Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 150, issue C, 2023

Differences and similarities between mothers’ and fathers’ risk factors for child maltreatment

Hanne M. Duindam, Annemiek Vial, Merian B.R. Bouwmeester-Landweer and Claudia E. van der Put

Child protection and safeguarding in initial teacher education: A systematic scoping review

Kerryann Walsh, Lesley-anne Ey, Kirstine Hand, Rhiannon Smith, Sarah Howard, Angela Fenton, Chrystal Whiteford, Meegan Brown, Rachel Pinnock and Lauren Rodier

Testing stability of self-control over time among South Korean Youth using semi-parametric group-based modeling

Hyunmin Park, Wanhee Lee, Sangjin Park, Junhyoung Lee, Soyoung Kang and Jaehoon Jung

Public perceptions of child protection, children’s rights, and personal values: An assessment of two states

Jill Duerr Berrick, Marit Skivenes and Joseph N. Roscoe

Up the down escalator? Examining a decade of school discipline reforms

Richard O. Welsh

Caregiver perceptions of the pediatric medical home model to address the health services needs of youth in foster care

Hannah C. Espeleta, Dana M. Bakula, Amanda S. Cherry, Julie Lees, Deborah Shropshire, Kathleen Domm, Kenneth J. Ruggiero, Larry L. Mullins and Stephen R. Gillaspy

Points of foster parent stress in the system: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis

Erin Findley and Regina T. Praetorius

‘We’re just kids as well’: The experience and support needs of young kinship carers in Australia

Meredith Kiraly and Joanne Roff

Cut from the same cloth: A comparative policy content analysis of disability in child protection and welfare policies within Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic

Susan Flynn, Elspeth Slayter, Lisa M. Johnson and Cate Thomas

Examining the risk and predictive factors for substance use and mental health among indigenous youth in out-of-home care

Greggory J. Cullen

Family, mental health, and placement outcomes of a low-cost preventive intervention for youth in foster care

Kevin P. Haggerty, Susan E. Barkan, Justin D. Caouette, Martie L. Skinner and Koren G. Hanson

What makes a good learning culture? The role of professional development among child welfare workers

Pari Shah Thibodeau, In Young Park, Annie Zean Dunbar and Amy He

The suppression effect of subjective social status and tolerance for uncertainties on the relationship between family socioeconomic status and prosocial risk taking

Haidong Zhu, Zhang Huiru, Cao Zhiwei and Jia Xiaoshan

Teenage pregnancy in Zimbabwe: A call for expedited interventions

Grant Murewanhema, Enos Moyo and Tafadzwa Dzinamarira

The impact of social change on the decreasing trend of subjective well-being in Chinese adolescents: A cross-temporal meta-analysis

Sufei Xin, Yilin Zhang, Liang Sheng, Taige Zhao and Haiyun Peng

Juvenile justice and child welfare dual system involvement among females with and without histories of commercial sexual exploitation

Carly B. Dierkhising, Andrea Lane Eastman and Kristine Chan

Black adolescent altruism: Exploring the role of racial discrimination and empathy

Kayla J. Fike, Jacqueline S. Mattis, Kyle Nickodem and Casta Guillaume

Fostering Higher Education: Preliminary findings from a small randomized pilot study

Amy M. Salazar, Sara S. Spiers, Maija Bennett and Kevin P. Haggerty

The challenge of implementation in complex, adaptive child welfare systems: A realist synthesis of signs of safety

Louise Caffrey and Freda Browne

From institutional care to family reunification in a post-Soviet country: A qualitative study of challenges and opportunities in restoring child-parent relationships

Leyla Ismayilova, Lauren Beard, Emily Claypool and Emma Heidorn

The role of public and private food assistance in supporting families’ food security and meal routines

Rebecca M. Ryan, Anna Gassman-Pines, Samantha Steimle, Garrett Baker, Caitlin T. Hines and Anna D. Johnson

Improving connections to early childhood systems of care via a universal home visiting program in Massachusetts

Chie Kotake, Rebecca C. Fauth, Katie Stetler, Jessica L. Goldberg, Christine F. Silva and Susan E. Manning

Motivations, program support, and personal growth: Mentors perspectives on the reciprocal benefits of cross-racial mentoring relationships with black youth

Kristian Jones, Ruben Parra-Cardona, Bernadette Sánchez, Shetal Vohra-Gupta and Cynthia Franklin

Home visiting in home-based child care: Staff and provider experiences

Juliet Bromer, Marina Ragonese-Barnes and Jon Korfmacher

Youth Dually-Involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems: Varying definitions and their associations with trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress, & offending

Crosby A. Modrowski, Shannon D. Chaplo and Patricia K. Kerig

Acquiring life skills at therapeutic recreational based camp among Hungarian youth

Zsuzsanna K. Papp, Borbála Somogyi, Cait Wilson and Szabolcs Török

Perspectives of children and young people from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on their role in challenging perceived social and gender norms impacting school related gender-based violence

Marina Trbus, Ivana Zečević and Laura Helen Virginia Wright

My cosmos, my opportunities, our spaces: Methodological reflections on photographic perspectives of young adopted children on their (new) environments

Samuel Keller

Effectiveness of group intervention in improving kinship care families’ outcomes: A systematic review of group interventions aimed at kinship caregivers and youth in kinship care

Judit Rabassa and Nuria Fuentes-Peláez

Feasibility of the NCTSN breakthrough parenting curriculum: A pilot study of an online trauma-informed training for birth parents involved in the child welfare system

Jessica Strolin-Goltzman, Sarah Ura, Amy Bielawski-Branch, Michael Hill, Rhiannon Kim, Tina Bleau, Jennifer Jorgenson, Erika Meierdiercks, Andrea Hazen, Lisa Conradi and Rex Forehand

Welfare reform and childhood health status and utilization

Cody N. Vaughn

Foster parents’ history of adverse childhood experiences, adult attachment, and parenting stress

Samantha Reisz, Ashleigh I. Aviles and Tina Adkins

Lived experience of youth in vocational schools: “I stopped focusing on my past and started living the present so I could reach the future”

Nofar Eini, Roni Strier and Avihu Shoshana

Psychometric validation of the French version of the adverse childhood experiences international questionnaire (ACE-IQ)

Camille, Louise, Tarquinio, Rotonda Christine, Eby Elise, Martin-Krumm Charles, Trousselard Marion and Tarquinio Cyril

The range of suicidal ideation among people with care experience: Occurrences of suicidal thoughts in a cross-national sample from England and Germany

Petra Göbbels-Koch

Pathways to recovery among survivors of childhood physical abuse: What is important to promote complete mental health

Esme Fuller-Thomson, Kandace Ryckman, Andie MacNeil and Sarah Brennenstuhl

Latent classes among substance-involved families in child welfare: Associations with treatment completion and reunification

Margaret Lloyd Sieger, Jessica Becker, Jon Philips, Jung Wun Lee and Timothy E. Moore

Engaging care leavers as youth researchers to assess the feasibility of a family finding model

Annie Smith, Maya Peled, Katie Horton and Stephanie Martin

Care professionals’ perspectives and roles on resilience among LGBTQIA+ youth in out-of-home care: A multidimensional perspective

Rodrigo González Álvarez, Sterre Hofman, Mijntje ten Brummelaar and Mónica López López

Latent classes of bullying perpetration and victimization among adolescents: Associations with problem behaviors

Tingting Gao, Songli Mei, Xin Zhou, Hua Cao, Leilei Liang, Chengchao Zhou and Xiangfei Meng

Examining live-in foreign domestic helpers correlates and parenting correlates in children’s externalizing behavior in Hong Kong

Sylvia Y.C.L. Kwok, Xuying Xie and Chi Kin Kwan

Japanese public opinion on reporting the real names of juvenile criminals: An examination from the perspective of justification preferences

Eiichiro Watamura and Tomohiro Ioku

A mixed-method evaluation of Cradle to Kinder: An Australian intensive home visitation program for families experiencing significant disadvantage

Renee O'Donnell, Melissa Savaglio, Nick Halfpenny, Heather Morris, Robyn Miller and Helen Skouteris

Can leadership make the difference? A scoping review of leadership and its effects in child and youth care

Janet Ressang-Wildschut, Lieke Oldenhof and Ian Leistikow

Preliminary evaluation of the What You Do Matters curriculum in community-based settings

Jason L. Anthony, De'Vohn Javier Roman, Nicole G. Pacateque Rodriguez, Nikki Daniels, Sheff Crowder and Amy Haile

The concept of needs in child well-being research: Lessons from a mixed methods study in Germany

Johanna Wilmes and Sabine Andresen

Systematic analysis on school violence and bullying using data mining

Catherine Joy Escuadra, Krizia Magallanes, Sunbok Lee and Jae Young Chung

The child – Object or subject of child care?

Thomas Gabriel

Minding the gap: Evidence, implementation and funding gaps in mental health services delivery for school-aged children

Carolyn J. Heinrich, Ann Colomer and Matthew Hieronimus

Family support services and reunification across diverse racial/ethnic groups: A survival analysis utilizing administrative child welfare data

Catherine A. LaBrenz, Margaret Lloyd Sieger, Mijin Choi, Danielle R. Harrell, Erin Findley, Erica D. Robinson and Philip Baiden

Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings

Jacqueline Kuruppu, Cathy Humphreys, Gemma McKibbin and Kelsey Hegarty

Effects of the removal of Arab children from their homes by court order: The mothers’ perspectives

Nada Omar and Tehila Refaeli

Improving healthy connections in under-resourced youth: A YMCA San Diego mental health initiative

Noé Rubén Chávez, Halmai-Gillan, Kristina “tk”, Krysta Esquivel, Megan McCarthy, Nicholas DeVico, Sophia Lee, Mildred Ferrer and Amy L. Ramos

Self-report measures of parental psychosocial functioning did not predict further maltreatment of children involved with child protection services: A small cohort study

Sarah Whitcombe-Dobbs, Philip J. Schluter and Michael Tarren-Sweeney

What drives early childhood education attendance? The role of structural factors and personal beliefs in Germany

Ilaria Pietropoli and Moris Triventi