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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum to: Measuring Instruments for Empowerment in Social Work: A Scoping Review116
The Sender38
‘Hands touching in the river of love’37
Transference and Countertransference from an Attachment Perspective: A Guide for Professional Caregivers, Una McCluskey and Michael O’Toole29
Out of the Shadows: The Role of Social Workers in Disasters, Angie Bartoli, Maris Stratulis and Rebekah Pierre (eds)27
Erratum to: Why Does Social Work Work? A Proposal for a Social Work Understanding of Causality26
Improving the quality of contacts during foster care: Learnings from foster families25
Social Work and Aboriginal Australians: What Gets in the Way of Good Practice24
For a Carnal Social Work: A Review of the Body in Social Work Literature23
Approaches to Supporting Young People in Out-of-Home Care Who ‘Self-Place’ in Unapproved Locations: Perspectives of Statutory Child Protection Practitioners22
The capability approach in mental health research: A scoping review22
Implementing Connecting People in Adult Mental Health Social Work Practice: A Thematic Analysis of Postgraduate Student Assessed Placement Reports21
The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence, Mark Doel20
The Power to Change19
Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men’s Participation in Low-Income Family Life, Anna Tarrant19
Toolkits utilized by social workers rendering family reunification services to child offenders in foster care18
Supporting care transitions for older people: A practice-based qualitative study in England17
Immaterial Monuments, Narrative Inequality and Glocal Social Work. Towards Critical Participatory Community Art-Based Practices16
Impact of Stress on Job Engagement among Social Workers in Beijing: The Roles of Positive Emotion and Career Resilience16
Safeguarding Children Living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians: Learning from Case Reviews 2007–2019, Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose15
Perspectives from the frontline: Exploring the implementation of legislative change into social work practice for brothers and sisters in care in Scotland15
Professional Encounters with ‘the Other’: Widening Accessibility of Social Work Practices in Urban Neighbourhoods15
When Social Workers Impact Policy and Don’t Just Implement It: a Framework for Understanding Policy Engagement—Research in Social Work, John Gal and Idit Weiss-Gal15
Personal, professional, and social benefits from leisure engagement among social workers: A qualitative exploration15
The Strengths Approach in Practice: How it Changes Lives Avril Bellinger and Deirdre Ford14
Peer Support Workers as Equal Team Members. A Case Study of Peer Support in Glasgow Housing First14
The Often-unheard Perspective of a Carer Navigating Neoliberalism under the Provisions of the 2014 Care Act14
Corrigendum to: Predictive risk modelling and the mistaken equation of socio-economic disadvantage with risk of maltreatment14
Dilemmas and Decision Making in Residential Childcare, Abbi Jackson14
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 Work14
‘Surveillance Capitalism, COVID-19 and Social Work’: A Note on Uncertain Future(s)14
The Advancement of Social Work: Studies in Social Work to Mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Social Workers’ Educational Trust 1972–2022, David Pitcher and Beverley Burke (eds)14
Women Listening to Women: Radical Reflections on Self-Injury Support14
Cultural Diversity in Child Protection: Cultural Competence in Practice, Dr. Siobhan E. Laird and Dr. Prospera Tedam13
Social Work in Wales, Wulf Livingston, Jo Redcliffe and Abyd Quinn Aziz (eds)13
Lived Experiences as a Starting Point for Social Work Research—Possibilities and Challenges13
Borders: An International Comparative Analysis of Social Work’s Response13
Re-Envisioning Field Education in Australian Social Work to Combat Placement Poverty: Students’, Educators’ and Practitioners’ Perceptions12
Inconvenient Truth: Challenges to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Social Work Education and Practice12
Self-efficacy and technology usage among social service practitioners—A structural equation modeling12
Hospital Social Workers’ Boundary Work in Paediatric Acute Wards—Competitive or Collaborative?12
The Caring Encounters Guiding Framework: A Narrative Inquiry-Informed Innovative Model for Navigating Diversity12
Study to Change Destiny. Elements That Promote Successful Trajectories in Young People who Have Been in Residential Care12
Predictors of Social Workers Attitudes Towards Evidence-based Practice: Self-determination and the Moderating Role of Organisational Learning11
Who asked for this? The curious case of Readiness for Professional Practice in England11
Social Work and the Quest for Environment Justice; a Call to Action11
A Parent’s Experience Working with Professionals Following Disclosure of Sibling Sexual Abuse/Trauma11
Post-Pandemic Recovery Requires ‘More and Better’ Mental Health Services11
How Power Dynamics and Relationships Interact with Assessment of Competence: Exploring the Experiences of Student Social Workers Who Failed a Practice Placement11
Arab Social Workers’ Burnout in Welfare Bureaus: Expressions, Reasons, Implications and Coping-Mechanisms11
Responding to Domestic and Family Violence: The Role of Non-Specialist Services and Implications for Social Work10
Narratives of individual capacities: Positive organisational scholarship amongst child welfare workers in Norway10
Learning from children and youth: A qualitative study about the changes that young people identify through a positive parenting programme10
Gender Discrimination towards Female Arab Teenagers in Israel and Their Involvement in Severe Violence: The Mediating Role of Closeness to Parents10
Between self-determination and advice: Sense-making and justifications in Swedish budget and debt counselling10
A Complex Unit Interviews Analysis Approach in Qualitative Social Work Research9
Editorial: Safety and Risk, Blame and Change—in Whose Name and with What Consideration of Local, National, and International Contexts of Social Work Practice?9
Perspectives on Coping with Post-traumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders: A Photovoice Study9
Digital distributive leadership in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic—New light on the transition from physical workplaces to digital spaces in Swedish eldercare9
Mental Health Family Carer Experiences during COVID-19: A Rapid Scoping Review of the International Literature9
Sibling Separation: Learning from Those with Former Foster Care Experiences9
Empowerment or Holding the Child Responsible? An Australian Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Policy Analysis9
Corrigendum to: ‘I Married a Gay Man’: Tongqi’s Agency in Marital Decisions8
Establishing outcome measures in practice: Developing a model for services working therapeutically with children and families8
The Role of Demographics, Professional Quality of Life and Public Image in Social Workers’ Self-Esteem8
Striking Ethical Balances: The Contribution of ‘Insider’ Practitioner–Academic Social Work Research in England8
Disrupting Human Rights: A Social Work Response to the Lockdown of Social Housing Residents8
Ethnicity and Old Age: Expanding Our Imagination, Sandra Torres8
Approved Mental Health Professionals’ Experiences of Moral Distress: ‘Who Are we For’?8
Highly Educated Immigrants in US Academia and Their Constrained Choices in the Social Work Profession8
Impact of Social and Personal Factors on Psychological Distress in the Spanish Population in the COVID-19 Crisis8
Moving the River: Rethinking Regulation in Social Work8
Roles and Tasks of Social Workers in Chinese Disaster Management8
Cross-cultural comparison of mental health in social work students between UK and Ireland: Mental health shame and self-compassion8
The Effects of Bias Listening and Not Being Heard in Child Protection Proceedings: Consequences on Life and Identity8
‘I have enough pressure as it is, without the worry of doing something wrong because of ignorance’: The impact of Covid-19 on people who employ social care personal assistants8
Investigating Secondary Trauma in Student Placements: An Exploratory Study8
Exploring the Potential Mechanisms of Action of the Mindfulness-based Social Work and Self-care Programme8
The Contributions of First Nations Voices to the Australian Public Debate over the Criminalisation of Coercive Control8
Social Work Practice with Ethnic Minorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Arab Minority in Israel8
Editorial: Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience in Social Work Research and Publishing—Taking Stock and Planning Future Actions7
The Social Media, Online and Digital Abuse and Harassment of Social Workers, Probation Officers and Social Work Students in Ireland: A National Survey7
Towards a ‘Social Model’ of Mental Capacity for Social Work7
The Meaning of Power for Female Arab Social Workers under the Youth Law7
Changing Trends in Child Welfare Inequalities in Northern Ireland7
Looking Through the Eyes of General Practitioners: The Role of Social Work in Primary Health Care7
Social Work’s Contribution towards an Eco-Social World; the People’s Charter7
Supporting Dialogue: Using Self-Selected Material Objects to Explore Spirituality, Mental Distress and the Social Worker Role7
Institutional escapes, breaks, and continuities: Reframing running away from residential child care institutions7
Changing Gears and Buying Time: A Study Exploring AMHP Practice Following Referral for a Mental Health Act Assessment in England and Wales7
Teaching Social Work Practice Skills: A Collaborative Autoethnography Identifying Key Practice Skills and Modes of Delivery in the Art of Social Work Practice7
What is Life Story Work? How defining approaches can bring clarity to research, training, and practice7
An Autoethnographic Perspective of Life Story Work7
Family Group Conference Provision in UK Local Authorities and Associations with Children Looked after Rates7
Threshold Decisions in Social Work: Using Theory to Support Practice7
The inter-relationship between parental problems and ethnic background: How do they impact on entry into local authority care?6
Service Utilisation of an Innovative Mental Health Counselling Clinic6
‘If I’m not real, I’m Not Having an Impact’: Relationality and Vicarious Resistance in Complex Trauma Care6
The Perceived Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Well-being of Care-Experienced People6
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When Social Workers Are Given Dual Mandates: Child Maintenance and the Complexities of Family Situations in the Ghanaian Child Protection System6
Interventions Targeting the Mental Health and Well-being of Care-Experienced Children and Young People: Mixed-Methods Systematic Review with Stakeholder Consultation to Inform Transportability and Ada6
Conflicting Expectations of Interpreters’ Roles in the Interaction between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors6
Do New Policies Influence Practice? A Qualitative Study of Practice and Change in Relation to the New Welsh Child Sexual Exploitation Guidance6
Revisiting a Positive Living Group Climate as a Citizenship Climate: A Socio-Spatial Perspective on Residential Youth Care6
Leadership Through Language, Terminology and Representation: Conceptual and Tangible Steps Towards Epistemic Justice Practices6
Editorial: Preparing for Social Work Practice6
Disaster Preparedness in Social Work: Enhancing Policy in Australian Human Service Organisations6
Long-term post-traumatic growth after natural disasters: A scoping review of contextual influences6
Embedding Learning as a Practice of Value: Learning from the Experiences of Early Career Social Workers in Scotland6
Editorial: Social Work Practitioner Research in a Globalised Context6
Protecting Social Workers as Human Rights Defenders in a Dangerous World6
Practice research methods in social work: Processes, applications and implications for social service organisations6
Called to the Crisis: The Experiences of Hospital-Based Social Workers Providing on-Call Services6
The Working Mechanisms Underpinning Mental Health Experts by Experience Involvement in Direct Teaching: An Abductive Conceptual Framework6
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 Workers6
The Phenomenon of Repeat Payday Loan Borrowing in the United States: Assessing Risk and Protective Factors among the Financially Vulnerable6
Expressive Arts Intervention for Older Carers of Adult Family Members with Intellectual Disabilities5
Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Edited by Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner5
Prosocial Personality as a Predictor of Burnout in Spanish Social Workers5
Disaster Preparedness in Social Work: A Scoping Review of Evidence for Further Research, Theory and Practice5
Sensing with Schizophrenia5
Digital Technology in Children’s Safeguarding Social Work Practice in the 21st Century: A Scoping Review5
Painting by Alex for the World5
Not Rocket Science: Implementing Efforts to Improve Working Conditions of Social Workers5
Sex and Diversity in Later Life: Critical Perspectives, Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Paul Simpson and Paul Reynolds5
Managing Risk and Uncertainty in the Context of Child Protection Decision Making5
Political Involvement of Social Workers in Majority and Minority Groups: Comparison of Palestinians-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli5
Voices of Women Exposed to Honour-Based Violence: On Vulnerability, Needs and Support from Social Services5
The impacts of forum theatre in social work practice: A scoping review5
COVID-19 Impact on Children’s Social Work Practice and Social Worker Well-being: A Mixed Methods Study from Northern Ireland and Great Britain during 2020–20225
‘Listening from a Personal Perspective’: Does Co-Designed Mental Health Education Shift Stigma? A Mixed Method Evaluation Study5
Correction to: Social Workers’ Experiences of Working with Partner Violence5
Writing as Social Work: Thematic Review of the Literature5
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 study5
Five Decades of Reflections by a Carer of a Learning Disabled Son—From Hospitalisation to Care in the Community5
Burdened but Meaningful?: How Gender Role Attitudes Influence the Complex Links between Care-giver Self-Efficacy, Formal Support Utilisation and Benefit-Finding among Spousal Care-givers5
Call the Social, Julia Ross5
Supporting Meaningful Implementation and Evaluation of Strengths-Based Approaches in Adult Social Care: A Theory of Change for The Three Conversations5
A Three-Year Comparison of Global Social Worker Working Conditions5
Qualitative Studies of Foster Carer Experiences in Providing Out of Home Care for Children: A Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis5
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma5
HURTing: An Analysis of Service User and Carer Referrals to a UK Social Work Regulator5
Practitioner Perspectives on Agency Social Work in Children and Families Social Work in England5
Work with People in Mental Distress Who Access Spirituality/Religion5
Correction to: Rethinking Anti-Discriminatory and Anti-Oppressive Theories for Social Work Practice, Christine Cocker, Trish Hafford-Letchfield (eds)5
A Child in the Middle, Catherine Chanter5
Learning by Stealth: Newly Qualified Social Workers’ Experiences of Navigating Health and Hospital Social Work5
Chasing the Hat5
The Effects of Decent Work and Social Support on Enhancing Collective Psychological Ownership Amongst Young Adult Social Workers5
Swallowing Water It was Christmas at the orphanage And Just a Trigger Away5
Foster Carers’ Receptiveness to New Innovations and Programmes: An Example from the Introduction of Social Pedagogy to UK Foster Care5
The Invisible Face of Social Work Field Education: Secondary Traumatic Stress Experiences of BSW Students5
Social Workers as Local Politicians in Israel5
Digital Relationality, Rights, Resilience: Conceptualising a Digital Social Ecology for Children’s Birth Family Relationships When in Care or Adopted5
Bottled up feelings5
Effective Interventions to Reduce Burnout in Social Workers: A Systematic Review4
Factors Influencing Social Work Identity in Mental Health Placements4
Lived Experience in Social Work: An Underutilised Expertise4
Exploring the Anti-professional Turn in English Foster Care: Implications for Policy, Practice and Research4
Safeguarding Young People beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms, Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler and Delphine Peace4
Towards Digital Adaption: An Exploration of Chinese Social Workers’ Experiences of Digital Service Challenges and Coping Strategies in the Context of COVID-194
Digital Connection in Health and Social Work: Perspectives from Covid-19, Denise Turner and Michael Fanner (eds)4
What Influences the Use of Research by the Adult Social Care Workforce?4
Hegemony, Common Sense and Good Sense: A Gramscian Study of Policymakers’ Perspectives on Dealing with Poverty in Child Welfare and Protection4
Last Resort or Best Interest? Exploring the Risk and Safety Factors That Inform the Rates of Relocation for Young People Abused in Extra-Familial Settings4
A More ‘Child-Centred’ System? Child Protection Social Workers’ Willingness to Employ Discretion4
‘Terrific Black Holes’: Experiences with Social Services in Elder Family Financial Exploitation4
To Shield or Not to Shield? There Should Be No Question—Black African Social Workers Experiences during COVID-19 in England4
A Multilevel Investigation of the Association between Collective Psychological Ownership as Psychosocial Resources and Social Workers’ Turnover Intention4
Decision-maker influences and perceptual disparities in child maltreatment among Chinese child social workers: The mediating impact of social work professional identity4
Young people’s perspectives on barriers to accessing supports and services in Drayton Valley, Canada4
Social Workers Migrating between England and Australia: Linking Social Hierarchies, Bureaucracy, Trust and Politeness4
Social Work Senior Managers as Street-Level Policymakers4
‘Listen Very Carefully, We Will Say This Only Once (Again)’ Dead Ends to Politicisation in Social Work4
The Impact of Political Stance on UK Newspaper Coverage of Child and Family Social Work4
Politics for Social Workers: A Practical Guide to Effecting Change, Stephen Pimpare4
Organisational Leadership and Service Quality of Child and Adolescent Social Workers: A Hierarchical Linear Modelling Approach4
A Social Work Model of Historical Trauma4
Evaluating Child Interviews Conducted by Child Protective Services Workers and Police Investigators4
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Workers at the Frontline: A Survey of Canadian Social Workers4
Understanding Successes and Failures of Family Group Conferencing: An in-Depth Multiple Case Study4
Fractional belonging: The experience of Bulgarian and Zimbabwean migrants living in Australia4
Validity and Reliability of the Arabic Version of the Short Form Social Well-Being Scale4
Children Forsaken: Child Abuse from Ancient to Modern Times Steven Walker (ed.)4
Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform, Richard Humphries4
Mapping Theory–Practice Integration: A Model from Aotearoa New Zealand4
Utilising the ADAPT-ITT Method to Adapt an Evidence-based Intervention Addressing HIV, Trauma and Mental Health Risks among Female Fish Traders in Zambia4
The Anti-Racist Social Worker; stories of activism in social care and allied health professionals, Tanya Moore and Glory Simango4
Whose Voice is It Anyway?4
Strategic Resource Mobilisation amongst Founder-CEOs of Social Work Organisations in Mainland China4
Do Social Media Impact Young Adult Mental Health and Well-Being? A Qualitative Study4
Understanding training and support needs of foster carers of infants in out-of-home care4
Implementing the Learning from the Mindfulness-based Social Work and Self-care Programme to Social Work Student Practice during COVID-19: A Qualitative Study4
Metaphors as a Tool for Understanding of Lived Experience of Social Work Practitioners in the Contemporary Czech Society4
The Visibility of a Socio-Economic Dimension in Day-to-Day Child and Family Social Work Practice in Wales3
Children’s Social Work Safe Staffing Supply and Workforce Demands Analysis: A Case Study from Northern Ireland3
The Empowerment of Informal Female Workers: A Case Study for Social Work Intervention in Tehran Province3
The Protective Role of Perceived Social Support between Ethnic Identity and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes: The Case of Indigenous Adults in Taiwan3
Familiarity with Evidence-Based Practice and Self-Evaluated Service Quality: The Mediating Roles of Preference for Authority-Based Evidence and Professional Autonomy3
Strategic Information: A Qualitative Study on the Use of Digital Curriculum Vitae for Social Work with Vulnerable Clients3
Research on Attitudes towards Ageing, Social Participation and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in China3
Short-Term Effectiveness of Residential Out-of-Home Care for Children and Youth—A Scoping Review3
Formalist, Specialist, Pragmatist or Idealist—Approaches to Boundary Spanning in Personal Social Services3
On Your Marx…? A World to Win or the Dismantlement of a Profession? On Why We Need a Reckoning3
Pandemic ethics: Rethinking rights, responsibilities and roles in social work3
Domestic Violence Survivors Who Became Anti-domestic Violence Volunteers: A Qualitative Study in China3
Older People, Loneliness, Social Isolation and Technological Mitigations: Utilising Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic as we Move Forward3
Remote service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic: Questioning the impact of technology on relationship-based social work practice3
Psychometric Examination of the Freshman Stress Questionnaire Using a Sample of Social Work Students in Spain during the Covid-19 Pandemic3
Recognition of Family Life by Children Living in Kinship Care Arrangements in England3
Working with Domestic Violence and Abuse across the Lifecourse: Understanding Good Practice, Ravi Thiara and Lorraine Radford (eds)3
The associations between poverty and social–emotional outcomes among children in Japan3
A Managed Approach to On-Street Sex Working: Messages for Social Work Practice3
Social Work Practice During Times of Disaster: A Transformative Green Social Work Model for Theory, Education and Practice in Disaster Interventions3
Housing, Homelessness and Children’s Social Care: Towards an Urgent Research Agenda3
Professional Burnout as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Pandemic-Related Stress and Social Care Workers’ Mental Health3
Developing and Evaluating a Social Work Assessment Model based on Co-production Methods3
Staff Perceptions and Capability in using the Mental Capacity Act to Assess Decision Making in those with Acquired Brain Injury and Executive Dysfunction3
Social Exclusion in the UK—The Lived Experience Mel Hughes (ed.)3
The Origins of Social Care and Social Work: Creating a Global Future, Mark Henrickson3
Predictors of Health Literacy among Caregivers of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Family-Centred Empowerment Approach3
The Meaning of Online Social Work Education for Students and Faculty during COVID-19: Between Preservation and Change3
Building Capacity for Social Care Research—Individual-Level and Organisational Barriers Facing Practitioners3
‘Bottom Line is You Deserve These Things’: Experiences of Social Security Claimants as Lessons for Take-up Advocacy3
Prevalence of Child Maltreatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Survey of Rural Hubei, China3
A conceptualisation of equitable social work practice with transgender and gender diverse communities3
Culturally competent social work in Arab–Palestinian locality welfare bureaus in Israel: Is it possible?3
Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners: A Survival Guide, Helen Kara3
Beyond the Toxic Trio: Exploring Demand Typologies in Children’s Social Care3
The Connected Lives We Live: Autoethnographic Accounts of Disability, Mental Illness and Power3
Countertransference Narratives of a Social Worker in Supervision3
Fidelity to and Adaptation of Evidence-based Interventions in the Social Work Literature: A Scoping Review3
The Perceived Public Image of Palestinian Female Social Workers in Israel: Effects on Professional Experiences3
‘Like Solving a Jigsaw Puzzle’: The Role of Journal Writing in Social Work Students’ Professional Development3
Realities on Participation of Scheduled Caste in India: The Benefits of Social Inclusion in Higher Education through Social Work Interventions3
Book Reviews—Introduction3
Educating Young People about Vulnerability to Sexual Exploitation: Safeguarding Practitioners’ Standpoints at the Intersections of Gender, Sexuality and Risk3
Political Institutions and Social Work: How Switzerland’s Direct Democracy, Federalist Structure and Consensus System Affect Social Workers’ Policy Engagement3
Ontological (In)security in Early Career Social Work during COVID-19: Experiences in Scotland3
Australian and New Zealand social workers adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic3
Perceived Disaster Preparedness between Asian Americans and Other Races: Mediating Roles of Information Seeking and Self-Efficacy3
Social Workers in Socio-Legal Collaborations: Re-Asserting a Pivotal Role of Influence and Leadership3
Comparing Local Authority Rates of Children in Care: A Survey of the Children’s Social Care Workforce in Wales3
Social Work in Brazil in the Vortex of Three crises: Pandemic, Social and Political3
The Sacrificed Children: Listening to the Voices of Former Young Carers Supporting Parents with Mental Illness3
A Multidimensional Approach to Explore the Experiences with Ethnic Matching amongst Chinese Social Service Practitioners in the Greater Toronto Area3
An A–Z of Social Work Theory (1st Editions), Malcom Payne3
Social work, Max Weber and ethical irrationality3
Coproducing recovery with people affected by substance use and criminalization3
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