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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Social Work Practice is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	12
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	10
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	8
Editorial	8
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	7
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	6
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	5
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	5
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	5
Reflective practice editorial	5
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	4
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	4
Time-limited adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy. A developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people	4
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	4
Working in complex contexts; mother social workers and the mothers they meet	4
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	4
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	4
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	3
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	3
The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery	3
Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) Yoga: programming with survivors of human trafficking in Uganda	3
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	3
Editorial	2
Editorial	2
An intercultural critical reflection model	2

Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	2
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families	2
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	2
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	2
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	2
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	2
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	1
Editorial	1
Looking back thinking forward	1
Older people’s strategies for meaningful social interactions in the context of eldercare services	1
Imagined interactions of social workers in social work with families: how and why the practitioners talk to themselves?	1
The importance of social work in a challenging world	1
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work	1
Editorial	1
Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals	1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	1
The ‘team’ in child and family social work: exploratory findings from a longitudinal study on factors influencing the retention of child and family social workers in England	1
Current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents are associated with lower externalizing symptoms of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements	1
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice	1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality	1
Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client	1
Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances	1
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	1
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	1
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	1
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems	1
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	1
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)	1
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings	1
The future of social work	1
Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis. New perspectives on race, gender and sexuality	1
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff	1
Correction	0
Learning from each other. An autoethnographic exploration of two child welfare systems with a north-south perspective – Norway and Botswana	0
Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives	0
‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’: the role of the team as secure base in social workers’ sensemaking	0
Approved Mental Health Professionals: Teamwork, ‘Safety Nets’ and ‘Buckling Under’	0
Personalisation in disability policy and practice: an analysis through the lenses of professional actors	0
Poverty, social work, and social intervention: decent work as a strategy to overcome poverty after the Covid-19	0
The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula	0
Health social worker discourses on research knowledge utilisation – ideal in theory, distance in practice?	0
Editorial	0
Special issue on social work teams	0
‘A constant battle’: the interaction of government discourse, poverty and child and family social work practice	0
Verbal abuse of service users by professionals in social services: qualitative analysis of reported events in Finland	0
What is institutionalising for ‘looked after’ children and young people?	0
Child protection and continuity breaking: challenges and paradoxes for the self-construction in a cross-border context	0
Creating the conditions for collective curiosity and containment: insights from developing and delivering reflective groups with social work supervisors	0

Narrative therapy and older adults living alone: a qualitative study in Mainland China	0
Children forsaken: child abuse from ancient to modern times	0
Involved but not included: young carers’ experiences of professional support while growing up with a parent with mental ill-health	0
Emotional labour in child and family social work teams: a hybrid ethnography	0
Community-based Aboriginal staff taking the lead in family support: a case study of transforming practices prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Our journey with an AI assistant offering narrative therapy on WhatsApp	0
Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice	0
“The truth that no one wants to see.” Social work practice, human rights and aesthetic mediation in a group of people experiencing homelessness in Seville (Spain)	0
What do child protection social workers consider to be the systemic factors driving workforce instability within the English child protection system, and what are the implications for the UK Governmen	0
The relational recession in social work: adult social care in the age of austerity	0
‘Caring and connected’: technology and social worker self-care	0
Editorial	0
Nigel Elliott	0
The experiences of reconciliation with destructive parents through imagery communication group psychotherapy	0
”I don’t think a lot of people respect us” – police and social worker experiences of interagency working with looked-after children	0
Self-care among Slovenian social workers: understanding and barriers to self-care	0
Retention and turnover in social work practice: what role do trusting colleagues, overtime, and workload play in job satisfaction?	0
‘I was detecting a kind of, a from the heart kind of dialogue’: understanding the role of reflective spaces for transitional safeguarding innovation	0
Relationships and reciprocity; where next for strengths-based social work in adult social care?	0
The Race Conversation. An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue	0
Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context	0
The words may limit our understanding: reflexive research, affect and embodied writing	0
Transference and countertransference from an attachment perspective: a guide for professional caregivers	0
“Difference which makes a difference” (Bateson, 1972): how the neurodiversity paradigm and systemic approaches can support individuals and organisations to facilitate more helpful conversations about	0
Poverty: social work perspectives	0
Building trust: supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision	0
‘One size does not fit all’: understanding the situated nature of reflective practices	0
Learning from experience – anxiety, defence and leadership in group supervision: the implications for supervision and reflective practice	0
Trauma and transition into adulthood: African refugee and asylum-seeking care leavers in London	0
Looking for the infant voice. How depth hermeneutics (scenic-narrative microanalysis) contributes to an understanding of how a child participates from the beginning of life	0
The role of teams in social worker wellbeing and retention	0
Sharing formulations and interpretations with interview participants in psychoanalytically informed research: some considerations	0
Child abuse, the narrative of parents living in poverty: a critical analysis of parental and professional explanations of why a child was harmed	0
A framework for a community-based programme for people with mental illness and their families in a rural setting	0
Editorial	0
Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma	0
Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach	0
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research	0
Editorial	0
Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983–2021	0
‘Mentors need mentors’: the perspectives of adolescent cross-age mentors of colour about their instructors’ supports	0
Anchoring social care and social work practice in structured reflection: introducing a model of group reflective practice	0
Sandplay therapy for people coping with negative symptoms of psychosis: a theoretically promising option	0
Social workers’ experience with the concept of empowerment: voices from the disability field	0
Invisible authors: an ethnography of the social life of social work assessment	0
Negotiating differences in the workplace: the Filipino and Indonesian caregiver trainees in Japan	0
First-stage development of a Team as Secure Base questionnaire using a Delphi study	0
The role of intuition in social work practice: differing understandings and attitudes	0
Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives , edited by Andrea Daly and Merrick D	0
Too hot to handle? Unthought anxiety and parallel process in social work supervision	0
Providing psychological consultation within children’s social care: a mixed-methods service evaluation	0
Young people on the ‘edge of care’: perspectives regarding a residential family intervention programme using social pedagogic and systemic approaches- striving for ‘humane practice’	0
Information-giving: an approach for contemporary practice	0
A message of hope: the challenges of relationship-based practice in a time of social distancing, but why it is more important than ever to come together	0
The anti-racist social worker: stories of activism by social care and allied health professionals	0
Social workers’ assessment of a child’s need for services as ‘craftwork’ practice	0
Process facilitation in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and social work	0
Challenges and opportunities in collaborative approaches to responding to intimate partner violence: insights from social workers and police in Sweden	0
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support	0
A more ‘child-centred’ system? The discretionary spaces of the child protection social worker	0
Safeguarding young people: risks, rights, resilience and relationships	0
Christianity as coping mechanisms for migrants with mental health challenges in Australia: social work implications	0
Utilising ubuntu in social work practice: ubuntu in the eyes of the multimodal approach	0
Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty	0
How can teams in social work be strengthened? An example from a two-year project among social workers in child welfare	0
The emotional experience of continuing professional development	0
The pathways model for integrative care and the social work role: case study	0
Healing in relationships, the power of equine-assisted mental health interventions	0
Personalisation as contribution-focused social work practice	0
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research	0
Towards a psychosocial formulation of newly qualified social worker supervision: bringing the self into supervision	0
How learning from the lived experiences of child protection social workers can help us understand the factors underpinning workforce instability within the English child protection system	0
Editorial	0
Validation as a clinical strategy	0
A nostalgic reflection on the importance of teamwork for a novice social worker	0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy. A comparative European analysis	0
Gendered organisational and professional discourses of emotions in ‘macho’ social work: ethnographic insights	0