Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 147, issue C, 2023

Recognising the embedded child in child protection: Children’s participation, inequalities and cultural capital

Emily Keddell

State-level variation in the cumulative prevalence of child welfare system contact, 2015–2019

Youngmin Yi, Frank Edwards, Natalia Emanuel, Hedwig Lee, John M. Leventhal, Jane Waldfogel and Christopher Wildeman

Examining the mental health indicators and service needs of children living with foster families

Shannon L. Stewart, Alana A. Graham and Jeffrey W. Poss

Impact of Parents as Teachers on parenting-related protective factors: A pre- and post- evaluation

Xiao Ding, Catherine A. LaBrenz, Swetha Nulu, Beth Gerlach and Monica Faulkner

Rethinking narratives about youth experiencing homelessness: Exploring essential relationships and resilience

Jenilee-Sarah Napoleon, David W. Evans, Vanessa K. Weva, Tamarah Francois, Reyhane Namdari, Jessica Sherman, Camila M. Rimada, Nancy Morisseau, Emmanuel Lafontant, Sydney Miller and Jacob A. Burack

Neighborhood perceptions and externalizing behaviors during childhood and adolescence: The indirect effect of family socioeconomic vulnerability and parenting practices

Margarida Amorim dos Santos, Gilda Santos, Mariana Sebastião Machado and Carla Sofia de Freitas Lino Pinto Cardoso

Filial piety and meaning in life among late adolescents: A moderated mediation model

Peizhen Sun, Zishuo Yang, Hongyan Jiang, Wen Chen and Meng Xu

Needs of caregivers of youth enrolled in a statewide system of care: A latent class analysis

Alayna Schreier, Madeline R. Stenersen, Michael J. Strambler, Tim Marshall, Jeana Bracey and Joy S. Kaufman

Fostering emotional and mental health in residential youth care facilities: A systematic review of programs targeted to care workers

Laura Santos, Rita Ramos Miguel, Maria do Rosário Pinheiro and Daniel Rijo

A systematic review of non-specific and specific treatment factors associated with lower or greater internalising and externalising symptoms in therapeutic residential care

Emma Castro, Eunice Magalhães and Jorge Fernández del Valle

Exploring early termination patterns and effectiveness of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children in foster care

Madeline Esterer, John S. Carlson, Sarina Roschmann, HaeDong Kim, Amy Cowper, Holly Cranmer-Fosdick, Mary Ludtke and Barry DeCicco

Child self-report and child-parent agreement regarding health-related quality of life under COVID-19 lockdown in the French Grand Est area

Stéphanie Bourion-Bédès, Hélène Rousseau, Martine Batt, Pascale Tarquinio, Romain Lebreuilly, Christine Sorsana, Karine Legrand, Cyril Tarquinio and Cédric Baumann

The effects of a childcare training program on childcare quality and child development: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Vietnam

Elizabeth Hentschel, Ha T.T Tran, Van Ha Nguyen, Thuy Tran and Aisha K. Yousafzai

Social inclusion of children with intellectual disabilities in Accra, Ghana: Views of parents/guardians and teachers

Vyda Mamley Hervie

Avoidance self-efficacy: Personal indicators of risky sex and substance use among at-risk youth

Amanda L. Wiese, Thomas B. Sease, Elizabeth D. Joseph, Jennifer E. Becan, Kevin Knight and Danica K. Knight

Adverse Childhood Experiences, sexual debut and substance use among Black justice-involved youth: The imperative of trauma-informed sexuality education

Abigail Williams-Butler, Tyriesa Howard, Wen Li Anthony and Jacquelynn Duron

Practitioner perspectives on the challenges of implementing ‘alternative’ early childhood education (ECE) provision for nomadic children in Mongolia

Julia Morgan and Tumendelger Sengedorj

Controllable negative life events, family cohesion, and externalizing problems among rural and migrant children in China: A moderated mediation model

Fu-Wei Li and Fang-Hua Jhang

An exploratory study of salient family risk factors in relation to preschoolers’ unintentional injury in northwest China

Jun Hao, Yeh Hsueh and Katherine Kitzmann

Co-designing a dynamic tool to enhance participation for young people: A participatory design project with young service users and social workers

Kristina Bromark, Ola Knutsson and Ylva Spånberger Weitz

Family inclusion in child protection: Knowledge, power and resistance

Kate Davies, Nicola Ross, Jessica Cocks and Wendy Foote

Volume 146, issue C, 2023

Do neighbourhoods influence how parents and children interact? Direct observations of parent–child interactions within a large Australian study

Shannon K Bennetts, Jasmine Love, Clair Bennett, Fiona Burgemeister, Elizabeth M Westrupp, Naomi J Hackworth, Fiona K Mensah, Penny Levickis and Jan M Nicholson

In the same boat: Parents’ and teachers’ role in protecting elementary school students’ online rights

Shiran German Ben-Hayun and Lotem Perry-Hazan

Implementation and effectiveness of the Indian Child Welfare Act: A systematic review

Annie M. Francis, William J. Hall, David Ansong, Paul Lanier, Travis J. Albritton and Ashley McMillan

Addressing the needs of infants and toddlers exposed to maltreatment: Examining the impact of an integrated early head start & children and youth services program

Laura Emily Wallace and Patricia H. Manz

‘My disability was my own responsibility’: An institutional ethnography of the transitional experiences of disabled young people leaving care

Ingri-Hanne Braenne Bennwik, Inger Oterholm and Berni Kelly

Stay just a little bit longer: A scoping review of foster parent engagement in the U.S

Kimberly A. Williams, Ericka M. Lewis and Megan Feely

The role of school leaders in cultivating a trauma-informed school climate

Antonio Garcia, Ginny Sprang and Tracy Clemans

Influences of sibling disability and childhood caregiving experiences on interest in a disability-specific helping profession

Jenna H. Beffel, Amy K. Nuttall, Claire D. Vallotton, Carla A. Peterson and Kalli B. Decker

Real-world trial of positive youth development program “LifeMatters” with South African adolescents in a low-resource setting

Daniel Thomas Page, Stephanie Hanrahan and Lisa Buckley

Successes, challenges, and opportunities in providing evidence-based teletherapy to children who have experienced trauma as a response to Covid-19: A national survey of clinicians

Amy J.L. Baker, Melinda Konigsberg, Elissa Brown and Kevin Lee Adkins

Vocational success among at-risk, low-income young adults: Are there contributing factors?

Mounika Polavarapu, Alexandria A Williamson, Donnamarie Krause and Timothy R. Jordan

Cyberbullying among youth in developing countries: A qualitative systematic review with bibliometric analysis

Abu Naser Mohammad Saif and Audrika Eshna Purbasha

Volume 145, issue C, 2023

Understanding successful transition to independent living: A qualitative study of young adults with disabilities

Jonathan A. Schulz, Lyndsie M. Koon, Lillie Greiman, Hayley A. Steinlage and Jean P. Hall

Parenting aspirations of Australian young people who have experienced adversity: “I’ll work on everything else before working on having a kid”

Stewart McDougall, Tim Moore, Sarah Cox and Fiona Arney

Trend and determinants of early marriage in Rajasthan: Evidence from the national family health survey

Nutan Kumari and Chander Shekhar

Family interventions to improve mental, emotional, and behavioral health outcomes among Latinx youth: A systematic review

María Pineros-Leano, Tyrone M. Parchment and Rocío Calvo

Characteristics of youth in alternative education settings: A scoping literature review

Charlotte Fortems, Bart Hansen and Inge Glazemakers

How parents can help or hinder access to mental health services for young people

Monique Platell, Angus Cook and Karen Martin

Development and content validation of a comprehensive tool for assessing risk and protective factors in children and adolescents: The ACRAM

José-Javier Navarro-Pérez, Paula Samper, Patricia Sancho, Sylvia Georgieva, Ángela Carbonell and Maria-Vicenta Mestre

Children’s participation in the child protection system: Are young people from poor families less likely to be heard?

David Lätsch, Julia Quehenberger, Rahel Portmann and Andreas Jud

Increasing access to justice for children: A brief report on the Brazilian Sign Language version of the NICHD protocol

Carlos Aznar-Blefari, Ana Rebeca Domingues Benevides, Raquel Heli Rogenski, Milena Maria Pinto, Sidnei R. Priolo-Filho, Carmit Katz and Deborah Goldfarb

The time and community dimensions in socio-educational intervention strategies with adolescents in care during the transition to adult life

Deibe Fernández-Simo, María Victoria Carrera-Fernández, Xosé Manuel Cid-Fernández and Edgar Correia Campos

Pain Flashbacks: Exploration of intrusive pain symptoms following child abuse

Noga Tsur

Suicide risk screening in the school environment: Family factors and profiles

Guy Weissinger, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Tita Atte and Guy Diamond

Harsh parental discipline and school bullying among Chinese adolescents: The role of moral disengagement and deviant peer affiliation

Hang Fan, Lulu Xue, Jianwu Xiu, Lipeng Chen and Shen Liu

Analysis of parenting informational needs for mothers with infants and toddlers using text-mining

Sunhwa Park, Kyungja June and Jungok Yu

Struggling for open awareness – Trajectories of violence against children from a sociological perspective

Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Lars Alberth

Models of school breakfast program implementation in Western Australia and the implications for supporting disadvantaged students

Susan M. Hill, Matthew F. Byrne, Elizabeth Wenden, Amanda Devine, Margaret Miller, Henrietta Quinlan, Donna Cross, Judy Eastham and Miranda Chester

Mental health-related hospitalisations associated with patterns of child protection and youth justice involvement during adolescence: A retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data from the Northern Territory of Australia

Bernard Leckning, John R Condon, Sumon K Das, Vincent He, Tanja Hirvonen and Steven Guthridge

Keeping the family: A socio-ecological perspective on the challenges of child removal and reunification for mothers who have experienced substance-related harms

Julie Dare, Celia Wilkinson, Shantha P. Karthigesu, David A. Coall and Ruth Marquis

Profiles of Mother-Infant risk in a nationally representative sample

Jennifer A. Mortensen and Hyun-Joo Jeon

“The story of the abuse as the story of my life”: Narrative analysis of the stories of survivors of prolonged child sexual abuse

Afnan Attrash-Najjar and Carmit Katz

Exploring the lived experiences of women with children during COVID-19: Maternal stress and coping mechanisms

Saltanat Childress, Alison Roberts, Catherine A. LaBrenz, Erin Findley, Modesty Ekueku and Philip Baiden

Power with and power over: Social workers’ reflections on their use of power when talking with parents about child welfare concerns

Yuval Saar-Heiman

Teleservices use among Latinx immigrant families during the Covid-19 pandemic

James C. Hodges and Rocío Calvo

Wellbeing and mental health interventions for Indigenous children and youth: A systematic scoping review

Crystal Jongen, Sandy Campbell, Vicki Saunders, Deborah Askew, Geoffrey Spurling, Eva Gueorguiev, Erika Langham, Roxanne Bainbridge and Janya McCalman

The protective role of caretakers in the delinquency of detained youth in São Paulo, Brazil

Mateus Rennó Santos, Lucas Caetano, Diogo Caminhas and Chae M. Jaynes

How are responses to child abuse and neglect conceptualised in Australian policy?

Lauren Elizabeth Lines, Tracy Alexis Kakyo, Alison Hutton, Winfrida Wilfred Mwashala and Julian Maree Grant

Extended caregiving arrangements in families from Chinese backgrounds: A qualitative research study from Sydney, Australia

Cathy O'Callaghan, Rachael Kearns, Lisa Woodland, Gayathri Dharmagesan and Ben Harris-Roxas

Decomposing the gap in undernutrition among under-five children between EAG and non-EAG states of India

Sourav Chowdhury, Nuruzzaman Kasemi, Aditya Singh, Mahashweta Chakrabarty and Shivani Singh

Parent-child interaction therapy for children in foster care and children with posttraumatic stress: Exploring behavioral outcomes and graduation rates in a large state-wide sample

Harlee Onovbiona, Ayla R. Mapes, Lauren B. Quetsch, Laurie L. Theodorou and Cheryl B. McNeil

State-level legal and sociodemographic correlates of child marriage rates in the United States

Anna Jiang and Jennifer E. Lansford

“It’s like you’re not even there…”: Gambling harm experienced by children of gambling parents

Aino Suomi, Megan Bailey, Nina Lucas, Nicki Dowling and Paul Delfabbro

Risk factors of orphan and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lucia Munongi and Daphney Mawila

Child maltreatment, social relationships and psychological distress: A multiple mediational analysis

Zhiyou Wang and Ji-Kang Chen

Safeguarding the welfare of refugee children in Ghana: Perspectives of practitioners in refugee camps

Alhassan Abdullah, Crispin R. Mbamba, Enoch B. Amponsah, Margarita Frederico, Ebenezer Cudjoe, Hajara Bentum and Clifton R. Emery

Predicting family engagement in Early Head Start

Stephanie C. Kathan

Insecure housing, substance abuse, and incarceration among emerging adults aging out of foster care: Examining associations with legal orphan status

Daniel J. Gibbs, Melissa L. Villodas, Kirsten Kainz and Annie M. Francis

Beyond the behavior: Teachers’ trauma-informed attitudes relate to lower expulsion risk among uninhibited preschoolers

Alysse M. Loomis, Timothy W. Curby and Katherine M. Zinsser

Association between early income variation around poverty thresholds, income trajectories, and birth, child, and family characteristics

Quentin H. Riser, Heather L. Rouse and Cassandra J. Dorius

The development of adolescents in a non-residential alternative educational facility, including the prevention of secure residential placement

S. Pronk, G. van den Berg, E.A. Mulder, C. Kuiper, G.J.J.M. Stams and A. Popma

Addressing barriers to mental healthcare access for adolescents living in slums: A qualitative multi-stakeholder study in Odisha, India

Pallavi Behera, Jayashree Parida, Narendra Kakade, Sanghamitra Pati and Subhendu Kumar Acharya

Perceived barriers, drivers and enablers to becoming a foster family: An exploratory study in Portugal

Catarina Anjos, Eunice Magalhães, João Graça, Vânia S. Pinto, Joana Baptista and Micaela Pinheiro

Inequality in literacy skills at kindergarten entry at the intersections of social programs and race

Michah W. Rothbart and Colleen Heflin