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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Graduate students’ perceptions of the career construction interview	25
The mediating role of cultural intelligence and cognitive flexibility in the relation between effective counsellor characteristics and multicultural counselling competencies of counsellors in Turkey	24
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	19
Development of vocational gender stereotype attitudes scale (VGSA) for adolescents	19
A qualitative study of counselling students’ experience with premature termination	16
The ideal partner: gender-occupation congruence and incongruence	14
Effects of mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) among women undergraduates in enhancing positive mental health	13
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	12
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	12
A framework for defining a guidance approach support: typology, concepts, and practice guidelines	11
Let me check my phone: smartphone addiction and its links to life satisfaction and psychological resilience	10
Narratives of experiences of presence in bereavement: sources of comfort, ambivalence and distress	10
Job-seeking self-efficacy: an Irish scale for assessing the guidance and coaching needs of job seekers	10
A critical exploration of the “agile career”: a means of exposing the politics and economy of precarity via the lens of dromology	9
On becoming a counsellor: a posthuman reconfiguring of identity formation for counsellors-in-training	8
Institutional and psychological predictors of university students’ mental health help-seeking intentions	8
Perception of online education during COVID-19: Online Photovoice (OPV) and ecological systems theory	7
Is dharma the same as calling? Considering religio-cultural context in cross-cultural calling research	7
Functional modes and social well-being as a protector of mental health during COVID-19	7
Exhaustion and job satisfaction among internal and external outplacement counsellors	7
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors: expectations and experiences of graduating students in Sweden	7
Exploring calling to farming careers in the United Kingdom: a scoping review	7
University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying	7
Career life as a game: an overlooked metaphor for successful career transitions	6
Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach	6

Career agency of immigrants participating in employment interventions in Norway	6
Fostering teachers’ career education competencies: test of a training programme	6
The reflections of COVID-19 pandemic to counselling: bibliometric analysis of online psychological counselling research	6
Co-agency: reconsidering agency in guidance practice	6
A profile analysis investigation of perfectionism, time perspective in relation to career decision making	6
The relationship between psychological flexibility and career adaptability as resources to promote well-being	6
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	6
Business school students’ motivations and intentions to pursue a project management career	6
The psychology of pandemics: preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious disease	6
Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press	6
Play-based parent training programme supporting Hong Kong kindergarten children in social competence development	6
Screening in schools: the acceptability and feasibility of guidance counsellors using YouthCHAT	5
A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief	5
Chinese and non-Chinese parents’ perceptions of school counselling in Hong Kong: a mixed-methods cross-cultural comparison	5
“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 approaches to support former gang members in constructing new careers	5
Processes and outcomes of individual career counselling for different types of clients: a latent profile analysis replication and extension	5
Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change	5
Assimilation in bereavement: charting the process of grief recovery in the case of Sophie	5
Stress and coping among parents of children with hearing impairment: a scoping review	5
Counselling and career guidance in Asia	5
Rethinking work: essays on building a better workplace	4
Social-emotional learning and career development in elementary settings	4
Preserving the planet and promoting well-being	4
Personal agency and organisational attachment: A career capital perspective	4
Career development learning in childhood: a critical analysis	4
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	4
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review	4
Counsellors’ position in the child–teacher-parent axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders	4
A critical review of contemporary concepts of agency in the field of career guidance: life-design counselling and a systems theory framework	4
The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators	4
Relationship between preference for solitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of mindfulness	3
Evaluating the preliminary efficacy of a career counselling programme for youth transitioning out of a juvenile justice facility	3
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective	3
Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy	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
Multicultural counselling supervision in Türkiye	3
Practical applications of a social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy: the relational equality in education framework (REEF)	3
Writing the self in bereavement: a story of love, spousal loss, and resilience	3
How to Think Like a … Behavior Analyst: Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life (Second Edition)	3
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	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
The effectiveness of self-healing intervention program on pain-related anxiety and the severity of perceived pain in patients with migraine	3
The effect of a mindfulness-based stress reducing programme on tolerance of ambiguity, rumination, and metacognitive awareness in infertile women	3
Do insight and altruism lead to flourishing through providing self-compassion in mental health professional candidates?	2
Making sense of mental health: a qualitative study of student counsellors	2
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural counselling integrated with psychoeducation for hypertensive patients: a pilot study	2
Career decision-making difficulties in adolescents: the role of parental perfectionism, irrational career beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty	2
Towards intersectional and anti-racist career guidance	2

The gifts of compassion	2
Career counselling mid-career laid-off workers	2
Strength-based school counsellors’ experiences of counselling in New Zealand	2
Career counselling for cancer survivors	2
Vocational identity as a mediator in the relationship between mindfulness and career adaptability among graduates in the early career stage	2
Cognitive information processing: synergizing theory, research and practice	2
Calling’s dimensions and career development among undergraduate students	2
Navigating the matrix: career development and the responsibilisation of employability in Australia	2
Professional needs of psychological counsellors in China: a comprehensive investigation utilising the ERG theory	2
Lessons for career guidance from return-on-investment analyses in complex education-related fields	2
The adverse impacts of all-institutional mental health and wellbeing policies on university careers guidance	2
The effects of suppression of positive and negative emotions on loneliness in Turkish University-attending emerging adults: does gender make a difference?	2
The link between adolescents’ self-regulation skills and creativity: the mediation of critical thinking	2
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Young Person’s Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)	2
Development of the counsellor personal wellness and professional wellbeing assessment	2
The role and relevance of the pedagogic contexts in training adult careers professionals	2
The drama therapy decision tree – connecting drama therapy interventions to treatment	2
Compassion-focused grief therapy	2
Critical perspectives on childhood career development learning: expanding horizons	2
Grief memoirs and the reordering of life: on resilience, loneliness, and writing	2
Effectiveness of psychodynamic-oriented counselling intervention in reducing psychological distress in university students seeking help	2
Impacts of shortening the length of career guidance: implications for practice, professionalism, service delivery and social justice	2
Therapists’ self-efficacy and experiences managing clinical risk in teletherapy: a mixed methods exploration	2
Intrapersonal, social, environmental-societal influences and career development learning during childhood	1
The career difficulties of university students in the UK: a qualitative study of the perceptions of UK HE career practitioners	1
Adolescents who turn to service providers for guidance: the perspectives of informal sources of support	1
Measuring the ABC of life skills: life skills scale revision and standardisation for adult population	1
These roots that bind us: using writing to process grief and reconstruct the self in chronic illness	1
Restorative Embodiment and Resilience	1
Reflective practice through clinical supervision: implications for professional and organisational sustainability	1
A phenomenological analysis of the role and well-being challenges experienced by professional International School Counsellors	1
Theorising agency for socially just career guidance and counselling scholarship and practice	1
Mind the gap! Cognitive-motivational determinants of career decision-making in postsecondary school transitions	1
The effectiveness of a five-session workshop on the distress of international students in Finland – a pilot study	1
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working: a literature review	1
Enhancing ethical codes with artificial intelligence governance – a growing necessity for the adoption of generative AI in counselling	1
The perceived usefulness of a degree as a function of discipline	1
Investigation of relationships between academic self-efficacy, life goals and subjective well-being of middle school students	1
Menopause and body image: the protective effect of self-compassion and mediating role of mental distress	1
Telesupervision in counselling and psychotherapy: a systematic review of the literature	1
Systemic case-study explorations of the career development of middle-aged male immigrants from New Zealand working in the Australian rideshare industry	1
Multifaceted investigation of occupational wellbeing profiles among guidance counsellors	1
International graduate students and cultural competency in counselling services: directions for health practitioners	1
Counselling self-Efficacy beliefs among international counselling students	1
Meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction: navigating the complexities of bereaved families	1
Better bored than burned-out? Cynicism as a mediator between boredom at work and exhaustion	1
Effectiveness of laughter therapies on students’ mental health: a meta-analytic review	1
Conceive culture and action in counselling	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
Subjective well-being: self-forgiveness, coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and the role of resilience?	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
The mediator role of job stress in the relationship between the mental workload and burnout of school counsellors	1
Self-reported childhood sexual abuse and attachment in early adulthood among university students	1
Intersectionality of rural community, geography and gender in the careers of young adults	1
The mediating role of self-esteem in the correlation between perceived parenting style and subjective well-being of young adults in university	1
Grief tending through the wilderness: toward a poetic consciousness for adult survivors of childhood trauma	1
Understanding the associations between the five-factor model, harmful alcohol consumption and problematic internet use in university students	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
The sound of silence: deconstructing notions of inclusion in career guidance on exploring the experience of deaf people	1
Using a Delphi technique to build a competency framework for full-time counselling teachers in Taiwan	1
Curiosity, collaboration and co-creation: using Grand Challenges to develop employability and tackle 21st Century problems	1