European Journal of Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Work is 0. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The impact of neurobiological sciences on family placement policy and practice43
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition23
Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy18
European social work after 1989: east-west exchanges between universal principles and cultural sensitivity17
Writing skills for social work students16
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis14
Social work research from a gender perspective into intimate partner violence against older women in Spain13
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills13
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods12
Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counseling and the health professions11
Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state11
‘What’s important to me is to get people moving.’ Fostering social resilience in people with severe debt problems11
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands11
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice11
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes11
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work11
New philanthropy, social impact and social work: insights from the Italian case10
Forschungsethik in der Sozialen Arbeit. Prinzipien und Erfahrungen (Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, Band 23)9
Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level9
Call for Papers8
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance8
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review7
‘Educating for peace’: conflict, division and social work education in Cyprus7
Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions7
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy: community views and discretionary patterns7
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece7
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries6
‘I’m actually your worst nightmare’: intergenerational dialogues of social workers in search of the political6
The meaning of care: how relationships can strengthen the wellbeing and participation of young people in residential care6
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective6
Datenschutz in der Pflege. Sicher und pragmatisch umsetzen nach DSGVO6
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care6
Latino gangs in Spain: from the Latin Kings & Queens to the Dominican don’t play6
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in Corona-Zeiten aus Sicht von Fachkräften. Eine empirische Studie zur Situation von Einrichtungen in Hamburg6
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work6
Social exclusion in a post-industrial city: towards a critical urban social work perspective6
Intercultural mediation and the state’s surveillance of motherhood: contradictions disclosing coloniality of relationships, racialisation, and emotional control6
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden5
Excluded voices in inclusive child and youth welfare services5
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)5
Identifying and responding to domestic abuse in the older population: key challenges and complexities5
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences5
Home and family in alternative care – how Finnish legislation creates opportunities for belonging5
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care5
Social workers in politics–a qualitative analysis of factors influencing social workers’ decision to run for political office5
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration5
Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism as waiting in the migration and unemployment complexes in England and Sweden5
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden5
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness5
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods5
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work5
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance5
Social workers’ risk assessment in child protection: the problem of disagreement and a lack of a precise language about risk5
‘Because otherwise she’s not doing her job – if she doesn’t listen’: children’s and parents’ views on participation in the assessment process according to the Swedish Disability Act4
The impact of social support on emotional exhaustion and workplace bullying in social workers4
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making4
Care and support for older people with intellectual disabilities beyond the pursuit of ageing ‘in place’: towards constructing a space to be(long)4
Ageing and Covid-19. Making sense of a disrupted world4
The unfinished democratisation of family service systems: parental consent and children’s viewpoints on receiving support in child and family welfare in Sweden4
Ambivalence in activation encounters4
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures4
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order4
Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation4
Children’s routes to participation in support groups: motives, barriers, and benefits from children’s and parent’s perspectives4
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit4
Time for and timing in social work with vulnerable families: responding to needs in neoliberal times4
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands4
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control4
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services4
Studying in challenging times – a longitudinal study on social work students’ situations during the Covid-19 pandemic4
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work4
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark4
Social work leadership and management. Current approaches and concepts for social and human service organisations4
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study4
‘With a little social support … ’: assessing the moderating effect of social support on risk factors and mental well-being among youth4
Europäische Gesellschaften zwischen Kohäsion und Spaltung: Rolle, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven sozialer Arbeit (Series: Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, volume 25)3
Implementing attachment and biobehavioral catch-up in Norway: experiences from CWS parents, clinicians and leaders3
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care3
Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway3
Editorial: why the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a children’s right reflex3
Influences of the far right on social work in Germany: systematic attacks and daily shifts3
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work3
How social workers face ethical dilemmas? Strategies of resolution and associated variables3
Editorial3
The role of financial support in preventing the need for child protection services: a mixed method study on the effects and pathways of additional income support3
Editorial3
Child and youth welfare and the climate crisis – conceptual enlargements from eco-social work and socio-spatial approaches3
How children and young people understand and experience individual participation in social services for children and young people: a synthesis of qualitative studies3
Building community and family resilience: Research, policy, and program (Emerging issues in family and individual resilience (EIIFR) series)3
Outcomes in adulthood among former child welfare services recipients: findings from a Norwegian registry study covering two decades3
Professional understandings of men’s violence against women3
Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit: Annual review of social work and social pedagogy in Austria3
Critical social psychology of social class3
Promoting financial capability within the field of social work practice among families with children: a systematic review3
The proportion and utilisation of formal kinship and network care in Norway and Denmark: a comparative study3
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations3
L’Accompagnement social et la mort3
Social workers’ experiential accounts of complex intervention development for youth and families in practice settings2
Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona2
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe2
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children2
Editorial: Scopes and limits for mediation with young people. Lessons learnt and proposals for social workers2
Contested and unheard voices within the asylum framework – participation challenges of unaccompanied minors in Germany and Norway2
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal2
Editorial2
The challenge of controlling COVID-19. Public health and social care policy in England during the first wave2
Solving global problems through local solutions: a transcontinental dialogue between Asia and Europe (Guest Editorial)2
Editorial2
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: on waiting within the asylum process in Sweden2
Discretion for whom? Local policies and the agency problem between politicians and care managers in Swedish social service2
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people2
Democratic participation in residential youth care – A matter of structure or relations?2
The complexity of constructing empowerment measuring instruments: a delphi study*2
Facilitators and barriers for implementation of community-based mental health interventions in Western and Eastern Europe - a systematic literature review2
Practicing social work in deprived communities. Competencies, methods, and techniques2
Social glocalisation and education. Social work, health sciences, and practical theology perspectives on change2
A qualitative study of youth and child participation in Norwegian specialist child welfare services support measures: dilemmas, ideals, and outcomes2
Social work and its methods not only in the context of direct work with seniors living with dementia2
Construction of discretion-related characters in social work with persons with disabilities in Finland2
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations2
Rights-based social work as a practice. The role of child welfare social work in the repatriations of Finnish children from the camps in north-eastern Syria2
Perspectives on transitions in refugee education: ruptures, passages, and re-orientations2
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic2
COVID-19 and risk: policy making in a global pandemicCOVID-19 and risk: policy making in a global pandemic, by Andy Alaszewski, Bristol, Policy Press, 2021, 160 pp., ISBN 978-1-4473-6202-9 (ePDF), 9782
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden1
The accommodation and support of unaccompanied refugee minors in Belgium: factors that complicate interprofessional collaboration1
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work1
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance1
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices1
Efficacy in working with migrant families in child welfare services: influencing factors1
Myths, narratives and welfare states: the impact of stories on welfare state development1
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support1
Editorial1
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden1
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy1
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers1
Reflexive professionalisation in social work practice development, research, and education: the vital challenge of democratic citizen participation1
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work1
Exploring the spatial turn in social work: a bibliometric and narrative analysis of the Latin American and Global North literature1
‘Enjoy poverty’: introducing a rhetorical approach to critical reflection and reflexivity in social work education1
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges1
‘Easy ride or born to be wild'? The travelling of evidence-based social work to Sweden1
Ubuntu-based social work: what can social workers in Global South learn from Ubuntu to promote children welfare in communities?1
Examining the association of the subjective experience of poverty, adverse and positive childhood experiences in the adult population of Slovenia1
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children1
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic1
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?1
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study1
Enhancing reflectivity in social, care and health professionals – identifying students’ abilities and needs1
Children and young people’s participation in child protection: outcomes of transformative participation in international contexts1
Under the surface of the professional practice the challenge of anti-oppressive practice in forced migration1
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps1
Innovative skills to increase cohesion and communication in couples1
Family social workers’ experiences of using the Swedish model after the child forensic interview1
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work1
Brexit in the workplace: A psychology of survival?1
Possibilities and pitfalls: exploring social welfare professionals’ experiences with interpersonal process recall followed by focus group discussions1
Perceptions of the professional self-concept of social workers in the context of the stress Covid-19 experience: a cross-sectional study1
Professional intervention strategies of social work students in practice situations1
Editorial1
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-191
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective1
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT1
Designated officials’ approaches to judging serious incidents: an analysis of incident reports in care for older people, disability services and family services in Sweden1
Human behaviour in pandemics: social and psychological determinants in a global health crisis1
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors1
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review1
Making-Up People: Youth Truth and Politics1
The application of the legal principle of proportionality in the practice of social work1
Social interactions among nonparental adults and parents in the neighbourhood: a mixed-method vignette study1
Therapeutic content in Swedish residential care for children and youth – managers choices and the reasoning behind1
‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work1
Editorial1
Disappointments in mediation for justice-involved girls in out-of-home care: fieldwork afterthoughts1
Finding traces of everyday life in unusual places: looking beyond case files in German and Scottish residential child care1
Editorial1
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study1
Solidary authority – conceptualising relations of care in statutory social work with vulnerable children and families1
Governing through bureaucratically imposed waiting: on stuckedness among asylum seekers and refugees waiting for residence permits in Sweden1
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession1
Facilitators and barriers for creating a sustainable working life for first-generation immigrants – perceptions of multiple stakeholders in Sweden1
Exit, loyalty and focus. Dutch social workers’ responses to swing-of-the-pendulum policies0
Changes to assessments of child well-being brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic – Finnish family services and child welfare services supervisors’ perspective0
Social work in post-war and political conflict areas. Examples from Iraqi-Kurdistan and beyond0
The prevalence of wordings on Adverse Childhood Experiences in child welfare assessments in a sample of young people in secure institutional care0
Flight and migration from Africa to Europe: contributions of psychology and social work0
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention0
Dealing with risk in situations of poverty: when complexity in frontline practice becomes wallpaper for organisational policy0
Life after Covid-19: the other side of the crisis0
Modelling work-family conflict and turnover intention among social workers in China: the roles of job burnout and job satisfaction0
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents0
A new role for the social services: fighting unemployment in the time of Covid-190
‘A free position in midfield' – a qualitative study of faith-based social work with people who use drugs in Sweden0
‘The first initial bit was trying to get her to speak to me’: trauma informed relationship-based practice with female offenders in care0
Exploring stakeholder perspectives to facilitate the implementation of shared decision-making in coordinated individual care planning0
Handbook on austerity, populism and the welfare state0
Using Robert Alexy’s law of balancing in social work decision-making0
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)0
Arab social workers navigating multiple jobs in Israel: a qualitative investigation of their experiences0
Wie der Sozialstaat digital wurde. Die Computerisierung der Rentenversicherung im geteilten Deutschland0
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?0
Politics for social workers: a practical guide to effecting change0
The construction of the unmotivated client as a tool for solving the dilemma between control and reflexive approaches of social workers working with vulnerable children in the Czech Republic0
Collective participation of children and young people in child welfare services – opportunities and challenges0
The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights0
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow0
Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care0
Well-being and extended working life: A gender perspective0
Decent incomes for All: Improving policies in Europe0
Menschenwürde – Menschenrechte – Soziale Arbeit. Die Menschenrechte vom Kopf auf die Füße stellen0
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context0
Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic0
Regrets among social workers in welfare bureaus: different types and coping mechanisms0
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women0
Involving service users in social work education, research and policy: a comparative European analysis0
Theoretical underpinnings of active labour market programmes implemented by municipal and non-governmental organisations in Sweden0
Social work practice education beyond the pandemic: comparative perspectives on continuities, adaptations, and innovations0
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents0
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective0
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice0
The IBIC – a tool for social work? Social documentation, language, and persons with psychiatric disabilities0
Editorial0
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future0
Factors affecting user participation for nursing home residents with dementia: a critical interpretive synthesis0
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good – narratives in applications for debt reconstruction in Sweden0
Resilient social workers’ perspective on their professional work during the COVID-19 pandemic. An interpretative phenomenological analysis0
Preventing and redressing exploitation. Methods of anti-trafficking social work outreach in Northern Italy0
Editorial: embracing the ambiguity0
Enjeux des territoires pour l'animation socioculturelle. Actes du IXe colloque du réseau international de l'animation (series: Les cahiers HETSL, no. 57)0
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries0
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war0
Social work competencies: a descriptive analysis on practice behaviours among Romanian social workers0
Breaking the deadlock: defining the quality of social work in the Czech Republic through social work research0
Learning to be a social worker: students experiencing dilemmas during actions taken within critical action learning0
Editorial: a new year, a new aim and scope0
A Swedish study about how staff reason and act when they suspect domestic abuse perpetrated by informal caregivers of persons with dementia0
Editorial0
Intergenerational social mediation and youth empowerment in Marseille’s marginalised neighbourhoods0
Dissenting social work: critical theory, resistance and pandemic0
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design0
Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?0
Effects of crises and neoliberalism on Spanish social workers: coping with meaningfulness, dissatisfaction, and withdrawal0
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe0
Providing help or restrictions? Frontline workers’ understandings of behavioural conditionality for health-related social insurance and social assistance benefit in a joined-up governance context0
Human growth and development in children and young people: theoretical and practice perspectives0
Developing care experienced young peoples’ participation as peer researchers in an inter-disciplinary study: applying the ‘Ability-Motivation-Opportunity’ framework0
Ambivalences of inclusion in society and social work. Research-based reflections in four European Countries0
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families0
An assessment of Portuguese social professionals awareness of human trafficking0
Configuring social assistance: conceptualizations and implications of the adoption of robotic process automation in the Swedish personal social services0
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