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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Never Spoken: Caregiving for those Who Are Abusive or Cause Harm	28
Mentalizing Capacity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Attachment and Stress, Depression, and Anxiety in Social Work Students	26
Therapeutic Change in Couples Therapy: The Core Dynamic	20
EMDR with First-Generation College Students At-Risk of Facing a Forced Marriage	17
Actualizing Compassion in Social Work Practice: A Thematic Network Analysis	16
“It’s Hard for Me to be Compassionate for Myself”: Perceptions and Practices of Self-Compassion by Social Work Students	15
Is Online Group Therapy as Effective as Face-to-face Group Therapy? A Mixed Methods Study	15
“Therapists are Sometimes Leaking Containers” Social Work Students’ Professional Identity Formation in the Shadow of War	12
Enhancing Equity in Clinical Social Work Education: Supporting Indigenous Queer and Gender Diverse Students and Researchers	12
Social Support Networks of Individuals with Depressive Disorders: A Cross-sectional Survey in Former Psychiatric Inpatients in Germany	11
Sitting with Suicide: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention in Military Veterans	11
Correction: Breaking Points: Exploring the Well-Being of Egyptian Social Workers amid Covid-19	11
The Widening Therapeutic Scope of Schema Focused Therapy (SFT): Potential in Addressing Adolescent and Parenting Difficulties: A Theoretical and Narrative Review	10
Trauma-Informed Practice with Individuals with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors	9
American Indian Paternal Involvement: Impacts on Maternal Depression	9
What is Clinical Social Work? Practitioners’ Views	9
Understanding Self-Care: Exploring its Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Social Work Students	8
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
CTiBS and Clinical Social Work: Telebehavioral Health Competencies for LCSWs in the Age of COVID-19	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
Culturally Responsive CBT and Mindfulness: Minimizing Suicidality in Correctional Settings	6
Maternal Love in the Warzone: Exploring How Mothers Socialize Black Sons to Manage Racism	6
Remotely Successful: Telehealth Interventions in K-12 Schools During a Global Pandemic	6

Efficacy of a Single-Session Intervention for Women Following Unsuccessful in Vitro Fertilization Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial	5
Social Work Licensing: Then and Now	5
Negotiating Leaving Religion, Family Relationships, and Identity: The Case of LDS Faith Transitions in Therapy	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
Thinking About Getting a Doctoral Degree?	5
An Exploration of Transgender People’s Lived Experiences in Addressing Mental Health Challenges in Vietnam	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Social Workers at Work	5
The Psychic Stomach: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Healing Intergenerational Trauma and Body Disturbances	4
A Review of Trauma Specific Treatments (TSTs) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	4
Clinicians’ Perspectives When Responding to Suicidal Behaviors Among Latino Adolescents	4
A Systematic Literature Review of Strengths-Based Approaches to Drug Use Management and Treatment	4
Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	4
“Because I’m Young”: Experiences of Young Mothers with Child Welfare Involvement	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
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
Cultivating Vicarious Resilience Through Attachment Bonds in Healthcare Supervision	3
Correction: Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	3
Understanding and Intervening with Survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: An Application of Social Cognition Theory	3
Creating Relational Density to Buffer the Effects of Childhood Maltreatment in Preadolescent Foster Youth	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
RE/UN/DIScover Heuristic: Working with Clinical Practice Impingements in Dehumanizing Times	3
Diverse Digital Responses to Loneliness in Older Adults: A Systematic Review from a Social Work Perspective	3
Examining the Dose–Response Relationship: Applying the Disaster Exposure Matrix to Understand the Mental Health Impacts of Hurricane Sandy	3
Correlates of Perceived School Safety Among Black Adolescents in Chicago: Are There Sexual Orientation Differences?	3
The Path from Trauma to Trauma-Informed Care: The Need to Address Unresolved Collective Trauma in Chile	3
Will the Intervention Benefit My Client? Helping Social Workers to Answer the Question Using Indicators of Clinically Meaningful Change	3
The Art and Science of Social Work Regulations: How Values and Data Should Guide Regulatory Practices	2
Examining Racial Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Diagnoses for Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences	2
Student Reflections on Shared Trauma: One Year Later	2
The Whole Candidate: How and When to Disclose Stigmatizing Details that May Impact Hiring	2
Supporting Families After Pediatric Traumatic Injury: Illuminating Parent Experiences of Stress and Coping	2
“Being Someone Who Can Buffer the Pains of Life”: Street Outreach Worker Perspectives on Supporting Youths’ Healing from Community Violence	2
Here We Go!	2
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization of Empathy: Toward a Deeper Understanding for Clinical Social Work Practice	2
The Challenge of Integrating Individual and Social Self-Identities Among Israeli Combat Veterans	2
Supporting Clinical Development Through Integrative Continuing Education for Field Instructors	2
When No One’s The Expert: A Preliminary Study of Social Workers’ Perspectives on Shared Loss in Counseling During COVID-19	2
Family Intensive Treatment for Child Welfare Involved Caregivers with Substance Misuse Issues: Safety, Permanency and Well-Being Outcomes	2
The Mental Health Impacts of Successive Disasters: Examining the Roles of Individual and Community Resilience Following a Tornado and COVID-19	2
Barriers and Facilitators of Treatment Engagement: Perspectives Shared by Survivors of Adolescent Sex Trafficking and Experienced Clinicians	2
Shared Racial Trauma and Its Impact on Black Clinicians and Black Clients	2
Social Worker Attitudes towards Psychedelics	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
Engaging Polyvagal Theory to Inform a Relational Approach in Clinical Work with Adolescent-Parent Dyads	1
Adjunct Teaching in Social Work Education: Practical Information for Using Your MSW in Higher Education	1
Cultural Barriers for South Asian American Women in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Retention	1
The Use of Motivational Interviewing with Chronically Unhoused Veterans	1
Introduction to Special Issue: COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Lasting Impact on Clinical Social Work Practice and Education	1
Trauma & The Case for Utilizing NARM Therapy in Clinical Social Work: Implications for Practice, Compassion Fatigue, & Burnout	1

‘Recovering from Tornado Brain’: A Qualitative Analysis of Long-Term Needs after One of the Deadliest Tornadoes in U.S. History	1
Co-constructing a Conceptual Understanding of System Enactment	1
Acknowledging Soul Loss from an Indigenous Perspective to Promote Healing in Prison	1
Addressing Gaps in Culturally Responsive Mental Health Interventions in the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse	1
“There is Just a Different Energy”: Changes in the Therapeutic Relationship with the Telehealth Transition	1
Exploring Mental Health Symptoms Among Canadian Adolescents and Young Adults	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
A Systematic Review of African-Centered Therapeutic Interventions with Black American Adults	1
Latin American Critical Clinical Social Work: A proposal for incorporating anti oppressive decolonial perspectives and local knowledge in justice-focused clinical practice	1
The Need for Strengths-Based Measures for Parent Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Call to Action	1
Unpacking Perinatal Experiences with Opioid Use Disorder: Relapse Risk Implications	1
Navigating Transnational Separation and Reunification: Resilience in Low-Income Chinese Immigrant Mothers	1
Best Practices for Technology in Clinical Social Work and Mental Health Professions to Promote Well-being and Prevent Fatigue	1
Clinical Confidence in Risk Assessments of Suicidal Clients: An Intervention Study	1
Side-lined by the Side Eye: Exploring the Effects of Nonverbal Communication in 2SLGBTQI+ Clinical Social Work Encounters	1
“Respect and Suspect” – Perceptions and Experiences of Women in Recovery from a Substance Use Disorder of their Relationships with Men	1
Using the Arts to Facilitate Affirming, Inclusive, Strengths-Based, Groups with LGBTQ+ Youth	1
When the Client is a Struggling Clinical Social Worker: Ethical Challenges	1
Analysis of Social Work with Families in the Chilean Child Protection System: Difficulties and Challenges for the Consolidation of the Clinical Approach	1
Traumatic Stress and Homelessness: A Review of the Literature for Practitioners	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