Children and Youth Services Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Children and Youth Services Review is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A national New Zealand study of childhood non-offending contact with police and later offending in adolescence163
Social behaviour changes via mindfulness practices in early childhood74
Development of a dissemination and implementation framework for an adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) prevention program in a rural community setting64
A preliminary analysis of parent-child interaction therapy plus natural helper support to increase treatment access and engagement for low-income families of color54
The relationship between preadoptive adversity and intercountry adoptees’ adjustment: A mediating or moderating role of adoptive parenting?47
Addressing the needs of infants and toddlers exposed to maltreatment: Examining the impact of an integrated early head start & children and youth services program43
Case management in community mental health centers: Staffing considerations that account for client and agency context41
“I found the power of my presence”: Low income and noncustodial fathers’ experiences and insights from parenting young children through the COVID-19 pandemic39
Facilitators and barriers to sexual and gender minority youth development: Addressing accessibility and “Isms”, building collaborations, and supporting mental health in community-based organizations37
Kinship navigation: Facilitating permanency and equity for youth in child welfare36
Care practices and approaches with children experiencing attachment difficulties: A scoping review36
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children in foster care: A descriptive study of an overlooked child welfare population35
Effects of cultural stressors and family etiologic factors on behavioral and mental health among Mexican and other Latino/a immigrant parents in the United States33
Living in Italian residential care under COVID-19 restrictions. A survey on adolescents’ perspectives over their psychosocial wellbeing33
Meta-analysis of family functioning and self-esteem among Chinese adolescents33
Evaluating the impact of Family Visit Coaching on future system contact32
Parental attachment and mental health in Chinese early adolescents: The mediation role of narcissism31
Sociodemographic risk, school engagement, and community characteristics: A mediated approach to understanding high school dropout30
Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings29
An exploration of the motivations and barriers to being a foster parent in Florida28
The associations between destructive parenting practice and addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone: A three-level meta-analysis27
The relationship between human rights, negative affect, bullying victimization, and life satisfaction among Korean adolescents: A national sample study27
Consequences of cyber dating abuse on adolescent victims: Systematic review26
Care experienced LGBTQA + young people in out-of-home care in Australia: A case study26
Psychometric properties of pandemic awareness scale for students aged 8–12: The case of COVID-1926
Socioeconomic disparities in school life expectancy among India and its major states of India in the last decade: Insights from large scale household surveys data26
Corporate parenting in a pandemic: Considering the delivery and receipt of support to care leavers in Wales during Covid-1926
Do child care characteristics during toddlerhood explain income-based gaps in reading and math skills at preschool?26
Dialogic literary gatherings in out-of-home care to overcome educational inequalities by improving school academic performance25
‘Love and knowledge’: Enhancing knowledge, fostering belonging, and advancing caring skills among community caregivers for children of asylum-seekers25
Home visiting in home-based child care: Staff and provider experiences24
The effect of the ZERO TO THREE Infant-Toddler Court Teams on type and time of exits from out-of-home care: A new study ten years after the first competing risks analysis23
Trend and determinants of early marriage in Rajasthan: Evidence from the national family health survey23
Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care23
Bullying victimization and aggression, physical activity and sedentary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis22
Factors affecting malnutrition of rural adolescent girls: Evidences from selected districts of West Bengal22
Child maltreatment and nonsuicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents: The mediating effect of psychological resilience and loneliness21
Predictors of care leavers’ health outcomes: A scoping review21
Effectiveness of a brief social network intervention for depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents under major chronic stress21
Parental involvement and Chinese children’s cognitive and social-emotional school readiness: Differential effects across family socioeconomic status21
Affective acculturation and psychological well-being of children: The case of children from multicultural families in Korea20
Sexual and reproductive health protective factors among adolescents with child welfare involvement20
Organizational supports for evidence use in child welfare20
Chinese preschool teachers’ income, work-family conflict, organizational commitment, and turnover intention: A serial mediation model19
Early childhood education and early childhood special education teachers’ perceived stress, burnout, and depressive symptoms19
Money or Time? The association between parental investment, school engagement and adolescent behavioral problem19
Preventing child protective services system involvement by asking families what they need: Findings from a multi-site RCT of the community response program (CRP)19
More money, more questions: How caregivers spent the expanded child tax credit18
Brief, digital, self-directed, and culturally adapted: Developing a parenting intervention for primary care18
Pedagogical shift and parental mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the United states18
Family, mental health, and placement outcomes of a low-cost preventive intervention for youth in foster care18
Family resilience before and during the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent transition analysis18
“I’d lost trust and having to tell everyone the same story again and again and again…”: Bottlenecks and barriers to the application of therapeutic approaches within care services’ ecological systems18
Associations between family resilience and health outcomes among kinship caregivers and their children17
Ohio START: An adaption of the National Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams model17
Foster youth and at-risk non-foster youth: A propensity score and structural equation modeling analysis17
Material Hardship, Labor Market Characteristics and Substantiated Child Maltreatment: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis17
Effect of digital natives on executive function: The mediating role of problematic Internet use17
Association between early income variation around poverty thresholds, income trajectories, and birth, child, and family characteristics17
Improvements in father-child interactions: Video observations from the Just Beginning study17
Identifying core measures to be used in mental health research with care experienced young people: A Delphi study16
Improving interventions for families with multiple problems: Identifying elements that predict improvement16
Adoption of an evidence-based practice approach in the child and family care system in Europe: A comparative survey study16
Perception of sex in the attitude-behavior relationship in school violence. A qualitative study16
The spillover of violence: The gendered relationship between parental physical violence and peers’ bullying victimization16
Trauma symptoms as factors associated with early motherhood among young women who had contact with child protective services15
Social context of school satisfaction among primary and secondary school children in Hong Kong15
Convergent identities, compounded risk: Intersectionality and parenting capacity assessment for disabled children15
The moderating effect of COVID-19 stress on school racial climate and parent and child mental well-being15
A systematic review of intervention programs for school attendance problems15
Housing circumstances of disabled parents within the child welfare system15
Prevalence of grooming and sexting among Portuguese youth: Adaptation of the Questionnaire for Online Sexual Solicitation and Interactions with Adults and Sexting Questionnaire15
A theory of change for one-on-one peer support for older adolescents and young adults14
Editorial Board14
What happens to children who don’t behave in residential care? A multi-informant mixed-methods study on discipline strategies14
The incredible years parenting program for foster carers and biological parents of children in foster care: A mixed methods study14
Children’s perspectives on family members’ needs and support after child sexual abuse14
Animal-assisted activities in the classroom for students with emotional and behavioral disorders14
The perspectives of community-based practitioners on preventing baby removals : Addressing legitimate and illegitimate factors14
Black girl magic: Empowerment stories of black dual status girls14
Editorial Board14
Predictors of placement instability for sexually abused children served by child protection services14
How to ensure fidelity in implementing an evidence based teen pregnancy prevention curriculum13
Organizational social context and academic achievement of youth in residential care: The mediating role of youth-caregiver relationship quality13
How Do Child Protective Service (CPS) Policies Keep Employees Safe: ACaseworker’s Perspective13
Parent-provider relationships in home visiting: An introduction to relational-cultural theory and critical race theory frameworks13
Mental health interventions for African children: A meta-analytic review13
Evaluation of a brief online parenting training for community service providers in the Philippines13
Contact with child protection services and subsequent rates of first police contact as a person of interest, victim or witness in early life13
The maladaptive side of Internet altruists: Relationship between Internet altruistic behavior and cyberbullying victimization13
Saving behavior and financial literacy of Russian high school students: An application of a copula-based bivariate probit-regression approach13
Children’s Subjective Well-Being During the Global Health Crisis of Covid-19: A Croos-Narional Comparison13
The impact of school’s security and restorative justice measures on school violence13
The aspirations and achievement motivation among care leavers: An exploration through life course perspective13
Reintegration with family and intimate partner violence (IPV) against women among the returnee migrant worker’s family during COVID-19 induced lockdown: A Block-level analysis using multinomial logist13
Outcomes of the Parent Advocacy Initiative in child safety conferences: Placement and repeat maltreatment13
What motivates highly trained child welfare professionals to stay or leave?13
Neighbourhood differences in the rates of criminal cautions and convictions for children in the care system13
On the edge of the image: Guiding the lenses to the individual service plan13
Variability in treatment outcomes from a housing intervention for young mothers misusing substances and experiencing homelessness by sexual identity13
Black adolescent altruism: Exploring the role of racial discrimination and empathy13
The effectiveness of book-gifting programmes to enhance the reading skills of children in care: A randomised controlled trial of ‘Reading Together’ in England13
Risk and protective factors for African American kinship caregiving: A scoping review12
Welfare reform and childhood health status and utilization12
Vision problems and positive youth development: The mediating role of vision-related quality of life and the moderating role of self-control12
Associations of food insecurity and material social support with parent and child mental health during COVID-1912
Watch Me Rise: An evaluation of Wraparound with homeless youth with a child welfare history12
A photovoice study of college students who have experienced foster care, relative care, and/or homelessness12
The effects of universal child allowance on family expenditure in Taiwan12
Emerging adults’ social media engagement & alcohol misuse: A multidimensional, person-centered analysis of risk12
Utilization and costs of health care and early support services in Germany and the influence of mental health burden during the postnatal period12
Fostering emotional and mental health in residential youth care facilities: A systematic review of programs targeted to care workers12
The effectiveness of Nurture Groups at supporting social and emotional outcomes: a systematic review12
Evaluation of the implementation of transition programs for students with intellectual disability in high schools in Saudi Arabia12
Going back to the drawing board: The picture of family support in European constitutions12
Mediation of expressive suppression and emotional well-being in the relationship between loneliness and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents11
The home environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in learning enjoyment and learning effort: A study of German lower secondary school students11
The effect of sexual concerns on placement changes and school transfers for youth in the child welfare system11
Optimizing child protection systems: A systematic review of the literature on risk assessment practices11
Mandated reporting policies and the detection of child abuse and neglect11
Implementing universal maternal depression screening in Head Start: A convergent mixed methods study11
Dialogic reconstruction of memories of violent sexual-affective relationships via dialogic gatherings of “Radical Love”11
Enablers and barriers to the implementation of Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia11
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of group art therapy for children and adolescents of multicultural families: A focus on Korea11
Place-based approach to support children’s development towards sustainable development goals: A scoping review of current effort and future agenda11
Belief in a just world mediates the relation between early life environmental unpredictability and poor cyber defending behavior in adolescence: Evidence from a longitudinal study11
Living arrangements and mental health of children and adolescents with vision impairments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China11
Association of pregnancy attitudes and intentions with sexual activity and psychiatric symptoms in justice-involved youth11
Front line child welfare perspectives on the utility and implementation of intensive family preservation services11
School social workers’ experiences delivering mental health supports amid COVID-19 school reopening11
“We got to stand up and speak”: Youth in high-poverty, high-crime urban communities of color reflect on their cross-age mentoring program11
Editorial Board10
“Kids are in the middle of it” – Child protection practitioners reflect on indicators of coercive control and situational couple violence10
Child protection and safeguarding in initial teacher education: A systematic scoping review10
“Overlapping and intersecting challenges”: Parent and provider perspectives on youth adversity during community reentry after incarceration10
Custodial grandchildren and foster children: A school performance comparison10
Belonging versus alienation among at-risk minority adults: The perspectives of social service providers of at-risk young adult Arabs in Israel10
Designing a mentorship curriculum for assisting social reintegration among youth in institutional care in India10
Development of the protective factors Survey, military families (PFS-MF)10
Testing the structure of the BERRI using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis10
Secondary impacts of evidence-based treatment training and provision on children’s mental health care10
The dyadic parent-child interaction coding system (DPICS): Negative talk as an indicator of dysfunctional mother-child interaction10
What do child maltreatment reports to child protective services tell us about the needs families and communities are experiencing?10
Food hardship as a strong predictor of tobacco and cannabis use among youth in WA state10
What drives early childhood education attendance? The role of structural factors and personal beliefs in Germany10
Is the impact of the South African child support grant on childhood stunting robust? An instrumental variable evaluation10
Gender and child custody outcomes across 16 years of judicial decisions regarding abuse and parental alienation10
Engaging youth for positive change: A mixed methods evaluation of site level program implementation & outcomes10
Adverse Childhood Experiences, sexual debut and substance use among Black justice-involved youth: The imperative of trauma-informed sexuality education10
Risky sexual behavior and STI testing among teens experiencing homelessness10
Parents’ financial assistance for college and black-white wealth disparity10
Challenges and solutions developed by the infant-toddler court teams to support child health services during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Awareness and knowledge of pediatric abusive head trauma among healthcare professionals in Taiwan9
Relationships between co-parenting patterns and achievement motives in Chinese junior high school adolescents: A latent profile analysis9
Extended caregiving arrangements in families from Chinese backgrounds: A qualitative research study from Sydney, Australia9
Adverse childhood experiences and sexual health among young adults: Examining the roles of regulatory focus and patient activation9
Enacting a child safety education programme in special education contexts9
Profiles of family resilience and college adjustment among Chinese Undergraduates: A latent profile and network analysis approach9
I know it when I see it: How urban Latinx parents describe bullying9
Substance use and subjective health in Chinese Left-behind adolescents in rural areas: The moderating role of cognitive reappraisal9
The unintended consequence of school suspension: How school suspension impacted future grades and misconduct9
Inclusion of vulnerable youth in school or work – How can individually tailored professional support contribute?9
Development of a cyberbullying victimization scale for adolescents in South Korea9
Trauma-informed, integrated primary care: A medical home model for children with prenatal drug exposure who enter foster care9
What makes a good learning culture? The role of professional development among child welfare workers9
Human service professionals’ observations of suboptimal parenting: Barriers to intervention and potential solutions9
Parent and adolescent depressive symptom among a national sample of Chinese families: The chained mediating roles of parental involvement and parent–child attachment9
An examination of the ohio scales, short form, hopefulness domain, youth- and caregiver-report versions in a community care setting9
Protective factors in intergenerational trauma: A mixed methods investigation of the role of holistic well-being and parental empowerment by parents’ gender9
Revisiting general strain theory: Studying the predictors of adolescents’ antisocial behavior in Vestland county, Norway9
Maternal and paternal parenting: The role of interparental positivity and negativity from a dyadic perspective9
Effects at 12 months of a primary care intervention using finger puppets to support early language promotion: A pilot study9
Joint developmental trajectories of victimization and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents and the impact of childhood emotional maltreatment: “Boys’ Crisis” and “Girls’ Risk”9
Grandmother and grandchild reports of psychological difficulties among custodial Grandchildren: Whose view matters and why is it important?9
Early academic struggles among children with home-based support from child welfare services9
Beliefs of public health nurses about solution-focused parenting support – A questionnaire study9
Peer and online victimization among Chinese adolescents: Unique direct and indirect relationships with psychological distress9
Foster children’s views of family: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis9
Editorial Board9
Recommendations for improving access to healthcare for street-connected children and youth in Kenya: A qualitative study9
The relationship between violence against authority in the family and adolescent involvement in school bullying: The moderating role of parental psychological control9
The differential association of socioeconomic vulnerabilities and neglect-related child protection involvement across geographies: Multilevel structural equation modeling9
Participatory research approaches to studying social capital in youth mentoring: Not the panacea we hoped for9
An integrative treatment model of EMDR and family therapy for children with severe symptomatology after child abuse and neglect: A SCED study9
Psychometric validation of the French version of the adverse childhood experiences international questionnaire (ACE-IQ)9
Justice involvement and mental health in LGBTQ young people9
Academic expectation stress and online gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents: The mediating role of psychological distress and the moderating role of stress mindset9
Child maltreatment, social relationships and psychological distress: A multiple mediational analysis8
Social workers’ knowledge about children’s memory and child interviewing8
Social support and emotional well-being among boarders and day school students: A two-wave longitudinal study8
Differences in suicidality and psychological symptoms between sexual and gender minority youth compared to heterosexual and cisgender youth in a psychiatric hospital8
Detecting the risk of suicidal-related behaviours in teenagers by means of combined personality dimensions8
The effect of the resilience Psycho-Education program on 8th-grade students' resilience, school burnout, and school attachment levels8
Pain Flashbacks: Exploration of intrusive pain symptoms following child abuse8
Resilience in residential care: A qualitative study based on the voices of adolescents8
Transnational family ties and networks of support for unaccompanied immigrant youths in Spain: The role of youth mentoring in Barcelona8
Inequitable access to relative caregiving: Implications of foster care regulations in Finland, New Zealand, and the United States8
Relationships between behavior symptoms and academic performance in out-of-home care children who are Aboriginal8
Children of high conflict divorce: Exploring the experiences of primary school teachers8
The effectiveness of a child and parent-oriented modular education program on the prevention of child sexual abuse knowledge and parental views: A mixed method study8
The intersection of child welfare services and public assistance: An analysis of dual-system involvement and successful family preservation completion on a maltreatment re-report8
The cross-lagged relationship between adolescent school bullying and loneliness——The predictive role of childhood emotional maltreatment8
“It’s okay to dream: Navigating trauma, healing, and futuring among LGBTQ + Black girls, transgender and nonbinary youth in New York State”8
Autism spectrum disorder, parent coping, and parent concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Time for Me: Development and results of an RCT of a kinship navigator self-compassion and care toolkit for caregivers by caregivers8
Campus liaisons for students who have experienced foster care: Lessons learned from Texas legislation8
Creating conditions that encourage youth engagement in family child welfare case planning meetings: A youth perspective8
Intra-year employment instability and economic well-being among urban households: Mitigating effects of the social safety net8
Corrigendum to “Continuity and change in early material hardship domains on the development of children’s behavioral self-regulation in middle childhood” [Children Youth Services Review 167 (2024) 1078
Models of school breakfast program implementation in Western Australia and the implications for supporting disadvantaged students8
Editorial Board8
Caregiver-child agreement in posttraumatic symptoms and outcomes in the child and family traumatic stress intervention8
Making a way out of no way: The importance of improving financial instability among African American kinship care families8
“Great day! But now what?” Adolescents’ and foster carers’ experiences of a comprehensive health assessment for children in out-of-home care8
“No Intervention, Just Straight Suspension”: Family perspectives of suspension and expulsion8
Trauma sensitive schools: A comprehensive guide for the assessment planning and implementation of trauma informed frameworks8
Home sweet-and-sour home: Changes experienced by girls in a gender-sensitive and trauma-informed authoritative out-of-home placement8
Parents’ supervised contact visits with their children in care: Factors associated with cancellations8
Transnational family life of displaced unaccompanied minors – A systematic review8
The relationship between subjective well-being in school and children’s participation rights: International evidence from the Children’s Worlds survey8
Precarious parental employment, economic hardship, and parenting and child happiness amidst a pandemic7
The protective role of caretakers in the delinquency of detained youth in São Paulo, Brazil7
Light-touch design enhancements can boost parent engagement in math activities7
Reflection on data right protection for minors in the digital age7
Facilitators and barriers to reunification among housing unstable families7
Bullying victimization, self-efficacy, fear of failure, and adolescents’ subjective well-being in China7
Chinese mother’s scaffolding of young children’s responses to stress and children’s depressive symptoms during the first year of primary school7
Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of implementing a family-based intervention Your Family, Your Neighborhood with Latinx immigrant families7
“Change is always hard”: A qualitative exploration of the Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) model implementation process within the context of the pandemics7
Mitigating mental health and wellbeing challenges among young populations: A scan of youth-led initiatives across Canada to inform psychosocial program development7
Inclusive education in schools in Russia and Kazakhstan: Attitudes and well-being of teachers as related factors in the formation of an inclusive environment7
Inequality in literacy skills at kindergarten entry at the intersections of social programs and race7
‘Trying differently’ towards improving school experiences: Systematically reviewing research on school experiences for students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and their teachers7
Moving upstream: The Family First Prevention Services Act and re-imagining opportunities for prevention in child welfare practice7
Approaches to children’s rights by volunteer and professional workers responding to disasters: A quantitative research in Turkey7
Inclusive education in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus: Comparing parental satisfaction7
Children’s self-perception: Investigating associations with direct victimization, indirect victimization, and caregiver partner violence7
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and mental health symptoms among young adults7
“Trying to be everything else”: Examining the challenges experienced by youth development workers7
Ready and able? Professional awareness and responses to young carers in Switzerland7
Do early school- and family-related factors predict midlife psychological well-being? Findings from A prospective Black childhood cohort study7
Teenage pregnancy in Zimbabwe: A call for expedited interventions7
Mental health-related hospitalisations associated with patterns of child protection and youth justice involvement during adolescence: A retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data from7
Investigation of early school leaving risk in disadvantaged girl students at primary education level in rural regions by CHAID analysis7
Too high or too low? the role of educational expectations for children in out-of-home care7
“Life becomes about survival”: Resettlement, integration, and social services among refugee parents7
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Young people with LGB identity and their sense of belonging: Evidence from Northern Ireland – A society emerging from violent social conflict7
Youth care in time of COVID-19: Experiences of professionals and adolescent clients with telehealth7
The mediating role of psychological resilience, anger, and hostility in university students’ attachment styles and life satisfaction7
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