Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2026

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Volume 184, issue C, 2026

A study of fidelity to and implementation of a multi-level workforce intervention: Building resilience and supervisor support in public child welfare agencies

Anita P. Barbee, Andrew Winters, Michelle I. Graef, Lisa Purdy, Becky F. Antle, Michael R. Cunningham, Jenny Taylor, Katy Henry and Penny Putnam-Collins

‘Not under my roof’: foster parents’ perceptions on dealing with worldview differences

Danielle van de Koot-Dees and Martine Noordegraaf

The relationship between parental childhood neglect and children’s behavioral problems: The mediating role of punitive responses and parent–child conflict

Youli Wang, Bijing Ren, Baocheng Pan, Honghuan Fang, Jingkai Sun, Ziyi Feng, Keman Yuan, Pin Xu, Bowen Xiao and Yan Li

Negotiating complexities of trust and positionality: autoethnographic reflections on researching Syrian-Dutch communities

Abduhalim Albakkor

Giving effect to children’s right to maintain contact with their parents in prison: a systematic review of caregivers’ perspectives

O’Connor, Lorraine, John Ahern, Sarah Hume, Lydia Bracken, Fiona Donson and Elaine Rogers

Criminal justice system outcomes of children with child welfare service involvement and special educational needs: analysis of routinely collected data

A. Leyland, C.J.R. Webb and N. Hughes

The moderating role of school engagement on the relationship between childhood adversity and latent profiles of mental and behavioral health among child welfare-involved adolescents

Camie A. Tomlinson, Jennifer Murphy, Jennifer S. Tinman, O’Connor, Kelly E. and Jamie Cage

Narrative interventions for children and adolescents in foster care: A scoping review

Yvette Xufré, Meritxell Pacheco, Margarida R. Henriques and Josep Gallifa

Youth transitions and multi-agency responsibility in early school leaving: An ecological analysis from Norway

K. Wathne

Promoting personal and social skills in youth with disruptive behaviors: A systematic review of tertiary programs

Mónica Soares, Jacinta Sousa, Leonor G. Cardoso, Olga Cunha and Sónia Caridade

Relational adaptation from adolescence to adulthood in women with a history of out-of-home care: a longitudinal domino effect

Katherine Pascuzzo, Nadine Lanctôt, Roxane Perrin-Plouffe, Rosalie Vézina, Maude Turcotte and Annie Lemieux

Pre-adoption and post-adoption factors associated with internalizing problems in adopted children and adolescents: A systematic review

Teresa Galán-Luque, Lucía Quiñonero-Fernández and Mireia Orgilés

Predictors of the NEET status: the role of stress, behavioural problems, social support, and quality of life in a serial mediation model

Maria-Helena Pimentel, Joana Soares, Francisco Simões and Maria Barbosa-Ducharne

The impact of behavioral healthcare professionals’ multicultural counseling self-efficacy on their professional quality of life

Charis Stanek and Mo Yee Lee

Disparities in integrated child development services use among adolescent mothers across Indian states: an analysis using the Andersen's behavioral model

Subhojit Let, Mahashweta Chakrabarty and Seema Tiwari

Device-specific and contextual patterns of screen use: links to emotional and behavioral outcomes in early childhood

Niko Männikkö, Aristides M. Machado-Rodrigues, Cristina Padez, Clara Barata and Daniela Rodrigues

The role of maternal education in predicting opportunity youth status in the US

Joseph A. Jaiyeola and Rogelio Sáenz

Participation of parents known to child protection in service responses: experiences of parents in an interprofessional context

Sarah Seekamp, Lesley-Anne Ey, James Herbert and Margarita D Tsiros

Material deprivation and subjective well-being in childhood and adolescence: a systematic literature review

Aline Ruoso, Carine Tabaczinski, Letícia Fabrício Ponsi, Ana Paula Coutinho and Lívia Maria Bedin

The effects of learning-related and peer-related school experiences on adolescent wellbeing: a longitudinal structural equation model

Devi Khanna, Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey and Ola Demkowicz

Family rituals and loneliness in a sample of Chinese adolescents: Parent-child attachment and social connectedness as mediators

Xiaoling Sun, Suhang Ni and Mingzheng Wu

On-site, but out of sight: analysis of determinants and age-related variation in child physical abuse outcomes in some selected Sub-Saharan African countries

Tochukwu G. Onyechi and Emmanuel O. Nwosu

How can we achieve meaningful engagement of communities in local decision making?

Gemma Bridge

The relationship between peer interaction and subjective well-being among orphans: a meta-analysis

Qiao Zhiyuan

Effectiveness of adapted curriculum for autism and neurodevelopmental disorders skills education program (AC-AND-SEP)

Aissa Ahnay, Zouhayr Souirti, Samira El Fakir, Abdelmajid Tahiri, Farah El Houari and Rachida Gougil

Connections count: how adaptive coping links supportive relationships to military adolescents’ wellbeing

Evin W. Richardson and O’Neal, Catherine W.

Completion of upper secondary school among unaccompanied refugee minors and the association with child welfare measures

Oda Marie Heimli, Ingrid Kvestad, Tormod Bøe and Kristin Gärtner Askeland

Weighing consequences: understanding decision-making in mandatory reporting of suspected child physical abuse

Xiao Li, Beige Ma, Wanjia Bao and Zimin Tan

Collaboration at the intersection of domestic and family violence and child protection: Enablers and barriers

Carmela Bastian, Sarah Wendt and Amy Bromley

The signs of safety framework in child protection practice: A systematic review

Karmen Toros and Andrew Turnell

The impact of cognitive and affective variables on teachers’ willingness to intervene in school bullying

Li-Ming Chen and Cheng-Fang Yen

Exploring the functionality of child interview centers used in the process of child surrender and establishing relationships with the child

Cansu Berk and Özlem Karakuş

The support issues that young people face after leaving residential facilities for children with disabilities in Japan

Reiko Ohashi and Megumi Sakai

Criminal convictions of care leavers of youth villages in Israel

Rami Benbenishty, Netta Achdut and Anat Zeira

Characterizing the use of home-based behavioral health services among children in foster care

Anna Chorniy, Michelle A. Moffa, Shannon Barnett, Matthew M. Davis and Rebecca R. Seltzer

Childhood trauma and internalizing problems in youth living in residential care: The mediating role of emotion regulation

Émilie E.M. Lannes, Sophie Couture, Catherine Laurier and Sébastien Monette

Navigating the complexity: Challenges and insights from professionals working with vulnerable families

Marta Gaboardi, Davide Naddeo, Daniela Bossi, Emmanuela Rocca, Vincenzo Taglialatela, Eleonora Zamuner, Michela Lenzi and Alessio Vieno

The intersection of sexual and criminal exploitation for children going missing in residential care: patterns; problems; and opportunities

Viviana Sastre-Gomez, Gemma McKibbin, Genevieve Bloxsom, Cathy Humphreys and Sophie Dixon

Longitudinal relationship between parent-child conflict and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese vocational school students: A chain mediating model

Haiyan Zhao, Yiwen Hu and Jianhua Zhou

Mapping parameters for text retrieval and analysis in foster care guidelines An exploratory scoping review

Nella Hrda, Milon Potmesil and Petra Potmesilova

Turning points for children experiencing vulnerabilities: the role of outdoor adventure

Louise Paatsch, Tebeje Molla, Trevor McCandless, Amanda Mooney, Andrea Nolan, Julianne Moss and Adam Wake

Challenges and support needs of foster parents caring for children orphaned by the great East Japan earthquake of 2011: a mixed-methods study

Naru Fukuchi, Yuko Ishizaki, Emi Furukawa, Yasuko Inoue, Sonoe Mashino, Chisato Hayashi and Maki Taniguchi

Determinants of life satisfaction of parents of children with intellectual disability: self-efficacy, stress and parent-child relationship

Mehmet Yavuz and Halime Miray Sümer Dodur

Implementation of a school-based diversion initiative to advance restorative discipline: a mixed methods study of school implementation processes

Malina Her, Sabrina Uva, Michelle Delaney, Jeana Bracey, Beth Russell, Jason Lang and Jeffrey J. Vanderploeg

Developmental needs in institutional settings: How children experience and imagine better residential youth care

Charlotte Fortems, Anna Buysse, Bart Hansen and Inge Glazemakers

Evaluating parent partner programs: Key challenges and insights

Marina Lalayants and Lucas A. Gerber

Readiness for change in at-risk families: development of a brief Parent Readiness for Change Scale

Ana Isabel Pereira, Isabel Narciso, Bruna Paulino, Lúcia Fortio and Luísa Barros

Patterns of social exclusion and their relationship with depression among young adults in vulnerable housing: Evidence from South Korea’s goshiwons

Hayoung Choi, Somin Lee, Ja Hyun Shin and Hwajin Chun

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