Research on Social Work Practice

Papers
(The median citation count of Research on Social Work Practice 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Baseline Survey of China Social Work Longitudinal Study 2019: Design and Implementation45
Research to Consider While Effectively Re-Designing Child Welfare Services40
Role Stress, Burnout, and Workplace Support Among Newly Recruited Social Workers31
Critical Clinical Social Work and the Neoliberal Constraints on Social Justice in Mental Health29
Children’s Participation in Decision Making From Child Welfare Workers’ Perspectives: A Systematic Review25
Weaving Healthy Families Program: Promoting Resilience While Reducing Violence and Substance Use22
Subjective Outcome Evaluation of a Positive Youth Development Program in Mainland China21
Responses to COVID-19 in Major Social Work Journals: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies, Comments, and Editorials19
Staff Wellbeing and Retention in Children’s Social Work: Systematic Review of Interventions18
Black Youth and African-Centered Interventions: A Systematic Review17
Time to Move Beyond the ASWB Licensing Exams: Can Generative Artificial Intelligence Offer a Way Forward for Social Work?16
A Meta-Analysis of Group Interventions for Trauma and Depression Among Immigrant and Refugee Children15
What Counts as Evidence in Child Welfare Research?15
Centering Social Justice in Mental Health Practice: Epistemic Justice and Social Work Practice14
Internet Use and Resilience in Adolescents: A Systematic Review14
Poverty or Racism?: Determinants of Disproportionality and Disparity for African American/Black Children in Child Welfare13
Social Justice and Social Work Curriculum at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria12
The Online Strength-Informed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Among COVID-19-Affected Adolescents12
The Mechanisms of Implementation Support - Findings from a Systematic Integrative Review12
Poverty in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit, and Other Sexual and Gender Minority (LGBTQ2S+) Communities in Canada: Implications for Social Work Practice11
The Embedded Paradox of Organizational Turnover and Professional Autonomy11
Pedagogical Methods of Teaching Social Justice in Social Work: A Scoping Review11
Social Work Digital Storytelling Project: Digital Literacy, Digital Storytelling, and the Makerspace10
Racial Disparities in Social Workers’ Licensing Rates10
A Systematic Review of Measures of Child Neglect10
Social Work Core Competencies in Disaster Management Practice: An Integrative Review10
A Systematic Review of the Use of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) to Assess Implicit Biases Held by Professionals Toward Client Populations9
Social Work Licensure and Regulation in the United States: Current Trends and Recommendations for the Future9
Effectiveness of an Adventure-based Cognitive Behavioral Program for Hong Kong University Students9
Effectiveness of School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs in China: A Meta-Analysis9
School-based Child Sexual Abuse Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis9
Racial Bias and ASWB Exams: A Failure of Data Equity9
Construction of the Index of Social Work Professional Identity8
The Online Adaptation and Outcomes of a Family-Based Intervention Addressing Substance Use Disorders8
Outcomes of Community-Based Youth Empowerment Programs Adopting Design Thinking: A Quasi-Experimental Study8
Preventing Maltreatment at Home: A Meta-Analysis Examining Outcomes From Online Programs8
A Study of PhD Courses and Curricula Across Schools of Social Work8
Students’ Perceived Attributes and Benefits of a Leadership Course: Subjective Outcome Evaluation8
Racial Disparity in Social Work Licensure Exam Pass Rates7
Clinical Social Work Practice in Canada: A Critical Examination of Regulation7
Father Involvement in the First Year After Prison: Considerations for Social Work7
The Melbourne Statement on Practice Research in Social Work: Practice Meets Research7
Systematic Literature Searching in Social Work: A Practical Guide With Database Appraisal7
Feasibility of Self-Guided Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for University Students During COVID-197
A Quasi-Experimental Study on Training Child Welfare Workers on Youth Sexual Health7
Technology-Assisted, Group-Based CBT for Rural Adults’ Depression: Open Pilot Trial Results6
Workforce Skills in Family Support: A Systematic Review6
Engaging Nonresident Fathers: Exploring Collaborative Competencies in Support of Family-Centered Practice6
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to Reduce Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Symptoms among Forcibly Displaced People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis6
Trauma-Informed Parenting Education Support Groups for Mothers in Substance Abuse Recovery6
A Ugandan Parenting Programme to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Description and Formative Evaluation6
Ensuring Authentic Representation and Collaboration Along with Research to Re-Design Child Welfare6
Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of a Proposed Farsi Version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index Using Item Response Theory6
Exploring Treatment Response Predictors of a Parent-Led Therapist-Assisted Treatment for Childhood Trauma6
A Conceptual and Large-Scale Empirical Examination of the Welcoming Empowerment Monitoring Approach (WEMA) for School Safety and Substance Use Reduction6
Who are the Top 100 Contributors to Social Work Journal Scholarship? A Global Study on Career Impact in the Profession6
Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for Fatherhood: An Empowerment-Based Social Work Intervention6
Community-Based Interventions to Reduce Child Maltreatment6
The Adapted DUKE-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire in a Community Sample of Portuguese Parents5
Interventions Designed to Improve Financial Capability: A Systematic Review5
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Depression Among Adolescents and Young Adults Diagnosed With Cancer: An Open Pilot Trial5
Interventions with Fathers: Effective Social Work Practice for Enhancing Individual and Family Well-Being5
Advancing Social Intervention Research Through Program Theory Reconstruction5
Layperson-Supported Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression Among Older Adults5
Impact of Social Work Services on the Resilience of Migrant Children5
Exploring Maternal Health in Ethiopia Using Indigenous Approaches: Policy and Practice Implications5
A Scoping Review of Resilience-Focused Interventions of Kunjing Children in Mainland China5
Research to Consider while Effectively Re-Designing Child Welfare Services: A Response to Commentaries5
Performance-Based Practice: Clinical Dashboards for Addiction Treatment Retention5
Reception Social Services for Migration Families in Italy: Strength, Critical Aspects, and Challenges5
Social Work at the Crossroads: The Empirical Highway or the Postmodern/Critical Off-Ramp?5
Preregistration of Randomized Controlled Trials5
Are the Average Effects of Foster Care Placement Really Close to Zero?5
Self-determination Theory and Social Work Values4
Black Girl Well-Being: A Scoping Review of Culturally and Gender Responsive Interventions4
Skills for Future Work (H2030): Multigroup Analysis in Professional and Baccalaureate Training4
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Community-Based Services: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Studies4
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Self-Compassion Writing Intervention for Adults With Mental Illness4
Trauma-Informed Organizational Dynamics and Client Outcomes in Concurrent Disorder Treatment4
Extended Case Management Services Among Resettled Refugees in the United States4
Self-Recognition, Self-Efficacy, and Confidence Intervention of Kunjing Children Without Sufficient Parental Care4
Developing an Intervention to Enhance Parental Monitoring in Family Foster Care4
Computer-Based Simulations in Social Work Education: A Scoping Review4
Feasibility and Acceptability of Parenting for Lifelong Health Program in Mainland China4
The Teaching and Learning of Communication Skills in Social Work Education4
Effectiveness of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Among Maltreated Children: A Meta-Analysis3
A Case Study for the Interrater Reliability of Journal Referees3
Effectiveness of a Care Delivery Model for High-Need Older Adults in Communities3
Linking Social Work Licensing Exam Content to Educational Competencies: Poor Reliability Challenges the Path to Licensure3
Predictors of Maternal Participation in Fatherhood Intervention Research With African American Nonresident Fathers3
Bullying Victimization and STIs: Parental Communication and Parental Sexual Communication as Moderators3
Twiddeling and Twaddeling in the Weeptime of Clients: Avoidable Injustice3
Efficacy of Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Chinese Delinquent Youth3
Social Work as Mediocracy: A Response to Gambrill, Esptein, Cabin, and Teasley, Dettlaff, and Abrams3
Qualitative System Dynamics Modeling to Support Community Planning in Opioid Overdose Prevention3
Assessing the Fidelity of an Affirmative Cognitive Behavioral Group Intervention3
Using Twins to Assess What Might Have Been: The Co-twin Control Design3
Custodial and Noncustodial Parent Predictors of Noncustodial Father Involvement3
Preferences for an HIV Self-Testing Program Among Women who Engage in sex Work and use Drugs in Kazakhstan, Central Asia3
Social Work Paradigms and Their Effect on Decision Making About Out-of-Home Placement3
Innovation of Social Workers Under Different Leadership Styles: An Experimental Vignette Study3
Poverty or Racism? A Re-Analysis of Briggs et al. 20223
Reflections on the Use of Evidence in Child Welfare: A Commentary on Barth et al.3
Prioritizing Patient Perspectives When Designing Intervention Studies for Homeless Older Adults3
Parenting Programs for Disruptive Child Behavior in China: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review3
Health Equity Considerations: HIV Intervention Adaptation for Black Women in Community Corrections3
Leveraging Randomized Controlled Trial Design: HIV and Wellness Interventions with Marginalized Populations2
The Use and Misuse of Classical Statistics: A Primer for Social Workers2
From “What Works” to “Why it Works” – From a Humean to an Aristotelian Understanding of Causality2
An Age Simulation Program Promoting Positive Attitudes Toward Older People in Hong Kong: Further Evidence of Integration of Natural Social Network Effects2
Cost–Benefit of Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) Versus Residential Care in Illinois2
Intervention Adaptation and Implementation Method for Real-World Constraints and Using New Technologies2
Effects of Social Work Licensure Exemptions: Theoretical Propositions, Evidence, and Research Agendas2
Quasi-Experimental Study Comparing CBT, MBCT, Activity-Based Supportive Counselling for Hong Kong Delinquent Youth2
Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory Assessments as Predictors of Behavioral Change in Multisystemic Therapy and Functional Family Therapy in Norway2
Exploring Adherence to Client Treatment Recommendations in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics2
Digital Interventions for the Mental Health and Well-Being of International Migrants: A Systematic Review2
School Social Workers Perceptions of the Use of Functional Behavior Assessments2
A Response to Barth et al. From the Perspective of a Child Protective Services Worker2
Condom Decision Making Among Latino and Black Adolescent Males: Social Neurobiological and Paternal Influences2
Intervening on the Intersecting Issues of Intimate Partner Violence, Substance Use, and HIV: A Review of Social Intervention Group's (SIG) Syndemic-Focused Interventions for Women2
Social Workers and Families: An Italian Perspective on the Family-Centered Approach2
The Effectiveness of Personalisation on Health Outcomes of Older People: A Systematic Review2
Evaluating the Effects of a Trauma Recovery Program for Korean Burn Patients2
Parallel Parent–Child Mindfulness Intervention Among Chinese Migrant Families: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study2
A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Licensed Masters-Level Social Worker’s Engagement in Outcome Evaluation2
Virtual Support and Intimate Partner Violence Services: A Scoping Review2
A Meta-Analysis of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for School-Related Problems in Adolescents2
Interventions to Improve Outcomes of Grandchildren Raised by Grandparents: A Systematic Review2
Ethnic Minority and Majority Social Workers Working with Ethnic Minority Clients: Culture-Bound Professional Interventions and Burnout among Arab and Jewish Israeli Social Workers2
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Children's Social Information-Processing Skills2
Construct-Irrelevant Variance on the ASWB Clinical Social Work Licensing Exam: A Replication of Prior Validity Concerns2
Using Creative Genograms in Family Social Work to Integrate Subjective and Objective Knowledge About the Family: A Participatory Study2
Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Group Counseling on Depression and Cognition Among Chinese Older Adults: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial2
Ethical Considerations for Social Work Research With Vulnerable Children and Their Families2
The Effects of Service Coordination on Disadvantaged Parents’ Participation in Activation Programs and Employment: A Randomized Controlled Trial2
Telephone-Supported Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for People With Depression: Users’ Perspective2
Evaluating Professional Misconduct: The Effects of Licensure State and Board Membership2
Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Chinese Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis2
A Systematic Mapping Review of Family Perspectives About Received Mental Health Interventions2
“Why Don’t You Reach Out to Dad?”: Involving Fathers in Therapy2
A Pilot Study of the Swedish Sexual Offender Treatment Program2
Preventing Harm to Vulnerable Older Adults: A Social Justice Perspective2
A Mixed-Methods Study of Two Modes of the Circle of Security2
A Feasibility Study of the SAFE Pilot Program: A University–School Board Partnership in Ontario2
Organizational Supports for Practice Research: Illustrations from an International Practice Research Collaborative1
Enhancing Social Workers’ Capacity Building for Career and Life Development Services: A Quasi-Experimental Outcome Study1
Action Plans as Active Boundary Objects1
A Scoping Review to Guide Social Work Policy-Practice for Pandemic Recovery1
Impact of Community Service on Latent Deprivation of Social Assistance Recipients1
Situating the Efficacy of Certificate Course in Social Work: A Case of First-Ever Course in Bhutan1
Addressing Suicide Risk: A Systematic Review of Motivational Interviewing Infused Interventions1
Medicaid, Race, Utilization of Crisis Services at Community Mental Health Agencies1
Literature Review on Regulatory Frameworks for Addressing Discrimination in Clinical Supervision1
Rural Challenges in Social Work Regulation1
Comparative Efficacy of Online vs. Face-to-Face Group Interventions: A Systematic Review1
Who Benefits More From IBMS or Qigong? Clinical Data-Mining RCT Data1
Combination Microfinance and HIV Risk Reduction Among Women Engaged in Sex Work1
Effects of Design-Thinking Intergenerational Service-Learning Model on College Students: A Pilot Study in Taiwan1
Connecting Practice Research With the Process of Theorizing1
Pursuing Common Ground Instead of Specious Misconceptions: Response to Barth and Colleagues1
Start Where the Social Worker Is: Social Workers’ Perceptions of Clinical Licensure in Nebraska1
My Love Affair with Practice-Research: A “Virtue Friendship” Based on Methodological Pluralism1
Assessing Foster/Adoptive Parent Training Curriculum's Improvement of Resource Parent Knowledge and Skills1
Newly Released Data on Examination Pass Rates Supports Need for Widespread Reform1
Comparing an In-Person and Online Continuing Education Intervention to Improve Professional Decision-Making: A Mixed Methods Study1
Individual, Relationship, and Family Structure Predictors of African American Noncustodial Father Involvement Satisfaction1
One Last Fandango Professor Por Favor? The Potential Contribution of Clinical Data-Mining to Randomized Clinical Trials1
Some Comments on the Notion of Social Work as a Human Service Cartel1
Validation of the Revised Chen Internet Addition Scale for Chinese Older Adults1
Adult Depression and Anxiety Outcomes at a Student-Staffed Mental Health Clinic1
Systematic Review of Narrative Therapy Publications in Hong Kong1
Nurses and Outreach Workers’ Stigmatizing Attitudes in Needle Syringe Programs in Kazakhstan1
Human Service Cartels: The Soft Repression of the Mediocracy1
Book Review: Program evaluation: Pragmatic methods for social work and human services agencies1
A Parent Education Program for Single Fathers’ Parent-Child Relationship in Rural China: A Pretest–Posttest-Follow-Up Study1
Interventions that Address Institutional Child Maltreatment: An Evidence and Gap Map1
The Effects of Tax-Time Interventions on Savings Rate and Amount: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis1
Adventure-Based Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Hong Kong University Students: A Randomized Controlled Study1
Intergenerational Mentorship on Character Traits Among Disadvantaged Primary School Students: A Controlled Pretest–Posttest Study1
The Effects of Child Support Payment Factors on Satisfaction With Levels of Parental Involvement by Noncustodial Fathers1
Book Review: Practice Research in the Human Services: A University Agency Practice Model1
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-Based Peer Navigation-Psychoeducational HIV Intervention for Women1
Exploring the Psychosocial Needs of People Living in Extreme Poverty and Introducing Brief Interventions: The Case of Crete Region in Greece1
A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study of the Project Support Positive Parenting Module1
Social Work Regulation in the United Arab Emirates1
Co-Word Analysis of First-Authored Publications Written by Top Cited Scholars of Social Work1
Critical Time in Regulation of Social Work Practice: Forging a Path Forward1
Are Universal and Guaranteed Basic Income Programs Effective in the United States? A Review1
Behavioral Health Interventions for Incarcerated Adults With Histories of Trauma: A Scoping Review1
Inclusive Practice for Children with Special Education Needs: Training for Social Workers1
Psychometric Properties of a European French Version of the PTGI1
Computerized Suicide Prevention Clinical Training Simulations: A Pilot Study1
Scoping Review of Family Interventions That Support the Physical Health of Caregivers1
Adapted, Adopted, and Novel Interventions: A Whole-Population Meta-Analytic Replication of Intervention Effects1
Group-Based Parent Education Intervention for Nonresident Fathers1
Building Program Evaluation Capacity of Non-Governmental Organizations Practitioners in Hong Kong1
Impact of Moderating Demographic Variables on a Health Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness1
Evaluation of Youth Empowerment Projects From an Educators’ Perspective1
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Hope in Women Participating in Alternative Sentencing Programs1
Pre- and Post-Conception Relationship Duration and Parental Involvement Satisfaction among Noncustodial African American Fathers1
The NIMH Task Force on Social Work Research Report: Past Accomplishments and Current Challenges1
Evaluating a Functional Family Therapy Intervention: Challenges and Lessons Learned1
Transferability and Generalization in Qualitative Research1
Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for Financial Capability: Application of Practice-Based Program Theory and Measures in Intervention Design1
Findings from a Structured Adaptation Process for the SafeCare Parenting Program to Address Family Needs in a Diverse Refugee Community1
Introduction: Special Issue on Global Approaches to Family Social Work Research1
How Can Practitioners Assess the Value of Social Work Interventions?1
Client Outcomes in Graduate Trainee-Provided Psychotherapies: A Mixed Model and Exploratory Analysis1
Beyond Plagiarism: ChatGPT as the Vanguard of Technological Revolution in Research and Citation1
Blueprint for Social Work Blended Learning Curriculum in the Chinese Context1
Advocates of Research-Supported Treatments for PTSD are Losing in Lots of Ways: What Are We Going to Do About It?1
Poverty Indicators in the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System Child File: Challenges and Opportunities1
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