Child Abuse & Neglect

Article	Citations
Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic	798
Child Maltreatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Consequences of Parental Job Loss on Psychological and Physical Abuse Towards Children	285
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	142
Increased proportion of physical child abuse injuries at a level I pediatric trauma center during the Covid-19 pandemic	114
Disparities in adverse childhood experiences by race/ethnicity, gender, and economic status: Intersectional analysis of a nationally representative sample	95
COVID-19 and violence against children: A review of early studies	95
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence	84
Is the psychological impact of exposure to COVID-19 stronger in adolescents with pre-pandemic maltreatment experiences? A survey of rural Chinese adolescents	81
Using social media data for assessing children’s exposure to violence during the COVID-19 pandemic	78
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) research: A bibliometric analysis of publication trends over the first 20 years	75
Telemental health for child trauma treatment during and post-COVID-19: Limitations and considerations	71
Data-informed recommendations for services providers working with vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic	69
Child maltreatment and the development of psychopathology: The role of developmental timing and chronicity	66
Violence against children during COVID-19: Assessing and understanding change in use of helplines	61
A spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on child abuse and neglect in the city of Los Angeles, California	59
Systematic review and critical appraisal of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire — Short Form (CTQ-SF)	58
Reporting of child maltreatment during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in New York City from March to May 2020	58
Children’s participation: A new role for children in the field of child maltreatment	56
Characterizing adverse childhood experiences among children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder	52
Parenting stress among new parents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	51
Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa	50
Vicarious traumatization among child welfare and child protection professionals: A systematic review	49
In the trauma-informed care trenches: Teacher compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and intent to leave education within underserved elementary schools	49
Adverse childhood events and cognitive function among young adults: Prospective results from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health	48
COVID-19: Differences in sentinel injury and child abuse reporting during a pandemic	46

A network approach to parental burnout	46
Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents’ mental health	45
Recipients of children’s and adolescents’ disclosures of childhood sexual abuse: A systematic review	43
Child welfare in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic—Emerging evidence from Germany	41
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child protective services caseworkers and administrators	38
A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents	38
COVID-19-related fear and stress among individuals who experienced child abuse: The mediating effect of complex posttraumatic stress disorder	37
The global challenge of the neglect of children	37
The Adverse Childhood Experiences – International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ) in community samples around the world: A systematic review (part I)	37
Examining adverse childhood experiences among Native American persons in a nationally representative sample: Differences among racial/ethnic groups and race/ethnicity-sex dyads	36
Physical health, school performance and delinquency: A comparative study of left-behind and non-left-behind children in rural China	35
Positive childhood experiences can moderate the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adolescent depression and anxiety: Results from a cross-sectional survey	35
Abusive and positive parenting behavior in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic under the state of emergency	34
Psychological maltreatment: An international challenge to children's safety and well being	34
Violence and abuse experiences and associated risk factors during the COVID-19 outbreak in a population-based sample of Norwegian adolescents	34
Violence against children in the time of COVID-19: What we have learned, what remains unknown and the opportunities that lie ahead	33
A systematic review of positive childhood experiences and adult outcomes: Promotive and protective processes for resilience in the context of childhood adversity	33
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and associated health risks and risk behaviors among young women and men in Honduras	33
Association of harsh parenting and maltreatment with internet addiction, and the mediating role of bullying and social support	33
Children's behavioral problems, screen time, and sleep problems' association with negative and positive parenting strategies during the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil	32
Foster care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of caregiver and professional experiences	32
Physical abuse of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: Alarming increase in the relative frequency of hospitalizations during the lockdown period	32
One year into COVID-19: What have we learned about child maltreatment reports and child protective service responses?	32
The impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Social Care in England	32
How does COVID-19 impact intrafamilial child sexual abuse? Comparison analysis of reports by practitioners in Israel and the US	32
Adverse childhood experiences and risk of cancer during adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Child maltreatment in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A proposed global framework on research, policy and practice	31
Major findings from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2018	31
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	30
ACE domains and depression: Investigating which specific domains are associated with depression in adulthood	30
Cyberbullying victimization and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents: The role of maladaptive schemas and dispositional mindfulness	30
Adoption and trauma: Risks, recovery, and the lived experience of adoption	30
A scoping review of child grooming strategies: pre- and post-internet	29
Child Sexual Abuse and Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of the Literature	29
Intimate partner violence and child attachment: A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Racial/ethnic disproportionality in reunification across U.S. child welfare systems	29
How child maltreatment impacts internalized/externalized aggression among Chinese adolescents from perspectives of social comparison and the general aggression model	29
The global impact of adverse childhood experiences on criminal behavior: A cross-continental study	29
Type and dose-response effect of adverse childhood experiences in predicting depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis	28
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	28
Positive childhood experiences and adverse experiences: Psychometric properties of the Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale (BCEs) among the Portuguese population	28
Components associated with the effect of home visiting programs on child maltreatment: A meta-analytic review	28
COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences	28
The effect of parental emotional abuse on the severity and treatment of PTSD symptoms in children and adolescents	28
‘When will I be free’: Lessons from COVID-19 for Child Protection in South Africa	27
The impact of childhood sexual abuse and adverse childhood experiences on adult health related quality of life	27
The mediating role of attachment and mentalising in the relationship between childhood maltreatment, self-harm and suicidality	27
Gender, rights and responsibilities: The need for a global analysis of the sexual exploitation of boys	27
Childhood emotional neglect and problematic mobile phone use among Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal moderated mediation model involving school engagement and sensation seeking	27
The mediating role of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in the relationship between childhood adversities and depressive symptoms in two samples	27

How societal responses to COVID-19 could contribute to child neglect	26
Parental migration and non-cognitive abilities of left-behind children in rural China: Causal effects by an instrumental variable approach	26
Childhood psychological maltreatment and internet gaming addiction in Chinese adolescents: Mediation roles of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and psychosocial problems	26
Long term consequences of child sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia: A report from national study	26
Child maltreatment, recent stressful life events, and suicide ideation: A test of the stress sensitivity hypothesis	26
Rapid return of children in residential care to family as a result of COVID-19: Scope, challenges, and recommendations	26
Adverse childhood experiences, mental health, and social functioning: A scoping review of the literature	25
The relationship between childhood abuse and depression among adolescents: The mediating role of school connectedness and psychological resilience	25
Adverse childhood experiences, parenting, and socioeconomic status: Associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms in adolescence	25
Child protection and resilience in the face of COVID-19 in South Africa: A rapid review of C-19 legislation	25
Cumulative risk, factor analysis, and latent class analysis of childhood adversity data in a nationally representative sample	25
The prevalences, changes, and related factors of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	24
Complex trauma and Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: How do trauma chronicity and PTSD presentation affect treatment outcome?	24
Calculating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on child abuse and neglect in the U.S.	24
Child maltreatment: An intergenerational cascades model of risk processes potentiating child psychopathology	24
Thirty years of the convention on the rights of the child: Developments in child sexual abuse and exploitation	24
Mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in Europe: A systematic review	24
The roles of child maltreatment types and peer relationships on behavior problems in early adolescence	24
COVID-19 and the surge of child marriages: A phenomenon in Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia	24
Corporal punishment and early childhood development in 49 low- and middle-income countries	24
An exploration of child welfare caseworkers’ experience of secondary trauma and strategies for coping	24
Intergenerational effects of childhood maltreatment: The roles of parents’ emotion regulation and mentalization	24
The impact of childhood trauma on substance use trajectories from adolescence to adulthood: Findings from a longitudinal Hispanic cohort study	23
The ethics of child maltreatment surveys in relation to participant distress: Implications of social science evidence, ethical guidelines, and law	23
Development and psychometric properties of the sexual and gender minority adverse childhood experiences (SGM-ACEs): Effect on sexual and gender minority adult mental health	23
Stress, alcohol use, and punitive parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on the health and health behaviors of young Australian women	23
The impact of “the war that drags on” in Ukraine for the health of children and adolescents: Old problems in a new conflict?	23
The relations between childhood experience of negative parenting practices and nonsuicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: The mediating roles of maladaptive perfectionism and rumination	23
The dimensionality of adverse childhood experiences: A scoping review of ACE dimensions measurement	22
Defining the role of exposure to ACEs in ADHD: Examination in a national sample of US children	22
Invisible children and non-essential workers: Child protection during COVID-19 in Israel according to policy documents and media coverage	22
Child safety, protection, and safeguarding in the time of COVID-19 in Great Britain: Proposing a conceptual framework	22
Trauma-informed care for children involved with the child welfare system: A meta-analysis	22
What are the characteristics of cyberbullying victims and perpetrators among South Korean students and how do their experiences change?	22
How do physical and emotional abuse affect depression and problematic behaviors in adolescents? The roles of emotional regulation and anger	22
The relationship between child neglect and adolescent interpersonal functioning: A systematic review	22
Child maltreatment and NR3C1 exon 1F methylation, link with deregulated hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and psychopathology: A systematic review	22
Longitudinal effects of adverse childhood experiences on substance use transition patterns during young adulthood	22
Child maltreatment online education for healthcare and social service providers: Implications for the COVID-19 context and beyond	21
Modelling the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent discipline against children	21
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on healthcare utilization in children	21
Using social media Reddit data to examine foster families' concerns and needs during COVID-19	21
Domestic violence in families in the Netherlands during the coronavirus crisis: A mixed method study	21
Mentalizing mediates the association between emotional abuse in childhood and potential for aggression in non-clinical adults	21
Psychological maltreatment: Definition and reporting barriers among American professionals in the field of child abuse	21
Can artificial intelligence achieve human-level performance? A pilot study of childhood sexual abuse detection in self-figure drawings	20
Sexual orientation differences in childhood sexual abuse, suicide attempts, and DSM-5 alcohol, tobacco, other drug use, and mental health disorders in the US	20
In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-19	20
Child labor in Tehran, Iran: Abuses experienced in work environments	20
Maternal childhood abuse and neglect predicts offspring development in early childhood: The roles of reflective functioning and child sex	20
Identifying compassion satisfaction, burnout, & traumatic stress in Children’s Advocacy Centers	20
Associations between childhood maltreatment and educational, health and economic outcomes among middle-aged Chinese: The moderating role of relative poverty	20
Relationship between stressful life events and cyberbullying perpetration: Roles of fatalism and self-compassion	19
Understanding the relations among adverse childhood experiences (ACE), substance use, and reoffending among detained youth	19
Deviations in criminal filings of child abuse and neglect during COVID-19 from forecasted models: An analysis of the state of Oklahoma, USA	19
Training for mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect: Content analysis of state-sponsored curricula	19
Screening for economic hardship for child welfare-involved families during the COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid partnership response	19
Vulnerabilities of Syrian refugee children in Turkey and actions taken for prevention and management in terms of health and wellbeing	19
Pathways to Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Problems: An Examination of Maternal Depression and Harsh Parenting	19
Cumulative adverse childhood experiences among children in foster care and the association with reunification: A survival analysis	19
Longitudinal association between deviant peer affiliation and externalizing behavior problems by types of child maltreatment	19
The indirect effect from childhood maltreatment to PTSD symptoms via thought suppression and cognitive reappraisal	19
Health, stress, and well-being in Swiss adult survivors of child welfare practices and child labor: Investigating the mediating role of socio-economic factors	19
The views of children in residential care on the COVID-19 lockdown: Implications for and their well-being and psychosocial intervention	18
Abuse after abuse: The recurrent maltreatment of American Indian children in foster care and adoption	18
Brazilian Child Protection Professionals’ Resilient Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Meta-analysis of the effects of two interviewing practices on children’s disclosures of sensitive information: Rapport practices and question type	18
The combination of feedback and modeling in online simulation training of child sexual abuse interviews improves interview quality in clinical psychologists	18
Childhood maltreatment and violent delinquency in Chinese juvenile offenders: Callous-unemotional traits as a mediator	18
Mental health & maltreatment risk of children with special educational needs during COVID-19	18
Agency notification and retrospective self-reports of childhood maltreatment in a 30-Year cohort: Estimating population prevalence from different data sources	18
Why having a voice is important to children who are involved in family support services	18
Co-occurrence of sibling and peer bullying victimization and depression and anxiety among Chinese adolescents: The role of sexual orientation	18
Childhood adversity associated with poorer health: Evidence from the U.S. National Survey of Children's Health	18
Parents as Teachers: Mothers’ Roles in Sexual Abuse Prevention Education in Gorgan, Iran	17
"Oh, this is actually okay": Understanding how one state child welfare training system adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Multisystemic enablers of sub-Saharan child and youth resilience to maltreatment	17
Factor structure and symptom classes of ICD-11 complex posttraumatic stress disorder in a South Korean general population sample with adverse childhood experiences	17
Is the end in the beginning? Child maltreatment increases the risk of non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempts through impaired personality functioning	17

An update on ACEs domain frequencies across race/ethnicity and sex in a nationally representative sample	17
A tangled start: The link between childhood maltreatment, psychopathology, and relationships in adulthood	17
Recognizing the child’s right to protection from physical violence: An update on progress and a call to action	17
A multidimensional model of resilience: Family, community, national, global and intergenerational resilience	17
Exploring the relationship between childhood adversity and adult depression: A risk versus strengths-oriented approach	17
Methods of attempted suicide and risk factors in LGBTQ+ youth	17
Adverse childhood experiences in New Zealand and subsequent victimization in adulthood: Findings from a population-based study	17
A comparison of child abuse and neglect encounters before and after school closings due to SARS-Cov-2	17
The occurrence and co-occurrence of ACEs and their relationship to mental health in the United States and Ireland	17
Preliminary findings for adverse childhood experiences and associations with negative physical and mental health and victimization in transmasculine adults	17
Offender strategies for engaging children in online sexual activity	17
Which dynamics make online child sexual abuse and cyberstalking more emotionally impactful: Perpetrator identity and images?	16
The impact of childhood maltreatment on the severity of childhood-related posttraumatic stress disorder in adults	16
Resilience in the face of peer victimization and perceived discrimination: The role of individual and familial factors	16
Dispositional optimism mediates relations between childhood maltreatment and PTSD symptom severity among trauma-exposed adults	16
Collecting and viewing behaviors of child sexual exploitation material offenders	16
The prevalence and impact of maltreatment of child laborers in the context of four South Asian countries: A scoping review	16
Unraveling cyber sexual abuse of minors: Psychometrics properties of the Multidimensional Online Grooming Questionnaire and prevalence by sex and age	16
Racial/ethnic differences in positive childhood experiences across a national sample	16
Anxiety and depression related to childhood maltreatment in teenagers: Comparing multiple individual risk model, cumulative risk model and latent profile analysis	16
Child maltreatment in the time of COVID-19: Changes in the Florida foster care system surrounding the COVID-19 safer-at-home order	16
Increasing child protection workforce retention through promoting a relational-reflective framework for resilience	16
Maltreatment and depression among left-behind adolescents in rural China: The moderating roles of food security and depression literacy	15
An overview of mock interviews as a training tool for interviewers of children	15
Psychological resilience and daily stress mediate the effect of childhood trauma on depression	15
Linking childhood emotional neglect to adolescents' parent-related loneliness: Self-other differentiation and emotional detachment from parents as mediators	15
Reconstructing the workforce within public health protective systems: Improving resilience, retention, service responsiveness and outcomes	15
Physical punishment, physical abuse, and child behavior problems in South Korea	15
Multisystemic therapy for child abuse and neglect: Parental stress and parental mental health as predictors of change in child neglect	15
Cultivating emotional intelligence in child welfare professionals: A systematic scoping review	15
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	15
Trauma-informed care as a rights-based “standard of care”: A critical review	15
Neighborhood influences on early childhood behavioral problems: Child maltreatment as a mediator	15
Association between Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child maltreatment among a cohort of fragile families	15
A review of the literature on good practice considerations for initial health system response to child and adolescent sexual abuse	15
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	15
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, executive function & emotional availability in mother-child dyads	15
Adverse childhood experiences: Examining latent classes and associations with physical, psychological, and risk-related outcomes in adulthood	15
The association of childhood maltreatment with Internet addiction: the serial mediating effects of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depression	15
Childhood adversity and impaired reward processing: A meta-analysis	14
The potential influence of criminological rationales in considering childhood abuse as mitigating to sentencing	14
Housing insecurity and adolescent well-being: Relationships with child welfare and criminal justice involvement	14
A profile analysis of COVID-19 stress-related reactions: The importance of early childhood abuse, psychopathology, and interpersonal relationships	14
Developmental consequences of emotional abuse and neglect in vulnerable adolescents: A multi-informant, multi-wave study	14
Association between weight status and bullying experiences among children and adolescents in schools: An updated meta-analysis	14
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?	14
Global prevalence of physical and psychological child abuse during COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
An analysis of physicians' diagnostic reasoning regarding pediatric abusive head trauma	14
The mediating role of friendship jealousy and anxiety in the association between parental attachment and adolescents’ relational aggression: A short-term longitudinal cross-lagged analysis	14
Pilot randomized controlled trial of an attachment- and trauma-focused intervention for kinship caregivers	14
Frontline Staff Characteristics and Capacity for Trauma-Informed Care: Implications for the Child Welfare Workforce	14
Child protective services contact and youth outcomes	14
Impact of COVID-19 among young people currently and formerly in foster care	14
The association between adverse childhood experiences and depression trajectories in the Add Health study	14
Association between adverse childhood experiences and brain volumes among Japanese community-dwelling older people: Findings from the NEIGE study	14
Recurrent involvement with the Quebec child protection system for reasons of neglect: A longitudinal clinical population study	14
Corporal punishment and adolescent aggression: An examination of multiple intervening mechanisms and the moderating effects of parental responsiveness and demandingness	14
A latent profile analysis of adverse childhood experiences and adult health in a community sample	14
Technology assisted child sexual abuse: Professionals’ perceptions of risk and impact on children and young people	14
Increasing maltreated and nonmaltreated children’s recall disclosures of a minor transgression: The effects of back-channel utterances, a promise to tell the truth, and a post-recall putative confessi	14
Predictors of family violence in North Carolina following initial COVID-19 stay-at-home orders	13
Changing the paradigm: Using strategic communications to promote recognition of child sexual abuse as a preventable public health problem	13
Providing therapeutic services to women and children who have experienced intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and learnings	13
The association of childhood maltreatment, somatization and health-related quality of life in adult age: Results from a population-based cohort study	13
Parents can't see me, can peers see me? Parental phubbing and adolescents' peer alienation via the mediating role of parental rejection	13
The interrelationships of child maltreatment, alcohol use, and suicidal ideation among youth living in the slums of Kampala, Uganda	13
Caring Dads intervention for fathers who have perpetrated abuse within their families: Quasi-experimental evaluation of child protection outcomes over two years	13
Child maltreatment fatalities among children and adolescents 5–17 years old	13
Child maltreatment and emergency department visits: a longitudinal birth cohort study from infancy to early adulthood	13
Unemployment and child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Korea	13
Prevalences of and correlations between childhood trauma and depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and suicidal behavior among institutionalized adolescents in Vietnam	13
Predicting disclosure latency in substantiated cases of child sexual abuse	13
Cost effectiveness of SEEK: A primary care-based child maltreatment prevention model	13
Dual system youth and their pathways in Los Angeles County: A replication of the OJJDP Dual System Youth Study	13
Principle-driven program design versus manualized programming in humanitarian settings	13
Childhood trauma and posttraumatic stress symptoms in adolescents and young adults: The mediating role of mentalizing and emotion regulation strategies	13
The roles of attachment and emotion dysregulation in the association between childhood maltreatment and PTSD in an inner-city sample	13
Depression in childhood: The role of children's exposure to intimate partner violence and maternal mental disorders	13
Differences in the prevalence of childhood adversity by geography in the 2017-18 National Survey of Children’s Health	13
Prevalence of interpersonal violence against children in sport in six European countries	13
Secondary trauma and impairment in clinical social workers	13
Current issues and challenges in the definition and operationalization of child maltreatment: A scoping review	12
Adverse childhood experiences and its association with emotional and behavioral problems in U.S. children of Latino immigrants	12
The influence of adverse childhood experiences on internalizing and externalizing problems in early adulthood: Evidence of a gene × environment × sex interaction	12
Nothing About Us Without Us: Using Participatory Action Research (PAR) and arts-based methods as empowerment and social justice tools in doing research with youth ‘aging out’ of care	12
Adaptation and validation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire-R2 for a national study of child maltreatment in Australia	12
A psycho-linguistic profile of online grooming conversations: A comparative study of prison and police staff considerations	12
Gender-specific effects of adverse childhood experiences on incidence of activities of daily life disability in middle-age and elderly Chinese population	12
Understanding online grooming: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of adolescents' offline meetings with adult perpetrators	12
Exploring the health burden of cumulative and specific adverse childhood experiences in New Zealand: Results from a population-based study	12
Prevalence of childhood exposure to intimate partner violence and associations with mental distress in Cambodia, Malawi and Nigeria: A cross-sectional study	12
Early trauma and associations with altruistic attitudes and behaviours among young adults	12
Child maltreatment-related children's emergency department visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Connecticut	12
Mediating effects of parent-child relationship on the association between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms among adolescents	12
Incidence and neighborhood-level determinants of child welfare involvement	12