OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Guidance & Counselling is 3. 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
University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying	9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	3
Calling’s dimensions and career development among undergraduate students	3
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