Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

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Volume 177, issue C, 2025

Young people’s experiences of secure care: A synthesis of qualitative research

Graham Walker, Carolyn Thomas, Jason Lang and Helen Smith

Multiraciality and intersectionality: an Asian-centered exploration of out-of-home care

Allison Dunnigan, Ruijie Ma and Claudette Grinnell Davis

Cyber victimization reports between parents and children: an examination of agreement predictors

Hannah Rapp, Stephanie Fredrick and Amanda Nickerson

Implementation of the incredible years-ASLD® program in autism and preterm children with communication and/or socialization difficulties in Spain (FIRST STEPS): a feasibility study

Laia Villalta, María Elias, Marta Llorens, Helena Vall-Roqué, Marina Romero-González and Fátima Valencia-Agudo

Knowledge transfer in family support: the EurofamNet experience

Branko Bošković, Sviatlana Karpava, Roberta Ruggiero and Joana Sequeira

Strengths supporting resilience in individuals with learning disabilities: A scoping review

Madison Reid and Sherry Hamby

Parental absence, child victimization and health-related outcomes in rural China

Yangling Ren, Peirong Yang, Yixiao Liu and Gang Chen

Subsidized and high-quality child care, but for whom?

Yazgı Genç

Adapting to fatherhood: A qualitative study into resilience resources

Georgios C. Soultanopoulos, Jens Henrichs, Wessel Ganzevoort, David Borman, Lena C. Slot, Loes van Rijn – Van Gelderen, and Corine J.M. Verhoeven

Mothers, money, and multi-partner fertility: understanding economic outcomes in midlife

Cassandra Dorius, Margaret Gough Courtney and Quentin H. Riser

Caregiver and child perceptions of play in a refugee context in Uganda

Sarah R. Meyer, Roscoe Kasujja, Sarah Namukwaya, Nawaraj Upadhaya and Eva S. Smallegange

Social engagement, positive psychological attributes, and altruism among young people in Bangladesh

Md. Saidur Rashid Sumon and Md. Shahinuzzaman

“Your heart’s just dismantling’: The separation of siblings through the care system and custody

Kirsty Deacon and Briege Nugent

Partners in Education Survey: validation of a brief, parent-report home-school partnership measure in Australia

Alicia Johnson, Tianyi Ma, Julie Hodges, Christopher Boyle and Matthew R. Sanders

Embedding children’s participation in child protection: The burden of decision making and the potential of complexity theory

Samia Michail, Tobia Fattore and Rebekah Grace

Are symptoms of depression and anxiety associated with specific charges among detained youth?

Paula J. Fite, Jeevan S. Bains and Selena A. Baca

Promoting work-related well-being of after-school staff via effectiveness and connectedness: a mixed method study

Rachel R. Ouellette, Enid A. Moreira, Melanie Tran and Stacy L. Frazier

Exploring microaggressions among LGBTQIA+ youth in the child welfare system

Mónica López López, Luis Armando Parra, O’Brien, Rory Patrick, Mijntje ten Brummelaar, Mireia Foradada Villar and Gabriela Martínez-Jothar

Why do people become foster parents and how to recruit new families? A multi-informant study

Sofia Ferreira, Eunice Magalhães, Vânia S. Pinto and João Graça

Undervalued, misled, & isolated: foster parents’ experience of (mis)attunement within our compliance-centered system

Bridget Couture, Julia Pryce, Reign Erickson, Emma Bosch, Shanequewa Love and Linda Gilkerson

Research-policy-practice in developing a systems approach to child protection: a county-level case in China

Ning Zhu, Riitta Vornanen, Timo Toikko and Fang Zhao

Fathers in treatment for substance use involved in care proceedings: Using free-text clinical documents to understand childcare responsibilities and individual characteristics

Martha Canfield, Zara Rehman, Sam Norton, Johnny Downs and Gail Gilchrist

Policy responses to youth homelessness: Ireland and Flanders compared

Paula Mayock and Koen Hermans

Developing and validating the perceived youth barriers scale (PYBS): A bottom-up approach to assessing barriers faced by underprivileged young adults

Rana Hong, Philip Young P. Hong and Ja-Young Cho

Introduction to the special issue on the governance of national care systems for orphans and vulnerable children in low-income countries

Jeremy Shiffman, Seiha Min, Eddy J. Walakira, Joseph Mumba Zulu and Yusra Ribhi Shawar

Factors associated with childhood out-of-home care entry and re-entry in high income countries: A systematic review of reviews

Richmond Opoku, Natasha Judd, Katie Cresswell, Michael Parker, Michaela James, Jonathan Scourfield, Karen Hughes, Jane Noyes, Dan Bristow, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Sinead Brophy and Natasha Kennedy

Scrolling with young people: Transferring general youth work methods into digital spaces

Dejan Todorovic, Josje van der Linden, Stijn Sieckelinck and Margaretha Christina Timmerman

Discrepancy between policy and practice: a case study on hegemony within an Indonesian juvenile correctional center (LPKA)

William Maxey, Zainal Arifin, Hari Harjanto Setiawan, Sri Setiawati and Rudi Febriamansyah

The impact of past trauma on psychological distress among university students during COVID-19: a moderated mediation of cognitive distortion and dispositional mindfulness

Siqi Fang, Man Cheung Chung and Na Wang

Academic achievement of undergraduate health students: Effect of learning styles and personal-familial factors

Meltem Koç, Ayşen Canan Pakeloğlu, Banu Bayar and Kılıçhan Bayar

Uganda’s system to care for orphans and vulnerable children: a sociopolitical analysis of its evolution

Eddy J. Walakira, Adam D. Koon, Rita Nakanjako, Innocent Kamya and Jeremy Shiffman

More Than Our Childhoods: A survivor-led participatory approach to out-of-home care life story research

Amy Gill and Dee Michell

The challenges of family group conferences for at-risk children: risk assessment by parents and social workers

Yasmin Aboud-Halabi, Yan Serdtse and Orna Shemer

Editorial: Key insights and future challenges for care reform

Daniel Lauer

Emerging practices of foster care in Italy within the framework of the European child guarantee: case studies from a participatory perspective

Andrea Petrella, Anna Salvò, Francesca Maci, Armando Bello, Faustino Rizzo and Paola Milani

Effectiveness of pupils’ perceptions of teacher communication strategies for addressing child sexual abuse and harassment in Israel: a six-month prospective study

Yaniv Efrati

“Still in Transition”: Young adults’ retrospective accounts of foster care breakdown during adolescence

Shirley Ben-Shlomo, Noga Levin-Keini and Yifat Meir

Childhood emotional neglect and psychological distress among Chinese college students: The mediating roles of basic psychological needs and coping styles

Jiahua Yang, Rachel Brandon, Anao Zhang, Yujie Yang and Hui Zhang

Context quality and social-emotional competencies for children and youth in residential care – A scoping review

João M.S. Carvalho, Ana Bártolo and Alexandra M. Araújo

The influence of parental involvement on the development of rural children: A comparative study of left-behind children and non-left-behind children

Keyu Chen and Huiping Zhang

Supplemental nutrition assistance program and parents’ time investments in children

Anika Schenck-Fontaine, Afshin Zilanawala and Almudena Sevilla

Approaches to strengthen parental self-efficacy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews

Jeffrey Waid, Kazi Abusaleh and Scott Marsalis

The overlooked transition: supporting school reintegration after a mental health emergency department visit

Lora Henderson Smith, Amy Tran, Natalie Hendrickson and Hector Armando Hernandez Laines

Academic resilience of Chinese rural left-behind adolescents: a multisystemic perspective

Jia Zhuang, Robert Chaskin, Qiaobing Wu, Jiaxin Chen and Linyun Fu

What are youth refuge practice models and how effective are they in improving outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness? A systematic narrative review

Anda Jaman, Tatiana Corrales, Rachael Green, Emma Galvin, Melissa Savaglio, Claire Edmanson and Helen Skouteris

Uncovering the depressive symptom network in self-harming rural children: a Bayesian undirected network analysis

Tongyu Qiu, Pengyuan Li and Yuan Fang

The relationship between parent-child relationships and the types and transitions of mental health in Chinese early adolescents

Xu Wang, Ni Zhu, Mingchen Wei, Shuai Chen, Weijun Liu and Yanling Liu

Relation of congruence and incongruence in father– and mother–child relationships to adolescent depressive symptoms: a polynomial regression and response surface analysis

Xin Liu, Yaoyao Zhang, Fang Ran, Jinyi Zeng and Yanling Liu

Psychosocial adjustment and problematic internet use among emerging adults: A bidirectional relationship mediated by core self-evaluation

Xudong Yang, Xinchang Li, Sijia Mei, Yanghong Song, Mengting Wang, Hong Pan, Wenqian Jian, Yawen Zheng, Yanlong Liu, Wei Wang and Li Chen

Food insecurity and mental health among children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review

Ibrahim Kasujja, Crick Lund and Tatiana Taylor Salisbury

Psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: Anxiety among high school students in Rafsanjan, 2021

Erfan Shahabinejad, Amirreza Shakoeizadeh, Fatemeh Askari Yazdian, Mohsen Rezaeian and Hassan Ahmadinia

The contribution of the social network of care leavers to a successful transition to adulthood: A realist review

Anna Raymaekers, An Nuytiens and Koen Hermans

Which form of cash is best for families? Associations between lump sum versus regular payments and food insecurity

Samantha Steimle, Rebecca Ryan, Sihong Liu and Philip A. Fisher

Family economic hardship and adolescents’ bullying perpetration/victimization in online and offline context: A latent profile analysis

Ziyi Dong and Shan Jiang

Resilience and mental health among children and youth with an immigrant background in Europe: A scoping review

Yonne Charlotte Tangelder, Jennifer Drummond Johansen and Dawit Shawel Abebe

The impact of child maltreatment intervention on healthcare underutilization in at-risk young children: A quasi-experimental study in Taiwan

Wan-Ting Chen, Tan-Wen Hsieh, Jen-Huoy Tsay, Su-Hui Chang and Chuan-Yu Chen

Deeply navigating among cross-cultural issues makes you a better expert

Annika Melinder, Karine Bakke Lekva and Hulda Rødder Fosse

Maximising existing assets: the potential of Bayesian hierarchical approaches to improve the risk assessment process in youth justice

Helen Ruth Hodges

Do mothers’ and fathers’ parental stress differently relate to child adjustment? A mediated dyadic approach

d’Orsi, Dora and Eva Diniz

COVID-19 pandemic and psychomotor development in Chilean infants and preschoolers: a cohort-based analysis of age and socioeconomic disparities

Francisco Pérez-Lefimil, Sofía Garrido-Luco, Tomás Romero-Briones and José Luis Márquez

Childhood emotional maltreatment and Internet addiction: the differential mediating roles of control and emotional dysregulation across development

Guo Feng, Jie Wu, Jiaying Wu, Ya Ye and Cao Wang

Associations between screen use, learning and concentration among children and young people in western countries: a scoping review

Calina Leonhardt, Dina Danielsen and Susan Andersen