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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Consequences of cyber dating abuse on adolescent victims: Systematic review63
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 setting59
Parental attachment and mental health in Chinese early adolescents: The mediation role of narcissism46
Social behaviour changes via mindfulness practices in early childhood45
Factors affecting malnutrition of rural adolescent girls: Evidences from selected districts of West Bengal40
Case management in community mental health centers: Staffing considerations that account for client and agency context39
Do child care characteristics during toddlerhood explain income-based gaps in reading and math skills at preschool?39
Psychometric properties of pandemic awareness scale for students aged 8–12: The case of COVID-1938
The relationship between human rights, negative affect, bullying victimization, and life satisfaction among Korean adolescents: A national sample study36
Socioeconomic disparities in school life expectancy among India and its major states of India in the last decade: Insights from large scale household surveys data34
Home visiting in home-based child care: Staff and provider experiences33
Addressing the needs of infants and toddlers exposed to maltreatment: Examining the impact of an integrated early head start & children and youth services program33
Care practices and approaches with children experiencing attachment difficulties: A scoping review32
Dialogic literary gatherings in out-of-home care to overcome educational inequalities by improving school academic performance31
Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings31
Effectiveness of a brief social network intervention for depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents under major chronic stress31
The associations between destructive parenting practice and addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone: A three-level meta-analysis31
Bullying victimization and aggression, physical activity and sedentary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis30
Effects of parenting styles on academic achievement: The moderating role of a country’s economic development30
Families’ involvement with the child protection system in Portugal: A one-year follow-up study on case closure after receiving an evidence-based parenting program30
More money, more questions: How caregivers spent the expanded child tax credit29
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children in foster care: A descriptive study of an overlooked child welfare population29
Emerging practices of foster care in Italy within the framework of the European child guarantee: case studies from a participatory perspective28
Deeply navigating among cross-cultural issues makes you a better expert27
“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 systems27
Preventing child protective services system involvement by asking families what they need: Findings from a multi-site RCT of the community response program (CRP)25
‘Love and knowledge’: Enhancing knowledge, fostering belonging, and advancing caring skills among community caregivers for children of asylum-seekers24
Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care24
Evaluating the impact of Family Visit Coaching on future system contact23
Cultural influences on learning motivation: a comparative study of informal learning practices among Syrian refugee and Turkish child laborers in Turkey22
Family resilience before and during the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent transition analysis22
Early childhood education and early childhood special education teachers’ perceived stress, burnout, and depressive symptoms21
Kinship navigation: Facilitating permanency and equity for youth in child welfare21
A preliminary analysis of parent-child interaction therapy plus natural helper support to increase treatment access and engagement for low-income families of color21
Perceived effects of an art therapeutic treatment (ArAT) for children and adolescents with psychosocial problems21
Sexual and reproductive health protective factors among adolescents with child welfare involvement21
Meta-analysis of family functioning and self-esteem among Chinese adolescents20
Organizational supports for evidence use in child welfare20
Effects of cultural stressors and family etiologic factors on behavioral and mental health among Mexican and other Latino/a immigrant parents in the United States19
Measuring adverse childhood experiences in youth: metric development using a statewide youth survey19
Care experienced LGBTQA + young people in out-of-home care in Australia: A case study19
Corporal punishment in schools and community violence: a missing link?19
A national New Zealand study of childhood non-offending contact with police and later offending in adolescence19
Money or Time? The association between parental investment, school engagement and adolescent behavioral problem19
“I found the power of my presence”: Low income and noncustodial fathers’ experiences and insights from parenting young children through the COVID-19 pandemic18
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 analysis18
Sociodemographic risk, school engagement, and community characteristics: A mediated approach to understanding high school dropout18
The aspirations and achievement motivation among care leavers: An exploration through life course perspective18
Facilitators and barriers to sexual and gender minority youth development: Addressing accessibility and “Isms”, building collaborations, and supporting mental health in community-based organizations18
Child maltreatment and nonsuicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents: The mediating effect of psychological resilience and loneliness18
Trend and determinants of early marriage in Rajasthan: Evidence from the national family health survey18
An exploration of the motivations and barriers to being a foster parent in Florida18
Predictors of care leavers’ health outcomes: A scoping review18
Parental involvement and Chinese children’s cognitive and social-emotional school readiness: Differential effects across family socioeconomic status18
Pedagogical shift and parental mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the United states18
Adoption of an evidence-based practice approach in the child and family care system in Europe: A comparative survey study17
Contact with child protection services and subsequent rates of first police contact as a person of interest, victim or witness in early life17
Improving interventions for families with multiple problems: Identifying elements that predict improvement17
Evaluation of a brief online parenting training for community service providers in the Philippines17
Neighbourhood differences in the rates of criminal cautions and convictions for children in the care system17
The effectiveness of book-gifting programmes to enhance the reading skills of children in care: A randomised controlled trial of ‘Reading Together’ in England17
Material Hardship, Labor Market Characteristics and Substantiated Child Maltreatment: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis17
Ohio START: An adaption of the National Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams model17
Universal school-based prevention program for decreasing the depressive symptoms of high school students on a part-time course: Developing the MIRaES program in Japan17
Prevalence of grooming and sexting among Portuguese youth: Adaptation of the Questionnaire for Online Sexual Solicitation and Interactions with Adults and Sexting Questionnaire17
Children’s perspectives on family members’ needs and support after child sexual abuse16
Predictors of placement instability for sexually abused children served by child protection services16
Association between early income variation around poverty thresholds, income trajectories, and birth, child, and family characteristics16
The moderating effect of COVID-19 stress on school racial climate and parent and child mental well-being16
Housing circumstances of disabled parents within the child welfare system16
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Organizational social context and academic achievement of youth in residential care: The mediating role of youth-caregiver relationship quality16
Variability in treatment outcomes from a housing intervention for young mothers misusing substances and experiencing homelessness by sexual identity16
Black girl magic: Empowerment stories of black dual status girls16
Identifying core measures to be used in mental health research with care experienced young people: A Delphi study15
Perception of sex in the attitude-behavior relationship in school violence. A qualitative study15
The maladaptive side of Internet altruists: Relationship between Internet altruistic behavior and cyberbullying victimization15
Attachment representations and emerging borderline personality features in school-aged children under youth protective care, consulting psychologists or child psychiatrists, and from the general popul15
How do emotional abuse and emotional neglect differ in their influences on aggression in Chinese adolescents? The longitudinal mediation of relative deprivation15
Improvements in father-child interactions: Video observations from the Just Beginning study15
The impact of school’s security and restorative justice measures on school violence15
Family, mental health, and placement outcomes of a low-cost preventive intervention for youth in foster care15
Animal-assisted activities in the classroom for students with emotional and behavioral disorders14
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Social context of school satisfaction among primary and secondary school children in Hong Kong14
Black adolescent altruism: Exploring the role of racial discrimination and empathy14
What happens to children who don’t behave in residential care? A multi-informant mixed-methods study on discipline strategies14
The spillover of violence: The gendered relationship between parental physical violence and peers’ bullying victimization14
Brief, digital, self-directed, and culturally adapted: Developing a parenting intervention for primary care14
Emerging adults’ social media engagement & alcohol misuse: A multidimensional, person-centered analysis of risk13
Challenges and solutions developed by the infant-toddler court teams to support child health services during the COVID-19 pandemic13
Effect of digital natives on executive function: The mediating role of problematic Internet use13
Parent-provider relationships in home visiting: An introduction to relational-cultural theory and critical race theory frameworks13
Understanding profiles of youth who use the Casey Life skills assessment13
Rehabilitation of at-risk youth via educational nomadism program and development of place identity13
“We got to stand up and speak”: Youth in high-poverty, high-crime urban communities of color reflect on their cross-age mentoring program13
A systematic review of intervention programs for school attendance problems13
On the edge of the image: Guiding the lenses to the individual service plan13
Utilization and costs of health care and early support services in Germany and the influence of mental health burden during the postnatal period13
The role of emotion regulation strategies in the association between physical abuse and borderline symptoms among deprived youth in Ecuador13
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of group art therapy for children and adolescents of multicultural families: A focus on Korea13
A theory of change for one-on-one peer support for older adolescents and young adults13
How Do Child Protective Service (CPS) Policies Keep Employees Safe: ACaseworker’s Perspective13
Going back to the drawing board: The picture of family support in European constitutions12
Living arrangements and mental health of children and adolescents with vision impairments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China12
Belief in a just world mediates the relation between early life environmental unpredictability and poor cyber defending behavior in adolescence: Evidence from a longitudinal study12
What do child maltreatment reports to child protective services tell us about the needs families and communities are experiencing?12
Risk and protective factors for African American kinship caregiving: A scoping review12
Adverse Childhood Experiences, sexual debut and substance use among Black justice-involved youth: The imperative of trauma-informed sexuality education12
Implementing universal maternal depression screening in Head Start: A convergent mixed methods study12
Designing a mentorship curriculum for assisting social reintegration among youth in institutional care in India12
Front line child welfare perspectives on the utility and implementation of intensive family preservation services12
The effect of sexual concerns on placement changes and school transfers for youth in the child welfare system12
Custodial grandchildren and foster children: A school performance comparison12
Recommendations for improving access to healthcare for street-connected children and youth in Kenya: A qualitative study12
“Kids are in the middle of it” – Child protection practitioners reflect on indicators of coercive control and situational couple violence12
Place-based approach to support children’s development towards sustainable development goals: A scoping review of current effort and future agenda12
School social workers’ experiences delivering mental health supports amid COVID-19 school reopening12
Welfare reform and childhood health status and utilization12
A photovoice study of college students who have experienced foster care, relative care, and/or homelessness12
Dialogic reconstruction of memories of violent sexual-affective relationships via dialogic gatherings of “Radical Love”12
Effect of multi-disciplinary deliberation on perceptions of risk and recommended actions in response to child abuse11
Profiles of family resilience and college adjustment among Chinese Undergraduates: A latent profile and network analysis approach11
Watch Me Rise: An evaluation of Wraparound with homeless youth with a child welfare history11
Evaluation of the implementation of transition programs for students with intellectual disability in high schools in Saudi Arabia11
Vision problems and positive youth development: The mediating role of vision-related quality of life and the moderating role of self-control11
Protective factors in intergenerational trauma: A mixed methods investigation of the role of holistic well-being and parental empowerment by parents’ gender11
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
Children’s Subjective Well-Being During the Global Health Crisis of Covid-19: A Croos-Narional Comparison11
Examining the longitudinal association of parental attachment with self-control among adolescents: The mediating role of self-concept clarity11
Revisiting general strain theory: Studying the predictors of adolescents’ antisocial behavior in Vestland county, Norway11
Mandated reporting policies and the detection of child abuse and neglect11
The dyadic parent-child interaction coding system (DPICS): Negative talk as an indicator of dysfunctional mother-child interaction11
Food hardship as a strong predictor of tobacco and cannabis use among youth in WA state11
Development of the protective factors Survey, military families (PFS-MF)11
Engaging youth for positive change: A mixed methods evaluation of site level program implementation & outcomes11
Policy responses to youth homelessness: Ireland and Flanders compared11
Child protection and safeguarding in initial teacher education: A systematic scoping review11
Is the impact of the South African child support grant on childhood stunting robust? An instrumental variable evaluation11
Testing the structure of the BERRI using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis11
The home environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in learning enjoyment and learning effort: A study of German lower secondary school students11
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Optimizing child protection systems: A systematic review of the literature on risk assessment practices11
Risky sexual behavior and STI testing among teens experiencing homelessness11
What drives early childhood education attendance? The role of structural factors and personal beliefs in Germany11
Fostering emotional and mental health in residential youth care facilities: A systematic review of programs targeted to care workers11
Beliefs of public health nurses about solution-focused parenting support – A questionnaire study10
Effects at 12 months of a primary care intervention using finger puppets to support early language promotion: A pilot study10
Human service professionals’ observations of suboptimal parenting: Barriers to intervention and potential solutions10
The association between mental health and educational problems among adolescent girls in child welfare: moderating role of protective factors10
Intra-year employment instability and economic well-being among urban households: Mitigating effects of the social safety net10
The relationship between violence against authority in the family and adolescent involvement in school bullying: The moderating role of parental psychological control10
Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis10
Associations of food insecurity and material social support with parent and child mental health during COVID-1910
An examination of the ohio scales, short form, hopefulness domain, youth- and caregiver-report versions in a community care setting10
Gender and child custody outcomes across 16 years of judicial decisions regarding abuse and parental alienation10
“Great day! But now what?” Adolescents’ and foster carers’ experiences of a comprehensive health assessment for children in out-of-home care10
Enacting a child safety education programme in special education contexts10
The relationship between subjective well-being in school and children’s participation rights: International evidence from the Children’s Worlds survey10
Detecting the risk of suicidal-related behaviours in teenagers by means of combined personality dimensions10
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What we know about the stigma of systems-involved youth: A scoping review of intersectional research with marginalised youth in contact with social services10
Grandmother and grandchild reports of psychological difficulties among custodial Grandchildren: Whose view matters and why is it important?10
Association of pregnancy attitudes and intentions with sexual activity and psychiatric symptoms in justice-involved youth10
Caregiver-child agreement in posttraumatic symptoms and outcomes in the child and family traumatic stress intervention10
Belonging versus alienation among at-risk minority adults: The perspectives of social service providers of at-risk young adult Arabs in Israel10
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
Justice involvement and mental health in LGBTQ young people10
Inequitable access to relative caregiving: Implications of foster care regulations in Finland, New Zealand, and the United States10
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“It’s okay to dream: Navigating trauma, healing, and futuring among LGBTQ + Black girls, transgender and nonbinary youth in New York State”10
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
Transnational family life of displaced unaccompanied minors – A systematic review10
Peer and online victimization among Chinese adolescents: Unique direct and indirect relationships with psychological distress10
The differential association of socioeconomic vulnerabilities and neglect-related child protection involvement across geographies: Multilevel structural equation modeling10
The unintended consequence of school suspension: How school suspension impacted future grades and misconduct10
Mediation of expressive suppression and emotional well-being in the relationship between loneliness and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents10
The effectiveness of Nurture Groups at supporting social and emotional outcomes: a systematic review10
Inclusion of vulnerable youth in school or work – How can individually tailored professional support contribute?10
“No Intervention, Just Straight Suspension”: Family perspectives of suspension and expulsion9
Teenage pregnancy in Zimbabwe: A call for expedited interventions9
Inequality in literacy skills at kindergarten entry at the intersections of social programs and race9
Do early school- and family-related factors predict midlife psychological well-being? Findings from A prospective Black childhood cohort study9
Psychometric validation of the French version of the adverse childhood experiences international questionnaire (ACE-IQ)9
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Models of school breakfast program implementation in Western Australia and the implications for supporting disadvantaged students9
Foster children’s views of family: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis9
Academic expectation stress and online gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents: The mediating role of psychological distress and the moderating role of stress mindset9
I know it when I see it: How urban Latinx parents describe bullying9
Research-policy-practice in developing a systems approach to child protection: a county-level case in China9
From juvenile justice involvement to incarceration in young adulthood: Do independent living services matter?9
Child maltreatment, social relationships and psychological distress: A multiple mediational analysis9
The effectiveness of UK-based interventions to reduce school exclusion. A systematic review9
Access to autism services and support needs in Morocco: Perspectives of autistic adults, caregivers, service providers, and civil society9
The protective role of caretakers in the delinquency of detained youth in São Paulo, Brazil9
The effect of the resilience Psycho-Education program on 8th-grade students' resilience, school burnout, and school attachment levels9
Child surgency and child aggression: The moderating effect of parental nurturance, emotion coaching, and family income9
Development of a cyberbullying victimization scale for adolescents in South Korea9
Social support and emotional well-being among boarders and day school students: A two-wave longitudinal study9
Early academic struggles among children with home-based support from child welfare services9
Extended caregiving arrangements in families from Chinese backgrounds: A qualitative research study from Sydney, Australia9
An integrative treatment model of EMDR and family therapy for children with severe symptomatology after child abuse and neglect: A SCED study9
Participatory research approaches to studying social capital in youth mentoring: Not the panacea we hoped for9
Making a way out of no way: The importance of improving financial instability among African American kinship care families9
Joint developmental trajectories of victimization and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents and the impact of childhood emotional maltreatment: “Boys’ Crisis” and “Girls’ Risk”9
A review of sources and preliminary findings for understanding foster care re-entry services and outcomes9
‘Bichara’, ‘Katthai’: countering the discourse: understanding risk and resilience in response to child trafficking in the entertainment sector of Nepal9
Development and validation of the youth development instrument (YDI): A comprehensive survey of adolescent health and well-being9
Autism spectrum disorder, parent coping, and parent concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic9
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Concerns of emerging adults who were born and raised in planned lesbian-parent families9
Differences in suicidality and psychological symptoms between sexual and gender minority youth compared to heterosexual and cisgender youth in a psychiatric hospital9
Relationships between co-parenting patterns and achievement motives in Chinese junior high school adolescents: A latent profile analysis9
Social workers’ knowledge about children’s memory and child interviewing9
What makes a good learning culture? The role of professional development among child welfare workers9
Maternal and paternal parenting: The role of interparental positivity and negativity from a dyadic perspective9
The cross-lagged relationship between adolescent school bullying and loneliness——The predictive role of childhood emotional maltreatment9
Parent and adolescent depressive symptom among a national sample of Chinese families: The chained mediating roles of parental involvement and parent–child attachment9
Creating conditions that encourage youth engagement in family child welfare case planning meetings: A youth perspective9
Faith and access: The role of religion in formal mental health service utilization among Black adolescents9
Care Leaver Statistics (CLS): Ethical challenges, rights-based perspectives and data protection in longitudinal research with marginalized and vulnerable groups8
Variation in state safety-net inclusivity and the health and well-being of children and parents in immigrant households8
Exploring the influence of family relationship on students’ school well-being8
“Life becomes about survival”: Resettlement, integration, and social services among refugee parents8
Children’s self-perception: Investigating associations with direct victimization, indirect victimization, and caregiver partner violence8
Approaches to strengthen parental self-efficacy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews8
Determinants of receiving child protection and welfare services following initial assessment: A cross-sectional study from the Republic of Ireland8
‘Trying differently’ towards improving school experiences: Systematically reviewing research on school experiences for students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and their teachers8
Introducing a new data resource for comparative child welfare research: The ROCKWOOL-Duke global child welfare database8
The mediating role of psychological resilience, anger, and hostility in university students’ attachment styles and life satisfaction8
A systematic review of common elements of practice that support reunification8
Adoption process in South Africa: Experiences of transracial adoptive families8
Young people with LGB identity and their sense of belonging: Evidence from Northern Ireland – A society emerging from violent social conflict8
Effects of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Community-Based Mentoring Program on social-emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes of participating youth: A randomized controlled trial8
Chinese mother’s scaffolding of young children’s responses to stress and children’s depressive symptoms during the first year of primary school8
The long-term effect of childhood left-behind experiences on entrepreneurial activities in adulthood: Empirical evidence from China8
Too high or too low? the role of educational expectations for children in out-of-home care8
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and mental health symptoms among young adults8
Reflection on data right protection for minors in the digital age8
Introduction to the special issue on the governance of national care systems for orphans and vulnerable children in low-income countries8
Longitudinal bidirectional relationships between deviant peer affiliation/core self-evaluation and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents8
Youth mental health first aid training outcomes among public safety professionals serving high-risk youth8
Time for Me: Development and results of an RCT of a kinship navigator self-compassion and care toolkit for caregivers by caregivers8
“Change is always hard”: A qualitative exploration of the Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) model implementation process within the context of the pandemics8
Investigation of early school leaving risk in disadvantaged girl students at primary education level in rural regions by CHAID analysis8
Strengths supporting resilience in individuals with learning disabilities: A scoping review8
Trauma sensitive schools: A comprehensive guide for the assessment planning and implementation of trauma informed frameworks8
Pain Flashbacks: Exploration of intrusive pain symptoms following child abuse8
Mental health-related hospitalisations associated with patterns of child protection and youth justice involvement during adolescence: A retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data from8
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