Child Abuse & Neglect

Article	Citations
Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic	753
Child Maltreatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Consequences of Parental Job Loss on Psychological and Physical Abuse Towards Children	270
Effects of maltreatment on coping and emotion regulation in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic review	155
Do suicide rates in children and adolescents change during school closure in Japan? The acute effect of the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent mental health	135
Increased proportion of physical child abuse injuries at a level I pediatric trauma center during the Covid-19 pandemic	108
COVID-19 and violence against children: A review of early studies	90
Trends in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the United States	88
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), peer victimization, and substance use among adolescents	87
Disparities in adverse childhood experiences by race/ethnicity, gender, and economic status: Intersectional analysis of a nationally representative sample	83
“I never told anyone until the #metoo movement”: What can we learn from sexual abuse and sexual assault disclosures made through social media?	82
Is the psychological impact of exposure to COVID-19 stronger in adolescents with pre-pandemic maltreatment experiences? A survey of rural Chinese adolescents	77
Frequencies and patterns of adverse childhood events in LGBTQ+ youth	73
Using social media data for assessing children’s exposure to violence during the COVID-19 pandemic	69
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence	68
Telemental health for child trauma treatment during and post-COVID-19: Limitations and considerations	66
Data-informed recommendations for services providers working with vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic	64
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Executive Function Difficulties in Children: A Systematic Review	63
The influence of adverse and advantageous childhood experiences during adolescence on young adult health	59
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) research: A bibliometric analysis of publication trends over the first 20 years	58
Reporting of child maltreatment during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in New York City from March to May 2020	56
Violence against children during COVID-19: Assessing and understanding change in use of helplines	55
Polyvictimization and psychopathology among children and adolescents: A systematic review of studies using the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire	52
Child maltreatment and the development of psychopathology: The role of developmental timing and chronicity	52
A spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on child abuse and neglect in the city of Los Angeles, California	51
Parenting interventions to prevent violence against children in low- and middle-income countries in East and Southeast Asia: A systematic review and multi-level meta-analysis	50

Mediating effect of neuroticism and negative coping style in relation to childhood psychological maltreatment and smartphone addiction among college students in China	49
Parenting stress among new parents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	48
Characterizing adverse childhood experiences among children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder	48
Children’s participation: A new role for children in the field of child maltreatment	47
Systematic review and critical appraisal of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire — Short Form (CTQ-SF)	46
In the trauma-informed care trenches: Teacher compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and intent to leave education within underserved elementary schools	46
Pediatrics adverse childhood experiences and related life events screener (PEARLS) and health in a safety-net practice	45
Strengthening the predictive power of screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in younger and older children	45
COVID-19: Differences in sentinel injury and child abuse reporting during a pandemic	43
Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents’ mental health	43
Prevalence of child maltreatment in the Netherlands: An update and cross-time comparison	43
Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa	42
A network approach to parental burnout	42
Child welfare in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic—Emerging evidence from Germany	39
Vicarious traumatization among child welfare and child protection professionals: A systematic review	39
Risk factors for child abuse, neglect and exposure to intimate partner violence in early childhood: Findings in a representative cross-sectional sample in Germany	38
Adverse childhood events and cognitive function among young adults: Prospective results from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health	38
Adverse childhood experiences and psychological well-being in a rural sample of Chinese young adults	38
COVID-19-related fear and stress among individuals who experienced child abuse: The mediating effect of complex posttraumatic stress disorder	36
Recipients of children’s and adolescents’ disclosures of childhood sexual abuse: A systematic review	34
Prevalence, socio-demographic correlates and associations of adverse childhood experiences with mental illnesses: Results from the Singapore Mental Health Study	34
Examining adverse childhood experiences among Native American persons in a nationally representative sample: Differences among racial/ethnic groups and race/ethnicity-sex dyads	33
Childhood emotional abuse and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: The mediating role of identity confusion and moderating role of rumination	33
How does COVID-19 impact intrafamilial child sexual abuse? Comparison analysis of reports by practitioners in Israel and the US	32
Supporting Syrian families displaced by armed conflict: A pilot randomized controlled trial of the Caregiver Support Intervention	32
The Interaction of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resiliency on the Outcome of Depression Among Children and Youth, 8-17 year olds	32
Psychological resilience and current stressful events as potential mediators between adverse childhood experiences and depression among college students in Eritrea	32
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child protective services caseworkers and administrators	31
Differences and disparities over time: Black and White families investigated by Ontario’s child welfare system	31
The global challenge of the neglect of children	31
Child maltreatment in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A proposed global framework on research, policy and practice	30
Association of harsh parenting and maltreatment with internet addiction, and the mediating role of bullying and social support	30
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and associated health risks and risk behaviors among young women and men in Honduras	30
The impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Social Care in England	29
Psychological maltreatment: An international challenge to children's safety and well being	29
Physical health, school performance and delinquency: A comparative study of left-behind and non-left-behind children in rural China	29
Intimate partner violence and child attachment: A systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Violence against children in the time of COVID-19: What we have learned, what remains unknown and the opportunities that lie ahead	28
Children's behavioral problems, screen time, and sleep problems' association with negative and positive parenting strategies during the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil	28
Violence and abuse experiences and associated risk factors during the COVID-19 outbreak in a population-based sample of Norwegian adolescents	28
Childhood Maltreatment and Bullying Perpetration among Chinese Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model of Moral Disengagement and Trait Anger	28
Physical abuse of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: Alarming increase in the relative frequency of hospitalizations during the lockdown period	27
Using latent class analysis to empirically classify maltreatment according to the developmental timing, duration, and co-occurrence of abuse types	27
Cyberbullying victimization and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents: The role of maladaptive schemas and dispositional mindfulness	27
A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents	27
One year into COVID-19: What have we learned about child maltreatment reports and child protective service responses?	27
Synergistic adversities and behavioral problems in traumatized children and adolescents	26
Child Sexual Abuse and Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of the Literature	26
Rapid return of children in residential care to family as a result of COVID-19: Scope, challenges, and recommendations	26
ACE domains and depression: Investigating which specific domains are associated with depression in adulthood	26

Systematic review of social norms, attitudes, and factual beliefs linked to the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents	26
Child maltreatment, lifetime trauma, and mental health in Swiss older survivors of enforced child welfare practices: Investigating the mediating role of self-esteem and self-compassion	26
Abusive and positive parenting behavior in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic under the state of emergency	26
The Adverse Childhood Experiences – International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ) in community samples around the world: A systematic review (part I)	26
Foster care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of caregiver and professional experiences	26
Racial/ethnic disproportionality in reunification across U.S. child welfare systems	25
Major findings from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2018	25
Indigenous ontology, international law and the application of the Convention to the over-representation of Indigenous children in out of home care in Canada and Australia	25
How child maltreatment impacts internalized/externalized aggression among Chinese adolescents from perspectives of social comparison and the general aggression model	25
Adverse childhood experiences: Assessing the impact on physical and psychosocial health in adulthood and the mitigating role of resilience	25
‘When will I be free’: Lessons from COVID-19 for Child Protection in South Africa	25
Help wanted: Lessons on prevention from young adults with a sexual interest in prepubescent children	25
The impact of childhood sexual abuse and adverse childhood experiences on adult health related quality of life	24
Bullying involvement and self-reported mental health in elementary school children across Europe	24
Positive childhood experiences can moderate the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adolescent depression and anxiety: Results from a cross-sectional survey	24
The effect of parental emotional abuse on the severity and treatment of PTSD symptoms in children and adolescents	24
Caught in a web of trauma: Network analysis of childhood adversity and adult mental ill-health	24
Calculating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on child abuse and neglect in the U.S.	23
Emotional support as a mechanism linking childhood maltreatment and adult’s depressive and social anxiety symptoms	23
The mediating role of attachment and mentalising in the relationship between childhood maltreatment, self-harm and suicidality	23
Child protection and resilience in the face of COVID-19 in South Africa: A rapid review of C-19 legislation	23
Cumulative risk, factor analysis, and latent class analysis of childhood adversity data in a nationally representative sample	23
Childhood emotional neglect and problematic mobile phone use among Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal moderated mediation model involving school engagement and sensation seeking	23
Child maltreatment, recent stressful life events, and suicide ideation: A test of the stress sensitivity hypothesis	23
The global impact of adverse childhood experiences on criminal behavior: A cross-continental study	23
Thirty years of the convention on the rights of the child: Developments in child sexual abuse and exploitation	22
Long term consequences of child sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia: A report from national study	22
The mediating role of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in the relationship between childhood adversities and depressive symptoms in two samples	22
Gender, rights and responsibilities: The need for a global analysis of the sexual exploitation of boys	22
Child safety, protection, and safeguarding in the time of COVID-19 in Great Britain: Proposing a conceptual framework	22
How societal responses to COVID-19 could contribute to child neglect	22
Positive childhood experiences and adverse experiences: Psychometric properties of the Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale (BCEs) among the Portuguese population	22
Difficulties in emotion regulation in child abuse potential: Gender differences in parents	22
Adverse childhood experiences and risk of cancer during adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Parental migration and non-cognitive abilities of left-behind children in rural China: Causal effects by an instrumental variable approach	21
Associations of coping styles with nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents: Do they vary with gender and adverse childhood experiences?	21
Association between different types of childhood trauma and parental bonding with antisocial traits in adulthood: A systematic review	21
Development and psychometric properties of the sexual and gender minority adverse childhood experiences (SGM-ACEs): Effect on sexual and gender minority adult mental health	21
Invisible children and non-essential workers: Child protection during COVID-19 in Israel according to policy documents and media coverage	21
Adverse childhood experiences, parenting, and socioeconomic status: Associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms in adolescence	21
Modelling the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent discipline against children	21
Complex trauma and Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: How do trauma chronicity and PTSD presentation affect treatment outcome?	21
The relations between childhood experience of negative parenting practices and nonsuicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: The mediating roles of maladaptive perfectionism and rumination	21
Child maltreatment online education for healthcare and social service providers: Implications for the COVID-19 context and beyond	21
Adverse childhood experiences and sexual health outcomes and risk behaviors among a nationwide sample of men who have sex with men	21
Corporal punishment and early childhood development in 49 low- and middle-income countries	20
Child maltreatment and NR3C1 exon 1F methylation, link with deregulated hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and psychopathology: A systematic review	20
Childhood psychological maltreatment and internet gaming addiction in Chinese adolescents: Mediation roles of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and psychosocial problems	20
Components associated with the effect of home visiting programs on child maltreatment: A meta-analytic review	20
Domestic violence in families in the Netherlands during the coronavirus crisis: A mixed method study	20
The impact of childhood trauma on substance use trajectories from adolescence to adulthood: Findings from a longitudinal Hispanic cohort study	20
Stress, alcohol use, and punitive parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Childhood neglect and suicidal behavior: Findings from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication	20
The roles of child maltreatment types and peer relationships on behavior problems in early adolescence	20
The social information processing model in child physical abuse and neglect: A meta-analytic review	20
Adoption and trauma: Risks, recovery, and the lived experience of adoption	20
Child maltreatment: An intergenerational cascades model of risk processes potentiating child psychopathology	20
Investigating the causal relationship between maltreatment and cognition in children: A systematic review	20
COVID-19 and the surge of child marriages: A phenomenon in Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia	19
Precursors of sibling bullying in middle childhood: Evidence from a UK-based longitudinal cohort study	19
A scoping review of child grooming strategies: pre- and post-internet	19
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on healthcare utilization in children	19
Using social media Reddit data to examine foster families' concerns and needs during COVID-19	19
The effects of migrant background and parent gender on child protection decision-making: An intersectional analysis	19
Training for mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect: Content analysis of state-sponsored curricula	19
COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences	19
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on the health and health behaviors of young Australian women	19
Psychological maltreatment: Definition and reporting barriers among American professionals in the field of child abuse	19
Defining the role of exposure to ACEs in ADHD: Examination in a national sample of US children	19
Screening for economic hardship for child welfare-involved families during the COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid partnership response	18
Trauma-informed care for children involved with the child welfare system: A meta-analysis	18
Vulnerabilities of Syrian refugee children in Turkey and actions taken for prevention and management in terms of health and wellbeing	18
Early developmental, behavioral, and quality of life outcomes following abusive head trauma in infants	18
Relationship between stressful life events and cyberbullying perpetration: Roles of fatalism and self-compassion	18
Intergenerational effects of childhood maltreatment: The roles of parents’ emotion regulation and mentalization	18
Investigating the Relationship between Trauma Symptoms and Placement Instability	18
Identifying compassion satisfaction, burnout, & traumatic stress in Children’s Advocacy Centers	18
Can artificial intelligence achieve human-level performance? A pilot study of childhood sexual abuse detection in self-figure drawings	18
An exploration of child welfare caseworkers’ experience of secondary trauma and strategies for coping	18
Brazilian Child Protection Professionals’ Resilient Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	18

What are the characteristics of cyberbullying victims and perpetrators among South Korean students and how do their experiences change?	18
Pathways to Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Problems: An Examination of Maternal Depression and Harsh Parenting	18
Type and dose-response effect of adverse childhood experiences in predicting depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Exploring the interrelatedness of risk factors for child maltreatment: A network approach	17
Meta-analysis of the effects of two interviewing practices on children’s disclosures of sensitive information: Rapport practices and question type	17
The indirect effect from childhood maltreatment to PTSD symptoms via thought suppression and cognitive reappraisal	17
"Oh, this is actually okay": Understanding how one state child welfare training system adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Sexual orientation differences in childhood sexual abuse, suicide attempts, and DSM-5 alcohol, tobacco, other drug use, and mental health disorders in the US	17
Agency notification and retrospective self-reports of childhood maltreatment in a 30-Year cohort: Estimating population prevalence from different data sources	17
In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-19	17
Childhood Trauma and Premenstrual Symptoms: The Role of Emotion Regulation	17
Mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in Europe: A systematic review	17
Mentalizing mediates the association between emotional abuse in childhood and potential for aggression in non-clinical adults	17
Caregiver and family factors promoting child resilience in at-risk families living in Lima, Peru	17
The impact of “the war that drags on” in Ukraine for the health of children and adolescents: Old problems in a new conflict?	17
Longitudinal effects of adverse childhood experiences on substance use transition patterns during young adulthood	17
Exposure to childhood interpersonal trauma and mental health service urgency	17
Deviations in criminal filings of child abuse and neglect during COVID-19 from forecasted models: An analysis of the state of Oklahoma, USA	17
Maternal childhood abuse and neglect predicts offspring development in early childhood: The roles of reflective functioning and child sex	17
The relationship between childhood abuse and depression among adolescents: The mediating role of school connectedness and psychological resilience	17
Exploring the relationship between childhood adversity and adult depression: A risk versus strengths-oriented approach	17
Measuring violence against children: The adequacy of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) child abuse screening tool - Child version in 9 Balkan countries	17
Antenatal risk factors for child maltreatment: Linkage of data from a birth cohort study to child welfare records	17
Cumulative adverse childhood experiences among children in foster care and the association with reunification: A survival analysis	17
Future directions in child sexual abuse prevention: An Australian perspective	17
Associations between the Canadian 24 h movement guidelines and different types of bullying involvement among adolescents	17
Child Advocacy Center intervention with sibling sexual abuse cases: Cross-cultural comparison of professionals’ perspectives and experiences	17
Prevalence of violence by teachers and its association to students’ emotional and behavioral problems and school performance: Findings from secondary school students and teachers in Turkey	17
Factor structure and symptom classes of ICD-11 complex posttraumatic stress disorder in a South Korean general population sample with adverse childhood experiences	16
Childhood maltreatment, motives to drink and alcohol-related problems in young adulthood	16
College students’ recollections of childhood sexual abuse prevention programs and their potential impact on reduction of sexual victimization	16
Multisystemic enablers of sub-Saharan child and youth resilience to maltreatment	16
Abuse after abuse: The recurrent maltreatment of American Indian children in foster care and adoption	16
Adverse Childhood Experience histories in foster parents: Connections to foster children’s emotional and behavioral difficulties	16
Barriers to police addressing risk to children exposed to domestic violence	16
Scripting Extrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse: A Latent Class Analysis of the Entire Crime-Commission Process	16
Effect of parental alcohol abuse severity and child abuse and neglect on child behavioural disorders in Kerala	16
Preliminary findings for adverse childhood experiences and associations with negative physical and mental health and victimization in transmasculine adults	16
No way to run or hide: Children’s perceptions of their responses during intrafamilial child sexual abuse	16
Men’s and women’s views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries	16
Childhood maltreatment and violent delinquency in Chinese juvenile offenders: Callous-unemotional traits as a mediator	16
The combination of feedback and modeling in online simulation training of child sexual abuse interviews improves interview quality in clinical psychologists	16
The prevalence and impact of maltreatment of child laborers in the context of four South Asian countries: A scoping review	15
Child maltreatment in the time of COVID-19: Changes in the Florida foster care system surrounding the COVID-19 safer-at-home order	15
A comparison of child abuse and neglect encounters before and after school closings due to SARS-Cov-2	15
Co-occurrence of sibling and peer bullying victimization and depression and anxiety among Chinese adolescents: The role of sexual orientation	15
The ethics of child maltreatment surveys in relation to participant distress: Implications of social science evidence, ethical guidelines, and law	15
Associations between childhood maltreatment and educational, health and economic outcomes among middle-aged Chinese: The moderating role of relative poverty	15
Patterns of abuse and effects on psychosocial functioning in Lithuanian adolescents: A latent class analysis approach	15
Refining social-information processing theory: Predicting maternal and paternal parent-child aggression risk longitudinally	15
Child labor in Tehran, Iran: Abuses experienced in work environments	15
Racial/ethnic differences in positive childhood experiences across a national sample	15
The prevalences, changes, and related factors of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	15
How do physical and emotional abuse affect depression and problematic behaviors in adolescents? The roles of emotional regulation and anger	15
Occult head injuries in infants evaluated for physical abuse	15
Recognizing the child’s right to protection from physical violence: An update on progress and a call to action	15
Disadvantaged neighborhoods and the spatial overlap of substantiated and unsubstantiated child maltreatment referrals	15
The views of children in residential care on the COVID-19 lockdown: Implications for and their well-being and psychosocial intervention	15
Methods of attempted suicide and risk factors in LGBTQ+ youth	15
Reunification for young children of color with substance removals: An intersectional analysis of longitudinal national data	15
Epidemiology of violence against children in migration: A systematic literature review	15
Dispositional optimism mediates relations between childhood maltreatment and PTSD symptom severity among trauma-exposed adults	14
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, executive function & emotional availability in mother-child dyads	14
Child sexual abuse: An examination of individual and abuse characteristics that may impact delays of disclosure	14
Parents as Teachers: Mothers’ Roles in Sexual Abuse Prevention Education in Gorgan, Iran	14
Exposure to interparental intimate partner violence and the development of borderline features in adolescents	14
A latent profile analysis of adverse childhood experiences and adult health in a community sample	14
Impact of COVID-19 among young people currently and formerly in foster care	14
A systematic review of positive childhood experiences and adult outcomes: Promotive and protective processes for resilience in the context of childhood adversity	14
The dimensionality of adverse childhood experiences: A scoping review of ACE dimensions measurement	14
Sibling relationship pattern in the context of abuse and neglect: Results from a sample of adult siblings	14
The relationship between child neglect and adolescent interpersonal functioning: A systematic review	14
Understanding the relations among adverse childhood experiences (ACE), substance use, and reoffending among detained youth	14
Effectiveness of child protection practice models: a systematic review	14
An update on ACEs domain frequencies across race/ethnicity and sex in a nationally representative sample	14
Health, stress, and well-being in Swiss adult survivors of child welfare practices and child labor: Investigating the mediating role of socio-economic factors	14
A serious-game for child sexual abuse prevention: An evaluation of Orbit	14
Pilot randomized controlled trial of an attachment- and trauma-focused intervention for kinship caregivers	14
Thirty years after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Progress and challenges in building statistical evidence on violence against children	14
Mental health & maltreatment risk of children with special educational needs during COVID-19	14
The impact of childhood maltreatment on the severity of childhood-related posttraumatic stress disorder in adults	13
The contribution of interpersonal violence victimization types to psychological distress among youth	13
Developmental consequences of emotional abuse and neglect in vulnerable adolescents: A multi-informant, multi-wave study	13
Caring Dads intervention for fathers who have perpetrated abuse within their families: Quasi-experimental evaluation of child protection outcomes over two years	13
Childhood maltreatment and adult’s provisions of emotional support given to family, friends, and romantic partners: An examination of gender differences	13
Longitudinal association between deviant peer affiliation and externalizing behavior problems by types of child maltreatment	13
Corporal punishment and adolescent aggression: An examination of multiple intervening mechanisms and the moderating effects of parental responsiveness and demandingness	13
Personality structure and attachment models of women who kill their children. A systematic review on maternal filicide	13
Offender strategies for engaging children in online sexual activity	13
Changing the paradigm: Using strategic communications to promote recognition of child sexual abuse as a preventable public health problem	13
A review of the literature on good practice considerations for initial health system response to child and adolescent sexual abuse	13
The occurrence and co-occurrence of ACEs and their relationship to mental health in the United States and Ireland	13
Trauma-informed art and play therapy: Pilot study outcomes for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters in the United States and South Africa	13
Prevalence, incidence and chronicity of child abuse among orphaned, separated, and street-connected children and adolescents in western Kenya: What is the impact of care environment?	13
Parenting intervention outcomes for kinship caregivers and child: A systematic review	13