Child Abuse & Neglect

Article	Citations
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	184
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	147
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	131
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	112
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	94
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	82
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	80
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	79
Risk factors and outcomes in preterm versus full-term infants with abusive head trauma: A retrospective comparative study	71
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	67
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	65
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	64
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	62
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	59
Child maltreatment and substances use throughout adolescence and adulthood: Data from a Brazilian Birth Cohort	57
Are different types of childhood adversities correlated within and across time? A comparison of data on adversity co-occurrence from three longitudinal birth cohort studies	55
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	54
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	53
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	53
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	51
The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia	49
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	49
“Instead of just taking my baby, they could've actually given me a chance”: Experiences with plans of safe care among birth parents impacted by perinatal substance use	49
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	48
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	47

Long-term memory and subjective forgetting: A longitudinal study	46
Application of the data quality framework to administrative data on child maltreatment	45
Juvenile parricide in Turkey: Forensic psychiatric perspectives on child abuse, family violence, and fatal outcomes	45
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	43
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study	43
What drives change in children receiving telephone-delivered Common Elements Treatment Approach (t-CETA)? A multiple n = 1 study with Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon	43
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	43
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	42
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	42
Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood: A latent class analysis and time-varying effect model	42
How do young people potentially affected by child welfare endangerment use a messenger-based psychosocial chat counseling service?	41
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	41
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation	41
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	40
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	40
Trauma behind the keyboard: Exploring disparities in child sexual abuse materials exposure and mental health factors among investigators and forensic examiners – A network analysis	39
Evaluating digital mental health interventions for Middle East and North Africa children and adolescents affected by armed conflict: A systematic review	39
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	38
A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	38
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	37
Editorial: Letter from Tracie O. Afifi, the incoming editor-in-chief of Child Abuse & Neglect	37
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	37
Adverse childhood experiences, HIV and sexual risk behaviors ― Five sub-Saharan countries, 2018–2020	36
Linkages between childhood emotional maltreatment and adulthood marital attitudes among rural first-generation college students in China: A latent profile analysis and multigroup comparisons	36
Nurturing roots: Motivations of Inuit foster parents caring for Inuit children in Nunavik	35
Factors associated with poor neurological outcome in children after abusive head trauma: A multicenter retrospective study	35
Childhood maltreatment and suicide attempts: A prospective cohort study in Chinese middle school students	35
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder in women: A prospective cohort study in China	34
Early adverse childhood experiences and preschoolers' attentional regulation: A latent class analysis	34
Early life adversity and violent victimization in adulthood: Examining the moderating role of alcohol use	33
Child welfare workers satisfaction and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of agency staff in Ohio	33
Changes in parents' mental health related to child out-of-home care placements: A Swedish national register study	33
Social anxiety and bullying victimization: A three-level meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies	32
Differences in ambulance attendances between children with and without an identified history of out-of-home-care	32
Aims & Scope	32
Factors associated with reunification and placement move for children placed in kinship care under the age of thirteen	31
School bullying among refugee and non-refugee adolescent students in Lebanon	31
Severe sexual abuse in childhood and altered neurophysiological response to reward in female adults	31
Psychological maltreatment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: A multiple mediation model	31
Hematologic versus non-accidental trauma etiologies for bruising identified using an emergency department bruising pathway	29
Aggressive parenting behavior among grandparents providing childcare for grandchildren: A case study of Shenzhen, China.	29
Post-mortem fundus photographs in sudden unexpected death in infancy: An overview of the typical findings	29
Treatments for child neglect: A scoping review	29
Associations between experiences of childhood maltreatment and perceived acceptability of child maltreatment: A cross-cultural and exploratory study	29
Why emotional neglect brings suicidal ideation? The mediating effect of meaning in life and the moderating effect of post-stress growth	28
Assessing Saudi Arabian parents' awareness of child sexual abuse using the Arabic version of child sexual abuse awareness scale for parents: A descriptive cross-sectional study	27
Association between adverse childhood experiences and unintended pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Impressions of child advocacy center leaders: How problematic sexual behavior in children and adolescents is perceived by community professionals	27
Risk vulnerability among children living in residential care in England: A study using multi-level models	27
Mapping child welfare notifications: High-frequency trends, reporter groups, and reason profiles in Finland	26

Effects of formal center-based care and positive parenting practices on children in foster care	26
Associations between abuse, neglect, and at-risk family interactions with adolescent psychiatric disorders	26
The influence of housing, education and employment trajectories on mental health and behavioral outcomes for youth receiving child welfare and community services	26
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and their associations with depression, life satisfaction and short-form video addiction in Chinese college students	25
From symptom to diagnosis: Gap between clinical observations and PTSD recognition in child protection	25
Sibling sexual abuse: What do we know? What do we need to know? Stage 1 analysis of a 2-stage scoping review	25
Health-related quality of life after child maltreatment in institutions: Results from a representative population-based sample in Germany	25
The missing link between poverty and child maltreatment: Parental burnout	25
Exposure to family and domestic violence is associated with lower attendance and higher suspension in school children	25
Patterns of adverse and positive childhood experiences on prenatal mental health outcomes in Chinese pregnant women: A latent class analysis	25
Sexual exploitation of children: Barriers for boys in accessing social supports for victimization	25
The role of childhood maltreatment and mental health disorders on suicidal behaviour in adolescents	24
Associations between childhood victimization, parent-child closeness, and adulthood well-being outcomes: A network analysis	24
Aims & Scope	24
Psychological resilience and childhood maltreatment: The role of self-efficacy, personality functioning and social support in young adult residential care leavers	24
Sibling sexual abuse: What do we know about professional responses? Stage 2 analysis of a 2-stage scoping review	24
Adverse childhood experiences: Mental health and educational outcomes from middle childhood to young adulthood	24
Attachment & biobehavioral catch-up participation & reunification in a family treatment court	24
Labor trafficking of children and youth in the United States: A scoping review	24
Child protection system involvement in children of incarcerated mothers: A linked data study	23
Parents' and professionals' perspectives on school-based maltreatment prevention education for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities	23
Removal of Aboriginal infants in a hospital setting: Examining practices	23
Testing a hybrid risk assessment model: Predicting CSAM offender risk from digital forensic artifacts	23
Exploring nursing students' awareness about child abuse and neglect	23
The push and pull of closeness: Dyadic parent-offspring intimacy in the shadow of parental history of child maltreatment	23
Future orientation in justice-involved youth: The effects of adverse and positive childhood experiences, and being dual-status	23
Association between lifetime sexual violence victimization and selected health conditions and risk behaviors among 13–24-year-olds in Lesotho: Results from the Violence Against Children and Youth Surv	23
Aims & Scope	23
Foster youth's placement preferences: The roles of kin, siblings, and age	22
On the relationship between economic inequality and child maltreatment: Takeaways from the special issue and future directions	22
Receipt of parenting, disability, unemployment, and other income support payments in persons aged 16 to 33 years – the associations with child maltreatment	22
Abusive head trauma: Annual medical costs for inpatient care of children managed at a single tertiary care centre in Malaysia	22
Longitudinal trajectories of depressive symptoms among sexually abused adolescents involved in child protection services	22
A qualitative analysis of child protection professionals' challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Effects of in-person schooling on child safety during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
The mediating role of adolescent psychopathology in the association between frequent or severe childhood abuse and labor market inactivity in young adulthood: A causal mediation approach	21
ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C): Translation and adaptation to Mexican Spanish, and psychometric properties tested in Mexico City adolescents	21
Motivations and perspectives on the use of corporal punishment at home: A qualitative study of Ghanaian parents	21
Transdiagnostic factors in the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the role of childhood abuse and neglect in establishing latent profiles of risk and resilience	21
Delta-9 THC detection in the young pediatric postmortem population: 2018–2024	21
Rediscovering latent trauma: An adopted adult's perspective	20
Exploring the relationship between adoption and psychological trauma for children who are adopted from care: A longitudinal case study perspective	20
The impact of case factors on the initial screening decision in child welfare investigations in Norway	20
Effects of childhood trauma on indicators of daily suicide risk: The role of stress and sleep	20
Chronic bullying victimization and life satisfaction among children from multicultural families in South Korea: Heterogeneity by immigrant mothers' country of origin	20
Impact of maltreatment, shame and self-criticism on psychological difficulties: A variable- and a person-centred approach with adolescents from community and residential youth care	20
Home visitors' needs and perceptions of the benefits of a home visiting program for childcare support in Japan: A qualitative study of home visitors	20
The association between peer rejection and aggression types: A meta-analysis	20
Childhood sexual abuse and cholesterol risk: Testing body mass index as a mediator across gender in a national sample of adults	20
Corrigendum to “Development of a universal child abuse screening tool (U-CAST): A qualitative analysis of medical expert perspectives” [Child Abuse & Neglect 172 (2026) start page (2)–end page (3)	20
Practices and responses that help or hinder disclosures of child sexual abuse: Perspectives from victim survivors and practitioners	20
Childhood abuse and risk of migraine: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Child protective services contact and youth outcomes	19
Adapting to adversity: Challenges and resilience in child protection during COVID-19	19
A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents	19
The global impact of COVID-19 on child protection professionals: A scoping review and thematic analysis	19
What's the matter with ACEs? Recommendations for considering early adversity in educational contexts	19
Psychosocial functioning as a mediator between childhood trauma and symptom severity in patients with schizophrenia	19
Adverse childhood experiences, mental health, and social functioning: A scoping review of the literature	19
The religious implications of being sexually abused by a rabbi: Qualitative research among Israeli religious men	19
The lifetime prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among young adults in Grenada, Guyana, and Saint Lucia	19
The effect of therapeutic and deterrent messages on Internet users attempting to access ‘barely legal’ pornography	19
Measuring violence against children in a national prevalence survey in the UK: Questionnaire development and content validity	19
Positive childhood experiences serve as protective factors for mental health in pandemic-era youth with adverse childhood experiences	19
Adolescent substance use at the intersections of foster care, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, and sex assigned at birth	18
Making every contact count: Can healthcare professionals do more to avoid preventable child deaths?	18
Associations between threat and deprivation experiences and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms: The roles of emotion regulation and identity problems	18
Corrigendum to “Adaptation and psychometrical assessment of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire self-report for Children and Early Adolescents (JVQ-CEA)” [Child Abuse & Neglect, volume 163 (2	18
Lifetime psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents with severe conduct problems – A register-based follow-up study	18
Effects of a positive discipline program on parenting outcomes	18
Corrigendum to “Developing a trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy application for adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors: A conceptual framework” [Child Abuse & Neglect, 140 (2023) 1	18
Mapping violence across time: A person-centered typology of childhood IPV exposure and later-life educational outcomes	18
Child maltreatment, adult romantic attachment and parental sense of competence	18
A macro-level understanding of levels and trends in the abuse and homicide of children, 1997–2020	18
County-level analysis on occupation and ecological determinants of child abuse and neglect rates employing elastic net regression	18
Strategies to engage and retain pregnant individuals and young mothers in the nurse-family partnership program (Canada): An interpretive descriptive study	17
Intergenerational transmission of adverse childhood experiences: Differential maternal and paternal associations with offspring mental health in Chinese school-aged children by multi-method	17
The relationship between national racism and child abuse among Palestinians in Israel: The moderating role of coping strategies	17
What do children say about seeking help in situations of gender-based violence? Different perspectives depending on whether they have experienced such situations or not	17
“No one wants you back, you will stay here forever”: Exploring the story of the Israeli children who were held in captivity by Hamas	17

Cultural diversity in parental physical discipline and children's early social skill development: cross-lagged models in Japan and China	17
The reliability and validity of the brief measures of perceived childhood harshness and unpredictability: A revised Chinese version for emerging adults	17
The influence of childhood abuse and prenatal intimate partner violence on childbirth experiences and breastfeeding outcomes	17
Psychological maltreatment and aggression in preadolescence: Roles of temperamental effortful control and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies	17
Male victim/survivors' experiences of disclosing institutional child sexual abuse	17
Child abuse and neglect awareness among future nurses: Does awareness influence attitudes towards reporting?	17
The Apapacho early childhood violence prevention parenting program: A mixed methods pilot evaluation	17
A latent profile analysis of social anxiety among Chinese left-behind children and adolescents: Associations with online parent-child communication and online social capital	17
Interparental violence and children's attentional bias: The mediating effect of parental harsh discipline in China	17
Tracing the impact of childhood maltreatment on adolescent aggression and victimization: A longitudinal study	17
Drivers to implementing a whole-system approach to enquiring about adverse childhood experiences: A mixed methods evaluation from a single county in England	17
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on child abuse and neglect: A cross-sectional study in a French Child Advocacy Center	16
What's missing? Violently injured Black men's narratives around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)	16
Family characteristics, responses, and dynamics associated with sibling sexual abuse: A scoping review	16
The mediating role of self-regulation on the link between child maltreatment and later substance use among Latinx youth	16
Examining mental health service use across intergenerational patterns of child protection system contact: A case for cross-sector supports	16
Relative deprivation as a mechanism underlying the relation between child maltreatment and adolescents' non-suicidal self-injury urges	16
Pathways of Care: A longitudinal study of children in care in Australia	16
The impact of stay-at-home orders on the rate of emergency department child maltreatment diagnoses	16
Offenders' approaches to overcoming victim resistance in technology-assisted child sexual abuse	16
Childhood emotional abuse and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: The sequential masking effect of ruminative thinking and deliberate rumination	16
The interplay of childhood trauma, oxytocin, and impulsivity in predicting the onset of methamphetamine use	16
Corrigendum to “Nonconsensual sexual behavior among youth: Age dynamics and implications for prevention” [Child Abuse & Neglect (173) (2026, March) 107944]	16
Children's narratives of violence: Qualitative findings from a violence study with young children in South Africa	16
‘It's not like we use the word emotional abuse’. A study on Norwegian child welfare workers understanding of emotional abuse	16
Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study	16
Mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in Europe: A systematic review	16
Latent profiles of bullying perpetration and victimization: Gender differences and family variables	15
Listening to the Children Involved in Violent Military Conflict	15
Childhood irritability-aggression profiles and parent-to-child violence: Evidence of interactive effect in predicting youth violence	15
Caseworker documentation of mothers in foster care: A case study in California	15
Corrigendum to “Examining the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among justice-involved youth in the U.S.: The importance of accounting for race/ethnicity, gender, and gendered racial/	15
Traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in pediatrics: Implications of factor XIII deficiency and consumptive coagulopathy in abusive head trauma evaluation	15
Negative and positive childhood experiences with regard to prosocial intentions and interpersonal trust levels in a national sample of Poles: A network analysis	15
Do parenting behaviors intended as discipline vary by household religious affiliation in Cameroon?	15
“I felt like I was going to cause conflict. So, I kept quiet …” (Female child rape victim, 15 years)	15
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board	15
Assessing the effects of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP) on child abuse and neglect	15
Developing a trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy application for adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors: A conceptual framework	15
Adverse childhood experiences and bullying victimization among Tunisian youth: The mediating role of body esteem	15
Responding to concerns related to the measurement of ICD-11 complex posttraumatic stress disorder using the International Trauma Questionnaire	15
Change in Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) scores over time among children and youth in out-of-home care: A latent growth curve analysis	15
Leveraging machine learning for effective child maltreatment prevention: A case study of home visiting service assessments	15
Swedish interpreters' views and experiences of interpreting child forensic interviews	15
Association between maternal dissatisfaction with oneself at birth and shaking and smothering toward the offspring up to 18 months old	15
Foster care policy and homelessness among youth transitioning to adulthood from foster care	15
“Just listen to me”: Experiences of therapy after childhood sibling sexual abuse	15
Is teacher violence a form of betrayal trauma? Relationship with mental health problems among young adults	15
Promoting family nurse resilience through Family Nurse Partnership education in Scotland: A continuous quality improvement initiative	15
Orphan discipline and child neglect: An analysis from 48 countries	14
Associations between early child adversity and lifetime suicide attempts among gender diverse individuals: A moderated mediation	14
Neighborhood collective efficacy reduces child maltreatment through decreasing parenting stress: A longitudinal path model	14
Public awareness, procedural knowledge, and reporting intention for child abuse involving children with disabilities in Malaysia	14
The impact of childhood emotional abuse on the developmental trajectory of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents: The mediating role of self-compassion and peer attachment	14
The cumulative effect of childhood trauma and school bullying on non-suicidal self-injury among young adults: An XGBoost model and network analysis	14
Comparing bullying to ACEs in the national survey of children's health: Examining 2016–2019 prevalence trends among children and adolescents	14
Exploring patterns of interpersonal violence and mental health service complexity amongst treatment-seeking children and youth in Canada	14
Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment among Black families: A scoping review	14
Children's right to participation in residential care: A staff-based study in Portugal	14
Aims & Scope	14
Case reports unlocked: Harnessing large language models to advance research on child maltreatment	14
A taxonomy of states' approaches to plans of safe care	14
Influence of depressive symptoms and current suicidality on the stability of responses to the childhood trauma questionnaire	14
Does it add up? Educational achievement mediates child maltreatment subtypes to allostatic load	14
American Indian/Alaska Native children in child welfare: Changes in behavioral problems and out-of-home placement instability	14
Moderated mediation analyses: Exploring the complex pathways between school bullying and suicidal ideation among vocational school students in China	14
Truancy: The relevance of resilience-related internal assets, student engagement and perception of school success in youth living with parents and in residential care	14
Fracture patterns in suspected non-accidental injury across neurodevelopmental milestones: A systematic review and evidence-informed plausibility framework	14
Multi-level factors associated with psychological resilience in the face of adverse childhood experiences among Chinese early adolescents	14
Prevalence and correlates of depressive disorders in commercially sexual exploited children: A cross-sectional study in Mombasa, Kenya	14
Examining the role of child welfare worker characteristics and the substantiation decision	14
“She was willing to send me there”: Intrafamilial child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of boys	14
Comparing the prevalence of sexual behaviors and victimization among adolescents based on child welfare system involvement	14
The ongoing legacy of Indigenous family separation: Long-term outcomes of child welfare involvement among American Indian and First Nations youth	14
A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe	14
Introduction to the special issue: Global insights on the sexual exploitation of boys	13
Childhood maltreatment and suicidal behaviors among heterosexual and sexual minority youth in China	13
The effects of child maltreatment and exposure to intimate partner violence on the co-occurrence of anxious/depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior	13
Mothers' experiences of emotional abuse from an intimate partner and its associations with children's developmental outcomes at 5 years	13
Unraveling gender and racial/ethnic differences in the life course pathways from adverse childhood experiences to economic disadvantage in adulthood	13
Diagnostic testing for and detection of physical abuse in infants with brief resolved unexplained events	13
Interrelationships between childhood maltreatment, depressive symptoms, functional impairment, and quality of life in patients with major depressive disorder: A network analysis approach	13
Exploring behavioral patterns of child-focused online sexual solicitation: findings from a Canadian sample	13
Perspectives of home visiting providers on internal factors that promote enrollment and continued participation for families	13
Assessing childhood trauma in New Zealand prisons: Mixed method validation of the CTQ-SF	13
Comparing female- to male-perpetrated child sexual abuse as presumed by survivors – A qualitative content analysis	13
Hospitalization for child physical abuse before hospitalization for osteogenesis imperfecta or severe hemophilia: A nationwide cohort study in France	13
Mechanisms in the intergenerational effect of maternal childhood maltreatment on offspring externalizing symptoms: The role of maternal and paternal parenting	13
A trauma-informed substance use disorder prevention program for transracially adopted children and adolescents	13
Shadows of doubt: Ambivalent acknowledgment of abuse and identification with the aggressor	13
Child welfare outcomes among children with and without Nurse-Family Partnership: A propensity score matched assessment in Florida from 2010 to 2023	13
Association between childhood maltreatment and attachment disorganization in young adulthood: The protective role of early mother-child interactions	13
The dual role of family nurses in recruiting and screening of underserved populations for a randomized controlled trial	13
Reasons police respond in schools: An analysis of narrative data from police incident reports	13
Aims & Scope	13