Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 176, issue C, 2025

Everyday co-parenting in a polymedia environment

Ellen Schep, Keun Young Sliedrecht and Wyke Stommel

A mixed systematic review of interventions to support the well-being of refugee youth in school and community settings

Amira Noyes, Nataliya Kubishyn and Jason Brown

The reciprocal relations between externalizing problems and educational achievement and their long-term implications for educational attainment: Evidence from a 15-year study in China

Wensong Shen

The intersection of caregiving and financial vulnerability: Empowerment barriers for women in sex work

Massy Mutumba, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Proscovia Nabunya, Susan Witte, Jennifer Nattabi, Edward Nsubuga, Josephine Nabayinda, Joshua Kiyingi and Fred M. Ssewamala

National insights into the stress and well-being of Early Head Start families before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Maria Y. Abdul-Masih, Arya Ansari and Kelly M. Purtell

Political factors shaping national systems of care for orphans and vulnerable children in low-income countries: Scoping review and framework

Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Shafkat Meraj, Adam D. Koon and Jeremy Shiffman

The Baby TALK home visiting model and refugee families: A randomized controlled trial

Aimee Hilado, Tara Chiatovich, Christine Leow and Yinmei Yang

Prenatal profiles of social support and postpartum stress in mothers in home visiting

Nichole Nidey, Jennifer R. Frey, Robert T. Ammerman and Alonzo T. Folger

Understanding profiles of youth who use the Casey Life skills assessment

Lucas A. Gerber and Aakanksha Sinha

Outcomes of bullying and intervention strategies for migrant and refugee children in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

Özlem Çiçek Doğan, Taghreed Salameh, Seda Güney and Tuğba Şahin Tokatlıoğlu

Attachment representations and emerging borderline personality features in school-aged children under youth protective care, consulting psychologists or child psychiatrists, and from the general population

Olivier Didier and Miguel M. Terradas

Staff perspectives on documenting change in low-threshold family services: A cross-sectional study

Jannike Kaasbøll and Kristin Thaulow

Capacity Building goals in young people with cerebral palsy in Australia: Analysis of publicly available National disability Insurance Scheme data

Jacqueline Y. Ding, Stacey L. Cleary and Prue E. Morgan

Children with special educational needs: An impact evaluation

Maria Bezze and Devis Geron

Transition to adulthood of care leavers in Portugal and Spain

Jorge Díaz-Esterri, Carina Coelho, Verónica Sevillano-Monje, Paulo Delgado and Ángel De-Juanas

Family and professionalism in foster families

Ida Ofelia Brink and Daniela Reimer

Community readiness to prevent child maltreatment in Mozambique: An investigation among key informants at country level and from Maputo city

Sergio Nhassengo, Lucie Laflamme and Mathilde Sengoelge

‘The whole system is designed to create more trauma than it solves’: Australian foster and kinship carers navigating child protection systems

Damien W. Riggs, Ben Lohmeyer, Shoshana Rosenberg, Yvonne Clark and Clemence Due

Transitioning out of foster care: the co-development of adolescents’ coping, depressive symptoms, and intrapersonal and interpersonal resources

Gary R. Germo, Jacob Shane and Susan P. Farruggia

Family first policy to practice: Using implementation science and CQI to advance prevention focused practice

Leanne Heaton, Kristine Creavey, Yolanda Green-Rogers, O’Brien, Jennifer, Larry Small, Arya Harison, Charlotte Goodell and Krista Thomas

Mental health services for refugee youth in the United States

Kate Lloyd, Stacey A. Shaw and Kelsey LeBrun

Latent profile analysis on and influencing factors of preschool children’s social-emotional competence in China: A comparison of only children and non-only children

Yifei Zhao and Ronghui Chen

Parental awareness of abusive head trauma, shaking intentions, and behaviors in the Taiwanese population

Yi-Wen Chen, Yi-Ting Chang, Hsin-Yi Chang and Jui-Ying Feng

In memory and honor of Dr. Duncan Lindsey, founding editor of Children and Youth Services Review

Darcey Merritt, Elizabeth Fernandez, Todd Franke, Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Sacha Klein, Shawna Lee, Aron Shlonsky and Nico Trocmé

Daily relationships between elementary school students’ perceived teacher/peer support and school behaviors: the mediating role of negative emotions and the moderating role of mindfulness

Xue Wen, Zh Yeng Chong, Jackelyn De Alwis, Xiaoyan Liu and Wei Xu

Exploring adolescent & youth worker perspectives in co-creating a smoking prevention intervention

Babette Demeester, Maïté Verloigne, Sara Willems, Kenji Leta, Lieve Bradt and Emelien Lauwerier

Rehabilitation of at-risk youth via educational nomadism program and development of place identity

Miriam Billig and Michal Giar Bushari

Parental sense of competence in kinship and non kinship foster care in Chile: A study of associated factors and predictive variables

María Isabel Zavala and Manuela Garcia-Quiroga

Racial differences in adoption expectations

Ashley Larsen Gibby, Khiara Cardoza Brown, Kevin J.A. Thomas, Erin Kramer Holmes, Spencer L. James and Jeremy B. Yorgason

Reliability, validity, and response patterns of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire in a sample of adolescents in residential care

Alexandra M. Lino, Luiza Nobre-Lima and Isabel Alberto

Does parental academic socialization mitigate or exacerbate family background disadvantages? Predicting problem behaviors in migrant and local adolescents

Wei Wu, Jiali Li and Yanan Zhang

Rejection and beyond: How and why LGBTQ+ youth arrive at out-of-home care

Nofar Mazursky and Yochay Nadan

Families’ involvement with the child protection system in Portugal: A one-year follow-up study on case closure after receiving an evidence-based parenting program

Rita Pinto, Catarina Canário, Patty Leijten, Maria José Rodrigo and Orlanda Cruz

Understanding professional sensitivity to child violence: A cross-sectoral study on child welfare in Turkey

Cagla Yigitbas and Aliye Bulut

Scoping review of parenting instruments used in evidence-based family support programs in different populations

Oriola Hamzallari, Koraljka Modić Stanke, Elisabeth Stefanek and Georg Spiel

Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis

Sam Arthurson, Ben Lohmeyer and Damien W. Riggs

Interparental marital quality and children’s anxiety: The mediating role of rejection sensitivity

Li Liu, Wenjie Zheng, Jingxuan Qian and Jingyi Wang

The influence of parental neglect and teachers’ neglect on peer relationship of adolescents in China: The mediating effect of social withdrawal and aggressive behavior

Yuan Liu and Yu-zhi Yuan

Ethnic biases and risk for discrimination in child welfare investigations in Sweden: Caseworkers perceptions on assessment variability and participatory conditions for client families

Katarina Grim

Trusted adult and providing changes for youth living with drug users’ parents: a qualitative study

Hadi Zeinalipouryazd, Masoomeh Maarefvand and Nasibeh Zanjari

The effect of grief following loss on fear of intimacy of Korean returnee cross-cultural individuals (CCIs): The moderating effects of meaning-making and cultural identity

Seyeon Jeon and Ju Hee Park

Effects of parenting styles on academic achievement: The moderating role of a country’s economic development

Tina Cupar, Rudi Klanjšek, Katja Košir, Miran Lavrič and Alexander T. Vazsonyi

The role of emotion regulation strategies in the association between physical abuse and borderline symptoms among deprived youth in Ecuador

Nicolas Murgueitio, Ana F. Trueba and Graham Pluck

Examining factors influencing forcibly displaced children and youth’s access to mental health support: An overview of reviews

İrem Sevi Yılmaz, İrem Yılmaz-Özdemir and Charlotte Woodhead

Using participatory action research to examine child protection services: Case of inhalant misuse in India

Ajazuddin Shaikh and Ankur Sarin

Social support among former foster youth across placement types

Charis J Stanek and Elinam Dellor

How did the Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes affect children? Experiences of children in the earthquake zone

Sümeyye Özarslan, Ulviye Günay and Şeydanur Çelik

The longitudinal effects of parental academic conditional regard on basic psychological need satisfaction among adolescents: Testing the indirect role of mindfulness

Yonghe Ti, Cong Yi, Jun Wei and Shun-Lam Chan

The association between mental health and educational problems among adolescent girls in child welfare: moderating role of protective factors

Jennifer Threlfall, Wendy Auslander, Hollee McGinnis and Melissa Jonson-Reid

Mindful parenting and preschoolers’ digital overuse: exploring the roles of executive function and gender differences

Ju Huang, Xin Chen, Dandan Wu, Ruifeng Liu, Sha Xie and Xinli Chi