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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia19
‘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 Kingdom18
Creating a better kinship environment for children in Ghana: Lessons from young people with informal kinship care experience16
Children expressing their views in child protection casework: Current research and their rights going forward16
The intergenerational transmission of family violence: Mothers' perceptions of children's experiences and use of violence in the home14
Aboriginal parents' experiences of having their children removed by statutory child protection services14
Work and resilience: Care leavers' experiences of navigating towards employment and independence14
Honneth and positive identity formation in residential care13
Recognition in the lives of unaccompanied children and youth: A review of the key European literature11
Factors associated with the decision to investigate child protective services referrals: A systematic review11
‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants10
Judging parental competence: A cross‐country analysis of judicial decision makers' written assessment of mothers' parenting capacities in newborn removal cases10
Parenting Black children in White spaces: Skilled African migrants reflect on their parenting experiences in Australia10
Mechanisms that mitigate the effects of child poverty and improve children's cognitive and social–emotional development: A systematic review9
‘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 pandemic9
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during COVID‐19: Findings from an Australian survey9
Cumulative socio‐contextual risk and child abuse potential in parents of young children: Can social support buffer the impact?9
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people9
Family well‐being during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy: Gender differences and solidarity networks of care9
Unrecognized: Kinship care by young aunts, siblings and other young people9
Perceived stress, resources and adaptation in relation to the COVID‐19 lockdown in Spanish foster and non‐foster families9
What is known about the LGBTQ perspective in child welfare services: A scoping review9
Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care8
Keeping children safe? Advancing social care assessments to address harmful sexual behaviour in schools8
The nature and prevalence of kinship care: Focus on young kinship carers8
Beyond co‐occurrence: Addressing the intersections of domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse8
Female care leavers' journey to young adulthood from residential care in South Africa: Gender‐specific psychosocial processes of resilience8
An exploratory study of the impact of COVID‐19 on foster parenting8
How do child welfare referrals in Sweden match children's self‐reporting of severe exposure?8
Influences on children's voices in family support services: Practitioner perspectives8
Mobile phone parenting in work‐separated Chinese families with young children left behind: A qualitative inquiry into parenting dimensions and determinants7
An exploration of how gender stereotypes influence how practitioners identify and respond to victims (or those at risk) of child sexual exploitation7
Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children7
Bringing men in from the margins: Father‐inclusive practices for the delivery of parenting interventions7
‘Because I'm a kid …’: The struggle for recognition of children and young people involved in child and family social work7
Caregiver depression and child behaviour problems: A longitudinal mixed effects approach7
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?7
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory: A realist synthesis of Signs of Safety7
Burnout and secondary trauma among forensic interviewers7
‘It's not fair’: Custodial grandparents' access to services and supports in Australia7
Risk and protective factors associated with grandparent kinship caregivers' psychological distress in COVID‐19: Kinship license status as a moderator6
Multi‐system factors impacting youth justice involvement of children in residential out‐of‐home care6
‘You need to understand the extent of the bubble we grew up in’: The religio‐cultural aspects of sibling's sexual dynamics—Perspectives of Orthodox Jewish adults6
Understanding Islamophobia through the eyes of American Muslim children: Religious bullying and school social work interventions6
Understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families involved in the child welfare system: Technological capital and pandemic practice6
Care leaver needs and accessibility: Findings from the first large‐scale project in Switzerland6
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 Wales5
Being child‐centred: Factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making in child protection5
The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, health and life satisfaction in adults with care experience: The mediating role of attachment5
Quality of experience in residential care programmes: Retrospective perspectives of former youth participants5
Socioeconomic deprivation and social capital in kinship carers using a helpline service5
Family violence and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms in Chinese children: The role of parental alienation and child emotion regulation5
Accelerated adulthood, extended adolescence and the care cliff: Supporting care leavers' transition from care to independent living5
Interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people's lived experiences of therapeutic residential care5
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 process5
Children living with parental substance misuse: A cross‐sectional profile of children and families referred to children's social care5
‘Wishes and feelings’: Misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings5
Family ‘turning point’ experiences and the process of youth becoming homeless5
Review of benefits and risks for children in open adoption arrangements5
Sleep among youths in foster care: Associations with potentially traumatic events, PTSD and mental health5
Family dynamics in kinship care4
Negotiating master narratives: The practice of ‘counterstorying’ in children's personal narratives about family‐related adversities4
A narrow focus in research on emotional abuse: A scoping review of definitions and descriptions on emotional abuse in research on child welfare and social work4
Psychotherapy for child welfare cases: Clinicians' and parents' perspectives4
Using outcome measures in child protection work4
Family treatment court participation and permanency in a rural setting: Outcomes from a rigorous quasi‐experiment4
Adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness and happiness in Chinese college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Differential associations of threat and deprivation with emotion understanding in maltreated children in foster care4
School belonging and hope among at‐risk youth: The contribution of academic support provided by youths' social support networks4
Child welfare in non‐metro and rural communities: Experiences of child‐serving professionals addressing substance use4
Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant4
Mental health, adverse life events and health service use among Norwegian youth in the child welfare system: Results from a population‐based study4
Behavioural problems of adolescents in secure residential youth care: Gender differences and risk factors4
Thrown back: Reintegration experiences of National Guard/Reserve mothers of young children4
Parental monitoring by foster parents, youth behaviours and the youth–foster parent relationship4
A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development4
Developing a programme theory for the Systemic Practice Model in children's social care: Key informants' perspectives4
Building financial capability in youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood4
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families4
Is the Incredible Years parenting programme predictive of case closure in child protection services for neglect? A quasi‐experimental study4
Family engagement during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for school social work4
Parental stress and children's school performance: Are locals doing better than rural‐to‐urban migrants in Beijing?4
Families with parental mental illness: Studying a home‐based intervention program4
Exploring mechanisms of change in a dyadic relationship intervention for siblings in foster care4
Feasible interventions for children in foster care according to service users and practitioners4
Lovers for a time, mothers for life: Ecosystemic analysis of blended family experiences of lesbian mothers and stepmothers3
The school experience of children in residential care: A multiple case study3
The role of visits and parent–child relationship quality in promoting positive outcomes for children of incarcerated parents3
Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century3
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship3
Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals3
‘It's so much better than contact’: A qualitative study exploring children and young people's experiences of a sibling camp in the United Kingdom3
The ambivalent visit: Children's experiences of relating with their fathers during staying in shelters for women survivors of domestic violence3
Knowledge exchange, foster care and early education: Introducing treasure baskets to foster carers of young children3
Editorial: Transitions from care to adulthood—Persistent issues across time and place3
Exploring history in the social ecology of care leaving: Northern Ireland as illustration3
‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence3
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care3
Involvement of children and young people in care order decision‐making—A Danish perspective3
‘They became my second family’: Children's relational lives and relationship‐based practice in residential care in the Philippines3
The parenting skill development and education service: Telehealth support for families at risk of child maltreatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood: Risk and protective factors throughout their life course3
Differences in the reactions of adolescents to family violence3
Piloting the Mockingbird Family™ in Australia: Experiences of foster carers and agency workers3
Child maltreatment and substance abuse: Unaccompanied children and adverse outcomes in long‐term foster care in the United States3
Characterization of groups of siblings in residential child care in Spain3
Parents' experiences of family team meetings in child welfare3
Mothers living homeless in Madrid (Spain): Characteristics, vulnerabilities and relationships with their children3
Promoting family well‐being and social cohesion: The networking and relational approach of an innovative welfare service in the Italian context2
Relationships matter: Exploring the implementation of the Quality Parenting Initiative and the foster parent experience2
Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes2
“Several times I have asked the judge to get my children back”: 10 years of foster care complaints at the Flemish Office of the Children's Rights Commissioner2
‘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
Parents' perceptions of a group‐based parenting programme in families with child protection and other family support services in a real‐life setting2
Suicidality among children and youth in Nordic child welfare services: A systematic review2
Negotiating child agency in childcare practices among immigrant families2
Fostering educational prosperity: A randomized controlled trial of home tutoring in foster care2
Military family dynamics in transition: The experiences of young people when their families leave the Australian Defence Force2
Changes in flourishing from adolescence to young adulthood: An 8‐year follow‐up2
Residential care as an alternative care option: A review of literature within a global context2
Are children in foster care in better psychological health than children in institutions? What factors influence the outcome?2
Relationships of young adults with foster care backgrounds: Tensions and management strategies2
Foster parents' experiences of using child mental health and welfare services in Norway: Associations with youth, placement, and service characteristics2
Exploring migrant mothers' experiences of alienation in association with parenting: A scoping review2
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes2
Predictors of child participation in child welfare emergency placements—A Norwegian case file study2
Predictors of parenting stress in portuguese adolescents' adoptive parents2
Action research with caseworkers: Responding to and reflecting on the impacts of COVID‐19 on birth family contact2
Mothers with cognitive limitations who have children in placement benefit from intervention2
Beyond survival: Strengthening community‐based support for parents receiving a family service intervention2
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence2
Parental care in trajectories of forced migration: Ruptures and changing conditions for family life2
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems2
Readiness for independent living of youth in residential childcare: A comparative study2
Mind the gap: Parental and professional perceptions of ‘risk’ for children living in poverty2
Intervention programme for fathers who use domestic and family violence: Results from an evaluation of Caring Dads2
A structural equation model investigating the relationships among online and offline social capitals and child polyvictimization2
‘Here, parents become nothing’: ‘Unparenting’ in Israel's policies toward Eritrean refugees2
Service providers' perceptions of families caring for children with disabilities in resource‐poor settings in South Africa2
Predictors of reunification and other types of exit for maltreated children using shelter services in Serbia2
Biographical histories of gendered parental substance use: Messages from mothers to professionals as to what interventions help or hinder journeys of recovery2
‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England2
Conventional and expanded adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and maternal functioning among low‐income Black mothers2
Leaving care in Norway in a historic and current perspective: As a function of the Nordic welfare model2
‘It's good because my sister is young, and she knows what's going on’: Children's views about their young kinship carers2
Working and caring for a disabled adopted child during a pandemic2
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse2
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience2
Caregiver or care receiver: Adolescents' experience of caregiving to a parent with severe mental illness: A qualitative study2
Dating violence in adolescents in residential care: Frequency and associated factors2
Authenticity, power and the case record: A textual analysis of the participation of children and young people in their child protection conference2
The attitudes and beliefs of the child protection workforce and why they matter to children who live with violence2
Needs of homeless children in the Czech Republic2
Transitions to adulthood from care in late 19th century England2
Journeys of culturally connecting: Aboriginal young people's experiences of cultural connection in and beyond out‐of‐home care2
“Being one, but not being the same”: A dyadic comparative analysis on ethnic socialization in transcultural foster families in the Netherlands2
Family involvement in child welfare services: The association between socio‐economic status and self‐reported parenting practices2
Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory1
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Nonmedical barriers and needs of rural children with disabilities and their families in Asia: A scoping review1
Staff experience of a new approach to family safeguarding in OxfordshireChildren's Social Care Services1
From ‘the New Man’ to care‐leaver activists—Communist and contemporary discourses shaping 50 years of leaving care in Romania1
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 resilience1
The panopticon looms: A gendered narrative of the interlocking powers of welfare intervention and criminalization1
Parenting through the lenses of risk and othering: Constructions of parental cannabis use in child protection court proceedings1
Intensive intervention with families experiencing multiple and complex challenges: An alternative to child removal in a bi‐ and multi‐cultural context?1
Neglecting to consider early emotional development after abuse and/or neglect: Insights and recommendations from child welfare providers1
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth1
Family homeless shelters as contexts for early childhood development: Shelter resources and staff capacity1
Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes1
Breaking bad news: Child welfare workers' informing parents of care order proceedings1
Protective indigenous collective value of Ubuntu and child neglect: Implications for rural child protection practice1
Supporting collaborative relationships between parents and non‐relative foster parents1
Conversations about violence, risk and responsibility with divorced and support‐seeking fathers in Sweden1
The stark implications of abolishing child welfare: An alternative path towards support and safety1
‘Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’): Ambiguous loss in the face of parental deportation1
Pathways to parenting stress reduction among parents in South Africa1
‘If my parents find out, I will not see my phone anymore’: Who do children choose to disclose online sexual solicitation to?1
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 people1
Ontario child protection workers' views on assessing risk and planning for safety in exposure to domestic violence cases1
Generating inclusive services for children, youth and families: A shift to using complex systems theory1
Enhancing domestic violence risk assessments with children's perspectives: Exploring risk, vulnerability and protective factors through forensic interviews1
What predicts mothers' use of spanking in the first 6 years of early childhood? A latent growth curve analysis1
How does family homelessness impact on children's development? A critical review of the literature1
Exploring the promotion of youth voice in community‐based youth development programmes1
After‐school programmes response to the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons learned from Barcelona, Spain1
Setting the stage for family reunification1
The development of leaving care law, policy, and practice in India1
Identity transformation of mothers with substance abuse histories during a support group1
Measuring the ratio of true‐positive to false‐positive judgements made by child and family social workers in England: A case vignette study1
The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Early Help: Critical reflections from embedded social care research1
Investigating challenges and family resilience among Chinese families with cross‐boundary students: A multisystemic approach1
Theory, research and practice in child welfare: The current state of the art in social work1
Battling parenting: The consequences of secure care interventions on parents1
‘Discuss it with your legal guardian’: Challenges in practising care for young unaccompanied refugee minors1
Contribution of psychosocial vulnerability and resilience to academic achievement of primary school children in South Africa1
‘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
Effects of maternal adverse child experiences on parental maltreatment of children: An empirical study of mediating factors among Japanese mothers1
Responding to children's ambiguous loss in out‐of‐home care: The HEAR practice model1
Child of two worlds: How foster care workers perceive their skills in dealing with worldview differences in foster care1
‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers1
A transitional object for relatedness and self‐development—A meta‐synthesis of youths' experience of engagement in self‐harm content online1
‘There is not much we can do’: The roles and challenges of Nigeria's child protection social workers1
Looked after children's right to contact with birth parents: An Australian study1
Emotion‐oriented coping and parental competency: An evidence‐based parenting intervention for parents of children with special educational needs1
Child protection social workers in Italy and the Covid‐19 challenges: Redefining services to support children and their families1
Children in residential care in México: Understanding profiles, trajectories and outcomes1
Exploring self‐care practices of African American informal kinship caregivers1
Students in out‐of‐home care: Their experiences of Transforming Educational Achievement for Children at Risk, an Australian education programme1
The concept of family: Perspectives of Spanish young people in foster care1
Linking neighbourhood safety and children's internalizing and externalizing problems: Mediating role of maternal depression1
Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation1
Child protection assessment: The point of view of service users in an Italian study1
Social worker decision‐making in court1
Child and Youth Coaching in families experiencing complex and multiple problems: A longitudinal evaluation study1
The quality and developmental pathways in sibling relationships: A qualitative study of Norwegian children admitted to child welfare service care1
Connecting and engaging with health and social care: Exploring the core components of a telephone and web‐mediated family navigation prevention service1
Parents' experiences with child protection during pregnancy and post‐birth1
Using sexual health and safety education to protect against child sexual abuse in residential care: The LINC model1
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources1
‘A learning experience’: Disciplinary and parenting practices among Native American families1
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