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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work84
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions27
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing19
Oscillations, boundaries and ethical care: Social work practitioner-researcher experiences with qualitative end-of-life care research19
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality11
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research11
“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement11
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia11
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience10
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café10
What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot10
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Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare9
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships9
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants9
Thematic analysis: A practical guide8
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review8
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy7
“Some days it’s like she has died.” A qualitative exploration of first mothers’ utilisation of artefacts associated with now-adopted children in coping with grief and loss7
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Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review7
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research7
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters7
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework7
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence7
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work7
Reflections on social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of faculty members and lessons moving forward6
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response6
Thanks to reviewers6
Book Essay: Time6
Fragile minds, porous selves: Shining a light on autoethnography of mental illness6
Research with children in rural China: Reflecting on the process6
Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The perspective of social workers in Hong Kong6
Professional engagement: A comprehensive understanding of social work intervention for juvenile offenders6
Victims, perpetrators, scapegoats and Russian dolls: Narrating violence within secure units for adolescents from a staff perspective5
New York Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children’s Aid Society5
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation5
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams5
In this issue…A reader’s positionality5
Reviewer list5
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action5
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies5
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions5
Thanks to reviewers5
In this issue … insights and understandings5
Between plans and realities: Reflecting on experiences of participatory research in archiving residential Children’s homes in Scotland and Germany5
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Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction5
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Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection5
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research4
Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences4
Doing “ethics work” in practice: An analysis of care managers’ collegial discussions concerning reluctant clients4
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey4
Navigating multiple identities in the American workplace: Microaggression and the caribbean diaspora4
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand4
‘Look out you rock’n’rollers, pretty soon now you’re gonna get older’: A unique study of ‘Boys to Men’ over half a century4
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research4
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities4
Breastfeeding, social work and the rights of infants who have been removed4
Older adults’ experiences of being at a senior summer camp—A phenomenographic study4
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison4
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study4
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice4
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy4
Worker collectivity in child welfare: Mobilising action and commitment through team meetings4
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect3
Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research3
The power and potential of space and place in family group conferencing: Reimagining the role of the venue in child protection practice3
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration3
Meanings and expressions of co-responsibility: A small qualitative study based on the reflections from Chilean social workers involved in public-private child welfare3
Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding3
‘If we weren’t reflecting, we would be like robots’: The case for thinking aloud in social work supervision3
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories3
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research3
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing3
A method worth telling: Using story completion to understand social work responses to discriminatory abuse3
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work: Enhancing culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan3
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection3
Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach3
Audit culture, accountability, and care: A phenomenological anthropology of child welfare3
Japanese parents’ experiences supporting their school-aged children’s acculturation to the U.S.3
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts3
Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision?3
Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality3
Innovative technology-enhanced social work service during COVID-19: How ‘Garden on the Balcony’ promoted resilience, community bonds and a green lifestyle3
COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and Indigenous knowledges informing the future of social work3
Traditional wellness therapy3
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion3
Thoughts on files3
Catherine Clark Kroeger and James R Beck, Women, Abuse, and the Bible: How scripture can be used to hurt or heal2
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention2
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology: A nurturing space for storytelling, achievement and research2
Nowhere to turn: A Black feminist autoethnography of interpersonal violence2
Whiteness in our understanding of culture: A critical discourse analysis of the cultural responsivity practice frameworks in child protection2
Geographic interviews: A qualitative geographic information systems (QGIS) method for understanding person-in-environment2
“You have to continue doing the work”: Black women essential workers coping amidst the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism2
“The doctors have more questions for us”: Geographic differences in healthcare access and health literacy among transgender and nonbinary communities2
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault2
Baraza as method: Adapting a traditional conversational space for data collection and pathways for change2
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 Sweden2
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‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits2
Stress and trauma among police officers: Implications for social work research and practice2
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa: A look at the cultural conceptualisations of social problems in Ghana2
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives2
Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older deafblind people2
The “good” and the “bad” subject position in self-injury autobiographies2
Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning2
“Biculturation”: Transnational social workers navigating movement into indigenous space in Aotearoa New Zealand2
Jane the evangelist versus fire-breathing dragons: Dueling discourses on sexuality, a tribute to the work of Norman K. Denzin2
‘It was kinda like D.I.Y closure’. Using Photovoice to capture the experiences of final year social work students graduating amidst the pandemic2
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work2
Experiences of baby removal prevention: A collective case study of mothers and community-based workers1
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review1
Rethinking qualitative social work: From Latin American reconceptualization to a Denzinian-inspired approach1
Emotional intelligence as a part of critical reflection in social work practice and research1
The AltaVoces project: A digital narrative approach to anti-oppressive social work research with Latino youth1
Performance ethnography as a method for the critical investigation of direct social work practice1
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They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse1
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period: Considerations for reflexive, community-oriented and power-sensitive research practices1
Social work and anthropology: Traversing, trading, and translating across boundaries1
The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse1
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry1
Older immigrant Latino gay men and childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the Palabras Fuertes project1
‘I like checking in on myself’: Control group experiences in a strengths-based addiction recovery study, with implications for self-monitoring and measurement reactivity1
Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts1
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention1
“I Don’t Know What World I Live in Anymore”: Social work student narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic1
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How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices1
Norman Denzin and autoethnography1
“He went from being a monster to a person:” Using narrative analysis to explore how victim-offender dialogue (VOD) participants transform through the VOD process1
Late colonial social work practice1
Rethinking comorbidity: A case study of syndemic risk, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors in adolescent girls of color1
Navigating uncertainty1
Book Review: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty1
Navigating grief and pregnancy loss through online story telling1
Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why1
A journey towards resurgence: Reflections from a graduate of the master of social work based in Indigenous knowledges program1
Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth1
Understanding past experiences of suicidal ideation and behavior in the life narratives of transgender older adults1
Book Review: How to write a phenomenological dissertation: A step-by-step guide1
An Indigenous scholar’s journey towards decolonizing social work1
(How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions?1
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To be faithful to ourselves, we pay a price”: Jane F. Gilgun’s journey as a feminist qualitative social work practice researcher1
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Mental health struggles of social work students: Distress, stigma, and perseverance1
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis1
Still waters run deep: The invisible life of working mothers with disabilities in Lithuania1
Member checking: A brief metalogue of a career interview1
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice1
Shuggie Bain1
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action1
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support1
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes: Deaf experts’ experience of routine social work practice1
Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement1
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