Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2026

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Volume 183, issue C, 2026

Safety under scrutiny: How children and young people perceive safety in residential care settings

Carina Pohl

Qualitative exploration of experiences with the adolescent community reinforcement approach with assertive continuing care among youth being released from juvenile incarceration

Matthew W. Thomas, Kym Ahrens, Kevin P. Haggerty, Carolyn A. McCarty and Ahnalee Brincks

Dynamics that challenge the provision of integrated care for youth at-risk: a systematic review

L.C.M. Veerman, L.A. Nooteboom, E.A. Mulder and R.R.J.M. Vermeiren

Transgenerational transmission of trauma. Heterogeneity in the experiences of mothers who experienced out-of-home care (OHC) and adjustment of their children

Ingrid Schoon and Samantha Parsons

Potential mentor predictors of motivation to attend a cultural humility training: Ethnocultural empathy and self-efficacy to provide racial/ethnic identity support

Jennifer L. Koide, Heather L. McDaniel and Michael D. Lyons

Profiles of protection trajectories among children in residential care

Andrea Fuentes-González, Jesús Palacios, Rosa Rosnati and Maite Román

Healthcare access among youth with disabilities leaving foster care: Exploring barriers in the Deep South

Leah P. Cheatham, Natalia L. Smith and Brian S. Gannon

Adapting a U.S.-based micro-savings program for Uganda: implementation process and lessons learned

Flavia Namuwonge, Abel Zemedkun Girma, Samuel Kizito, Peter Kalulu, Vicent Ssentumbwe, Proscovia Nabunya, Mary McKay and Fred M. Ssewamala

Child and adolescent strengths through the course of trauma-focused treatment: Differences based on symptom severity

Jessica Eslinger, Ginny Sprang, Stephanie Gusler and Adrienne Whitt-Woosley

“The duty to report or to support?” Exploring the experiences of child protection workers investigating Black families reported for allegations of physical abuse to Ontario’s child welfare system

Travonne Edwards, Bryn King, Barbara Fallon and Carl Everton James

When the system fails: a qualitative interview study of foster parents’ perceptions of placement breakdown in Sweden

Cecilia Bylander and Marlene Makenzius

What matters to me: a focused ethnography of children’s agency in adoption preparation

Isabel Fidalgo, Margarida R. Henriques and Franco A. Carnevale

Disability type and racial disparities in foster care placement stability: a disaggregated analysis

Jessica Greenlee and Erica Blausetin

Women with disabilities experiencing domestic violence and abuse: child safety focused practice with person-centred principles

Susan Flynn, Ruth Elliffe, Stephanie Holt and Ms Sowmia Lakkshme Sundaresan

“Pray that we will be good messengers”: Ultra-orthodox educators’ responses to students’ disclosures of sexual abuse

Dafna Tener

Students’ school-related well-being and parental involvement over time: Trajectories and interrelations in the context of the first year in secondary school

Ramona Obermeier, Lisa Pösse, Juliane Schlesier and Michaela Gläser-Zikuda

At the intersection of disability and transitioning to adulthood: service receipt by disability type among youth in foster care

Melissa L. Villodas, JoAnn S. Lee, Gilbert Gimm and Chloe Pilkerton

Social work with LGBTQIA+ youth from the perspective of child protection professionals in France and Italy

Rurka Anna, Ius Marco, Faisca Elodie, Perdrizet Marie-Cécile and Séraphin Gilles

Individual community-based mentoring programs for children and youth exposed to adversity: a scoping review

Stéphanie Manoni-Millar, Anara Hopley, Patrick Labelle, Cheri Anne Pereira, Andre Plamondon, Simon Larose, Stephanie Craig, Megan Ames, Irene Vitoroulis, Deb Pepler and Nicole Racine

Exploring the impact of parental involvement on preschool transitions in New York City: a mixed-methods case study of Teachers’ perceptions and practices

Annie George-Puskar and Erin Shanahan

Effective elements of the diagnostic assessment process in youth care. A scoping review

Angela Luteijn, Stijn R.J.M. Deckers, Ron H.J. Scholte, Paul T. van der Heijden and Jana Knot-Dickscheit

“Nothing about us without us”: Inclusion of unhoused youth voice in qualitative data analysis

Nyssa L. Snow-Hill, Abigail Bushnell, Nakisa Asefnia and Justin Bell

Children’s experience of a new approach to family safeguarding in Oxfordshire Children’s social care services

Srijani Datta, Ruta Buivydaite, Jane Barlow, Joel Carvalho and Delia Mann

Child welfare inequalities on the agenda? A qualitative study of the local political stream in England

Davara Lee Bennett, Sophie Wickham, Ben Barr and David Taylor-Robinson

Corrigendum to “The direct and indirect pathways through which gender norms influences decision-making autonomy among young women and men in Southern Uganda. A mediation analysis” [Child. Youth Serv. Rev. 181 (2026) 108729]

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

Child rape against girl children and its impacts on survivors and their families in selected rural areas of Bangladesh

Subrata Banarjee and Lucky Akter

The mental health help seeking process for Asian youth living in Western countries: A decoloniality informed scoping review

Rubini Ball and Susan Baidawi

‘Our babies are our gold’: The experiences of Aboriginal kinship carers in Western Australia

Jocelyn Jones, Sasha Moodie, Richard Chenhall, Juliet Brook, Robyn Williams, Katiska Davis, Cathy Garlett, Alison Gibberd, Emily Banks, Benjamin Harrap, O’Donnell, Melissa, Bridgette McNamara and Sandra Eades

‘Young children are always the most challenging’: therapists’ narratives of working therapeutically with young children who have experienced sexual abuse

Loreto Rodríguez, Nicolás Ricotti and Constanza Arratia

Evaluating a school-based intervention to enhance elementary school staff knowledge and awareness of minor sex and labor trafficking

Erin J. McCauley and Devin M. McCauley

Shared parenting experiences in kinship care: The role of family demographics, adverse childhood experiences, birth parent involvement, and attitudes toward shared parenting

Yanfeng Xu, Amanda Klein-Cox, Ramona Denby-Brinson, Eun Koh, Angela Tobin, Joyce Y. Lee, Qi Wu and Nancy Mendoza

The longitudinal effects of neglect on aggression and delinquency: Testing competing hypotheses

JoAnn S. Lee, Patricia Logan-Greene, Jingtao Zhu and Gregory E. Wilding

Role of young people’s personal network in subjective well-being: A longitudinal study in residential care

Lukas Fellmann, Jana Osswald, Tobias Kindler, Stefan Köngeter, Dorothee Schaffner, Thomas Schmid and Carole Zellner

Building societal resilience against child grooming: A design thinking approach to understanding the problem and priorities

Christina Thorpe, Fiona Jennings, Armin Shams, Lin Yuan Chong, Kamran Mir, Brian Barry, Susan McKeever and Matt Bowden

The result of creative learning activities towards the knowledge and ability to make illustrated tales on the cultural differences of youths in Su-ngai Kolok district, Narathiwat province, Thailand

P. Tepsing, K. Laeheem and B. Komontri

Personal mental health treatment stigma, perceived caregiver and peer treatment stigma, and help-seeking behaviors among adolescents

Meghan A. Costello, Laura J. Austin, McKenna Parnes, Kristina Conroy, M. Grace Albright, Wilson Spurrell, Sarah E.O. Schwartz and Randi M. Schuster

Knowledge, belief, and self-efficacy towards autistic children in educational contexts: a global perspective in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)

Meng Zhang, Laura M. Morett, Abdulrahman S. Al-rasheed, Sumaia Mohammed Zaid, Pu Song, Houria Aljounid and Sahar Mohammed Taresh

Pathways to safety: adolescents’ experiences of care and support services for sexual violence in Pernambuco, Brazil

Zoe Rubenstein, Ben Brewster, Valeria Nepomuçeno Teles de Mendonca, Fernanda Sardelich Nascimento and Katarina Schwarz

A scoping review of 50 years of school-based mindfulness programs for children and adolescents

O’Neal, C. Shannon, John Begeny and Bradley Smith

“Sometimes you need a middleman”: Negotiating Family Engagement for Foster and Kinship Caregivers Involved with Child Welfare

Anna Wasim, Catherine A. LaBrenz, Nelkasia Graves, Samantha Zuniga Thompson and Monica Faulkner

Prioritizing participant safety in mental health research involving marginalized groups: a narrative review and case exemplar synthesizing recommendations and best practices

Brianna Jackson, Victoria Smye, Sarah Lowe, Margaret L. Holland and Lois S. Sadler

Retrospective Birth: The transition to parenthood among foster care alumni

Yael Doft, Tamar Langer Drori and Chaya Possick

Reflection, connection, and creative expression: Body-map storytelling among youth with lived experience in the child welfare system in Canada

Rasnat Chowdhury, Cam Bautista, O’Connor, Carolyn, Vilmara Lucas and Stephanie Begun

Does Shared Family Care work? A study on families discharged between 2016 and 2021 from an Italian residential program

Laura Palareti, Giorgia Olezzi and Chiara Monti

Flying under the radar: double standards frontline workers’ identification of vulnerable children

Iben Lausten Kragh

Factors associated with physical punishment of 1–4-year-old children in bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

Imran Hossain, Souphalak Inthaphatha, Soutthida Vongsavath, Kimihiro Nishino and Eiko Yamamoto

The mentoring paradox: when relationships reinforce educational inequality

Nilanjan Raghunath and Vincent Chua

What affects the likelihood of children entering public care? The interaction of household low income, area-level deprivation and parental risk factors

Nell Warner, Jonathan Scourfield, Rebecca Cannings-John, Olivier Y. Rouquette and Ann John

Volume 182, issue C, 2026

‘Unlocking child participation’: Development and validation of the Child Participation Post-Separation Scale (ChiPPS)

Rianne van Dijk, Charlotte R. Mol, Zoë Rejaän, Susan Branje, Maja Deković, Wendy M. Schrama and Inge E. van der Valk

Applying the general strain theoretical framework to exploring the associations between adverse childhood experiences and problematic Internet use

Wen-Hsu Lin, Hui-Ker Su and Chi Chiao

Go to school. Go to college. Make something of your life

M. Sebrena Jackson and Toni Naccarato

Relationships Between Peer Bullying, Short Video Addiction, Sleep Deprivation, and Life Satisfaction in School-Aged Children

Mehtap Metin Karaaslan and Kübra Berber

Protective factors in unaccompanied foreign minors: a qualitative study from a neuroeducational professional perspective

Sara Arenas-Carranza, Jorge Expósito-López and Eva María Olmedo-Moreno

A typology on the diversity of transnational family relationships of unaccompanied minors in Germany: A constructivist grounded theory study

Franziska Anna Seidel

Technoference unplugged: Age, gender, and the disruption of adolescent well-being

Tayyaba Ali, Sidra Iqbal and Muhammad Zubair

Staff perspectives on program functioning and fidelity of a kinship navigator program

Anna Yelick, Kristine Posada and Kasey Longley

Life satisfaction and the moderating role of resilience among disabled young people

Ami Goulden, Ran Hu and Bryn King

A systematic review of the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect: Evidence from individual and family level studies

G.C.M. Skinner, N. Hodges and E. Kennedy

Support for foster parents by youth welfare offices in Germany: a nationwide survey

Judith Bürzle and Christian Bachmann

Unleashing the superpowers of peer group empathy: a study on bullying intervention tendency and behavior in primary school students

Chenhui Dai, Yujing Dang, Xiaojun Zhao and Changxiu Shi

Mentalization and externalizing behavior from early adolescence to young adulthood: A meta-analysis

Renée E. Klein Schaarsberg, Johanneke van Agten, Demi de Jong, Sterre L. van Haeringen, Levi van Dam, Janneke P.C. Staaks, Geert-Jan J.M. Stams, Ramón J.L. Lindauer and Arne Popma

Exploring the prevalence, forms, risk factors, and interventions associated with violence against children in alternative care settings: A scoping review

Justin Rogers, Susie Wilson and Jen Dixon

Spiritual care in Children’s Advocacy Centers: results of a survey of CAC directors

Theodore P. Cross, Victor Vieth and Elizabeth M. Cross

Parent group facilitators’ reflections on accessibility of in-person and videoconference meetings

Cristina A. Granda

Promoting positive childhood experiences (PCEs) among those impacted by parental substance use: The role of multi-level connectedness

Jennifer L. Matjasko, Joivita Bradford, Sarah Treves-Kagan, Gary Chovnick, Elizabeth Vaughn, Erin Ingoldsby and Lara DePadilla

Barriers to ensuring child participation in the daily practice of Lithuanian child welfare professionals

Ilona Tamutienė and Vytautas Kirka

Developmental differences in children’s visits with parents in jail

Lauren A. Hindt, Laurel Davis, Elizabeth L. Shaver, Julie Poehlmann and Rebecca J. Shlafer

Exploring parents’ repertoire of everyday resistance in child welfare services — Towards a power-sensitive understanding of resistance

Malin Fævelen

Multisystemic therapy modifications for child welfare-focused implementation

Molly Brunk, Emily Weinberger and Suzanne E.U. Kerns

The role of adverse and positive childhood experiences on mood challenges in child welfare population

Hyeeun K. Shin, Scott C. Leon, Olga Vsevolozhskaya, Xiaoran Tong and John S. Lyons

Measurement invariance of the anxious protection subscale the short version of the multidimensional overprotective parenting scale (AP-s-MOPS) in Chinese and Belgian adolescents

Long Wang, Martijn Van Heel, Zahra Azadfar, Stijn Van Petegem, Lijun Wang, Ying Wang and Imke Baetens

A scoping review of policies and practices to support young people transitioning from out-of-home care in Asia

Rangga Radityaputra, Susan Baidawi and Philip Mendes

Process-evaluation of the implementation of a collaborative community programme for health, safety and talent development in youth

Mirte Boelens, Harrie Jonkman, Clemens M.H. Hosman, Hein Raat and Wilma Jansen

Others of the other: Examining migrant children’s delinquency through the exclusion–support matrix

Beyza Ünal, Mustafa Kocanci, Beyhan Aksoy, Kardelen Devrim Doruköz, Berk Uslu and Mete Kaan Namal

Patterns of vulnerability: A descriptive study on intergenerational child welfare involvement

Audrey Kern, Tonino Esposito, Sonia Hélie and Rachel Langevin

Strengthening social support in residential care: Evidence from the D’AR-TE project

Paula Ferreira and Mara Ricardo

Family experiences regarding treatments and therapies for children with developmental disabilities: A qualitative study

Yoomi Shin, Naeun Park, Hyunyoung Lee and Anna Lee

Seeing the invisible: Educators contending with childhood neglect among their students

Eran P. Melkman and Laura I. Sigad

Best practice vs. reality: An exploratory study of communication dynamics during forensic dental and medical examinations in child abuse investigations

Hayley Manalang Ko, Gunn Astrid Baugerud, Miriam S. Johnson, Unni-Mette Stamnes Köpp and Ewa A. Szyszko Hovden

Internal attribution of poverty and social isolation among the Korean youth: the mediating effect of relative deprivation

Soo-Bi Lee and Jae-Kyoung Lee

Multisystemic therapy across Europe: Implementation and evolution

Simone Fox, Annemarieke Blankestein, Cathy James, Tom Jefford, Femke Kuijpers, Aurelie Lange, Terje Ogden, Knut Taraldsen and Emma Ulfsdotter Ljunggren

Mandatory reporting policy and its effects: changes in perspectives on child abuse, reporting behavior, and influencing factors among Chinese child welfare social workers

Tian Tian, Wanzhen Chen and Fang Peng

Unpacking gender differences: The role of familism values in the relationship between perceived discrimination and educational attainment among second-generation immigrant youth

Yiqiu Huang and Xuan Wang

Causal attribution: a theoretical framework for understanding the significance of children’s perceptions of family violence

Tina Gerdts-Andresen and Eva Lill Fossli Vassend