Child & Family Social Work

Papers
(The median citation count of Child & Family Social Work 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Lesbian and gay individuals' path into foster parenting in Norway—Barriers and facilitators at the person and system levels29
A preliminary review of the parenting assessment and skill development service: A 10‐day residential service for families at risk of child maltreatment25
Adolescent difficulties during parental deployment and anxiety: A focus on measurement and family processes20
Parents' expected barriers to psychosocial care for children with complex problems19
Deinstitutionalization of children in residential care facilities: Experiences and perceptions of professionals in Ghana16
Responding to social and emotional vulnerability: Child welfare investigations involving older adolescents15
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Adolescents with substance use referred to child protective services: Does substance use treatment prevent foster care entry?12
Children's Perspective on Social Workers' Questioning Practices11
The Role of the National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents in Improving Caregiver Perceived Preparation and Confidence to Parent11
‘Wishes and feelings’: Misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings11
‘They became my second family’: Children's relational lives and relationship‐based practice in residential care in the Philippines10
Linking neighbourhood safety and children's internalizing and externalizing problems: Mediating role of maternal depression10
The rights movement of young people living in and leaving care in England between 1973 and 2011: A history from below10
“I screamed but then realized nobody was listening”: Exploration of the presence of others during intrafamilial child sexual abuse through survivors' testimonies from the Israeli Independent Public In9
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Childhood protective strategies for adult daughters of abused women raised in rural areas9
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‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England9
“Who has my back?”: Social convoys and loneliness in Slovenian adolescents living in residential youth care group homes9
How are policies implemented in children's services? Developing an initial programme theory to evaluate the implementation of the new Child Sexual Exploitation guidance in Wales8
‘Devoted Despite It All’: Norwegian Child Welfare Workers' Experiences of Implementing a Therapeutic Model for Adolescents With Co‐Occurring Problems8
Relationships matter: Exploring the implementation of the Quality Parenting Initiative and the foster parent experience8
Licence Loss: Revocations of Residential Care Licences in Four Nordic Countries8
Care Leavers' Perceived Well‐Being: Findings From a Co‐constructed Survey in Italy8
‘Here, parents become nothing’: ‘Unparenting’ in Israel's policies toward Eritrean refugees8
Social work's colonial past with Indigenous children and communities in Australia and Canada: A cross‐national comparison7
Accessibility of social services and ICT‐based services for children with disabilities and their families7
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What criteria do foster care workers take into account when recommending foster children's visiting arrangements with their birth parents7
Manoeuvring Among Institutions and Pandemic Restrictions: When the Fantasy of Parenting After Divorce or Breakup and the Respective Emotions Matter7
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The Association Between Latino Cultural Concepts and Fatherhood Identity on Stigma for Fathers With a Child With a Disability7
Digitisation of Sibling and Social Relationships of Vulnerable Children in the Czech Republic: Implications for Digital Social Work7
‘We are unlikely to return to the same world, and I do not want it to destroy my future.’ Young people's worries through the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Improving Emotional and Social Development in Preschool Children: Exploring the Effects of Mindfulness‐Based Mandala Intervention in Social Work Practice in Macao6
Family involvement in child welfare services: The association between socio‐economic status and self‐reported parenting practices6
Termination of Parental Rights on the Grounds of Intellectual/Developmental Disability: An Overlooked Policy and Health Issue6
Emergency Risk Assessments in Child Welfare Services: Developing Structured Support to Professional Assessments6
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes6
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth6
An exploratory study of capacity to change at family level in families with adolescents experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties5
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden5
Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes5
Harsh Versus Supportive (Grand)parenting Practices and Child Behaviour Problems in Urban Chinese Families: Does Multigenerational Coresidence Make a Difference?5
Learning from the experience of parents in poverty: The power of recognition5
Navigating risk: Young women's pathways through the care, education and criminal justice systems5
Association between life satisfaction, problem behaviours and psychological distress in orphaned adolescents: Exploring gender and orphanhood type discrepancies5
Family Experience of Detention for Migratory Reasons: Findings From a Qualitative Systematic Review5
Migrant community resource persons as bricoleurs of family support5
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Measuring the ratio of true‐positive to false‐positive judgements made by child and family social workers in England: A case vignette study5
Exploring mechanisms of change in a dyadic relationship intervention for siblings in foster care5
Variability of Social Inclusion Patterns Involving Personal, Family and Social Characteristics in Latino Migrant Families in Spain4
Journeys of culturally connecting: Aboriginal young people's experiences of cultural connection in and beyond out‐of‐home care4
An Example of Gender Construction of Children From Different Socio‐Economic Levels Through the Phenomenon of Parenting4
The development of leaving care law, policy, and practice in India4
Information and communications technology use in rural child welfare work4
Child Welfare Workers' Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Mandatory Reporting in Norway4
‘I Don't Know What I'd Do if My Kid Was Being Violent to Me, but These Parents Just Keep Pushing Through’: A Narrative Inquiry of Practitioner Responses to Child to Parent Violence4
Parent–child relationship and parents' psychological well‐being among Malaysian families amid pandemic: The role of stress and gender4
A resilience enhancing trauma‐informed program for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters: A qualitative study4
Integrated model of maternal caregiving in child HIV management in Chinese mother–child dyads living with HIV: A qualitative dyadic analysis4
Digital technology use and preoccupation with digital technology as predictors of life satisfaction in children4
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Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia4
Reintegration of street‐connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme4
Predictors of reunification and other types of exit for maltreated children using shelter services in Serbia4
Children expressing their views in child protection casework: Current research and their rights going forward4
Parental monitoring by foster parents, youth behaviours and the youth–foster parent relationship4
‘It's not fair’: Custodial grandparents' access to services and supports in Australia4
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Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children4
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?4
Does 60‐ to 72‐Month‐Old Children's Attachment Predict Their Resilience?4
Designing, Developing and Examining the Effectiveness of a Machine Learning–Based Mobile Recommendation System for Parents' Digital Parenting Skills4
Intensive intervention with families experiencing multiple and complex challenges: An alternative to child removal in a bi‐ and multi‐cultural context?3
Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals3
Multigenerational care or parental care? Familial care types, social–emotional development and mediation of parent–child relationship of single‐parent children in mainland China3
Implementing the Power to Kids programme in home‐based (foster) care: Identifying the SAFETY approach3
Staff experience of a new approach to family safeguarding in OxfordshireChildren's Social Care Services3
The participation of parents in the protection system: The case of the Spanish legislation3
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence3
Realizing the potential of a strengths‐based approach in family support with young people and their parents3
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What predicts mothers' use of spanking in the first 6 years of early childhood? A latent growth curve analysis3
Military family dynamics in transition: The experiences of young people when their families leave the Australian Defence Force3
Suicidality among children and youth in Nordic child welfare services: A systematic review3
Are low academic achievers less resilient? Resilience of low and high academic achievers in Mainland China3
Experiences of child welfare social workers in addressing substance use among maltreated young mothers to prevent child maltreatment3
‘You've got to love her’—Perceptions of birth mothers among children in long‐term foster care3
What children exposed to domestic violence value when meeting social workers: A practice‐oriented systematic research review3
Characterization of groups of siblings in residential child care in Spain3
Moving from ‘what we know works’ to ‘what we do in practice’: An evidence overview of implementation and diffusion of innovation in transition to adulthood for care experienced young people3
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Exploring the promotion of youth voice in community‐based youth development programmes3
Generating inclusive services for children, youth and families: A shift to using complex systems theory3
Effectiveness of the International Child Development Programme: Results from a randomized controlled trial3
‘Meeting them where they are at’: A practice note on implementation of the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention in an emergency family homeless shelter3
The roles of moral sensitivity and father presence on the relationship between violent video game exposure and aggression among left‐behind adolescents3
Levels of agreement between youth in out‐of‐home care and key adults' ratings of sibling and peer relationships: The impact of respondent characteristics and associations to youth resilience3
Grandparents with different health statuses as primary caregivers: Are they bad for children's health?3
Bridging the urban–rural gap: A qualitative examination of perceived access, barriers, risks and opportunities of children's digital learning during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Families with parental mental illness: Studying a home‐based intervention program3
Recruiting foster families for teenagers in Italy: Motivational elements, socio‐demographic characteristics and availability factors2
Working and caring for a disabled adopted child during a pandemic2
Effective strategies for socio‐educational intervention during the process of transition to adult life of unaccompanied minors from Africa2
The intergenerational transmission of family violence: Mothers' perceptions of children's experiences and use of violence in the home2
A Service‐Led Pragmatic Evaluation of Family Foundations Targeting the Reduction of Perinatal Parent Mental Health Difficulties and Family Conflict in Australia2
Policy Interventions and Noncognitive Abilities of Children in Poor Areas: Effects and Mechanisms2
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Intervention programme for fathers who use domestic and family violence: Results from an evaluation of Caring Dads2
Online Sexual Exploitation Among Adolescents in Tanzania: Exploring the Stigmas of Victimization and Help‐Seeking2
Children in residential care in México: Understanding profiles, trajectories and outcomes2
Pandemic mothering: Mothers' experiences of adaptation and resilience during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Child of two worlds: How foster care workers perceive their skills in dealing with worldview differences in foster care2
Experiences From Treatment for Anxiety and Depression Among Youth in Foster Care: A Qualitative Study2
The social support systems of mothers with problematic substance use in their infant's first year2
Developmental Trajectories of Cybervictimization Among Canadian Adolescents: The Impact of Socializing Online and Sharing Personal Information2
Social workers' perspectives on the role and function of independent experts in care proceedings in Norway: Contributions and devaluation2
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse2
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Looked after children's right to contact with birth parents: An Australian study2
Behavioural problems of adolescents in secure residential youth care: Gender differences and risk factors2
Family conflict as ontological (in)security for young people with experiences of homelessness2
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Relationship between childbirth and access to postsecondary education among young women ageing out of foster care2
Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals2
‘Youth are not something to check off your to do list’: Poetic inquiry into the symbols youth, parents and professionals use to reimagine supports for youth in foster care2
An anchor in instability or an inhibitor for development? Professional perceptions of siblinghood in family group homes in Israel2
‘All in all … it begins with love’: The meanings of parental love in the context of child risk and protection among Israeli Ultra‐Orthodox Jewish parents2
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience2
Factors Influencing the Outcomes of Discharge of Care Order Proceedings: An Examination of National Data, Children's E‐Records and Professional Interviews2
Beyond survival: Strengthening community‐based support for parents receiving a family service intervention2
Students in out‐of‐home care: Their experiences of Transforming Educational Achievement for Children at Risk, an Australian education programme2
Are children in foster care in better psychological health than children in institutions? What factors influence the outcome?2
Adult children of parents with mental illness: Family stigma and coping on sense of self2
Family treatment court participation and permanency in a rural setting: Outcomes from a rigorous quasi‐experiment2
From Participation to Presence—What Young People Have to Say About Family Group Conferences2
Adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness and happiness in Chinese college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana2
Evaluating the impact of a community‐based livelihood intervention on child protection: A mixed method approach2
Factors supporting resilience during out‐of‐home care: Experiences of former child welfare clients in Finland2
Negotiating child agency in childcare practices among immigrant families2
Documentary analysis of the legal and policy framework of transracial adoption in South Africa2
The ‘virtuous’ cycle of parental empowerment: Partnering with parents to safeguard young people from exploitation2
Self‐justification in decision‐making: Chinese child welfare workers' inconsistency of perceptions and experiences matters in reporting child abuse2
Understanding Islamophobia through the eyes of American Muslim children: Religious bullying and school social work interventions2
I do it for the children, and it's not a walk in the park: Parents' stories about how to maintain cooperative co‐parenting during the divorce process2
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care2
A transitional object for relatedness and self‐development—A meta‐synthesis of youths' experience of engagement in self‐harm content online2
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems2
What Is Vulnerability? Quebec Community Family Workers' Perceptions of Family Situations in Cases of Child Neglect2
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Parent–Child Relationship, Resilience Beliefs, Relationship Quality and Stress During the Pandemic in American Families: A Moderated Mediation Analysis2
Family leadership among Israeli families of children with disabilities during the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic2
Dating violence in adolescents in residential care: Frequency and associated factors2
The Relationship Between Family Socio‐Economic Status and Preschool Children Parents' Parenting Sense of Competence: The Chain Mediating Role of Social Support and Psychological Capital2
Identifying key dimensions of indigenous led child welfare services: A qualitative literature review2
Work and family conflicts, depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours: An interdependent approach2
Perceived stress, resources and adaptation in relation to the COVID‐19 lockdown in Spanish foster and non‐foster families2
Involvement of children and young people in care order decision‐making—A Danish perspective2
Periods of uncertainty: The experience of at‐risk young adult Arabs during the transition to adulthood in the wake of COVID‐192
Fostering supportive interactions in the neighbourhood: Using visualized narratives2
The stark implications of abolishing child welfare: An alternative path towards support and safety1
Integrating Family Strengths in Child Protection Goals1
Why and how do parents decide to adopt? A study on motivations and the decision‐making process in becoming an adoptive family1
Life after an out‐of‐home placement: What biological parents in foster care tell us about parenthood1
Navigating the Australian child protection system: The importance of formal and informal support for carers to effectively provide care to children in out‐of‐home care1
Professionals' Insights on Supervision in Portuguese Residential Care1
Co‐parenting and parenting behaviour: The role of parent mental health for mothers and fathers in the postnatal period1
‘We Hold on and Have Patience’: Perspectives and Experiences of Migrant Fathers in Belgian Asylum Centres1
“Fighting the invisible system”: A grounded theory study of the experiences of child protection social workers in England1
Experiences of Young People Leaving Children's Homes as a Form of Institutional Care: A Qualitative Study1
Substance use and other factors associated with child welfare case duration: Looking beyond out of home care1
When young people age out of care: Foster care in a life course and network perspective1
The quality and developmental pathways in sibling relationships: A qualitative study of Norwegian children admitted to child welfare service care1
Support networks among immigrant parents of young children: Assessing ecologies to inform outreach efforts1
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Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant1
The therapeutic alliance in context: Institutional factors that impact social work with families1
Is participation always appropriate? Social workers' perspectives on when to exclude children from conversations about contact visits1
Hidden champions: Exploring supportive family relationships of youth experiencing homelessness1
Family engagement during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for school social work1
‘It's good because my sister is young, and she knows what's going on’: Children's views about their young kinship carers1
How Social Media Social Comparison Influences Chinese Adolescents' Flourishing: The Mediation Effects of Identity Processing Styles1
Adoptive parent linguistics: Links to adoptees' relationships with their birth mother1
Supervision and Monitoring in Informal Child Protection in Rural Context1
Residential Status Disparities in Social Participation and Quality of Life Among Chinese Children: The Mediating Role of Social Skills and Smartphone Addiction1
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources1
Is the Incredible Years parenting programme predictive of case closure in child protection services for neglect? A quasi‐experimental study1
Exploring strategies for re‐engaging children and young people in learning while living in out‐of‐home care in the Northern Territory, Australia1
‘It's making his bad days into my bad days’: The impact of coronavirus social distancing measures on young carers and young adult carers in the United Kingdom1
Fathers with intellectual disabilities raising children with disabilities in Poland: An interpretive phenomenological analysis1
Effectiveness of a trauma‐informed intervention in a deinstitutionalization programme in rural Rwanda1
Economic self‐sufficiency and the employment outcomes of care leavers: A 10‐year follow up1
A Pilot Study of the Usefulness of a Strength‐Based, Systemic and Trauma‐Informed Training Programme for Early Help Practitioners1
Revisiting the influence of community social capital indices on child maltreatment rates: The moderating effects of place1
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Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory1
The child's place in the foster family: Use of conventional names and adoption intentions throughout childhood1
Family‐centred practice and family outcomes in residential youth care: A systematic review1
‘Being a Social Worker … It's in My DNA’ Retaining Experienced Child and Family Social Workers: The Role of Professional Identity1
Responding to children's ambiguous loss in out‐of‐home care: The HEAR practice model1
Breaking bad news: Child welfare workers' informing parents of care order proceedings1
Stigma‐related barriers to participation in support groups for children: Social workers' experiences and destigmatizing strategies1
Changes in help‐seeking intentions among young people living in families impacted by mental illness attending Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation camps1
Supervision as a Dispersed Practice: Exploring the Creation of Supervisory Spaces in Day‐to‐Day Social Work Practice1
Who has naming rights? The framing of children's mental health issues in discursive therapy with their caregivers1
Cultivating Safe Spaces for Critical Reflection and Staff Care: Lessons Learned Through a Study Exploring Lived Experiences of Child and Family Social Workers1
Analysing bully‐victim formation through symbolic interactionism: A case study in China1
Sequential Dual Mediating Effects of Smartphone Dependence and Aggression on the Relationship Between Negative Parenting Attitudes and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents1
Conflicts with Friends and Romantic Partners: Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of the Experiences of Girls in Care1
‘It's rewarding because I get the love’: Grandparents raising grandchildren with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder1
Child placement in the community: Socio‐religious challenges for Druze social workers in Israel1
‘Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’): Ambiguous loss in the face of parental deportation1
Positive development of orphans in kinship care: The role of family stability1
Mental health, adverse life events and health service use among Norwegian youth in the child welfare system: Results from a population‐based study1
Family homeless shelters as contexts for early childhood development: Shelter resources and staff capacity1
Vulnerabilities among children of rag‐pickers: Examining health inequalities in the context of sustainable development goal 31
‘If my parents find out, I will not see my phone anymore’: Who do children choose to disclose online sexual solicitation to?1
‘I just want my parenting to be able to be better than what it is’: A qualitative exploration of parenting strengths and needs of mothers experiencing homelessness1
Growing up in the shadow of domestic violence: Evidence from register data1
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Social and Emotional Functions of Institutional Touch in the Relational Care of Young Children1
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship1
The potential role of social and familial networks in shaping the well‐being of children in shelters for women survivors of intimate partner violence1
Screening children with a history of maltreatment for post‐traumatic stress disorder in frontline social care organizations: A process evaluation1
Battling parenting: The consequences of secure care interventions on parents1
Connecting and engaging with health and social care: Exploring the core components of a telephone and web‐mediated family navigation prevention service1
The Correlation Between Exposure to Violence and Parental Monitoring: Differences Between Mothers and Fathers From Palestinian–Israeli Families1
Is residential care a risk factor for teenage pregnancy? A study on the experiences of young women's discharge and transition from residential care in Trinidad and Tobago1
Parents' perspectives on the results of mandatory child protection support: A qualitative study1
Sibling coalitions in the context of parental child maltreatment1
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