Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 172, issue C, 2025

Indigenous young people transitioning from alternative care in Australia: What are their specific needs?

Joseph J. McDowall, Katherine Creed and Elise Hilder

Balancing equality and equity in decision-making practice: Using standardised tools in child welfare services

Marina Snipsøyr Sletten, Ingunn Tollisen Ellingsen, Catharina Bjørkquist and Mónica López López

Exploring children and Adolescent́s experiences of a residential camp and the ambiguity of Reentering the everyday

Anne Louise Fink, Freja Ekstrøm Nilou and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen

Pathways from parental alienation to adolescent problem behaviors: A longitudinal study of parent-child attachment and emotion regulation

Kun-yan Wang, Bing-Bing Lin, Ying-hang Huang and Xiang-kui Zhang

Parent information seeking and sharing: Using unsupervised machine learning to identify common parenting issues

Nehal Eldeeb, Cheng Ren and Valerie B. Shapiro

“They just want people in their lives that will be there forever”: A conceptual model of permanency for children and young people in therapeutic residential care

Tatiana Corrales, Patricia McNamara, Brett Smith, Howard Bath, Ellysha Clark, Kelly-Lee Goodchild, Sarah Grabda, Mark Harrison and Barry McGrady

The impact of age and sexual orientation on work-related changes and stress early in the pandemic

Gio Iacono, Emily K Loveland, Michael Fendrich, Dahee Kim, Beth S. Russell, Crystal L. Park and Morica Hutchison

Childhood and adolescence’s predictors of parenting stress in adoptive mothers of early and late placed children

Nahed Lajmi, Saul Hillman, Miriam Steele, Jill Hodges, John Simmonds and Jeanne Kaniuk

The association between children’s reported access to food and their subjective well-being: A cross-national perspective

Daphna Gross-Manos, Sigal Tepper and Hanita Kosher

It takes a lot: Exploring implementation of therapeutic foster care as an alternative to residential care

Reiko Kakuyama-Villaber, Tiffany Burkhardt and Ka Ho Brian Chor

Distal and proximal risk factors of suicidality: Using network analysis to test the narrative Crisis Model of suicide

Mogeda El Sayed El Keshky and Radeah Mohammed Hamididin

The availability and evaluation of education and training programs for child welfare workers serving migrant and newcomer children and families: A scoping review of the empirical literature Spanning 25-years

Barbara Lee, Kristen Lwin, Rose Zhao, Vivian Thieu and Jennifer Ma

Latent classes of childhood maltreatment among Chinese undergraduates: Associations with sociodemographic variables

Yuanke Zhang, Hong Zheng, Shanshan Zhu, Ziqian Wang, Qianqian Jin, Xu Li and Bingbing Li

Child maltreatment in Chinese ethnic minority regions: Does gender Matter?

Guowei Wan, Miao Wang and Jun Sung Hong

More money, more questions: How caregivers spent the expanded child tax credit

C.Ross Hatton, Adam S. Levine, Keshia M. Pollack Porter and Erin R. Hager

A shared mission: On the indispensable partnership between Medicaid and child welfare in state governments, and the promise of research using linked data

Matthew T. Walton, Ben Allaire, Tami Mark and Melissa Dolan

Family resilience before and during the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent transition analysis

Xianzhi Li, Kangle Song, Yuanyuan An, Chao Song and Xiaohui Li

Termination of parental rights and child welfare public Policy: Barriers for incarcerated parents and state-level policies to help mitigate them

Tamarie Willis

Quality of family life in relation to social competence: The perspective of adolescents

Salah Gad, Alaa Zuhir AL-Rawashda, Abdullah Khawas Ismail and Nemaa Nady Abd El-Samee

Domestic abuse and the impact on young children: A UK perspective

Hedy Cleaver

Comparing the relationship between three resilience frameworks and mental health outcomes among children who experienced multiple adverse childhood experiences

Kevin Keane, Retta R. Evans, Larrell L. Wilkinson, Dione Moultrie King, Lindsay Leban and David Macrina

Examining the potential of a coordinated service delivery model in child welfare in Ontario, Canada: Critical role of Black voices

Maria Gintova, Elliot Goodell Ugalde and Abigail Jaimes Zelaya

Adolescent residential treatment outcomes: Changes in depressive symptoms throughout treatment

Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Nicole Watkins, Michael Roeske, Linda Ruan-Iu, Guy Weissinger and Guy Diamond

The significance of religion when matching children with migrant background and foster carers − child welfare workers’ perspectives

Raquel Herrero-Arias and Milfrid Tonheim

Gender differences in school environment and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents: The multilevel mediating role of peer support

Jia Wang, Pengyuan Li, Yuan Fang and Zhiyan Chen

Foster parents’ engagement in the development and maintenance of Indigenous children’s and youth’s cultural identities

Ashley L. Quinn, Sheila Marshall, Connie Bird, Daniel Ji, Frances Cabahug, Judy Chau and Madeline Elder

Neighbourhood differences in the rates of criminal cautions and convictions for children in the care system

A. Leyland, C.J.r Webb, M.R. Bennett and N. Hughes

The relationship between violence against authority in the family and adolescent involvement in school bullying: The moderating role of parental psychological control

Li Zhang, Jia Sun, Miao Zhang, Keshun Zhang and Zhuo Wang

Longitudinal effects of school connectedness on adolescents’ academic engagement: Mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction and the examination of gender differences in the mediation model

Yu Xia, Menghao Ren, Xiaohang Luo, Mingping Wu, Nan Jiang, Xinyi Han and Ruoshui Zhao

University students’ perceptions of spanking as a child discipline strategy

Darius O. Love, Irma Saljic, Amruta Kuthe and Lucy McGoron

Protective factors in intergenerational trauma: A mixed methods investigation of the role of holistic well-being and parental empowerment by parents’ gender

Ray Eads, Shelton Young, Susan Yoon, Camille R. Quinn and Mo Yee Lee

“Where am I meant to go from here?”: Young people’s experiences of navigating referral processes, waiting lists and access pathways in mental health services

Louise Lynch, Anne Moorhead, Maggie Long and Isobel Hawthorne Steele

Profiles of family resilience and college adjustment among Chinese Undergraduates: A latent profile and network analysis approach

Peiyu Zhou, Yan Liu, Meiling Xiao, Huan Chen, Xu Sun, Zhuoling Xiong and Yuxuan Zhang

Examining of participation, support and barrier of children with and without maltreatment: A cross-sectional study with caregiver perspective

Barkın Köse, Kübra Ersoy, Halim Toğa, Emine Cansu Güler, Özgün Kaya Kara, Cihat Çelik and Serkan Pekçetin

Effectiveness of music-based therapy on adolescents and children with physical and mental health problems. A systematic review

Xiangyuan Huang, Jiahua Ma and Chunhai Gao

“I’d lost trust and having to tell everyone the same story again and again and again…”: Bottlenecks and barriers to the application of therapeutic approaches within care services’ ecological systems

Claire Paterson-Young, Michael Maher, Ecem Karlıdağ-Dennis and Megan Hogg

Unraveling the school-to-work transition of non-engaged youth: A continuous-time Markov chain analysis

Steven Sek-yum Ngai, Chau-kiu Cheung, Yuen-hang Ng, Bong Joo Lee, Véronique Dupéré, Miao Wang, Qiushi Zhou, Chen Chen, Yunjun Li, Laing-ming Wong and Elly Ngai-hin Yu

The intergenerational effects of intimate partner violence on child development

Dung Duc Le and Long Thanh Giang

Adoption process in South Africa: Experiences of transracial adoptive families

Jean Luyt and Leslie Swartz

If you Build it (with them in Mind), They’re more likely to Come: A qualitative study informing Black father engagement in early childhood home visiting programs

Paula Marie Powe, Flor de Abril Cameron, Amber Tan, Tasha Alston and Jennifer Bellamy

Psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) as an empowerment pathway among economically disadvantaged youth and young adults in South Korea

Sangmi Choi, Harold E. Briggs, Ahyun Moon and Philip Young P. Hong

Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) students and online education in Australia

Jessie Fletcher, Tiffany Jones and Penny Van Bergen

Balancing child participation and protection in emergency cases: Ensuring the child’s best interests

May Gresdahl, Halvor Fauske and Anita Skårstad Storhaug

Localising the Partners in Parenting program for Malaysia (PiP Malaysia): A qualitative study of cultural considerations

Darlene Mei-Yi Koh, Amanda De-Min Au, Liz Jones, Dharshani Chandrasekara, Ling Wu, Mairead Cardamone-Breen, Patrick Olivier and Marie Bee Hui Yap

Good court performance in child protection court proceedings: Perspectives from multiple courtroom stakeholders in a Southeastern state

Yanfeng Xu, Liyun Zhang, Abigail K. Reza, Katherine A. Perkins, Bryndle L. Bottoms and Vasanthi Rao

Adverse and positive childhood experiences and associated adulthood criminal conviction

Ganghui Suh, Angela Chow, Tzung-Shiang Ou and Hsien-Chang Lin

Human trafficking services for youth with minoritized identities: Application of an access to care framework

Cynthia Fraga Rizo, O’Brien, Jennifer E., Kathleen M. Preble and Kimberly J. Mitchell

Decision-making and goal setting among young people in residential care: Relationships with caregivers and the role of resilience

Cristina Peixoto Alves, Mónica Costa, Inês Carvalho Relva and Catarina Pinheiro Mota

Gender-specific problematic behaviors and transnational social ties among multicultural adolescents in South Korea

Sou Hyun Jang, Hyojong Song and Juyeon Kim

Exploring the role of ecological systems and intersectionality in shaping the academic performance of Chinese adolescents

Xixi Kang and Wen-Jui Han

Choice preferences for mental health services among young adults in China: A discrete choice experiment

Luqi Yuan, Bo Li, Shuyun Fan and Juan Chen

Narrative development among emerging adults who aged out of foster care: Patterns and implications for adaptation

AnnaMaria Boullion, Linnea B. Linde-Krieger, Efrat Sher-Censor and Tuppett M. Yates

How adverse childhood experiences relate to subjective vitality: The half-longitudinal role of loneliness

Ezgi Güney Uygun, Seher Merve Erus and Begüm Satıcı

“Going around the long route to get where I want to be”: Exploring the university experiences of care leaver students

Grace Killmer, Linda Chiodo, Carolina Aguirre, Laurie Chapin, Humberto Oraison, Romana Morda, Jarrod Weir, Daniel Loton, Reanna Clark, Mark Danko, Lizzie Knight and Peter Richard Gill

Creating a public facing dynamic literature map to advance the science in child maltreatment

Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ellis Ballard, Sinko Wang, Liwei Zhang, Jun-Hong Chen, Eunhye Ahn, Katie Allen, Alison Setili and Darejan Dvalishvilli

Barriers to and facilitators of self-disclosure by male victims of child sexual abuse: a rapid review

Rachelle Snyman, Sufran Smith and Karlien Van Schalkwyk

Associations between child neglect, informal interventions in food neglect, and child stunting: Evidence from the Ghana families study

Alhassan Abdullah, Clifton Emery, Yanfeng Xu and Felix Mensah

From childhood deprivation to losing their own children to adoption: Poverty, trauma and adoption among marginalized mothers in Israel

Shira Rosenberg-Lavi

Childhood immigration enforcement exposure and young adults’ anxiety: A mixed methods study

Eunju Lee, Joanna Dreby, Yeeun Hong and Tola Seng

The educational and work progress of care experienced adults: The potential contribution of birth family adults over time

Robbie Gilligan, Eavan Brady and Laura Arnau-Sabatés

A history of safeguarding disabled children from 1840 to 1960 in the Republic of Ireland

Susan Flynn

The relationship between content and types of personal values and depression in Chinese adolescents

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

Cyberbullying and cyberhate as an overlapping phenomenon among adolescents in Estonia and Spain: Cross-cultural differences and common risk factors

Dra.María Reneses, Mari-Liisa Parder, María Riberas-Gutiérrez and Dra.Nereida Bueno-Guerra

Nonlinear child protection intervention and child population density: A prevalence study

Tonino Esposito, Johanna Caldwell, Martin Chabot, Nico Trocmé, Sonia Hélie and Barbara Fallon

Unseen Struggles: Assessing the impact of long COVID on students and the need for educational support in schools

Lisha Veerakumar and Sanandhana Vetrivelan

Roots and routes: navigating family identities and relationships in non-kinship care

Lara Wulleman, Hans Grietens, Ilse Noens and Nicole Vliegen

“You are nothing and you have nothing”: Exploring social justice for youth leaving care in African contexts

Berni Kelly, Adrian D. van Breda and Kwabena Frimpong-Manso