Child Abuse & Neglect

Article	Citations
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	106
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	92
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	87
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	77
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	76
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	61
In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-19	56
Professional and informal help-seeking among low-income adolescents exposed to violence in the community and at school	56
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	55
Child maltreatment and substances use throughout adolescence and adulthood: Data from a Brazilian Birth Cohort	52
“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	51
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	51
Risk factors and outcomes in preterm versus full-term infants with abusive head trauma: A retrospective comparative study	51
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	50
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	49
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	48
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	48
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	48
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	47
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	47
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	46
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	46
Juvenile parricide in Turkey: Forensic psychiatric perspectives on child abuse, family violence, and fatal outcomes	45
Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood: A latent class analysis and time-varying effect model	42
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	41

Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	41
Long-term memory and subjective forgetting: A longitudinal study	41
Application of the data quality framework to administrative data on child maltreatment	41
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	41
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	40
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	40
A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	39
Child maltreatment and emergency department visits: a longitudinal birth cohort study from infancy to early adulthood	38
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	38
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	37
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	36
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	35
Trauma behind the keyboard: Exploring disparities in child sexual abuse materials exposure and mental health factors among investigators and forensic examiners – A network analysis	35
The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia	34
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	34
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study	34
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	34
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation	34
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	33
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	33
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	33
Editorial: Letter from Tracie O. Afifi, the incoming editor-in-chief of Child Abuse & Neglect	32
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	32
Hematologic versus non-accidental trauma etiologies for bruising identified using an emergency department bruising pathway	31
Risk vulnerability among children living in residential care in England: A study using multi-level models	31
Severe sexual abuse in childhood and altered neurophysiological response to reward in female adults	31
Differences in ambulance attendances between children with and without an identified history of out-of-home-care	30
Attachment & biobehavioral catch-up participation & reunification in a family treatment court	30
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and their associations with depression, life satisfaction and short-form video addiction in Chinese college students	30
Adverse childhood experiences in Australian youth adjudicated for sexual offences and non-sexual violent offences	29
Effects of formal center-based care and positive parenting practices on children in foster care	29
Sexual exploitation of children: Barriers for boys in accessing social supports for victimization	29
Early adverse childhood experiences and preschoolers' attentional regulation: A latent class analysis	29
Changes in parents' mental health related to child out-of-home care placements: A Swedish national register study	29
Factors associated with reunification and placement move for children placed in kinship care under the age of thirteen	29
Health-related quality of life after child maltreatment in institutions: Results from a representative population-based sample in Germany	29
Peer parent programs in child welfare: A systematic review	28
Associations between experiences of childhood maltreatment and perceived acceptability of child maltreatment: A cross-cultural and exploratory study	28
Profiles of abuse and neglect and the association with mental health indicators among a large sample of boys and girls from India	28
Reactions to the disclosure of intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline	28
The shielding effect of not responding: Peritraumatic responses to child abuse and their links to posttraumatic symptomatology	28
Adverse childhood experiences, HIV and sexual risk behaviors ― Five sub-Saharan countries, 2018–2020	27
Child welfare workers satisfaction and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of agency staff in Ohio	27
Nurturing roots: Motivations of Inuit foster parents caring for Inuit children in Nunavik	27
Linkages between childhood emotional maltreatment and adulthood marital attitudes among rural first-generation college students in China: A latent profile analysis and multigroup comparisons	26
The ethics of child maltreatment surveys in relation to participant distress: Implications of social science evidence, ethical guidelines, and law	26
School bullying among refugee and non-refugee adolescent students in Lebanon	26
Aggressive parenting behavior among grandparents providing childcare for grandchildren: A case study of Shenzhen, China.	26
Why emotional neglect brings suicidal ideation? The mediating effect of meaning in life and the moderating effect of post-stress growth	25
Social anxiety and bullying victimization: A three-level meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies	25

Sibling sexual abuse: What do we know? What do we need to know? Stage 1 analysis of a 2-stage scoping review	25
Exposure to family and domestic violence is associated with lower attendance and higher suspension in school children	25
Treatments for child neglect: A scoping review	25
The missing link between poverty and child maltreatment: Parental burnout	25
Psychological maltreatment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: A multiple mediation model	24
Factors associated with poor neurological outcome in children after abusive head trauma: A multicenter retrospective study	24
Cumulative risk, factor analysis, and latent class analysis of childhood adversity data in a nationally representative sample	24
Impressions of child advocacy center leaders: How problematic sexual behavior in children and adolescents is perceived by community professionals	24
Childhood maltreatment and suicide attempts: A prospective cohort study in Chinese middle school students	24
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder in women: A prospective cohort study in China	24
Association between adverse childhood experiences and unintended pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis	23
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	23
Measuring violence against children in a national prevalence survey in the UK: Questionnaire development and content validity	22
Receipt of parenting, disability, unemployment, and other income support payments in persons aged 16 to 33 years – the associations with child maltreatment	22
Maximizing the return on investment in Early Childhood Home Visiting through enhanced eligibility screening	22
Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and association with dating violence and symptoms of mental illness among adolescents in the Dominican Republic	21
Aims & Scope	21
The role of childhood maltreatment and mental health disorders on suicidal behaviour in adolescents	21
Exploring nursing students' awareness about child abuse and neglect	21
Child protective services contact and youth outcomes	21
Testing a hybrid risk assessment model: Predicting CSAM offender risk from digital forensic artifacts	20
Labor trafficking of children and youth in the United States: A scoping review	20
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	20
The push and pull of closeness: Dyadic parent-offspring intimacy in the shadow of parental history of child maltreatment	20
Rediscovering latent trauma: An adopted adult's perspective	20
What's the matter with ACEs? Recommendations for considering early adversity in educational contexts	20
Exploring the relationship between adoption and psychological trauma for children who are adopted from care: A longitudinal case study perspective	20
Foster youth's placement preferences: The roles of kin, siblings, and age	20
Future orientation in justice-involved youth: The effects of adverse and positive childhood experiences, and being dual-status	20
Motivations and perspectives on the use of corporal punishment at home: A qualitative study of Ghanaian parents	20
Longitudinal trajectories of depressive symptoms among sexually abused adolescents involved in child protection services	19
Psychological resilience and childhood maltreatment: The role of self-efficacy, personality functioning and social support in young adult residential care leavers	19
Positive childhood experiences serve as protective factors for mental health in pandemic-era youth with adverse childhood experiences	19
Adapting to adversity: Challenges and resilience in child protection during COVID-19	19
On the relationship between economic inequality and child maltreatment: Takeaways from the special issue and future directions	19
Chronic bullying victimization and life satisfaction among children from multicultural families in South Korea: Heterogeneity by immigrant mothers' country of origin	19
The effect of therapeutic and deterrent messages on Internet users attempting to access ‘barely legal’ pornography	19
Psychosocial functioning as a mediator between childhood trauma and symptom severity in patients with schizophrenia	19
ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C): Translation and adaptation to Mexican Spanish, and psychometric properties tested in Mexico City adolescents	19
Abusive head trauma: Annual medical costs for inpatient care of children managed at a single tertiary care centre in Malaysia	19
Parents' and professionals' perspectives on school-based maltreatment prevention education for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities	19
A qualitative analysis of child protection professionals' challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Examining mental health service use across intergenerational patterns of child protection system contact: A case for cross-sector supports	18
Transdiagnostic factors in the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the role of childhood abuse and neglect in establishing latent profiles of risk and resilience	18
Home visitors' needs and perceptions of the benefits of a home visiting program for childcare support in Japan: A qualitative study of home visitors	18
The impact of case factors on the initial screening decision in child welfare investigations in Norway	18
Childhood sexual abuse and cholesterol risk: Testing body mass index as a mediator across gender in a national sample of adults	18
A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents	18
Child abuse and neglect awareness among future nurses: Does awareness influence attitudes towards reporting?	18
Childhood abuse and risk of migraine: A systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Child protection system involvement in children of incarcerated mothers: A linked data study	18
“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 perpetrator	18
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	18
Adverse childhood experiences, mental health, and social functioning: A scoping review of the literature	18
Modeling changes in adolescent health risk behaviors approaching and just after the time of emancipation from foster care	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
Racial/ethnic and gender disparities in child protection decision-making: What role do stereotypes play?	18
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	18
Practices and responses that help or hinder disclosures of child sexual abuse: Perspectives from victim survivors and practitioners	18
The association between peer rejection and aggression types: A meta-analysis	18
Drivers to implementing a whole-system approach to enquiring about adverse childhood experiences: A mixed methods evaluation from a single county in England	18
Pathways of Care: A longitudinal study of children in care in Australia	17
Leveraging machine learning for effective child maltreatment prevention: A case study of home visiting service assessments	17
Interparental violence and children's attentional bias: The mediating effect of parental harsh discipline in China	17
Lifetime psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents with severe conduct problems – A register-based follow-up study	17
Child maltreatment, adult romantic attachment and parental sense of competence	17
Cultural diversity in parental physical discipline and children's early social skill development: cross-lagged models in Japan and China	17
The global impact of COVID-19 on child protection professionals: A scoping review and thematic analysis	17
Implementation of a screening tool for child sex trafficking among youth presenting to the emergency department – A quality improvement initiative	17
Psychological maltreatment and aggression in preadolescence: Roles of temperamental effortful control and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies	17
Family characteristics, responses, and dynamics associated with sibling sexual abuse: A scoping review	17
Strategies to engage and retain pregnant individuals and young mothers in the nurse-family partnership program (Canada): An interpretive descriptive study	17
The relationship between national racism and child abuse among Palestinians in Israel: The moderating role of coping strategies	17
“Maybe I imagined it, maybe it really was all just childish play”: Complexity and ambiguity in survivors' perceptions of harmful preadolescent sexual behavior	17
The reliability and validity of the brief measures of perceived childhood harshness and unpredictability: A revised Chinese version for emerging adults	17
A national survey of pediatric emergency medicine physicians on improving education in child maltreatment recognition and reporting child abuse & neglect	16
The mediating role of self-regulation on the link between child maltreatment and later substance use among Latinx youth	16
Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study	16
The interplay of childhood trauma, oxytocin, and impulsivity in predicting the onset of methamphetamine use	16
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	16

‘It's not like we use the word emotional abuse’. A study on Norwegian child welfare workers understanding of emotional abuse	16
Emotional valence and the types of information provided by children in forensic interviews	16
The role of maternal child maltreatment history and unsupportive emotion socialization in the intergenerational transmission of emotion regulation difficulties	16
Making every contact count: Can healthcare professionals do more to avoid preventable child deaths?	16
Tracing the impact of childhood maltreatment on adolescent aggression and victimization: A longitudinal study	16
The association between early reports to Child Protective Services and developmental trajectories through middle childhood	16
The religious implications of being sexually abused by a rabbi: Qualitative research among Israeli religious men	16
Disclosure and help-seeking behaviors related to sexual and physical violence in childhood and adolescence: Results from the Namibia Violence Against Children and Youth Survey	16
Growth recovery lines in children: A comparison between psychosocial short stature and other pathological causes of short stature	16
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board	16
Effects of a positive discipline program on parenting outcomes	16
A latent profile analysis of social anxiety among Chinese left-behind children and adolescents: Associations with online parent-child communication and online social capital	15
Relative deprivation as a mechanism underlying the relation between child maltreatment and adolescents' non-suicidal self-injury urges	15
Comparing the prevalence of sexual behaviors and victimization among adolescents based on child welfare system involvement	15
Traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in pediatrics: Implications of factor XIII deficiency and consumptive coagulopathy in abusive head trauma evaluation	15
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	15
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on child abuse and neglect: A cross-sectional study in a French Child Advocacy Center	15
Re-referrals to Child Protective Services for children born to young parents	15
Adolescent substance use at the intersections of foster care, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, and sex assigned at birth	15
A macro-level understanding of levels and trends in the abuse and homicide of children, 1997–2020	15
What's missing? Violently injured Black men's narratives around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)	15
The influence of childhood abuse and prenatal intimate partner violence on childbirth experiences and breastfeeding outcomes	15
Health services utilization and cost of abusive head trauma in Taiwan: A population-based retrospective matched cohort study	15
Does it add up? Educational achievement mediates child maltreatment subtypes to allostatic load	15
Swedish interpreters' views and experiences of interpreting child forensic interviews	15
Listening to the Children Involved in Violent Military Conflict	15
Latent profiles of bullying perpetration and victimization: Gender differences and family variables	15
“No one wants you back, you will stay here forever”: Exploring the story of the Israeli children who were held in captivity by Hamas	15
Development and validation of a self-report measure assessing failures in the mentalization of trauma and adverse relationships	15
Child maltreatment and NR3C1 exon 1F methylation, link with deregulated hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and psychopathology: A systematic review	15
Mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in Europe: A systematic review	15
The impact of stay-at-home orders on the rate of emergency department child maltreatment diagnoses	15
Caseworker documentation of mothers in foster care: A case study in California	15
Childhood emotional abuse and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: The sequential masking effect of ruminative thinking and deliberate rumination	15
Offenders' approaches to overcoming victim resistance in technology-assisted child sexual abuse	15
Associations between threat and deprivation experiences and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms: The roles of emotion regulation and identity problems	15
County-level analysis on occupation and ecological determinants of child abuse and neglect rates employing elastic net regression	15
Assessing the effects of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP) on child abuse and neglect	14
“I felt like I was going to cause conflict. So, I kept quiet …” (Female child rape victim, 15 years)	14
Do parenting behaviors intended as discipline vary by household religious affiliation in Cameroon?	14
War and reintegration for girls and young women in northern Uganda: A scoping review	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 analysis	14
Examining the role of child welfare worker characteristics and the substantiation decision	14
Childhood irritability-aggression profiles and parent-to-child violence: Evidence of interactive effect in predicting youth violence	14
Client and staff experiences assessing adverse childhood experiences in a clinical setting: Results from the First Nations ACE Study	14
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board	14
Negative and positive childhood experiences with regard to prosocial intentions and interpersonal trust levels in a national sample of Poles: A network analysis	14
Is teacher violence a form of betrayal trauma? Relationship with mental health problems among young adults	14
Responding to concerns related to the measurement of ICD-11 complex posttraumatic stress disorder using the International Trauma Questionnaire	14
Moderated mediation analyses: Exploring the complex pathways between school bullying and suicidal ideation among vocational school students in China	14
Developing a trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy application for adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors: A conceptual framework	14
Children are in need of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan	14
Comparison of crosswalk methods for translating ICD-9 to ICD-10 diagnosis codes for child maltreatment	14
Multi-level factors associated with psychological resilience in the face of adverse childhood experiences among Chinese early adolescents	14
Comparing bullying to ACEs in the national survey of children's health: Examining 2016–2019 prevalence trends among children and adolescents	14
Association between maternal dissatisfaction with oneself at birth and shaking and smothering toward the offspring up to 18 months old	14
Mechanisms in the intergenerational effect of maternal childhood maltreatment on offspring externalizing symptoms: The role of maternal and paternal parenting	13
Case reports unlocked: Harnessing large language models to advance research on child maltreatment	13
“Just listen to me”: Experiences of therapy after childhood sibling sexual abuse	13
Neighborhood collective efficacy reduces child maltreatment through decreasing parenting stress: A longitudinal path model	13
Association between adverse childhood experiences and brain volumes among Japanese community-dwelling older people: Findings from the NEIGE study	13
Factors contributing to filicide-suicide: Differences between male and female perpetrators	13
Prevalence and correlates of depressive disorders in commercially sexual exploited children: A cross-sectional study in Mombasa, Kenya	13
Effectiveness of digital game-based GISCC program on cyberbullying prevention among Chinese adolescents	13
Promoting family nurse resilience through Family Nurse Partnership education in Scotland: A continuous quality improvement initiative	13
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
Exploring patterns of interpersonal violence and mental health service complexity amongst treatment-seeking children and youth in Canada	13
“She was willing to send me there”: Intrafamilial child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of boys	13
Shadows of doubt: Ambivalent acknowledgment of abuse and identification with the aggressor	13
Children's right to participation in residential care: A staff-based study in Portugal	13
A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe	13
Influence of depressive symptoms and current suicidality on the stability of responses to the childhood trauma questionnaire	13
Foster care policy and homelessness among youth transitioning to adulthood from foster care	13
Preventing harmful sexual behavior in primary schools: Barriers and solutions	13
Aims & Scope	13
Hospitalization for child physical abuse before hospitalization for osteogenesis imperfecta or severe hemophilia: A nationwide cohort study in France	12
Early adolescent development in the face of violence: A systematic review running	12
Unraveling gender and racial/ethnic differences in the life course pathways from adverse childhood experiences to economic disadvantage in adulthood	12
Emotion regulation after childhood maltreatment: Suppression tendency and reappraisal capacity	12
Cost effectiveness of interventions to prevent the occurrence and the associated economic impacts of child maltreatment: A systematic review	12
The effects of child maltreatment and exposure to intimate partner violence on the co-occurrence of anxious/depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior	12
Exploring behavioral patterns of child-focused online sexual solicitation: findings from a Canadian sample	12
Why do prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment differ? Qualitative analyses in a cohort study	12
Parenting stress and children's trauma symptoms over the course of TF-CBT: Examining differences between relative and foster/adoptive caregivers	12
Reasons police respond in schools: An analysis of narrative data from police incident reports	12
Associations between early child adversity and lifetime suicide attempts among gender diverse individuals: A moderated mediation	12
Examining the relative impact of adverse and positive childhood experiences on adolescent mental health: A strengths-based perspective	12
Routine screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) still doesn't make sense	12
Response to the Reddy, Williams-Isom, & Putnam-Hornstein's brief “Racial sensitivity training: An inadequate solution to systemic racial disparities in child protection systems”	12
Exposure to sexual content and problematic sexual behaviors in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Orphan discipline and child neglect: An analysis from 48 countries	12
The association between adverse childhood experiences and depression trajectories in the Add Health study	12
Disclosure and non-disclosure of childhood sexual abuse in Australia: Results from a national survey	12
Adverse childhood experiences: Examining latent classes and associations with physical, psychological, and risk-related outcomes in adulthood	12
Experiences of childhood adversity across generations – Continuity or change? A study from the Northern Ireland youth wellbeing survey	12