OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Relationships to Self, Baby, Others, and System: A Narrative Analysis of the Transition to Parenthood for Young Mothers in Foster Care	19
Feasibility of a Healthy Relationships Program with Youth at a Child Protective Services Agency	19
Adjustment of Ghanaian Youth in Institutional Care Compared to Youth in Family Care	18
Social and Emotional Supports During College Years: Associations with Post-college Outcomes Among Alumni of Foster Care	17
The Patterns of In-Home Service Use and Their Relationships with Child Out-of-Home Care	14
An Examination of Coping Strategies and Intent to Leave Child Welfare During the COVID 19 Pandemic	14
A Comparative Analysis of Transitional and Permanent Supportive Housing Through the Lens of Young Adult Residents	13
Findings from the Michigan EITC Access Project: ACEs Prevention Through Economic Intervention	12
It’s All in the Head: Illness Perception is the Major Correlate of Quality of Life Among Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease	11
Expanding Sources of Recognition: Towards an Experience-Driven Framework for Reengaging Hikikomori and Semi-hikikomori	10
Predictors of Food Insecurity and Childhood Hunger in the Bronx During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Foster Care Liaisons in Higher Education: A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Post-secondary Success Among College Students with Experience in Foster Care	9
Adaptive responsivity: a Youth-Driven Model for Thriving in Foster Care	9
‘He’s out of control, I’m out of control, it’s just – I’ve got to do something’: a narrative inquiry of child to parent violence	9
Contact with Foster Care and the Juvenile Delinquency Court: A Prospective Examination from Birth through Age 18	8
How Adolescent Mothers Interpret and Prioritize Evidence About Perinatal Child Protection Involvement: Participatory Contextualization of Published Evidence	8
Formal and Informal Support among Mothers Aging out of Foster Care and Maternity Group Homes: Who Steps in When Mothers Age Out?	8
Does Duration of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) Skills Groups Affect Outcomes: A Rapid Review	8
Correction to: Foster Caregiving and Child Outcomes in relative and non-relative Foster families	8
Racial Matching in Foster Care Placements and Subsequent Placement Stability: A National Study	8
Young Children’s Lives at Domestic Violence Shelters: Mothers’ Perspectives on Their Children’s Experiences	8
Supporting Sexual and Gender Diverse Young People: Exploring the Potential Benefit of the Tuned In! Intervention	8
Involuntary Youth Transport (IYT) to Treatment Programs: Best Practices, Research, Ethics, and Future Directions	8
Predictors of Positive Parenting: Mexican and Puerto Rican Mothers Vulnerable to Child Welfare Involvement	7
Youth Interventions With and Without Supervised Practice: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis	7

Exploring the Role of Independent Living Workers in How Youth in Care Access and Utilize Technology	6
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on stress and Access to Services for Licensed and Kinship Caregivers and Youth in Foster Care	6
“Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp	6
Suicidal Ideation and Its Correlates Among Adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago	6
Does Multidimensional Self-Concept Mediate the Relationship of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Bullying Victimization on Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation Among Adolescent Girls?	6
Characteristics and Views of Young Unaccompanied Migrants Transitioning to Independent Living in the Catalan (Spain) Protection System	6
Development of the Carers’ Alert Thermometer for Young Carers (CAT-YC) to Identify and Screen the Support Needs of Young Carers: A Mixed Method Consensus Study	6
A Book Review on Experimental Research Designs in Social Work: Theory and Application	6
Implementation and Outcomes of the Trauma Ambassadors Program: A Case Study of Trauma-Informed Youth Leadership Development	6
States’ Use of Medicaid Waivers for Children with Behavioral Health Needs is Associated with Lower Rates of Voluntary Child Welfare Placements	6
School Social Work in Sweden—Who are the Children in Counselling, and What Support are They Offered? A Protocol Study About Individual Counselling in Elementary Schools	6
How Young People Portrayed Their Experiences in Therapeutic Residential Care in Portugal: A Mixed Methods Study	6
Examining the Protective Impact of Peer Relationships on Negative Self-Esteem among High-Risk Adolescents: The Interplay of Gender and Ethnicity	6
A Scoping Review of Programs for Young Mothers with Child Welfare Involvement in Canada and the United States	6
To Belong: Narratives About Family Belonging Among Children in Foster Families or Where Custody has been Transferred	6
The Impact of COVID-19 and Immigration Enforcement on Service Delivery for Immigrant Origin Families Involved in the Child Welfare System	5
Screening and Assessment of Suicidal Behavior in Transition-Age Youth with Foster Care Involvement	5
Development of a Child-Informed Measure of Subjective Well-Being for Research on Residential Care Institutions and Their Alternatives in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	5
Understanding Young People’s Navigation of Housing Barriers Through a White Supremacy Lens	5
Pregnancy and Parenting Experiences of Care-Experienced Youth in Ghana and Uganda	5
Does It Run in the Family? Intergenerational Transmission of Household Dysfunctions	5
The Role of Individual, Familial, and Extrafamilial Protective Factors on Non-engaged Youth’s Well-Being in the Sociopolitical Context of Hong Kong	5
Does the State Impact Hope? The Impact of Direct and Vicarious Police Contact on the Optimism of Youth in Large Cities	5
Insights for Clinical Providers and Community Leaders: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children’s Mental Health Includes Caregiver Support	4
Examining the Influence of Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Connectedness on the Mental Health Symptoms of Black Adolescent Serious Offenders	4
Exposure to Violence Within Dating, Peer, and Community Contexts Among African American and Hispanic/Latine Adolescents in High-Burden, Urban Communities	4
“Foster Care is a Roller Coaster”: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Foster Parent Experiences with Caregiving	4
Transformational Education in Youth Work: Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Findings	4
Resilience in Adolescent Girls in Child Welfare: Reliability and Validity of the RS-14	4
Youth Gang Membership, Marginalized Identities, and Suicidality Disparities: Intersectional Implications for Research and Practice	4
Improving Parenting Competency and Permanency Awareness for Kinship Foster Parents Through In-Service Licensure Training	4
Quality of Relationships Between Residential Staff and Youth: A Systematic Review	4
Problematic Social Media Use and Conflict, Social Stress, and Cyber-Victimization Among Early Adolescents	4
Fostering Self-Determination: A Review and Research Agenda Advancing Self-Determination Theory as a Unifying Framework for Youth Well-Being in Foster Care Research	4
Routes Out of Child Abuse to School Adjustments: A Comparison Between North Korean Adolescent Refugees and Native South Korean Adolescents	4
“She is a Mother, but still Childish”. Exploring Adult Caregivers’ Perspectives on Adolescent Parenting	4
Redesigning a Youth Soccer Program: Holistic Development of Athletes	3
Self-Efficacy Experiences of Graduate Students Working in a Sport-based Leadership Program at a Youth Prison	3
Unequal Conditions of Care and the Implications for Social Policies on Young Carers	3
Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Youth Housing and Homelessness Services	3
Intentional Practices of Adventure Therapy Facilitators: Shinning Light into the Black Box	3
A Systematic Review of Music-Based Interventions to Improve Treatment Engagement and Mental Health Outcomes for Adolescents and Young Adults	3
Father–Child Relationship Quality and Social Functioning Among Children at Risk for Child Maltreatment	3
The Effects of Psychological Resilience, Self-efficacy and Metacognition on Cyberbullying Among Adolescents	3
Assessing Young Caregivers’ Feelings About Helping: Pilot Test of a New Scale	3
A Better Adoption? Evolution, Challenges, and Projections of Chilean Adoption Policies and Practices	3
Foster Caregiving and Child Outcomes in relative and non-relative Foster families	3
“I Ran to Make a Point”: Predicting and Preventing Youth Runaway from Foster Care	3
Features of Service Delivery that Young People in Out-of-Home Care Who ‘Self-place’ and Stay in Unapproved Placements Value When Accessing a Specialist Support Service	3
“I wasn’t Enrolled”: Exploring the Educational Narratives of Black Caribbean Youth Navigating Out-of-Home Care in Ontario’s Child Welfare System	3

Fostering Leaders of Our World: Facilitators and Barriers to Educational Success Among a Cohort of Foster Scholars in College	3
The Transition to Adulthood of Dual-System Youth in Quebec: A Focus on High School Graduation and Housing Situation	3
A Recognition-Based Study of Frustrations, Risks, and Navigation in Career Transition Among Educationally Disadvantaged Young Women	3
Cultural and Model Minority Stress: Toward a Theory of Mental Health Distress Experiences of Indian American Youth	3
The Role of Resilience as a Mediating Factor between Adverse Childhood Experience and Mental Health in Adolescents Receiving Child Welfare Services in Nova Scotia	3
Assessing Homelessness and Incarceration Among Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, by Type of Disability	3
Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescent Boys from Inner-City, Low-Income, Single-Mother Families: Evaluation of a Youth Program	3
Mitigating Risks of Incarceration Among Transition-Age Foster Youth: Considering Domains of Social Bonds	3
“The Propellers of My Life” The Impact of Domestic Violence Transitional Housing on Parents and Children	3
“They Show Us that We’re Important”: Facilitators of Service Utilization Among Expectant and Parenting Youth with Foster Care Histories	3
Flourishing After Foster Care: Examining Factors Affecting Flourishing in Transition Age Youth in the United States	3
Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth’s Experiences of Gender-Related Adversity	3
Claims for Contraceptive Care Among Female Youth Living in Foster Care by Type of Medicaid Insurance: An Analysis of Michigan’s Medicaid Claims Data	3
Correction: Contact with Foster Care and the Juvenile Delinquency Court: A Prospective Examination from Birth through Age 18	3
Linking Perceived Family and Peer Support to Hope in Syrian Refugee Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Academic Self-Efficacy	3
Intervening in Suspected Child Maltreatment: Parents’ Responses to and Perceptions of Maltreatment in a Rural Midwestern County	3
Advancing Our Understanding of Complex Intervention Development in Social Work: Co-Producing Support for Youth Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care	3
Promoting Postsecondary Educational Success Among Young Parents in and Aging Out of Foster Care	3