Child Abuse & Neglect

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Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	151
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	131
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	117
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	102
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	94
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	81
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	69
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	68
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	66
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	64
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	63
Long-term memory and subjective forgetting: A longitudinal study	62
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	61
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	58
Risk factors and outcomes in preterm versus full-term infants with abusive head trauma: A retrospective comparative study	57
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	57
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	53
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	53
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	51
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	49
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	48
Evaluating digital mental health interventions for Middle East and North Africa children and adolescents affected by armed conflict: A systematic review	47
How do young people potentially affected by child welfare endangerment use a messenger-based psychosocial chat counseling service?	46
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	46
Application of the data quality framework to administrative data on child maltreatment	45

A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	45
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	45
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	44
“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	44
Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood: A latent class analysis and time-varying effect model	43
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	43
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	42
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	42
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	42
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	41
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	40
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study	39
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
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	38
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	38
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	38
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	37
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation	37
Child maltreatment and substances use throughout adolescence and adulthood: Data from a Brazilian Birth Cohort	37
The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia	36
Editorial: Letter from Tracie O. Afifi, the incoming editor-in-chief of Child Abuse & Neglect	35
Juvenile parricide in Turkey: Forensic psychiatric perspectives on child abuse, family violence, and fatal outcomes	35
Hematologic versus non-accidental trauma etiologies for bruising identified using an emergency department bruising pathway	35
Differences in ambulance attendances between children with and without an identified history of out-of-home-care	34
Health-related quality of life after child maltreatment in institutions: Results from a representative population-based sample in Germany	34
Impressions of child advocacy center leaders: How problematic sexual behavior in children and adolescents is perceived by community professionals	34
Attachment & biobehavioral catch-up participation & reunification in a family treatment court	34
Reactions to the disclosure of intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline	34
Early life adversity and violent victimization in adulthood: Examining the moderating role of alcohol use	33
Changes in parents' mental health related to child out-of-home care placements: A Swedish national register study	33
Factors associated with poor neurological outcome in children after abusive head trauma: A multicenter retrospective study	33
Associations between abuse, neglect, and at-risk family interactions with adolescent psychiatric disorders	33
Severe sexual abuse in childhood and altered neurophysiological response to reward in female adults	32
Psychological maltreatment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: A multiple mediation model	32
Child welfare workers satisfaction and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of agency staff in Ohio	31
Adverse childhood experiences, HIV and sexual risk behaviors ― Five sub-Saharan countries, 2018–2020	31
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	31
Factors associated with reunification and placement move for children placed in kinship care under the age of thirteen	31
Association between adverse childhood experiences and unintended pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Aims & Scope	31
Childhood maltreatment and suicide attempts: A prospective cohort study in Chinese middle school students	31
Aggressive parenting behavior among grandparents providing childcare for grandchildren: A case study of Shenzhen, China.	30
Treatments for child neglect: A scoping review	30
School bullying among refugee and non-refugee adolescent students in Lebanon	30
Associations between experiences of childhood maltreatment and perceived acceptability of child maltreatment: A cross-cultural and exploratory study	29
Adverse childhood experiences in Australian youth adjudicated for sexual offences and non-sexual violent offences	29
Early adverse childhood experiences and preschoolers' attentional regulation: A latent class analysis	28
Associations between childhood victimization, parent-child closeness, and adulthood well-being outcomes: A network analysis	28
Sibling sexual abuse: What do we know? What do we need to know? Stage 1 analysis of a 2-stage scoping review	28
Sexual exploitation of children: Barriers for boys in accessing social supports for victimization	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	27
Peer parent programs in child welfare: A systematic review	27
Exposure to family and domestic violence is associated with lower attendance and higher suspension in school children	27
Effects of formal center-based care and positive parenting practices on children in foster care	27
Risk vulnerability among children living in residential care in England: A study using multi-level models	26
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder in women: A prospective cohort study in China	25
The missing link between poverty and child maltreatment: Parental burnout	25
Why emotional neglect brings suicidal ideation? The mediating effect of meaning in life and the moderating effect of post-stress growth	25
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and their associations with depression, life satisfaction and short-form video addiction in Chinese college students	25
Social anxiety and bullying victimization: A three-level meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies	24
The influence of housing, education and employment trajectories on mental health and behavioral outcomes for youth receiving child welfare and community services	24
Nurturing roots: Motivations of Inuit foster parents caring for Inuit children in Nunavik	24
Mapping child welfare notifications: High-frequency trends, reporter groups, and reason profiles in Finland	24
Testing a hybrid risk assessment model: Predicting CSAM offender risk from digital forensic artifacts	23
Longitudinal trajectories of depressive symptoms among sexually abused adolescents involved in child protection services	23
Home visitors' needs and perceptions of the benefits of a home visiting program for childcare support in Japan: A qualitative study of home visitors	23
Foster youth's placement preferences: The roles of kin, siblings, and age	23
Chronic bullying victimization and life satisfaction among children from multicultural families in South Korea: Heterogeneity by immigrant mothers' country of origin	23
On the relationship between economic inequality and child maltreatment: Takeaways from the special issue and future directions	23
Aims & Scope	23
Childhood sexual abuse and cholesterol risk: Testing body mass index as a mediator across gender in a national sample of adults	23
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	22
Abusive head trauma: Annual medical costs for inpatient care of children managed at a single tertiary care centre in Malaysia	22
Child protective services contact and youth outcomes	22
The lifetime prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among young adults in Grenada, Guyana, and Saint Lucia	22
Motivations and perspectives on the use of corporal punishment at home: A qualitative study of Ghanaian parents	22
The effect of therapeutic and deterrent messages on Internet users attempting to access ‘barely legal’ pornography	22
Racial/ethnic and gender disparities in child protection decision-making: What role do stereotypes play?	22
The impact of case factors on the initial screening decision in child welfare investigations in Norway	22
Measuring violence against children in a national prevalence survey in the UK: Questionnaire development and content validity	22
Exploring the relationship between adoption and psychological trauma for children who are adopted from care: A longitudinal case study perspective	22
Rediscovering latent trauma: An adopted adult's perspective	22
Transdiagnostic factors in the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the role of childhood abuse and neglect in establishing latent profiles of risk and resilience	21
The push and pull of closeness: Dyadic parent-offspring intimacy in the shadow of parental history of child maltreatment	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
A qualitative analysis of child protection professionals' challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
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	21
Parents' and professionals' perspectives on school-based maltreatment prevention education for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities	21
Receipt of parenting, disability, unemployment, and other income support payments in persons aged 16 to 33 years – the associations with child maltreatment	21
Child protection system involvement in children of incarcerated mothers: A linked data study	21
Adapting to adversity: Challenges and resilience in child protection during COVID-19	21
Delta-9 THC detection in the young pediatric postmortem population: 2018–2024	21
Childhood abuse and risk of migraine: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Exploring nursing students' awareness about child abuse and neglect	20
The association between peer rejection and aggression types: A meta-analysis	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
Positive childhood experiences serve as protective factors for mental health in pandemic-era youth with adverse childhood experiences	20
Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and association with dating violence and symptoms of mental illness among adolescents in the Dominican Republic	20
The role of childhood maltreatment and mental health disorders on suicidal behaviour in adolescents	20
Labor trafficking of children and youth in the United States: A scoping review	20
What's the matter with ACEs? Recommendations for considering early adversity in educational contexts	20
Removal of Aboriginal infants in a hospital setting: Examining practices	20
A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents	20
Sibling sexual abuse: What do we know about professional responses? Stage 2 analysis of a 2-stage scoping review	20
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	20
Practices and responses that help or hinder disclosures of child sexual abuse: Perspectives from victim survivors and practitioners	20
Psychological resilience and childhood maltreatment: The role of self-efficacy, personality functioning and social support in young adult residential care leavers	20
Adverse childhood experiences: Mental health and educational outcomes from middle childhood to young adulthood	20
Psychosocial functioning as a mediator between childhood trauma and symptom severity in patients with schizophrenia	19
Lifetime psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents with severe conduct problems – A register-based follow-up study	19
Child abuse and neglect awareness among future nurses: Does awareness influence attitudes towards reporting?	19
Effects of in-person schooling on child safety during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Future orientation in justice-involved youth: The effects of adverse and positive childhood experiences, and being dual-status	19
Making every contact count: Can healthcare professionals do more to avoid preventable child deaths?	19
Adverse childhood experiences, mental health, and social functioning: A scoping review of the literature	19
Drivers to implementing a whole-system approach to enquiring about adverse childhood experiences: A mixed methods evaluation from a single county in England	19
Cultural diversity in parental physical discipline and children's early social skill development: cross-lagged models in Japan and China	19
What's missing? Violently injured Black men's narratives around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)	18
The impact of stay-at-home orders on the rate of emergency department child maltreatment diagnoses	18
Relative deprivation as a mechanism underlying the relation between child maltreatment and adolescents' non-suicidal self-injury urges	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
Effects of a positive discipline program on parenting outcomes	18
County-level analysis on occupation and ecological determinants of child abuse and neglect rates employing elastic net regression	18
The role of maternal child maltreatment history and unsupportive emotion socialization in the intergenerational transmission of emotion regulation difficulties	18
Male victim/survivors' experiences of disclosing institutional child sexual abuse	18
Strategies to engage and retain pregnant individuals and young mothers in the nurse-family partnership program (Canada): An interpretive descriptive study	18
Tracing the impact of childhood maltreatment on adolescent aggression and victimization: A longitudinal study	18
The religious implications of being sexually abused by a rabbi: Qualitative research among Israeli religious men	18
The mediating role of self-regulation on the link between child maltreatment and later substance use among Latinx youth	18
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on child abuse and neglect: A cross-sectional study in a French Child Advocacy Center	18

The global impact of COVID-19 on child protection professionals: A scoping review and thematic analysis	18
A macro-level understanding of levels and trends in the abuse and homicide of children, 1997–2020	18
Associations between threat and deprivation experiences and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms: The roles of emotion regulation and identity problems	18
Pathways of Care: A longitudinal study of children in care in Australia	17
Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study	17
Offenders' approaches to overcoming victim resistance in technology-assisted child sexual abuse	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
Development and validation of a self-report measure assessing failures in the mentalization of trauma and adverse relationships	17
Psychological maltreatment and aggression in preadolescence: Roles of temperamental effortful control and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies	17
Leveraging machine learning for effective child maltreatment prevention: A case study of home visiting service assessments	17
Child maltreatment, adult romantic attachment and parental sense of competence	17
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	17
Examining mental health service use across intergenerational patterns of child protection system contact: A case for cross-sector supports	17
Latent profiles of bullying perpetration and victimization: Gender differences and family variables	17
‘It's not like we use the word emotional abuse’. A study on Norwegian child welfare workers understanding of emotional abuse	17
Does it add up? Educational achievement mediates child maltreatment subtypes to allostatic load	16
Interparental violence and children's attentional bias: The mediating effect of parental harsh discipline in China	16
The relationship between national racism and child abuse among Palestinians in Israel: The moderating role of coping strategies	16
Moderated mediation analyses: Exploring the complex pathways between school bullying and suicidal ideation among vocational school students in China	16
Children's narratives of violence: Qualitative findings from a violence study with young children in South Africa	16
Intergenerational transmission of adverse childhood experiences: Differential maternal and paternal associations with offspring mental health in Chinese school-aged children by multi-method	16
The reliability and validity of the brief measures of perceived childhood harshness and unpredictability: A revised Chinese version for emerging adults	16
Developing a trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy application for adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors: A conceptual framework	16
Family characteristics, responses, and dynamics associated with sibling sexual abuse: A scoping review	16
The influence of childhood abuse and prenatal intimate partner violence on childbirth experiences and breastfeeding outcomes	16
The interplay of childhood trauma, oxytocin, and impulsivity in predicting the onset of methamphetamine use	16
Childhood emotional abuse and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: The sequential masking effect of ruminative thinking and deliberate rumination	16
Adolescent substance use at the intersections of foster care, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, and sex assigned at birth	16
Listening to the Children Involved in Violent Military Conflict	16
Mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in Europe: A systematic review	16
“No one wants you back, you will stay here forever”: Exploring the story of the Israeli children who were held in captivity by Hamas	16
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board	16
Emotional valence and the types of information provided by children in forensic interviews	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
The Apapacho early childhood violence prevention parenting program: A mixed methods pilot evaluation	16
A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe	15
Examining the role of child welfare worker characteristics and the substantiation decision	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
Promoting family nurse resilience through Family Nurse Partnership education in Scotland: A continuous quality improvement initiative	15
Factors contributing to filicide-suicide: Differences between male and female perpetrators	15
Adverse childhood experiences and bullying victimization among Tunisian youth: The mediating role of body esteem	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
Swedish interpreters' views and experiences of interpreting child forensic interviews	15
Exploring patterns of interpersonal violence and mental health service complexity amongst treatment-seeking children and youth in Canada	15
Comparison of crosswalk methods for translating ICD-9 to ICD-10 diagnosis codes for child maltreatment	15
Foster care policy and homelessness among youth transitioning to adulthood from foster care	15
Influence of depressive symptoms and current suicidality on the stability of responses to the childhood 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
Comparing the prevalence of sexual behaviors and victimization among adolescents based on child welfare system involvement	15
Health services utilization and cost of abusive head trauma in Taiwan: A population-based retrospective matched cohort study	15
Is teacher violence a form of betrayal trauma? Relationship with mental health problems among young adults	15
Multi-level factors associated with psychological resilience in the face of adverse childhood experiences among Chinese early adolescents	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
Hospitalization for child physical abuse before hospitalization for osteogenesis imperfecta or severe hemophilia: A nationwide cohort study in France	14
Aims & Scope	14
Traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in pediatrics: Implications of factor XIII deficiency and consumptive coagulopathy in abusive head trauma evaluation	14
Do parenting behaviors intended as discipline vary by household religious affiliation in Cameroon?	14
The ongoing legacy of Indigenous family separation: Long-term outcomes of child welfare involvement among American Indian and First Nations youth	14
Caseworker documentation of mothers in foster care: A case study in California	14
Prevalence and correlates of depressive disorders in commercially sexual exploited children: A cross-sectional study in Mombasa, Kenya	14
Predictors of symptom severity and change among youth in trauma-informed residential care	14
Aims & Scope	14
Fracture patterns in suspected non-accidental injury across neurodevelopmental milestones: A systematic review and evidence-informed plausibility framework	14
Child welfare outcomes among children with and without Nurse-Family Partnership: A propensity score matched assessment in Florida from 2010 to 2023	14
Responding to concerns related to the measurement of ICD-11 complex posttraumatic stress disorder using the International Trauma Questionnaire	14
“Just listen to me”: Experiences of therapy after childhood sibling sexual abuse	14
Assessing the effects of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP) on child abuse and neglect	14
“She was willing to send me there”: Intrafamilial child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of boys	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
Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment among Black families: A scoping review	14
Drug exposures in young children – The next frontier in occult injury testing	14
A trauma-informed substance use disorder prevention program for transracially adopted children and adolescents	14
Perspectives of home visiting providers on internal factors that promote enrollment and continued participation for families	14
“I felt like I was going to cause conflict. So, I kept quiet …” (Female child rape victim, 15 years)	14
Case reports unlocked: Harnessing large language models to advance research on child maltreatment	14
Association between maternal dissatisfaction with oneself at birth and shaking and smothering toward the offspring up to 18 months old	14
Childhood irritability-aggression profiles and parent-to-child violence: Evidence of interactive effect in predicting youth violence	14
Neighborhood collective efficacy reduces child maltreatment through decreasing parenting stress: A longitudinal path model	14
Comparing bullying to ACEs in the national survey of children's health: Examining 2016–2019 prevalence trends among children and adolescents	14
Introduction to the special issue: Global insights on the sexual exploitation of boys	14
Why do prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment differ? Qualitative analyses in a cohort study	13
Truancy: The relevance of resilience-related internal assets, student engagement and perception of school success in youth living with parents and in residential care	13
Patterns of change in restrictive measures in residential care: Trauma-informed staff training benefits children and youth who need it the Most	13
Exploring behavioral patterns of child-focused online sexual solicitation: findings from a Canadian sample	13
Shadows of doubt: Ambivalent acknowledgment of abuse and identification with the aggressor	13
Understanding intergenerational transmission of early maladaptive schemas from a memory perspective: Moderating role of overgeneral memory on adverse experiences	13
Adverse childhood experiences: Examining latent classes and associations with physical, psychological, and risk-related outcomes in adulthood	13
Routine screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) still doesn't make sense	13
Cost effectiveness of interventions to prevent the occurrence and the associated economic impacts of child maltreatment: A systematic review	13
Mechanisms in the intergenerational effect of maternal childhood maltreatment on offspring externalizing symptoms: The role of maternal and paternal parenting	13
Interrelationships between childhood maltreatment, depressive symptoms, functional impairment, and quality of life in patients with major depressive disorder: A network analysis approach	13
Childhood maltreatment and suicidal behaviors among heterosexual and sexual minority youth in China	13
Reasons police respond in schools: An analysis of narrative data from police incident reports	13
Generating reliable data on street-connected children: Finding protection in numbers	13
Adolescent online child sexual abuse material offending in Turkey: Psychosocial and forensic profiles from NCMEC reports and child protection implications	13