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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Living in Italian residential care under COVID-19 restrictions. A survey on adolescents’ perspectives over their psychosocial wellbeing56
Development of a dissemination and implementation framework for an adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) prevention program in a rural community setting49
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-analysis44
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children in foster care: A descriptive study of an overlooked child welfare population41
Emerging practices of foster care in Italy within the framework of the European child guarantee: case studies from a participatory perspective38
Deeply navigating among cross-cultural issues makes you a better expert36
Meta-analysis of family functioning and self-esteem among Chinese adolescents36
Socioeconomic disparities in school life expectancy among India and its major states of India in the last decade: Insights from large scale household surveys data35
Addressing the needs of infants and toddlers exposed to maltreatment: Examining the impact of an integrated early head start & children and youth services program35
Care practices and approaches with children experiencing attachment difficulties: A scoping review34
Psychometric properties of pandemic awareness scale for students aged 8–12: The case of COVID-1933
Effectiveness of a brief social network intervention for depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents under major chronic stress32
Cultural influences on learning motivation: a comparative study of informal learning practices among Syrian refugee and Turkish child laborers in Turkey31
Evaluating the impact of Family Visit Coaching on future system contact31
Perceived effects of an art therapeutic treatment (ArAT) for children and adolescents with psychosocial problems30
A national New Zealand study of childhood non-offending contact with police and later offending in adolescence30
Turning points for children experiencing vulnerabilities: the role of outdoor adventure29
“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 systems29
The associations between destructive parenting practice and addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone: A three-level meta-analysis29
Family resilience before and during the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent transition analysis28
More money, more questions: How caregivers spent the expanded child tax credit28
Measuring adverse childhood experiences in youth: metric development using a statewide youth survey26
Home visiting in home-based child care: Staff and provider experiences26
Corporal punishment in schools and community violence: a missing link?26
Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings26
Factors affecting malnutrition of rural adolescent girls: Evidences from selected districts of West Bengal26
Preventing child protective services system involvement by asking families what they need: Findings from a multi-site RCT of the community response program (CRP)26
‘Love and knowledge’: Enhancing knowledge, fostering belonging, and advancing caring skills among community caregivers for children of asylum-seekers25
Trend and determinants of early marriage in Rajasthan: Evidence from the national family health survey24
Organizational supports for evidence use in child welfare23
Predictors of care leavers’ health outcomes: A scoping review23
Social behaviour changes via mindfulness practices in early childhood23
Effects of cultural stressors and family etiologic factors on behavioral and mental health among Mexican and other Latino/a immigrant parents in the United States23
Best practice vs. reality: An exploratory study of communication dynamics during forensic dental and medical examinations in child abuse investigations23
Effects of parenting styles on academic achievement: The moderating role of a country’s economic development22
Criminal justice system outcomes of children with child welfare service involvement and special educational needs: analysis of routinely collected data22
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 analysis22
Sexual and reproductive health protective factors among adolescents with child welfare involvement22
Consequences of cyber dating abuse on adolescent victims: Systematic review22
Pre-adoption and post-adoption factors associated with internalizing problems in adopted children and adolescents: A systematic review22
Families’ involvement with the child protection system in Portugal: A one-year follow-up study on case closure after receiving an evidence-based parenting program21
Early childhood education and early childhood special education teachers’ perceived stress, burnout, and depressive symptoms21
“I found the power of my presence”: Low income and noncustodial fathers’ experiences and insights from parenting young children through the COVID-19 pandemic21
Money or Time? The association between parental investment, school engagement and adolescent behavioral problem21
Assessing parental capacity in abusive fathers – A pilot study in child social welfare using an interview based on reflective functioning21
The relationship between human rights, negative affect, bullying victimization, and life satisfaction among Korean adolescents: A national sample study20
“I felt like that was my second home”: A qualitative study of adult engagement with opportunity youth in a workforce development program19
Care experienced LGBTQA + young people in out-of-home care in Australia: A case study19
The aspirations and achievement motivation among care leavers: An exploration through life course perspective19
Evaluation of a brief online parenting training for community service providers in the Philippines19
Material Hardship, Labor Market Characteristics and Substantiated Child Maltreatment: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis19
Youth with FASD: Understanding the challenges and identifying supports to foster healthy development19
Parental involvement and Chinese children’s cognitive and social-emotional school readiness: Differential effects across family socioeconomic status19
A theory of change for one-on-one peer support for older adolescents and young adults19
Universal school-based prevention program for decreasing the depressive symptoms of high school students on a part-time course: Developing the MIRaES program in Japan19
Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care19
Facilitators and barriers to sexual and gender minority youth development: Addressing accessibility and “Isms”, building collaborations, and supporting mental health in community-based organizations19
Unpacking gender differences: The role of familism values in the relationship between perceived discrimination and educational attainment among second-generation immigrant youth19
The moderating effect of COVID-19 stress on school racial climate and parent and child mental well-being19
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
Ohio START: An adaption of the National Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams model18
Does family size increase children’s probability of dropping out of school? Evidence from Afghan households18
Perception of sex in the attitude-behavior relationship in school violence. A qualitative study18
Editorial Board18
Pedagogical shift and parental mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the United states18
Black adolescent altruism: Exploring the role of racial discrimination and empathy18
What happens to children who don’t behave in residential care? A multi-informant mixed-methods study on discipline strategies18
Association between early income variation around poverty thresholds, income trajectories, and birth, child, and family characteristics18
The moderating role of school engagement on the relationship between childhood adversity and latent profiles of mental and behavioral health among child welfare-involved adolescents18
Changes in mental health of adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: comparison by household structure and parental employment18
Contact with child protection services and subsequent rates of first police contact as a person of interest, victim or witness in early life18
Organizational social context and academic achievement of youth in residential care: The mediating role of youth-caregiver relationship quality17
Associations of secondary victimization and social reactions with PTSD symptoms among young adult female survivors of sexual assault in South Korea17
Variability in treatment outcomes from a housing intervention for young mothers misusing substances and experiencing homelessness by sexual identity17
Housing circumstances of disabled parents within the child welfare system17
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
Prevalence of grooming and sexting among Portuguese youth: Adaptation of the Questionnaire for Online Sexual Solicitation and Interactions with Adults and Sexting Questionnaire17
Child rape against girl children and its impacts on survivors and their families in selected rural areas of Bangladesh16
Identifying core measures to be used in mental health research with care experienced young people: A Delphi study16
Editorial Board16
Adoption of an evidence-based practice approach in the child and family care system in Europe: A comparative survey study16
Children’s perspectives on family members’ needs and support after child sexual abuse16
How do emotional abuse and emotional neglect differ in their influences on aggression in Chinese adolescents? The longitudinal mediation of relative deprivation16
Effect of digital natives on executive function: The mediating role of problematic Internet use16
Black girl magic: Empowerment stories of black dual status girls16
Predictors of placement instability for sexually abused children served by child protection services16
Neighbourhood differences in the rates of criminal cautions and convictions for children in the care system16
Family, mental health, and placement outcomes of a low-cost preventive intervention for youth in foster care16
Improving interventions for families with multiple problems: Identifying elements that predict improvement16
A systematic review of intervention programs for school attendance problems15
How Do Child Protective Service (CPS) Policies Keep Employees Safe: ACaseworker’s Perspective15
Understanding profiles of youth who use the Casey Life skills assessment15
The spillover of violence: The gendered relationship between parental physical violence and peers’ bullying victimization15
On the edge of the image: Guiding the lenses to the individual service plan15
Challenges and solutions developed by the infant-toddler court teams to support child health services during the COVID-19 pandemic15
Implementing universal maternal depression screening in Head Start: A convergent mixed methods study15
Improvements in father-child interactions: Video observations from the Just Beginning study15
Measuring collaboration quality in the context of Barnahus and Children’s Advocacy Centers: a thematic and measure review15
The effectiveness of book-gifting programmes to enhance the reading skills of children in care: A randomised controlled trial of ‘Reading Together’ in England15
Rehabilitation of at-risk youth via educational nomadism program and development of place identity15
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of group art therapy for children and adolescents of multicultural families: A focus on Korea15
Social context of school satisfaction among primary and secondary school children in Hong Kong15
Living arrangements and mental health of children and adolescents with vision impairments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China14
Development of a measure to assess foster/adoptive caregiver perceived readiness to care for youth who identify as LGBTQ+14
Watch Me Rise: An evaluation of Wraparound with homeless youth with a child welfare history14
Adverse Childhood Experiences, sexual debut and substance use among Black justice-involved youth: The imperative of trauma-informed sexuality education14
Revisiting general strain theory: Studying the predictors of adolescents’ antisocial behavior in Vestland county, Norway14
Front line child welfare perspectives on the utility and implementation of intensive family preservation services14
Fostering emotional and mental health in residential youth care facilities: A systematic review of programs targeted to care workers14
Patterns of service provision in child welfare investigations by migration background: A Swedish cross-sectional study14
“Kids are in the middle of it” – Child protection practitioners reflect on indicators of coercive control and situational couple violence14
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
Gender and child custody outcomes across 16 years of judicial decisions regarding abuse and parental alienation14
Development of the protective factors Survey, military families (PFS-MF)14
Parent-provider relationships in home visiting: An introduction to relational-cultural theory and critical race theory frameworks14
What do child maltreatment reports to child protective services tell us about the needs families and communities are experiencing?14
Editorial Board14
The effect of sexual concerns on placement changes and school transfers for youth in the child welfare system14
Welfare reform and childhood health status and utilization13
The relationship between violence against authority in the family and adolescent involvement in school bullying: The moderating role of parental psychological control13
Emerging adults’ social media engagement & alcohol misuse: A multidimensional, person-centered analysis of risk13
“We got to stand up and speak”: Youth in high-poverty, high-crime urban communities of color reflect on their cross-age mentoring program13
Factors associated with physical punishment of 1–4-year-old children in bangladesh: a cross-sectional study13
Belonging versus alienation among at-risk minority adults: The perspectives of social service providers of at-risk young adult Arabs in Israel13
The effectiveness of Nurture Groups at supporting social and emotional outcomes: a systematic review13
Mediation of expressive suppression and emotional well-being in the relationship between loneliness and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents13
The role of emotion regulation strategies in the association between physical abuse and borderline symptoms among deprived youth in Ecuador13
The differential association of socioeconomic vulnerabilities and neglect-related child protection involvement across geographies: Multilevel structural equation modeling13
Child protection and safeguarding in initial teacher education: A systematic scoping review13
Children’s Subjective Well-Being During the Global Health Crisis of Covid-19: A Croos-Narional Comparison13
Engaging youth for positive change: A mixed methods evaluation of site level program implementation & outcomes13
Effect of multi-disciplinary deliberation on perceptions of risk and recommended actions in response to child abuse13
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
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
Profiles of family resilience and college adjustment among Chinese Undergraduates: A latent profile and network analysis approach13
Associations of food insecurity and material social support with parent and child mental health during COVID-1913
What drives early childhood education attendance? The role of structural factors and personal beliefs in Germany12
The support issues that young people face after leaving residential facilities for children with disabilities in Japan12
Mandated reporting policies and the detection of child abuse and neglect12
Food hardship as a strong predictor of tobacco and cannabis use among youth in WA state12
Risky sexual behavior and STI testing among teens experiencing homelessness12
Going back to the drawing board: The picture of family support in European constitutions12
Protective factors in intergenerational trauma: A mixed methods investigation of the role of holistic well-being and parental empowerment by parents’ gender12
Utilization and costs of health care and early support services in Germany and the influence of mental health burden during the postnatal period12
The home environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in learning enjoyment and learning effort: A study of German lower secondary school students12
Is the impact of the South African child support grant on childhood stunting robust? An instrumental variable evaluation12
A photovoice study of college students who have experienced foster care, relative care, and/or homelessness12
The relationship between peer interaction and subjective well-being among orphans: a meta-analysis12
Evaluation of the implementation of transition programs for students with intellectual disability in high schools in Saudi Arabia12
Association of pregnancy attitudes and intentions with sexual activity and psychiatric symptoms in justice-involved youth12
School social workers’ experiences delivering mental health supports amid COVID-19 school reopening12
Testing the structure of the BERRI using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis12
Exploring young residential care leavers’ participation in care leaving decisions in Ghana: An interpretive analysis using Hart’s ladder of participation12
Vision problems and positive youth development: The mediating role of vision-related quality of life and the moderating role of self-control12
Knowledge, belief, and self-efficacy towards autistic children in educational contexts: a global perspective in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)12
The dyadic parent-child interaction coding system (DPICS): Negative talk as an indicator of dysfunctional mother-child interaction12
Place-based approach to support children’s development towards sustainable development goals: A scoping review of current effort and future agenda12
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
The impact of childhood sexual abuse on adolescent peer relationships: a social network analysis11
Peer and online victimization among Chinese adolescents: Unique direct and indirect relationships with psychological distress11
Caregiver-child agreement in posttraumatic symptoms and outcomes in the child and family traumatic stress intervention11
Evaluation of the Merseyside Navigator Programme: A hospital-based violence intervention programme for young people affected by or at risk of violence11
From juvenile justice involvement to incarceration in young adulthood: Do independent living services matter?11
What we know about the stigma of systems-involved youth: A scoping review of intersectional research with marginalised youth in contact with social services11
Designing a mentorship curriculum for assisting social reintegration among youth in institutional care in India11
Grandmother and grandchild reports of psychological difficulties among custodial Grandchildren: Whose view matters and why is it important?11
Faith and access: The role of religion in formal mental health service utilization among Black adolescents11
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
Examining the longitudinal association of parental attachment with self-control among adolescents: The mediating role of self-concept clarity11
An examination of the ohio scales, short form, hopefulness domain, youth- and caregiver-report versions in a community care setting11
‘Bichara’, ‘Katthai’: countering the discourse: understanding risk and resilience in response to child trafficking in the entertainment sector of Nepal11
Maternal and paternal parenting: The role of interparental positivity and negativity from a dyadic perspective11
Detecting the risk of suicidal-related behaviours in teenagers by means of combined personality dimensions10
Development of a cyberbullying victimization scale for adolescents in South Korea10
Beliefs of public health nurses about solution-focused parenting support – A questionnaire study10
Participatory research approaches to studying social capital in youth mentoring: Not the panacea we hoped for10
Child maltreatment, social relationships and psychological distress: A multiple mediational analysis10
Differences in suicidality and psychological symptoms between sexual and gender minority youth compared to heterosexual and cisgender youth in a psychiatric hospital10
Human service professionals’ observations of suboptimal parenting: Barriers to intervention and potential solutions10
Multisystemic therapy across Europe: Implementation and evolution10
Models of school breakfast program implementation in Western Australia and the implications for supporting disadvantaged students10
Extended caregiving arrangements in families from Chinese backgrounds: A qualitative research study from Sydney, Australia10
Creating conditions that encourage youth engagement in family child welfare case planning meetings: A youth perspective10
Inequitable access to relative caregiving: Implications of foster care regulations in Finland, New Zealand, and the United States10
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Parent and adolescent depressive symptom among a national sample of Chinese families: The chained mediating roles of parental involvement and parent–child attachment10
Access to autism services and support needs in Morocco: Perspectives of autistic adults, caregivers, service providers, and civil society10
Joint developmental trajectories of victimization and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents and the impact of childhood emotional maltreatment: “Boys’ Crisis” and “Girls’ Risk”10
Making a way out of no way: The importance of improving financial instability among African American kinship care families10
“It’s okay to dream: Navigating trauma, healing, and futuring among LGBTQ + Black girls, transgender and nonbinary youth in New York State”10
“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
Transnational family life of displaced unaccompanied minors – A systematic review10
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
I know it when I see it: How urban Latinx parents describe bullying10
Development and validation of the youth development instrument (YDI): A comprehensive survey of adolescent health and well-being10
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
The unintended consequence of school suspension: How school suspension impacted future grades and misconduct10
Intra-year employment instability and economic well-being among urban households: Mitigating effects of the social safety net10
Retrospective Birth: The transition to parenthood among foster care alumni10
Social workers’ knowledge about children’s memory and child interviewing10
A review of sources and preliminary findings for understanding foster care re-entry services and outcomes10
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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
The effectiveness of UK-based interventions to reduce school exclusion. A systematic review10
Psychometric validation of the French version of the adverse childhood experiences international questionnaire (ACE-IQ)10
Go to school. Go to college. Make something of your life10
Family experiences regarding treatments and therapies for children with developmental disabilities: A qualitative study10
Relationships between co-parenting patterns and achievement motives in Chinese junior high school adolescents: A latent profile analysis10
“Great day! But now what?” Adolescents’ and foster carers’ experiences of a comprehensive health assessment for children in out-of-home care10
Inclusion of vulnerable youth in school or work – How can individually tailored professional support contribute?10
Effects at 12 months of a primary care intervention using finger puppets to support early language promotion: A pilot study10
Social support and emotional well-being among boarders and day school students: A two-wave longitudinal study10
Seeing the invisible: Educators contending with childhood neglect among their students10
What makes a good learning culture? The role of professional development among child welfare workers10
An integrative treatment model of EMDR and family therapy for children with severe symptomatology after child abuse and neglect: A SCED study9
Time for Me: Development and results of an RCT of a kinship navigator self-compassion and care toolkit for caregivers by caregivers9
Parent group facilitators’ reflections on accessibility of in-person and videoconference meetings9
Strengths supporting resilience in individuals with learning disabilities: A scoping review9
Flying under the radar: double standards frontline workers’ identification of vulnerable children9
Youth care in time of COVID-19: Experiences of professionals and adolescent clients with telehealth9
What else is there to say? Reflections of newly-hired child welfare workers by retention status9
Young people with LGB identity and their sense of belonging: Evidence from Northern Ireland – A society emerging from violent social conflict9
Supporting child and youth participation in service design and decision-making: The ReSPECT approach9
Do early school- and family-related factors predict midlife psychological well-being? Findings from A prospective Black childhood cohort study9
“No Intervention, Just Straight Suspension”: Family perspectives of suspension and expulsion9
Academic expectation stress and online gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents: The mediating role of psychological distress and the moderating role of stress mindset9
Research-policy-practice in developing a systems approach to child protection: a county-level case in China9
COVID-19 pandemic and psychomotor development in Chilean infants and preschoolers: a cohort-based analysis of age and socioeconomic disparities9
Mental health-related hospitalisations associated with patterns of child protection and youth justice involvement during adolescence: A retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data from9
‘Our babies are our gold’: The experiences of Aboriginal kinship carers in Western Australia9
Care Leaver Statistics (CLS): Ethical challenges, rights-based perspectives and data protection in longitudinal research with marginalized and vulnerable groups9
“Change is always hard”: A qualitative exploration of the Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) model implementation process within the context of the pandemics9
Resilience in residential care: A qualitative study based on the voices of adolescents9
Pain Flashbacks: Exploration of intrusive pain symptoms following child abuse9
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Improving adolescent outcomes in residential care: preliminary outcomes of a dialectical behavior therapy-informed treatment model9
Home sweet-and-sour home: Changes experienced by girls in a gender-sensitive and trauma-informed authoritative out-of-home placement9
Longitudinal bidirectional relationships between deviant peer affiliation/core self-evaluation and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents9
The long-term effect of childhood left-behind experiences on entrepreneurial activities in adulthood: Empirical evidence from China9
Experiences of pregnancy prevention among youth experiencing homelessness9
Adoption process in South Africa: Experiences of transracial adoptive families9
‘Trying differently’ towards improving school experiences: Systematically reviewing research on school experiences for students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and their teachers9
Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of implementing a family-based intervention Your Family, Your Neighborhood with Latinx immigrant families9
Inequality in literacy skills at kindergarten entry at the intersections of social programs and race9
Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis9
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