British Journal of Social Work

Papers
(The TQCC of British Journal of Social Work is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dilemmas and Decision Making in Residential Childcare, Abbi Jackson40
Called to the Crisis: The Experiences of Hospital-Based Social Workers Providing on-Call Services38
Service Utilisation of an Innovative Mental Health Counselling Clinic35
Protecting Social Workers as Human Rights Defenders in a Dangerous World33
‘If I’m not real, I’m Not Having an Impact’: Relationality and Vicarious Resistance in Complex Trauma Care32
The Effects of Decent Work and Social Support on Enhancing Collective Psychological Ownership Amongst Young Adult Social Workers27
Perspectives on Coping with Post-traumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders: A Photovoice Study23
Voices of Women Exposed to Honour-Based Violence: On Vulnerability, Needs and Support from Social Services22
The Contributions of First Nations Voices to the Australian Public Debate over the Criminalisation of Coercive Control19
An Autoethnographic Perspective of Life Story Work19
Practice research methods in social work: Processes, applications and implications for social service organisations18
The inter-relationship between parental problems and ethnic background: How do they impact on entry into local authority care?17
Improving the quality of contacts during foster care: Learnings from foster families17
Arab Social Workers’ Burnout in Welfare Bureaus: Expressions, Reasons, Implications and Coping-Mechanisms16
Mental Health Family Carer Experiences during COVID-19: A Rapid Scoping Review of the International Literature15
The practice of social work documentation in an age of automatization: a case from a Danish municipal job centre15
Managing Risk and Uncertainty in the Context of Child Protection Decision Making15
Street-level social workers and social policy: A historical case-study in Israel14
A Child in the Middle, Catherine Chanter14
Perceptions of Safe Staffing, Self-Reported Mental Well-being and Intentions to Leave the Profession among UK Social Workers: A Mixed Methods Study14
Children Forsaken: Child Abuse from Ancient to Modern Times Steven Walker (ed.)14
Validity and Reliability of the Arabic Version of the Short Form Social Well-Being Scale14
Understanding training and support needs of foster carers of infants in out-of-home care14
Towards Digital Adaption: An Exploration of Chinese Social Workers’ Experiences of Digital Service Challenges and Coping Strategies in the Context of COVID-1913
Transitions and continuities: a farewell from the editors13
Psychometric Examination of the Freshman Stress Questionnaire Using a Sample of Social Work Students in Spain during the Covid-19 Pandemic12
Exploring the Anti-professional Turn in English Foster Care: Implications for Policy, Practice and Research12
Domestic Violence Survivors Who Became Anti-domestic Violence Volunteers: A Qualitative Study in China12
‘Listen Very Carefully, We Will Say This Only Once (Again)’ Dead Ends to Politicisation in Social Work12
Working with Domestic Violence and Abuse across the Lifecourse: Understanding Good Practice, Ravi Thiara and Lorraine Radford (eds)11
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
The ‘Powers of Horror’: Abjection, Critical Realism and Social Work11
The Meaning of Online Social Work Education for Students and Faculty during COVID-19: Between Preservation and Change11
Social Workers’ Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Social Work Practice in Schools: A Scoping Review11
In Response to the Editorial for the BJSW 54(4), Lived versus Living Experience by Dominic Watters11
Strategic Information: A Qualitative Study on the Use of Digital Curriculum Vitae for Social Work with Vulnerable Clients10
Social work’s role in both direct practice and advocacy to sustain tenancies and prevent homelessness10
Fractional belonging: The experience of Bulgarian and Zimbabwean migrants living in Australia10
Co-Design with People with Lived Experience: Designing Resources to Communicate with Children and Young People in Care about their Family Time Contact Visits10
Eco-transformational leadership framework for social workers to promote climate and ecological justice9
Older People, Loneliness, Social Isolation and Technological Mitigations: Utilising Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic as we Move Forward9
Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement, Peter Beresford9
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
Beyond formal authority: Cultural perspectives on informal leadership in social work practice9
Transforming Social Work Field Education, New Insights from Practice, Research and Scholarship, Edited by Julie L. Drolet, Grant Charles, Sheri M. McConnell, and Marion Bogo9
From communal duties to individual rights: The migration of Indian social workers to England9
Climbing the not-for-profit leadership ladder in Australia: Equity, diversity, and inclusion9
What is the Scope and Contribution of Lived Experience in Social Work? A Scoping Review9
Person-centred process?: Procedural fairness and Care Act 2014 needs assessments9
The Sacrificed Children: Listening to the Voices of Former Young Carers Supporting Parents with Mental Illness9
Motivational Interviewing for Working with Children and Families: A Practical Guide for Early Intervention and Child Protection, Donald Forrester, David Wilkins and Charlotte Whittaker9
The Unheld Child: Social Work, Social Distancing and the Possibilities and Limits to Child Protection during the COVID-19 Pandemic9
Interprofessional Perspectives of Mental Health Crisis for Nursing, Health, and the Helping Professions, Kris Deering and Joanne Williams, eds9
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 Lanen8
Practices and knowledge of socio-environmental organisations and movements in Maule, Chile and Antioquia, Colombia8
Measuring outcomes experienced by users of community services—The development of the community services outcomes tree and the associated survey template8
Social Workers as Leaders Rather than as Agents of Change8
Principles of Practice by Principal Social Workers, Tanya Moore (ed.)8
A Political History of Child Protection: Lesson for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand, Ian Kelvin Hyslop8
Trauma as the ‘Belief That the World is a Dangerous Place’: The Obfuscation of Systemic Violence in Social Work’s Discourses of Trauma8
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
Producing spaces of care in public urban places: Discovering relations between social workers’ work knowledge and social spaces8
Resisting Dogmatism in Social Work Knowledge Generation: Theorising, Social Justice and Implications for Social Work Doctoral Education8
Integrated Care: Reflections on Change in Health Services, Axel Kaehne8
The Need for Practicable Normative Right-based Social Work Practice in Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services8
Stereotypes, conditions and binaries: Analysing processes of social disqualification towards children and parents living in precarity8
Making the ‘Local’ Visible in Social Work Education: Insights from Nigeria and Scotland on (Re)balancing and Contextualising Indigenous and International Knowledge8
The Impact of Social Work Supervision on Interns’ Employment Intention: New Evidence from Mainland China8
Between Us and Them: Deaf Bedouin Women’s Perception of the Role of Social Workers8
If We Know What Works, Why Aren't We Doing It?8
Correction to: Impact of Family Group Conference Referrals at Pre-Proceedings Stage on Child Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial7
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
Managing emotions and occupational demands: A phenomenological exploration of the experiences of child exploitation support workers7
The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work—Second Edition, Frederic G. Reamer7
Cumulative Childhood Adversity and Long-Term Educational Outcomes in Individuals with Out-of-Home Care Experience: Do Multiples Matter for a Population Defined by Adversity?7
Pumps and poetry7
The Relationship between Workplace Support and Turnover intention amongst Chinese Social Workers: A Moderated Mediation Model7
Job Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic amongst Social Workers: A Comparison between Chinese Mainland and Macao7
Clients, Consumers, Citizens? The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in England, Bob Hudson (ed.),7
Correction to: Towards a Synthesised Directional Map of the Stages of Innovation in Children’s Social Care7
Practice Education in Social Work: Achieving Professional Standards (3rd Edition), Paula Beesley and Sue Taplin7
Understanding services provided to children in DFV shelters: Exposing the ‘invisible’ work7
Mobilizing feminist disability studies for expansive social work scholarship7
A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial to Improve Social Problem-Solving Skills of Kunjing Children without Sufficient Parental Care7
‘Shown love from the brokenness of a system’: Themes from a Poetic Inquiry Reimagining Child Welfare7
Labels Are for Jars Not People—Emancipatory Approaches to Working with Young Disabled People, Mark Harrison7
Temporary Agency Workers in the Personal Social Services—Doing Core Tasks in the Periphery7
Secondary traumatization of child protection officers in Bedouin society in Israel6
Expectations versus Reality: Achieving Impact from Social Work Practitioner Research in Challenging Circumstances6
‘Pregnancy and birth are uncertain anyway’: Practitioner perspectives on problems encountered by migrant ethnic minority women6
The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies, Peter Beresford, Jasna Russo (Eds)6
Who killed social welfare?6
Gambling Harms in Adult Social Care: Developing an ‘Introductory’ Question to Identify Gambling Harms Among Service Users6
Communities of Support for Care-Experienced Mothers6
Obituary: John Small6
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
‘But isn’t that normal?’: Australian foster parent’s experiences of parental abuse by children in their care6
Social work practice with self-neglect and homelessness: Findings from vignette-based interviews6
Resilience and Resistance in the Community Sector: Organisational Challenges and Responses by the Australian DFV Sector in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic6
The prevalence and experience of children on the sex offender register in England and Wales6
‘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 sel6
Mental Health Social Work Practice: Navigating Tensions6
Hybrid Working: Is It Working… and at What Cost? Exploring the Experience of Managers in Child Protection: Social Work6
Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients’ Supportive Care Needs—A Social Work Perspective6
‘Someone to Talk to’: A Short-Term Tele-Therapy Intervention with Older People during the Coronavirus Pandemic6
A Common Purpose? Social Work Students’ Social Justice Related Views in Finland and the island of Ireland6
Practising Feminism for Social Welfare—A Global Perspective, Ruth Phillips6
Joy and sadness among social workers in Italy: An exploration through group concept mapping6
Coproduction with Service Users in Adult Social Work: A Study of Service Users’ and Social Workers’ Experiences in Northern Ireland6
‘The Great Oblivion’—An Autoethnographic Depiction of Social and Personal Recovery After Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT)6
Social Care Responses to Children who Experience Criminal Exploitation and Violence: The Conditions for a Welfare Response6
Older Adult Homicide: Investigating Case, Victim and Perpetrator Characteristics in a National Sample from England and Wales6
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
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Lifelong Links Intervention for Reducing Homelessness amongst Care Leavers6
Intensity and Variable Attention: Counter Narrating ADHD, from ADHD Deficits to ADHD Difference6
Understanding the Needs of Children Living with Parental Substance Misuse: Perspectives from Children and Practitioners6
Neonate Simulators: Creatively Engaging Social Work Students in Understanding Risks of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy6
Towards Democratising Social Knowledge: A Political–Economic Analysis of the Departments of Social Work in Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences6
Surviving Violence, Ambiguity and Oneself: The Experience of Child Protection Workers in Chile5
Job Demands and Resources and Employee Well-being among Social Workers in China: The Mediating Effects of Affect5
Need for Knowledge—What, Where and How? How Social Workers Handle Service and Support for Individuals with Disability5
Workplace role conflict toward social workers: Evidence from China5
Fabricated or induced illness in England: Examining mortality and serious harm5
Unsettling Discourses of Cross-Cultural Social Work Practice: Moving from Theoretical Debates to Interrogating and Transforming Praxis5
Age Differences in Perceived Preparedness for the Continuation of COVID-19 Pandemic: Important Role of Social Support5
Family Carers and Caring: What’s It All About, Alisoun Milne and Mary Larkin5
Being a part of the community and working within it: Arab child protection officers in Israel and their unique challenges5
How identity integration of community corrections offenders improves their social adaptation: An empirical study in China5
How Do Child Welfare Social Workers Assess the Leadership of Their First-line Managers? A 15-Year Perspective5
Discharging Care Orders in England and Wales: A New Typology of Applications and Outcomes5
Autistic Parents’ Personal Experiences of Parenting and Support: Messages from an Online Focus Group5
Coping with COVID-19: Resilience Factors Amongst Community Social Workers5
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients Experiencing Family Violence Presenting to an Australian Health Service5
Can a licenced community worker qualify as a professional social worker?—Evidence from China5
Exploration of Chinese social workers’ experiences of ethical decision-making in practice: A phenomenological study5
Reflections on Making Co-production Work: The Reality of Co-production from an Insider Perspective5
Factors affecting the policy role of social workers in local government leadership positions5
Assessing Culturally Informed Parenting in Social Work, Davis Kiima5
Coalition and Multi-Positionality Research Teams: A Nuanced Approach for Anti-Oppressive Research5
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the COVID-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study5
Navigating surveillance: The experience of prenatal women who use or who are in treatment for using drugs5
‘Mind the Gap’: Extending Outcome Measurement for Accountability and Meaningful Innovation5
Children’s participation in social work research. A secondary data analysis of an umbrella review of children’s participation in child welfare5
In Search of Transformative Practice: Outreach Work Tactics for Perpetuating Symbolic Boundaries5
Bowlby, Attachment and the Potency of a ‘Received Idea’5
Relationality: The Inner Life of Public Policy Raul P. Lejano and Wing Shan Kan5
Scholarship on LGBTQIA+ migrants in the social work field: A scoping review5
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong: Exploring the Gaps in COVID-19 Prevention Practices from a Social Justice Framework5
Dynamics of Change in Poverty Measures amongst Social Service Users in Israel: A Comparison of Standard Care and a Poverty-Aware Programme5
‘Being that hopeful person’: The contribution of social workers to older people’s well-being5
‘I’m just one soldier of many in the battle against stigma’: Young people’s experiences developing an anti-stigma resource5
Post-Proceedings Support in a Family Drug and Alcohol Court5
Social Work Research in the UK: A View through the Lens of REF20215
Professional Orientation of Social Pedagogy Students at Work Placement in Prisons5
How do differences and similarities in confidence for the future between parents and children affect the educational development of adolescents?5
Patterns of Demand and Provision in English Adult Social Care Services5
Socio-emotional adjustment in children attending family centres: The role of the parent–child relationship5
Extending the period of aftercare: Effects on children with experience from child welfare services5
Social Work Law: Applying the Law in Practice, Michelle Evans and Denise Harvey5
Problematising ‘Fused Principles’ in Discourses of Preventative Social Care: Interpreting the Implementation of National Social Services Legislation in Wales, UK5
Professional Burnout as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Pandemic-Related Stress and Social Care Workers’ Mental Health4
Impact of Family Group Conference Referrals at Pre-Proceedings Stage on Child Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial4
Photography in Social Work and Social Change: Theory and Applications for Practice and Research, Matthias J. Naleppa, Kristina M. Hash and Anissa T. Rogers4
Practice research on social work responses to a community health crisis in Hong Kong’s public housing estates4
The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting Professional Companion: Tools for Proactive Practice, Sarah Naish, Sarah Dillion and Jane Mitchell4
Work with People in Mental Distress Who Access Spirituality/Religion4
Neuroqueer in/and social work: A scoping review of theory and practice4
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
Wishful thinking is not enough: Political advocacy and the leadership of the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education4
What is Life Story Work? How defining approaches can bring clarity to research, training, and practice4
Decision-maker influences and perceptual disparities in child maltreatment among Chinese child social workers: The mediating impact of social work professional identity4
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
Social work professional organizations. Initial steps for filling a gap4
Revitalizing equity, diversity, and inclusion in social work4
Ontological (In)security in Early Career Social Work during COVID-19: Experiences in Scotland4
People with Disabilities and Labour Market Barriers: The Perspectives of Israeli Social Workers4
Social Work and the Quest for Environment Justice; a Call to Action4
Theatre and professional training: The Trame method4
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma4
Living a Good Life with Dementia: A practitioner's Guide, Liz Leach Murphy and Jayna Patel4
Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform, Richard Humphries4
‘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
Narratives of individual capacities: Positive organisational scholarship amongst child welfare workers in Norway4
The context-specific nature of rural social work practice: Findings from a scoping review4
Hospital Social Workers’ Boundary Work in Paediatric Acute Wards—Competitive or Collaborative?4
‘Like Solving a Jigsaw Puzzle’: The Role of Journal Writing in Social Work Students’ Professional Development4
The Working Mechanisms Underpinning Mental Health Experts by Experience Involvement in Direct Teaching: An Abductive Conceptual Framework4
Use of Linked Administrative Adult Social Care Data for Research: A Scoping Review of Existing UK Studies4
Promoting staff retention in social work: Identifying the ‘push’ and the ‘pull’ factors from the perspective of newly qualified social workers4
Mental Health Workforce Knowledge about LGBTIQ Identities and Related Responsiveness: A Mixed Methods Approach4
The ‘Right to an Upbringing’—Contrasting Early German and English Child Welfare Legislation for a Case Study in Comparative Social Work History4
Revisiting a Positive Living Group Climate as a Citizenship Climate: A Socio-Spatial Perspective on Residential Youth Care4
Care at Home for People Living with Dementia—Delaying Institutionalization, Sustaining Families Christine Ceci and Mary Ellen Purkis4
Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners: A Survival Guide, Helen Kara4
Social Workers Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse during the COVID-19 Pandemic4
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
Writing as Social Work: Thematic Review of the Literature4
Systematic Review of Service User and Carer Involvement in Qualifying Social Work Education: A Decade in Retrospect4
A Social Work Model of Historical Trauma4
Inconvenient Truth: Challenges to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Social Work Education and Practice4
Editorial: Safety and Risk, Blame and Change—in Whose Name and with What Consideration of Local, National, and International Contexts of Social Work Practice?4
Embedding Learning as a Practice of Value: Learning from the Experiences of Early Career Social Workers in Scotland4
How Palliative Care Social Workers across the Globe Overcame Practical Challenges to Engaging in Research3
Remote and Rural Dementia Care: Policy, Research and Practice, Anthea Innes, Debra Morgan, and Jane Farmer (eds)3
In Care, without Care3
Is cultural competence enough? The call for integrating cultural humility into social work practice in a minority community3
Is social work a dangerous profession in China? An analysis of client violence towards social workers in central China3
Social Work and Common Sense: A Critical Examination, Paul Michael Garrett3
Factors associated with the school exclusion gap for children with social work involvement: A retrospective cohort study using national administrative data3
Introduction to Reflective Papers3
Rethinking participation: Exploring children’s power relations and emotions in Child Protection Services3
Revisiting the Global Social Work Definition: How Social Workers Define the Profession a Decade Later?3
Managing PTSD For Health and Social Care Professionals: Help for the Helpers, Jan Smith3
Trust and mistrust in public services for people with disabilities: Analysing the gap between the perspectives of caseworkers and disabled people in Denmark3
Understanding Factors Explaining Social Workers’ Empathy towards Sex Offenders3
When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief, Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds3
Finding Home: The Experience of Home on Journeys Away from Intimate Partner Violence3
Outreach Work in ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Communities: A Critical Analysis of Task Shifting, Contact Making, Establishing Credibility and on-the-Spot, Solution-Focused Assistance3
Social Work Reflections on a ‘World out of Joint’3
Personal Independence Payment Forms, a De/Re/Constructive Reading: Re/Positioning Claimants, Social Workers and Social Work Practice ‘through’ Policy Discourse3
Effects of a social competence training for children on social competence and self-relevant factors3
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‘You Say One Thing Wrong, and Your Children Are Gone’: Exploring Trauma-Informed Practices in Foster and Kinship Care3
Therapeutic social media guidelines for young adults: A Delphi study3
Mapping Social Work’s Response to the ‘Grand Challenge’ of Loneliness: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Literature3
Structural and Socio-Political Barriers to Providing Services to Arab-Palestinian Young Women: Social Workers’ Perspectives3
Post-Disaster Social Connectedness in Parent–Child Dyads: A Qualitative Investigation of Changes in Coping and Social Capital of Rural Australian Families Following Bushfires3
Children’s Rights to Participate in out-of-Home Care: International Social Work Contexts, Claudia Equit and Jade Purtell (eds.)3
bell hooks’s Legacy and Social Work: A Distillation of Her Key Ideas about Love and Some Implications for Social Work Practice3
Transparency in Social Work: Mapping Polarities Faced by Social Workers3
Care Order Decisions—in the Domain of Social Work or the Courts? Social Workers’ Frontline Views3
‘Seen’ through Records: Parents’ Access to Children’s Social Care Records in an Age of Increasing Datafication3
‘Relocating’ Adolescents from Risk beyond the Home: What Do We Learn When We Ask about Safety?3
‘I Married a Gay Man’: Tongqi’s Agency in Marital Decisions3
Cultural Awareness and Representation Shouldn’t be an Afterthought in Anti-human Trafficking Programme and Policy Design3
Intergenerational Care and Subjective Well-being: A Study of the Particularities of Ageing Amongst the Indigenous Peoples of Chile3
Unveiling Whiteness within organisations working with people of refugee background3
Freedom in Chains? Religious Freedom Rights in an International Frame: Addressing the Increasing Intolerance and Violence Directed Toward People of Faith3
‘I sat on the commode’: The great carer assessment divide: A photovoice study of carer assessments under the Care Act 20143
Negotiating Access to Hard-to-Reach Populations through Institutional Gatekeepers in Social Work Research3
Residential Social Care Experiences of LGBTQ+ Young People in England: A Qualitative Interview Study3
Embedding Cultural Knowledge in Social Work Education: Reflections from Master of Social Work Students at a Regional Australian University3
The Mindfulness-Based Social Work and Self-Care Programme: A Mixed Methods Evaluation Study3
Is Work–Family Enrichment Important to Social Workers’ Life Meaning? A Serial Mediation Model of Self-Efficacy and Work Engagement3
Corrigendum to: The Perfect Storm? COVID-19 and Substance Use amongst Social Work Students in the USA3
Coaching in Mental Health Service Settings and Beyond: Practical Applications—Practical Applications, Jenny Forge3
Pathways to young Namibian mothers’ high school engagement: The role of Afrikan wellbeing practices3
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