Qualitative Social Work

Papers
(The TQCC of Qualitative Social Work is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing68
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research25
Drawing out the relationship: An art-informed study of collaboration between social workers and other professionals in the child protection multi-disciplinary process17
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 work15
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia14
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality12
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience11
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships11
In this issue …10
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants10
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare10
Ostensibly small moments and their ethical implications in research with care experienced children and young people9
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café9
Thematic analysis: A practical guide9
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework8
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence8
In this issue …8
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research8
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy8
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response8
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work8
In this issue - articles8
Professional engagement: A comprehensive understanding of social work intervention for juvenile offenders8
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters8
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review8
Book Essay: Time7
Between plans and realities: Reflecting on experiences of participatory research in archiving residential Children’s homes in Scotland and Germany7
Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The perspective of social workers in Hong Kong7
The challenge with defining social work in Fiji7
A dialogical talk about power and partnership in participatory action research in social work7
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies7
Reviewer list7
Reflections on social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of faculty members and lessons moving forward7
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand6
In this issue…6
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction6
Thanks to reviewers6
In this issue…A reader’s positionality6
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams6
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action6
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research5
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison5
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration5
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study5
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 practice5
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions5
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research5
Musings on a poetic puzzlement: Norman K. Denzin and T.S. Eliot5
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities4
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect4
A method worth telling: Using story completion to understand social work responses to discriminatory abuse4
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research4
“I felt represented” : Incorporating Latino youth’s perspectives into theatre for dating violence prevention4
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing4
‘If we weren’t reflecting, we would be like robots’: The case for thinking aloud in social work supervision4
In this issue… ethics, lived experience, and practice innovations in social work4
Doing “ethics work” in practice: An analysis of care managers’ collegial discussions concerning reluctant clients4
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy4
Social work research: An invitation to write4
Japanese parents’ experiences supporting their school-aged children’s acculturation to the U.S.4
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