OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Social Work 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 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
Stressors and Supports in Postdisaster Recovery: Experiences After the Black Saturday Bushfires	13
Embodiment as an Instrument for Empathy in Social Work	13
The Use of Common Humanity Scenarios to Promote Compassion in Healthcare Workers	13
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care	11
Violence Prevention Strategies for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review	10
Social Work Interventions in Cancer Care	10
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
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
Australian Social Work: Proposed Guidelines for Articles by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authors and About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Issues	9
Problematising Disability: A Critical Policy Analysis of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme	8
Beyond Implicit Bias: Embodied Cognition, Mindfulness, and Critical Reflective Practice in Social Work	8
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
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

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
The Voices of “At Risk” Young People About Services They Received: A Systematic Literature Review	6
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
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
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
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
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
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