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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 82
Drawing out the relationship: An art-informed study of collaboration between social workers and other professionals in the child protection multi-disciplinary process31
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work20
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia17
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing16
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research12
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality12
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café11
In this issue …11
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy10
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants10
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience10
In this issue - articles10
Ostensibly small moments and their ethical implications in research with care experienced children and young people10
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare10
Thematic analysis: A practical guide10
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework9
Naming parents after adoption - are they still a ‘mum’ and ‘dad’? Recognition, rights and a sense of retained parental identity after a child is adopted from care9
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence9
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review9
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research9
Considerations for feminist liberatory social work practice and research9
Hope for change: A reflective journey of social work practice, domestic homicide and doctoral research9
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters9
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response9
The challenge with defining social work in Fiji8
A dialogical talk about power and partnership in participatory action research in social work8
Book Essay: Time8
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
Reviewer list7
Social work and interpretative phenomenological analysis7
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies7
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction6
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions6
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison6
Thanks to reviewers6
In this issue…A reader’s positionality6
Resilience among immigrant women who experience intimate partner violence: Service providers’ perspectives6
In this issue…6
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand6
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action6
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice5
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study5
Ethics of witnessing in clinical case notes of children in state care: From data extraction to narrative care5
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research5
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research5
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing5
“I felt represented” : Incorporating Latino youth’s perspectives into theatre for dating violence prevention5
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams5
Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision?5
Musings on a poetic puzzlement: Norman K. Denzin and T.S. Eliot5
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration5
A method worth telling: Using story completion to understand social work responses to discriminatory abuse4
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work: Enhancing culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan4
In this issue… ethics, lived experience, and practice innovations in social work4
Social work research: An invitation to write4
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts4
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research4
Doing “ethics work” in practice: An analysis of care managers’ collegial discussions concerning reluctant clients4
COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and Indigenous knowledges informing the future of social work4
The power and potential of space and place in family group conferencing: Reimagining the role of the venue in child protection practice4
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect4
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities4
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