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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing	68
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research	25
Drawing out the relationship: An art-informed study of collaboration between social workers and other professionals in the child protection multi-disciplinary process	17
Book Review: Broken: Women’s stories of intimate and institutional harm and repair LaranceLisa Young. Broken: Women’s Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair. Oakland, CA: University of	17
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work	15
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia	14
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality	12
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships	11
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience	11
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare	10
In this issue …	10
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants	10
Thematic analysis: A practical guide	9
Ostensibly small moments and their ethical implications in research with care experienced children and young people	9
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café	9
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response	8
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work	8
In this issue - articles	8
Professional engagement: A comprehensive understanding of social work intervention for juvenile offenders	8
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters	8
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review	8
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework	8
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence	8
In this issue …	8
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research	8

Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy	8
The challenge with defining social work in Fiji	7
A dialogical talk about power and partnership in participatory action research in social work	7
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies	7
Reviewer list	7
Reflections on social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of faculty members and lessons moving forward	7
Book Essay: Time	7
Between plans and realities: Reflecting on experiences of participatory research in archiving residential Children’s homes in Scotland and Germany	7
Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The perspective of social workers in Hong Kong	7
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction	6
Thanks to reviewers	6
In this issue…A reader’s positionality	6
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams	6
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action	6
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
In this issue…	6
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions	5
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research	5
Musings on a poetic puzzlement: Norman K. Denzin and T.S. Eliot	5
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research	5
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison	5
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration	5
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study	5
Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision?	5
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice	5
“I felt represented” : Incorporating Latino youth’s perspectives into theatre for dating violence prevention	4
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing	4
‘If we weren’t reflecting, we would be like robots’: The case for thinking aloud in social work supervision	4
In this issue… ethics, lived experience, and practice innovations in social work	4
Doing “ethics work” in practice: An analysis of care managers’ collegial discussions concerning reluctant clients	4
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy	4
Social work research: An invitation to write	4
Japanese parents’ experiences supporting their school-aged children’s acculturation to the U.S.	4
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities	4
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect	4
A method worth telling: Using story completion to understand social work responses to discriminatory abuse	4
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research	4
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault	3
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology: A nurturing space for storytelling, achievement and research	3
In this issue…	3
The power and potential of space and place in family group conferencing: Reimagining the role of the venue in child protection practice	3
Traditional wellness therapy	3
A perfect storm: How digital transformation, changing office spaces and the blurring of work and non-work lives are driving the individualisation of social workers’ practice in England	3
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 Sweden	3
Using theory – To predict outcomes, describe, analyse or interpret? A framework for analysing the use of theories	3
‘It was kinda like D.I.Y closure’. Using Photovoice to capture the experiences of final year social work students graduating amidst the pandemic	3
COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and Indigenous knowledges informing the future of social work	3
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts	3
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories	3
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention	3

“The doctors have more questions for us”: Geographic differences in healthcare access and health literacy among transgender and nonbinary communities	3
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work	3
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection	3
Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older deafblind people	3
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work: Enhancing culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan	3
Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding	3
Whiteness in our understanding of culture: A critical discourse analysis of the cultural responsivity practice frameworks in child protection	2
In this issue…	2
“I Don’t Know What World I Live in Anymore”: Social work student narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action	2
Stress and trauma among police officers: Implications for social work research and practice	2
Late colonial social work practice	2
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention	2
Career interview	2
An Indigenous scholar’s journey towards decolonizing social work	2
‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits	2
Nowhere to turn: A Black feminist autoethnography of interpersonal violence	2
Geographic interviews: A qualitative geographic information systems (QGIS) method for understanding person-in-environment	2
Recognising child protection social workers’ shifting professional identity after becoming a parent: An insider perspective	2
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes: Deaf experts’ experience of routine social work practice	2
Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts	2
Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement	2
(How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions?	2
Jane the evangelist versus fire-breathing dragons: Dueling discourses on sexuality, a tribute to the work of Norman K. Denzin	2
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 meaning	2
“You have to continue doing the work”: Black women essential workers coping amidst the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism	2
Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth	2
In this issue	2
Book Review: How to write a phenomenological dissertation: A step-by-step guide	2
Engaging youth as co-researchers in virtual qualitative mental health research: Practical guidelines and recommendations	1
Interpretative phenomenological analysis and social work: Hailing its development in the field	1
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support	1
In this issue – New voices	1
The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse	1
In this issue …	1
Rethinking qualitative social work: From Latin American reconceptualization to a Denzinian-inspired approach	1
In this issue…	1
Book Review: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty	1
Introducing a category for long-form papers	1
Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people	1
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 care	1
In this issue…Onward!	1
Aging and intimate partner violence: A qualitative study of older Taiwanese women	1
Navigating uncertainty	1
In this issue …	1
A journey towards resurgence: Reflections from a graduate of the master of social work based in Indigenous knowledges program	1
Motivational talk: Doing motivation in job centre meetings with disadvantaged youth	1
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice	1
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review	1
Performance ethnography as a method for the critical investigation of direct social work practice	1
Member checking: A brief metalogue of a career interview	1
How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices	1
What it means to be human, what it means to be hurt, and what it means to thrive	1
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers	1
‘They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse	1
Mental health struggles of social work students: Distress, stigma, and perseverance	1
‘I like checking in on myself’: Control group experiences in a strengths-based addiction recovery study, with implications for self-monitoring and measurement reactivity	1
Rethinking comorbidity: A case study of syndemic risk, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors in adolescent girls of color	1
Navigating grief and pregnancy loss through online story telling	1
Making excuses and making sense: The role and nuances of active listening in eliciting and managing accounts of sexual violations	1
Embodying place: Embodied geographic methods as a method-in-development	1
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period: Considerations for reflexive, community-oriented and power-sensitive research practices	1
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis	1
Transnational parenting and professional identity: Experiences of migrant child protection social workers in Australia	1
“He went from being a monster to a person:” Using narrative analysis to explore how victim-offender dialogue (VOD) participants transform through the VOD process	1
Reflections on the thoughts of Norman Denzin: His connections to the once and future social work qualitative research	1
Reviewer list	1
Norman Denzin and autoethnography	1