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  1. Correctional officer experiences of moral distress, trauma-informed organizational practices, and structural stigma.

    Article • Traumatology An International Journal, June 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Denise Brend

  2. Residential childcare worker perceptions of work-related achievement and pride

    Article • Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, July 2024, Frontiers

    Dr. Denise Brend

  3. The Moral Distress Instrument (MDI): Development, Validation and Associations with Burnout among Finnish Social Workers

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Denise Brend

  4. Stronger together: Workplace social support among residential child welfare professionals

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Denise Brend

  5. Trauma-informed attitudes in residential treatment settings: Staff, child and youth factors predicting adoption, maintenance and change over time

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Denise Brend

  6. Meaning Making Change

    Article • January 2021, IGI Global

    Dr. Denise Brend

  7. Mentalizing as Mechanism: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Workplace Social Support in Intimate Partner Violence Practice

    Article • Smith College Studies in Social Work, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Denise Brend

  8. Residential childcare workers in child welfare and moral distress

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Denise Brend

  9. Trauma-Informed Care in Child Welfare: An Imperative for Residential Childcare Workers

    Article • International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience, September 2020, Canada Research Chair in Interpersonal Traumas and Resilience

    Dr. Denise Brend

  10. When it counts the most: Trauma-informed care and the COVID-19 global pandemic

    Article • Developmental Child Welfare, August 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Denise Brend

  11. With Laura: Attachment and the Healing Potential of Substitute Caregivers within Cross-Cultural Child Welfare Practice

    Article • First Peoples Child & Family Review An Interdisciplinary Journal Honouring the Voices Perspectives and Knowledges of First Peoples, April 2020, Consortium Erudit

    Dr. Denise Brend

  12. Exposure to trauma in intimate partner violence human service work: A scoping review.

    Article • Traumatology An International Journal, May 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Denise Brend

  13. Attachment, A Matter of Substance: The Potential of Attachment Theory in the Treatment of Addictions

    Article • Clinical Social Work Journal, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Denise Brend

  14. Reshaping Theory in Contemporary Social Work: Toward a Clinical Pluralism in Clinical Practice

    Article • Journal of Social Work Practice, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Denise Brend