OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Never Spoken: Caregiving for those Who Are Abusive or Cause Harm	18
International Issues and Clinical Social Work	14
Mentalizing Capacity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Attachment and Stress, Depression, and Anxiety in Social Work Students	13
Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Military Service members, Veterans and their Families: Cohen Veterans Network Client Population	13
“Therapists are Sometimes Leaking Containers” Social Work Students’ Professional Identity Formation in the Shadow of War	12
The Widening Therapeutic Scope of Schema Focused Therapy (SFT): Potential in Addressing Adolescent and Parenting Difficulties: A Theoretical and Narrative Review	11
Enhancing Equity in Clinical Social Work Education: Supporting Indigenous Queer and Gender Diverse Students and Researchers	11
Correction: Breaking Points: Exploring the Well-Being of Egyptian Social Workers amid Covid-19	9
Self-awareness, Mindfulness, and Social Work Practice	8
Is Online Group Therapy as Effective as Face-to-face Group Therapy? A Mixed Methods Study	8
“It’s Hard for Me to be Compassionate for Myself”: Perceptions and Practices of Self-Compassion by Social Work Students	8
Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspectives on PTSD for Social Work Practice	8
Social Support Networks of Individuals with Depressive Disorders: A Cross-sectional Survey in Former Psychiatric Inpatients in Germany	8
Actualizing Compassion in Social Work Practice: A Thematic Network Analysis	7
Sitting with Suicide: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention in Military Veterans	7
Trauma-Informed Practice with Individuals with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors	6
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Sexual Risk Behaviours: Associations with Offline and Online Sexual Activity Among Canadian Youth	6
What is Clinical Social Work? Practitioners’ Views	6
Moving Beyond Either-or Debates: An Invitation to Reconcile Ideological Divides in Evidence-Based Practice	6
“It Was Traumatizing for me”: the Relationships between LGBTQ Individuals with Mental Illness and Social Workers in Rehabilitative Housing Within the Mental Health System	6
American Indian Paternal Involvement: Impacts on Maternal Depression	6
When and How Therapists Raise Issues of Race and Racism in Session: A Qualitative Analysis of Therapist Practices and Reflections	6
Trauma-Informed School-Based Postvention Services: Support to Students Following a Suicide Death	5
Examining Psychological Openness Through an Intergenerational Arts-Based Mindfulness Intervention Grounded in Indigenous Cultural Strengths: Results from the IndigenousMIND Project in a Northeast Trib	5
Understanding Self-Care: Exploring its Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Social Work Students	5

Clinical Professional Formation Among Social Work Students: Professional Identity, Clinical Self-Efficacy, Career Intention, and Commitment	5
Working Through the Unrealistic Goal Syndrome: Using a Key Bridging Question	5
Strategies to Survive: Engaging Transgender and Gender Diverse Older Adults Experiencing Suicidality and Dissociative States	5
“Because I’m Young”: Experiences of Young Mothers with Child Welfare Involvement	4
Maternal Love in the Warzone: Exploring How Mothers Socialize Black Sons to Manage Racism	4
From Weaving Healthy Families to Weaving Healthy Communities: An Indigenist Dissemination and Implementation Approach Integrating Talking Circle Feedback	4
Introduction to the Special Issue: Social Workers at Work	4
The Psychic Stomach: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Healing Intergenerational Trauma and Body Disturbances	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
Correction: A Systematic Literature Review of Strengths-Based Approaches to Drug Use Management and Treatment	4
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	4
An Exploration of Transgender People’s Lived Experiences in Addressing Mental Health Challenges in Vietnam	4
A Systematic Literature Review of Strengths-Based Approaches to Drug Use Management and Treatment	4
Social Work Licensing: Then and Now	4
Culturally Responsive CBT and Mindfulness: Minimizing Suicidality in Correctional Settings	4
Thinking About Getting a Doctoral Degree?	4
Efficacy of a Single-Session Intervention for Women Following Unsuccessful in Vitro Fertilization Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Storytelling as a Cultural Parenting Tool Among Urban Native Mothers	3
The Three Spheres of Rights-Based Practice in Social Work: Respecting, Claiming, and Changing	3
Barriers to Professionalization of Clinical Social Work in Zimbabwe: Insights from Education, Regulation and Practice	3
Will the Intervention Benefit My Client? Helping Social Workers to Answer the Question Using Indicators of Clinically Meaningful Change	3
Understanding and Intervening with Survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: An Application of Social Cognition Theory	3
Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	3
Integrating Interpersonal Psychotherapy into Treatment with Marginalized Clients: Research, Case Assessment and Clinical Implications	3
Cultivating Vicarious Resilience Through Attachment Bonds in Healthcare Supervision	3
Creating Relational Density to Buffer the Effects of Childhood Maltreatment in Preadolescent Foster Youth	3
Healthy Transitions: Cultural Adaptations of the Transition to Independence Model® for a Tribal Community	3
Clinicians’ Perspectives When Responding to Suicidal Behaviors Among Latino Adolescents	3
Correlates of Perceived School Safety Among Black Adolescents in Chicago: Are There Sexual Orientation Differences?	3
Diverse Digital Responses to Loneliness in Older Adults: A Systematic Review from a Social Work Perspective	3
The Path from Trauma to Trauma-Informed Care: The Need to Address Unresolved Collective Trauma in Chile	3
“It Is a Little Bit about Me”: Listening To the Voices of Disenfranchised Puerto Rican Male Partners who Have Experienced Termination of Pregnancy Due To Fetal Anomaly	2
“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
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
Supporting Clinical Development Through Integrative Continuing Education for Field Instructors	2
The Challenge of Integrating Individual and Social Self-Identities Among Israeli Combat Veterans	2
Navigating Digital Disconnection: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Systemic Family Therapy for Excessive Screen time in Iranian Families Post-Pandemic	2
Effectiveness of an Empowerment-Based Group Work for Among Bereaved Older Adults: A Quasi-Experimental Pilot Study in Turkey	2
Here We Go!	2
New Guidelines for Social Workers Who Treat Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	2
Family Intensive Treatment for Child Welfare Involved Caregivers with Substance Misuse Issues: Safety, Permanency and Well-Being Outcomes	2
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization of Empathy: Toward a Deeper Understanding for Clinical Social Work Practice	2
Shared Racial Trauma and Its Impact on Black Clinicians and Black Clients	2
“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	2
The Whole Candidate: How and When to Disclose Stigmatizing Details that May Impact Hiring	2
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Affirmative Practice Competence among Social Workers: A Vignette-Based Assessment	2
Supporting Families After Pediatric Traumatic Injury: Illuminating Parent Experiences of Stress and Coping	2
The Art and Science of Social Work Regulations: How Values and Data Should Guide Regulatory Practices	2
When Innovation Turns Fatal: The Imperative for Ethical, Monitored Integration of AI Chatbots in Adolescent Mental Healthcare	2

Barriers and Facilitators of Treatment Engagement: Perspectives Shared by Survivors of Adolescent Sex Trafficking and Experienced Clinicians	2
Correction: Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	2
RE/UN/DIScover Heuristic: Working with Clinical Practice Impingements in Dehumanizing Times	2
Social Worker Attitudes towards Psychedelics	2
Exploring Mental Health Symptoms Among Canadian Adolescents and Young Adults	2
Latin American Critical Clinical Social Work: A proposal for incorporating anti oppressive decolonial perspectives and local knowledge in justice-focused clinical practice	1
3000 Hours: From MSW to LCSW	1
“We Also Suffer”: Self-support and Supervisory Support for Social Work Practitioners in Weather-Related Events	1
When the Client is a Struggling Clinical Social Worker: Ethical Challenges	1
Regulations for Clinical Supervision in Social Work: Analysis of State Statutes and Clinical License Applicants	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
Acknowledging Soul Loss from an Indigenous Perspective to Promote Healing in Prison	1
Side-lined by the Side Eye: Exploring the Effects of Nonverbal Communication in 2SLGBTQI+ Clinical Social Work Encounters	1
Addressing Gaps in Culturally Responsive Mental Health Interventions in the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse	1
Clinical Confidence in Risk Assessments of Suicidal Clients: An Intervention Study	1
The Need for Strengths-Based Measures for Parent Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Call to Action	1
The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Brief-Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for People with Emotional Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Correction: Mindfulness-based Interventions to Improve Relational and Mental Health of Firefighters: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study	1
Cultural Barriers for South Asian American Women in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Retention	1
Acceptance and Integration Training (AAIT) to Address State Depression and Rumination in College Students: Results of a Pilot Study	1
Using the Arts to Facilitate Affirming, Inclusive, Strengths-Based, Groups with LGBTQ+ Youth	1
The “Four Stories” Approach: A Conceptual Clinical Model for Moving Families and Caregivers Beyond Trauma	1
Moving Beyond the Biopsychosocial Model in Clinical Social Work	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
Uncertain Feelings, Feeling Uncertain: A Simulation-Based Study on Countertransference in Clinical Social Work	1
Best Practices for Technology in Clinical Social Work and Mental Health Professions to Promote Well-being and Prevent Fatigue	1
‘Recovering from Tornado Brain’: A Qualitative Analysis of Long-Term Needs after One of the Deadliest Tornadoes in U.S. History	1
Therapist Readiness To Address Perinatal Mental Health	1
Breaking Points: Exploring the Well-Being of Egyptian Social Workers Amid Covid-19	1
Shared Trauma During COVID-19 Pandemic Among Social Work Clinicians: A Follow-up Study	1
Bidirectional Parallel Process in Training Supervision: Interactions of the Conscious and Unconscious within the Supervision Triad	1
Analysis of Social Work with Families in the Chilean Child Protection System: Difficulties and Challenges for the Consolidation of the Clinical Approach	1
Trauma & The Case for Utilizing NARM Therapy in Clinical Social Work: Implications for Practice, Compassion Fatigue, & Burnout	1
“Respect and Suspect” – Perceptions and Experiences of Women in Recovery from a Substance Use Disorder of their Relationships with Men	1
The Use of Motivational Interviewing with Chronically Unhoused Veterans	1
Adjunct Teaching in Social Work Education: Practical Information for Using Your MSW in Higher Education	1
Understanding Mother-Social Worker Working Alliance in the Parenting-STAIR Open Pilot Trial: The Role of Micro and Macro-Level Factors	1
Clinical Social Work with Families Affected by Brain Injuries: A Case Example	1
Engaging Polyvagal Theory to Inform a Relational Approach in Clinical Work with Adolescent-Parent Dyads	1
Navigating Transnational Separation and Reunification: Resilience in Low-Income Chinese Immigrant Mothers	1