OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Guidance & Counselling 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The mediating role of cultural intelligence and cognitive flexibility in the relation between effective counsellor characteristics and multicultural counselling competencies of counsellors in Turkey	28
Graduate students’ perceptions of the career construction interview	19
Development of vocational gender stereotype attitudes scale (VGSA) for adolescents	19
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	17
A qualitative study of counselling students’ experience with premature termination	15
A framework for defining a guidance approach support: typology, concepts, and practice guidelines	14
Effects of mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) among women undergraduates in enhancing positive mental health	13
Narratives of experiences of presence in bereavement: sources of comfort, ambivalence and distress	13
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	12
Job-seeking self-efficacy: an Irish scale for assessing the guidance and coaching needs of job seekers	11
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	10
Institutional and psychological predictors of university students’ mental health help-seeking intentions	9
A critical exploration of the “agile career”: a means of exposing the politics and economy of precarity via the lens of dromology	9
University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying	9
Is dharma the same as calling? Considering religio-cultural context in cross-cultural calling research	8
Introduction to issue 53 volume 2	8
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors: expectations and experiences of graduating students in Sweden	8
Exploring calling to farming careers in the United Kingdom: a scoping review	8
Functional modes and social well-being as a protector of mental health during COVID-19	8
On becoming a counsellor: a posthuman reconfiguring of identity formation for counsellors-in-training	8
Perception of online education during COVID-19: Online Photovoice (OPV) and ecological systems theory	7
Co-agency: reconsidering agency in guidance practice	7
Business school students’ motivations and intentions to pursue a project management career	7
The exclusion experienced by adolescents plays a mediating role in the effect of their insecure attachments on their depressive experiences: a cross-sectional study among high school students in Turke	7
The reflections of COVID-19 pandemic to counselling: bibliometric analysis of online psychological counselling research	7

Lessons learnt in distance sandtray therapy: perspectives and experiences from counsellors-in-training in Taiwan	7
Let me check my phone: smartphone addiction and its links to life satisfaction and psychological resilience	7
Fostering teachers’ career education competencies: test of a training programme	7
Play-based parent training programme supporting Hong Kong kindergarten children in social competence development	7
Career agency of immigrants participating in employment interventions in Norway	6
The relationship between psychological flexibility and career adaptability as resources to promote well-being	6
A profile analysis investigation of perfectionism, time perspective in relation to career decision making	6
Screening in schools: the acceptability and feasibility of guidance counsellors using YouthCHAT	6
Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach	6
“I’ve finally got my expression”: the anchoring role of identity in changing from an organisation-based career to a protean career path	5
Counselling and career guidance in Asia	5
Assimilation in bereavement: charting the process of grief recovery in the case of Sophie	5
A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief	5
Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change	5
Stress and coping among parents of children with hearing impairment: a scoping review	5
Chinese and non-Chinese parents’ perceptions of school counselling in Hong Kong: a mixed-methods cross-cultural comparison	4
Cognitions or metacognitions?: the role of automatic thoughts and metacognitive beliefs about rumination in explaining depressive symptoms	4
The effectiveness of self-healing intervention program on pain-related anxiety and the severity of perceived pain in patients with migraine	4
Career development learning in childhood: a critical analysis	4
Counsellors’ position in the child–teacher-parent axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders	4
Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press	4
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	4
A critical review of contemporary concepts of agency in the field of career guidance: life-design counselling and a systems theory framework	4
Rethinking work: essays on building a better workplace	4
The role of careers work in addressing the awarding gap for Black students: reflecting on the experiences of students at one post-1992 university in England	4
The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators	4
Multicultural counselling supervision in Türkiye	3
How to Think Like a … Behavior Analyst: Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life (Second Edition)	3
Evaluating the preliminary efficacy of a career counselling programme for youth transitioning out of a juvenile justice facility	3
Barriers and facilitators to delivery of a webchat mental health helpline service for young people: a qualitative study using the Behaviour Change Wheel	3
Making sense of mental health: a qualitative study of student counsellors	3
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review	3
Smartphone addiction and psychological wellbeing among adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of academic procrastination and school burnout	3
Vocational interest measures across Africa: a scoping review	3
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural counselling integrated with psychoeducation for hypertensive patients: a pilot study	3
Towards intersectional and anti-racist career guidance	3
Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy	3
Preserving the planet and promoting well-being	3
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	3
Calling’s dimensions and career development among undergraduate students	3
Self-reported childhood sexual abuse and attachment in early adulthood among university students	2
The mediating role of self-esteem in the correlation between perceived parenting style and subjective well-being of young adults in university	2
The effects of suppression of positive and negative emotions on loneliness in Turkish University-attending emerging adults: does gender make a difference?	2
Therapists’ self-efficacy and experiences managing clinical risk in teletherapy: a mixed methods exploration	2
Lessons for career guidance from return-on-investment analyses in complex education-related fields	2
Development of the counsellor personal wellness and professional wellbeing assessment	2
Vocational identity as a mediator in the relationship between mindfulness and career adaptability among graduates in the early career stage	2
The adverse impacts of all-institutional mental health and wellbeing policies on university careers guidance	2
Investigation of relationships between academic self-efficacy, life goals and subjective well-being of middle school students	2
Telesupervision in counselling and psychotherapy: a systematic review of the literature	2

Systemic case-study explorations of the career development of middle-aged male immigrants from New Zealand working in the Australian rideshare industry	2
Career counselling mid-career laid-off workers	2
Career counselling for cancer survivors	2
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Young Person’s Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)	2
Cognitive information processing: synergizing theory, research and practice	2
The drama therapy decision tree – connecting drama therapy interventions to treatment	2
The role and relevance of the pedagogic contexts in training adult careers professionals	2
The link between adolescents’ self-regulation skills and creativity: the mediation of critical thinking	2
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working: a literature review	2
Measuring the ABC of life skills: life skills scale revision and standardisation for adult population	2
Multifaceted investigation of occupational wellbeing profiles among guidance counsellors	2
Intersectionality of rural community, geography and gender in the careers of young adults	2
Navigating the matrix: career development and the responsibilisation of employability in Australia	2
Career decision-making difficulties in adolescents: the role of parental perfectionism, irrational career beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty	2
Do insight and altruism lead to flourishing through providing self-compassion in mental health professional candidates?	2
Professional needs of psychological counsellors in China: a comprehensive investigation utilising the ERG theory	2
Critical perspectives on childhood career development learning: expanding horizons	2
Intrapersonal, social, environmental-societal influences and career development learning during childhood	2
Effectiveness of psychodynamic-oriented counselling intervention in reducing psychological distress in university students seeking help	2
Understanding the associations between the five-factor model, harmful alcohol consumption and problematic internet use in university students	1
Better bored than burned-out? Cynicism as a mediator between boredom at work and exhaustion	1
The perceived usefulness of a degree as a function of discipline	1
Social support and resilience mediate the relationship of stress with satisfaction with life and flourishing of youth	1
A thematic analysis of psychotherapy supervisor confidence	1
Grief tending through the wilderness: toward a poetic consciousness for adult survivors of childhood trauma	1
Meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction: navigating the complexities of bereaved families	1
Adolescents who turn to service providers for guidance: the perspectives of informal sources of support	1
Restorative Embodiment and Resilience	1
Curiosity, collaboration and co-creation: using Grand Challenges to develop employability and tackle 21st Century problems	1
Mediating role of affective experiences in the link between intolerance of uncertainty and psychological adjustment problems and loneliness in emerging adults	1
“I am lost in that reality, and I'm just playing the game”: a qualitative study exploring gaming behaviour and its effect on young adults in India	1
What do we expect from career guidance in schools? A comparison of the intended results in national and school policy	1
The sound of silence: deconstructing notions of inclusion in career guidance on exploring the experience of deaf people	1
Calling, careers, and career counselling	1
Mind the gap! Cognitive-motivational determinants of career decision-making in postsecondary school transitions	1
Menopause and body image: the protective effect of self-compassion and mediating role of mental distress	1
Counselling self-Efficacy beliefs among international counselling students	1
A pilot study in narrative approach of an adolescent parenting program for enhancing parenting competency during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong	1
Using a Delphi technique to build a competency framework for full-time counselling teachers in Taiwan	1
Enhancing ethical codes with artificial intelligence governance – a growing necessity for the adoption of generative AI in counselling	1
Effectiveness of laughter therapies on students’ mental health: a meta-analytic review	1
The taboo of mental health problems, stigma and fear of disclosure among Asian international students: implications for help-seeking, guidance and support	1
Embedding wellbeing in career development practice: trialling a new structure for guidance conversations in Scotland and Wales	1
A phenomenological analysis of the role and well-being challenges experienced by professional International School Counsellors	1
Applying Lacan’s four discourse model in career counselling at the postgraduate level	1
Why choose a career in teaching? Exploring motivational factors that influence the decision to teach	1
Improving the professional ethics learning experiences of psychological counsellors in the personal and professional decision-making process	1
The mediator role of job stress in the relationship between the mental workload and burnout of school counsellors	1
The career difficulties of university students in the UK: a qualitative study of the perceptions of UK HE career practitioners	1
Should I stay or should I go? A pre-registered test of the bright and dark sides of calling across Italy and Japan	1
Gender moderates the relationships between childhood abuse experiences and mental disorders later in life: a cross-sectional study among university students in Turkey	1
Subjective well-being: self-forgiveness, coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and the role of resilience?	1
Tests and Assessments in Counseling A Case by Case Exploration, 1st Edition	1
Theorising agency for socially just career guidance and counselling scholarship and practice	1
Creating space for praxis in adult and employment guidance: collaborative development of the model of enabling employment guidance (MEEG)	1
Guidance practitioners’ approaches to building client relationships and solving institutional dilemmas in the Finnish public employment services	1
The effectiveness of a five-session workshop on the distress of international students in Finland – a pilot study	1