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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia26
Children expressing their views in child protection casework: Current research and their rights going forward25
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?19
‘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
Work and resilience: Care leavers' experiences of navigating towards employment and independence18
The intergenerational transmission of family violence: Mothers' perceptions of children's experiences and use of violence in the home16
Family well‐being during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy: Gender differences and solidarity networks of care15
Mechanisms that mitigate the effects of child poverty and improve children's cognitive and social–emotional development: A systematic review13
What is known about the LGBTQ perspective in child welfare services: A scoping review12
‘It's not fair’: Custodial grandparents' access to services and supports in Australia12
Perceived stress, resources and adaptation in relation to the COVID‐19 lockdown in Spanish foster and non‐foster families11
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during COVID‐19: Findings from an Australian survey11
Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care11
Parenting Black children in White spaces: Skilled African migrants reflect on their parenting experiences in Australia10
Unrecognized: Kinship care by young aunts, siblings and other young people10
Journeys of culturally connecting: Aboriginal young people's experiences of cultural connection in and beyond out‐of‐home care10
Beyond co‐occurrence: Addressing the intersections of domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse10
‘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 pandemic10
How do child welfare referrals in Sweden match children's self‐reporting of severe exposure?9
Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children9
The nature and prevalence of kinship care: Focus on young kinship carers9
Understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families involved in the child welfare system: Technological capital and pandemic practice9
An exploratory study of the impact of COVID‐19 on foster parenting9
An exploration of how gender stereotypes influence how practitioners identify and respond to victims (or those at risk) of child sexual exploitation9
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory: A realist synthesis of Signs of Safety8
Children living with parental substance misuse: A cross‐sectional profile of children and families referred to children's social care8
The parenting skill development and education service: Telehealth support for families at risk of child maltreatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Multi‐system factors impacting youth justice involvement of children in residential out‐of‐home care8
‘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 adults8
Behavioural problems of adolescents in secure residential youth care: Gender differences and risk factors8
‘Because I'm a kid …’: The struggle for recognition of children and young people involved in child and family social work7
Accelerated adulthood, extended adolescence and the care cliff: Supporting care leavers' transition from care to independent living7
Adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness and happiness in Chinese college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Mobile phone parenting in work‐separated Chinese families with young children left behind: A qualitative inquiry into parenting dimensions and determinants7
Being child‐centred: Factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making in child protection7
Using outcome measures in child protection work7
School belonging and hope among at‐risk youth: The contribution of academic support provided by youths' social support networks7
Family ‘turning point’ experiences and the process of youth becoming homeless7
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 process7
Mental health, adverse life events and health service use among Norwegian youth in the child welfare system: Results from a population‐based study6
Parental monitoring by foster parents, youth behaviours and the youth–foster parent relationship6
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families6
Understanding Islamophobia through the eyes of American Muslim children: Religious bullying and school social work interventions6
Risk and protective factors associated with grandparent kinship caregivers' psychological distress in COVID‐19: Kinship license status as a moderator6
The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, health and life satisfaction in adults with care experience: The mediating role of attachment6
‘Wishes and feelings’: Misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings6
Residential care as an alternative care option: A review of literature within a global context6
Family dynamics in kinship care5
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 work5
Family engagement during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for school social work5
Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals5
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
Feasible interventions for children in foster care according to service users and practitioners5
Child welfare in non‐metro and rural communities: Experiences of child‐serving professionals addressing substance use5
Family treatment court participation and permanency in a rural setting: Outcomes from a rigorous quasi‐experiment5
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience5
A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development5
Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century5
Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant5
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems5
Exploring mechanisms of change in a dyadic relationship intervention for siblings in foster care5
The role of visits and parent–child relationship quality in promoting positive outcomes for children of incarcerated parents4
Child maltreatment and substance abuse: Unaccompanied children and adverse outcomes in long‐term foster care in the United States4
Parental stress and children's school performance: Are locals doing better than rural‐to‐urban migrants in Beijing?4
Involvement of children and young people in care order decision‐making—A Danish perspective4
Families with parental mental illness: Studying a home‐based intervention program4
The ambivalent visit: Children's experiences of relating with their fathers during staying in shelters for women survivors of domestic violence4
‘A learning experience’: Disciplinary and parenting practices among Native American families4
Negotiating master narratives: The practice of ‘counterstorying’ in children's personal narratives about family‐related adversities4
The attitudes and beliefs of the child protection workforce and why they matter to children who live with violence4
‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence4
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship4
‘If my parents find out, I will not see my phone anymore’: Who do children choose to disclose online sexual solicitation to?4
Dating violence in adolescents in residential care: Frequency and associated factors4
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes4
Child ADHD and anxiety: Parent mental health literacy and information preferences4
Developing a programme theory for the Systemic Practice Model in children's social care: Key informants' perspectives4
Editorial: Transitions from care to adulthood—Persistent issues across time and place4
Building financial capability in youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood4
Piloting the Mockingbird Family™ in Australia: Experiences of foster carers and agency workers4
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources4
Is the Incredible Years parenting programme predictive of case closure in child protection services for neglect? A quasi‐experimental study4
Realizing the potential of a strengths‐based approach in family support with young people and their parents4
Authenticity, power and the case record: A textual analysis of the participation of children and young people in their child protection conference4
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood: Risk and protective factors throughout their life course4
Research into unaccompanied refugee minors in family foster care: Promoting adaptive functioning?4
Conventional and expanded adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and maternal functioning among low‐income Black mothers3
Action research with caseworkers: Responding to and reflecting on the impacts of COVID‐19 on birth family contact3
Family‐centred practice and family outcomes in residential youth care: A systematic review3
Are children in foster care in better psychological health than children in institutions? What factors influence the outcome?3
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse3
Characterization of groups of siblings in residential child care in Spain3
Predictors of reunification and other types of exit for maltreated children using shelter services in Serbia3
Mind the gap: Parental and professional perceptions of ‘risk’ for children living in poverty3
A structural equation model investigating the relationships among online and offline social capitals and child polyvictimization3
Shared and unique characteristics of school, cyber and family victimization among school‐aged children in Hong Kong3
Leaving care in Norway in a historic and current perspective: As a function of the Nordic welfare model3
Exploring history in the social ecology of care leaving: Northern Ireland as illustration3
Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory3
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
Beyond survival: Strengthening community‐based support for parents receiving a family service intervention3
Suicidality among children and youth in Nordic child welfare services: A systematic review3
Family involvement in child welfare services: The association between socio‐economic status and self‐reported parenting practices3
‘They became my second family’: Children's relational lives and relationship‐based practice in residential care in the Philippines3
Readiness for independent living of youth in residential childcare: A comparative study3
“Being one, but not being the same”: A dyadic comparative analysis on ethnic socialization in transcultural foster families in the Netherlands3
Predictors of child participation in child welfare emergency placements—A Norwegian case file study3
Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes3
Breaking bad news: Child welfare workers' informing parents of care order proceedings3
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care3
Intervention programme for fathers who use domestic and family violence: Results from an evaluation of Caring Dads3
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence3
Parent–child relationship and parents' psychological well‐being among Malaysian families amid pandemic: The role of stress and gender3
Relationships matter: Exploring the implementation of the Quality Parenting Initiative and the foster parent experience3
Parents' experiences of family team meetings in child welfare3
How does family homelessness impact on children's development? A critical review of the literature3
Differences in the reactions of adolescents to family violence3
Parental care in trajectories of forced migration: Ruptures and changing conditions for family life2
Responding to children's ambiguous loss in out‐of‐home care: The HEAR practice model2
Child protection assessment: The point of view of service users in an Italian study2
The stark implications of abolishing child welfare: An alternative path towards support and safety2
Fostering educational prosperity: A randomized controlled trial of home tutoring in foster care2
Working and caring for a disabled adopted child during a pandemic2
Negotiating child agency in childcare practices among immigrant families2
Enhancing domestic violence risk assessments with children's perspectives: Exploring risk, vulnerability and protective factors through forensic interviews2
Needs of homeless children in the Czech Republic2
Parenting through the lenses of risk and othering: Constructions of parental cannabis use in child protection court proceedings2
Military family dynamics in transition: The experiences of young people when their families leave the Australian Defence Force2
Exploring migrant mothers' experiences of alienation in association with parenting: A scoping review2
Information and communications technology use in rural child welfare work2
Investigating challenges and family resilience among Chinese families with cross‐boundary students: A multisystemic approach2
Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes2
Identity transformation of mothers with substance abuse histories during a support group2
Story‐building and narrative in social workers' case‐talk: A model of social work sensemaking2
Social worker decision‐making in court2
Support networks among immigrant parents of young children: Assessing ecologies to inform outreach efforts2
Effects of maternal adverse child experiences on parental maltreatment of children: An empirical study of mediating factors among Japanese mothers2
‘Discuss it with your legal guardian’: Challenges in practising care for young unaccompanied refugee minors2
Caregiver or care receiver: Adolescents' experience of caregiving to a parent with severe mental illness: A qualitative study2
‘It's good because my sister is young, and she knows what's going on’: Children's views about their young kinship carers2
Changes in flourishing from adolescence to young adulthood: An 8‐year follow‐up2
‘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
Looked after children's right to contact with birth parents: An Australian study2
Nonmedical barriers and needs of rural children with disabilities and their families in Asia: A scoping review2
Staff experience of a new approach to family safeguarding in OxfordshireChildren's Social Care Services2
Ontario child protection workers' views on assessing risk and planning for safety in exposure to domestic violence cases2
Exploring the promotion of youth voice in community‐based youth development programmes2
Relationships of young adults with foster care backgrounds: Tensions and management strategies2
Learning from the experience of parents in poverty: The power of recognition2
Developing a model for child participation in child welfare services2
‘Here, parents become nothing’: ‘Unparenting’ in Israel's policies toward Eritrean refugees2
Biographical histories of gendered parental substance use: Messages from mothers to professionals as to what interventions help or hinder journeys of recovery2
The use of corporal punishment and physical disciplinary techniques by Flemish mothers2
The quality and developmental pathways in sibling relationships: A qualitative study of Norwegian children admitted to child welfare service care2
Protective indigenous collective value of Ubuntu and child neglect: Implications for rural child protection practice2
Effectiveness of a trauma‐informed intervention in a deinstitutionalization programme in rural Rwanda2
Theory, research and practice in child welfare: The current state of the art in social work2
Exploring strategies for re‐engaging children and young people in learning while living in out‐of‐home care in the Northern Territory, Australia2
Parents' experiences with child protection during pregnancy and post‐birth2
The therapeutic alliance in context: Institutional factors that impact social work with families2
Navigating, being tricked, and blaming oneself—A meta‐synthesis of youth's experience of involvement in online child sexual abuse2
A transitional object for relatedness and self‐development—A meta‐synthesis of youths' experience of engagement in self‐harm content online2
Students in out‐of‐home care: Their experiences of Transforming Educational Achievement for Children at Risk, an Australian education programme2
The effects of mindfulness on mother–child relationships and maternal well‐being during the first COVID‐19 lockdown in Israel2
Generating inclusive services for children, youth and families: A shift to using complex systems theory2
‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers2
What predicts mothers' use of spanking in the first 6 years of early childhood? A latent growth curve analysis2
Transitions to adulthood from care in late 19th century England2
A resilience enhancing trauma‐informed program for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters: A qualitative study2
A study of deviant behaviour among China's left‐behind children: The impact of strain, social control and learning2
Supporting collaborative relationships between parents and non‐relative foster parents2
‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England2
Exploring self‐care practices of African American informal kinship caregivers2
Connecting and engaging with health and social care: Exploring the core components of a telephone and web‐mediated family navigation prevention service2
Pathways to parenting stress reduction among parents in South Africa1
‘It's rewarding because I get the love’: Grandparents raising grandchildren with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder1
Integrated model of maternal caregiving in child HIV management in Chinese mother–child dyads living with HIV: A qualitative dyadic analysis1
Child and Youth Coaching in families experiencing complex and multiple problems: A longitudinal evaluation study1
Using sexual health and safety education to protect against child sexual abuse in residential care: The LINC model1
Linking neighbourhood safety and children's internalizing and externalizing problems: Mediating role of maternal depression1
The panopticon looms: A gendered narrative of the interlocking powers of welfare intervention and criminalization1
Co‐parenting and parenting behaviour: The role of parent mental health for mothers and fathers in the postnatal period1
A step of faith: The experiences of street children in search of survival in Nakuru City, Kenya and its implications on policy1
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
Screening children with a history of maltreatment for post‐traumatic stress disorder in frontline social care organizations: A process evaluation1
Emotion‐oriented coping and parental competency: An evidence‐based parenting intervention for parents of children with special educational needs1
Parents' perspectives on the results of mandatory child protection support: A qualitative study1
Gender differences in cyberbullying tolerance, traditional bullying victimization and their associations with cyberbullying perpetration among Beijing adolescents1
The social support systems of mothers with problematic substance use in their infant's first year1
Educational attainment and employment of young adults ageing out of care: A registry study based on the Finnish birth cohort 19871
Periods of uncertainty: The experience of at‐risk young adult Arabs during the transition to adulthood in the wake of COVID‐191
Preliminary support for the use of narrative exposure therapy in a child protection context: Collective case‐study narratives1
The concept of family: Perspectives of Spanish young people in foster care1
Adult children of parents with mental illness: Family stigma and coping on sense of self1
Conversations about violence, risk and responsibility with divorced and support‐seeking fathers in Sweden1
Battling parenting: The consequences of secure care interventions on parents1
Social workers' perspectives on the role and function of independent experts in care proceedings in Norway: Contributions and devaluation1
“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 In1
Nowhere to go: Housing pathways of college students with foster care and homelessness experience1
Substance use and other factors associated with child welfare case duration: Looking beyond out of home care1
The development of leaving care law, policy, and practice in India1
A moderated mediation model of the relationship between adolescent screentime, online privacy cognitions and exposure to online substance marketing1
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Experienced support from family, school and friends among students in out‐of‐home care in a school‐based community survey1
Unaccompanied migrant children and indebted relations: Weaponizing safeguarding1
Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioural problems: Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centres1
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth1
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The potential role of social and familial networks in shaping the well‐being of children in shelters for women survivors of intimate partner violence1
‘Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’): Ambiguous loss in the face of parental deportation1
‘There is not much we can do’: The roles and challenges of Nigeria's child protection social workers1
Changes in help‐seeking intentions among young people living in families impacted by mental illness attending Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation camps1
After‐school programmes response to the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons learned from Barcelona, Spain1
Who has naming rights? The framing of children's mental health issues in discursive therapy with their caregivers1
Organizational and service support for boys' pathways out of commercial sexual exploitation in Nepal: Key learning for an under‐recognized population1
Factors Influencing the Outcomes of Discharge of Care Order Proceedings: An Examination of National Data, Children's E‐Records and Professional Interviews1
Strengthening the social information processing skills of third graders in rural China: Findings of ‘Let's Be Friends (Shaanxi), Trial 2’1
Children in residential care in México: Understanding profiles, trajectories and outcomes1
The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Early Help: Critical reflections from embedded social care research1
Neglecting to consider early emotional development after abuse and/or neglect: Insights and recommendations from child welfare providers1
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
Comparison of Systems and Outcomes for Safeguarding Children in Australia and Norway: A Decade of Rapid Change1
Cyber victimization with increasing digitization during the COVID‐19 pandemic and coping strategies used by adolescents1
Intensive intervention with families experiencing multiple and complex challenges: An alternative to child removal in a bi‐ and multi‐cultural context?1
The politics of care and confinement: Disabled people's affective lives during COVID‐191
‘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
Digital technology use and preoccupation with digital technology as predictors of life satisfaction in children1
Internet Impacts on Parent–Child Communication in Vietnamese Urban Families1
Integrating Family Strengths in Child Protection Goals1
Variability of Social Inclusion Patterns Involving Personal, Family and Social Characteristics in Latino Migrant Families in Spain1
Contribution of psychosocial vulnerability and resilience to academic achievement of primary school children in South Africa1
Vulnerabilities among children of rag‐pickers: Examining health inequalities in the context of sustainable development goal 31
Child protection social workers in Italy and the Covid‐19 challenges: Redefining services to support children and their families1
Fathers with intellectual disabilities raising children with disabilities in Poland: An interpretive phenomenological analysis1
Economic self‐sufficiency and the employment outcomes of care leavers: A 10‐year follow up1
From ‘the New Man’ to care‐leaver activists—Communist and contemporary discourses shaping 50 years of leaving care in Romania1
Why and how do parents decide to adopt? A study on motivations and the decision‐making process in becoming an adoptive family1
Special issue: Child protection in the digital age. Latent profiles in cyberbullying and the relationship with self‐concept and achievement goals in preadolescence1
‘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 care1
Social capital and flourishing of left‐behind children in rural China: How basic psychological needs mediate?1
Self‐justification in decision‐making: Chinese child welfare workers' inconsistency of perceptions and experiences matters in reporting child abuse1
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Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation1
Child of two worlds: How foster care workers perceive their skills in dealing with worldview differences in foster care1
Family homeless shelters as contexts for early childhood development: Shelter resources and staff capacity1
Bridging the urban–rural gap: A qualitative examination of perceived access, barriers, risks and opportunities of children's digital learning during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Reintegration of street‐connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme1
Exploring moral injury among parents with children in out‐of‐home care1
Social bonds, Internet usage time and bullying involvement: A study of rural secondary school students in China1
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