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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit21
Writing skills for social work students19
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work18
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands17
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods17
Call for Papers17
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills16
Social workers’ policy practice in Italy. Exploring different professional strategies for changing policies and organisations15
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work14
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands14
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers14
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes13
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark12
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures12
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), 97812
Programme evaluation: A primer for effectiveness, quality, and value12
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making12
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work11
Harm, safety and belonging: exploring ‘contextual safeguarding’ with refugee youth in Europe10
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children10
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support9
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic9
Editorial9
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care9
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden8
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices8
Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences8
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people8
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges7
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children7
Teaching social work7
‘Is it a positive or a negative?’ Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings7
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy7
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges7
Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics7
Constructing a client category of the experience of buying sex: an explorative study of how sexuality and masculinity construct the client category of men who buy sex within social work in Sweden7
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective7
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory7
Editorial6
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers6
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex6
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-196
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention6
Editorial6
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”6
Social work research using arts-based methods6
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification': unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway6
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?6
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate6
Are they waiting for the welfare state or Godot? Reflections from people who lost their jobs or incomes during Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey6
A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families6
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering6
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents5
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents5
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges5
Understanding professionalism through the lens of newly qualified social workers5
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future5
A call for ecosocial community work: challenges and possibilities for ecosocial work in local neighbourhoods in Sweden5
Collective permanent supportive housing for older adults with homelessness and substance use: enabling environments and risk environments5
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice5
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families5
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services5
Understanding social work professionalism through organisational lens: a study of social workers in Sweden5
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care5
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)5
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war5
Soziale Arbeit in guter Gesellschaft5
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use5
The politics and economics of Brexit5
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women5
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?5
Life after Covid-19: the other side of the crisis4
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden4
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study4
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps4
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review4
Bridging theory and practice in child welfare education: preparing students for practice4
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective4
Activation policy and discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) – introducing a multi-layered explanatory model4
Editorial4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries4
Ambivalence in activation encounters4
Critical social psychology of social class4
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work4
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness4
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition4
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations4
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people Kulturelles Wohlbefinden und Soziale Arbeit: Konzeptionelle Ansätze u4
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care4
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts4
L’Accompagnement social et la mort4
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services4
Eco-social work: Politica e lavoro sociale nella crisi ecologica (Strumenti per il servizio sociale)4
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT3
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India3
Political ideology and social work3
People processing in the Swedish child welfare system: services to whom, on what grounds and what type?3
Notice of duplicate publication: Social work: past, present and future3
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study3
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work3
Dilemmas faced by social workers while working with Ethiopian families in Israel: A qualitative research study3
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)3
A dialogue with Wonderhill: social work, place-making and creating spaces for new meanings3
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers3
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal3
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures3
Social work as ‘pest’ or agent of positive change: the accommodating and transformative aspects of resilience in the discursive stances of (future) Czech social workers3
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services3
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-193
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway3
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden3
When the outside penetrates the inside: the relationship between Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli social workers in mixed cities during the events of May 20213
Language disordant social work in a multilingual word3
Editorial3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic3
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?3
Hitting the road together: how do care workers develop pedagogical praxis in relation to a positive living climate in residential youth care?3
A mosaic of solidarity – Exploring religion-based solidarity initiatives in Flanders (Belgium)3
Isomorphism between refugee families and social workers: a socio-spatial and temporal perspective on social work in asylum centres in Belgium3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession3
Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members3
Admission of an older person into a care home in Europe: exploring the dimensions of a ‘Healthy Transition’ and the potential role of social work3
Gendered domestic violence and abuse in popular culture2
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing2
Le travail social en Europe: entre passé, présent et avenir2
Correction2
Balancing paternalism and child centrism: a Nordic population study on children's rights in child protection2
Balancing in the pandemic: how social workers respond to new risks when supporting clients who experience domestic violence2
Learning to be a social worker: students experiencing dilemmas during actions taken within critical action learning2
The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform: a contribution to think about the construction of care spaces2
Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic2
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context2
Decent incomes for All: Improving policies in Europe2
Characteristics of child participation in different types of alternative care in Croatia: adults’s and children’s perspectives2
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy2
Under pressure: a critical scoping review of scales and instruments used in work with people in over-indebtedness2
Global perspectives on youth arts programs: how and why the arts can make a difference2
Bedtime stories from inside – family practices and affinities in families with incarcerated fathers2
Making sense of sense-making in child protection: insights from a study exploring social workers’ practice of personal reflexivity in a statutory setting2
Is there a need for residential care or not?2
Youth work in a digital society?2
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective2
Breaking the deadlock: defining the quality of social work in the Czech Republic through social work research2
Well-being and extended working life: A gender perspective2
Berührungspunkte von Sozialer Arbeit und Klimawandel. Perspektiven und Handlungsspielräume2
What do childcare professionals agree on when they propose non-kin foster care?2
The materiality of home visits at the margins of community care before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic2
Alice Salomon: critical social work pioneer2
Changes to assessments of child well-being brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic – Finnish family services and child welfare services supervisors’ perspective2
Social Work and the political conflict in Northern Ireland: an exploration of spatial dimensions to the provision of state services for children and young people2
A new history of social work: values and practice in the struggle for social justice2
Swedish civil society mobilises in response to refugees’ ‘bare life’2
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention2
Arab social workers navigating multiple jobs in Israel: a qualitative investigation of their experiences2
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification2
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 Republic2
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 support1
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences1
Between virtues and principles Czech social workers’ approaches to moral decision-making1
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review1
A Swedish study about how staff reason and act when they suspect domestic abuse perpetrated by informal caregivers of persons with dementia1
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance1
Waiting as sociality – relational waithood in Norwegian activation1
New perspectives on health and social care1
‘Adults need the refresh button’: LGBTIQ adolescents’ perceptions, resilience and beliefs regarding social support services1
Social workers as politicians. A quantitative study on social workers holding elected office in Germany1
Youth work in Europa1
Facilitators and barriers for creating a sustainable working life for first-generation immigrants – perceptions of multiple stakeholders in Sweden1
‘It´s like you are on autopilot’: a Swedish qualitative case study of frontline social workers’ perspectives on EIS1
Frontline discretion from a Bourdieu-inspired field perspective: an ethnographic case study of a Norwegian activation measure for sick-listed employees1
Newcomers navigating the welfare state: experiences of immigrants and street-level bureaucrats with Belgium’s social assistance system1
Pflege in Zeiten der Pandemie. Wie sich Pflege durch Corona verändert hat1
Disappointments in mediation for justice-involved girls in out-of-home care: fieldwork afterthoughts1
Youth perspectives as a driving force in social work innovation – trying to counteract deviance and structural vulnerability of youth at risk1
The social construction of capabilities in a Tamil village1
Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counseling and the health professions1
‘Otherness and mutual foreignness’ in helping relationships: a theoretical contribution for social work interventions with people from migration background1
Working conditions, health and exhaustion among social workers in Germany1
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)1
Care and order in urban spaces: social workers and security guards1
Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions1
Shelters for victims of intimate partner violence and the issue of quality on an expanding quasi-market: the case of Sweden1
Efficacy in working with migrant families in child welfare services: influencing factors1
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations1
Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona1
Schamdynamiken in der stationären Betreuung Jugendlicher: Eine Ethnographie der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe sowie der Behindertenhilfe (Series: Schriftenreihe der ÖFEB-Sektion Sozialpädagogik, Band 10)1
Managing a fragile motivation within an unfit organisation: young adults’ experiences of support to achieve employment1
Family support services reduce the demand for emergency child removals at the community level1
Building Blocks. A youth participatory approach to socio-spatial quality in vertical housing landscapes1
The settlement house movement revisited: a transnational history1
Examining the association of the subjective experience of poverty, adverse and positive childhood experiences in the adult population of Slovenia1
Neutrality is not an option: Gaza and social work ethics1
Editorial1
Care and support for older people with intellectual disabilities beyond the pursuit of ageing ‘in place’: towards constructing a space to be(long)1
Smart welfare and slow digital poverty: the new face of social work1
What matters and who matters to young people leaving care: a new approach to planning1
Professional intervention strategies of social work students in practice situations1
Flight and migration from Africa to Europe: contributions of psychology and social work1
Ethical conflicts, moral distress, and moral action in social work1
Exit, loyalty and focus. Dutch social workers’ responses to swing-of-the-pendulum policies1
Effects of crises and neoliberalism on Spanish social workers: coping with meaningfulness, dissatisfaction, and withdrawal1
Is social work an endangered breed? an analysis of the challenges for social work in Malta1
‘A free position in midfield' – a qualitative study of faith-based social work with people who use drugs in Sweden1
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden1
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance1
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care1
‘Contextual safeguarding across borders’: learning about the ‘contextual safeguarding’ framework and youth ‘extra-familial’ harm in Germany1
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods1
Exploring the role of inter-municipal cooperation in the foster care market: between collaboration and competition1
Professional understandings of men’s violence against women1
Service users’ complaints concerning social workers’ professional functioning: Arabs in Israel as a case study1
Human behaviour in pandemics: social and psychological determinants in a global health crisis1
Inclusive child welfare services, disabled children, and their families: insights from a European comparison of social policy and social (work) practice in Austria, Iceland, and Ireland1
The figure of transformation and its effects on the professional spatial practices in the field of youth welfare1
Datenschutz im Krankenhaus. 6., aktualisierte Auflage1
Trust and Power in the Space Between Visibility and Invisibility. Exploring Digital and Social Media Practices in Norwegian Child Welfare Services1
Social workers’ intention to hold elected political office: a quantitative study based on the theory of planned behavior1
Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?1
Unaccompanied young refugees in the European Union: a perennial limbo situation studied in a longitudinal perspective1
Do they have a voice? Perspectives on participation and democratic values in child and youth welfare1
Teamwork in social work: What are we actually talking about?1
Intergenerational social mediation and youth empowerment in Marseille’s marginalised neighbourhoods1
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow1
Creating a space for human flourishing: a qualitative research study on the freedom of action of persons with young-onset dementia in residential elderly care1
Enjeux des territoires pour l'animation socioculturelle. Actes du IXe colloque du réseau international de l'animation (series: Les cahiers HETSL, no. 57)1
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance1
Theory-Practice integration of social work education in China: field education1
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study1
‘I’m actually your worst nightmare’: intergenerational dialogues of social workers in search of the political1
Social glocalisation and education. Social work, health sciences, and practical theology perspectives on change0
Home and family in alternative care – how Finnish legislation creates opportunities for belonging0
Social work leadership and management. Current approaches and concepts for social and human service organisations0
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries0
The meaning of care: how relationships can strengthen the wellbeing and participation of young people in residential care0
Expectations through retrospective narratives of aging trans women’s encounters with the Swedish welfare state0
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order0
Editorial: Scopes and limits for mediation with young people. Lessons learnt and proposals for social workers0
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece0
Excluded voices in inclusive child and youth welfare services0
Arab minority social workers’ interventions in taboo topics: challenges and coping mechanisms0
Coping within constrained social care: emotion work, collective rulemaking, and prioritisation in Nordic eldercare0
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services0
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work0
Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state0
Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy0
Interprofessional service network practices in the family centre context0
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