| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Early outcomes for young adults transitioning from out-of-home care in the USA | Child and Family Social Work | 2006 | 451 |
| 2 | Fostering family resiliency: a review of the key protective factors | Child and Family Social Work | 2009 | 281 |
| 3 | Research Review: Young people leaving care | Child and Family Social Work | 2006 | 264 |
| 4 | Children's and young people's participation within child welfare and child protection services: a state‐of‐the‐art review | Child and Family Social Work | 2015 | 227 |
| 5 | Relationship-based practice and reflective practice: holistic approaches to contemporary child care social work | Child and Family Social Work | 2005 | 177 |
| 6 | Assessing the educational achievements of adults who were formerly placed in family foster care | Child and Family Social Work | 2006 | 175 |
| 7 | Into adulthood: a follow‐up study of 718 young people who were placed in out‐of‐home care during their teens | Child and Family Social Work | 2008 | 171 |
| 8 | Parental mental health: disruptions to parenting and outcomes for children | Child and Family Social Work | 2004 | 170 |
| 9 | Mental health of current and former recipients of foster care: a review of recent studies in the USA | Child and Family Social Work | 2009 | 162 |
| 10 | ‘Like walking on eggshells’: service user views and expectations of the child protection system | Child and Family Social Work | 2011 | 161 |
| 11 | Enhancing the resilience of children and young people in public care by mentoring their talents and interests | Child and Family Social Work | 1999 | 149 |
| 12 | Participatory research with children | Child and Family Social Work | 1997 | 137 |
| 13 | Predicting after-care outcomes: the importance of 'felt' security | Child and Family Social Work | 2006 | 137 |
| 14 | Research Review: Teenage pregnancy and parenthood: the role of fathers | Child and Family Social Work | 2004 | 132 |
| 15 | Making a home, finding a job: investigating early housing and employment outcomes for young people leaving care | Child and Family Social Work | 2006 | 130 |
| 16 | Family support, social capital, resilience and adolescent coping | Child and Family Social Work | 2007 | 130 |
| 17 | Participation and health - a research review of child participation in planning and decision-making | Child and Family Social Work | 2011 | 130 |
| 18 | Long-term foster care or adoption? The evidence examined | Child and Family Social Work | 2002 | 129 |
| 19 | Educational success for children in public care: advice from a group of high achievers | Child and Family Social Work | 2002 | 129 |
| 20 | Parenting stress and externalizing child behaviour | Child and Family Social Work | 2002 | 127 |
| 21 | Active survival in the lives of unaccompanied minors: coping strategies, resilience, and the relevance of religion | Child and Family Social Work | 2010 | 127 |
| 22 | Contact between children in out-of-home placements and their family and friends networks: a research review | Child and Family Social Work | 2011 | 127 |
| 23 | ‘Your friends don’t understand’: Invisibility and unmet need in the lives of ‘young carers’ | Child and Family Social Work | 2003 | 126 |
| 24 | Good helping relationships in child welfare: learning from stories of success | Child and Family Social Work | 2007 | 126 |
| 25 | Theory and explanation in child welfare: education and looked-after children | Child and Family Social Work | 2007 | 126 |
| 26 | Manufacturing ghost fathers: the paradox of father presence and absence in child welfare | Child and Family Social Work | 2009 | 126 |
| 27 | My life in care: experiences of non‐participation in decision‐making processes | Child and Family Social Work | 2007 | 125 |
| 28 | Young people leaving care: health, well‐being and outcomes | Child and Family Social Work | 2008 | 122 |
| 29 | Engaging fathers in child welfare services: a narrative review of recent research evidence | Child and Family Social Work | 2012 | 118 |
| 30 | Foster carer perceptions of support and training in the context of high burden of care | Child and Family Social Work | 2011 | 117 |
| 31 | Promoting children's rights through the use of relationship | Child and Family Social Work | 2002 | 113 |
| 32 | Parenting, family functioning and lifestyle in a new culture: the case of African migrants in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Child and Family Social Work | 2011 | 112 |
| 33 | Child welfare workers who are exhausted yet satisfied with their jobs: how do they do it? | Child and Family Social Work | 2007 | 109 |
| 34 | Worries and problems of young carers: issues for mental health | Child and Family Social Work | 2003 | 108 |
| 35 | Hearing the child | Child and Family Social Work | 2009 | 107 |
| 36 | Breakdown of teenage placements in Swedish foster and residential care | Child and Family Social Work | 2004 | 106 |
| 37 | ‘You've got to trust her and she's got to trust you’: children's views on participation in the child protection system | Child and Family Social Work | 2016 | 106 |
| 38 | Living with an elephant: Growing up with parental substance misuse | Child and Family Social Work | 2004 | 105 |
| 39 | Beyond attachment theory and therapy: Towards sensitive and evidence-based interventions with foster and adoptive families in distress | Child and Family Social Work | 2005 | 105 |
| 40 | Mothering in the context of domestic violence: the pervasiveness of a deficit model of mothering | Child and Family Social Work | 2008 | 105 |
| 41 | The mental health of children who witness domestic violence | Child and Family Social Work | 2009 | 103 |
| 42 | Growing up in foster care: providing a secure base through adolescence | Child and Family Social Work | 2009 | 100 |
| 43 | Service user participation in diverse child protection contexts: principles for practice | Child and Family Social Work | 2009 | 100 |
| 44 | Promoting psychosocial well-being in unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in the United Kingdom | Child and Family Social Work | 2003 | 96 |
| 45 | Patterns and correlates of co‐occurrence among multiple types of child maltreatment | Child and Family Social Work | 2017 | 96 |
| 46 | Social work, poverty, and child welfare interventions | Child and Family Social Work | 2018 | 95 |
| 47 | Parental resistance and social worker skills: towards a theory of motivational social work | Child and Family Social Work | 2012 | 91 |
| 48 | Mental health of parents with young children in Hong Kong: the roles of parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy | Child and Family Social Work | 2000 | 90 |
| 49 | Research Review: Risk and resilience in cases of emotional abuse | Child and Family Social Work | 2006 | 90 |
| 50 | Whose agenda? Issues of power and relationship when listening to looked‐after young people | Child and Family Social Work | 2007 | 89 |
