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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care18
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker12
Editorial11
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre8
From discomfort to accountability: exploring an ethical relational approach to teaching anti-racism and decolonisation in a Canadian introductory social work classroom8
Reflective practice editorial7
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families7
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account7
Thinking the unthinkable: ‘white liberal’ defences against understanding in anti-racist training6
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice6
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma5
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective5
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach5
Sensuous knowledge: a black feminist approach for everyone4
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal4
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir4
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting4
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition4
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States4
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families3
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?3
The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery3
Editorial3
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision3
Editorial3
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa3
Keeping our heads: preserving therapeutic values in a time of change2
An intercultural critical reflection model2
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective2
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work2
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels2
Inequality and social work2
Green Social Work and climate resilience: analysing the psychosocial impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers in rural Tamil Nadu2
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences2
Follow the leader: anxiety, managerialism and basic assumption dependency in children and family social work decision-making2
Editorial2
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
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates2
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers2
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England2
Editorial1
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
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice1
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research1
Women and migratory processes in La Rioja (Spain). Narratives based on experience and Social Work1
A qualitative exploration of recognition and judgement in social work practice with street children in Ghana1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice1
Effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions to reduce stress among social workers- a meta-analysis1
The future of social work1
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work1
Containment as a lived experience1
Social workers’ experience with the concept of empowerment: voices from the disability field1
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
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
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?1
Social dreaming as a method for exploring the unthought known behind decolonisation in higher education1
Looking back thinking forward1
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice1
Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983–20211
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research1
Healing in relationships, the power of equine-assisted mental health interventions1
Current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents are associated with lower externalizing symptoms of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements1
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
Gendered organisational and professional discourses of emotions in ‘macho’ social work: ethnographic insights0
Verbal abuse of service users by professionals in social services: qualitative analysis of reported events in Finland0
Relational and embodied social justice pedagogies in social work0
The emotional experience of continuing professional development0
Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach0
Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context0
”I don’t think a lot of people respect us” – police and social worker experiences of interagency working with looked-after children0
Self-care among Slovenian social workers: understanding and barriers to self-care0
Social workers’ assessment of a child’s need for services as ‘craftwork’ practice0
When hearing children’s voices becomes harmful: an exploration of the risk of children re-experiencing trauma in the Looked After Review system0
‘Mentors need mentors’: the perspectives of adolescent cross-age mentors of colour about their instructors’ supports0
Providing psychological consultation within children’s social care: a mixed-methods service evaluation0
‘One size does not fit all’: understanding the situated nature of reflective practices0
Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives , edited by Andrea Daly and Merrick D0
Anchoring social care and social work practice in structured reflection: introducing a model of group reflective practice0
Correction0
Safeguarding young people: risks, rights, resilience and relationships0
Negotiating differences in the workplace: the Filipino and Indonesian caregiver trainees in Japan0
Andrew Cooper’s Special Issue Editorial0
A good death?0
Challenges in implementing direct payments for older adults in Northern Ireland: an evaluation of a pilot community and statutory collaboration0
Approved Mental Health Professionals: Teamwork, ‘Safety Nets’ and ‘Buckling Under’0
Process facilitation in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and social work0
Editorial0
Sandplay therapy for people coping with negative symptoms of psychosis: a theoretically promising option0
Personalisation as contribution-focused social work practice0
Cooperation and confidentiality. Information sharing between the Swedish social service and the police in juvenile crime prevention0
Exploring the contrasting sources of stress and job satisfaction across three different areas of UK statutory social work0
Challenges and opportunities in collaborative approaches to responding to intimate partner violence: insights from social workers and police in Sweden0
A more ‘child-centred’ system? The discretionary spaces of the child protection social worker0
Too hot to handle? Unthought anxiety and parallel process in social work supervision0
Christianity as coping mechanisms for migrants with mental health challenges in Australia: social work implications0
“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
‘A constant battle’: the interaction of government discourse, poverty and child and family social work practice0
Children forsaken: child abuse from ancient to modern times0
Community-based Aboriginal staff taking the lead in family support: a case study of transforming practices prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic0
Emotional labour in child and family social work teams: a hybrid ethnography0
Editorial0
‘I was detecting a kind of, a from the heart kind of dialogue’: understanding the role of reflective spaces for transitional safeguarding innovation0
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
The relational recession in social work: adult social care in the age of austerity0
Special issue on social work teams0
First-stage development of a Team as Secure Base questionnaire using a Delphi study0
Mapping the digital transformation of social work: a bibliometric analysis of trends, challenges, and future directions (2000–2024)0
Health social worker discourses on research knowledge utilisation – ideal in theory, distance in practice?0
Evaluating a virtual community of practice for recurrent care practitioners0
Developments in Attachment Research0
Nigel Elliott0
The words may limit our understanding: reflexive research, affect and embodied writing0
Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty0
‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’: the role of the team as secure base in social workers’ sensemaking0
Child abuse, the narrative of parents living in poverty: a critical analysis of parental and professional explanations of why a child was harmed0
Sharing formulations and interpretations with interview participants in psychoanalytically informed research: some considerations0
Poverty, social work, and social intervention: decent work as a strategy to overcome poverty after the Covid-190
Towards a psychosocial formulation of newly qualified social worker supervision: bringing the self into supervision0
Decolonising the peer review process0
Our journey with an AI assistant offering narrative therapy on WhatsApp0
A nostalgic reflection on the importance of teamwork for a novice social worker0
Involved but not included: young carers’ experiences of professional support while growing up with a parent with mental ill-health0
Learning from experience – anxiety, defence and leadership in group supervision: the implications for supervision and reflective practice0
Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma0
Narrative therapy and older adults living alone: a qualitative study in Mainland China0
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
How can teams in social work be strengthened? An example from a two-year project among social workers in child welfare0
Trauma and transition into adulthood: African refugee and asylum-seeking care leavers in London0
Applying decolonial thought to the study of racial microaggressions0
Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives0
Afrocentric social work perspectives on traditional community courts in South Africa and Zimbabwe: a collaborative autoethnography0
“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
Editorial0
The role of intuition in social work practice: differing understandings and attitudes0
Integrated social and health care to support women after childbirth: a qualitative network analysis based on Estonia0
The anti-racist social worker: stories of activism by social care and allied health professionals0
A short psychosocial history of British child abuse and protection: case studies in problems of mourning in the public sphere0
Unwanted variability in child welfare decision-making: an empirical investigation0
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support0
Learning from each other. An autoethnographic exploration of two child welfare systems with a north-south perspective – Norway and Botswana0
Validation as a clinical strategy0
Poverty: social work perspectives0
Social work futures: some challenges we face0
Retention and turnover in social work practice: what role do trusting colleagues, overtime, and workload play in job satisfaction?0
Invisible authors: an ethnography of the social life of social work assessment0
Relationships and reciprocity; where next for strengths-based social work in adult social care?0
The pathways model for integrative care and the social work role: case study0
The Race Conversation. An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue0
Personalisation in disability policy and practice: an analysis through the lenses of professional actors0
Creating the conditions for collective curiosity and containment: insights from developing and delivering reflective groups with social work supervisors0
Countertransference in psychotherapy with patients suffering from cancer disease: an empirical investigation0
The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula0
Self-compassion practice in social work settings0
What is institutionalising for ‘looked after’ children and young people?0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy. A comparative European analysis0
On breathing – care in a time of catastrophe0
Child protection and continuity breaking: challenges and paradoxes for the self-construction in a cross-border context0
Building trust: supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision0
The role of teams in social worker wellbeing and retention0
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
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