Children and Youth Services Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Children and Youth Services Review is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Living in Italian residential care under COVID-19 restrictions. A survey on adolescents’ perspectives over their psychosocial wellbeing60
Development of a dissemination and implementation framework for an adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) prevention program in a rural community setting55
Parental attachment and mental health in Chinese early adolescents: The mediation role of narcissism47
Bullying victimization and aggression, physical activity and sedentary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Emerging practices of foster care in Italy within the framework of the European child guarantee: case studies from a participatory perspective39
Deeply navigating among cross-cultural issues makes you a better expert37
Psychometric properties of pandemic awareness scale for students aged 8–12: The case of COVID-1936
Socioeconomic disparities in school life expectancy among India and its major states of India in the last decade: Insights from large scale household surveys data36
Addressing the needs of infants and toddlers exposed to maltreatment: Examining the impact of an integrated early head start & children and youth services program36
Cultural influences on learning motivation: a comparative study of informal learning practices among Syrian refugee and Turkish child laborers in Turkey35
Effectiveness of a brief social network intervention for depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents under major chronic stress35
“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 systems34
Perceived effects of an art therapeutic treatment (ArAT) for children and adolescents with psychosocial problems34
Turning points for children experiencing vulnerabilities: the role of outdoor adventure34
A national New Zealand study of childhood non-offending contact with police and later offending in adolescence34
More money, more questions: How caregivers spent the expanded child tax credit32
Home visiting in home-based child care: Staff and provider experiences31
Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings31
‘Love and knowledge’: Enhancing knowledge, fostering belonging, and advancing caring skills among community caregivers for children of asylum-seekers29
Best practice vs. reality: An exploratory study of communication dynamics during forensic dental and medical examinations in child abuse investigations28
Money or Time? The association between parental investment, school engagement and adolescent behavioral problem28
Trend and determinants of early marriage in Rajasthan: Evidence from the national family health survey28
Youth with FASD: Understanding the challenges and identifying supports to foster healthy development28
Predictors of care leavers’ health outcomes: A scoping review28
Parental involvement and Chinese children’s cognitive and social-emotional school readiness: Differential effects across family socioeconomic status28
Organizational supports for evidence use in child welfare28
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 analysis27
Criminal justice system outcomes of children with child welfare service involvement and special educational needs: analysis of routinely collected data26
Consequences of cyber dating abuse on adolescent victims: Systematic review26
Families’ involvement with the child protection system in Portugal: A one-year follow-up study on case closure after receiving an evidence-based parenting program25
“I found the power of my presence”: Low income and noncustodial fathers’ experiences and insights from parenting young children through the COVID-19 pandemic25
Care practices and approaches with children experiencing attachment difficulties: A scoping review25
Pre-adoption and post-adoption factors associated with internalizing problems in adopted children and adolescents: A systematic review25
Corporal punishment in schools and community violence: a missing link?24
The associations between destructive parenting practice and addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone: A three-level meta-analysis24
Care experienced LGBTQA + young people in out-of-home care in Australia: A case study24
Facilitators and barriers to sexual and gender minority youth development: Addressing accessibility and “Isms”, building collaborations, and supporting mental health in community-based organizations24
Measuring adverse childhood experiences in youth: metric development using a statewide youth survey24
Factors affecting malnutrition of rural adolescent girls: Evidences from selected districts of West Bengal24
Effects of parenting styles on academic achievement: The moderating role of a country’s economic development23
The relationship between human rights, negative affect, bullying victimization, and life satisfaction among Korean adolescents: A national sample study23
Sexual and reproductive health protective factors among adolescents with child welfare involvement23
The longitudinal relationship between bullying victimization and internalizing problems among early adolescents: A cross-lagged panel network analysis23
Family resilience before and during the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent transition analysis22
Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care22
Art-based career and life development intervention for non-engaged youth: A quasi-experimental outcome study22
Effects of cultural stressors and family etiologic factors on behavioral and mental health among Mexican and other Latino/a immigrant parents in the United States22
Early childhood education and early childhood special education teachers’ perceived stress, burnout, and depressive symptoms22
Preventing child protective services system involvement by asking families what they need: Findings from a multi-site RCT of the community response program (CRP)22
Meta-analysis of family functioning and self-esteem among Chinese adolescents22
Assessing parental capacity in abusive fathers – A pilot study in child social welfare using an interview based on reflective functioning21
Social behaviour changes via mindfulness practices in early childhood21
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children in foster care: A descriptive study of an overlooked child welfare population21
Evaluating the impact of Family Visit Coaching on future system contact20
Universal school-based prevention program for decreasing the depressive symptoms of high school students on a part-time course: Developing the MIRaES program in Japan20
Unpacking gender differences: The role of familism values in the relationship between perceived discrimination and educational attainment among second-generation immigrant youth20
The moderating effect of COVID-19 stress on school racial climate and parent and child mental well-being20
Material Hardship, Labor Market Characteristics and Substantiated Child Maltreatment: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis20
Evaluation of a brief online parenting training for community service providers in the Philippines20
Association between early income variation around poverty thresholds, income trajectories, and birth, child, and family characteristics19
Pedagogical shift and parental mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the United states19
What happens to children who don’t behave in residential care? A multi-informant mixed-methods study on discipline strategies19
Does family size increase children’s probability of dropping out of school? Evidence from Afghan households19
The moderating role of school engagement on the relationship between childhood adversity and latent profiles of mental and behavioral health among child welfare-involved adolescents19
Perception of sex in the attitude-behavior relationship in school violence. A qualitative study19
Contact with child protection services and subsequent rates of first police contact as a person of interest, victim or witness in early life19
Variability in treatment outcomes from a housing intervention for young mothers misusing substances and experiencing homelessness by sexual identity18
Prevalence of grooming and sexting among Portuguese youth: Adaptation of the Questionnaire for Online Sexual Solicitation and Interactions with Adults and Sexting Questionnaire18
Attachment representations and emerging borderline personality features in school-aged children under youth protective care, consulting psychologists or child psychiatrists, and from the general popul18
How do emotional abuse and emotional neglect differ in their influences on aggression in Chinese adolescents? The longitudinal mediation of relative deprivation17
Adoption of an evidence-based practice approach in the child and family care system in Europe: A comparative survey study17
Housing circumstances of disabled parents within the child welfare system17
Black girl magic: Empowerment stories of black dual status girls17
Associations of secondary victimization and social reactions with PTSD symptoms among young adult female survivors of sexual assault in South Korea17
Neighbourhood differences in the rates of criminal cautions and convictions for children in the care system17
Predictors of placement instability for sexually abused children served by child protection services17
Improvements in father-child interactions: Video observations from the Just Beginning study17
Editorial Board17
Identifying core measures to be used in mental health research with care experienced young people: A Delphi study17
Child rape against girl children and its impacts on survivors and their families in selected rural areas of Bangladesh17
Editorial Board17
The aspirations and achievement motivation among care leavers: An exploration through life course perspective17
Preliminary impact of the say no to stigma intervention on attitudes toward mental illness: A pilot randomized clinical trial among primary school students in Uganda17
Family, mental health, and placement outcomes of a low-cost preventive intervention for youth in foster care17
Effect of digital natives on executive function: The mediating role of problematic Internet use17
Improving interventions for families with multiple problems: Identifying elements that predict improvement16
A systematic review of intervention programs for school attendance problems16
Measuring collaboration quality in the context of Barnahus and Children’s Advocacy Centers: a thematic and measure review16
The situation of refugee students with disabilities in the Turkish education system: an embedded case study16
A theory of change for one-on-one peer support for older adolescents and young adults16
Challenges and solutions developed by the infant-toddler court teams to support child health services during the COVID-19 pandemic16
Changes in mental health of adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: comparison by household structure and parental employment16
Black adolescent altruism: Exploring the role of racial discrimination and empathy16
Ohio START: An adaption of the National Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams model16
On the edge of the image: Guiding the lenses to the individual service plan16
The effectiveness of book-gifting programmes to enhance the reading skills of children in care: A randomised controlled trial of ‘Reading Together’ in England16
Promises unfulfilled? National patterns in ICWA-preferred kinship placements, 2018–202316
The spillover of violence: The gendered relationship between parental physical violence and peers’ bullying victimization16
Social context of school satisfaction among primary and secondary school children in Hong Kong16
Understanding profiles of youth who use the Casey Life skills assessment16
Temporal trends and determinants of children’s subjective well-being across 20 countries: a multilevel analysis from the international survey of children’s well-being16
Children’s perspectives on family members’ needs and support after child sexual abuse16
How Do Child Protective Service (CPS) Policies Keep Employees Safe: ACaseworker’s Perspective16
Place-based inequalities in children’s safeguarding referrals: A multilevel analysis of trends across English local authorities, 2013/14–2021/2215
Effect of multi-disciplinary deliberation on perceptions of risk and recommended actions in response to child abuse15
Fostering emotional and mental health in residential youth care facilities: A systematic review of programs targeted to care workers15
Implementing universal maternal depression screening in Head Start: A convergent mixed methods study15
“We got to stand up and speak”: Youth in high-poverty, high-crime urban communities of color reflect on their cross-age mentoring program15
Examining the longitudinal association of parental attachment with self-control among adolescents: The mediating role of self-concept clarity15
Development of a measure to assess foster/adoptive caregiver perceived readiness to care for youth who identify as LGBTQ+15
Development of the protective factors Survey, military families (PFS-MF)15
Child protection and safeguarding in initial teacher education: A systematic scoping review15
Mandated reporting policies and the detection of child abuse and neglect15
Living arrangements and mental health of children and adolescents with vision impairments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China15
Patterns of service provision in child welfare investigations by migration background: A Swedish cross-sectional study15
The effectiveness of Nurture Groups at supporting social and emotional outcomes: a systematic review14
Welfare reform and childhood health status and utilization14
Parent-provider relationships in home visiting: An introduction to relational-cultural theory and critical race theory frameworks14
Editorial Board14
Engaging youth for positive change: A mixed methods evaluation of site level program implementation & outcomes14
Factors associated with physical punishment of 1–4-year-old children in bangladesh: a cross-sectional study14
“Kids are in the middle of it” – Child protection practitioners reflect on indicators of coercive control and situational couple violence14
Gender and child custody outcomes across 16 years of judicial decisions regarding abuse and parental alienation14
Belonging versus alienation among at-risk minority adults: The perspectives of social service providers of at-risk young adult Arabs in Israel14
Associations of food insecurity and material social support with parent and child mental health during COVID-1914
Revisiting general strain theory: Studying the predictors of adolescents’ antisocial behavior in Vestland county, Norway14
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, Australia14
Watch Me Rise: An evaluation of Wraparound with homeless youth with a child welfare history14
Emerging adults’ social media engagement & alcohol misuse: A multidimensional, person-centered analysis of risk13
Food hardship as a strong predictor of tobacco and cannabis use among youth in WA state13
Knowledge, belief, and self-efficacy towards autistic children in educational contexts: a global perspective in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)13
Utilization and costs of health care and early support services in Germany and the influence of mental health burden during the postnatal period13
Profiles of family resilience and college adjustment among Chinese Undergraduates: A latent profile and network analysis approach13
School social workers’ experiences delivering mental health supports amid COVID-19 school reopening13
Belief in a just world mediates the relation between early life environmental unpredictability and poor cyber defending behavior in adolescence: Evidence from a longitudinal study13
The role of emotion regulation strategies in the association between physical abuse and borderline symptoms among deprived youth in Ecuador13
Exploring young residential care leavers’ participation in care leaving decisions in Ghana: An interpretive analysis using Hart’s ladder of participation13
Is the impact of the South African child support grant on childhood stunting robust? An instrumental variable evaluation13
The dyadic parent-child interaction coding system (DPICS): Negative talk as an indicator of dysfunctional mother-child interaction13
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of group art therapy for children and adolescents of multicultural families: A focus on Korea13
Testing the structure of the BERRI using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis13
Policy responses to youth homelessness: Ireland and Flanders compared13
Dialogic reconstruction of memories of violent sexual-affective relationships via dialogic gatherings of “Radical Love”13
The support issues that young people face after leaving residential facilities for children with disabilities in Japan13
The relationship between peer interaction and subjective well-being among orphans: a meta-analysis13
Risky sexual behavior and STI testing among teens experiencing homelessness13
Protective factors in intergenerational trauma: A mixed methods investigation of the role of holistic well-being and parental empowerment by parents’ gender13
Risk and protective factors for African American kinship caregiving: A scoping review12
Optimizing child protection systems: A systematic review of the literature on risk assessment practices12
What do child maltreatment reports to child protective services tell us about the needs families and communities are experiencing?12
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 adolescents12
A photovoice study of college students who have experienced foster care, relative care, and/or homelessness12
Vision problems and positive youth development: The mediating role of vision-related quality of life and the moderating role of self-control12
Adverse Childhood Experiences, sexual debut and substance use among Black justice-involved youth: The imperative of trauma-informed sexuality education12
Place-based approach to support children’s development towards sustainable development goals: A scoping review of current effort and future agenda12
Rehabilitation of at-risk youth via educational nomadism program and development of place identity12
Front line child welfare perspectives on the utility and implementation of intensive family preservation services12
Children’s Subjective Well-Being During the Global Health Crisis of Covid-19: A Croos-Narional Comparison12
The home environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in learning enjoyment and learning effort: A study of German lower secondary school students12
What drives early childhood education attendance? The role of structural factors and personal beliefs in Germany12
Designing a mentorship curriculum for assisting social reintegration among youth in institutional care in India12
Evaluation of the implementation of transition programs for students with intellectual disability in high schools in Saudi Arabia12
The relationship between violence against authority in the family and adolescent involvement in school bullying: The moderating role of parental psychological control12
Active coping as a bridge between family resilience and posttraumatic growth in Arab adolescents and youth exposed to war12
Beliefs of public health nurses about solution-focused parenting support – A questionnaire study11
From juvenile justice involvement to incarceration in young adulthood: Do independent living services matter?11
Evaluation of the Merseyside Navigator Programme: A hospital-based violence intervention programme for young people affected by or at risk of violence11
Seeing the invisible: Educators contending with childhood neglect among their students11
“It’s okay to dream: Navigating trauma, healing, and futuring among LGBTQ + Black girls, transgender and nonbinary youth in New York State”11
Go to school. Go to college. Make something of your life11
Development and validation of the youth development instrument (YDI): A comprehensive survey of adolescent health and well-being11
Joint developmental trajectories of victimization and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents and the impact of childhood emotional maltreatment: “Boys’ Crisis” and “Girls’ Risk”11
Enacting a child safety education programme in special education contexts11
An examination of the ohio scales, short form, hopefulness domain, youth- and caregiver-report versions in a community care setting11
Effects at 12 months of a primary care intervention using finger puppets to support early language promotion: A pilot study11
Caregiver-child agreement in posttraumatic symptoms and outcomes in the child and family traumatic stress intervention11
The cross-lagged relationship between adolescent school bullying and loneliness——The predictive role of childhood emotional maltreatment11
The association between mental health and educational problems among adolescent girls in child welfare: moderating role of protective factors11
Research-policy-practice in developing a systems approach to child protection: a county-level case in China11
Inequitable access to relative caregiving: Implications of foster care regulations in Finland, New Zealand, and the United States11
Intra-year employment instability and economic well-being among urban households: Mitigating effects of the social safety net11
The effectiveness of UK-based interventions to reduce school exclusion. A systematic review11
Maternal and paternal parenting: The role of interparental positivity and negativity from a dyadic perspective11
The impact of childhood sexual abuse on adolescent peer relationships: a social network analysis11
Multisystemic therapy across Europe: Implementation and evolution11
Grandmother and grandchild reports of psychological difficulties among custodial Grandchildren: Whose view matters and why is it important?11
‘Bichara’, ‘Katthai’: countering the discourse: understanding risk and resilience in response to child trafficking in the entertainment sector of Nepal11
Editorial Board11
Parent and adolescent depressive symptom among a national sample of Chinese families: The chained mediating roles of parental involvement and parent–child attachment11
What we know about the stigma of systems-involved youth: A scoping review of intersectional research with marginalised youth in contact with social services11
Models of school breakfast program implementation in Western Australia and the implications for supporting disadvantaged students10
Do early school- and family-related factors predict midlife psychological well-being? Findings from A prospective Black childhood cohort study10
Development of a cyberbullying victimization scale for adolescents in South Korea10
Peer and online victimization among Chinese adolescents: Unique direct and indirect relationships with psychological distress10
Relationships between co-parenting patterns and achievement motives in Chinese junior high school adolescents: A latent profile analysis10
Reflection on data right protection for minors in the digital age10
Building capacity to implement sexual health risk and substance use disorder prevention services in adolescent behavioral health treatment: A case study10
Extended caregiving arrangements in families from Chinese backgrounds: A qualitative research study from Sydney, Australia10
Mitigating mental health and wellbeing challenges among young populations: A scan of youth-led initiatives across Canada to inform psychosocial program development10
The relationship between subjective well-being in school and children’s participation rights: International evidence from the Children’s Worlds survey10
The protective role of caretakers in the delinquency of detained youth in São Paulo, Brazil10
Inclusion of vulnerable youth in school or work – How can individually tailored professional support contribute?10
Psychometric validation of the French version of the adverse childhood experiences international questionnaire (ACE-IQ)10
Retrospective Birth: The transition to parenthood among foster care alumni10
Mapping the local youth violence prevention ecosystem: a foundational study for diversion and navigator mentorship pathways10
“Great day! But now what?” Adolescents’ and foster carers’ experiences of a comprehensive health assessment for children in out-of-home care10
Out-of-school time programs and marginalized youth: a systematic review of qualitative and mixed studies10
Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis10
Creating conditions that encourage youth engagement in family child welfare case planning meetings: A youth perspective10
Making a way out of no way: The importance of improving financial instability among African American kinship care families10
Access to autism services and support needs in Morocco: Perspectives of autistic adults, caregivers, service providers, and civil society10
What makes a good learning culture? The role of professional development among child welfare workers10
The mediating role of psychological resilience, anger, and hostility in university students’ attachment styles and life satisfaction10
“Life becomes about survival”: Resettlement, integration, and social services among refugee parents10
Faith and access: The role of religion in formal mental health service utilization among Black adolescents10
Exploring the influence of family relationship on students’ school well-being10
Editorial Board10
Children’s self-perception: Investigating associations with direct victimization, indirect victimization, and caregiver partner violence10
The unintended consequence of school suspension: How school suspension impacted future grades and misconduct10
Transnational family life of displaced unaccompanied minors – A systematic review10
Family experiences regarding treatments and therapies for children with developmental disabilities: A qualitative study10
Academic expectation stress and online gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents: The mediating role of psychological distress and the moderating role of stress mindset10
An integrative treatment model of EMDR and family therapy for children with severe symptomatology after child abuse and neglect: A SCED study10
Human service professionals’ observations of suboptimal parenting: Barriers to intervention and potential solutions10
Justice involvement and mental health in LGBTQ young people10
I know it when I see it: How urban Latinx parents describe bullying10
Social workers’ knowledge about children’s memory and child interviewing10
“No Intervention, Just Straight Suspension”: Family perspectives of suspension and expulsion10
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and mental health symptoms among young adults10
Trauma sensitive schools: A comprehensive guide for the assessment planning and implementation of trauma informed frameworks10
“They had to change the model to fit the victim, versus the victim having to fit the model”: Innovative solutions in community response to commercial sexual exploitation10
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 study10
Autism spectrum disorder, parent coping, and parent concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic10
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) 10710
Editorial Board10
Social support and emotional well-being among boarders and day school students: A two-wave longitudinal study10
Participatory research approaches to studying social capital in youth mentoring: Not the panacea we hoped for10
A review of sources and preliminary findings for understanding foster care re-entry services and outcomes10
Child maltreatment, social relationships and psychological distress: A multiple mediational analysis10
Time for Me: Development and results of an RCT of a kinship navigator self-compassion and care toolkit for caregivers by caregivers9
Care Leaver Statistics (CLS): Ethical challenges, rights-based perspectives and data protection in longitudinal research with marginalized and vulnerable groups9
Development and evaluation of suicide prevention for child welfare involved youth: an asynchronous online curriculum for prospective child welfare workers9
Beyond removal rates: Prenatal reporting and the challenge of measuring what matters9
Hidden scars: prevalence and risk factors of abuse among child waste pickers in Tehran9
Loneliness: Adolescents’ perspectives on what causes it, and ways youth services can prevent it9
Care-experienced children and the criminal justice system. A systematic review of their perceptions and the professionals who work with them. (Children and Youth Services Review)9
Youth care in time of COVID-19: Experiences of professionals and adolescent clients with telehealth9
Does income moderate the adverse childhood experiences – School engagement relationship?9
Resilience in residential care: A qualitative study based on the voices of adolescents9
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