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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Never Spoken: Caregiving for those Who Are Abusive or Cause Harm	28
EMDR with First-Generation College Students At-Risk of Facing a Forced Marriage	27
Therapeutic Change in Couples Therapy: The Core Dynamic	21
Mentalizing Capacity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Attachment and Stress, Depression, and Anxiety in Social Work Students	17
International Issues and Clinical Social Work	16
Actualizing Compassion in Social Work Practice: A Thematic Network Analysis	16
Is Online Group Therapy as Effective as Face-to-face Group Therapy? A Mixed Methods Study	15
“It’s Hard for Me to be Compassionate for Myself”: Perceptions and Practices of Self-Compassion by Social Work Students	14
Correction: Breaking Points: Exploring the Well-Being of Egyptian Social Workers amid Covid-19	13
What is Clinical Social Work? Practitioners’ Views	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	10
Enhancing Equity in Clinical Social Work Education: Supporting Indigenous Queer and Gender Diverse Students and Researchers	10
American Indian Paternal Involvement: Impacts on Maternal Depression	9
Social Support Networks of Individuals with Depressive Disorders: A Cross-sectional Survey in Former Psychiatric Inpatients in Germany	9
Trauma-Informed Practice with Individuals with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors	9
Sitting with Suicide: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention in Military Veterans	9
Moving Beyond Either-or Debates: An Invitation to Reconcile Ideological Divides in Evidence-Based Practice	8
Trauma-Informed School-Based Postvention Services: Support to Students Following a Suicide Death	8
Understanding Self-Care: Exploring its Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Social Work Students	7
Maternal Love in the Warzone: Exploring How Mothers Socialize Black Sons to Manage Racism	7
Strategies to Survive: Engaging Transgender and Gender Diverse Older Adults Experiencing Suicidality and Dissociative States	7
Correction: A Systematic Literature Review of Strengths-Based Approaches to Drug Use Management and Treatment	7
CTiBS and Clinical Social Work: Telebehavioral Health Competencies for LCSWs in the Age of COVID-19	6
Culturally Responsive CBT and Mindfulness: Minimizing Suicidality in Correctional Settings	6

Negotiating Leaving Religion, Family Relationships, and Identity: The Case of LDS Faith Transitions in Therapy	6
Thinking About Getting a Doctoral Degree?	5
An Exploration of Transgender People’s Lived Experiences in Addressing Mental Health Challenges in Vietnam	5
Efficacy of a Single-Session Intervention for Women Following Unsuccessful in Vitro Fertilization Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial	5
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
Introduction to the Special Issue: Social Workers at Work	5
“Because I’m Young”: Experiences of Young Mothers with Child Welfare Involvement	4
The Three Spheres of Rights-Based Practice in Social Work: Respecting, Claiming, and Changing	4
Social Work Licensing: Then and Now	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
Understanding and Intervening with Survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: An Application of Social Cognition Theory	4
A Systematic Literature Review of Strengths-Based Approaches to Drug Use Management and Treatment	4
The Psychic Stomach: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Healing Intergenerational Trauma and Body Disturbances	4
Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	4
Correlates of Perceived School Safety Among Black Adolescents in Chicago: Are There Sexual Orientation Differences?	3
Clinicians’ Perspectives When Responding to Suicidal Behaviors Among Latino Adolescents	3
The Path from Trauma to Trauma-Informed Care: The Need to Address Unresolved Collective Trauma in Chile	3
RE/UN/DIScover Heuristic: Working with Clinical Practice Impingements in Dehumanizing Times	3
Integrating Interpersonal Psychotherapy into Treatment with Marginalized Clients: Research, Case Assessment and Clinical Implications	3
Diverse Digital Responses to Loneliness in Older Adults: A Systematic Review from a Social Work Perspective	3
The Challenge of Integrating Individual and Social Self-Identities Among Israeli Combat Veterans	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
Creating Relational Density to Buffer the Effects of Childhood Maltreatment in Preadolescent Foster Youth	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
Student Reflections on Shared Trauma: One Year Later	3
Cultivating Vicarious Resilience Through Attachment Bonds in Healthcare Supervision	3
“Being Someone Who Can Buffer the Pains of Life”: Street Outreach Worker Perspectives on Supporting Youths’ Healing from Community Violence	2
Shared Racial Trauma and Its Impact on Black Clinicians and Black Clients	2
The Whole Candidate: How and When to Disclose Stigmatizing Details that May Impact Hiring	2
The Art and Science of Social Work Regulations: How Values and Data Should Guide Regulatory Practices	2
Exploring Mental Health Symptoms Among Canadian Adolescents and Young Adults	2
Addressing Gaps in Culturally Responsive Mental Health Interventions in the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse	2
Supporting Families After Pediatric Traumatic Injury: Illuminating Parent Experiences of Stress and Coping	2
Social Worker Attitudes towards Psychedelics	2
Correction: Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	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
“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
Barriers and Facilitators of Treatment Engagement: Perspectives Shared by Survivors of Adolescent Sex Trafficking and Experienced Clinicians	2
Supporting Clinical Development Through Integrative Continuing Education for Field Instructors	2
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization of Empathy: Toward a Deeper Understanding for Clinical Social Work Practice	2
The Mental Health Impacts of Successive Disasters: Examining the Roles of Individual and Community Resilience Following a Tornado and COVID-19	2
Examining Racial Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Diagnoses for Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences	2
Engaging Polyvagal Theory to Inform a Relational Approach in Clinical Work with Adolescent-Parent Dyads	2
Side-lined by the Side Eye: Exploring the Effects of Nonverbal Communication in 2SLGBTQI+ Clinical Social Work Encounters	1
Co-constructing a Conceptual Understanding of System Enactment	1
3000 Hours: From MSW to LCSW	1
The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1

Acknowledging Soul Loss from an Indigenous Perspective to Promote Healing in Prison	1
Analysis of Social Work with Families in the Chilean Child Protection System: Difficulties and Challenges for the Consolidation of the Clinical Approach	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
Bidirectional Parallel Process in Training Supervision: Interactions of the Conscious and Unconscious within the Supervision Triad	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
A Systematic Review of African-Centered Therapeutic Interventions with Black American Adults	1
Clinical Social Work with Families Affected by Brain Injuries: A Case Example	1
Best Practices for Technology in Clinical Social Work and Mental Health Professions to Promote Well-being and Prevent Fatigue	1
The Need for Strengths-Based Measures for Parent Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Call to Action	1
Cultural Barriers for South Asian American Women in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Retention	1
Breaking Points: Exploring the Well-Being of Egyptian Social Workers Amid Covid-19	1
Correction: Mindfulness-based Interventions to Improve Relational and Mental Health of Firefighters: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study	1
Using the Arts to Facilitate Affirming, Inclusive, Strengths-Based, Groups with LGBTQ+ Youth	1
Social Workers as Allies? Gender Confirming Practices and Institutional Limitations in Youth Residential Homes	1
‘Recovering from Tornado Brain’: A Qualitative Analysis of Long-Term Needs after One of the Deadliest Tornadoes in U.S. History	1
When the Client is a Struggling Clinical Social Worker: Ethical Challenges	1
“There is Just a Different Energy”: Changes in the Therapeutic Relationship with the Telehealth Transition	1
Therapist Readiness To Address Perinatal Mental Health	1
Unpacking Perinatal Experiences with Opioid Use Disorder: Relapse Risk Implications	1
Moving Beyond the Biopsychosocial Model in Clinical Social Work	1
Latin American Critical Clinical Social Work: A proposal for incorporating anti oppressive decolonial perspectives and local knowledge in justice-focused clinical practice	1
Demonstrating LGBTQ+ Affirmative Practice in Groups:: Developing Competence through Simulation-Based Learning	1
Traumatic Stress and Homelessness: A Review of the Literature for Practitioners	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
Brief-Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for People with Emotional Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Adjunct Teaching in Social Work Education: Practical Information for Using Your MSW in Higher Education	1
The Use of Motivational Interviewing with Chronically Unhoused Veterans	1
Navigating Transnational Separation and Reunification: Resilience in Low-Income Chinese Immigrant Mothers	1
“We Also Suffer”: Self-support and Supervisory Support for Social Work Practitioners in Weather-Related Events	1