bad” subject position in self-injury autobiographies3
The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on surrogacy in India: The role of social work3
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention3
Parents at war: A positioning analysis of how parents negotiate their loss after experiencing child removal by the state3
A sanctuary: Mourning the loss of the classroom during COVID3
Praxis of cross-cultural social work practice (CCSWP): A critical discourse analysis of graduate student and faculty perspectives on cultural competence and relevant constructs3
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review3
Experiences of baby removal prevention: A collective case study of mothers and community-based workers3
Thinking boxes, behavioural boys and the politics of love: ‘Doing’ post-qualitative social work research3
Shelter-based services for survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia: Experiences and perspectives of survivors3
Suffering, social work and the old masters3
“Band-Aids on Bullet Holes”: Experiences of pediatric hospital social workers after 1 year of the COVID-19 pandemic3
Reframing facemasks as tools to balance individualism and social responsibility3
Understanding service navigation pathways and service experiences among homeless populations3
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy3
The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse2
Assessing and assisting prospective adoptive parents: Social workers’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews2
The menu of bad options: Academic leadership during the early pandemic2
Oscillations, boundaries and ethical care: Social work practitioner-researcher experiences with qualitative end-of-life care research2
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research2
Towards a social work of home?2
Reflections on a pandemic and surveillance: Disruption, distractions, and discoveries in the United Arab Emirates2
Is that all?—Reflections on beginnings, endings, and hopeful transitions2
A study on positive organizational scholarship and social worker self-care in Guangdong region, China2
‘It was kinda like D.I.Y closure’. Using Photovoice to capture the experiences of final year social work students graduating amidst the pandemic2
The imaginative failure of normal: Considerations for a post-pandemic future2
Meanings and expressions of co-responsibility: A small qualitative study based on the reflections from Chilean social workers involved in public-private child welfare2
Honouring the artistry in qualitative social work research2
Bonds and barriers: Mental health, service provision, and Middle Eastern/North African cultural identity in the U.S.2
What does it mean to ‘start where the person is at’?: Reflections on personhood in social work2
The 6 A’s model of social worker associations and COVID-19: A preliminary insight2
Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study2
Ethical decision-making of social workers in Spain during COVID-19: Cases and responses2
Thoughts on files2
What COVID-19 has brought us to: Art, activism, and changes in social work education2
Creating safety: Group reflections on surviving as a female, social work early career academic in the neoliberal academy2
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault2
Ethos of science, pathos of war: Social work and pandemic rhetoric2
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice2
COVID en Español: Reflections of a trauma therapist serving Spanish-speaking Latinx survivors of violence2
Mindful energy and information flow: A reflective account of S.E.L.F connection during COVID-192
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion2
In this issue…p <.05 and other qualitative musings2
COVID 19 meets changing traditional care systems for the elderly and a budding social work practice. Reflections for geriatric care in Ghana2
“Biculturation”: Transnational social workers navigating movement into indigenous space in Aotearoa New Zealand2
Living in dual liminal states: Navigating the loss of my father and my clinical career during a pandemic2
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities2
Unpicking social work practice skills: Warmth and respect in practice2
Breastfeeding, social work and the rights of infants who have been removed2
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