Qualitative Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Social Work 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.)
ArticleCitations
‘I’m going to take my power back and do whatever I can’: The self-efficacy of survivors of intimate partner strangulation and their engagement in research interviews70
Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth21
Jane Fenton, Social work for lazy radicals: Relationship building, critical thinking and courage in practice17
Older immigrant Latino gay men and childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the Palabras Fuertes project17
What it means to be human, what it means to be hurt, and what it means to thrive11
Experiences of secure transport in outdoor behavioral healthcare: A narrative inquiry11
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia11
Book review: Breaking apart intimate partner violence and abuse10
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action9
Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study9
What does it mean to ‘start where the person is at’?: Reflections on personhood in social work9
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions8
Social work and the idea of object8
Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement7
From critical reflection to critical professional practice: Addressing the tensions between critical and hegemonic perspectives7
To be faithful to ourselves, we pay a price”: Jane F. Gilgun’s journey as a feminist qualitative social work practice researcher7
Book Review: How to write a phenomenological dissertation: A step-by-step guide7
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action7
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention7
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work7
Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection7
“The pain is real”: A [modified] photovoice exploration of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness (in)visibility7
Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts7
Persuasion in practice: Managing diverging stances in needs assessment meetings with older couples living with dementia6
“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement6
In this issue… Qualitative insights advancing inclusion and understanding6
Experiences of parents of autistic children who adopted a cat6
Oscillations, boundaries and ethical care: Social work practitioner-researcher experiences with qualitative end-of-life care research6
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine6
Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people6
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation6
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion6
Reviewer list5
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes: Deaf experts’ experience of routine social work practice5
Late colonial social work practice5
Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding5
Thoughts on files5
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing5
Stories of building friendships during long-term recovery from problematic substance use5
A useful, clever bloke?5
In this issue…Onward!5
Domestic violence and abuse across the life course: Considerations for practice and research5
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research5
‘A home to dream love into’ – An autoethnographic analysis of mothering with mental illness5
In this issue5
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers5
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories5
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear5
In this issue … insights and understandings5
Connecting in resettlement: An examination of social support among Congolese women in the United States5
In this issue5
Thinking boxes, behavioural boys and the politics of love: ‘Doing’ post-qualitative social work research5
The voices of Japanese and U.S. elementary-school aged children with disabilities: Navigating stigmatization within peer groups4
Reflections on the thoughts of Norman Denzin: His connections to the once and future social work qualitative research4
Somali parenting in Western contexts: Acculturative stressors and family strengths4
In this issue… exploring identities, methodologies, and lived experiences in social work practice4
Older adults’ experiences of being at a senior summer camp—A phenomenographic study4
Traditional wellness therapy4
Examining the role of lived experience consultants in an Australian research study on the educational experiences of children and young people in out-of-home care4
Worker collectivity in child welfare: Mobilising action and commitment through team meetings4
Situated knowledge-making in dynamic collaboration: A reflexive case study of social work practice research in mainland China4
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand4
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality4
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review4
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period: Considerations for reflexive, community-oriented and power-sensitive research practices4
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis4
In this issue …3
Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach3
Book Review: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty3
In this issue…with a note on context3
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships3
Participatory research in a pandemic: The impact of Covid-19 on co-designing research with autistic people3
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention3
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare3
“Do I understand you right then?”: (re)formulations of users’ initial problem descriptions in social services’ online chat3
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience3
Moving on: Reflections on time well spent3
Thanks to reviewers3
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice3
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection3
The struggle for social work professional identity in contemporary Zimbabwe: A study on abuse of the social work title3
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café3
Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why3
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives3
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions3
Meanings and expressions of co-responsibility: A small qualitative study based on the reflections from Chilean social workers involved in public-private child welfare3
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison3
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams3
Honouring the artistry in qualitative social work research3
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction3
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants3
What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot3
Unpacking support: A strengths-based investigation into the needs of incarcerated individuals’ loved ones2
‘I like checking in on myself’: Control group experiences in a strengths-based addiction recovery study, with implications for self-monitoring and measurement reactivity2
“The doctors have more questions for us”: Geographic differences in healthcare access and health literacy among transgender and nonbinary communities2
Unpicking social work practice skills: Warmth and respect in practice2
Social workers’ constructions of parents to children in foster care2
In this issue…A reader’s positionality2
The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse2
Community-based participatory action research with LGBTQIA+ youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections from a collaborative autoethnography2
Thematic analysis: A practical guide2
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework2
Understanding Muslims’ interactions with non-Muslims: Laying the foundation for culturally sensitive social work engagement2
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research2
Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older deafblind people2
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review2
Rethinking qualitative social work: From Latin American reconceptualization to a Denzinian-inspired approach2
Themes do not emerge. An editor’s reflections on the use of Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis2
Parents at war: A positioning analysis of how parents negotiate their loss after experiencing child removal by the state2
‘It is like talking to very good robots’: Experiences of online support groups for parents with babies during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom2
Catherine Clark Kroeger and James R Beck, Women, Abuse, and the Bible: How scripture can be used to hurt or heal2
In this issue…2
Performance ethnography as a method for the critical investigation of direct social work practice2
Baraza as method: Adapting a traditional conversational space for data collection and pathways for change2
‘Rocky road’ & ‘brick walls’ – Multiple meanings of resilience in a social work context through the lens of critical realist Informed grounded theory1
Towards digitally mediated social work – the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work1
Fragile minds, porous selves: Shining a light on autoethnography of mental illness1
Social work undergraduates students and COVID-19 experiences in Nigeria1
Troubling solutions through anthropological fieldwork: Mediation research in Ghana, Australia, and the United States1
In this issue1
Perception of leadership challenges within the Norwegian child welfare services: A Gordian knot1
Breastfeeding, social work and the rights of infants who have been removed1
A journey towards resurgence: Reflections from a graduate of the master of social work based in Indigenous knowledges program1
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work1
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support1
Creating safety: Group reflections on surviving as a female, social work early career academic in the neoliberal academy1
Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences1
‘Look out you rock’n’rollers, pretty soon now you’re gonna get older’: A unique study of ‘Boys to Men’ over half a century1
Assisting clients’ departure: On the multimodal organization of closings in social work1
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa: A look at the cultural conceptualisations of social problems in Ghana1
Community-based advocacy in “cold case” sexual assault prosecutions: A qualitative exploration of survivors’ and advocates’ experiences1
In this issue…1
Who knows what about you? Managing topic shifts during ‘conversational’ social care assessments in England1
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work1
Confusing questions in qualitative inquiry: Research, interview, and analysis1
Enhancing critical social work practice: Using text-based vignettes in qualitative research1
Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State1
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration1
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research1
The white light vibrations of Norman K. Denzin1
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault1
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology: A nurturing space for storytelling, achievement and research1
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response1
“Why wasn’t I doing this before?”: Changed school social work practice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic1
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy1
Mental health in subsidized housing: Readiness to assist residents with mental health issues in subsidized housing from the perspectives of housing employees1
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry1
Philosophical pragmatism, pragmatic agency, and the treatment of evidence in social work1
Navigating uncertainty1
Using ethnography to understand the lives of street sex workers1
The “good” and the “bad” subject position in self-injury autobiographies1
How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices1
Shuggie Bain1
In this issue…Situating social work in the life worlds of people we work with1
In this issue1
The role of phone mediation: Social workers’ and vulnerable clients’ role performances in mediated welfare encounters1
‘Through no fault of their own’: Social work students’ use of language to construct ‘service user’ identities1
Age logics in social work: The case of harm reduction for people over the age of 50 with long-term substance use problems residing in wet eldercare facilities in Sweden1
Co-designing a relational ethical decision-making framework with Aboriginal Elders and young people to address health inequities1
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice1
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study1
Navigating multiple identities in the American workplace: Microaggression and the caribbean diaspora1
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review1
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research1
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