Hanni
B.
Flaherty
212-960-0891
Yeshiva University
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
2495 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 924
New York, NY 10033
PhD, New York University
MSW, New York University
BA, Hofstra University
Hanni Flaherty, PhD, LCSW is an assistant Professor & Chair of Advanced Clinical Practice in the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. She has completed her PhD and MSW at New York University Silver School of Social Work. Prior to returning to NYU for her PhD, Dr. Flaherty practiced clinical social work for over 20 years specializing in adolescent high-risk behaviors. Dr. Flaherty’s research interests are in the areas of clinical social work practice with a focus on innovation implementation and social work education with a focus on the transition to online education. Her research agenda focuses on examining factors that may facilitate the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices for mental health clinics serving high-risk youths. Dr. Flaherty’s academic training, research and years of clinical social work experience has uniquely positioned her to be an effective teacher of social work education and a researcher informed by her rich clinical experience.
Dr. Flaherty’s interests are focused around clinical social work practice and social work education. Additionally, children and families, adolescent high-risk behaviors, evidence-based practices, intervention and implementation research.
Dr. Flaherty's research interests are in clinical social work practice, focusing on adolescent high-risk behavior, including non-suicidal self-injury, and innovation implementation, emphasizing integrating technology in clinical social work practice, education, and research. Her scholarly research encompasses four main areas thus far: 1. Exploring and analyzing the type and extent of specific factors impacting the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices in mental health settings serving youths; 2. Understanding the complexities of innovation adoption and implementation of evidence-based practice in mental health settings serving youths, 3. Building on this understanding to develop evidence-based interventions that will be widely adopted and implemented in outpatient mental health services serving high-risk youths, and 4. Improve adoption and implementation by teaching evidence-based practices in innovative ways, including face-to-face, online, and hybrid education, to teach the importance of evidence-based practice to social work students, thus improving mental health services for at-risk adolescents.
NASW Leadership Award, Sapphire, 2019
Flaherty, H.B (2025) Bridging Research and Practice to Address Substance Use Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1533256X.2025.2477097
Flaherty, H.B. (2025). Launching Your Private Practice: A Practical Guide for Licensed Clinical Social Workers. Research on Social Work Practice.
Flaherty, H.B., Vyshedsky, C. & Auerbach, C. (2025). Adopting New Technology to Improve Social Work Education and Clinical Practice. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Flaherty, H.B & Yurch, J. (2024). Beyond Plagiarism: ChatGPT as the Vanguard of Technological Revolution in Research and Citation. Research on Social Work practice, 34(5), 578-587). https://doi.org/10.1177/10497315241243310
Flaherty, H.B., Henshaw, L.A, Lee, S.R., Auerbach, C, Beckerman, N. L., Toumarides, E., Miskiewicz, M. & Rose, A. (2024). Understanding Self-Care: Exploring its Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Social Work Students. Clinical Social Work Journal, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-024-00969-4
Henshaw, L.A, Flaherty, H.B., Beckerman, N., & Auerbach, C. (2023) Assessing Shared Trauma: Validation of the Covid-19 Quality of Professional Practice Survey(C19QPPS) Among Master of Social Work Students. Research on Social Work Practice.
Flaherty, H. B. (2022). Teaching Note—Using Technology to Enhance Experiential Learning Through Simulated Role Plays. Journal of Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2022.2050869
Flaherty, H. B. (2022). Using Collaborative Group Learning Principles to Foster Community in Online Classrooms. Journal of Teaching in Social Work Education, 42 (1), 31-44. https://doi-org.ezproxy.yu.edu/10.1080/08841233.2021.2013390
Flaherty, H. B. (2021). Treating Adolescent Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Guidelines for Clinical Practice. Child & Youth Services. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1938525
Flaherty, H. B. Bornheimer, L. A., Hamovitch, E., Garay, E., Mini, M., Acri, M., & McKay, M. (2021). Examining Organizational Factors Supporting the Adoption and Use of Evidence-Based Interventions. Community Mental Health Journal, 57(6), 1187-1194. DOI: 10.1007/s10597-020-00751-z
Flaherty, H.B. (2020). Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: A Discussion about How to Integrate Evidence-Based Interventions in Clinical Practice Through Education. Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning, 17(2), 25-41.
Flaherty, H. B. Bornheimer, L. A., Hamovitch, E., Garay, E., Mini, M., Acri, M., & McKay, M. (2019). Examining Provider Factors Supporting the Adoption and Use of Research-Supported Interventions. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work. DOI: 10.1080/26408066.2019.1666768
Beckerman, N. & Flaherty, H. B. (2019). Domestic Violence Shelters: Exploring Secondary Traumatic Stress of Female Counselors. Journal of Anxiety & Depression,2 (2), 1-11.
Flaherty, H. B. (2017). Treating Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Review of Psychosocial Interventions to Guide Clinical Practice. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 35, 85-95.
Acri, M., Bornheimer, L., Jessell, L., Flaherty, H. & McKay, M. (2016). The impact of caregiver treatment satisfaction upon child and parent outcomes. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 21(4), 201-208.
212-960-0891
Yeshiva University
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
2495 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 924
New York, NY 10033