British Journal of Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘If I’m not real, I’m Not Having an Impact’: Relationality and Vicarious Resistance in Complex Trauma Care47
Service Utilisation of an Innovative Mental Health Counselling Clinic43
Arab Social Workers’ Burnout in Welfare Bureaus: Expressions, Reasons, Implications and Coping-Mechanisms41
Dilemmas and Decision Making in Residential Childcare, Abbi Jackson41
Protecting Social Workers as Human Rights Defenders in a Dangerous World23
Managing Risk and Uncertainty in the Context of Child Protection Decision Making22
The practice of social work documentation in an age of automatization: a case from a Danish municipal job centre22
Revisiting radical integrated research and practice for contemporary social work20
Improving the quality of contacts during foster care: Learnings from foster families20
The inter-relationship between parental problems and ethnic background: How do they impact on entry into local authority care?20
Voices of Women Exposed to Honour-Based Violence: On Vulnerability, Needs and Support from Social Services19
Practice research methods in social work: Processes, applications and implications for social service organisations17
An Autoethnographic Perspective of Life Story Work17
Perspectives on Coping with Post-traumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders: A Photovoice Study17
Mental Health Family Carer Experiences during COVID-19: A Rapid Scoping Review of the International Literature16
The Contributions of First Nations Voices to the Australian Public Debate over the Criminalisation of Coercive Control16
A Child in the Middle, Catherine Chanter15
Children Forsaken: Child Abuse from Ancient to Modern Times Steven Walker (ed.)15
In Response to the Editorial for the BJSW 54(4), Lived versus Living Experience by Dominic Watters15
The Effects of Decent Work and Social Support on Enhancing Collective Psychological Ownership Amongst Young Adult Social Workers15
Psychometric Examination of the Freshman Stress Questionnaire Using a Sample of Social Work Students in Spain during the Covid-19 Pandemic13
Beyond formal authority: Cultural perspectives on informal leadership in social work practice13
Domestic Violence Survivors Who Became Anti-domestic Violence Volunteers: A Qualitative Study in China13
Understanding training and support needs of foster carers of infants in out-of-home care12
Young adults’ service disengagement: Not applying, refusing to participate, or dropping out of welfare services12
Transitions and continuities: a farewell from the editors12
Fractional belonging: The experience of Bulgarian and Zimbabwean migrants living in Australia12
Eco-transformational leadership framework for social workers to promote climate and ecological justice12
Towards Digital Adaption: An Exploration of Chinese Social Workers’ Experiences of Digital Service Challenges and Coping Strategies in the Context of COVID-1912
An A–Z of Social Work Theory (1st Editions), Malcom Payne11
Social Work Practice During Times of Disaster: A Transformative Green Social Work Model for Theory, Education and Practice in Disaster Interventions11
Co-Design with People with Lived Experience: Designing Resources to Communicate with Children and Young People in Care about their Family Time Contact Visits11
The Meaning of Online Social Work Education for Students and Faculty during COVID-19: Between Preservation and Change11
Social work’s role in both direct practice and advocacy to sustain tenancies and prevent homelessness11
Social Workers’ Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Social Work Practice in Schools: A Scoping Review11
The ‘Powers of Horror’: Abjection, Critical Realism and Social Work11
Street-level social workers and social policy: A historical case-study in Israel11
Strategic Information: A Qualitative Study on the Use of Digital Curriculum Vitae for Social Work with Vulnerable Clients11
Working with Domestic Violence and Abuse across the Lifecourse: Understanding Good Practice, Ravi Thiara and Lorraine Radford (eds)11
Validity and Reliability of the Arabic Version of the Short Form Social Well-Being Scale10
Older People, Loneliness, Social Isolation and Technological Mitigations: Utilising Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic as we Move Forward10
Person-centred process?: Procedural fairness and Care Act 2014 needs assessments10
‘Listen Very Carefully, We Will Say This Only Once (Again)’ Dead Ends to Politicisation in Social Work10
Transforming Social Work Field Education, New Insights from Practice, Research and Scholarship, Edited by Julie L. Drolet, Grant Charles, Sheri M. McConnell, and Marion Bogo10
Measuring the outcomes of support after suicide: A modified Delphi study10
The Sacrificed Children: Listening to the Voices of Former Young Carers Supporting Parents with Mental Illness10
Exploring the Anti-professional Turn in English Foster Care: Implications for Policy, Practice and Research10
Perceptions of Safe Staffing, Self-Reported Mental Well-being and Intentions to Leave the Profession among UK Social Workers: A Mixed Methods Study10
Measuring outcomes experienced by users of community services—The development of the community services outcomes tree and the associated survey template9
From communal duties to individual rights: The migration of Indian social workers to England9
Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement, Peter Beresford9
Job Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic amongst Social Workers: A Comparison between Chinese Mainland and Macao9
A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial to Improve Social Problem-Solving Skills of Kunjing Children without Sufficient Parental Care9
Motivational Interviewing for Working with Children and Families: A Practical Guide for Early Intervention and Child Protection, Donald Forrester, David Wilkins and Charlotte Whittaker9
Leading by example? Culture, change, and strength-based social work9
Critical Reflections on Women, Family, Crime and Justice, Isla Masson, Lucy Baldwin and Natalie Booth (eds.)9
Climbing the not-for-profit leadership ladder in Australia: Equity, diversity, and inclusion9
Interprofessional Perspectives of Mental Health Crisis for Nursing, Health, and the Helping Professions, Kris Deering and Joanne Williams, eds9
The Need for Practicable Normative Right-based Social Work Practice in Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services8
How Effective are Current Joint Working Practices between Children and Family Social Workers and Mental Health Care Coordinators, in Supporting Families in which there is a Primary Care-giver, with a 8
Social Workers as Leaders Rather than as Agents of Change8
Mobilizing feminist disability studies for expansive social work scholarship8
Resisting Dogmatism in Social Work Knowledge Generation: Theorising, Social Justice and Implications for Social Work Doctoral Education8
Producing spaces of care in public urban places: Discovering relations between social workers’ work knowledge and social spaces8
Integrated Care: Reflections on Change in Health Services, Axel Kaehne8
Between Us and Them: Deaf Bedouin Women’s Perception of the Role of Social Workers8
The Relationship between Workplace Support and Turnover intention amongst Chinese Social Workers: A Moderated Mediation Model8
Pumps and poetry8
Trauma as the ‘Belief That the World is a Dangerous Place’: The Obfuscation of Systemic Violence in Social Work’s Discourses of Trauma8
Practices and knowledge of socio-environmental organisations and movements in Maule, Chile and Antioquia, Colombia8
A Political History of Child Protection: Lesson for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand, Ian Kelvin Hyslop8
Making the ‘Local’ Visible in Social Work Education: Insights from Nigeria and Scotland on (Re)balancing and Contextualising Indigenous and International Knowledge8
Principles of Practice by Principal Social Workers, Tanya Moore (ed.)8
Correction to: Towards a Synthesised Directional Map of the Stages of Innovation in Children’s Social Care7
Mental Health Social Work Practice: Navigating Tensions7
Understanding services provided to children in DFV shelters: Exposing the ‘invisible’ work7
Connecting leadership in social work: Preparing master students to lead social practice development7
Stereotypes, conditions and binaries: Analysing processes of social disqualification towards children and parents living in precarity7
The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies, Peter Beresford, Jasna Russo (Eds)7
‘Shown love from the brokenness of a system’: Themes from a Poetic Inquiry Reimagining Child Welfare7
‘I had the full support of my family! This family support tops everything else’: Facilitators for Arabs with disabilities in Israel to lead meaningful, independent, and dignified lives by applying sel7
Clients, Consumers, Citizens? The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in England, Bob Hudson (ed.),7
The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work—Second Edition, Frederic G. Reamer7
Managing emotions and occupational demands: A phenomenological exploration of the experiences of child exploitation support workers7
Who killed social welfare?7
What is the Scope and Contribution of Lived Experience in Social Work? A Scoping Review7
The Unheld Child: Social Work, Social Distancing and the Possibilities and Limits to Child Protection during the COVID-19 Pandemic7
If We Know What Works, Why Aren't We Doing It?7
Labels Are for Jars Not People—Emancipatory Approaches to Working with Young Disabled People, Mark Harrison7
Hybrid Working: Is It Working… and at What Cost? Exploring the Experience of Managers in Child Protection: Social Work7
Expectations versus Reality: Achieving Impact from Social Work Practitioner Research in Challenging Circumstances7
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Lifelong Links Intervention for Reducing Homelessness amongst Care Leavers7
Correction to: Impact of Family Group Conference Referrals at Pre-Proceedings Stage on Child Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial7
Practice Education in Social Work: Achieving Professional Standards (3rd Edition), Paula Beesley and Sue Taplin7
The Impact of Social Work Supervision on Interns’ Employment Intention: New Evidence from Mainland China7
Using the Capability Approach in Social Work with Children Experiencing Post-Separation Parental Stalking7
Intervention Pathways following a Social Work Assessment: An Analysis of National Administrative Data for Children’s Social Care in England7
Practitioner Research for Social Work, Nursing and the Health Professions. Payam Sheikhattari, Michael T. Wright, Gillian B. Silver, Cyrilla van der Donk and Bas von Lanen7
Gambling Harms in Adult Social Care: Developing an ‘Introductory’ Question to Identify Gambling Harms Among Service Users7
‘Pregnancy and birth are uncertain anyway’: Practitioner perspectives on problems encountered by migrant ethnic minority women7
Temporary Agency Workers in the Personal Social Services—Doing Core Tasks in the Periphery7
Communities of Support for Care-Experienced Mothers6
Joy and sadness among social workers in Italy: An exploration through group concept mapping6
Listening to children, holding parents accountable: Social workers’ perspectives on children and parents in child welfare services6
Resilience and Resistance in the Community Sector: Organisational Challenges and Responses by the Australian DFV Sector in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic6
Vicarious trauma in disaster situations: Social workers’ experiences with Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe6
Intensity and Variable Attention: Counter Narrating ADHD, from ADHD Deficits to ADHD Difference6
A Common Purpose? Social Work Students’ Social Justice Related Views in Finland and the island of Ireland6
Reflections on Making Co-production Work: The Reality of Co-production from an Insider Perspective6
Coalition and Multi-Positionality Research Teams: A Nuanced Approach for Anti-Oppressive Research6
Inter-Professional Education and Collaborative Practice in Social Work: Associations between Youth Work Practitioners’ Experience in Inter-Professional Learning, Creative Self-Efficacy and Innovative 6
Coproduction with Service Users in Adult Social Work: A Study of Service Users’ and Social Workers’ Experiences in Northern Ireland6
Social work practice with self-neglect and homelessness: Findings from vignette-based interviews6
Barriers to High-quality Therapy Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Analysis of Street-level Policy Practice of Therapy Service Organisations in China6
The prevalence and experience of children on the sex offender register in England and Wales6
Older Adult Homicide: Investigating Case, Victim and Perpetrator Characteristics in a National Sample from England and Wales6
Practising Feminism for Social Welfare—A Global Perspective, Ruth Phillips6
Obituary: John Small6
Family Carers and Caring: What’s It All About, Alisoun Milne and Mary Larkin6
‘I’m just one soldier of many in the battle against stigma’: Young people’s experiences developing an anti-stigma resource6
‘But isn’t that normal?’: Australian foster parent’s experiences of parental abuse by children in their care6
Secondary traumatization of child protection officers in Bedouin society in Israel6
‘The Great Oblivion’—An Autoethnographic Depiction of Social and Personal Recovery After Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT)6
Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients’ Supportive Care Needs—A Social Work Perspective6
Towards Democratising Social Knowledge: A Political–Economic Analysis of the Departments of Social Work in Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences6
Post-Proceedings Support in a Family Drug and Alcohol Court6
Neonate Simulators: Creatively Engaging Social Work Students in Understanding Risks of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy6
Assessing Culturally Informed Parenting in Social Work, Davis Kiima6
Understanding the Needs of Children Living with Parental Substance Misuse: Perspectives from Children and Practitioners6
Social Care Responses to Children who Experience Criminal Exploitation and Violence: The Conditions for a Welfare Response6
Exploration of Chinese social workers’ experiences of ethical decision-making in practice: A phenomenological study5
Children’s participation in social work research. A secondary data analysis of an umbrella review of children’s participation in child welfare5
Workplace role conflict toward social workers: Evidence from China5
In Search of Transformative Practice: Outreach Work Tactics for Perpetuating Symbolic Boundaries5
‘Being that hopeful person’: The contribution of social workers to older people’s well-being5
Age Differences in Perceived Preparedness for the Continuation of COVID-19 Pandemic: Important Role of Social Support5
Can a licenced community worker qualify as a professional social worker?—Evidence from China5
Autistic Parents’ Personal Experiences of Parenting and Support: Messages from an Online Focus Group5
How identity integration of community corrections offenders improves their social adaptation: An empirical study in China5
Extending the period of aftercare: Effects on children with experience from child welfare services5
Job Demands and Resources and Employee Well-being among Social Workers in China: The Mediating Effects of Affect5
Systematic Review of Service User and Carer Involvement in Qualifying Social Work Education: A Decade in Retrospect5
Unsettling Discourses of Cross-Cultural Social Work Practice: Moving from Theoretical Debates to Interrogating and Transforming Praxis5
Relationality: The Inner Life of Public Policy Raul P. Lejano and Wing Shan Kan5
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients Experiencing Family Violence Presenting to an Australian Health Service5
Problematising ‘Fused Principles’ in Discourses of Preventative Social Care: Interpreting the Implementation of National Social Services Legislation in Wales, UK5
Dynamics of Change in Poverty Measures amongst Social Service Users in Israel: A Comparison of Standard Care and a Poverty-Aware Programme5
Fabricated or induced illness in England: Examining mortality and serious harm5
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the COVID-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study5
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong: Exploring the Gaps in COVID-19 Prevention Practices from a Social Justice Framework5
Patterns of Demand and Provision in English Adult Social Care Services5
How do differences and similarities in confidence for the future between parents and children affect the educational development of adolescents?5
Need for Knowledge—What, Where and How? How Social Workers Handle Service and Support for Individuals with Disability5
Social Work Research in the UK: A View through the Lens of REF20215
Social work professional organizations. Initial steps for filling a gap5
Professional Orientation of Social Pedagogy Students at Work Placement in Prisons5
Surviving Violence, Ambiguity and Oneself: The Experience of Child Protection Workers in Chile5
Scholarship on LGBTQIA+ migrants in the social work field: A scoping review5
Discharging Care Orders in England and Wales: A New Typology of Applications and Outcomes5
Factors affecting the policy role of social workers in local government leadership positions5
Social Work Law: Applying the Law in Practice, Michelle Evans and Denise Harvey5
Social Work, Housing, and Homelessness5
How Do Child Welfare Social Workers Assess the Leadership of Their First-line Managers? A 15-Year Perspective5
‘Mind the Gap’: Extending Outcome Measurement for Accountability and Meaningful Innovation5
Navigating surveillance: The experience of prenatal women who use or who are in treatment for using drugs5
Being a part of the community and working within it: Arab child protection officers in Israel and their unique challenges5
Socio-emotional adjustment in children attending family centres: The role of the parent–child relationship5
Coping with COVID-19: Resilience Factors Amongst Community Social Workers5
‘Like Solving a Jigsaw Puzzle’: The Role of Journal Writing in Social Work Students’ Professional Development4
Impact of Family Group Conference Referrals at Pre-Proceedings Stage on Child Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial4
Social Work and the Quest for Environment Justice; a Call to Action4
What is Life Story Work? How defining approaches can bring clarity to research, training, and practice4
Why Didn’t Anyone Understand? Why Didn’t Anyone Ever Stand in the Way? Detecting Child Abuse in Out-of-Home care Setting: The Role of Safeguard and Protection Systems and Social Workers4
Bowlby, Attachment and the Potency of a ‘Received Idea’4
Use of Linked Administrative Adult Social Care Data for Research: A Scoping Review of Existing UK Studies4
The challenge of social work-led case management: A qualitative study of community-based home care for older adults4
Wishful thinking is not enough: Political advocacy and the leadership of the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education4
Ontological (In)security in Early Career Social Work during COVID-19: Experiences in Scotland4
Embedding Learning as a Practice of Value: Learning from the Experiences of Early Career Social Workers in Scotland4
Un/heard, un/informed, un/involved: Meaningful participation for young people receiving child welfare services4
The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting Professional Companion: Tools for Proactive Practice, Sarah Naish, Sarah Dillion and Jane Mitchell4
Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform, Richard Humphries4
The context-specific nature of rural social work practice: Findings from a scoping review4
Social work in the era of ‘fluid certainties’4
Revisiting a Positive Living Group Climate as a Citizenship Climate: A Socio-Spatial Perspective on Residential Youth Care4
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: The Victim Journey, Carole Murphy and Runa Lazzarino4
Practice research on social work responses to a community health crisis in Hong Kong’s public housing estates4
Mental Health Workforce Knowledge about LGBTIQ Identities and Related Responsiveness: A Mixed Methods Approach4
Also Vietnamese, but not one of us: Emic–etic perspectives and self-awareness in conducting health studies with Vietnamese-origin older adults and their family caregivers across contexts4
Narratives of individual capacities: Positive organisational scholarship amongst child welfare workers in Norway4
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma4
Professional Burnout as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Pandemic-Related Stress and Social Care Workers’ Mental Health4
Theatre and professional training: The Trame method4
Psychosocial Professionals in Chilean Justice Institutions. Reflections Based on the Experiences and Practice of Psychologists and Social Workers4
Promoting staff retention in social work: Identifying the ‘push’ and the ‘pull’ factors from the perspective of newly qualified social workers4
The Shifting Labour Process in Professional Care: Recreating Dominance and the Managerialised Mental Health Social Worker4
Revitalizing equity, diversity, and inclusion in social work4
Work with People in Mental Distress Who Access Spirituality/Religion4
Care at Home for People Living with Dementia—Delaying Institutionalization, Sustaining Families Christine Ceci and Mary Ellen Purkis4
Future dialogues: Our vision for global, transdisciplinary and practice–research exchange4
Dimensions of trust and tension in discharge proceedings4
Decision-maker influences and perceptual disparities in child maltreatment among Chinese child social workers: The mediating impact of social work professional identity4
Social Work and the ‘Social Doctor’: Bowlby, Social Reproduction and ‘Common Sense’4
A Social Work Model of Historical Trauma4
Leadership in grassroots innovations: The role of social workers in community driven co-creation, narrative building, and inclusion4
The Working Mechanisms Underpinning Mental Health Experts by Experience Involvement in Direct Teaching: An Abductive Conceptual Framework4
The effect of child protection attitudes on child protection decision-making: The mediating role of person perceptions4
Complexity Theory and Child Protection and Welfare: A Tool of Hindsight and/or a Tool to Assist Improved Decision Making in Child Protection and Welfare Work4
Different types of depression literacy and their impacts on reducing personal stigma towards late-life depression in older adults: Results from a pre-and-post intervention study4
Inconvenient Truth: Challenges to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Social Work Education and Practice4
Facilitators of and barriers to a three-day intensive group cognitive behavioural therapy-based programme for social anxiety among Chinese college students: A qualitative study4
Writing as Social Work: Thematic Review of the Literature4
People with Disabilities and Labour Market Barriers: The Perspectives of Israeli Social Workers4
A socio-ecological exploration of suicidal ideation among people with care experience4
Pathways to young Namibian mothers’ high school engagement: The role of Afrikan wellbeing practices4
Living a Good Life with Dementia: A practitioner's Guide, Liz Leach Murphy and Jayna Patel4
Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners: A Survival Guide, Helen Kara4
Photography in Social Work and Social Change: Theory and Applications for Practice and Research, Matthias J. Naleppa, Kristina M. Hash and Anissa T. Rogers4
Neuroqueer in/and social work: A scoping review of theory and practice4
The ‘Right to an Upbringing’—Contrasting Early German and English Child Welfare Legislation for a Case Study in Comparative Social Work History4
‘A lot of social workers don’t seem to understand or realize the harm that they cause’: Disabled young people’s experiences with sexual well-being in social work practice4
Inequality and Social Work, Rick Hood4
Inequality and its implications for the social work profession: Reflections on the UK Joint Universities Social Work Association Conference3
How Palliative Care Social Workers across the Globe Overcame Practical Challenges to Engaging in Research3
Structural and Socio-Political Barriers to Providing Services to Arab-Palestinian Young Women: Social Workers’ Perspectives3
‘You Say One Thing Wrong, and Your Children Are Gone’: Exploring Trauma-Informed Practices in Foster and Kinship Care3
Factors associated with the school exclusion gap for children with social work involvement: A retrospective cohort study using national administrative data3
Rethinking participation: Exploring children’s power relations and emotions in Child Protection Services3
Residential Social Care Experiences of LGBTQ+ Young People in England: A Qualitative Interview Study3
The Adopter’s Handbook on Education (Scotland). Getting the Best for Your Child. Alison Rennie Parkinson and Eileen Fursland3
Maryam, Celia, My Fairy Angels3
Cultural Awareness and Representation Shouldn’t be an Afterthought in Anti-human Trafficking Programme and Policy Design3
Introduction to Reflective Papers3
Transparency in Social Work: Mapping Polarities Faced by Social Workers3
‘Seen’ through Records: Parents’ Access to Children’s Social Care Records in an Age of Increasing Datafication3
bell hooks’s Legacy and Social Work: A Distillation of Her Key Ideas about Love and Some Implications for Social Work Practice3
Post-Disaster Social Connectedness in Parent–Child Dyads: A Qualitative Investigation of Changes in Coping and Social Capital of Rural Australian Families Following Bushfires3
Is social work a dangerous profession in China? An analysis of client violence towards social workers in central China3
‘It’s Technical’: Textually Mediated Helping Relationships in Public Social Services3
How to Use Social Work Theory in Practice: An Essential Guide, Malcolm Payne3
Effects of a social competence training for children on social competence and self-relevant factors3
Reframing the concept of disinformation in social work: The case of a disadvantaged neighbourhood from the Czech Republic3
Understanding Factors Explaining Social Workers’ Empathy towards Sex Offenders3
Is Work–Family Enrichment Important to Social Workers’ Life Meaning? A Serial Mediation Model of Self-Efficacy and Work Engagement3
Trust and mistrust in public services for people with disabilities: Analysing the gap between the perspectives of caseworkers and disabled people in Denmark3
Freedom in Chains? Religious Freedom Rights in an International Frame: Addressing the Increasing Intolerance and Violence Directed Toward People of Faith3
‘We’re handing out freezies’: Climate-related professional challenge and changing social work practices in the homelessness sector3
Is cultural competence enough? The call for integrating cultural humility into social work practice in a minority community3
Introduction to Creative Artefacts3
In Care, without Care3
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