OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Work Practice is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	52
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy. A comparative European analysis	11
Transference and countertransference from an attachment perspective: a guide for professional caregivers	10
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	8
How can teams in social work be strengthened? An example from a two-year project among social workers in child welfare	6
Emotional labour in child and family social work teams: a hybrid ethnography	6
Editorial	5
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	5
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	5
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	4
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	4
Editorial	4
Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice	3
The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula	3
Current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents are associated with lower externalizing symptoms of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements	3
Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma	3
An intercultural critical reflection model	2
The role of intuition in social work practice: differing understandings and attitudes	2
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	2
‘I was detecting a kind of, a from the heart kind of dialogue’: understanding the role of reflective spaces for transitional safeguarding innovation	2
“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)	2
A nostalgic reflection on the importance of teamwork for a novice social worker	2
Promoting positive parenting: a group social work intervention in a workplace setting	2
Gendered organisational and professional discourses of emotions in ‘macho’ social work: ethnographic insights	2
Sandplay therapy for people coping with negative symptoms of psychosis: a theoretically promising option	2

The experiences of reconciliation with destructive parents through imagery communication group psychotherapy	1
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	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
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	1
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	1
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	1
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	1
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research	1
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	1
Reflective practice editorial	1
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	1
Information-giving: an approach for contemporary practice	1
The evolving use of Mentalization informed thinking with the ‘Care Team’ in the Irish statutory child protection system	1
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	1
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	1
Negotiating differences in the workplace: the Filipino and Indonesian caregiver trainees in Japan	1
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	1
Editorial	1
Trauma and transition into adulthood: African refugee and asylum-seeking care leavers in London	1
Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context	1
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	1
Challenges and opportunities in collaborative approaches to responding to intimate partner violence: insights from social workers and police in Sweden	1
Children forsaken: child abuse from ancient to modern times	1
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research	1
Approved Mental Health Professionals: Teamwork, ‘Safety Nets’ and ‘Buckling Under’	1