OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child & Family Social Work is 2. 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
Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia	21
Children expressing their views in child protection casework: Current research and their rights going forward	18
‘It's making his bad days into my bad days’: The impact of coronavirus social distancing measures on young carers and young adult carers in the United Kingdom	18
Work and resilience: Care leavers' experiences of navigating towards employment and independence	16
The intergenerational transmission of family violence: Mothers' perceptions of children's experiences and use of violence in the home	15
Family well‐being during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy: Gender differences and solidarity networks of care	11
Recognition in the lives of unaccompanied children and youth: A review of the key European literature	11
Perceived stress, resources and adaptation in relation to the COVID‐19 lockdown in Spanish foster and non‐foster families	10
‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants	10
Judging parental competence: A cross‐country analysis of judicial decision makers' written assessment of mothers' parenting capacities in newborn removal cases	10
Parenting Black children in White spaces: Skilled African migrants reflect on their parenting experiences in Australia	10
Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care	10
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people	10
‘We are unlikely to return to the same world, and I do not want it to destroy my future.’ Young people's worries through the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Mechanisms that mitigate the effects of child poverty and improve children's cognitive and social–emotional development: A systematic review	10
Cumulative socio‐contextual risk and child abuse potential in parents of young children: Can social support buffer the impact?	9
Unrecognized: Kinship care by young aunts, siblings and other young people	9
‘It's not fair’: Custodial grandparents' access to services and supports in Australia	9
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during COVID‐19: Findings from an Australian survey	9
Caregiver depression and child behaviour problems: A longitudinal mixed effects approach	9
What is known about the LGBTQ perspective in child welfare services: A scoping review	9
Beyond co‐occurrence: Addressing the intersections of domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse	9
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?	9
The nature and prevalence of kinship care: Focus on young kinship carers	8
How do child welfare referrals in Sweden match children's self‐reporting of severe exposure?	8

Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children	8
An exploratory study of the impact of COVID‐19 on foster parenting	8
An exploration of how gender stereotypes influence how practitioners identify and respond to victims (or those at risk) of child sexual exploitation	8
Influences on children's voices in family support services: Practitioner perspectives	8
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory: A realist synthesis of Signs of Safety	8
Female care leavers' journey to young adulthood from residential care in South Africa: Gender‐specific psychosocial processes of resilience	8
Being child‐centred: Factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making in child protection	7
Multi‐system factors impacting youth justice involvement of children in residential out‐of‐home care	7
‘Because I'm a kid …’: The struggle for recognition of children and young people involved in child and family social work	7
Burnout and secondary trauma among forensic interviewers	7
Mobile phone parenting in work‐separated Chinese families with young children left behind: A qualitative inquiry into parenting dimensions and determinants	7
Care leaver needs and accessibility: Findings from the first large‐scale project in Switzerland	7
Family ‘turning point’ experiences and the process of youth becoming homeless	6
Adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness and happiness in Chinese college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
‘You need to understand the extent of the bubble we grew up in’: The religio‐cultural aspects of sibling's sexual dynamics—Perspectives of Orthodox Jewish adults	6
Interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people's lived experiences of therapeutic residential care	6
Children living with parental substance misuse: A cross‐sectional profile of children and families referred to children's social care	6
Understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families involved in the child welfare system: Technological capital and pandemic practice	6
Understanding Islamophobia through the eyes of American Muslim children: Religious bullying and school social work interventions	6
‘Wishes and feelings’: Misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings	6
Risk and protective factors associated with grandparent kinship caregivers' psychological distress in COVID‐19: Kinship license status as a moderator	6
Accelerated adulthood, extended adolescence and the care cliff: Supporting care leavers' transition from care to independent living	5
Quality of experience in residential care programmes: Retrospective perspectives of former youth participants	5
How are policies implemented in children's services? Developing an initial programme theory to evaluate the implementation of the new Child Sexual Exploitation guidance in Wales	5
A narrow focus in research on emotional abuse: A scoping review of definitions and descriptions on emotional abuse in research on child welfare and social work	5
The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, health and life satisfaction in adults with care experience: The mediating role of attachment	5
I do it for the children, and it's not a walk in the park: Parents' stories about how to maintain cooperative co‐parenting during the divorce process	5
Family violence and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms in Chinese children: The role of parental alienation and child emotion regulation	5
Child welfare in non‐metro and rural communities: Experiences of child‐serving professionals addressing substance use	5
Mental health, adverse life events and health service use among Norwegian youth in the child welfare system: Results from a population‐based study	5
Sleep among youths in foster care: Associations with potentially traumatic events, PTSD and mental health	5
School belonging and hope among at‐risk youth: The contribution of academic support provided by youths' social support networks	4
The role of visits and parent–child relationship quality in promoting positive outcomes for children of incarcerated parents	4
Child maltreatment and substance abuse: Unaccompanied children and adverse outcomes in long‐term foster care in the United States	4
Parental stress and children's school performance: Are locals doing better than rural‐to‐urban migrants in Beijing?	4
Is the Incredible Years parenting programme predictive of case closure in child protection services for neglect? A quasi‐experimental study	4
Families with parental mental illness: Studying a home‐based intervention program	4
Parental monitoring by foster parents, youth behaviours and the youth–foster parent relationship	4
Differential associations of threat and deprivation with emotion understanding in maltreated children in foster care	4
Developing a programme theory for the Systemic Practice Model in children's social care: Key informants' perspectives	4
Building financial capability in youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood	4
Promoting family well‐being and social cohesion: The networking and relational approach of an innovative welfare service in the Italian context	4
Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant	4
Using outcome measures in child protection work	4
Family treatment court participation and permanency in a rural setting: Outcomes from a rigorous quasi‐experiment	4
Mothers living homeless in Madrid (Spain): Characteristics, vulnerabilities and relationships with their children	4
A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development	4
Family dynamics in kinship care	4
Negotiating master narratives: The practice of ‘counterstorying’ in children's personal narratives about family‐related adversities	4
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families	4

Behavioural problems of adolescents in secure residential youth care: Gender differences and risk factors	4
Family engagement during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for school social work	4
Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals	4
Exploring mechanisms of change in a dyadic relationship intervention for siblings in foster care	4
Feasible interventions for children in foster care according to service users and practitioners	4
‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence	3
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care	3
The ambivalent visit: Children's experiences of relating with their fathers during staying in shelters for women survivors of domestic violence	3
Characterization of groups of siblings in residential child care in Spain	3
Editorial: Transitions from care to adulthood—Persistent issues across time and place	3
Parents' experiences of family team meetings in child welfare	3
Differences in the reactions of adolescents to family violence	3
Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century	3
Exploring history in the social ecology of care leaving: Northern Ireland as illustration	3
Intervention programme for fathers who use domestic and family violence: Results from an evaluation of Caring Dads	3
Dating violence in adolescents in residential care: Frequency and associated factors	3
Lovers for a time, mothers for life: Ecosystemic analysis of blended family experiences of lesbian mothers and stepmothers	3
Involvement of children and young people in care order decision‐making—A Danish perspective	3
The school experience of children in residential care: A multiple case study	3
Family involvement in child welfare services: The association between socio‐economic status and self‐reported parenting practices	3
The attitudes and beliefs of the child protection workforce and why they matter to children who live with violence	3
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship	3
Mothers with cognitive limitations who have children in placement benefit from intervention	3
Readiness for independent living of youth in residential childcare: A comparative study	3
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience	3
The parenting skill development and education service: Telehealth support for families at risk of child maltreatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
‘They became my second family’: Children's relational lives and relationship‐based practice in residential care in the Philippines	3
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood: Risk and protective factors throughout their life course	3
‘It's so much better than contact’: A qualitative study exploring children and young people's experiences of a sibling camp in the United Kingdom	3
Piloting the Mockingbird Family™ in Australia: Experiences of foster carers and agency workers	3
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources	2
Parents' experiences with child protection during pregnancy and post‐birth	2
Negotiating child agency in childcare practices among immigrant families	2
‘A learning experience’: Disciplinary and parenting practices among Native American families	2
Needs of homeless children in the Czech Republic	2
Changes in flourishing from adolescence to young adulthood: An 8‐year follow‐up	2
Suicidality among children and youth in Nordic child welfare services: A systematic review	2
Research into unaccompanied refugee minors in family foster care: Promoting adaptive functioning?	2
Are children in foster care in better psychological health than children in institutions? What factors influence the outcome?	2
A structural equation model investigating the relationships among online and offline social capitals and child polyvictimization	2
Journeys of culturally connecting: Aboriginal young people's experiences of cultural connection in and beyond out‐of‐home care	2
“Being one, but not being the same”: A dyadic comparative analysis on ethnic socialization in transcultural foster families in the Netherlands	2
‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England	2
Conventional and expanded adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and maternal functioning among low‐income Black mothers	2
Biographical histories of gendered parental substance use: Messages from mothers to professionals as to what interventions help or hinder journeys of recovery	2
Predictors of child participation in child welfare emergency placements—A Norwegian case file study	2
‘All in all … it begins with love’: The meanings of parental love in the context of child risk and protection among Israeli Ultra‐Orthodox Jewish parents	2
Parents' perceptions of a group‐based parenting programme in families with child protection and other family support services in a real‐life setting	2
Child protection assessment: The point of view of service users in an Italian study	2
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse	2
Parental care in trajectories of forced migration: Ruptures and changing conditions for family life	2
Generating inclusive services for children, youth and families: A shift to using complex systems theory	2
Caregiver or care receiver: Adolescents' experience of caregiving to a parent with severe mental illness: A qualitative study	2
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence	2
Exploring migrant mothers' experiences of alienation in association with parenting: A scoping review	2
Foster parents' experiences of using child mental health and welfare services in Norway: Associations with youth, placement, and service characteristics	2
Transitions to adulthood from care in late 19th century England	2
‘Here, parents become nothing’: ‘Unparenting’ in Israel's policies toward Eritrean refugees	2
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes	2
Shared and unique characteristics of school, cyber and family victimization among school‐aged children in Hong Kong	2
Leaving care in Norway in a historic and current perspective: As a function of the Nordic welfare model	2
Social worker decision‐making in court	2
‘If my parents find out, I will not see my phone anymore’: Who do children choose to disclose online sexual solicitation to?	2
‘It's good because my sister is young, and she knows what's going on’: Children's views about their young kinship carers	2
Moving from ‘what we know works’ to ‘what we do in practice’: An evidence overview of implementation and diffusion of innovation in transition to adulthood for care experienced young people	2
Fostering educational prosperity: A randomized controlled trial of home tutoring in foster care	2
Beyond survival: Strengthening community‐based support for parents receiving a family service intervention	2
Authenticity, power and the case record: A textual analysis of the participation of children and young people in their child protection conference	2
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems	2
Mind the gap: Parental and professional perceptions of ‘risk’ for children living in poverty	2
Military family dynamics in transition: The experiences of young people when their families leave the Australian Defence Force	2
Residential care as an alternative care option: A review of literature within a global context	2
Predictors of reunification and other types of exit for maltreated children using shelter services in Serbia	2
Relationships of young adults with foster care backgrounds: Tensions and management strategies	2
Relationships matter: Exploring the implementation of the Quality Parenting Initiative and the foster parent experience	2
Exploring self‐care practices of African American informal kinship caregivers	2
Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes	2
Action research with caseworkers: Responding to and reflecting on the impacts of COVID‐19 on birth family contact	2
Working and caring for a disabled adopted child during a pandemic	2