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Papers

(The median citation count of Clinical Social Work Journal 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
EMDR with First-Generation College Students At-Risk of Facing a Forced Marriage	29
Never Spoken: Caregiving for those Who Are Abusive or Cause Harm	29
Therapeutic Change in Couples Therapy: The Core Dynamic	18
International Issues and Clinical Social Work	18
Mentalizing Capacity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Attachment and Stress, Depression, and Anxiety in Social Work Students	15
Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Military Service members, Veterans and their Families: Cohen Veterans Network Client Population	14
Actualizing Compassion in Social Work Practice: A Thematic Network Analysis	14
“It’s Hard for Me to be Compassionate for Myself”: Perceptions and Practices of Self-Compassion by Social Work Students	13
Is Online Group Therapy as Effective as Face-to-face Group Therapy? A Mixed Methods Study	13
Correction: Breaking Points: Exploring the Well-Being of Egyptian Social Workers amid Covid-19	11
What is Clinical Social Work? Practitioners’ Views	11
Enhancing Equity in Clinical Social Work Education: Supporting Indigenous Queer and Gender Diverse Students and Researchers	10
“It Was Traumatizing for me”: the Relationships between LGBTQ Individuals with Mental Illness and Social Workers in Rehabilitative Housing Within the Mental Health System	9
Sitting with Suicide: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention in Military Veterans	9
The Widening Therapeutic Scope of Schema Focused Therapy (SFT): Potential in Addressing Adolescent and Parenting Difficulties: A Theoretical and Narrative Review	9
“Therapists are Sometimes Leaking Containers” Social Work Students’ Professional Identity Formation in the Shadow of War	8
American Indian Paternal Involvement: Impacts on Maternal Depression	7
Trauma-Informed Practice with Individuals with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors	7
Social Support Networks of Individuals with Depressive Disorders: A Cross-sectional Survey in Former Psychiatric Inpatients in Germany	7
Moving Beyond Either-or Debates: An Invitation to Reconcile Ideological Divides in Evidence-Based Practice	7
Correction: A Systematic Literature Review of Strengths-Based Approaches to Drug Use Management and Treatment	6
Trauma-Informed School-Based Postvention Services: Support to Students Following a Suicide Death	6
Maternal Love in the Warzone: Exploring How Mothers Socialize Black Sons to Manage Racism	6
Understanding Self-Care: Exploring its Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Social Work Students	6
The Relationship of Determinism, Free Will and Randomness Beliefs with Authenticity and the Mediating Role of Life Meanings among Young Adults in Türkiye: An Existential Social Work Perspective in Cli	5

CTiBS and Clinical Social Work: Telebehavioral Health Competencies for LCSWs in the Age of COVID-19	5
Social Work Licensing: Then and Now	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Social Workers at Work	5
Culturally Responsive CBT and Mindfulness: Minimizing Suicidality in Correctional Settings	5
Efficacy of a Single-Session Intervention for Women Following Unsuccessful in Vitro Fertilization Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial	5
Strategies to Survive: Engaging Transgender and Gender Diverse Older Adults Experiencing Suicidality and Dissociative States	5
A Systematic Literature Review of Strengths-Based Approaches to Drug Use Management and Treatment	4
“Because I’m Young”: Experiences of Young Mothers with Child Welfare Involvement	4
Thinking About Getting a Doctoral Degree?	4
The Psychic Stomach: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Healing Intergenerational Trauma and Body Disturbances	4
An Exploration of Transgender People’s Lived Experiences in Addressing Mental Health Challenges in Vietnam	4
Special Issue on LGBTQ+ Clinical Social Work Practice: Global Insights into Allyship and Inclusion in Clinical Social Work with Sexual and Gender Diverse/Expansive Communities	4
Clinicians’ Perspectives When Responding to Suicidal Behaviors Among Latino Adolescents	3
Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	3
Cultivating Vicarious Resilience Through Attachment Bonds in Healthcare Supervision	3
Correction: Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	3
Supporting Clinical Development Through Integrative Continuing Education for Field Instructors	3
The Path from Trauma to Trauma-Informed Care: The Need to Address Unresolved Collective Trauma in Chile	3
Barriers to Professionalization of Clinical Social Work in Zimbabwe: Insights from Education, Regulation and Practice	3
The Three Spheres of Rights-Based Practice in Social Work: Respecting, Claiming, and Changing	3
Correlates of Perceived School Safety Among Black Adolescents in Chicago: Are There Sexual Orientation Differences?	3
RE/UN/DIScover Heuristic: Working with Clinical Practice Impingements in Dehumanizing Times	3
The Challenge of Integrating Individual and Social Self-Identities Among Israeli Combat Veterans	3
The Whole Candidate: How and When to Disclose Stigmatizing Details that May Impact Hiring	3
Creating Relational Density to Buffer the Effects of Childhood Maltreatment in Preadolescent Foster Youth	3
Integrating Interpersonal Psychotherapy into Treatment with Marginalized Clients: Research, Case Assessment and Clinical Implications	3
Understanding and Intervening with Survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: An Application of Social Cognition Theory	3
Diverse Digital Responses to Loneliness in Older Adults: A Systematic Review from a Social Work Perspective	3
“Even When I was on the Street, I Still Didn’t Want to Give Myself the Label of ‘Prostitute’”: Sex Trade Survivor Mentors’ Narrative Constructions of Their Past Involvement in the Sex Trade	3
Shared Racial Trauma and Its Impact on Black Clinicians and Black Clients	3
Social Worker Attitudes towards Psychedelics	3
Will the Intervention Benefit My Client? Helping Social Workers to Answer the Question Using Indicators of Clinically Meaningful Change	3
“I am More than Meets the Eye”: An Arts-Based Research Project Centering the Photographic Voices of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Undocumented and Displaced People	2
Supporting Families After Pediatric Traumatic Injury: Illuminating Parent Experiences of Stress and Coping	2
Family Intensive Treatment for Child Welfare Involved Caregivers with Substance Misuse Issues: Safety, Permanency and Well-Being Outcomes	2
Here We Go!	2
Clinical Confidence in Risk Assessments of Suicidal Clients: An Intervention Study	2
Exploring Potential Pathways from Adverse Childhood Experiences to Bullying and Victimization: Implications for Clinical Practice and Policy	2
“Being Someone Who Can Buffer the Pains of Life”: Street Outreach Worker Perspectives on Supporting Youths’ Healing from Community Violence	2
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization of Empathy: Toward a Deeper Understanding for Clinical Social Work Practice	2
The Art and Science of Social Work Regulations: How Values and Data Should Guide Regulatory Practices	2
The Mental Health Impacts of Successive Disasters: Examining the Roles of Individual and Community Resilience Following a Tornado and COVID-19	2
“There is Just a Different Energy”: Changes in the Therapeutic Relationship with the Telehealth Transition	2
Barriers and Facilitators of Treatment Engagement: Perspectives Shared by Survivors of Adolescent Sex Trafficking and Experienced Clinicians	2
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Affirmative Practice Competence among Social Workers: A Vignette-Based Assessment	2
Engaging Polyvagal Theory to Inform a Relational Approach in Clinical Work with Adolescent-Parent Dyads	2
Examining Racial Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Diagnoses for Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences	2
Addressing Gaps in Culturally Responsive Mental Health Interventions in the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse	2
Introduction To Special Issue on Latin American Clinical Social Work Practice with the Latinx and Spanish Speaking Caribbean Population	1
The “Four Stories” Approach: A Conceptual Clinical Model for Moving Families and Caregivers Beyond Trauma	1

Guiding the Way to Clinical Licensure: Creating a Practical Framework for the Provision of Clinical Social Work Supervision	1
“We Also Suffer”: Self-support and Supervisory Support for Social Work Practitioners in Weather-Related Events	1
Correction: Mindfulness-based Interventions to Improve Relational and Mental Health of Firefighters: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study	1
Exploring Shared Trauma in the Time of COVID: A Simulation-Based Survey Study of Mental Health Clinicians	1
Brief-Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for People with Emotional Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Latin American Critical Clinical Social Work: A proposal for incorporating anti oppressive decolonial perspectives and local knowledge in justice-focused clinical practice	1
Using the Arts to Facilitate Affirming, Inclusive, Strengths-Based, Groups with LGBTQ+ Youth	1
“Respect and Suspect” – Perceptions and Experiences of Women in Recovery from a Substance Use Disorder of their Relationships with Men	1
Exploring Mental Health Symptoms Among Canadian Adolescents and Young Adults	1
Co-constructing a Conceptual Understanding of System Enactment	1
Affirming Care for Adoption and Foster Youth: A Clinician’s Guide to Essential Considerations for Working with LGBTQIA + Youth	1
Best Practices for Technology in Clinical Social Work and Mental Health Professions to Promote Well-being and Prevent Fatigue	1
Demonstrating LGBTQ+ Affirmative Practice in Groups:: Developing Competence through Simulation-Based Learning	1
Acknowledging Soul Loss from an Indigenous Perspective to Promote Healing in Prison	1
Breaking Points: Exploring the Well-Being of Egyptian Social Workers Amid Covid-19	1
When the Client is a Struggling Clinical Social Worker: Ethical Challenges	1
Cultural Barriers for South Asian American Women in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Retention	1
Qualitatively Exploring Mental Health Attitude Changes among Emerging Adult Motivational Interviewing after One Motivational Enhanced Interview	1
Bidirectional Parallel Process in Training Supervision: Interactions of the Conscious and Unconscious within the Supervision Triad	1
Trauma & The Case for Utilizing NARM Therapy in Clinical Social Work: Implications for Practice, Compassion Fatigue, & Burnout	1
Facing the Traumatic Field in the Clinical and Social Work with Forced Migrants Through a Psychodynamic Perspective: from “Refugee Trauma” to the Clinic of Social Links	1
‘Recovering from Tornado Brain’: A Qualitative Analysis of Long-Term Needs after One of the Deadliest Tornadoes in U.S. History	1
Excited Delirium is not an Excuse for Use of Force by Police: Commentary on ‘Knowledge and Skills for Social Workers on Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams’ (Ghelani, 2021)	1
Clinical Social Work with Families Affected by Brain Injuries: A Case Example	1
Why Not Consider a Research Career? From Direct Practice to Doctorate	1
Unpacking Perinatal Experiences with Opioid Use Disorder: Relapse Risk Implications	1
3000 Hours: From MSW to LCSW	1
A Systematic Review of African-Centered Therapeutic Interventions with Black American Adults	1
The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
The Use of Motivational Interviewing with Chronically Unhoused Veterans	1
Analysis of Social Work with Families in the Chilean Child Protection System: Difficulties and Challenges for the Consolidation of the Clinical Approach	1
Differentiation of Self and Internal Distress: The Mediating Roles of Vulnerable Narcissism and Maladaptive Perfectionism	1
Social Workers as Allies? Gender Confirming Practices and Institutional Limitations in Youth Residential Homes	1
Therapist Readiness To Address Perinatal Mental Health	1
The Need for Strengths-Based Measures for Parent Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Call to Action	1
Moving Beyond the Biopsychosocial Model in Clinical Social Work	1
Adjunct Teaching in Social Work Education: Practical Information for Using Your MSW in Higher Education	1
Navigating Transnational Separation and Reunification: Resilience in Low-Income Chinese Immigrant Mothers	1
Shared Trauma and PTSD Among Israeli Therapists During Wartime: The Moderating Role of Psychological Capital	1
Side-lined by the Side Eye: Exploring the Effects of Nonverbal Communication in 2SLGBTQI+ Clinical Social Work Encounters	1