Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2026

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Volume 185, issue C, 2026

Hidden scars: prevalence and risk factors of abuse among child waste pickers in Tehran

Neda SoleimanvandiAzar, Seyed Hossein Mohaqeqi Kamal, Salah Eddin Karimi, Sina Ahmadi, Mehdi Basakha, Zahra Rampisheh and Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi

Examining youth mental health promotion at scale: an exploration of the implementation of three initiatives in a national programme

Caitlin Allen, Jeff Moore, O’Brien, Siobhan, Siobhan McGrory and Carmel Halligan

Mapping the situation of unaccompanied and separated children in Greece: A scoping review

Dana Sammut, Martha Fosu Dansowaa, Marianne Wade and Julie Taylor

Does family size increase children’s probability of dropping out of school? Evidence from Afghan households

Yousuf Daas, Abdoul-Karim Soubeiga and Keiichi Ogawa

Exploring clinical supervision in routine practice in community-based child and youth mental health organizations: a scoping review

Bahar Amani, Andrea Greenblatt, Darren Courtney, Karen Sewell, Jessie Cunningham and Melanie Barwick

Changes in mental health of adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: comparison by household structure and parental employment

Yuko Kachi, Tsuguhiko Kato, Mako Nagayoshi and Aya Abe

Care-experienced children and the criminal justice system. A systematic review of their perceptions and the professionals who work with them. (Children and Youth Services Review)

N. Softley, P. Turner and C. Lennox

“There are a million and one other ways to punish someone than sending them away…” Exploring the impact of having a family member in prison on children and young people’s health and emotional wellbeing – A qualitative longitudinal study

Steph Scott, Naomi Griffin, Lisa Crowe, Tracy Shildrick, Tina Young, Nancy Loucks and Shona Minson

Parents and siblings of children with disabilities benefit from participation in a group intervention to improve parent-sibling communication: Findings from a pilot implementation of SIBS in Denmark

Rikke Fuglsang Olsen, Christoffer Scavenius and Leif Olsen

Exploring approaches to child maltreatment responses: dichotomies of mandatory reporting and community support

Margaret L. McGladrey, Shelby L. Clark, Elizabeth N. Riley, Kristen Theile, Lexi Mueller, Waveney Brooks, Foysol Ahmed and Valerie Frost

Does income moderate the adverse childhood experiences – School engagement relationship?

Antonija Augustinović, Christy M. Walcott, Brandon K. Schultz and Aimee W. Smith

Ethno-racial identity and child welfare decisions: Using data from the Ontario incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect

Kofi Antwi-Boasiako, Barbara Fallon, Kristen Lwin and Nico Trocmé

The development of social values in childhood and early adolescence: a systematic review

Evelia Murcia-Álvarez, Iva Tendais, Alice Ramos, Ricardo B. Rodrigues, Leonor Pereira da Costa, Margarida Cavadas, Sibila Marques, Vasco Ramos and Isabel Correia

Cyberbullying of children and youth in Croatia: A systematic review of studies with narrative synthesis

Stjepka Popović and Lucija Vejmelka

Grandparents and extended kinship relations as resources? Biographical perspectives of care leavers in Austria

Georg Streissguertl

Perceived health inequalities in OECD countries: A macro-level cluster analysis

Tevfik Bulut

Psychological school-based interventions for anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Celia Antuña-Camblor, Victor Tejedor-Hernández and Raimundo Castaño-Calle

Losing childhood and gaining responsibilities: a PRISMA based systematic review on consequences of parentification

Shivani Keny and Bidisha Banerjee

Accompaniment for integration: impact of a humanistic intervention for socially vulnerable migrant youth

Álvaro Fernández-Moreno, Herminia Cid García, Román D. Moreno-Fernández and David Roncero

Envisioning new approaches to child welfare and social care for marginalized children and families

Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Elizabeth Fernandez and Darcey Merritt

Stakeholders’ perception of the participation rights of the mature minor in healthcare decision-making: a pilot study in Benin City, Nigeria

Hadiza O. Okunrobo, Nathaniel A. Inegbedion and Ernest Ugiagbe

Assessing parental capacity in abusive fathers – A pilot study in child social welfare using an interview based on reflective functioning

Ole Hultmann, Martina Andersson Søe, Anders G. Broberg and Clara Möller

Development of a machine learning-based prediction model: Identifying high-risk households and child maltreatment risk

Jane Jiyoun Lee and Changhee Lee

“Not an option”: How mothers with limited incomes view barriers to child care use for infants and toddlers

Jill Hoiting, Sarah Halpern-Meekin and Katherine Magnuson

“You don’t have to be in poverty to need assistance to pay for child care”: Perspectives from middle-income New Mexico families receiving subsidized care

Hailey Heinz, Mary Nava, Monica Fiorella Asencio Pimentel, David Purcell, Rebecca Fowler, Jill Okun and Dana Bell

Instability in adoptive families: perspectives of young adult adoptees and adoptive parents

Nancy Rolock, Heather Ringeisen, Kevin R. White, Hollee McGinnis and Rose Domanico

Exploring the Missing Middle: A qualitative study of youth’s experiences navigating mental health service gaps

Allie Slemon, Trevor Goodyear, Emily Jenkins, Shivinder Dhari, Jaymelyn Hubert, Sage Schmied, Otto Lim, Stephanie McMaster, Sarah Patrick, Pam Liversidge and Justine Sanders

Coping and resilience under sociopolitical stress among Palestinian children and youth in East Jerusalem: a sumud perspective

Heba Faiek Zedan

Retaining Hard-to-engage populations in longitudinal studies: a research note on rapid data collection with former foster care youth in NYC

Erin J. McCauley, Alexandra Gibbons, Christopher Wildeman and Tasseli McKay

Integrating lived experience on interagency coordinating councils: Engaging youth and family voice within a children’s system of care

Cory M. Morton, Lillian Alexander, Lucy N. Alvarez, Loren Toto, Saige M. Addison and Nivedhitha Thiruvenkadam

“Ready or not?” Administrative cut-offs and the youth–staff readiness gap in leaving care in China

Shian Yin, Ting Yu and Jing Li

Macroeconomic drivers of family separation and the placement of children in residential care in Cambodia: Insights from caregivers and social workers

James Farley, Helen Charnley and Simon Hackett

Ethical and methodological barriers to child sexual abuse research in Armenia: balancing protection, consent, and participation

Yuliana Melkumyan, Veronika Odinokova, Tatevik Karapetyan and Mira Antonyan

Care leaver outcomes for children in children’s homes: A retrospective cohort study using national administrative data for England

Allie Goldacre, Emma Martin, Ed Jones, Caroline Coady, Keith Clements, Hannah Tempest, Rebecca Vincent, Chao Wang and Rick Hood

Comparing the systemic policy development of early childhood intervention and its intersections with inclusion between Greece and Cyprus

Aristea Fyssa and Simoni Symeonidou

Development of a measure to assess foster/adoptive caregiver perceived readiness to care for youth who identify as LGBTQ+

Jaidyanne Podsobinski, Amy M. Salazar, Adrian M. Combelic, Jenna Thompson and Angelique Day

The role of teachers in the process of identity formation among youth in locked residential facilities: a qualitative study

Michal Labes and Sophie D. Walsh

Patterns of service provision in child welfare investigations by migration background: A Swedish cross-sectional study

Erica Edström

Determinants of life satisfaction among teenagers in the United States

Amanda E. Ng, Benjamin Zablotsky, Lindsey I. Black and Jonaki Bose

Why wait: Co-locating pediatrics and mental health to facilitate access to resources and care for marginalized youth

Lindsey Cunningham, Mei Yi Ng, Lissette Perez-Lima, Sara Rivero-Conil and Stacy L. Frazier

Pathways of harm and benefit: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of work and living conditions of child domestic workers in Liberia

Aye Thiri Kyaw, Cathy Zimmerman, Meghna Ranganathan, Emily Warren and Benjamin Hanckel

What happens after a child protection report during pregnancy? Using administrative data to explore 12-month outcomes

Stephanie Taplin, Judith Brown, Rhonda Marriott, Karen Broadhurst, Fred Wulczyn and O’Donnell, Melissa

Effectiveness of an intervention for the cross-sectoral care of families with psychosocial burden: a controlled trial

Manuela Glattacker, Christian Schlett, Gloria Metzner, Juliane van Staa, Cindy Höhn, Sabine Horstmann, Susanne Jünemann, Michael Barth, Jürgen M. Giesler, Klaus Kaier, Marcus Siebolds, Adrian Tassoni and Ilona Renner

Promoting social-emotional learning in early elementary school in Spain: A quasi-experimental preliminary evaluation of the “EmPeCemos-Universal” program

Sara Piñeiro-Dosil, María Álvarez-Voces, Olalla Cutrín and Xosé Antón Gómez-Fraguela

Foster children’s case brokers and gatekeepers: A comparison between Flemish, Lithuanian and Latvian foster care workers and foster parents

Matthias De Coster, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Delphine West, Camille Verheyden, Tamara Pigozne and Frank Van Holen

From adversity to adaptation: the mediating roles of emotion regulation strategies for internalizing problems

Yeonjin Kim and Ju-Hyun Song

The Wraparound approach for youth gang intervention: impacts on negative police contacts

Jennifer S. Wong and Chelsey Lee

When home hurts: the impact of adverse family physical environment on early childhood cognitive and social development

Lixia Zhang, Shuying Sha, Justin Romney, Rusi Dong and Jeffrey Helton

Child marriage in Ghana: A problem of social, cultural, and traditional norms or a socioeconomic issue?

Sylvia Esther Gyan and Samuel Okyere

Exploring claims in disinformation – The shared story of ‘the Swedish child welfare services’ kidnapping migrant children’

Emmie Wahlström, Helena Blomberg, Dana Sofi and Jonas Stier

Predicting child welfare involvement in Ontario children and youth accessing mental health services: development of the Child and Youth Protection Risk Algorithm (CYPRA)

Shannon L. Stewart, Boden D. Brock and Jeffrey W. Poss

Barriers and facilitators to education for tribal populations in India: A mixed-methods systematic review

Jayashree Parida and Amarendra Das

Protect and prosecute: a post-structural analysis of police policies on responding to children of arrestees in Australia

Miaomiao He, Catherine Flynn and Susan Baidawi

Systematic review of school programs aimed at the prevention and treatment of family gender-based violence

Isaac Besalú-Sala, Anna Planas-Lladó and Carme Montserrat

The nurturing parenting − nurturing skills for families evaluation: child and family outcomes

Svetlana Yampolskaya, Connie Walker, Cathy Sowell, Peter J. Pecora, Jessica Hanak-Coulter and David DeStefano

Facilitating career development among care leavers: insights from an employment program

Eran P. Melkman, Noam Schuman-Harel and Tehila Refaeli

All in the family: Mothers of children with disabilities and retirement

Molly A. Costanzo, Lisa Klein Vogel, Victoria Knoke and Hanna Han

Fostering aspirations among youth outside education and employment – A qualitative study on coaching professionals’ perspectives

Ismo Ukkola, Riitta Seppänen-Järvelä, Antti Teittinen and Liisa Häikiö

Educational achievement and relational support among justice-involved youth in secure care: age group differences in South Korea

Wongeun Ji