Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2026

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 181, issue C, 2026

A review of sources and preliminary findings for understanding foster care re-entry services and outcomes

Linda-Jeanne M. Mack, Terry V. Shaw, Haelim Lee and Haksoon Ahn

Me and my foster family: assessing the feasibility of a flexible intervention

Charlotte Bredahl Jacobsen, Siddhartha Baviskar, Anne Bølling Frederiksen, Ida Schrøder, Christine Marie Hildeshejn and Sofie Danneskiold-Samsøe

We will always think, ‘is this the right decision?’ Norwegian child welfare workers navigating the uncertain project of reunification

Ellen Syrstad, Ingunn T. Ellingsen, Margrete Aadnanes and Jeri L. Damman

‘Caring for the carers’: Compassion fatigue and associated factors in foster and kinship carers

Christine Clark and Emily P. Taylor

The role of family resilience in the context of built environment risk and adolescent depression

Yangjin Park, Danielle R. Harrell, Bethany Wood and Keundeok Park

Beyond traditional models: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to rural teen mental health

Erin M. Knight, Charlotte E. Bausha, Karen L. Fortuna, Julie Balaban, Christopher M. Tirrell, Courtney Porter, Amanda N. Perry and M. Kay Jankowski

Mentalization-based group intervention for parents of autistic children: insights and case studies

Yael Enav, Natalia Kirsman and Dana Erhard-Weiss

Persistent poverty, poverty mobility, and young adults’ material hardship

Yoonzie Chung and Kathryn Maguire-Jack

Building knowledge across borders: the first twenty years of iaOBERfcs

Robin Spath, Patricia McNamara, Cinzia Canali and Devis Geron

Children’s voices in disaster recovery: Lessons from the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake

Ayse Yildiz, Nurcan Simsek and Aysegul Boluk

Family support in Europe: theory, policy and practice

Lucía Jiménez and John Canavan

Young people’s experiences of support, belonging, and freedom before and after leaving residential care institutions in Kenya

Sarah Elizabeth Neville, K. Megan Collier, Elizabeth K. Klein, Joanna Wakia, John Hembling, Beth Bradford, Martin Kiandiko, Alividzah Kituku, Maureen Obuya, Nelson Nyabola, Jane Dzame Karisa, Ronald Kwicha Baya, Indrani Saran, Margaret Lombe and Thomas M. Crea

Lifelines of young people with a history in residential care: A qualitative investigation from a complex systems perspective

Rineke Bossenbroek, Jan-Ole H. Gmélin, Merlijn Olthof, Jana Knot-Dickscheit, Fred Hasselman, Evelien Poelen and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff

“Hear our voices”: A qualitative exploration of mental health among Black girls

Ijeoma Opara, Jasmin Brooks-Stephens, Emmanuella Asabor, Moiyattu Banya and Isha Metzger

From frontline observations to experimental analysis: a reverse translational investigation of staff behavior in residential care settings

Ashley N. Anderson, John T. Rapp and Ellie Morosohk

The Promoting Resilience in Stress Management (PRISM) program for elementary school Students: A pilot study

Kiska M. Smith, Courtney C. Junkins, Abby R. Rosenberg and Joyce P. Yi-Frazier

Pathways from parent substance misuse to child and adolescent trauma

Kristen D. Seay

The role of income assistance, childcare, and informal social support in foster care entry

Darejan Dvalishvili, Inga Saitadze and Yi Wang

The effects of home visiting on birth outcomes and perinatal health behaviors

Mason Shero, Hilary A. Doe, Cynthia Osborne and Jennifer Huffman

Psychological wellbeing outcomes across genders in childhood and adolescence aged 8–18 years: a population-level perspective

Zara Boulton, Mary Brushe, Damien W. Riggs, Ashleigh Lin, Cristyn Davies and Tess Gregory

The direct and indirect pathways through which gender norms influences decision-making autonomy among young women and men in Southern Uganda. A mediation analysis

Josephine Nabayinda, Fred M. Ssewamala, Samuel Kizito, Proscovia Nabunya, Phionah Namatovu, Torsten B. Neilands and Mary M. Mckay

Parent–Adolescent communication during COVID-19 and adolescent Emotions: The role of parenting style

Wonki Lee and Alice J. Kim

Exploring young residential care leavers’ participation in care leaving decisions in Ghana: An interpretive analysis using Hart’s ladder of participation

Frederick Godwill Amissah

Dads Tuning in to Kids: Acceptability and appropriateness in a real-world dissemination trial

Nikki Boswell, Christiane E. Kehoe, Christina Ambrosi, Deborah Kane, Karl Andriessen and Sophie S. Havighurst

Psychodrama for children and adolescents: A systematic review of therapeutic effects, changes and underlying processes

Marij Berghs, Cécile Henquet, Constance Vissers and Susan van Hooren

Shaping parenting a decade after leaving care: The dynamic of role models, parenting styles, and gender roles

Tehila Refaeli, Agat Sold, Mor Dvori, Rami Benbenishty and Anat Zeira

Prevalence and correlates of truancy in the United States post-covid-19: results from a national sample

Michael G. Vaughn, Jun-Hong Chen, Brandy R. Maynard, Yohita Shraddha Bandaru and Abigail Schweiger

Youth with FASD: Understanding the challenges and identifying supports to foster healthy development

Maya Peled and Annie Smith

“Between challenges and opportunities”: needs and preferences in the psychosocial support of multi-challenged families with children – a scoping review

Sandra Liliana Teixeira, Pedro F.S. Rodrigues, Ana Paula Caetano and Ana Bártolo

Between promise and practice: a scoping review of the democratic outcomes of youth participation in local governance

Flávio Ramos, António F. Tavares and Nuno F. da Cruz

Tabletop role playing games as a way forward with structurally marginalized youth: A narrative review

Devyn Rorem Colquhoun, Mark Melenberg and Jacqueline Pei

All bark and no bite: Legal and professional consequences for failing to report child maltreatment

Heather Bergen

Longitudinal relationship between perceived stress and Chinese adolescent aggressive behavior: The mediating role of impulse control and the moderating role of social connectedness

Xiaoya Yin, Haiyun Peng, Junjie Gao and Sufei Xin

Effectiveness of the integration of education, care and medicine (IECM) program on knowledge of parenting strategies for parents of infants and toddlers

Ting Liu, Li Ang Xie, Chang Jiang Yang, Nan Ding and Zhi Hong Zuo

Unveiling the interplay: network analysis of childhood trauma, perceived social support, and comorbid depression, anxiety, and smartphone addiction in Chinese young adults

Yilin Ma, Quanxi Hu, You Wang and Xueling Yang

The power of digital and traditional cultural capital: unpacking the association between family material deprivation and academic performance in eight countries

Chaoxin Jiang, Guowei Wan, Shimei Shi, Yimin Zhi and Zhiyou Wang

Volume 180, issue C, 2026

Australian fathers and the adoption of their biological child: disenfranchisement, impact and life-long consequences

Paul-Auguste Cornefert, Gary Clapton, Elizabeth Fernandez and Jung-Sook Lee

The contested causes of school absence: Longitudinal findings from the UK

Matthew van Poortvliet

Preliminary impact of the say no to stigma intervention on attitudes toward mental illness: A pilot randomized clinical trial among primary school students in Uganda

Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Penina Acayo Laker, Sumayiya Nassanga, Kennedy Ntambi, Vicent Ssentumbwe, Phionah Namatovu, Samuel Kizito, Ashraf Mutumba, Noeline Nakasujja, Proscovia Nabunya and Fred M. Ssewamala

“It’s my story and no one cares about me:” subjective experiences of youth sexual assault victims in the criminal justice process

Jonathan Piamenta and Tali Gal

Why adolescents do not confide in their parents about online sexual solicitation: A mixed-method study

Barbora Lisztwan Honusová, Lenka Dedkova and Vojtěch Mýlek

Correlates of problematic smartphone use among Chinese adolescents during COVID-19

Tong Chao, Hao Fong Sit, Chi Ian Chang, Guangzhe Frank Yuan, Chun Chen, Jie Shen, Christian Montag, Jon Elhai and Brian J. Hall

Transmission of pain? The impact of childhood trauma on children’s non-suicidal self-injury: The chain mediating roles of parent–child attachment and self-compassion

Menglan Wang, Wan Ding, Jingning Liu, Lixia Wu, Ke Wen and Ruibo Xie

Early assessment of the risk of child abuse in well-child care: The predictive validity of a family-centered approach

Claudia E. van der Put, Isidora J. Stolwijk and Sijmen A. Reijneveld

Do we really protect children? Evaluating child protection measures in two meta-analyses

Tessel Sterenborg, Inge B. Wissink, Maroesjka van Nieuwenhuijzen and Mark Assink

The governance of national care systems for orphans and vulnerable children in Cambodia, Uganda, Zambia and other low and formerly low-income countries: Findings and implications

Jeremy Shiffman, Innocent Kamya, Adam D. Koon, Shafkat Meraj, Seiha Min, Rita Nakanjako, Eddy J. Walakira, Joseph M. Zulu and Yusra R. Shawar

Exploring outdoor initiatives as tools for youth engagement, inclusion, and environmental awareness: a multi-case study from Italy and France

Laura Migliorini, Martina Olcese, Paola Cardinali and Francesco Madera

Understanding patterns of hope from informal mentoring through latent class analysis

Bailey R. Dow, Samuel D. McQuillin, Savannah B. Simpson and E. Scott Huebner

Bicultural acceptance attitude and school adjustment in multicultural adolescents in South Korea: A latent growth model approach

Dasom Han

Typology of online mental health peer support for young people: a systematic scoping review

Shuting Yuan, Gavin Davidson and Paul Best

Longitudinal effects of academic stress on life satisfaction in Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model

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

Young adults’ explanations of childhood neglect and their associations with health problems in young adulthood

Karin Hellfeldt, Sara Thunberg and Åsa Källström

An evaluation of the child protection system in Türkiye: challenges, solutions, and opportunities

Rukiye Karaveli and Gamze Erükçü Akbaş

Examining factors influencing belonging amongst immigrant adolescents: A scoping review

Rhea Jain, Kelly-Ann Allen, Christine Grove and Ebony Melzak

Associations of secondary victimization and social reactions with PTSD symptoms among young adult female survivors of sexual assault in South Korea

Jungtae Choi, Jae-Won Kim and Kihyun Kim

Children and adolescents’ experiences of using supervised services: balancing safety and continued parent-child relationships post separation and divorce

Michael Saini, Stephanie Stavro-Pearce and Sevil Deljavan

Circle of light education model: Death education for children in end of life care

Fang Fu, Keyuan Jiao and Chenhui Luo

Childhood offending, adverse experiences and systemic failure: Findings from a NZ national birth cohort 2000–2019

Ian Lambie, Ruth Allen, Jerome Reil and Jessica McLay

Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis

Ben Matthews, Chris Playford, Janice McGhee, Fiona Mitchell and Chris Dibben

Echoes and ripples: a qualitative analysis of the relationship between social work supervision and home visits

Caroline M. Webb and David Wilkins

“They had to change the model to fit the victim, versus the victim having to fit the model”: Innovative solutions in community response to commercial sexual exploitation

Ayelet Prior, O’Brien, Jennifer E., Alli Puchlopek-Adams, David Finkelhor and Kimberly J. Mitchell

Daily service use, depression, and social support among youth experiencing homelessness using ecological momentary assessment: The influence of youth characteristics

Kimberly A. Tyler, Kristen M. Olson and Anika R. Eisenbraun

A qualitative study of Canadian mental health service providers’ perspectives on mental health guidelines for youth involved in the justice system

Megan J. Magier, Melissa Blackburn, Evelyn Vingilis, Michele Peterson-Badali, Tara Marie Watson, Michelle Scully, Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian, Leonora Regenstreif, Branka Agic, Tracey A. Skilling and Hayley A. Hamilton

Estimating family–individual effects on student academic performance: evidence from the China family panel studies (2016–2020)

Xian Li, Kaichen Yu, Chun-Yang Lee, Shuyue Zhang, Li Mao and Yi-Chen Chiang

Why do people become a foster parent? Insights from a national study

Eunice Magalhães, Helena Carvalho, Mariana Matoso, Vânia S. Pinto, Patrício Costa, Sofia Ferreira, Joana Baptista, Catarina Anjos and João Graça

Who benefits? examining the moderating role of race in paid family leave’s relationship with infant neglect

Jennifer M Tanis and Hannah Boyke

The indigenous child welfare system and transitions to independence: a scoping review

Amanda Ervin, Hannah Odekina, Anika Dirk, Fatemeh Salehi-Shahrabi, Chloe Luck, Mary Greenshields and Janice M. Victor

‘Nobody is born knowing how to be a parent’: navigating tensions in the experiences of teenage mothers within the child protection system

Alejandra Yanez-Cancino, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Mijntje ten Brummelaar, Manuela García-Quiroga and Mónica López López

Corrigendum to “A retrospective exploration of care experiences shaping the mental health trajectories of children and young people in care: Part 1 – The system”. [Child. Youth Serv. Rev. 179 (2025) 108651]

Sally Peplow, Paul Christiansen and Warren Donnellan

Leveraging court appointed special advocates to improve outcomes for children involved in the child welfare system with prenatal alcohol exposure

Emily Speybroeck, Carson Kautz-Turnbull, Madeline N. Rockhold, Lynn Cole and Christie L.M. Petrenko

The impact of childhood sexual abuse on adolescent peer relationships: a social network analysis

Yao Zhang, Chunyan Zhou, Hai Huang, Lin Li and Jiaqi Deng

Peer attachment and cyberbullying perpetration in adolescents: Examining interpersonal sensitivity and traditional bullying victimization as sequential mediators and parental monitoring as a moderator

Yuhang Cheng and Shan Jiang

Neighborhood eviction filings and judgments, child maltreatment reports, and child protective services involvement

Hyunil Kim and William Schneider

Perspectives of immigrant and refugee youth in the U.S. On an interactive game for HIV prevention and sexual health

Gloria Aidoo-Frimpong, Toluwani Adekunle, Seleshi Asfaw, Kobi V. Ajayi, Adonis Durado, Eric R. Williams, Omar Martinez, Peter Memiah and Caroline Kingori

The role of family environment and school climate in shaping adolescent well-being: The mediating role of positive youth development

Gangxuan Yuan, Ying Tang and Bettina F. Piko

Evaluation of the Merseyside Navigator Programme: A hospital-based violence intervention programme for young people affected by or at risk of violence

Chloe R. Smith, Jane Harris and Zara A. Quigg

Improving adolescent outcomes in residential care: preliminary outcomes of a dialectical behavior therapy-informed treatment model

Kristin Espenes, Serap Keles, Pamela M. Waaler, John Kjøbli and Anita J. Tørmoen

Suicidal ideation and self-harming behaviors in treatment-seeking young children

Meeyoung O. Min, Devon Musson Rose, Chloe Lehman, Malinda Freitag and Jennifer Mitchell