Yr Athro Jonathan Scourfield

2024

• Warner, N. et al. 2024. Parental risk factors and children entering out-of-home care: The effects of cumulative risk and parent's sex. Children and Youth Services Review 160, article number: 107548. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107548)
• Wood, S. et al. 2024. Family group conference provision in UK local authorities and associations with children looked after rates. The British Journal of Social Work (10.1093/bjsw/bcae019)
• Bennett, S. et al. 2024. Establishing research priorities for investigating male suicide risk and recovery: A modified Delphi study with lived-experience experts.. Psychology of Men & Masculinities 25(1), pp. 85-98. (10.1037/men0000448)

2023

• Scourfield, J. et al. 2023. Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programmes. Journal of Social Work 23(6), pp. 1022-1042. (10.1177/14680173231194432)
• Hodges, H. and Scourfield, J. 2023. Why are there higher rates of children looked after in Wales?. Journal of Children's Services 18(3/4), pp. 165-179. (10.1108/JCS-02-2022-0007)
• Lee, S. C. et al. 2023. Understanding suicide clusters through exploring self-harm behaviors. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention (10.1027/0227-5910/a000930)
• Anthony, R. et al. 2023. Adversity profiles of children receiving care and support from social services: A Latent-class analysis of school-aged children in Wales. Child: Care, Health and Development 49(5), pp. 889-897. (10.1111/cch.13097)
• Jing, Y., Cheung, S. Y., Griffiths, L. and Scourfield, J. 2023. Trends in ethnic inequality in child welfare interventions in Wales, 2010-2021. Presented at: ADR UK Conference 2023: Public Data for Resilience and Inclusion, Birmingham, UK, 14-16 November 2023, Vol. 8. Vol. 2. pp. 121., (10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2336)
• Taussig, H. N., Roberts, L., Scourfield, J. and Franz, C. 2023. “I'm glad that I was given a second chance to live”: The buffering impact of turning points in the lives of young people with foster care experience. International Journal on Child Maltreatment 6, pp. 233-254. (10.1007/s42448-022-00129-6)

2022

• Roberts, L., Scourfield, J. and Taussig, H. 2022. Insights into turning points from the perspective of young people with out-of-home care experience: events, impact and facilitators of change. Developmental Child Welfare 4(4), pp. 72-76. (10.1177/25161032221118910)
• Wood, S., Scourfield, J., Stabler, L., Addis, S., Wilkins, D., Forrester, D. and Brand, S. L. 2022. How might changes to family income affect the likelihood of children being in out-of-home care? Evidence from a realist and qualitative rapid evidence assessment of interventions. Children and Youth Services Review 143, article number: 106685. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106685)
• Scourfield, J. and Warner, J. 2022. Knowing where the shoe pinches: three Labour ministers reflect on their experiences in social work and politics. Critical and Radical Social Work 10(3), pp. 484-490. (10.1332/204986021X16521772186589so)
• Allnatt, G., Elliott, M., Scourfield, J., Lee, A. and Griffiths, L. J. 2022. Use of linked administrative children’s social care data for research: a scoping review of existing UK studies. British Journal of Social Work 52(7), article number: bcac049. (10.1093/bjsw/bcac049)
• Allnatt, G., Lee, A., Scourfield, J., Elliott, M., Broadhurst, K. and Griffiths, L. 2022. Data resource profile: children looked after administrative records in Wales. International Journal of Population Data Science 1(1) (10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1752)
• Lee, A., Elliott, M., Scourfield, J., Bedston, S., Broadhust, K., Ford, D. V. and Griffiths, L. J. 2022. Data resource: children receiving care and support and children in need, administrative records in Wales. International Journal of Population Data Science 7(1), article number: 8. (10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1694)
• Turley, R. et al. 2022. Staff wellbeing and retention in children's social work: systematic review of interventions. Research on Social Work Practice 32(3), pp. 281-309. (10.1177/10497315211052639)
• Segrott, J. et al. 2022. Effectiveness of the strengthening families programme in the UK at preventing substance misuse in 10-14 year-olds: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 12(2), article number: e049647. (10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049647)
• John, A. et al. 2022. Understanding suicide clusters through exploring self-harm: semi-structured interviews with individuals presenting with near-fatal self-harm during a suicide cluster. Social Science & Medicine 292, article number: 114566. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114566)
• Evans, R., Sampson, C., MacDonald, S., Biddle, L. and Scourfield, J. 2022. Contesting constructs and interrogating research methods: re-analysis of qualitative data from a hospital-based case study of self-harm management and prevention practices. Health 26(1), pp. 27-46. (10.1177/13634593211038522)
• Corliss, C., Addis, S., El-Banna, A., Maxwell, N., Scourfield, J., Warner, N. and Williams, A. 2022. The views of local authorities in England on how to prevent children being in care. Child Care in Practice 28(4), pp. 576-592. (10.1080/13575279.2021.1975648)

2021

• Scourfield, J. et al. 2021. Social work fast-track programmes: Retention and progression. Final report. Project Report. [Online]. Department for Education, UK. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-work-fast-track-programmes-tracking-study
• Scourfield, J., Webb, C. J. R., Elliott, M., Staniland, L. and Bywaters, P. 2021. Are child welfare intervention rates higher or lower in areas targeted for enhanced early years services?. Child Abuse Review 30(4), pp. 306-317. (10.1002/car.2696)
• Stabler, L. et al. 2021. A scoping review of system-level mechanisms to prevent children being in out-of-home care. British Journal of Social Work 52(5), pp. 2515-2536., article number: bcab213. (10.1093/bjsw/bcab213)
• Webb, C., Bywaters, P., Elliott, M. and Scourfield, J. 2021. Income inequality and child welfare interventions in England and Wales. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75, pp. 251-257. (10.1136/jech-2020-214501)
• El-Banna, A. et al. 2021. Systematic review of economic evaluations of children's social care interventions. Children and Youth Services Review 121, article number: 105864. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105864)
• MacDonald, S., Sampson, C., Biddle, L., Kwak, S. Y., Scourfield, J. and Evans, R. 2021. Theorising health professionals’ prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self-harm: a qualitative hospital-based case study. Sociology of Health and Illness 43(1), pp. 201-219. (10.1111/1467-9566.13211)
• Willis, S., Morgan, H., Morgan, F. and Scourfield, J. 2021. Use of systematic review terminology and methodological quality in children’s social care. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 18(6), pp. 667-688. (10.1080/26408066.2021.1938827)

2020

• John, A. et al. 2020. Contacts with primary and secondary healthcare prior to suicide: case-control whole-population-based study using person-level linked routine data in Wales, UK, 2000-2017. British Journal of Psychiatry 217(6), pp. 717-724. (10.1192/bjp.2020.137)
• Channon, S. et al. 2020. Qualitative process evaluation of the Fostering Changes program for foster carers as part of the Confidence in Care randomized controlled trial. Child Abuse and Neglect 109, article number: 104768. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104768)
• Moody, G. et al. 2020. A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the fostering changes programme. Child Abuse and Neglect 108, article number: 104646. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104646)
• Webb, C., Bywaters, P., Scourfield, J., Davidson, G. and Bunting, L. 2020. Cuts both ways: ethnicity, poverty, and the social gradient in child welfare interventions. Children and Youth Services Review 117, article number: 105299. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105299)
• Marchant, A. et al. 2020. A content analysis and comparison of two peaks of newspaper reporting during a suicide cluster to examine implications for imitation, suggestion and prevention. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 41(5), pp. 398-406. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000655)
• Zhang, M. L., Boyd, A., Cheung, S. Y., Sharland, E. and Scourfield, J. 2020. Social work contact in a UK cohort study: under-reporting, predictors of contact and the emotional and behavioural problems of children. Children and Youth Services Review 115, article number: 105071. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105071)
• Scourfield, J., Maxwell, N., Venn, L., Carpenter, J., Stepanova, E. and Smith, R. 2020. Social work fast track programmes: tracking retention and progression - interim report. Department for Education. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-work-fast-track-programmes-tracking-study
• Bezeczky, Z., El-Banna, A., Petrou, S., Kemp, A., Scourfield, J., Forrester, D. and Nurmatov, U. B. 2020. Intensive family preservaton services to prevent out-of-home placement of children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Child Abuse and Neglect 102, article number: 104394. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104394)
• Webb, C., Bywaters, P., Scourfield, J., McCartan, C., Bunting, L., Davidson, G. and Morris, K. 2020. Untangling child welfare inequalities and the ‘Inverse Intervention Law’ in England. Children and Youth Services Review 111, article number: 104849. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104849)
• Mason, W. et al. 2020. Toward full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in case study research: insights from investigating child welfare inequalities. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 14(2), pp. 164-183. (10.1177/1558689819857972)
• Bywaters, P. et al. 2020. Child welfare inequalities in the four nations of the UK. Journal of Social Work 20(2), pp. 193-215. (10.1177/1468017318793479)
• Turley, R. et al. 2020. Promoting the retention, mental health and wellbeing of child and family social workers: a systematic review of Workforce interventions. Project Report. [Online]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Systematic-Review-of-Workforce-Interventions_July-2020.pdf
• Scourfield, J., Evans, R., Colombo, G., Burrows, D., Jacob, N., Williams, M. and Burnap, P. 2020. Are youth suicide memorial sites on Facebook different from those for other sudden deaths?. Death Studies 44(12), pp. 793-801. (10.1080/07481187.2019.1614109)
• Nurmatov, U. et al. 2020. Impact of shared decision-making family meetings on children's out-of-home care, family empowerment and satisfaction: a systematic review. Project Report. [Online]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Family_Group_Conferencing_Report.pdf

2019

• Brand, S., Wood, S., Stabler, L., Addis, S., Scourfield, J., Wilkins, D. and Forrester, D. 2019. How family budget change interventions affect children being in care: a rapid evidence assessment. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff, Wales: What Works for Children's Social Care. Available at: http://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Family_Budget_Change_rapid_evidence_assessment_Full_Report_Aug2019.pdf
• Scourfield, J., Corliss, C., Wijedasa, D., Robling, M. and Clayton, V. 2019. Overview of administrative data on children's social care in England. Project Report. [Online]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Overview_of_administrative_data_Oct_2019.pdf
• Evans, R. et al. 2019. Adolescent self-harm prevention and intervention in secondary schools: A survey of staff in England and Wales. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 24(3), pp. 230-238. (10.1111/camh.12308)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2019. Evaluation of a fast-track postgraduate social work program in England using simulated practice. Research on Social Work Practice 29(4), pp. 363-374. (10.1177/1049731517735575)
• Bywaters, P. et al. 2019. Paradoxical evidence on ethnic inequities in child welfare: towards a research agenda. Children and Youth Services Review 96, pp. 145-154. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.11.042)
• Scourfield, J., Colombo, G., Burnap, P., Evans, R., Jacob, N., Williams, M. and Caul, S. 2019. The number and characteristics of newspaper and Twitter reports on suicides and road traffic deaths in young people. Archives of Suicide Research 23(3), pp. 507-522. (10.1080/13811118.2018.1479321)
• Brand, S. et al. 2019. Mapping the evidence about what works to safely reduce the entry of children and young people into statutory care: a systematic scoping review protocol. BMJ Open 9(8), article number: e026967. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026967)
• 2019. Intensive family preservation services to prevent out-of-home placement of children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Project Report. [Online]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC-Intensive-Family-Preservation-Services-to-prevent-out-of-home-placement-of-children-v2.pdf

2018

• Scourfield, J., Shardlow, S., Zhang, M. L. and Rees, A. 2018. A profile of UK doctoral candidates in social work and social care. British Journal of Social Work 8(48), pp. 2313-2331. (10.1093/bjsw/bcy008)
• Wijedasa, D., Warner, N. and Scourfield, J. 2018. Exploratory analyses of the rates of children looked after in English local authorities (2012-2017). Technical Report.
• Addis, S., Corliss, C., El-Banna, A., Maxwell, N., Scourfield, J., Warner, N. and Williams, A. 2018. Reducing the need for children to enter into care: a survey of approaches used by local authorities in England. Project Report. [Online]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Reducing_the_number_of_children_in_statutory_care_a_survey_of_local_authorities.pdf
• Brand, S. et al. 2018. Mapping the evidence about what works to safely reduce the number of children and young people in statutory care: A systematic scoping review. Technical Report.
• Morris, K. et al. 2018. Social work, deprivation and child welfare interventions. Child and Family Social Work 23(3), pp. 364-372. (10.1111/cfs.12423)
• Elliott, M., Staples, E. and Scourfield, J. 2018. The characteristics of children and young people in residential care in Wales. Child Care in Practice 24(3), pp. 317-330. (10.1080/13575279.2017.1319798)
• Zhang, M., Scourfield, J., Cheung, S. Y. and Sharland, E. 2018. Comparing fathers and mothers who have social work contact: A research note. Social Work Research 42(2), pp. 131-136. (10.1093/swr/svx027)
• Maxwell, N., Scourfield, J., De Villiers, T., Pithouse, A. and Zhang, M. L. 2018. The pre-training characteristics of Frontline participants and mainstream social work students. British Journal of Social Work 48(2), pp. 487-504. (10.1093/bjsw/bcx042)
• Bywaters, P. et al. 2018. Inequalities in English child protection practice under austerity: a universal challenge?. Child & Family Social Work 23(1), pp. 53-61. (10.1111/cfs.12383)
• Moody, G. et al. 2018. Evaluating the long-term impact of the Fostering Changes training programme for foster carers in Wales, the Confidence in Care trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 19, article number: 34. (10.1186/s13063-017-2424-3)

2017

• Segrott, J. et al. 2017. An application of Extended Normalisation Process Theory in a randomised controlled trial of a complex social intervention: process evaluation of the Strengthening Families Programme (10-14) in Wales, UK. SSM - Population Health 3, pp. 255-265. (10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.01.002)
• Evans, R., White, J., Turley, R., Slater, T., Morgan, H., Strange, H. and Scourfield, J. 2017. Comparison of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and suicide in children and young people in care and non-care populations: systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence. Children and Youth Services Review 82, pp. 122-129. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.09.020)
• Jacob, N., Evans, R. E. and Scourfield, J. B. 2017. The influence of online images on self-harm: A qualitative study of young people aged 16-24. Journal of Adolescence 60, pp. 140-147. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.08.001)
• Burnap, P., Colombo, G., Amery, R., Hodorog, A. and Scourfield, J. 2017. Multi-class machine classification of suicide-related communication on Twitter. Online Social Networks and Media 2, pp. 32-44. (10.1016/j.osnem.2017.08.001)
• Evans, R., Murphy, S., Scourfield, J. and Turley, R. 2017. Understanding the diffusion of non-evidence-based health interventions: the role of experiential evidence. Health Education Journal 76(4), pp. 411-422. (10.1177/0017896916688711)
• Zhang, M. L., Henderson, M., Cheung, S. Y., Scourfield, J. and Sharland, E. 2017. Predicting the recipients of social work support, and its impact on emotional and behavioural problems in early childhood. Child and Family Social Work 22(2), pp. 772-781. (10.1111/cfs.12294)
• Warden, R., Scourfield, J. B. and Huxley, P. 2017. Islamic social work in the UK: the service user experience. British Journal of Social Work 47(3), pp. 737-754., article number: bcw006. (10.1093/bjsw/bcw006)
• Elliott, M. and Scourfield, J. 2017. Identifying and understanding inequalities in child welfare intervention rates. Project Report. [Online]. Child Welfare Inequalities Project. Available at: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/current-projects/2014/child-welfare-inequality-uk/cwip-project-outputs/
• Scourfield, J., Gilliat-Ray, S., Khan, A. and Otri, S. 2017. Learning to be a Muslim. In: Strhan, A., Parker, S. G. and Ridgely, S. B. eds. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 123-130.
• Sharland, E., Holland, P., Henderson, M., Zhang, M., Cheung, S. Y. and Scourfield, J. B. 2017. Assembling life history narratives from quantitative longitudinal panel data: what's the story for families using social work?. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 20, pp. 667-679. (10.1080/13645579.2017.1279915)
• Teater, B., Roy, J., Carpenter, J., Forrester, D., Devaney, J. and Scourfield, J. 2017. Making social work count: A curriculum innovation to teach quantitative research methods and statistical analysis to undergraduate social work students in the United Kingdom. Journal of Teaching in Social Work 37(5) (10.1080/08841233.2017.1381216)
• John, A. et al. 2017. Newspaper reporting on a cluster of suicides in the UK. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 38(1), pp. 17-25. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000410)

2016

• Evans, R. et al. 2016. GW4 Children and young people's self-harm and suicide research collaboration. Report.. Project Report. [Online]. GW4. Available at: http://decipher.uk.net/report-launch-gw4-children-young-peoples-self-harm-suicide-research-collaboration/
• Evans, R. E., Scourfield, J. B. and Moore, G. 2016. Gender, relationship breakdown, and suicide risk: a review of research in western countries. Journal of Family Issues 37(16), pp. 2239-2264. (10.1177/0192513X14562608)
• Teater, B., Devaney, J., Forrester, D., Scourfield, J. B. and Carpenter, J. 2016. Quantitative research methods for social work: making social work count. Palgrave.
• Henderson, M., Scourfield, J. B., Cheung, S. Y. and Sharland, E. 2016. Predictors of social service contact among teenagers in England. British Journal of Social Work 46(6), pp. 1485-1501. (10.1093/bjsw/bcv081)
• Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2016. The response in Twitter to an assisted suicide in a television soap opera. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 37(5), pp. 392-395. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000377)
• Scourfield, J., Coffey, A., Allely, C. and Yates, P. 2016. Working with fathers of at-risk children: Insights from a qualitative process evaluation of an intensive group-based intervention. Children and Youth Services Review 69, pp. 259-267. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.08.021)
• Henderson, M., Scourfield, J., Cheung, S. Y., Sharland, E. and Sloan, L. 2016. The effects of social service contact on teenagers in England. Research on Social Work Practice 26(4), pp. 386-398. (10.1177/1049731514557363)
• Scourfield, J. B., Culpin, I., Gunnell, D., Dale, C., Joinson, C., Heron, J. and Collin, S. M. 2016. The association between characteristics of fathering in infancy and depressive symptoms in adolescence: a UK birth cohort study. Child Abuse & Neglect 58, pp. 119-128. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.06.013)
• Henderson, M., Cheung, S. Y., Sharland, E. and Scourfield, J. 2016. The outcomes of educational welfare officer contact in England. British Educational Research Journal 42(3), pp. 399-416. (10.1002/berj.3212)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Lewinson, E. 2016. Engaging black fathers in child protection services. In: Bernard, C. and Harris, P. eds. Safeguarding Black Children: Good Practice in Child Protection. Jessica Kingsley, pp. 165-176.
• Maxwell, N. et al. 2016. Independent evaluation of the Frontline pilot: Research report. Project Report. [Online]. Department for Education. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontline-pilot-independent-evaluation

2015

• Henderson, M., Cheung, S. Y., Sharland, E. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. The effect of social work use on the mental health outcomes of parents and the life satisfaction of children in Britain. Children and Youth Services Review 58, pp. 71-81. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.09.007)
• Bywaters, P. et al. 2015. Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services: explaining the 'inverse intervention law'. Children and Youth Services Review 57, pp. 98-105. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.07.017)
• Evans, R. E., Scourfield, J. B. and Murphy, S. 2015. Pragmatic, formative process evaluations of complex interventions and why we need more of them [Editorial]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 69(10), pp. 925-926. (10.1136/jech-2014-204806)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Evans, R. E. 2015. Why might men be more at risk of suicide after a relationship breakdown? Sociological insights. American Journal of Men's Health 9(5), pp. 380-384. (10.1177/1557988314546395)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Nasiruddin, Q. 2015. Religious adaptation of a parenting programme: process evaluation of the Family Links Islamic Values course for Muslim fathers. Child: Care, Health and Development 41(5), pp. 697-703. (10.1111/cch.12228)
• Burnap, P., Colombo, G. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Machine classification and analysis of suicide-related communication on Twitter. Presented at: 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media, Cyprus, 1-4 September 2015HT '15- Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 75-84.
• Evans, R., Murphy, S. and Scourfield, J. 2015. Implementation of a school-based social and emotional learning intervention: understanding diffusion processes within complex systems. Prevention Science 16, pp. 754-764. (10.1007/s11121-015-0552-0)
• Evans, R., Scourfield, J. and Murphy, S. 2015. The unintended consequences of targeting: young people's lived experiences of social and emotional learning interventions. British Educational Research Journal 41(3), pp. 381-397. (10.1002/berj.3155)
• Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Social work: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stack, S. and Scourfield, J. 2015. Recency of divorce, depression, and suicide risk. Journal of Family Issues 36(6), pp. 695-715. (10.1177/0192513X13494824)
• Scourfield, J. B., Smail, P. and Butler, D. 2015. A systemic approach to improving the engagement of fathers in child safeguarding. Child Abuse Review 24(2), pp. 129-139. (10.1002/car.2333)
• Slater, T., Scourfield, J. and Greenland, K. 2015. Suicide attempts and social worker contact: secondary analysis of a general population study. British Journal of Social Work 45(1), pp. 378-394. (10.1093/bjsw/bct112)
• Colombo, G. B., Burnap, P., Hodorog, A. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Analysing the connectivity and communication of suicidal users on Twitter. Computer Communications 73(B), pp. 291-300. (10.1016/j.comcom.2015.07.018)
• Evans, R. E., Helen, M. E., Slater, T., Turley, R. L., White, J. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Systematic review of self-harm and suicide in children and young people in the care of the state. Presented at: 28th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 16-20 June 2015. pp. 82-82.
• Evans, R. E., Murphy, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. The unintended consequences of targeting: young people's lived experiences of targeted social and emotional learning interventions. Presented at: Society for Prevention Research 23rd Annual Meeting: Integrating Prevention Science and Public Policy, Washington DC, USA, 29 May 2015. pp. 82-82.

2014

• John, A., Dennis, M., Kosnes, L., Gunnell, D., Scourfield, J. B., Ford, D. V. and Lloyd, K. 2014. Suicide Information Database-Cymru: a protocol for a population-based, routinely collected data linkage study to explore risks and patterns of healthcare contact prior to suicide to identify opportunities for intervention. BMJ Open 4(11), article number: e006780. (10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006780)
• John, A. et al. 2014. PRINTQUAL - A measure for assessing the quality of newspaper reporting of suicide. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 35(6), pp. 431-435. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000276)
• Scourfield, J., Cheung, S. Y. and Macdonald, G. 2014. Working with fathers to improve children's well-being: Results of a survey exploring service provision and intervention approach in the UK. Children and Youth Services Review 43, pp. 40-50. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.04.009)
• Jacob, N., Scourfield, J. B. and Evans, R. E. 2014. Suicide prevention via the internet. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 35(4), pp. 261-267. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000254)
• Segrott, J. et al. 2014. Cultural adaptation and intervention integrity: a response to Skarstrand, Sundell and Andreasson. The European Journal of Public Health 24(3), pp. 354-355. (10.1093/eurpub/cku039)
• Scourfield, J. 2014. Improving Work With Fathers to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Fathers should be engaged as allies in child abuse and neglect prevention. Child Abuse & Neglect 38(6), pp. 974-981. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.05.002)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Taylor, A. 2014. Using a book group to facilitate student learning about social work. Social Work Education 33(4), pp. 533-538. (10.1080/02615479.2013.832190)
• Segrott, J. et al. 2014. Preventing substance misuse: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK (SFP 10-14 UK). BMC Public Health 14(1), article number: 49. (10.1186/1471-2458-14-49)
• Evans, R. E., Murphy, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2014. The diffusion of social and emotional learning interventions: exploring and the role and impact of proselytism. Presented at: UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence Conference, Leeds, UK, 19-20 June 2014.
• Segrott, J. et al. 2014. Fidelity of implementation of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK in Wales UK: a mixed-method process evaluation within a randomised controlled trial. Presented at: 7th European Public Health Conference, Glasgow, Scotland,, 19-22 November 2014.
• Moore, L. A. R. et al. 2014. Strengthening Families Programme (10-14UK) substance misuse prevention programme: findings from NPRI randomised trial of a proportionate universalism adaptation of an intervention for families with children aged 10-14. Presented at: 10th UKSBM Annual Scientific Meeting, Nottingham, 3-4 December 2014. pp. 1642-1647.

2013

• Scourfield, J. B., Gilliat-Ray, S., Khan, A. and Otri, S. 2013. Muslim childhood: religious nurture in a European context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Jones, P. et al. 2013. Identifying probable suicide clusters in Wales using national mortality data. PLoS ONE 8(8), article number: e71713. (10.1371/journal.pone.0071713)
• Scourfield, J. B., Warden, R., Gilliat-Ray, S., Khan, A. and Otri, S. 2013. Religious nurture in British Muslim families: implications for social work. International Social Work 56(3), pp. 326-342. (10.1177/0020872812474032)
• Evans, R. E., Scourfield, J. B. and Murphy, S. 2013. The diffusion of social and emotional learning interventions: is belief and conviction enough?. Presented at: Society for Prevention Research 21st Annual Meeting, The Science of Prevention: Building a Comprehensive National Strategy for Well-being, San Francisco, USA, 28-31 May 2013.

2012

• Maxwell, N., Scourfield, J. B., Holland, S., Featherstone, B. and Lee, J. 2012. The benefits and challenges of training child protection social workers in father engagement. Child Abuse Review 21(4), pp. 299-310. (10.1002/car.2218)
• Maxwell, N., Scourfield, J. B., Featherstone, B., Holland, S. and Tolman, R. 2012. Engaging fathers in child welfare services: A narrative review of recent research evidence. Child and Family Social Work 17(2), pp. 160-169. (10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00827.x)
• Scourfield, J. B., Taylor, C. M., Moore, G. and Gilliat-Ray, S. 2012. The intergenerational transmission of Islam in England and Wales: evidence from the Citizenship Survey. Sociology 46(1), pp. 91-108. (10.1177/0038038511419189)
• Scourfield, J. B., Fincham, B., Langer, S. and Shiner, M. 2012. Sociological autopsy: an integrated approach to the study of suicide in men. Social Science & Medicine 74(4), pp. 466-473. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.054)
• Khan, A., Scourfield, J., Gilliat-Ray, S. and Otri, S. 2012. Reflections on qualitative research with Muslim families. Fieldwork in Religion 7(1), pp. 48-69.
• Scourfield, J. B., Tolman, R., Maxwell, N., Holland, S., Bullock, A. D. and Sloan, L. 2012. Results of a training course for social workers on engaging fathers in child protection. Children and Youth Services Review 34(8), pp. 1425-1432. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.03.022)
• Slater, T., Scourfield, J. B. and Sloan, L. 2012. Who is citing whom in social work? A response to Hodge, Lacasse and Benson. British Journal of Social Work 42(8), pp. 1626-1633. (10.1093/bjsw/bcs190)

2011

• Scourfield, J. B., Roen, K. and McDermott, E. 2011. The non-display of authentic distress: public-private dualism in young people's discursive construction of self-harm. Sociology of Health & Illness 33(5), pp. 777-791. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01322.x)
• Maxwell, N., Scourfield, J. B., Gould, N. and Huxley, P. 2011. UK panel data on social work service users. British Journal of Social Work 42(1), pp. 165-184. (10.1093/bjsw/bcr051)
• Fincham, B., Langer, S., Scourfield, J. B. and Shiner, M. 2011. Understanding suicide:  a sociological autopsy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Holliday, J. et al. 2011. Pragmatic trials of non-NHS interventions: experiences from a randomised controlled trial of the Strengthening Families 10-14 UK Programme (SFP10-14 UK). Trials 12(S 1), pp. A98. (10.1186/1745-6215-12-S1-A98)

2010

• Featherstone, B. et al. eds. 2010. Gender and child welfare in society. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

2009

• Greenland, K., Scourfield, J. B., Maxwell, N., Prior, L. and Scourfield, J. 2009. Theoretical antecedents of distress disclosure in a community sample of young people. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 39(9), pp. 2045-2068. (10.1111/j.1559-1816.2009.00515.x)
• Drakeford, M., Scourfield, J., Holland, S. and Davies, A. 2009. Welsh children’s views on government and participation. Childhood 16(2), pp. 247-264. (10.1177/0907568209104404)
• Shiner, M., Scourfield, J. B., Fincham, B. and Langer, S. 2009. When things fall apart: Gender and suicide across the life-course. Social Science & Medicine 69(5), pp. 738-746. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.014)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Maxwell, N. 2009. Social work doctoral students in the UK: a web-based survey and search of the index to theses. British Journal of Social Work 40(2), pp. 548-566. (10.1093/bjsw/bcn165)

2008

• Roen, K., Scourfield, J. B. and McDermott, E. 2008. Making sense of suicide: a discourse analysis of young people's talk about suicidal subjecthood. Social Science & Medicine 67(12), pp. 2089-2097. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.019)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Professional doctorate programmes in social work: the current state of provision in the UK. British Journal of Social Work 40(2), pp. 567-582. (10.1093/bjsw/bcn139)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Mapping the provision of professional doctorate programmes in social work: a survey of UK universities. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Fincham, B., Scourfield, J. b. and Langer, S. 2008. The impact of working with disturbing secondary data: reading suicide files in a coroner's office. Qualitative Health Research 18(6), pp. 853-862. (10.1177/1049732307308945)
• Langer, S., Scourfield, J. B. and Fincham, B. 2008. Documenting the quick and the dead: a study of suicide case files in a coroner's office. The Sociological Review 56(2), pp. 293-308. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00789.x)
• Scourfield, J., Roen, K. and McDermott, E. 2008. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people's experiences of distress: resilience, ambivalence and self-destructive behaviour. Health and Social Care in the Community 16(3), pp. 329-336. (10.1111/j.1365-2524.2008.00769.x)
• Lambert, P., Scourfield, J. B., Smalley, N. and Jones, R. 2008. The social context of school bullying: evidence from a survey of children in South Wales. Research Papers in Education 23(3), pp. 269-291. (10.1080/02671520701809866)
• Scourfield, J. B., Holland, S. and Young, C. 2008. Social work in Wales since democratic devolution. Australian Social Work 61(1), pp. 42-56. (10.1080/03124070701818724)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Smalley, N. 2008. Social work doctoral students in the UK. Southampton, UK: The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP). Available at: http://www.swap.ac.uk/docs/projects/rpt_jscourfield_online.pdf
• Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Managing marginalised masculinities: men and probation. In: Tomsen, S. ed. Crime, criminal justice and masculinities. International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology - Second series Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 427-440.
• McDermott, E., Roen, K. and Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Avoiding shame: young LGBT people, homophobia and self-destructive behaviours. Culture Health and Sexuality 10(8), pp. 815-829. (10.1080/13691050802380974)
• Scourfield, J. 2008. Men's mental health. The Irish Social Worker Summer

2007

• Maegusuku-Hewett, T., Dunkerley, D., Scourfield, J. B. and Smalley, N. 2007. Refugee children in Wales: coping and adaptation in the face of adversity. Children & Society 21(4), pp. 309-321. (10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00102.x)
• Scourfield, J. B., Jacob, N. K., Smalley, N., Prior, L. and Greenland, K. 2007. Young people's gendered interpretations of suicide and attempted suicide. Child & Family Social Work 12(3), pp. 248-257. (10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00498.x)
• Featherstone, B., Rivett, M. and Scourfield, J. B. eds. 2007. Working with men in health and social care. London: SAGE Publications.
• Chaney, P., Scourfield, J. B. and Thompson, A. eds. 2007. Contemporary Wales: an annual review of economic, political and social research. Vol. 19. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2006

• Scourfield, J. B., Dicks, B., Holland, S., Drakeford, M. and Davies, A. 2006. The significance of place in middle childhood: qualitative research from Wales. British Journal of Sociology 57(4), pp. 577-595. (10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00126.x)
• Dunkerley, D., Scourfield, J. B., Maegusuku-Hewett, T. and Smalley, N. 2006. Children seeking asylum in Wales. Journal of Refugee Studies 19(4), pp. 488-508. (10.1093/refuge/fel019)
• Scourfield, J. B., Dicks, B., Drakeford, M. and Davies, A. 2006. Children, place and identity: nation and locality in middle childhood. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Featherstone, B., Hooper, C. A. and Scourfield, J. B. 2006. Special issue on gender and child welfare [Editorial]. Critical Social Policy 26(2), pp. 291-293. (10.1177/0261018306062583)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2006. Gendered organizational culture in child protection social work. Social Work 51(1), pp. 80-82.
• Scourfield, J. B. 2006. The challenge of engaging fathers in the child protection process. Critical Social Policy 26(2), pp. 440-449. (10.1177/0261018306062594)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2006. Placing gender in social work: the local and national dimensions of gender relations. Social Work Education 25(7), pp. 665-679. (10.1080/02615470600905861)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Pithouse, A. J. 2006. Lay and professional knowledge in social work: reflections from ethnographic research on child protection. European Journal of Social Work 9(3), pp. 323-337. (10.1080/13691450600828382)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Coffey, A. J. 2006. Access, ethics and the (re)construction of gender: the case of researcher as suspected 'paedophile'. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 9(1), pp. 29-40. (10.1080/13645570500436122)
• Dunkerley, D., Scourfield, J., Maegusuku-Hewett, T. and Smalley, N. 2006. The experiences of front-line staff working with children seeking asylum. In: Jones Finer, C. ed. Migration, Immigration and Social Policy. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 81-92.
• Chaney, P., Scourfield, J. B. and Thompson, A. eds. 2006. Contemporary Wales: an annual review of economic, political and social research. Vol. 18. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2005

• Dunkerley, D., Scourfield, J. B., Maegusuku-Hewett, T. and Smalley, N. 2005. The experiences of frontline staff working with children seeking asylum. Social Policy and Administration 39(6), pp. 640-652. (10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00461.x)
• Daniel, B., Featherstone, B., Hooper, C. A. and Scourfield, J. B. 2005. Why gender matters for Every Child Matters. British Journal of Social Work 35(8), pp. 1343-1355. (10.1093/bjsw/bch225)
• Smalley, N., Scourfield, J. B. and Greenland, K. 2005. Young people, gender and suicide: A review of research on the social context. Journal of Social Work 5(2), pp. 133-154. (10.1177/1468017305054953)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2005. Suicidal Masculinities. Sociological Research Online 10(2)
• Scourfield, J. B., Evans, J., Shah, W. and Beynon, H. 2005. The negotiation of minority ethnic identities in virtually all-white communities: research with children and their families in the South Wales valleys. Children & Society 19(3), pp. 211-224. (10.1002/chi.831)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Davies, A. 2005. Children's accounts of Wales as racialized and inclusive. Ethnicities 5(1), pp. 83-107. (10.1177/1468796805049927)
• Holland, S., Scourfield, J. B., O'Neill, S. S. and Pithouse, A. J. 2005. Democratising the family and the state? The case of family group conferences in child welfare. Journal of Social Policy 34(1), pp. 59-78. (10.1017/S0047279404008268)
• Hewett, T., Smalley, N., Dunkerley, D. and Scourfield, J. B. 2005. Uncertain futures: children seeking asylum in Wales. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Save the Children Wales. Available at: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/resources/online-library/uncertain-futures-children-seeking-asylum-in-wales

2004

• Smalley, N. and Scourfield, J. B. 2004. The potential of research project websites. British Journal of Social Work 34(4), pp. 591-598. (10.1093/bjsw/bch068)
• Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2004. Liberty and respect in child protection. British Journal of Social Work 34(1), pp. 21-36. (10.1093/bjsw/bch003)
• Scourfield, J., Davies, A. and Holland, S. 2004. Wales and Welshness in middle childhood. Contemporary Wales 16(1), pp. 83-100.
• Chaney, P., Scourfield, J. B. and Thompson, A. eds. 2004. Contemporary Wales: an annual review of economic, political and social research. Vol. 17. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
• Smalley, N., Scourfield, J. B., Greenland, K. and Prior, L. 2004. Services for suicidal young people: qualitative research on lay and professional perspectives. Youth & Policy:The Journal of Critical Analysis 83, pp. 1-18.

2003

• Scourfield, J. B. and Welsh, I. 2003. Risk, reflexivity and social control in child protection: new times or same old story?. Critical Social Policy 23(3), pp. 398-420. (10.1177/02610183030233005)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2003. Gender and child protection. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2002

• Scourfield, J. B. and Drakeford, M. 2002. New Labour and the 'Problem of Men'. Critical Social Policy 22(4), pp. 619-640. (10.1177/02610183020220040401)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Coffey, A. J. 2002. Understanding gendered practice in child protection. Qualitative Social Work 1(3), pp. 319-340. (10.1177/1473325002001003644)
• Scourfield, J. B., Evans, J., Shah, W. and Beynon, H. 2002. Responding to the experiences of minority ethnic children in virtually all-white communities. Child & Family Social Work 7(3), pp. 161-175. (10.1046/j.1365-2206.2002.00243.x)
• Pithouse, A. J. and Scourfield, J. B. 2002. Ready for practice? The DipSW in Wales: views from the workplace on social work training. Journal of Social Work 2(1), pp. 7-27. (10.1177/146801730200200102)
• Scourfield, J. and Welsh, I. 2002. New times or same old story? Risk, reflexivity and social control in child protection. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Scourfield, J. B. 2002. Reflections on gender, knowledge and values in social work. British Journal of Social Work 32(1), pp. 1-15. (10.1093/bjsw/32.1.1)

2001

• Scourfield, J. and Drakeford, M. 2001. New Labour and the politics of masculinity. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Scourfield, J. B. 2001. Constructing men in child protection work. Men and Masculinities 4(1), pp. 70-89. (10.1177/1097184X01004001004)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2001. Constructing women in child protection work. Child & Family Social Work 6(1), pp. 77-87. (10.1046/j.1365-2206.2001.00189.x)
• Scourfield, J. 2001. Interviewing interviewers and knowing about knowledge. In: Shaw, I. and Gould, N. eds. Qualitative Research in Social Work: Method and Context. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 60-73.

2000

• Scourfield, J. B. 2000. The rediscovery of child neglect. Sociological Review 48(3), pp. 365-382. (10.1111/1467-954X.00221)
• Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2000. Managing marginalised masculinities: men and probation. Journal of Gender Studies 9(2), pp. 199-211. (10.1080/713677981)

1999

• Scourfield, J. 1999. The construction of gender in child protection work. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
• Scourfield, J. B. and Dobash, R. P. 1999. Programmes for violent men: recent developments in the UK. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 38(2), pp. 128-143. (10.1111/1468-2311.00122)
• Scourfield, J. and Drakeford, M. 1999. Boys from nowhere: finding Welsh men and putting them in their place. Contemporary Wales 12, pp. 3-17.

1998

• Pithouse, A., Evans, J. and Scourfield, J. 1998. Standards for accreditation in home care: setting the agenda for induction and staff training. Journal of Integrated Care 6(6), pp. 256-262. (10.1108/14769018199800052)
• Scourfield, J. B. 1998. Probation officers working with men. British Journal of Social Work 28(4), pp. 581-599.
• Pithouse, A. and Scourfield, J. 1998. Engaging with the market; preparing for accreditation: Domiciliary care and the independent sector. Research, Policy and Planning 16(3), pp. 9-15.

1997

• Pithouse, A. and Scourfield, J. 1997. Setting standards in home care accreditation: views from the field. Journal of Social Service Research 4, pp. 13-25.

1995

• Scourfield, J. 1995. Changing Men: UK agencies working with men who are violent towards their women partners. Probation Monographs.