OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Quality of Life of Family Caregivers of Adults With Autism: Role of Caregiver Burden, Health, and Social Support of Compound and Noncompound Caregivers	17
Maternal and Paternal Hostility and Adolescents’ Emotional Problems: The Moderated-Moderation Model by Gender and Age	13
Environmental Shifts: The Significance of Space and Place	12
“You Hope and Pray”: A Composite Counterstory of New Mothers’ Racism Experiences, Fears, and Plans to Address It for Their Children	10
Trends in Prenatal Polysubstance Exposure	9
How Children Influence Weight-Related Behaviors of Women With Low Incomes: A Qualitative Study	9
Multispecies Families: Pets, Community, and Social Action	9
Caregiving Challenges and Coping Strategies of Family Caregivers for Relatives Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder in Ethiopia	8
Hidden Challenges Experienced by Families With Military-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder	8
Social Work Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	8
Understanding Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness Through a Qualitative Approach	7
Family Engagement in Child Welfare System-Level Change: A Review of Current Models	6
Development of B.R.A.K.E. the Cycle: A Culturally Responsive Bystander Intervention for South Asian Immigrants in the United States	6
Emotional Experience of Families With an Immigrant Background Throughout the Autism Service Trajectory in Early Childhood	5
Determinants of Family Support Among People Living With HIV Seeking Care in a Tertiary Hospital in Lagos State, Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study	5
Greetings From the New Editor-in-Chief	5
Corrigendum to “That’s the Beauty of It”: Practitioners Describe the Affordances of Direct to Consumer Tele-Mental Health	5
Housing Plus Services in Public Housing: A Narrative Review of Approaches and Evidence	5
Four Frames for Choosing Performance Metrics for Child and Family Service Programs: Strategic Planning, Decision Points, Logic Modeling, and Implementation Science	5
Opportunities to “Make Macro Matter” through the Grand Challenges for Social Work	5
Providing Services to Youth Involved in Transactional Sex in Uganda: Professional Ethics in the Context of LGBTQ+ and Gender Oppression	5
Ethical Considerations in Global Mental Health Research: Lessons Learned From Binational U.S.–Mexico Collaborations	5
Detlaff’s Response to Pryce’s “Child Welfare System Change: An Evolutionary/Revolutionary Approach” (Point-Counterpoint)	5
Solution-Focused Body-Mind-Spirit (SF-BMS) Group Therapy for Mental Health and Trauma Symptoms Among Asian American Youth: A Mixed Methods Pilot Evaluation	4
Mental Health Across the Globe: Learning Locally to Impact Families Globally	4

The Cultivation of Social Work Knowledge: Toward a More Robust System of Peer Review	4
Mental Health Literacy Among General Practitioners in Israel: A Qualitative Study	3
“My Hands Are Tied”: Social Services With Latinx Immigrants in Houston During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Parent–Worker Relationships in Home Visiting: Intersections of Parental Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Status	3
Paid Placements in Social Work: Addressing Inequity and Student Well-Being (Policy Brief)	3
Afghan Refugee Resettlement in the United States: Implications for Service Provision	3
The Human–Animal Bond and Grief and Loss: Implications for Social Work Practice	3
Ethics Risk Management in Social Work: A Primer	3
Pursuing a Deep Ecology of Rural Volunteerism: An Extended Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Social Service Delivery and Community Development	3
Exploring the Drivers of Child Maltreatment Under- and Overreporting: A Qualitative Study	3
Robust Peer Review: Caputo’s Response to Dunleavy	3
Promoting Social Visibility for Single-Father Families Created by Surrogacy	3
Using Simulation to Train Service Providers in Responding to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Trauma	3
Untangling the Web: A Phenomenological Analysis of Social Workers’ Critical Reflections on Racism in Social Work and Antiracism Efforts in Contemporary Practice	3
The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Buffering Against Depressive Symptoms of Youth in Foster Care	3
A Scoping Review of Acculturation Challenges of Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union in the United States From a Life Course Perspective	3
Child Flourishing Index: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance Between Youth of Color and White Youth in the United States	3
“We Wanted to Get Her Help”: Child-Welfare-Involved Caregivers’ Perceptions of Decision-Making When Accessing Residential Treatment	2
Building Healthy Relationships to End Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue	2
Transgender and Gender-Diverse Child and Parent Close Relationships	2
Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children’s Health Care Experiences With Parents	2
A Qualitative Exploration of Sibling Relationship Quality Among Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence	2
On the Same Page? Examining Adolescents’ Civic Attitudes and the Role of Congruence in Civic Attitudes of Parents, Friends, and Classmates	2
Comparing Caregiving Outcomes Among Male and Female Parents of Autistic Adults	2
Practice Changes of Health Care Practitioners: Posttraining Impact of an Interprofessional Education Program	2
Experiences of Amish and Old Order Mennonite Families in Providing Foster Care for Children	2
System Failures and the Realities of “Reform”: A Practical Understanding of Decision-Making in Child Welfare	2
Preventive Legal Services for Kinship Care: Reducing the Need for Foster Care with Family First	2
Contextual Factors Predictive of Social-Emotional Functioning Among Children of Mothers With and Without Low Intellectual Functioning	2
Do I Belong Here? Experiences of Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Domestic Violence Shelters	2
Adolescents’ Substance Use Initiation and Transitions Across Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drugs: A Survival Analysis Approach	2
“I’ve Really Let Go of the Language Thing.”: Language Learning in Transracial Adoptive Families in South Africa	2
The Power of Language to Transform Efforts to Address Intimate Partner Violence: Tensions in the Field and Pathways Forward	2
A Financial Social Work Certificate Program for Community and Family Practitioners	1
Perceptions of Caregiver Burden and Living Arrangements of Adult Children With Autism	1
Space, Place, and Time: The Family Court Experiences of Child Welfare–Involved Parents	1
Engaging Women Living With HIV in Counseling and Research: Qualitative Findings From the Solution-Focused Wellness for HIV (SFWH) Intervention for Women	1
“Doing Something”: African American Male Adolescent/Parent Experiences and Perceptions About Bullying	1
“A Better Me for My Children”: A Call for Systemic Relational Family Work in Child and Youth Mental Health	1
Reflections From Applying Intersectionality to a Constructivist Grounded Theory Study on Intimate Partner Violence and Trauma	1
Experiences and Service Utilization of American Indian/Alaskan Native Kinship Caregivers in Kinship Navigator Programs Across Washington State	1
Working With Nonoffending Caregivers of Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused: Common Challenges and Effective Strategies	1
TANF Leavers and Debt: An Exploratory Study From Georgia	1
Breaking the Chains: Understanding the Damaging Effects of Institutional Betrayal in Social Work	1
The Development of the Strengths and Risks Matching Tool for Adoption in the United Kingdom	1
Preventing Homelessness Among Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Formative Evaluation Results of a Coach-Like Engagement Model	1
Building Connections Between Chosen Family and Kin: A Culturally Adapted Program for LGBTQ+ Children, Youth, and Their Families	1
Re-Examining the Association Between Parental Monitoring, Parental Rearing Behaviors, and Family Risk Factors in Influencing Juvenile Delinquency Among Boys and Girls	1
Impact of COVID-19 on Referral Patterns and Service Delivery for an Integrated Behavioral Health Program	1
The Experiences of Asian Americans Who Intermarry in the United States: A Qualitative Study	1

Help When You Need It: Sources of Advice for Student Loan Borrowers Across the Life Course	1
Supervised Visitation: State of the Research	1
The Mediating Role of Leaving School and Social Support Networks in the Relationship Between the Placement Experiences and Contact With the Criminal Justice System of Youth Aging Out of Care	1
Past Bullying Experiences and Depression in College Students: A Moderated-Moderation Model of Parental Monitoring and Family Support	1
Student Homelessness in High School: Prevalence, Individual Characteristics, and Profiles of Risk and Multidomain Functioning	1
Emerging Adults and Developing Awareness of Siblings’ Symptoms of Schizophrenia	1
Securing the Safety Net: Lessons From Nonprofit Organizations on TANF Access During COVID-19	1
Hey Mama, We Hear You: An Analysis of Online Parenting Support Conversations on Reddit	1
The Effect of Paternal Economic Hardship on Nonresident Father Involvement and Co-parenting Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Fathers	1
Parental Understanding of Cultural Difference: A Study of Transracially Adopting Couples	1
Family Self-Sufficiency Program Outcomes for Participants Enrolling During and After the Great Recession	1
Survivor Experiences Living in an Intimate Partner Violence Shelter in the United States in 2022: Implications for the COVID-19 Endemic and Beyond	1
The Importance of Possible Selves in Family Resilience Among Puerto Rican Survivors of Hurricane Maria Displaced to Orlando, Florida	1
Integrating SMART Recovery and Mental Health Services to Meet the Needs and Goals of LGBTQ Individuals Experiencing Substance Use–Related Problems	1
Moral Injury in Social Work: Responses, Prevention, and Advocacy	1
A Quantitative Study of the Relationship Between Interprofessional Collaboration and Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Caseworkers	1
Building a Primary Prevention Ecosystem in the United States: A Model for Transforming How Society Supports Children and Families	1
Child Welfare System Change: An Evolutionary/Revolutionary Approach [Pryce’s Response to Dettlaff’s “Abolition of the Child Welfare System”] (Point-Counterpoint)	1
Initial Evidence for the Reliability and Validity of New Survey Measures to Evaluate Family Outcomes of Kinship and Adoption Navigator Programs	1
Growing Stronger Together: Exploring Indigenous Caregivers’ Lived Experiences Through Poetic Inquiry	1
What Is the Impact of Custodial Grandchildren Receiving Mental Health Care on Grandparent Caregivers?	1
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Frontline Homeless Services Workers in Texas	1
Experiences With Physical and Emotional Sibling Violence in Childhood and Adult Attachment in a Sample of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals	1
2021 Peer Reviewers	1
A Century of Family Budget Counseling	1
Investigating Supervision and Leadership Practices to Strengthen EBP Implementation in the Child Welfare System: A Case Study Analysis	1
Acculturative Challenges and Opportunities Among Arab-Speaking MENA Refugees in the United States	1
The Impacts of Income, Region, and Reason for Placement on Reported Kinship Caregiver Challenges and Needs	1
Mental Health Care With Refugee Families: A Transnational Collectivist Approach	1
Restorative Justice in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States: A Metasynthesis	1
Importance of Community Context in Understanding Substance Use Among Adolescents With Allegations of Maltreatment	1