OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Clinical Social Work Journal is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
“Respect and Suspect” – Perceptions and Experiences of Women in Recovery from a Substance Use Disorder of their Relationships with Men	24
Social Worker Attitudes towards Psychedelics	23
A Systematic Literature Review of Strengths-Based Approaches to Drug Use Management and Treatment	20
The Role of Chinese Medical Social Workers in a Children’s Hospital: A Qualitative Study	16
When No One’s The Expert: A Preliminary Study of Social Workers’ Perspectives on Shared Loss in Counseling During COVID-19	15
Editorial: The Use of Simulation in Advancing Clinical Social Work Education and Practice	15
Navigating Mental Health Services: Perspectives of Latinx Immigrant Caregivers	14
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization of Empathy: Toward a Deeper Understanding for Clinical Social Work Practice	14
Social Work Responses to Domestic Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences and Perspectives of Professionals at Women’s Shelters in Sweden	13
‘Recovering from Tornado Brain’: A Qualitative Analysis of Long-Term Needs after One of the Deadliest Tornadoes in U.S. History	12
Kinship Navigator: An Assessment of Service Utilization, Satisfaction and Caregiver Wellbeing in Washington State	12
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	10
Mindfulness-based Interventions to Improve Relational and Mental Health of Firefighters: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study	10
Supporting Families After Pediatric Traumatic Injury: Illuminating Parent Experiences of Stress and Coping	9
Conceptions and Historicity of Clinical Social Work in Latin America: A Contemporary Overview	9
Racism is Life-Threatening and Continues the Cycle of Racial Trauma: What Can Clinicians do to Interrupt This Cycle?	8
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Muscle Dysmorphia Symptomatology: Findings from a Sample of Canadian Adolescents and Young Adults	8
Using the Arts to Facilitate Affirming, Inclusive, Strengths-Based, Groups with LGBTQ+ Youth	8
The Integration of the Resolved Through Sharing Perinatal Bereavement Follow-up Model with Latinx Cultural Values: A Case Illustration	7
“Being Someone Who Can Buffer the Pains of Life”: Street Outreach Worker Perspectives on Supporting Youths’ Healing from Community Violence	7
Guidelines for Integrating Live Supervision in Simulation-Based Clinical Education: An Example for Teaching Motivational Interviewing	7
Traumatic Stress and Homelessness: A Review of the Literature for Practitioners	7
Existential Social Work in Coping with Death and Grief	6
A Review of Trauma Specific Treatments (TSTs) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	6
Barriers and Facilitators of Treatment Engagement: Perspectives Shared by Survivors of Adolescent Sex Trafficking and Experienced Clinicians	6

Barriers to School-Based Mental Health Resource Utilization Among Black Adolescent Males	6
Examining Potential Psychological Protective and Risk Factors for Stress and Burnout in Social Workers	6
“Because I’m Young”: Experiences of Young Mothers with Child Welfare Involvement	6
Never Spoken: Caregiving for those Who Are Abusive or Cause Harm	6
Correction: Will the Intervention Benefit My Client? Helping Social Workers to Answer the Question Using Indicators of Clinically Meaningful Change	5
Lived Experiences of Parenting Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth: Implications for Clinical Social Work Practice	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Life after the MSW	4
Rush@Home: Serving the Community Where They are Most Comfortable	4
The Clinically Modified Buddhist Psychological Model for Social Work Practice and Self-care	4
Assuaging COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress Among Mental Health Clinicians: The Potential of Self-Care	4
Understanding and Intervening with Survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: An Application of Social Cognition Theory	4
Interventions with Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma: Addressing the Role of Shame	4
Identifying Biases in the Practice of Social Work Supervisees: Findings from a Grounded Theory Exploratory Study	4
Family Intensive Treatment for Child Welfare Involved Caregivers with Substance Misuse Issues: Safety, Permanency and Well-Being Outcomes	3
EMDR with First-Generation College Students At-Risk of Facing a Forced Marriage	3
The Need for Strengths-Based Measures for Parent Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Call to Action	3
Mentalizing Capacity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Attachment and Stress, Depression, and Anxiety in Social Work Students	3
Therapeutic Change in Couples Therapy: The Core Dynamic	3
A Systematic Review of African-Centered Therapeutic Interventions with Black American Adults	3
Factors Associated with Thoughts of Migration Among Latinx Mental Health Professionals from Puerto Rico to Mainland United States	3
The Art and Science of Social Work Regulations: How Values and Data Should Guide Regulatory Practices	3
Embedding Social Justice into Clinical Practice: A Framework for Early Career Social Workers	2
How Can Social Workers Assess Clinically Meaningful Change in Their Clients? An Example from Children in Care	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
Newer Directions for Parallel Process in Social Work Supervision	2
Reflection, Mindfulness, and Shame Processing in Social Work Practice	2
Latin American Critical Clinical Social Work: A proposal for incorporating anti oppressive decolonial perspectives and local knowledge in justice-focused clinical practice	2
Clinicians’ Perspectives When Responding to Suicidal Behaviors Among Latino Adolescents	2
Correction to: Analysis of Social Work with Families in the Chilean Child Protection System: Difficulties and Challenges for the Consolidation of the Clinical Approach	2
Trauma & The Case for Utilizing NARM Therapy in Clinical Social Work: Implications for Practice, Compassion Fatigue, & Burnout	2
Here We Go!	2
Human Rights and Latina Feminisms: Implications for Clinical Practice with the Latine Diaspora in Anti-immigrant Times	2
The Caregiver Outcomes of Psychotherapy Evaluation (COPE): Development of a Social Work Assessment Tool	2
Becoming a Supervisor: The Interplay Between Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Clinical Social Work Supervision	2
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	2