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Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Social Work 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Online Education in Social Work, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Challenges: A Scoping Review	35
Social Work E-Placements During COVID-19: Learnings of Staff and Students	14
The Use of Common Humanity Scenarios to Promote Compassion in Healthcare Workers	13
Stressors and Supports in Postdisaster Recovery: Experiences After the Black Saturday Bushfires	13
Embodiment as an Instrument for Empathy in Social Work	13
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care	11
Simulation and Skills Development: Preparing Australian Social Work Education for a Post-COVID Reality	10
Afro-diasporic Experiences of Highly Skilled Black African Immigrants in Australia	10
Violence Prevention Strategies for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review	10
Social Work Interventions in Cancer Care	10
Australian Social Work: Proposed Guidelines for Articles by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authors and About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Issues	9
Transition Experience of Families with Young Children in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)	9
Working It Out – Hospital Social Work in the Midst of a Pandemic	9
Ending Australia’s Status as a “Leaving Care Laggard”: The Case for a National Extended Care Framework to Lift the Outcomes for Young People Transitioning From Out-of-Home Care	9
Social Work: Possibilities for Practice in Residential Aged-care Facilities	9
Beyond Implicit Bias: Embodied Cognition, Mindfulness, and Critical Reflective Practice in Social Work	8
Problematising Disability: A Critical Policy Analysis of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme	8
Identifying the Patterns of Family Contact for Children in Care	7
The Social Harms Outweigh the Benefits: A Study of Compulsory Income Management in Greater Shepparton and Playford	7
Dying in Hospital during COVID-19: Isolation, Despair, and Moral Distress	7
Culturally Informed, Codesigned, Supportive Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People With Cancer and Their Families	7
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education	7
Elder Abuse Identification by an Australian Health Service: A Five-Year, Social-Work Audit	7
Which Models of Supervision Help Retain Staff? Findings From Australia’s Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault Workforces	7
Attitudes of Cancer Patients to Medicinal Cannabis Use: A Qualitative Study	7

The Voices of “At Risk” Young People About Services They Received: A Systematic Literature Review	6
Interventions and Practice Models for Improving Health and Psychosocial Outcomes for Children in Residential Out-of-Home Care: Systematic Review	6
Challenges Underlying the Involvement of Social Workers From Minority Groups in Policy Practice	6
Health Staff Responses to Domestic and Family Violence: The Case for Training to Build Confidence and Skills	6
Experiencing Aboriginal Perspectives Through the Embodied Concept of the Tree of Life: Implications for Developing a Teaching Resource	6
Transnational Social Workers’ Understanding of Australian First Nations Perspectives in Statutory Child Protection	6
Social Work Doctoral Education in Australia: The Case for Further Development	5
COVID and Telehealth in a Child Adolescent Mental Health Clinic	5
The Impact of COVID-19 on a Social Work Student	5
Young Person–to–Mother Violence: An Integrative Review of Evidence from Australia and New Zealand	5
Frontline Workers’ Challenges in Hearing Children’s Voices in Family Support Services	5
Income Management of Government Payments on Welfare: The Australian Cashless Debit Card	5
The Impact of COVID-19 for Social Work in the Intensive Care Unit, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales	5
Creating Cultural Safety as an Aboriginal Teacher in a Class of Non-Aboriginal University Students	5
Embodiment: A Key to Social Workers’ Wellbeing and Attainment of Social Justice	5
An Off-Site Supervision Model of Field Education Practice: Innovating While Remaining Rigorous in a Shifting Field Education Context	5
Social Work After Tehan: Reframing the Scope of Practice	5
Overcoming Future Professionals’ Fear of Digital Storytelling	5
Civic Engagement and Loneliness in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer+ Australian Volunteers	5
Masculine Embodiment Among Sexual Minorities in a Women’s Prison	4
Exploring the Embodied Habitus of Early Career Social Workers	4
Contemporary Practitioner Experiences of Relational Social Work: The Case of Child Welfare	4
Going Against the Grain	4
Reflections on how COVID-19 has Influenced Social Work Practice in the Community Rehabilitation Setting	4
Exploring Older Tenants’ Healthy Ageing in Privately Rented Homes	4
Aboriginal Social Work Academics: Failure to Thrive due to Having to Fight to Survive?	4
The Production and Dissemination of Australian Social Work Scholarship: A Citation Analysis	4
Exploring Connectedness in a Time of Isolation: A Reflection on Social Work Practice in an Oncology Unit during COVID-19	4
Afghan Women’s Barriers to Seeking Help for Domestic Violence in Australia	4
Australian Social Workers’ Understandings of Technology in Practice	4
Investigating the Sense of Smell and Its Relevance to Embodied Social Work Practice: Exploring the Literature	4
Body, Relationship, Space: Dance Movement Therapy as an Intervention in Embodied Social Work With Parents and Their Children	4
Making Continuing Professional Development Relevant and Accessible in Regional Social Work	4
Outcomes for Indigenous Children in Care Presenting at a Specialist Child and Youth Mental Health Service	3
Using Photography to Capture Young People’s Views About Community and Local Service Delivery	3
Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perspective from China	3
First Contact Social Work: Responding to Domestic and Family Violence	3
Social Work, a Spiritual Kind of Work: Exploring the Experiences of Māori Social Workers	3
Involvement of Social Workers in the Community Service Provision System for the Older People in Urban China	3
Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience: Seven Protective Factors	3
Homeless Services in Australia: Perceptions of Homelessness Services Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Re/Un/Discover: An Embodied Heuristic for Uncertainties in Social Work Practice	3
Responding to the Needs of Internally Displaced Persons: A Social Work Perspective	3
Exploring Rural and Regional Social Workers’ Perceptions and Practices of Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse	3
Discussion of the Knowns and Unknowns of Child Protection During Pregnancy in Australia	3
A Narrative Inquiry Exploring Social Workers’ Understanding of Yoga and Its Application in Professional Practice	3
Improving Services for Aboriginal Women Experiencing Sexual Violence: Working at the Knowledge Interface	3
What Is the Best Thing About Being an Indigenous Father in Australia?	3
Teaching Mental Health Social Work: What Are We Preparing Students for?	3
Collaboration in Social Work Field Education: A Reflective Discussion on a Multiuniversity and Industry Collaboration	3

A Service Response to the Pandemic: Open Circle and Restorative Justice During COVID-19	3
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Social Work in Australia	3
Social Work in the Oncology Setting Compared to Social Work in General Medical Settings: An Analysis of Findings From a Multisite Australian Social Work Practice Audit	3
The Non-Indigenous Educator Teaching Australian Aboriginal Content in Social Work Education	2
The Types of Scholarly Publications Produced by Australian Social Work Researchers	2
Safety Planning for Youth With Suicide Risk: A Clinical Audit	2
Decolonisation: More Than a Trendy Word	2
Social Work Students’ Perceptions of Eco-Social Work in the Curriculum	2
Australian Social Work Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Call for Papers	2
Evaluation of a Paediatric Trauma Social Worker Service	2
COVID-19 Reflections on Inpatient Rehabilitation	2
Developing an Intake Assessment for Domestic and Family Violence Supported Accommodation	2
Oncology Social Workers’ Responses to and Reflections on COVID-19	2
A Modern History of Child Protection in Australia: Queensland 1965–1980	2
Social Impact Bonds and Homelessness: A Review of the Literature	2
Social Work Education and Homelessness: Mobilising Academia–Industry Partnerships to Create a Homelessness Subject	2
Service Users in Social Work Student Supervision: A Scoping Review	2
Social Work and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Student Placement Model	2
Social Work Students’ Attitudes Towards Indigenous People: An Empirical Study in Taiwan	2
Deep Listening and Relationality: Cross-cultural Reflections on Practice With Young Women Who Use Violence	2
Contemporary Social Work Practice: Institutional Context and Graduate Outcomes	2
First Nations Children and Families and Permanency Planning Reform: The Evidence Counts	2
Children and Young People in the Care System: Relational Practice in Working with Transitions and Challenges	2
Individual Responsibility and Disconnection: Practitioner Experiences of the First Wave COVID19 Lockdown	2
Social Work Students Respond to Greening Social Work Curriculum: “It is Important to See a Change in the Narrative”	2
Young Carers in Australia: Understanding Experiences of Caring and Support-Seeking Behaviour	2
Barriers Preventing Indigenous Women with Violence-related Head Injuries from Accessing Services in Australia	2
Response to Crisp (2022) “Response to Papadopoulos (2022): Social Work After Tehan: Reframing the Scope of Practice”	2
The Experiences of Indigenous Students on Placement: A Scoping Review	2
A Yarn Among Social Workers: Knowing, Being, and Doing Social Work Learning, Expertise, and Practice	2
Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes About Reflective Practice in Australian Social Work Education and Practice	2
Reflections on Working From Home During Lockdown 1.0	2
Starting Out: Beginning Practice as Hospital Social Worker Under COVID-19	2
The Experiences of Young People Living With Cancer in Regional and Remote Australia: A Qualitative Study	2
Student Participation in Study Abroad Programs: Social Justice Implications for Tertiary Education	2
The Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsiveness Tools (CICRT): Creating More Culturally Responsive Social Workers	2
Community Service Workers’ Experiences Following Australia’s Black Summer: Contextualising Rural Service Provision	1
Collaboration Between Child Protection and Domestic and Family Violence: A Case File Review	1
An Examination of Churn Within Australian Family Services: A Scoping Study	1
The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Parents and Young People With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)	1
Utopian Thinking, Social Work, and Homelessness: Critiquing Ideas Regarding Welfare Dependence	1
Social Work and Cancer: The Unique Contribution of Social Workers	1
Social Work and Yoga: The Evolution of Practice From Talking to Moving	1
Young People’s Support Needs During the Military–Civilian Transition: “I Would Have Been a Very Different Person if There was More Support Available”	1
Special Issue: Our Voices: Being Seen and Heard	1
Capturing Research Impact: The Case Study of a Community Wellbeing Research Partnership	1
Participation by Women With Physical Functional Diversity: From Inherited Oppression to Social Integration	1
A Grounded Theory of Living in Two Worlds: Torres Strait Islanders’ Experience of Contemporary Migration	1
Enduring Familial Relationships and Identity Preservation Make Simple Adoption the Preferred Permanency Option for Children in Out-of-Home Care	1
Addressing Women’s Psychosocial Needs Following an Adverse Prenatal Diagnosis: Qualitative Findings Inform SARF Model Development	1
Family Group Conferencing as an Additional Service Response to the Abuse of Older People in Australia	1
Hosting Australian Social Work Students on Exchange: The Search for Equity and Mutual Benefit Between the Global South and North	1
Messages for Good Practice: Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officers and Hospital Social Workers	1
Mental Health Service Staff on Sharing Lived Experience in the Workplace	1
Saving Australian Social Work: The Save Social Work Australia Campaign and the Effective Use of Social Media	1
Aboriginal Cultural Safety: A Case Study of Collaborative Practice at the Intersection of Family Violence and Child Protection	1
Supporting Pregnant Women Experiencing Homelessness	1
Telehealth for Social Interventions With Adolescents and Young Adults: Diverse Perspectives	1
Response to Papadopoulos (2022): Social Work After Tehan: Reframing the Scope of Practice	1
Examining the Person-in-Environment Perspective among Social Work Students in China: Individual- or Society-Orientation?	1
Living with Experience in the Academy: Pressures to Disclose in Routine Research Activities	1
Indigenisation, (De)Colonisation, and Whiteness: Dismantling Social Work Education	1
Anger Following the Victorian Black Saturday Bushfires: Implications for Postdisaster Service Provision	1
Relative Effectiveness of Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Anxious or Depressed Young People: Rapid Review and Meta-analysis	1
Exploring Fathers’ Experiences in Caring for Their Child on a Paediatric Oncology Ward	1
Indigenous Ideas Benefit Collaborative Research Partnerships	1
Transformational Mentoring Experiences for First Nations Young People: A Scoping Review	1
Community Reintegration of Long-Stay Hospitalised Mental Health Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Thought Patterns Mediate the Development of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Social Workers	1
A Simulated Placement: Using a Mixed-Reality Learning Environment for Social Work Field Education	1
At-risk Youth Peer Researchers Highlight Safety and “The Bonds You Make With Staff and Peers”	1
Psychosocial Intervention During COVID-19 in a Hospital Mortuary: A Social Worker’s Reflection	1
Embodiment Practice: Using Poi Spinning in the Healing Process	1
Impact of a Global Pandemic on Scope and Diversity of Social Work Research and Practice: Complexity Theory a Lens to Review Current Thinking	1
Analysis of Employment Advertisements Requiring Working With Children Checks in Queensland, Australia	1
Service Users’ Descriptions of Recovery-Oriented Elements of a Rural Mental Health Service	1