Child Abuse & Neglect

Papers
(The TQCC of Child Abuse & Neglect is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect116
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study99
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research92
“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 use83
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues78
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya63
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians59
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma58
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents56
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?53
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study52
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression52
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color52
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines52
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review51
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood50
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model49
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders49
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)48
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents48
A response to Evangelist et al., 202348
Child maltreatment and emergency department visits: a longitudinal birth cohort study from infancy to early adulthood47
Child maltreatment and substances use throughout adolescence and adulthood: Data from a Brazilian Birth Cohort45
Risk factors and outcomes in preterm versus full-term infants with abusive head trauma: A retrospective comparative study43
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions43
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity42
Long-term memory and subjective forgetting: A longitudinal study42
Juvenile parricide in Turkey: Forensic psychiatric perspectives on child abuse, family violence, and fatal outcomes42
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action41
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort41
Trauma behind the keyboard: Exploring disparities in child sexual abuse materials exposure and mental health factors among investigators and forensic examiners – A network analysis41
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects40
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 Lebanon40
Are different types of childhood adversities correlated within and across time? A comparison of data on adversity co-occurrence from three longitudinal birth cohort studies39
The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia37
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend37
Application of the data quality framework to administrative data on child maltreatment37
In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-1936
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach36
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence36
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities35
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial35
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation35
Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood: A latent class analysis and time-varying effect model35
Professional and informal help-seeking among low-income adolescents exposed to violence in the community and at school34
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data33
Editorial: Letter from Tracie O. Afifi, the incoming editor-in-chief of Child Abuse & Neglect33
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status33
Hematologic versus non-accidental trauma etiologies for bruising identified using an emergency department bruising pathway32
Attachment & biobehavioral catch-up participation & reunification in a family treatment court32
Severe sexual abuse in childhood and altered neurophysiological response to reward in female adults32
Health-related quality of life after child maltreatment in institutions: Results from a representative population-based sample in Germany31
Risk vulnerability among children living in residential care in England: A study using multi-level models31
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and their associations with depression, life satisfaction and short-form video addiction in Chinese college students31
Maximizing the return on investment in Early Childhood Home Visiting through enhanced eligibility screening31
Aims & Scope30
Treatments for child neglect: A scoping review30
Association between adverse childhood experiences and unintended pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis30
Early adverse childhood experiences and preschoolers' attentional regulation: A latent class analysis30
Effects of formal center-based care and positive parenting practices on children in foster care30
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 study30
Sexual exploitation of children: Barriers for boys in accessing social supports for victimization29
Factors associated with reunification and placement move for children placed in kinship care under the age of thirteen29
Changes in parents' mental health related to child out-of-home care placements: A Swedish national register study29
Profiles of abuse and neglect and the association with mental health indicators among a large sample of boys and girls from India28
Peer parent programs in child welfare: A systematic review28
Child welfare workers satisfaction and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of agency staff in Ohio28
Nurturing roots: Motivations of Inuit foster parents caring for Inuit children in Nunavik27
Social anxiety and bullying victimization: A three-level meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies27
School bullying among refugee and non-refugee adolescent students in Lebanon27
Linkages between childhood emotional maltreatment and adulthood marital attitudes among rural first-generation college students in China: A latent profile analysis and multigroup comparisons27
Adverse childhood experiences, HIV and sexual risk behaviors ― Five sub-Saharan countries, 2018–202027
Factors associated with poor neurological outcome in children after abusive head trauma: A multicenter retrospective study26
Childhood maltreatment and suicide attempts: A prospective cohort study in Chinese middle school students26
The missing link between poverty and child maltreatment: Parental burnout26
Impressions of child advocacy center leaders: How problematic sexual behavior in children and adolescents is perceived by community professionals26
Psychological maltreatment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: A multiple mediation model26
Reactions to the disclosure of intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline25
Exposure to family and domestic violence is associated with lower attendance and higher suspension in school children25
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder in women: A prospective cohort study in China24
Associations between experiences of childhood maltreatment and perceived acceptability of child maltreatment: A cross-cultural and exploratory study24
Differences in ambulance attendances between children with and without an identified history of out-of-home-care24
Sibling sexual abuse: What do we know? What do we need to know? Stage 1 analysis of a 2-stage scoping review24
Why emotional neglect brings suicidal ideation? The mediating effect of meaning in life and the moderating effect of post-stress growth24
Aggressive parenting behavior among grandparents providing childcare for grandchildren: A case study of Shenzhen, China.23
Cumulative risk, factor analysis, and latent class analysis of childhood adversity data in a nationally representative sample23
Testing a hybrid risk assessment model: Predicting CSAM offender risk from digital forensic artifacts23
Adverse childhood experiences in Australian youth adjudicated for sexual offences and non-sexual violent offences23
The ethics of child maltreatment surveys in relation to participant distress: Implications of social science evidence, ethical guidelines, and law23
Measuring violence against children in a national prevalence survey in the UK: Questionnaire development and content validity23
Foster youth's placement preferences: The roles of kin, siblings, and age22
Aims & Scope22
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 Surv21
Childhood sexual abuse and cholesterol risk: Testing body mass index as a mediator across gender in a national sample of adults21
Motivations and perspectives on the use of corporal punishment at home: A qualitative study of Ghanaian parents21
Psychological resilience and childhood maltreatment: The role of self-efficacy, personality functioning and social support in young adult residential care leavers21
On the relationship between economic inequality and child maltreatment: Takeaways from the special issue and future directions21
Longitudinal trajectories of depressive symptoms among sexually abused adolescents involved in child protection services21
Adapting to adversity: Challenges and resilience in child protection during COVID-1921
Exploring nursing students' awareness about child abuse and neglect21
Rediscovering latent trauma: An adopted adult's perspective21
Abusive head trauma: Annual medical costs for inpatient care of children managed at a single tertiary care centre in Malaysia21
The role of childhood maltreatment and mental health disorders on suicidal behaviour in adolescents21
Modeling changes in adolescent health risk behaviors approaching and just after the time of emancipation from foster care20
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 approach20
Psychosocial functioning as a mediator between childhood trauma and symptom severity in patients with schizophrenia20
A qualitative analysis of child protection professionals' challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic20
Child protection system involvement in children of incarcerated mothers: A linked data study20
Exploring the relationship between adoption and psychological trauma for children who are adopted from care: A longitudinal case study perspective20
Parents' and professionals' perspectives on school-based maltreatment prevention education for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities20
“Maybe what happened is actually OK?” Child sexual abuse by authority figures in the ultra-orthodox community in Israel: Survivors' perceptions of their relationships with the perpetrator20
Labor trafficking of children and youth in the United States: A scoping review19
The association between peer rejection and aggression types: A meta-analysis19
What's the matter with ACEs? Recommendations for considering early adversity in educational contexts19
Delta-9 THC detection in the young pediatric postmortem population: 2018–202419
Impact of maltreatment, shame and self-criticism on psychological difficulties: A variable- and a person-centred approach with adolescents from community and residential youth care19
Childhood abuse and risk of migraine: A systematic review and meta-analysis19
Adverse childhood experiences, mental health, and social functioning: A scoping review of the literature19
Effects of in-person schooling on child safety during the COVID-19 pandemic19
ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C): Translation and adaptation to Mexican Spanish, and psychometric properties tested in Mexico City adolescents19
Practices and responses that help or hinder disclosures of child sexual abuse: Perspectives from victim survivors and practitioners19
The impact of case factors on the initial screening decision in child welfare investigations in Norway19
Racial/ethnic and gender disparities in child protection decision-making: What role do stereotypes play?19
The lifetime prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among young adults in Grenada, Guyana, and Saint Lucia19
Child protective services contact and youth outcomes19
The push and pull of closeness: Dyadic parent-offspring intimacy in the shadow of parental history of child maltreatment19
Chronic bullying victimization and life satisfaction among children from multicultural families in South Korea: Heterogeneity by immigrant mothers' country of origin18
The effect of therapeutic and deterrent messages on Internet users attempting to access ‘barely legal’ pornography18
Future orientation in justice-involved youth: The effects of adverse and positive childhood experiences, and being dual-status18
Child abuse and neglect awareness among future nurses: Does awareness influence attitudes towards reporting?18
Pathways of Care: A longitudinal study of children in care in Australia18
Receipt of parenting, disability, unemployment, and other income support payments in persons aged 16 to 33 years – the associations with child maltreatment18
Positive childhood experiences serve as protective factors for mental health in pandemic-era youth with adverse childhood experiences18
Home visitors' needs and perceptions of the benefits of a home visiting program for childcare support in Japan: A qualitative study of home visitors18
Examining mental health service use across intergenerational patterns of child protection system contact: A case for cross-sector supports18
A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents18
Transdiagnostic factors in the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the role of childhood abuse and neglect in establishing latent profiles of risk and resilience18
Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and association with dating violence and symptoms of mental illness among adolescents in the Dominican Republic18
Drivers to implementing a whole-system approach to enquiring about adverse childhood experiences: A mixed methods evaluation from a single county in England18
Family characteristics, responses, and dynamics associated with sibling sexual abuse: A scoping review18
Leveraging machine learning for effective child maltreatment prevention: A case study of home visiting service assessments17
Interparental violence and children's attentional bias: The mediating effect of parental harsh discipline in China17
“Maybe I imagined it, maybe it really was all just childish play”: Complexity and ambiguity in survivors' perceptions of harmful preadolescent sexual behavior17
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board17
Emotional valence and the types of information provided by children in forensic interviews17
Offenders' approaches to overcoming victim resistance in technology-assisted child sexual abuse17
Strategies to engage and retain pregnant individuals and young mothers in the nurse-family partnership program (Canada): An interpretive descriptive study17
The reliability and validity of the brief measures of perceived childhood harshness and unpredictability: A revised Chinese version for emerging adults17
Growth recovery lines in children: A comparison between psychosocial short stature and other pathological causes of short stature17
Re-referrals to Child Protective Services for children born to young parents17
The religious implications of being sexually abused by a rabbi: Qualitative research among Israeli religious men17
Making every contact count: Can healthcare professionals do more to avoid preventable child deaths?17
The global impact of COVID-19 on child protection professionals: A scoping review and thematic analysis17
The role of maternal child maltreatment history and unsupportive emotion socialization in the intergenerational transmission of emotion regulation difficulties17
A national survey of pediatric emergency medicine physicians on improving education in child maltreatment recognition and reporting child abuse & neglect17
Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study17
The relationship between national racism and child abuse among Palestinians in Israel: The moderating role of coping strategies17
What do children say about seeking help in situations of gender-based violence? Different perspectives depending on whether they have experienced such situations or not17
The association between early reports to Child Protective Services and developmental trajectories through middle childhood17
Lifetime psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents with severe conduct problems – A register-based follow-up study17
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on child abuse and neglect: A cross-sectional study in a French Child Advocacy Center17
Implementation of a screening tool for child sex trafficking among youth presenting to the emergency department – A quality improvement initiative17
Latent profiles of bullying perpetration and victimization: Gender differences and family variables16
Disclosure and help-seeking behaviors related to sexual and physical violence in childhood and adolescence: Results from the Namibia Violence Against Children and Youth Survey16
Tracing the impact of childhood maltreatment on adolescent aggression and victimization: A longitudinal study16
Adolescent substance use at the intersections of foster care, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, and sex assigned at birth16
County-level analysis on occupation and ecological determinants of child abuse and neglect rates employing elastic net regression16
A macro-level understanding of levels and trends in the abuse and homicide of children, 1997–202016
Childhood emotional abuse and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: The sequential masking effect of ruminative thinking and deliberate rumination16
Cultural diversity in parental physical discipline and children's early social skill development: cross-lagged models in Japan and China16
The interplay of childhood trauma, oxytocin, and impulsivity in predicting the onset of methamphetamine use16
Child maltreatment and NR3C1 exon 1F methylation, link with deregulated hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and psychopathology: A systematic review16
Associations between threat and deprivation experiences and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms: The roles of emotion regulation and identity problems16
What's missing? Violently injured Black men's narratives around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)16
Relative deprivation as a mechanism underlying the relation between child maltreatment and adolescents' non-suicidal self-injury urges16
Child maltreatment, adult romantic attachment and parental sense of competence16
‘It's not like we use the word emotional abuse’. A study on Norwegian child welfare workers understanding of emotional abuse16
Effects of a positive discipline program on parenting outcomes16
Development and validation of a self-report measure assessing failures in the mentalization of trauma and adverse relationships16
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 (216
A latent profile analysis of social anxiety among Chinese left-behind children and adolescents: Associations with online parent-child communication and online social capital16
The influence of childhood abuse and prenatal intimate partner violence on childbirth experiences and breastfeeding outcomes16
Listening to the Children Involved in Violent Military Conflict15
Comparing the prevalence of sexual behaviors and victimization among adolescents based on child welfare system involvement15
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board15
Case reports unlocked: Harnessing large language models to advance research on child maltreatment15
Developing a trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy application for adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors: A conceptual framework15
“No one wants you back, you will stay here forever”: Exploring the story of the Israeli children who were held in captivity by Hamas15
Mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in Europe: A systematic review15
Caseworker documentation of mothers in foster care: A case study in California15
Does it add up? Educational achievement mediates child maltreatment subtypes to allostatic load15
Childhood irritability-aggression profiles and parent-to-child violence: Evidence of interactive effect in predicting youth violence15
Swedish interpreters' views and experiences of interpreting child forensic interviews15
Psychological maltreatment and aggression in preadolescence: Roles of temperamental effortful control and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies15
The mediating role of self-regulation on the link between child maltreatment and later substance use among Latinx youth15
Traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in pediatrics: Implications of factor XIII deficiency and consumptive coagulopathy in abusive head trauma evaluation15
Children are in need of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan15
War and reintegration for girls and young women in northern Uganda: A scoping review15
Moderated mediation analyses: Exploring the complex pathways between school bullying and suicidal ideation among vocational school students in China15
The impact of stay-at-home orders on the rate of emergency department child maltreatment diagnoses15
Do parenting behaviors intended as discipline vary by household religious affiliation in Cameroon?14
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 analysis14
“Just listen to me”: Experiences of therapy after childhood sibling sexual abuse14
“I felt like I was going to cause conflict. So, I kept quiet …” (Female child rape victim, 15 years)14
Assessing the effects of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP) on child abuse and neglect14
Responding to concerns related to the measurement of ICD-11 complex posttraumatic stress disorder using the International Trauma Questionnaire14
Influence of depressive symptoms and current suicidality on the stability of responses to the childhood trauma questionnaire14
A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe14
Comparison of crosswalk methods for translating ICD-9 to ICD-10 diagnosis codes for child maltreatment14
Factors contributing to filicide-suicide: Differences between male and female perpetrators14
Association between maternal dissatisfaction with oneself at birth and shaking and smothering toward the offspring up to 18 months old14
Exploring patterns of interpersonal violence and mental health service complexity amongst treatment-seeking children and youth in Canada14
Association between adverse childhood experiences and brain volumes among Japanese community-dwelling older people: Findings from the NEIGE study14
Promoting family nurse resilience through Family Nurse Partnership education in Scotland: A continuous quality improvement initiative14
Mothers' experiences of emotional abuse from an intimate partner and its associations with children's developmental outcomes at 5 years13
Patterns of change in restrictive measures in residential care: Trauma-informed staff training benefits children and youth who need it the Most13
Shadows of doubt: Ambivalent acknowledgment of abuse and identification with the aggressor13
Perspectives of home visiting providers on internal factors that promote enrollment and continued participation for families13
Cost effectiveness of interventions to prevent the occurrence and the associated economic impacts of child maltreatment: A systematic review13
Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment among Black families: A scoping review13
Negative and positive childhood experiences with regard to prosocial intentions and interpersonal trust levels in a national sample of Poles: A network analysis13
“She was willing to send me there”: Intrafamilial child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of boys13
Multi-level factors associated with psychological resilience in the face of adverse childhood experiences among Chinese early adolescents13
Prevalence and correlates of depressive disorders in commercially sexual exploited children: A cross-sectional study in Mombasa, Kenya13
Aims & Scope13
Orphan discipline and child neglect: An analysis from 48 countries13
Understanding intergenerational transmission of early maladaptive schemas from a memory perspective: Moderating role of overgeneral memory on adverse experiences13
Children's right to participation in residential care: A staff-based study in Portugal13
Examining the role of child welfare worker characteristics and the substantiation decision13
Comparing bullying to ACEs in the national survey of children's health: Examining 2016–2019 prevalence trends among children and adolescents13
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 attachment13
Aims & Scope13
Exploring behavioral patterns of child-focused online sexual solicitation: findings from a Canadian sample13
Truancy: The relevance of resilience-related internal assets, student engagement and perception of school success in youth living with parents and in residential care13
Hospitalization for child physical abuse before hospitalization for osteogenesis imperfecta or severe hemophilia: A nationwide cohort study in France13
The dual role of family nurses in recruiting and screening of underserved populations for a randomized controlled trial13
Mechanisms in the intergenerational effect of maternal childhood maltreatment on offspring externalizing symptoms: The role of maternal and paternal parenting13
Foster care policy and homelessness among youth transitioning to adulthood from foster care13
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/13
Neighborhood collective efficacy reduces child maltreatment through decreasing parenting stress: A longitudinal path model13
Is teacher violence a form of betrayal trauma? Relationship with mental health problems among young adults13
Health services utilization and cost of abusive head trauma in Taiwan: A population-based retrospective matched cohort study13
The mediating role of childhood emotional neglect in the association between childhood neighborhood quality and adult depression outcomes: A nationwide longitudinal analysis12
Parenting stress and children's trauma symptoms over the course of TF-CBT: Examining differences between relative and foster/adoptive caregivers12
Associations between early child adversity and lifetime suicide attempts among gender diverse individuals: A moderated mediation12
Why do prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment differ? Qualitative analyses in a cohort study12
Early adolescent development in the face of violence: A systematic review running12
Unraveling gender and racial/ethnic differences in the life course pathways from adverse childhood experiences to economic disadvantage in adulthood12
The association between adverse childhood experiences and depression trajectories in the Add Health study12
Emotion regulation after childhood maltreatment: Suppression tendency and reappraisal capacity12
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