Child & Family Social Work

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Vulnerability and Children with Disabilities: Vision from a Chinese Context	33
What criteria do foster care workers take into account when recommending foster children's visiting arrangements with their birth parents	28
Lesbian and gay individuals' path into foster parenting in Norway—Barriers and facilitators at the person and system levels	21
Reintegration of street‐connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme	17
Deinstitutionalization of children in residential care facilities: Experiences and perceptions of professionals in Ghana	16
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden	15
Digitisation of Sibling and Social Relationships of Vulnerable Children in the Czech Republic: Implications for Digital Social Work	15
‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England	15
Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia	14
Improving Emotional and Social Development in Preschool Children: Exploring the Effects of Mindfulness‐Based Mandala Intervention in Social Work Practice in Macao	13
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The roles of moral sensitivity and father presence on the relationship between violent video game exposure and aggression among left‐behind adolescents	13
Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana	12
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems	12
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Effective strategies for socio‐educational intervention during the process of transition to adult life of unaccompanied minors from Africa	11
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience	11
Online Sexual Exploitation Among Adolescents in Tanzania: Exploring the Stigmas of Victimization and Help‐Seeking	10
Child placement in the community: Socio‐religious challenges for Druze social workers in Israel	10
Staff experience of a new approach to family safeguarding in OxfordshireChildren's Social Care Services	10
The ‘virtuous’ cycle of parental empowerment: Partnering with parents to safeguard young people from exploitation	10
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care	9
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources	9
When young people age out of care: Foster care in a life course and network perspective	9
Sequential Dual Mediating Effects of Smartphone Dependence and Aggression on the Relationship Between Negative Parenting Attitudes and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents	9

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A Pilot Study of the Usefulness of a Strength‐Based, Systemic and Trauma‐Informed Training Programme for Early Help Practitioners	8
Authority Over Investigation Decisions in Child Welfare Services: How is it Distributed Among Social Workers, Managers and Citizen Representatives?	8
Revisiting the influence of community social capital indices on child maltreatment rates: The moderating effects of place	8
A qualitative study on parental mediation of rural‐to‐urban migrant children's smartphone use in China: Concerns, strategies and challenges	8
Experiences of Young People Leaving Children's Homes as a Form of Institutional Care: A Qualitative Study	8
Professionals' Insights on Supervision in Portuguese Residential Care	8
Working and caring for a disabled adopted child during a pandemic	8
Is participation always appropriate? Social workers' perspectives on when to exclude children from conversations about contact visits	8
Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation	7
Is There an Unrecognized Potential Pool of Foster Carers?	7
‘I never win’: How children and staff in residential facilities experience meaningful participation	7
The Cycle of Violence: Childhood Abuse, Illicit Drug Use and Adult Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration	7
‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence	7
The importance of clinician courtroom testimony for children exposed to domestic violence	7
Neglecting to consider early emotional development after abuse and/or neglect: Insights and recommendations from child welfare providers	7
Does parent report of child physical abuse and supervisory neglect differ by method of study recruitment or mode of survey administration?	7
Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes	7
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Using Family Needs Assessments to Guide Place‐Based Services for Vulnerable Families: Lessons From the COVID‐19 Pandemic	7
Developing a model for child participation in child welfare services	7
A step of faith: The experiences of street children in search of survival in Nakuru City, Kenya and its implications on policy	6
Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care	6
‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers	6
Relationships Between Psychological Flexibility, Psychological Capital and Marital Quality Amongst Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	6
Shared and unique characteristics of school, cyber and family victimization among school‐aged children in Hong Kong	6
Children of Divorced Parents—The Limitations of One‐Size‐Fits‐All Interventions	6
A structural equation model investigating the relationships among online and offline social capitals and child polyvictimization	6
Parenting through the lenses of risk and othering: Constructions of parental cannabis use in child protection court proceedings	6
‘The secret sauce’: Experience of a group‐based intervention for Black and Latino fathers	6
Gender differences in cyberbullying tolerance, traditional bullying victimization and their associations with cyberbullying perpetration among Beijing adolescents	6
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A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development	5
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during COVID‐19: Findings from an Australian survey	5
Nowhere to go: Housing pathways of college students with foster care and homelessness experience	5
A solution‐focussed cognitive group intervention for event anxiety in vulnerable children: A randomized controlled trial	5
Care Leaving and Social Capital: Reflections on Findings From an Exploratory Intercountry African Study	5
Examining the Likelihood of Being Referred to the Child Welfare Services in Sweden: Influences at the Individual, Peer and School‐Area Levels	5
Unpacking the Relationship Between COVID‐19‐Related Stress and Quality of Life Among High School Students: A Socio‐Ecological Resilience Perspective	5
“Trying to be positive in the face of the storm”: The experiences of independent college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Parental care in trajectories of forced migration: Ruptures and changing conditions for family life	5
Readiness for independent living of youth in residential childcare: A comparative study	5
Risk and protective factors associated with grandparent kinship caregivers' psychological distress in COVID‐19: Kinship license status as a moderator	5
Authenticity, power and the case record: A textual analysis of the participation of children and young people in their child protection conference	5
Caregiver or care receiver: Adolescents' experience of caregiving to a parent with severe mental illness: A qualitative study	5
The Impact of Emotional Dissonance on Turnover Intent in Child Welfare Social Work: Test of a Moderated Mediation Model	5
Pathways to parenting stress reduction among parents in South Africa	5
Effects of maternal adverse child experiences on parental maltreatment of children: An empirical study of mediating factors among Japanese mothers	5
‘I Wouldn't Be Here Without Them’: An Explorative Study of Workplace Friendships and Well‐Being in Child and Family Social Workers	5
Military‐Connected Adolescents' Coping Strategies and Psychological Well‐Being: The Moderating Role of Family Functioning	5

‘Wishes and feelings’: Misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings	4
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence	4
Responding to social and emotional vulnerability: Child welfare investigations involving older adolescents	4
Stigma‐related barriers to participation in support groups for children: Social workers' experiences and destigmatizing strategies	4
Navigating the Labyrinth: Challenges Faced by Child Protection Officers in Polygamous Bedouin Families in Israel	4
Evaluating the impact of a community‐based livelihood intervention on child protection: A mixed method approach	4
‘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 Violence	4
Implementing the Power to Kids programme in home‐based (foster) care: Identifying the SAFETY approach	4
Are low academic achievers less resilient? Resilience of low and high academic achievers in Mainland China	4
Family conflict as ontological (in)security for young people with experiences of homelessness	4
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?	4
Fostering supportive interactions in the neighbourhood: Using visualized narratives	4
Family Experience of Detention for Migratory Reasons: Findings From a Qualitative Systematic Review	4
Residential Status Disparities in Social Participation and Quality of Life Among Chinese Children: The Mediating Role of Social Skills and Smartphone Addiction	4
Accessibility of social services and ICT‐based services for children with disabilities and their families	4
Vulnerabilities among children of rag‐pickers: Examining health inequalities in the context of sustainable development goal 3	4
Self‐justification in decision‐making: Chinese child welfare workers' inconsistency of perceptions and experiences matters in reporting child abuse	4
Factors supporting resilience during out‐of‐home care: Experiences of former child welfare clients in Finland	4
Fathers' Experiences in Parenting Autistic Children: A Qualitative Study	4
The social support systems of mothers with problematic substance use in their infant's first year	4
Parent–child relationship and parents' psychological well‐being among Malaysian families amid pandemic: The role of stress and gender	4
‘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 parents	4
Harsh Versus Supportive (Grand)parenting Practices and Child Behaviour Problems in Urban Chinese Families: Does Multigenerational Coresidence Make a Difference?	4
Effectiveness of a trauma‐informed intervention in a deinstitutionalization programme in rural Rwanda	4
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth	4
Linking neighbourhood safety and children's internalizing and externalizing problems: Mediating role of maternal depression	4
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse	4
Social Support System and Vulnerable Children in Need: Toward 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 3 ‘Good Health and Well‐Being’ (Part I)	3
Link between Internet addiction and depression and roles of social withdrawal and school belonging	3
Analysing bully‐victim formation through symbolic interactionism: A case study in China	3
How Do Child Welfare Workers Understand and Practice Child Participation?	3
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship	3
Strategies to increase fathers' engagement in child protection investigations due to domestic partner abuse in Sweden	3
The effects of mindfulness on mother–child relationships and maternal well‐being during the first COVID‐19 lockdown in Israel	3
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families	3
Stress Mindset Relates to Better Mental Health in Parents of Children With Special Needs: A Path Analysis Study	3
Social bonds, Internet usage time and bullying involvement: A study of rural secondary school students in China	3
The quality and developmental pathways in sibling relationships: A qualitative study of Norwegian children admitted to child welfare service care	3
Substance use and other factors associated with child welfare case duration: Looking beyond out of home care	3
‘Talk to Us, Not About Us’: Children's Understandings and Experiences of Participation in Australian Family Law	3
Infant Vulnerability to Court Decision‐Making Processes Regarding OOHC: Perspectives of Frontline Workers	3
Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant	3
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood: Risk and protective factors throughout their life course	3
Exploring the mechanisms explaining the quality of sibling relationships when children are taken into care: A qualitative study of Norwegian children	3
Whose benefactors? Whose beneficiaries?—Negotiating help at the intersection between the family and the state	3
The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Early Help: Critical reflections from embedded social care research	3
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Positive development of orphans in kinship care: The role of family stability	3
‘The Cycle of Sibling Bullying’: Exploring the Links Between Sibling Bullying Victimization, External Support and Parent–Child Decision‐Making in Multichild Families	3
Biographical histories of gendered parental substance use: Messages from mothers to professionals as to what interventions help or hinder journeys of recovery	3
‘Disability is not a word we use’: Social workers' professional judgements about support for disabled young people leaving care	3
The reflection of desire for revenge and revenge fantasies in drawings and narratives of sexually abused children	3
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Child Maltreatment in Families Receiving Mandatory Versus Voluntary Child Protection Support: A Matched Cohort Study	3
How does family homelessness impact on children's development? A critical review of the literature	2
Family leadership among Israeli families of children with disabilities during the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic	2
Exploring Belief Systems in Kinship Fostering Practice in Igbo Indigenous Communities of Southeast Nigeria	2
Effectiveness of the International Child Development Programme: Results from a randomized controlled trial	2
Early Lifespan Trauma in Finnish Young Adults With an Out‐of‐Home Care Background—An Ecological Systems Perspective	2
The ambivalent visit: Children's experiences of relating with their fathers during staying in shelters for women survivors of domestic violence	2
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‘You have to go hunting for information’: Barriers to service utilization among expectant and parenting youth with experience in foster care	2
The Role of Children's Voices and Feedback Mechanisms in Family Justice	2
Identifying key dimensions of indigenous led child welfare services: A qualitative literature review	2
Navigating risk: Young women's pathways through the care, education and criminal justice systems	2
Involvement of children and young people in care order decision‐making—A Danish perspective	2
‘They feel like another child in care has their back’: An exploration of peer support between looked after children in Scotland	2
From Participation to Presence—What Young People Have to Say About Family Group Conferences	2
Family Stress Processes Underlying COVID‐19–Related Economic Insecurity for Mothers and Fathers and Children's Internalizing Behaviour Problems	2
Enabling Child‐Centred Case Recording in Children's Social Work: The Voice of Practitioners	2
Lone parenthood in the COVID‐19 context: Israeli single gay fathers' perspective	2
‘It Isn't the Child Wearing Us Out, It's the System’: Navigating Support Systems When Struggling as Foster Parents in Norway	2
Characterization of groups of siblings in residential child care in Spain	2
Nonmedical barriers and needs of rural children with disabilities and their families in Asia: A scoping review	2
Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals	2
The outsider within: The agentic practices of Family Group Conference coordinators in the context of families with children at risk	2
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Exploring the Resettling Experiences of Refugee Families in Norway Through the Lens of Children and Their Parents	2
Students in out‐of‐home care: Their experiences of Transforming Educational Achievement for Children at Risk, an Australian education programme	2
Identifying Deficiencies in Children's Residential Care in Finland: Inspectors' Views on Working With Information	2

Child of two worlds: How foster care workers perceive their skills in dealing with worldview differences in foster care	2
Grandparents with different health statuses as primary caregivers: Are they bad for children's health?	2
Adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness and happiness in Chinese college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Factors Influencing the Outcomes of Discharge of Care Order Proceedings: An Examination of National Data, Children's E‐Records and Professional Interviews	2
‘A learning experience’: Disciplinary and parenting practices among Native American families	2
Realizing the potential of a strengths‐based approach in family support with young people and their parents	2
Children's Perspective on Social Workers' Questioning Practices	2
Termination of Parental Rights on the Grounds of Intellectual/Developmental Disability: An Overlooked Policy and Health Issue	2
Navigating, being tricked, and blaming oneself—A meta‐synthesis of youth's experience of involvement in online child sexual abuse	2
The attitudes and beliefs of the child protection workforce and why they matter to children who live with violence	2
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes	2
From Thought to Action: The Decision‐Making Process of Foster Parents	2
Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children	2
Exploring Stability Within Kinship Care From the Perspective of Kinship Carer Advocates	2
Improving the accuracy of social work judgements: A proof‐of‐concept study of a training programme	2
Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing Extra‐Familial Risks and Harms	2
A preliminary review of the parenting assessment and skill development service: A 10‐day residential service for families at risk of child maltreatment	2
Social workers' perspectives on the role and function of independent experts in care proceedings in Norway: Contributions and devaluation	2
The Relationship Between Family Socio‐Economic Status and Preschool Children Parents' Parenting Sense of Competence: The Chain Mediating Role of Social Support and Psychological Capital	2
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 process	2
An anchor in instability or an inhibitor for development? Professional perceptions of siblinghood in family group homes in Israel	2
The Association Between Latino Cultural Concepts and Fatherhood Identity on Stigma for Fathers With a Child With a Disability	2
Work and family conflicts, depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours: An interdependent approach	2
Longitudinal Dyadic Associations Between Maternal Monitoring, Household Environment and Mother–Adolescent Closeness	2
Special issue: Child protection in the digital age. Latent profiles in cyberbullying and the relationship with self‐concept and achievement goals in preadolescence	2
Intervention programme for fathers who use domestic and family violence: Results from an evaluation of Caring Dads	2
‘Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’): Ambiguous loss in the face of parental deportation	1
Child care institutions in India: Caregivers' solutions to challenges in childcare	1
Creating equilibrium: Four relational mechanisms that facilitate positive change	1
Comparison of Systems and Outcomes for Safeguarding Children in Australia and Norway: A Decade of Rapid Change	1
The Process of Leaving a Domestic Violence Shelter for Mothers and Children	1
Measuring the ratio of true‐positive to false‐positive judgements made by child and family social workers in England: A case vignette study	1
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 work	1
Dating violence in adolescents in residential care: Frequency and associated factors	1
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Learning from the experience of parents in poverty: The power of recognition	1
‘Protect Our Children’ System‐Level Impacts: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in Rural Populations	1
Predictors of reunification and other types of exit for maltreated children using shelter services in Serbia	1
Perspectives of Children on Corporal Punishment in Domestic Settings in Ghana	1
Child maltreatment and substance abuse: Unaccompanied children and adverse outcomes in long‐term foster care in the United States	1
An Example of Gender Construction of Children From Different Socio‐Economic Levels Through the Phenomenon of Parenting	1
The potential role of social and familial networks in shaping the well‐being of children in shelters for women survivors of intimate partner violence	1
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Parents' dyadic coping, parent–child relationship quality, and children's emotional difficulties during the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
Residential care as an alternative care option: A review of literature within a global context	1
‘I Am Still Concerned About Them’: Grandmother Kinship Caregivers and the Challenge of Abuse by Children in Their Care	1
The politics of care and confinement: Disabled people's affective lives during COVID‐19	1
‘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 Kingdom	1
“Fighting the invisible system”: A grounded theory study of the experiences of child protection social workers in England	1
How Effective Are Ireland's Monitory Mechanisms in Improving Its Child Protection and Welfare Services?	1
Exploring the Role of Play and Family Activities Among Families Experiencing Homelessness	1
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Social worker decision‐making in court	1
Mobile phone parenting in work‐separated Chinese families with young children left behind: A qualitative inquiry into parenting dimensions and determinants	1
Impact Findings From a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Supportive Housing Demonstration Programme for Homeless, Child Welfare–Involved Families	1
Journeys of culturally connecting: Aboriginal young people's experiences of cultural connection in and beyond out‐of‐home care	1
Social competence of single‐parent children with child abuse in China: Mediation model of resilience	1
Child Welfare Workers' Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Mandatory Reporting in Norway	1
Parental views on universal asset‐building policy for all children	1
Care Leavers' Perceived Well‐Being: Findings From a Co‐constructed Survey in Italy	1
A resilience enhancing trauma‐informed program for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters: A qualitative study	1
Caregivers' perspectives on the impact of the Group Triple P‐Positive Parenting Program in Pakistani orphanages	1
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Abused Women as ‘Alienating’ Mothers and Violent Men as ‘Good’ Fathers: Double Standards in Child Protection and Child Custody Proceedings	1
‘Devoted Despite It All’: Norwegian Child Welfare Workers' Experiences of Implementing a Therapeutic Model for Adolescents With Co‐Occurring Problems	1
Conventional and expanded adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and maternal functioning among low‐income Black mothers	1
Understanding the social worker–family relationship through self‐determination theory: A realist synthesis of Signs of Safety	1
Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory	1
“Being one, but not being the same”: A dyadic comparative analysis on ethnic socialization in transcultural foster families in the Netherlands	1
The therapeutic alliance in context: Institutional factors that impact social work with families	1
Growing up in the shadow of domestic violence: Evidence from register data	1
Embodied practice in a disembodied time: How the COVID‐19 pandemic shaped direct work with children and young people	1
Predictors of child participation in child welfare emergency placements—A Norwegian case file study	1
Editorial: Child Protection in the Digital Age	1
Parental Satisfaction With Child Welfare Services in Norway	1
A study of deviant behaviour among China's left‐behind children: The impact of strain, social control and learning	1
The participation of parents in the protection system: The case of the Spanish legislation	1
The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, health and life satisfaction in adults with care experience: The mediating role of attachment	1
Integrated model of maternal caregiving in child HIV management in Chinese mother–child dyads living with HIV: A qualitative dyadic analysis	1
The impact of a respite volunteer ‘buddy’ programme on behavioural and psychological well‐being in young carers	1
Designing, Developing and Examining the Effectiveness of a Machine Learning–Based Mobile Recommendation System for Parents' Digital Parenting Skills	1
Children's Behavioural Issues and Kinship Caregiver Depression: The Roles of Self‐Care and Formal Support	1
‘If You Thought It Was Going to Make a Difference, You'd Do It Straight Away’: School Staff Decisions to Report to Child Protection	1
Manoeuvring Among Institutions and Pandemic Restrictions: When the Fantasy of Parenting After Divorce or Breakup and the Respective Emotions Matter	1
Action research with caseworkers: Responding to and reflecting on the impacts of COVID‐19 on birth family contact	1
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Who Did What to Whom and How: A Scoping Review of Interventions to Promote Children's Self‐Efficacy in Mainland China	1
RETRACTION: Examining the Impact of Pandemic Stressors on Parental Stress in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Double ABC‐X and Moderated Mediation Model Analysis of Family Mechanisms	1
Economic self‐sufficiency and the employment outcomes of care leavers: A 10‐year follow up	1
Coparenting and Adolescent Academic Engagement: The Mediating Role of Parent–Child Communication Among a National Sample of Chinese Families	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 homelessness	1