Journal of Social Work Practice

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker21
Editorial14
The role of play in social work education, training, and practice7
From discomfort to accountability: exploring an ethical relational approach to teaching anti-racism and decolonisation in a Canadian introductory social work classroom6
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre6
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care6
Thinking the unthinkable: ‘white liberal’ defences against understanding in anti-racist training5
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account5
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice5
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families5
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir4
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition4
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting4
Ungrievable lives: precariousness, grievability and power in social work practice4
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma4
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal4
Why war in Ukraine and in Europe? Psychoanalysis, trauma and resiliency4
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach4
Sensuous knowledge: a black feminist approach for everyone4
How does work support influence the relationship between stress and job satisfaction? (A Quantitative Study of Social Workers in the UK)4
Editorial3
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision3
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences3
The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery3
Green Social Work and climate resilience: analysing the psychosocial impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers in rural Tamil Nadu3
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates3
Follow the leader: anxiety, managerialism and basic assumption dependency in children and family social work decision-making3
Editorial3
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families3
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective2
Inequality and social work2
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 professionals2
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers2
Editorial2
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work2
Keeping our heads: preserving therapeutic values in a time of change2
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England2
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)1
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels1
The future of social work1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice1
A qualitative exploration of recognition and judgement in social work practice with street children in Ghana1
Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983–20211
Women and migratory processes in La Rioja (Spain). Narratives based on experience and Social Work1
Healing in relationships, the power of equine-assisted mental health interventions1
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice1
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems1
The importance of social work in a challenging world1
Editorial1
Indian perspectives on single-session therapy: an initial qualitative study with psychiatric social workers1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?1
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice1
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 Governmen1
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research1
Transcendental tales? An auto-ethnographic exploration of the coloniality of secularism: some reflections for social work education1
Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice1
Sustaining and developing social work knowledge and skills in a changing world1
Looking back thinking forward1
Effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions to reduce stress among social workers- a meta-analysis1
Social dreaming as a method for exploring the unthought known behind decolonisation in higher education1
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 England1
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships1
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research1
Editorial1
Containment as a lived experience1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality1
Child abuse, the narrative of parents living in poverty: a critical analysis of parental and professional explanations of why a child was harmed0
The Race Conversation. An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue0
‘Mentors need mentors’: the perspectives of adolescent cross-age mentors of colour about their instructors’ supports0
Relationships and reciprocity; where next for strengths-based social work in adult social care?0
Neuro social work: from translation to specialisation through the critical integration of neuroscience in practice0
Invisible authors: an ethnography of the social life of social work assessment0
Health social worker discourses on research knowledge utilisation – ideal in theory, distance in practice?0
Countertransference in psychotherapy with patients suffering from cancer disease: an empirical investigation0
“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
Self-compassion practice in social work settings0
“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
Emotional labour in child and family social work teams: a hybrid ethnography0
Christianity as coping mechanisms for migrants with mental health challenges in Australia: social work implications0
Social workers’ assessment of a child’s need for services as ‘craftwork’ practice0
‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’: the role of the team as secure base in social workers’ sensemaking0
Evaluating a virtual community of practice for recurrent care practitioners0
Social work futures: some challenges we face0
Applying decolonial thought to the study of racial microaggressions0
The pathways model for integrative care and the social work role: case study0
The emotional experience of continuing professional development0
Approved Mental Health Professionals: Teamwork, ‘Safety Nets’ and ‘Buckling Under’0
Editorial0
Afrocentric social work perspectives on traditional community courts in South Africa and Zimbabwe: a collaborative autoethnography0
Negotiating differences in the workplace: the Filipino and Indonesian caregiver trainees in Japan0
Our journey with an AI assistant offering narrative therapy on WhatsApp0
Self-care among Slovenian social workers: understanding and barriers to self-care0
Social workers’ experience with the concept of empowerment: voices from the disability field0
Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives , edited by Andrea Daly and Merrick D0
Social work with the Black African diaspora0
Loneliness, emotion regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use among Turkish adolescents- a moderated mediation analysis0
The words may limit our understanding: reflexive research, affect and embodied writing0
Retention and turnover in social work practice: what role do trusting colleagues, overtime, and workload play in job satisfaction?0
Validation as a clinical strategy0
Correction0
Decolonising the peer review process0
Nigel Elliott0
Personalisation in disability policy and practice: an analysis through the lenses of professional actors0
Challenges in implementing direct payments for older adults in Northern Ireland: an evaluation of a pilot community and statutory collaboration0
Looking for the infant voice. How depth hermeneutics (scenic-narrative microanalysis) contributes to an understanding of how a child participates from the beginning of life0
Process facilitation in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and social work0
On breathing – care in a time of catastrophe0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy. A comparative European analysis0
Children forsaken: child abuse from ancient to modern times0
‘A constant battle’: the interaction of government discourse, poverty and child and family social work practice0
Challenges and opportunities in collaborative approaches to responding to intimate partner violence: insights from social workers and police in Sweden0
Exploring the contrasting sources of stress and job satisfaction across three different areas of UK statutory social work0
Narrative therapy and older adults living alone: a qualitative study in Mainland China0
Interrogating the implications of Afrocentric supervision for social work policy development and practice0
How does it make you feel? Understanding the affordances of the Many Minds psycho-social analytic model in child protection research0
Meet me where I am: monthly card writing as a form of relationship-based intervention in Residential Childcare0
Trauma and transition into adulthood: African refugee and asylum-seeking care leavers in London0
Gendered organisational and professional discourses of emotions in ‘macho’ social work: ethnographic insights0
Safeguarding young people: risks, rights, resilience and relationships0
Personalisation as contribution-focused social work practice0
Cooperation and confidentiality. Information sharing between the Swedish social service and the police in juvenile crime prevention0
‘I’d love to come back, but it would have to be different’. Exploring former child protection social workers’ rationale for leaving the English child protection system, and the changes required to con0
Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach0
Relational and embodied social justice pedagogies in social work0
‘I was detecting a kind of, a from the heart kind of dialogue’: understanding the role of reflective spaces for transitional safeguarding innovation0
Towards a psychosocial formulation of newly qualified social worker supervision: bringing the self into supervision0
The anti-racist social worker: stories of activism by social care and allied health professionals0
Developments in attachment research0
A good death?0
A short psychosocial history of British child abuse and protection: case studies in problems of mourning in the public sphere0
Andrew Cooper’s Special Issue Editorial0
First-stage development of a Team as Secure Base questionnaire using a Delphi study0
Defining roles, rebuilding lives: social workers in collaborative child deradicalization0
Social work as a meso-level profession: towards network-oriented practice and research0
Building trust: supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision0
Unwanted variability in child welfare decision-making: an empirical investigation0
Forest bathing and Social Work education: effects on mood states among undergraduate students in the Azores0
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
The relational recession in social work: adult social care in the age of austerity0
Poverty: social work perspectives0
Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context0
A nostalgic reflection on the importance of teamwork for a novice social worker0
The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula0
The role of teams in social worker wellbeing and retention0
Special issue on social work teams0
Sandplay therapy for people coping with negative symptoms of psychosis: a theoretically promising option0
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support0
Poverty, social work, and social intervention: decent work as a strategy to overcome poverty after the Covid-190
How can teams in social work be strengthened? An example from a two-year project among social workers in child welfare0
Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty0
Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives0
Too hot to handle? Unthought anxiety and parallel process in social work supervision0
Sharing formulations and interpretations with interview participants in psychoanalytically informed research: some considerations0
Community-based Aboriginal staff taking the lead in family support: a case study of transforming practices prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic0
Integrated social and health care to support women after childbirth: a qualitative network analysis based on Estonia0
Involved but not included: young carers’ experiences of professional support while growing up with a parent with mental ill-health0
Editorial0
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 system0
Verbal abuse of service users by professionals in social services: qualitative analysis of reported events in Finland0
When hearing children’s voices becomes harmful: an exploration of the risk of children re-experiencing trauma in the Looked After Review system0
The role of intuition in social work practice: differing understandings and attitudes0
How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel? One group’s experience in unspoken territory0
Learning from each other. An autoethnographic exploration of two child welfare systems with a north-south perspective – Norway and Botswana0
Mapping the digital transformation of social work: a bibliometric analysis of trends, challenges, and future directions (2000–2024)0
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