Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

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Volume 149, issue C, 2023

Parenting practices and adolescent delinquency: COVID-19 impact in the United States

Lacey N. Wallace

Prevalence, sociodemographic and household characteristics, and impacts of disrupted child care due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., April-July 2021

Olivia R Sappenfield, Anne Leong and Lydie A Lebrun-Harris

Improving school attendance among homeless children: Evaluating the attendance matters program

Dan Treglia, Michael Cassidy and Jay Bainbridge

Maternal depression and parenting stress in English-speaking Latina mothers with a history of adverse childhood experiences

Laura H. Dosanjh, Christian Vazquez, Katherine E. Hess, Megan J. McBride, Sarah Kate Bearman and Esther J. Calzada

Defining suspected child maltreatment using International Classification of Diseases codes: A scoping literature review

Yuerong Liu, Lindsay Terrell, Brianna Joyce, Julia Black, Samantha J. Kaplan and Elizabeth J. Gifford

Enhanced-youth transition planning: An innovative practice change with transition-age youth involved with child welfare in a rural setting

Elizabeth J. Greeno, Carrie Gould-Kabler, Sara Bowman, Kevin Strubler and Deborah S. Harburger

American Indian and Alaska Native overexposure to foster care and family surveillance in the US: A quantitative overview of contemporary system contact

Frank Edwards, Theresa Rocha Beardall and Hannah Curtis

Relationship between internet attitude and internet self-efficacy: ICT competence and network interaction as mediators

Di Wu, Xiao Yang, Chun Lu, Miaoyun Li, Meiqian Wang and Wei Yang

Perceptions of interprofessional collaboration at the intersection of child welfare and child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany

Astrid Jörns-Presentati and Gunter Groen

Re-orienting narratives of moral injury towards positive development: The experiences of emerging adults with child welfare histories

Ruth Soffer-Elnekave, Wendy Haight, Ndilimeke J.C. Nashandi, Minhae Cho, Johara Suleiman and Sookyoung Park

Autism spectrum disorder, parent coping, and parent concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mariam Fatehi, Leila Fatehi and Orion Mowbray

The attachment relationship between hostel-based homeless individuals and their keyworkers

Antigonos Sochos, Anita Richards, Sue Smith, Andrea Balint and Ashley Bennett

Children’s perspectives on family members’ needs and support after child sexual abuse

Camille Warrington, Helen Beckett, Debra Allnock and Claire Soares

A critical analysis of the Finnish Baby Box’s journey into the liberal welfare state: Implications for progressive public policymaking

Alexis Blair-Hamilton and Dennis Raphael

Identifying enablers and barriers to the implementation of Functional family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia

George Economidis, Sara Farnbach, Kathleen Falster, Anne-Marie Eades and Anthony Shakeshaft

Influence of a youth development leadership graduate degree program on the professional pathways of youth leaders

Barry A. Garst, Lauren Stephens, Benjamin Parry, Edmond P. Bowers and William Quinn

Attending (or not) after-school programs during the COVID-19 pandemic: What happens to children’s social skills and behavior problems?

Sofia de Oliveira Major, Ana Cristina Palos and Osvaldo Silva

Trauma sensitive schools: A comprehensive guide for the assessment planning and implementation of trauma informed frameworks

Jordan Downey and John Greco

Digital game addiction, social anxiety, and parental attitudes in adolescents: A cross-sectional study

Çiğdem Geniş and Sultan Ayaz-Alkaya

Financial, resource, and psychological impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. College students: Who is impacted and what are the implications for adjustment and well-being?

Amy L. McCurdy, Anne C. Fletcher and Brittany N. Alligood

Sociodemographic and mental health characteristics of children who use mental health care for specific reasons

D.G.M. Eijgermans, P.W. Jansen, A.M. Shuker, J.F.P. Heydelberg, H. Raat and W. Jansen

Psychometric properties of pandemic awareness scale for students aged 8–12: The case of COVID-19

Durmus Burak

Gender differences in the role of peer relationship quality on psychological symptoms in youth at-risk for maltreatment

Dalhee Yoon, Susan Yoon, Miyoung Yoon and Peter N. Knox

Efficacy of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program on 0–12 year-old Quebec children's behavior

Marie-Hélène Gagné, Geneviève Piché, Liesette Brunson, Marie-Ève Clément, Sylvie Drapeau and Sarah-Maude Jean

The personal, local and global influences on youth sexual behaviors in a traditional society

Raifa Jabareen and Cheryl Zlotnick

“Change is always hard”: A qualitative exploration of the Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) model implementation process within the context of the pandemics

Emily E. Edwards, Jennifer Middleton, Shantel Crosby, Beatriz Vides, Lina Pasquale and Rebecca Goggin

An analysis of the intersecting factors and needs that informed the experiences of young people transitioning from out of home care in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia

Philip Mendes, Robyn Martin, Ms Jasmin Jau and Ms Jacinta Chavulak

The Glen Project: A transformational ecology model of school-based universal mental health development

Cheryl M. Bowen

Criminal justice system contact of students with disabilities by race and ethnicity: Examining the role of school police

Benjamin W. Fisher and Amy E. Fisher

Day-to-day variation in adolescent food insecurity

Anna Gassman-Pines, Laura Bellows, William E. Copeland, Rick H. Hoyle and Candice L. Odgers

Child and family outcomes of the Safe Babies Court Team – A scoping review

Jamie Joseph, Spencer J. DesAutels, Kathy Gracey, Mindy Kronenberg, Tarah Kuhn and Rameela Raman

Childhood maltreatment and adolescent cyberbullying perpetration: Roles of individual relative deprivation and deviant peer affiliation

Sen Li, Xiaojun Zhao, Fengqing Zhao, Hongmei Liu and Guoliang Yu

Put down the phone and accompany me: How parental phubbing undermines prosocial behavior of early adolescents

Chunyan Xu and Xiaochun Xie

What matters for child participation - The role of valuation-based dialogical participation for children living in kinship care in England

Paul Daniel Shuttleworth

Supporting birth parents’ relationships with children following removal: A scoping review

Karen Healy, Jemma Venables and Tamara Walsh

Racism as a vehicle for the overrepresentation of Black youth in child protection services in Ontario, Canada: Caseworkers’ and community facilitators’ perspectives

Pari-Gole Noorishad, Wina Paul Darius, Konrad Czechowski, Sara-Emilie McIntee, Joana Ntunga Mukunzi and Jude Mary Cénat

Historically underrepresented college students and natural mentoring relationships: A systematic review

Lidia Y. Monjaras-Gaytan and Bernadette Sánchez

Do parental protective factors matter? Predicting HIV/STI risk among a sample of justice-involved African-American girls

Natasha Crooks, Shufang Sun, Akilah Wise, Ralph DiClemente and Jessica McDermott Sales

Volume 148, issue C, 2023

An examination of recent federal and philanthropic funding for child welfare research in the United States

June Simon, Jeeyeon Hong, Peter J. Pecora, Geoffrey Cloepfil, Troy Gillespie, Elizabeth Parker, Reed Klein, Thalia Garcia and Mariah Hardy

Grandmother and grandchild reports of psychological difficulties among custodial Grandchildren: Whose view matters and why is it important?

Gregory C. Smith and Bert Hayslip

Childhood maltreatment and adolescents’ peer victimization: The effect of security, school connectedness and gender

Xiaoxiao Chen, Jingjin Shao, Xin Pu and Zhi Wang

Exploring the relationships between school suspension, ADHD diagnoses, and delinquency across different school punitive and special education climates

David M. Ramey and Brittany N. Freelin

Experiences of conducting a substance use disorder treatment, A-CRA, in compulsory institutional care for youth – The challenge of promoting openness in a closed, temporary setting

Ida Mälarstig, Marten J Tyrberg, Tobias Lundgren and Sven Alfonsson

Maternal incarceration and adolescent girls’ risk of substance-exposed pregnancy, STIs, and HIV

Qianwei Zhao, Danielle Parrish and Ning He

Evaluation of sustainable, blended learning workforce education for suicide prevention in youth services

Sarah Donovan, Laura Maggiulli, Joan Aiello, Pedro Centeno, Sydney John and Anthony Pisani

Intra-year employment instability and economic well-being among urban households: Mitigating effects of the social safety net

Julie Y. Cai, Christopher Wimer, Lawrence Berger and Matthew Maury

Exploring the predictors of enrollment and kindergarten entry skills of Spanish-speaking dual language learners in a mixed-delivery system of public preschool

Anne Partika, Anna D. Johnson and Deborah A. Phillips

Reforming Lebanon’s child protection system: Lessons for international child welfare efforts

Thomas El-Hoss

Online sexual exploitation of children in the Philippines: A scoping review

Steven Roche, Carmela Otarra, Imogen Fell, Christine Belle Torres and Sydney Rees

Adversity, engagement, and later achievement: The role of emotion regulation and parent-child relationship quality

Casey Mullins and Carlomagno C. Panlilio

The contribution of replicated follow-up studies to improving transitional housing programs for youths aging out of care in Israel

Talia Meital Schwartz Tayri and Shimon E. Spiro

Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of implementing a family-based intervention Your Family, Your Neighborhood with Latinx immigrant families

Stephanie Lechuga-Peña

A qualitative study about changes that parents experience through a pilot parenting support program to improve the quality of contact visits in non-kinship foster care

Lucía González-Pasarín, Isabel M. Bernedo and Miguel A. García-Martín

Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among young parents with foster care backgrounds: A participatory action PhotoVoice study

Elizabeth M. Aparicio, Svetlana Shpiegel, Genevieve Martinez-Garcia, Alexander Sanchez, Michelle Jasczynski, Marissa Ventola, Amara Channell Doig, Jennifer L. Robinson and Rhoda Smith

The relationship between diurnal cortisol slope and cognitive development among children maltreated as infants

Jane Jiyoun Lee and Eirini Flouri

Youth care in time of COVID-19: Experiences of professionals and adolescent clients with telehealth

Floor B. van Rooij, Joyce Weeland and Carlo Thonies

Adolescents’ meaning in life as a resilience factor between bullying victimization and life satisfaction

Youngwoon Seon and Sondra Smith-Adcock

Facilitators and barriers to reunification among housing unstable families

Rong Bai, Cyleste Collins, Robert Fischer and David Crampton

Hopes for healing: An exploratory study of trauma-informed care training and the juvenile justice system

Robin D. Jackson, Sesha Kethineni and Ying Cao

A scoping review of strengths-based risk and needs assessments for youth involved in the juvenile legal system

Ashlee R. Barnes-Lee and Amber Petkus

Parental stress and risk of child abuse: The role of socioeconomic status

Paula Cristina Martins, Catarina Dias Matos and Ana Isabel Sani

Social context of school satisfaction among primary and secondary school children in Hong Kong

Evelyn Aboagye Addae, Stefan Kühner and Maggie Lau

The influence of Decision-making ecology on placement into foster care

Jessica Strolin-Goltzman and Hannah Holbrook

Screening, service provision, and information sharing practices of juvenile facilities

D. Michael Applegarth and Benjamin Adams

The trajectory of subjective social status and its influencing factors in the transition period of freshmen in senior high school

Guoqing Liu, Yiying Yang, Yangqian Wang, Shouying Zhao and Gang Cheng

Adolescents raised by single parents: Examining the impact of spiritual education lessons on school connectedness, wellbeing, and resilience

Samta P. Pandya

A theory-based approach to understanding best practices in using online marketing materials for home-based parenting programs

Lana Beasley, Helen Milojevich, Stormie Fuller, Jessica A. Beebe and David Bard

Conceptualizing juvenile justice reform: Integrating the public health, social ecological, and restorative justice models

Keisha April, Shannon W. Schrader, Toni E. Walker, Robert M. Francis, Hector Glynn and Derrick M. Gordon

Parent mental health and child behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

Francesca Scheiber, Paige M. Nelson, Allison Momany, Kelli K. Ryckman and Ö. Ece Demir-Lira

Prevalence and factors associated with multidimensional child deprivation: Findings from the Future of Families and Child Well-Being Study

Jihyun Oh

Evaluating trauma-informed training for foster parents – A controlled pilot study of the resource parent curriculum in Sweden

Amanda Angelöw, Victoria Niwhede and Elia Psouni

Heterogeneous effects of spanking on child protective services involvement in early childhood: A propensity score stratification analysis

Julie Ma and Yoonsun Han

Career interventions and social well-being among non-engaged youth: Examining the mediating effects of career competency

Steven Sek-yum Ngai, Chau-Kiu Cheung, Jianhong Mo, Lin Wang, Yuen-hang Ng and Pinqiao Wang

Unheard voices of children on child abuse and neglect

Nadia Massarweh and Hanita Kosher

The voice of the child in social work practice: A phenomenological analysis of practitioner interpretation and experience

Tracey L. Williams and Sarah L. Parry

How do providers assess young people for risk of sex trafficking? Observed indicators, follow-up, and assessment questions from a sample of social service providers

Lara B. Gerassi, Caro Cruys, Nicole Hendry and Maria del Carmen Rosales

A burdened workforce: Exploring burnout, job satisfaction and turnover among child welfare caseworkers in the era of COVID-19

Victor Lushin, Colleen C. Katz, Francie J. Julien-Chinn and Marina Lalayants

«Becoming parents as mending the past»: care-experienced parents and the relationship with their birth family

Diletta Mauri

Emotional climate in residential care scale for youth: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance

Laura Santos, Joana Martins, Diana Ribeiro da Silva, Marcela Matos, Maria do Rosário Pinheiro and Daniel Rijo

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the children's exposure to domestic violence scale (CEDV) from English to Swahili

Chitegetse A. Minanago, Rik Crutzen, Hubertus W. van den Borne and Sylvia F. Kaaya

Barriers to post-secondary education among marginalized young women from Israel’s periphery

Tehila Refaeli, Raghda Alnabilsy, Noam Schuman-Harel and Michal Komem

The influence of juvenile justice workforce’s knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs on behaviors toward youth with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions

Marlene Matarese, Sean Aaron Betsinger and Angela Weeks

“The problem is that a kibbutz is standing in front of you and you have no name or face for it”: Child sexual abuse risk factors and disclosure in the collective kibbutz community

Michal Michel and Dafna Tener

Interrogating the carceral state: Re-envisioning social work’s role in systems serving children and youth

Alan J. Dettlaff, Laura S. Abrams and Martell L. Teasley