Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

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Volume 179, issue C, 2025

Rethinking quality and accessibility of universal publicly funded prekindergarten from families’ perspectives

Jiyeon Lee

Leveraging the power of a community-engaged framework to examine youth perspectives on stress among Hartford Black and Latine youth

Jolaade Kalinowski, Zoie Carter, Jeffrey Proulx, Isaiah Brown, Jackie Santiago Nazario and Caitlin Elsaesser

Care Leaver Statistics (CLS): Ethical challenges, rights-based perspectives and data protection in longitudinal research with marginalized and vulnerable groups

Maria Groinig and Martina Pokoj

“Like shooting fish in a barrel:” recruitment into sex trafficking in emergency shelters for youth experiencing homelessness

Amanda Noble, Jessica Rogers, Naomi Thulien, Megan Julian, Roxanne Korpan, Catherine Stockall and Raven Mann

A most significant change study of the impact of Circle of Security Parenting (COS-P) training on professional practice in an Australia child and family agency

Rachael Silverman and Christina Sadowski

Development and validation of the youth development instrument (YDI): A comprehensive survey of adolescent health and well-being

Hasina Samji, Jorge A. Delgado-Ron, Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl, Martin Guhn, David Long, Jenna Whitehead, Lauren Gorfinkle, Giulia De Arruda Maluf, Judy Wu, Julia Kaufmann, Jose M. del Casal and Jacqueline Maloney

A thematic synthesis of foster carer experiences when engaging in attachment-informed interventions for children in care

O’Connell, Brίd, David McCormack, Darren Maguire, Fina Wurm and Tim Fosker

Trauma-informed practices among psychologists in the portuguese child welfare: Training, implementation, and institutional gaps

Virgínia Alves and Mariana Gonçalves

School absenteeism during menstruation among adolescent girls in Southern Uganda: A multi-level risk factors analysis

Darejan Dvalishvili, Flavia Namuwonge, Rabab F. Ahmed, Fithi Andom, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Proscovia Nabunya and Fred M. Ssewamala

Estimating the effects of placement changes on internalizing and externalizing symptoms

A.C. Ferraro, Heather Lepper-Pappan and Sarah Connelly

Court-mandates and parent training: Outcomes of the ACT raising safe kids program for groups of mandated and voluntary parents

Michele S. Knox and Grant Nelson

What do children and young people in the social services understand by participation? Similarities and differences with the vision of professionals

Aziz Matrouch, Carme Montserrat and Nuria Fuentes-Peláez

Contextualizing social support networks of youth exiting foster care: A mixed methods examination

Caitlyn Mytelka, Sarah C. Narendorf, Anil Arora, Jody Gardner, Eric C. Jones and Michelle R. Munson

Finance and ambition: parental financial socialization, money scripts, and future orientations among Hong Kong youths in low-SES households

Xiaomin Li, Muhammad Aamir Khan and Hor Yan Angel Lai

Southern hospitality? Exploring the prevalence of and disparities in exclusionary discipline in the U.S. South

Richard O. Welsh, Tia R. Williams and Blaise Joseph

The long-term impacts of preschool attendance on prosocial behaviors of children in China

Jin Zhao, Wenting Liu, Yuyang Xie, Yijia Li and Hongyu Guan

Focused, fair and frequent: A framework to improve equity, effectiveness and efficiency of quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education

Karen Thorpe, Sandy Houen, Peter Rankin and Sally Staton

Aligning state discipline and mental health policies with trauma and JEDI-Informed suicide prevention for Black youth

Constance A. Lindsay, Marisa E. Marraccini and Dana Griffin

Child sexual abuse reporting intentions of primary school teachers in South Africa: An application of the theory of planned behavior

Deirdre Margo Rule

Swiss young people’s experience of living with parental intimate partner violence and other adversities

Anne Cattagni, Imane Semlali, Nicky Stanley and Nathalie Romain-Glassey

Psychological maltreatment and loneliness in Chinese children: a moderated mediation model of psychological suzhi and perceived social support

Shilan Luo and Dajun Zhang

Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of the Parents Under Pressure program: a Canadian pilot study

Charlene Attard, Vanessa De Rubeis, Harriet MacMillan, Jane Barlow, Jenna Ratcliffe, Eric Duku, Teresa Bennett and Andrea Gonzalez

“I can move on”: exploring bullied students’ perspectives on speaking to a school counselor—a mixed methods study

Ylva Bjereld, Robert Thornberg and Jun Sung Hong

Psychological impacts of child labour in Punjab: An application of fairlie decomposition analysis

Faizan Ali, Atif Khan Jadoon and Mumtaz Anwar

Summer youth work programs for health promotion: A scoping review

Aliye B. Cepni, John Sloan, Saad Nadeem, James W. White , Olivia Finnegan, Michael Beets, Bridget Armstrong, Rachel G. Tabak, Charles H. Lea and R. Glenn Weaver

Protective factors of STS in residential treatment staff

Stacey Gagliano, David M. Hulac, Stevie Spinelli and Bethany J. Kronberg

Ethnographic study based on pictures and words in a physical education service-learning programme with young students with disabilities and their families

Sheila Parra-Gomez, Celina Salvador-Garcia and Oscar Chiva-Bartoll

Unveiling Inequity: Experiences of peer discrimination from perspective of young people in residential care

Andrea Ćosić, Ivana Borić and Martina Lotar Rihtarić

Understanding factors associated with mental health treatment discharge outcomes among military-connected children and adolescents

Seonyeong Kim, Kathrine S. Sullivan, Whitney Wortham, Yuhui Huang, Fan Zhang, Steven L. Lancaster and David J. Linkh

Variation in state safety-net inclusivity and the health and well-being of children and parents in immigrant households

Agona Lutolli and Danielle A. Crosby

“It’s not a normal upbringing”: Insights from young mothers with care experience to improve parenting support and prevent intergenerational out-of-home care

Renée Usher, Lauren Parsons, O’Donnell, Melissa, Brontë Walter, Eden Thain and Donna Chung

“I wished I could have said bye”: exploring youth reactions to formal mentoring relationship endings

Thomas E. Keller, Martha J. McCormack, Miriam Miranda-Diaz, Alison L. Drew and Renée Spencer

A process evaluation of “Show Me Strong Kids”: Improving child health through pediatrician-led community partnerships

Landon B. Krantz, Thomas Porter, Kristin Koehn, Kimberly Hoffman, Kristin Sohl and Kristin Mmari

The social-emotional consequences of child neglect: Exploring the interpersonal and psychological pathways

Xinwen Zhang, Steven Sek-yum Ngai and Zhiyou Wang

Examining the impact of an accommodation and support intervention in reducing homelessness amongst care leavers in Australia: A hybrid type-1 implementation-effectiveness study using propensity score methods

David Taylor, Jessica Roberts, Vanessa Rose, Alex Gyani and Aron Shlonsky

A scoping review of state-sponsored mental health training programs for children and youth to support use of evidence-based treatments

Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Kimberly E. Hoagwood, Andrew F. Cleek, Meaghan Baier, Ashley Fuss, Elena Conte, Charlotte Gendler and Sarah Horwitz

Care leavers’ employment experiences and outcomes: Choices and Social structures

Rajendra Rambajue and O’Connor, Christopher

Predicting youth care between 0 to 4 years of age: a 2015–2019 Dutch population register data study

Anton Schreuder, David van Klaveren, Maroesjka van Nieuwenhuijzen, Wessel Kraaij and Tanja A.J. Houweling

Context and disclosure of female child sexual abuse: analysis of victims case reports in Ghana

K.E. Boakye, W. Asare-Doku, A. Deliege, A. Bansal and M.R. Khan

A participatory design model for children to create natural playgrounds in kindergartens

B. Ece Şahin and Sibel Polat

Peer connectedness moderates the association of bullying victimisation with substance use among 135,881 in-school adolescents in 35 countries

Kwabena Peprah-Donkor, Victoria Mensah Hagan, Foster Bediako Gbafu, Samuel Kwabena Ansong-Aggrey, Reforce Okwei, Maxwell Afetor, Noble Benjamin Adjei, Stephen Uwumbordo Nachibi, Emmanuel Osei Bonsu, Collins Adu and Prince Peprah

“You’ve made it if you can, not have to live to survive, but live to live”: Beliefs about socioeconomic success and mobility among youth and parents in public housing

Lindsay Lanteri, Jane Leer, Gabriella Valencia, Rebekah Levine Coley and Samantha Teixeira

Accounting for inequities in accessing support following sexual abuse: a case analysis of a family with a migration background

Claudia Capella, Janet Boddy, María de los Angeles Tornero, Camila Velilla, Lucía Nuñez, Nicolle Alamo and Marcia Olhaberry

‘Bichara’, ‘Katthai’: countering the discourse: understanding risk and resilience in response to child trafficking in the entertainment sector of Nepal

Shovita Dhakal Adhikari

Students’ accumulation of disciplinary school exclusion experiences over time: Prevalence, patterns, and correlates in an Australian population cohort

Lauren M. Piltz, Linda J. Graham, Melissa J. Green, Kimberlie Dean, Emma J. Carpendale, Felicity Harris, Oliver J. Watkeys, Vaughan J. Carr and Kristin R. Laurens

Prevalence and risk factors of violence against adolescents: Evidence from the two most populous and socio-economically disadvantaged states of India

Jayanta Kumar Bora, Nandita Saikia and Santosh Jatrana

Parenting program participation: A mixed methods study of barriers and facilitators in three Australian communities

Carly Molloy, Ruth Beatson, Zoe Fehlberg, Caitlin Macmillan, Christopher Harrop, Nicholas Perini and Sharon Goldfeld

“Suddenly, eight years went by”: young women’s lived experiences of residential care and transition-to-adulthood programs

Daniel Ortega Ortigoza and Angelina Sánchez-Martí

Adolescent volunteering in the United States: associations with friendship and behavior outcomes

Kevin Lanza, Mikaela Lies, Melissa Gutierrez-Kapheim, Michaela Krogen and Maureen R. Benjamins

Psychodynamic study of relationships between UASC and social workers in second reception facilities in Italy

Daniela Cantone, Emanuele Bartiromo, Dario Savastano, Marialaura Senese and Carmela Guerriera

Examining the longitudinal association of parental attachment with self-control among adolescents: The mediating role of self-concept clarity

Qingqing Li, Mingjia Liu and Zhenrong Fu

“All you want to do is to run away from this nightmare”: Adolescent sexual and gender minority runaways in Israel’s periphery

Ido Koren and Yochay Nadan

Behavioral skills training and support groups to improve the caretaking experiences of foster parents

Catelyn N. Smeyne, Lori B. Vincent and Dacia M. McCoy

Corporal punishment in schools and community violence: a missing link?

Peter D. Rehder, Whitney L. Rostad, Francis Lee and Katie A. Ports

Will I make It? children’s perspectives on socio-economic mobility

Hanita Kosher and Daphna Gross-Manos

Measuring adverse childhood experiences in youth: metric development using a statewide youth survey

Anar Shah, Hannah Gorman, Paula Nurius and Maayan Simckes

When care hurts: Institutional betrayal trauma among former foster youth

Karen Zilberstein, Deanna Linville and Saralyn Ruff

Multidimensional poverty among middle-school children from rural China: The impact of teacher support

Qunyong Jiang, Haiping Xu, Fang Wang, Chuqiao Zhang, Jinge Lyv and Wenjia Wu

Exploring impact and quality in counseling research: A scoping review

Nynne Højland Ingebrigtsen, Julie Lund Jensen and Hanne Warming

Neoliberalism and early childhood education in China

Shuling Wang, Yiyang Zhang and Xiangying Ding

Exploring expressions of adolescent delinquency in South Korea with social big data and topic modeling

Yoonsun Han, Taekho Lee, Juyoung Song and Deborah Kang

Pathways to support: Determinants of child care subsidy and service utilization among immigrant families in a U.S.–Mexico border community

Megan Finno-Velasquez, Carolina Villamil Grest, Han Le and Sophia Sepp

Working toward reunification as a case goal: does family structure matter?

Catherine LaBrenz, Stacey Shipe, Lisa S. Panisch, Damone Wisdom, Tasha Pelletier, Saltanat Childress, Ann Hunt Rodgers and Christina Mecca-McClory

Validating a parental trauma informed approaches scale in Low-Income countries using the Rasch model

Maria Efstratopoulou, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Nikolaos Tsingilis, Shakila Nur, Ebenezer Mensah Gyimah and Ashraf Moustafa

Staff turnover in early childhood home visiting: using survival analysis to understand the role of drivers and dimensions of professional well-being

Anne Lilly, Alexandra Cirillo Lilli, Yuxin Zhu, Allison West, Jill Brown, Sarah Bilyj and Cynthia Minkovitz

Effects of female caregiver communication and behavior on sexual behavior of South African adolescent girls and young women post-HIV/STI intervention

Alyssa Debra, Enky Mhlongo, Mary-Ellen Mackesy-Amiti, Ashley Kendall, Erin Emerson, Erin Jaworski, Anelisiwe Ngcuka, Millicent Atujuna, Linda-Gail Bekker, Natasha Crooks and Geri Donenberg

Tipping the balance: introducing the see-saw model of young adults unmet healthcare needs through a critical realist and patient-oriented approach

Sandy Rao, Gina Dimitropoulos, Katrina Milaney, Dean T. Eurich and Scott B. Patten

Return on investment of the pathways to prevention project from the reduced probability of the onset of serious youth offending

Matthew Manning, Gabriel T.W. Wong, Ross Homel, Jacqueline Allen and Kate Frieberg

Intimate partner violence and parent’s use of violent discipline against young children in Rwanda: A baseline study of the REAL fathers Initiative

Anjalee Kohli, Bryan Shaw, Jamie Greenberg, Erin DeGraw, Lameck Habumugisha, Jean Lambert Sebareze, Armel F. Setubi, Jiaqin Wu and Christina Yantis

Understanding parent-child interaction therapy outcomes across treatment duration

Kaitlyn Wortham, Mindy Yard and Elizabeth Brestan-Knight

Association between a father-unfriendly workplace culture, paternity leave, mental health and child abuse

Midori Matsushima, Xiyue Li and Takahiro Tabuchi

The importance of executive social capital for child-serving residential facilities during hurricanes: a qualitative study of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery

Julie A. Steen, Olga Molina and Alexis P. Tsoukalas

Protective role of ethnic identity in the association between child marriage and child maltreatment among salar mothers

Xiaoyuan Han, Weiyi Xie, Can Gong, Kewen Wang and Clifton R. Emery

Guaranteed income: A promising direction for intervention with transition age youth in reentry

Julia Lesnick

Seedlings in Barren Growth Soil: a grounded theory study on the impact of unmet childhood needs

Yubin Chen, Jiayuan Zhang, Linghui Zhang, Hong Yu, Yang Li, Qi Li, Xiaoyan Li and Yuqiu Zhou

Help-seeking intentions among late adolescents with and without experience of out-of-home care

Tina M. Olsson and Therése Skoog

Faith and access: The role of religion in formal mental health service utilization among Black adolescents

Elizabeth Baker, Jasric Bland and Aijah K.B. Goodwin

Parental adverse childhood experiences and sexually abused adolescents: Exploring the intergenerational relationship

Rebeca Bastón, Laura Quintanilla, Carlos Alexis Chimpén-López, M.Angeles López-González and María Cantero-García

Why don’t families apply for child care subsidies? Results from a survey of subsidy users and non-users in New Mexico

Andrew L. Breidenbach, Hailey Heinz, Bibek Acharya and Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez

Early life adversity and suicide: the role of childhood trauma and risk factors in adolescent suicidal behavior

Paula Arias, María Arqueros, Suárez – Soto, Elizabeth, Adriana García-Ramos, Wala Ayad-Ahmed, Adriana Ovejero-Ruiz and Alejandro de la Torre – Luque,

Unequal Grounds: The Fragile link between Adolescents’ growth mindset and academic achievement amid neighborhood inequality

Hoyong Jung

A retrospective exploration of care experiences shaping the mental health trajectories of children and young people in Care: Part 1 – The system

Sally Peplow, Warren Donnellan and Paul Christiansen

Development and validation of the academic involution behavior scale for college students

Jialin Ma, Ying Tang, Yinghan Zhang, Xiaojie Wang, Yongxin Li and Yujie Hou

Kinship caregiver’s trauma experiences relationship with parenting stress and dispositional resilience

Kimberly Budig and Nora L. Vish