Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 171, issue C, 2025

Identification of parental substance misuse by children’s social care departments in England

Helen Baldwin

Child maltreatment report disparities for black children by report source, urbanicity, and over time: An examination of the impact of COVID-19

Dana M. Hollinshead, Juan J. Nunez, Gila R. Shusterman, Nicole B. Fettig and John D. Fluke

Assessing the predictive utility of Florida’s human trafficking screening tool among dual system-involved youth

Stacey Cutbush Starseed, Stephen Tueller, Marianne Kluckman, Lilly Yu, Sam Scaggs and John Haggerty

“You go around and take everything on yourself”: The desire for coherence in the life stories of young women at the edges of the risk spectrum in Israel

Tehila Hertz

Families’ perspectives on the impact of signs of safety in child protection services through the lens of self-determination theory

L. De Clercq, F. Meulewaeter, S. Rowaert, S. Decoene, L. Caffrey, M. Caslor, S. Vandevelde and W. Vanderplasschen

Lean on me: The role of organizational and supervisory support in understanding work outcomes in victim advocates

Maddison N. North, Yutian T. Thompson, Ashley Jorgensen, Erin K. Taylor, Michelle Miller, Elizabeth Ralston and Jane F. Silovsky

Conceptualization of hope among adolescents and youth from refugee backgrounds in a transit context

Jana Dimoski, Maša Vukčević Marković, Irena Stojadinović, Ana Milić and Dean Ajduković

Exploring the dynamics and outcomes of family engagement in child welfare services: A structural equation modeling approach

Jianchao Lai, Michelle Graef and Todd Franke

Approaches to children’s rights by volunteer and professional workers responding to disasters: A quantitative research in Turkey

Cagla Yigitbas and Deniz Karyagdi

Unspoken realities: Confronting the silence and isolation in intrafamilial child sexual abuse as expressed in the narratives by those who underwent it

Bella Klebanov, Afnan Attrash Najjar, Inbal Hindi and Carmit Katz

The time for debate is over: The health, education, and legal case for legislative change to prohibit and eliminate all physical punishment of children and to achieve equal protection from assault in England and Northern Ireland

Andrew Graeme Rowland, Elizabeth Fussey, Felicity Gerry, Bess Herbert, Olivia Schaff, Daryl Higgins and Sophie S. Havighurst

Identifying gaps in mental health service and supports utilization among minoritized youth with mental health concerns in the juvenile legal system

Margaret A. Webb, Alyssa Vieira, Nazaret Suazo, Kaitlin M. Sheerin and Kathleen Kemp

Parent-provider relationships in home visiting: An introduction to relational-cultural theory and critical race theory frameworks

Melissa Lovitz and M. Ann Easterbrooks

Material hardship and child outcomes in two-parent families: Perspectives from family stress, investment, and developmental cascade theories

Hyunjoon Um and Ronald B. Mincy

Prevalence of grooming and sexting among Portuguese youth: Adaptation of the Questionnaire for Online Sexual Solicitation and Interactions with Adults and Sexting Questionnaire

Telma Catarina Almeida and André Pereira

Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care

Marina Lalayants and Inga Saitadze

What happens after care? Investigating the post-care housing pathways and experiences of adult care leavers in Ireland

O’Kane, Emma and Eavan Brady

Examining the role of mental health lived experience advocacy in shaping the personal outcomes of youth advocates: A scoping review

Christopher Wainwright, Ernesta Sofija, Tom Riley, Lucy Tudehope and Neil Harris

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents eating disorders: A systematic review

Nasong A. Luginaah, Satveer Dhillon, Evans S. Batung, Bianca R. Ziegler and Isaac Luginaah

A systematic review of the facilitators and barriers for the implementation of co-designed youth suicide and self-harm interventions

Kathleen de Boer, Liza Hopkins, Michelle Kehoe, Richard Whitehead, Maja Nedeljkovic and Denny Meyer

Young people’s justice-related concerns in regional Australia: Insights from a participatory action research project on youth-led communication on health and justice

Masahiro Suzuki, Luke Price, Alexandra McEwan, Linda Lorenza, Corey Bloomfield, Vicki Pascoe, Deborah Power and Luz Stanton

Examining children’s homes in light of Türkiye’s evolving child welfare system

Özge Kelebek and Fatih Kucur

The best interests of the child in professional assessments of contact rights when children are taken into care – An analysis

Cecilie Revheim, Tone Jørgensen and Inger Kristin Heggdalsvik

Factors that influence therapy completion in a child sexual abuse counselling service

Rebekah L. Chapman, Kathleen S. Ebzery, Carol Ronken and Deirdre Thompson

Qualitative study on the perceptions and experiences of parents in early intervention centres in relation to family-centred practices

María Guillot-Valdés, Lorena Cuenca-Sánchez, Aziz Sarhani-Robles, David Sánchez-Teruel, Lidia Serra and María Auxiliadora Robles-Bello

Corrigendum to “Continuity and change in early material hardship domains on the development of children’s behavioral self-regulation in middle childhood” [Children Youth Services Review 167 (2024) 107995]

Qingyang Liu, Gabriel J. Merrin, Sara A. Vasilenko and Rachel A. Razza

A Mixed-Method Exploration of an emotion coaching approach within youth mentoring

Lindsey M. Weiler, Haoran Zhou, Jennifer L. Krafchick, Toni S. Zimmerman, Shelley A. Haddock, Sophia Frank, Briana Joseph and Koren Mickelson

Group-based parenting programs implementation and facilitators’ perspectives: A systematic review and thematic synthesis

Rafaela Jürgensen, Elisa Rachel Pisani Altafim and Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares

Differences in sexual behaviors between sexual minority and heterosexual female youth with a substance use disorder who are experiencing homelessness

Allen B. Mallory, Jodi L. Ford and Avery M. Anderson

The prevalence of placement breakdown in foster care: A meta-analysis

Ellen M.A. Eltink, Annemieke Waaijenberg, Mitchel Broers, Marinda van Anrooij, Floor B. van Rooij, Geert Jan J.M. Stams and Mark Assink

Enablers and barriers to acquiring and maintaining employment among care leavers in South Africa

Adrian D. van Breda

Preliminary impact of a combination intervention on intention to migrate and school absence among adolescent girls: Results from a pilot cluster-randomized clinical trial in Northern Ghana

Ozge Sensoy Bahar, William Byansi, Abdallah Ibrahim, Alice Boateng, Kingsley Kumbelim, Portia B. Nartey, Fredwill Amissah, Proscovia Nabunya, Fred M. Ssewamala and Mary M. McKay

“There may be a genetic tendency …”: How adoptive parents understand and communicate about substance use and risk behaviors with their adolescent children

Abbie E. Goldberg, Laura Siracusa, Sophie Shuster and David Brodzinsky

Trajectories of ILS receipt and subsequent dual-system involvement: Examining the role of out-of-home placement type

Dylan Jones, Eunhye Ahn, Henrika McCoy, Brett Drake and Melissa Jonson-Reid

Volume 170, issue C, 2025

Mental health in context: An exploration of individual, contextual and relational factors associated with the mental health of children and young people growing up in State care

Dinithi Wijedasa, Yeosun Yoon, Florie Schmits, Sarah Harding and Rachel Hahn

Deportation threat and infant birthweight in California, 2003–2012: The role of place and immigrant mothers’ legal status

Marci Ybarra, Youngjin Stephanie Hong and Angela S. García

An analysis of sexual grooming in cases of child sexual abuse by educators

Elizabeth L. Jeglic and Georgia M. Winters

Use of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in an explanatory sequential mixed methods design to explore combinations of family factors that could have an impact on the outcome of a parent training program

Britt-Marie Ljungstrom, Thomas Denk, Elisabeth Kenne Sarenmalm and Ulf Axberg

The role of parental involvement in adolescents’ digital reading performance

Jie Hu, Yuqi Zhuo and Yingjian Guo

Young people’s lived experience of relational practices in therapeutic residential care in Australia

Lynne McPherson, Antonia Canosa, Robbie Gilligan, Tim Moore, Kathomi Gatwiri, Kylie Day, Janise Mitchell, Anne Graham and Donnah Anderson

Nested contexts of support: How the local context shapes school agents’ support of undocumented students

Daysi Ximena Diaz-Strong

Identity segregation or educational resources disadvantage? The academic achievement of migrant children in China

Zhibin Li and Yue Su

Reifying risk and health: Cultural normativity, bureaucracy, and moral quandary in child abuse investigations in Japan

Christopher Chapman

Latent classes and predictors of depressive and anxious symptoms in Chinese adolescents: A two-wave longitudinal survey

Yuanlu Ding, Mingyang Yao, Jiani He, Jianchun Xue, Xueying Li, Libing Liu, Xin Xu and Li Liu

Young people who spend unauthorised time away from care: A scoping review

Lottie Harris, Mary Ann Powell, Tim Moore, Jessica Dickson and Fatima Ghani

The relationship between climate change anxiety and depression and insomnia in adolescents

Hakan Avan and Birgül Vural

Parental influence on Preschoolers’ acceptance of peers with special Needs: The mediating role of inclusion attitudes

Halime Miray Sümer Dodur and Yasemin Yüzbaşioğlu

Taking a stand against racism: The urgent need for SAWUBONA in child protection and foster care social work

Carlene Cornish

Citizen participation of childhood and adolescence in local government: A systematic review

Xabier Riádigos-Couso, Antonio García-Vinuesa and Rita Gradaílle

Who teaches youth about police? Examining associations between knowledge sources and police interactions

Rebecca L. Fix, Annie Pan and Kathy Hong

Delving into teen dating violence, gender and health assets in a participatory educational intervention: A mixed methods evaluation

Ariadna Cerdán-Torregrosa, Vanesa Pérez-Martínez, Mari Carmen Davó-Blanes, Iris Comino, Raquel Madrona-Bonastre, Belén Sanz-Barbero and Carmen Vives-Cases

‘Nothing geeky about photography’: Engaging and supporting girls and young women accessing a specialist child sexual exploitation service through photography and digital storytelling

Claire Cody

Adverse childhood experiences, social networks and help-seeking experiences of African-background refugee children: Towards a refugee children’s Network-Episode Model

Amani Kasherwa, Caroline Lenette and Elizabeth Fernandez

The impact of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on child effortful control in the preschool years: Findings from the Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental study

Jasmine Lee, Harald Janson, Ane Nærde and Eirini Flouri

Corrigendum to “Measuring sexual interaction competence in adolescents: A validation study of the Sexual Interaction and Relationship Questionnaire (SIRQ)” [Child. Youth Serv. Rev. 163 (2024) 107813]

L.M. Smulders, H.M.W. Bos, G.J.J.M. Stams, C. Konijn, R. Koolhof, C. Stenvers and M. Assink

Adverse childhood experiences and health-related outcomes in early adulthood: Evidence from the Korean Welfare Panel Study

Changyong Choi and Joshua P. Mersky

Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and young people who have experienced forms of child maltreatment other than child sexual abuse: A review of the evidence

Sarah Cox, Samantha Parkinson, James Herbert, Ebony Tucker, Olivia Octoman and Leah Bromfield

“Everything is fear based”: Mothers with experience of addiction, child removal and support services

Lynda Russell, Fiona Turner, Ruchika Gajwani and Helen Minnis

Socioeconomic and psychosocial conditions of parents with children in out-of-home care: A qualitative systematic review

Sydney Ross, Josephine Jackisch and Ylva B Almquist

Everything for the child: Making grandparents into primary foster caregivers

Adéla Souralová, Linda Koshi and Eliška Beránková

Reflection on data right protection for minors in the digital age

Jialin Li

Balancing the high personal costs and rewards in providing foster care: Experiences of non-related foster carers in Australia

Zoe Haysom, Aron Shlonsky and Bridget Hamilton

Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between parents’ dysregulation, children’s emotion regulation and children’s internalizing problem

Xinyu Wang, Ruibo Xie, Wan Ding, Yanlin Chen, Xiaorou Wang, Rui Zhang and Weijian Li