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Official feed of the Journal of Social Work Practice, the journal of Journal of the Group for the Advancement of Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy in Social Work

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Editor Emerita Gillian Ruch @SussexUni named in top 100 global social work academics in recent study journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Who are the Top 100 Contributors to Social Work Journal Scholarship? A Global Study on Career...

Purpose: This study identified the top 100 most impactful global contributors to social work journal scholarship. Methods: To conduct this descriptive study, we...

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The Journal is proud to announce that "Ecology, psychoanalysis and global warming: present and future traumas" has just passed 10,000 views! We would like to congratulate Anna Harvey, Julian Manley and Caroline Hickman for this achievement - well done! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Ecology, psychoanalysis and global warming: present and future traumas

Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2020)

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Keeping our heads: preserving therapeutic values in a time of change: Journal of Social Work Practice: Vol 39 , No 3 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Keeping our heads: preserving therapeutic values in a time of change

This paper offers a discursive overview of the present state of therapeutic social work in Britain today, and locates this in the context of political and ideological struggles over the nature of t...

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Thinking the unthinkable: ‘white liberal’ defences against understanding in anti-racist training: Journal of Social Work Practice: Vol 39 , No 3 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Thinking the unthinkable: ‘white liberal’ defences against understanding in anti-racist training

This article describes and analyses a range of group processes which occurred during anti-racist training workshops with qualifying social work students. The principal focus is to understand white ...

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Full article: Andrew Cooper’s Special Issue Editorial tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Andrew Cooper’s Special Issue Editorial

Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2025)

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Full article: First-stage development of a Team as Secure Base questionnaire using a Delphi study tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

First-stage development of a Team as Secure Base questionnaire using a Delphi study

Teams help mitigate emotional demands in high-stake professions, like social work. Providing a secure base fosters trust, giving individuals confidence to work competently and provide effective car...

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Full article: Emotional labour in child and family social work teams: a hybrid ethnography tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Emotional labour in child and family social work teams: a hybrid ethnography

Achieving good outcomes for children and families engaged in the social care system relies upon a healthy, confident, and stable workforce. However, child protection social work has been identified...

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Full article: How can teams in social work be strengthened? An example from a two-year project among social workers in child welfare tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

How can teams in social work be strengthened? An example from a two-year project among social...

This article aims to present and discuss results from team-strengthening activities carried out in an implementation study among child welfare social workers. The study builds on previous research ...

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Retention and turnover in social work practice: what role do trusting colleagues, overtime, and workload play in job satisfaction?: Journal of Social Work Practice: Vol 39 , No 1 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Retention and turnover in social work practice: what role do trusting colleagues, overtime, and...

In a mixed methods research, we explored various professional aspects of the Romanian social work workforce, such as employment, responsibilities, available resources, satisfaction at work, profess...

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The ‘team’ in child and family social work: exploratory findings from a longitudinal study on factors influencing the retention of child and family social workers in England: Journal of Social Work Practice: Vol 39 , No 1 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The ‘team’ in child and family social work: exploratory findings from a longitudinal study on...

This paper draws upon qualitative data from a Department for Education (DfE) funded longitudinal study of child and family social workers in England, carried out between 2018 and 2022 exploring fac...

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Full article: The role of teams in social worker wellbeing and retention tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The role of teams in social worker wellbeing and retention

Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2025)

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Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research: Journal of Social Work Practice: Vol 38 , No 4 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation...

A student essay for Clare Winnicott Essay Competition. A societal critique of the ongoing issues and complications for those experiencing homelessness in modern times, which applies both Stuart Hal...

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The relational recession in social work: adult social care in the age of austerity: Journal of Social Work Practice: Vol 38 , No 4 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The relational recession in social work: adult social care in the age of austerity

The primary resources available to social workers are themselves, with building and using effective relationships central to the social work task. More than a decade of austerity policies has impac...

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A nostalgic reflection on the importance of teamwork for a novice social worker: Journal of Social Work Practice: Vol 38 , No 4 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A nostalgic reflection on the importance of teamwork for a novice social worker

This paper reflects the professional and personal experience of a novice social worker and explores the intrinsic value of team support and camaraderie in the progression of early practice. Given t...

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Full article: Approved Mental Health Professionals: Teamwork, ‘Safety Nets’ and ‘Buckling Under’ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Approved Mental Health Professionals: Teamwork, ‘Safety Nets’ and ‘Buckling Under’

In England and Wales, Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) have the ultimate responsibility, based on doctors’ medical recommendations, for deciding to detain a person, without consent, und...

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Full article: ‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’: the role of the team as secure base in social workers’ sensemaking tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’: the role of the team as secure base in social...

There is recognition that teams act as a locus for the sensemaking activity that underpins social workers’ judgement. Research has highlighted that teams also provide emotional support for practiti...

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Full article: ‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work...

The purpose of this paper is to explore how care managers in team conferences jointly solve problems related to difficult cases involving clients with cognitive decline, focusing specifically on th...

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Full article: Invisible authors: an ethnography of the social life of social work assessment tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Invisible authors: an ethnography of the social life of social work assessment

Social work assessments are ubiquitous in daily practice, containing justifications for interventions and decisions. This article seeks to bring to the fore the extensive influence of the social wo...

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Full article: Special issue on social work teams tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Special issue on social work teams

Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2024)

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Full article: The words may limit our understanding: reflexive research, affect and embodied writing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The words may limit our understanding: reflexive research, affect and embodied writing

Drawing on a reflexive and embodied approach, this article examines the researcher’s narrative inquiry, consisting of the conflicting feelings and messy thoughts that arose through her interviews w...

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Full article: The role of intuition in social work practice: differing understandings and attitudes tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The role of intuition in social work practice: differing understandings and attitudes

There has been a long debate about the use of intuition in helping professions, including social work. Often viewed negatively in professional contexts, intuition is nonetheless used as a form of r...

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