OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Child & Youth Care Forum is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining Mothers’ Exposure to Community Violence: How Does it Influence Young Adolescents?	24
Why are they leaving? Understanding Associations between early childhood program policies and teacher turnover rates	23
Assessing Efficacy and Benefit of a Behavioral Math Talk Intervention for Caregivers of Young Children	22
Eighteen Months of COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lenses of Self or Others: A Meta-Analysis on Children and Adolescents’ Mental Health	17
The Impact of Educator Anxiety and Anxiety Literacy on Primary Educators’ Responses to Anxious Children	16
Effects of an Online Play-Based Parenting Program on Child Development and the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial	16
Joint Physical Custody and Children’s Physical and Mental Health	15
Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being: The Unique Contribution of Fathers	15
Describing the Use of a Mindfulness-Based App for Sleep and Mental Well-Being, Across Age, in Children	15
Symptoms and Psychological Factors Linked to Anxiety Impairment in Adolescents	14
Assessing Emotional Distress in Adolescents: Psychometrics of the Spanish Version of the Social Emotional Distress Scale-Secondary	14
Teachers’ Perceptions of Quality in Head Start	14
Children’s Social Interaction in Pre-school Education and Childcare Settings: A Systematic Review	12
The Role of Temperamental Characteristics in Growth Rates of Theory of Mind: A Turkish Care Types Study	12
Differential Susceptibility in the Intergenerational Transmission of Secure Base Script Knowledge?	11
Peer Dislike and Future School Adjustment in Early Adolescence: Recognizing Consequences for both Boys and Girls	11
Correction to: Multiple Determinants of Interaction Quality among Childcare Providers	9
Community Attachments are Associated with COVID-19 Public Health Behaviors Among Adolescents in Pakistan	9
“I’m Often Alone”: An Ethnographic Study of School Loneliness and Bullying in a Swedish Elementary School	8
Seattle Public Schools’ Student Survey of School Climate and Social Emotional Learning: Psychometric Analyses in the Context of a Research-Practice Partnership	8
Family Strengthening to Prevent Family Separation and Entrance into Residential Care Institutions in Sierra Leone: A Quasi-experimental Study	8
Multilevel Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bioecological Systems Perspective of Parent and Child Experiences	8
The Relations Between Parents’ Beliefs, Parents’ Home Reading Practices, and Their Children’s Literacy Development in Kindergarten	8
Youth Development in the Pacific: A Decade in Review	7
Parents’ and Teachers’ Knowledge of Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents and Their Agreement Towards Screening	7

From Helpless Rage to Loving Resistance: Resistance to Othering and Practices of Agency in Mentoring Children of Asylum Seekers in Israel	7
Supporting Youth Mental Health Through a Health Coaching Intervention with a Mindfulness Component: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial During COVID-19	7
Quality of Life of Parents Seeking Mental Health Services for Their Adolescent’s Social Anxiety: Psychometric Properties of the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form	7
Young People’s Perspectives on Parents Helping Young People Exposed to Trauma	7
Child Social Support Moderates the Association Between Maternal Psychopathology and Child School Engagement	7
Peer-Interactıon Group Support in Adolescents with Celiac Disease: A Randomized Controlled Study in Turkey	7
Classroom and Behavior Management Training Needs and Perceptions: A Systematic Review of the Literature	7
Teacher-Derived Emotional Socialization Predicts the Development of Emotion Regulation and Knowledge in Preschool Children	6
Bullying in Students with Special Education Needs and Learning Difficulties: The Role of the Student–Teacher Relationship Quality and Students’ Social Status in the Peer Group	6
The Roles of Therapeutic Alliance and Negative Cognitions in Parent-Led Treatment Versus Standard Care Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress	6
Providers’ Perspectives on Implementing Mobile Crisis Services for Children and Youth in Connecticut	6
Introduction of Technology to Support Young People’s Care and Mental Health—A Rapid Evidence Review	6
Using Teacher Prompts to Increase Leadership Skills in Preschool Children	5
Having Someone to Talk: A Buffer Against Maladaptive Academic Behavior During Adolescence?	5
Center-Based Child Care and Differential Improvements in the Child Development Outcomes of Disadvantaged Children	5
The Forms of Self-Criticising & Self-Reassuring Scale - Short Form for Adolescents: Psychometric Properties in Clinical and Non-Clinical Portuguese Samples	5
The Effectiveness of School-Based Skills-Training Programs Reducing Performance or Social Anxiety: Two Randomized Controlled Trials	5
Bidirectional Effects and Interconnectivity of Risk and Protective Factors for Integration in Unaccompanied Migrant Children: A Systematic Review	5
Age 4 Predictors of Age 5 Academic Achievement: A Multi-domain Model of Contextual, Parent, and Child Effects	5
Reducing Psychological Stress of Chinese Adolescents by Mindfulness-Based Intervention: The Mediating Role of Resilience	5
Trajectories of Learning Attitude Profiles in Korean Middle School Students: Examining Developmental Patterns and the Influence of Parenting	5
Correction to: A 26-Year Study of Restraint Fatalities Among Children and Adolescents in the United States: A Failure of Organizational Structures and Processes	5
Feeling Uprooted? Examining the Relevance of Homesickness and Fear of Missing Out for Adolescents in a Residential Program	5
Supporting School Mental Health Providers: Evidence from a Short-Term Telementoring Model	5
The SSIS SEL Brief Scales – Student Form: Examining the Structural Validity of a Portuguese Version	4
Examining the Effectiveness of the Transdiagnostic Unified Protocol for Emotional Disorders Delivered to Youth Following Hurricane Harvey	4
Measuring Character Strengths and Promoting Positive Youth Development in Zambia: Initial Findings from the GROW Hopes for Life Study	4
Understanding the Longitudinal Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Student Attendance	4
Mindfulness Training in Swiss Elementary Schools: Effectiveness and Role of Implementation Quality in a Cluster-Randomized Trial	4
With Connection, Less Correction: Gender-Specific Needs of Girls’ Residential Group Climate—A Mixed Method Non-randomized Case-Study	4
Enduring Outcomes of Family-focused Youth Care: A Systematic Review of Child, Parent and Family Functioning After Care and at Follow-up	4
I Just Pulled Myself Together and Realised I had to be Responsible: Adolescents’ Experiences of Having a Friend Who Self-Harms	4
A Systematic Review of Mindfulness-Based School Interventions on Social Emotional Outcomes with Adolescents	4
Peer Victimization and Risk for Specific Charges Among Detained Youth	4
“Man, This Isn’t Easy”: Exploring the Manifestation of Parentification Among Young Carers of a Parent with Huntington’s Disease	4
The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD): External Correlates and Incremental Validity over Alternate Psychopathy Measures	4
The Relationship Between Cumulative Ecological Risk and Adolescent Suicidal Ideation: The Moderating Role of the Meaning in Life	4
Home-Visiting Programming in Kindergarten-Readiness Interventions: Retention and Loss of Families	3
The Experiences, Enablers and Barriers of Compassion According To Residential Youth Care Workers in the Netherlands	3
Predicting Academic School Readiness and Risk Status from Different Assessment Approaches and Constructs of Early Self-Regulation	3
Youth-identified Considerations for Programming to Support Newcomers’ Healthy Development: A Group Concept Mapping Study	3
Peer Leaders as Gatekeepers and Agents of Change: Understanding How Sources of Strength Reduces Suicide Risk and Promotes Wellness	3
Correction to: Patterns of School Victimization and Problem Behaviors: Longitudinal Associations with Socioeconomic Well-Being and Criminal Justice Involvement	3
Breaking the Link: Parental Attachment as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Cyber-Bullying	3
Students’ Perceptions of Factors Contributing to a Happy School Environment in Iran	3
Help-Seeking for Bullying Victimization Among Adolescents in Germany	3
Validation of the Perceptions of Racism in Children and Youth (PRaCY) Scale in Pittsburgh: Associations with Sexual Violence Experiences	3
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Interventions for Children Affected by Armed Conflict in low-and middle-income Countries: A Systematic Review	3
Ecological Factors of Telemental Healthcare Utilization Among Adolescents with Increased Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effect of Gender	3
Physical Activity and Mental Health in Children and Youth: Clinician Perspectives and Practices	3

Systematic Review of the Psychometric Evidence Supporting Use of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, Short Form (DASS-21) with Youth	3
Unveiling the Developmental Dynamics of Labeling Theory: Within-Individual Effects of Perceived Informal Labeling on Deviant Self-Concept in the Korean Context	3
What Works in Home-Start According to Parents and Volunteers	3
Risk and Protective Factors in Bullying Perpetration Committed by Bullied Children: An Application of the Multiple Disadvantage Model	3
Head Start’s impact on long-term School Success: assessing variation across latent classes of Family Risk	2
A Pilot Open Trial of an Individualized Adaptation of Trauma and Grief Component Therapy (TGCT) in Children and Adolescents	2
Stigma of Suicide’s Effects on Gatekeeping Behaviors Among Families in Mexico	2
Adolescent Attachment, Affect, and Behavior as Related to Coping Responses to a Psychosocial Stressor	2
Does Religiosity Matter? The Role of Subjective and Organizational Religiosity on Substance Use Among Adolescents	2
What Purpose do Voices Serve If No One is Listening? A Systematic Review of Children and Young People’s Perspectives on Living in the Foster Care System	2
Children’s Emotion Regulation and Subjective Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Intergenerational Perspective Among Racially and Economically Minoritized Mother-Child Dyads in the United States	2
Friendship Quality and Mental Health of Youth in Residential Care: The Moderating Role of Individual and Contextual Variables	2
Salutogenesis and the Wellbeing of Siblings of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Contribution of Involvement, Resistance Resources, and Loneliness	2
Prospective Relations of Temperament and Peer Victimization with Changes in Social Competence in Early Childhood: The Moderating Role of Executive Functioning	2
High Rates of Anxiety Among Adolescents in a Partial Hospitalization Program	2
Examining Child Labour Activities in South Africa	2
An Evaluation of Child and Parent Outcomes Following Community-Based Early Intervention with Randomised Parent-Mediated Intervention for Autistic Pre-Schoolers	2
“I Did a Lot of Good Today”: Child and Youth Care Workers’ Perceptions of Their Work	2
Family Involvement in Child Mental Health: Exploring Policies and Practices from Community-Based Mental Health Centers	2
Socio-Educational Support Deficits in the Emancipation of Protected Youth in Spain	2
Who Declines and Who Improves in Wilderness Therapy?	2
Early Childhood Teachers’ Work Environment, Perceived Personal Stress, and Professional Commitment in South Korea	2
The Brief Adolescent Depression Screen: A Brief Screening Tool for Depression and Suicidal Behavior in Inpatient Adolescents	2
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Parental History and how they Relate to Subsequent Observed Parent–Child Interaction: A Systematic Review	2
Thought Problems and Aggression Over Time Among Youth in Foster Care	2
Targeting Caregiver Psychopathology in Parent Management Training for Adolescents: A Scoping Review of Commercially Available Treatment Resources	2
Exposure to COVID-19 Disruptions Moderates the Effect of Temperament on Anxiety in Preschool-Age Children	2
The Longitudinal Associations of Household Economic Pressure and Home Chaos with Children’s Executive Functioning, Word Reading, and School Readiness	2
Parent, Teacher, and Youth Reports on Measures of Reactive and Proactive Aggression	2
Families’ and Practitioners’ Use of Culture in Youth Mental Health Services: A Double-Edged Sword	2
The Effects of a Cyberbullying Intervention Programme Among Primary School Students	2
COVID-19 conversations: A qualitative study of majority Hispanic/Latinx youth experiences during early stages of the pandemic	2
Adolescents’ Psychoactive Substance Use During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Cross Sectional Study in Italy	2
Suicides Among Youth and Social Environment: Is There Evidence for Correlation, or Merely Ecological Fallacy?	1
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Anxiety of Adolescents in Québec	1
Feeling Better: Experiences and Needs of Adolescents and Professionals Regarding Their Mentoring Relationship in Residential Youth Care	1
Teachers as Youth Suicide Prevention Gatekeepers: An Examination of Suicide Prevention Training and Exposure to Students at Risk of Suicide	1
Transition to Preschool: Paving the Way for Preschool Teacher and Family Relationship-Building	1
Longitudinal Investigation of Korean Adolescents’ Ego-Identity Development	1
Parental Discipline and Self-Regulation in Children Aged 2 to 5: A Meta-Analysis of Research Conducted From 2000 to 2022	1
Correction to: Psychometric Evaluation of a Barriers to Mental Health Treatment Questionnaire for Latina/o/x Caregivers of Children and Adolescents	1
Parenting Stress, Child Behavior Problems, and Household Chaos: Examining Parenting in Early Head Start Families	1
Alliance Between Therapist and Multi-stressed Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effect of Family-Based Videoconferencing	1
Promising Practices for Improving the Match Outcomes of Young Children: An Evaluation of the School-Based Literacy-Enhanced Mentoring (LEM) Program	1
Identifying the Relationship Between Strength of School Social Support and Level of Hope in Children from Low-Income Families	1
Children’s Daily Activity Patterns and the Influence of Multilevel Ecological Factors	1
A Disruption, Not an Interruption: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Care in Iowa	1
A Comparative Analysis of Residential Care: A Five-Country Multiple Case-Design Study	1
Multiple Determinants of Interaction Quality among Childcare Providers	1
Exploring the Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Secure Children’s Home Admissions	1
Characteristics of Parents Who Spent Time Away from Home During Stay-at-Home Orders and Relation to Parenting Behaviors in Ohio	1
Perceptions from Newcomer Multilingual Adolescents: Predictors and Experiences of Sense of Belonging in High School	1
Children’s Experiences of Stress in Joint Physical Custody	1
Relationship Between Korean Adolescents’ Dependence on Smartphones, Peer Relationships, and Life Satisfaction	1
Well-being and Life Satisfaction in Children Living in Contexts of Political Violence: A Narrative Literature Review	1
A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Preschool Children’s Reactions to Interparental Conflict and Their Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Japan	1
How Psychosocial Factors Relate to Climate in a Racially Stratified Sample School	1
Attachment & School Connectedness: Associations with Substance Use, Depression, & Suicidality Among at-Risk Adolescents	1
Validation of Positive Youth Development Scale and Implications for Adolescent in Hong Kong Community	1
Youth Development Staff Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Mixed Methods Study	1
The Impact of Attachment-Based Parenting Interventions on Externalizing Behaviors in Toddlers and Preschoolers: A Systematic Narrative Review	1
Early Childhood Temperament Factors and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Preschool and School Aged- Children: A Systematic Narrative Review	1
Assessing Body Esteem in Adolescents: psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale (BESAA-S)	1
Children’s ADHD and Dysregulation Problems, DAT1 Genotype and Methylation, and their Interplay with Family Environment	1
Using Mindfulness Practices to Increase Self-Regulation in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten-Aged Children	1
Start Earlier, Stay Healthier? An Earlier Start to Public Preschool May Improve Detection of Health Problems	1
Examining Incremental Validity of Dimensions of Alexithymia and Parental Psychological Control on Internalizing Symptoms of Youth Involved with the Juvenile Justice System	1
Family-Centered Attitudes and Actions in Youth Care and Special Education: Development and Evaluation of a New Measuring Instrument	1
Promoting Prescription Drug Safety Skills in School: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Technology-Based Curriculum	1
Breakfast Club Conundrum: How Adolescent Peer Norms and Ecological Factors Relate with Achievement	1
Psychological Maltreatment Impairs Children’s Automatic Response Inhibition in Implicit Emotion Regulation: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials	1