Supplementary Material: Included Articles

The final data included 53 papers, most from the UK (n = 16), other European countries (n = 12, the majority of which came from the Nordics) and Canada (n = 12). In total, five papers were from USA and the other eight were from Australia, New Zealand, Israel and China. Almost half (n = 25) the papers were from the context child welfare and family services and a great minority (n = 7) from mental health care settings. The rest were from a wide range of social welfare service settings, such as elderly services; housing; criminal justice systems; services for asylum seekers; welfare-to-work programs, therapy and others. Some papers focused on a specific group of SUs: parents of children and young people (18); adolescent and young people in different settings (14); women and girls (10) and racialized SUs (7). Most papers were empirical qualitative studies (38) and 12 papers were theoretical or conceptual, with no empirical data. The majority (N = 42) of the papers had been published between 2015-2024, although 22 of those were publishede in 2020 or after.