Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 144, issue C, 2023

Effects of video-prompting using iPad on teaching leisure activities to students with multiple disabilities: A single-case experimental design study

Rashed Aldabas

Life story work for children and youth in out of home care: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies

Soula A. Kontomichalos-Eyre, Amelia J. Lake and Jane A. McGillivray

What they don’t know won’t hurt them? Linking children’s knowledge of parental incarceration to child well-being during reentry

Luke Muentner and J. Mark Eddy

‘We’re not a separate entity, we're staff now’ The involvement of transition age youth peer supporters in trauma-informed community partnerships

Elizabeth Siantz, Kimberly Center, Amy E. Lansing, Nisha Sanghvi and Todd P. Gilmer

Foster children in care due to parental incarceration: A national longitudinal study

Maria Morrison and Brett Drake

The positive and negative aspects of parentification: An integrated review

Ruziana Masiran, Normala Ibrahim, Hamidin Awang and Poh Ying Lim

Child welfare triage: Use of screening threshold analysis to evaluate intake decision-making

Aubrey D. Kearney, Elisabeth S. Wilson, Dana M. Hollinshead, Michael Poletika, Heather H. Kestian, Terry J. Stigdon, Eric A. Miller and John D. Fluke

Child maltreatment and adult economic outcomes: A systematic review

Laura Herbert, Jinette Comeau, Carrie Smith, Tracy Smith-Carrier, Christopher Saxby and Natashia Botelho

Slowing the ‘vicious cycle’: Reducing the interest rate on child support arrears

Daniel R. Meyer and Quentin H. Riser

Engaging youth at risk of violence in services: Messages from research

Nick Axford, John Tredinnick-Rowe, Sarah Rybcyznska-Bunt, Lorna Burns, Finlay Green and Tom Thompson

Adolescents in street situations in Bangladesh and their exposure to physical violence and emotional abuse

Nicole F. Bromfield, Hasan Reza, Larry W. Bennett and Wen Xu

A randomized controlled study of trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy compared to enhanced treatment as usual with patients in child mental health care traumatized from family violence

Ole Hultmann, Anders G. Broberg and Ulf Axberg

Contextualising under-five deaths in Bihar, India: Insights from primary and secondary data

Sumela Ajmer, Margubur Rahaman, Md Juel Rana and Illias Sheikh

Association between poverty and anaemia among mother–child pairs in India

Rajeshwari A. Biradar

Psychosocial characteristics of bullying participants: A person-oriented approach combining self- and peer-report measures

Tina Pivec, Marina Horvat and Katja Košir

What else is there to say? Reflections of newly-hired child welfare workers by retention status

Desirée D. Burns, Lisa Langenderfer-Magruder, Anna Yelick and Dina J. Wilke

Evaluating the effectiveness of the systemic practice model of children’s social care – A pilot study on child- and family-level outcomes

Elina Aaltio

Extent, trajectory, and determinants of child welfare turnover and exit destinations

Melissa Radey and Dina J. Wilke

Childhood experiences, growing up “in care,” and trust: A quantitative analysis

Delphine Brown

Young people transitioning from out-of-home care: their experience of informal support. A scoping review

Alix Stubbs, Susan Baidawi and Philip Mendes

Child protection and youth offending: Differences in youth criminal court-involved children by dual system involvement

Susan Baidawi and Rubini Ball

Number of placement changes among young people in care: Youth and caregiver associations

Lauren Stenason and Elisa Romano

Children’s self-perception: Investigating associations with direct victimization, indirect victimization, and caregiver partner violence

Amanda J. Hasselle, Taylor R. Napier and Kathryn H. Howell

Well-being, school and age, from the understandings of Chilean children

Jaime Alfaro, Gisela Carrillo, Carolina Aspillaga, Alejandra Villarroel and Jorge Varela

Police behaviors and procedural justice: Testing predictors of police-initiated post-traumatic stress symptoms

Michael C. Gearhart, Kristen Berg, Sheila Barnhart, Annah Bender and Courtney Jones

Reasons used by Flemish foster care workers in family reunification decision making

Johan Vanderfaeillie, Dorien Borms, M.S.L. Teunissen, Laura Gypen and Frank Van Holen

Effects of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Community-Based Mentoring Program on social-emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes of participating youth: A randomized controlled trial

Carla Herrera, David L. DuBois, Janet Heubach and Jean B. Grossman

Gender differences in child sexual abuse in China: Do one-child status and repeated victimization matter?

Yuhong Zhu, Chenyang Xiao and Bin Zhu

Development of a cyberbullying victimization scale for adolescents in South Korea

JongSerl Chun, Jinyung Kim and Serim Lee

Mandatory reporting and the retaliation factor

Franne Sippel, Karyl L. Meister, Pamela J. Miller, Jeff N. Howard, Ahmet Can, Theresa Bowden and Andrea Garlick

Economic conditions and the number of children in foster care

Ioana Marinescu, Fei Tan and Johanna K.P. Greeson

Characteristics and precipitating circumstances of suicide among youth involved with the U.S. child welfare system

Donna A. Ruch, Armin Munir, Danielle L. Steelesmith, Jeffrey A. Bridge and Cynthia A. Fontanella

A scoping review of parent-involved ethnic and racial socialization programs

Ai Bo, Brenna Durand and Yi Wang

How early interventionists support families experiencing vulnerable circumstances: A closer look at family-centered practice

Christine M. Spence, Deborah L. Rooks-Ellis, Amber Brown Ruiz, Leigh Ann Fish, Brooklin Jones-Banahan, Courtney E. O'Grady and Ella Sulinski

Intervention development to improve foster youth mental health by targeting coping self-efficacy and help-seeking

Jennifer E. Blakeslee, Brianne H. Kothari and Rebecca A. Miller

“What do mothers know about child sexual abuse?”: A qualitative investigation

Nur Baser Baykal, Hale Nur Kilic Memur and Sena Oksuz

Empathy, self-esteem and satisfaction with life in adolescent

Pablo Usán Supervía, Carlos Salavera Bordás, Alberto Quílez Robres, Raquel Lozano Blasco and Cecilia Latorre Cosculluela

Experts and migrants – A survey experiment on public acceptance of violence and child protection interventions

Audun Gabriel Løvlie

Delinquency, drug use, and gang membership in the English-speaking Caribbean

Charles M. Katz, Hyunjung Cheon, Kayla Freemon and Lidia E. Nuño

Volume 143, issue C, 2022

Governing early learning among the American states

Megan Rauch Griffard, James Sadler, Michael Little and Lora Cohen-Vogel

Targeting the needs of families in recovery for addiction with young children

Andrea M. Hussong, Julia M. Shadur and Joseph K. Sircar

“I just needed someone to believe in me.” A qualitative analysis of youths’ experiencing homelessness perspectives of a housing first intervention

Brittany Brakenhoff, Jared Martin, Natasha Slesnick, Eugene Holowacz, Tansel Yilmazer, Laura Chavez and Kelly Kelleher

Push and pull reasons underpinning vulnerable young people’s decisions regarding re-engagement with education and training

A. Portela-Pruaño, M.J. Rodríguez-Entrena, A. Torres-Soto and J.M. Nieto-Cano

Is contact with birth parents beneficial to children in non-kinship foster care? A scoping review of the evidence

Kevin J. Ruiz-Romero, María D. Salas, Francisco Javier Fernández-Baena and Lucía González-Pasarín

Exploring the meaning of happiness of middle childhood children

Yulia Ayriza, Rita Eka Izzaty, Rahmatika Kurnia Romadhani, Fitriana Oktaviani and Banyu Wicaksono

Feeling mentally unwell is the “new normal”. A qualitative study on adolescents’ views of mental health problems and related stigma

Veronica Hermann, Natalie Durbeej, Ann-Christin Karlsson and Anna Sarkadi

A longitudinal examination of the family stress model of economic hardship in seven countries

Susannah Zietz, Jennifer E. Lansford, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Emma Sorbring, Ann T. Skinner, Laurence Steinberg, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge and Sevtap Gurdal

Relationships with family members and transition from out-of-home care: Unfinished business

Madonna Boman

Using a realist lens to understand the Victorian Family Preservation and Reunification Response in the first year of implementation — Towards a better understanding of practice

Heather Morris, Claire Blewitt, Melissa Savaglio, Nick Halfpenny, Erin Carolan, Robyn Miller and Helen Skouteris

Organizational complexity within private child welfare agencies in the United States and impact on agency performance outlook

Monica Perez Jolles, Bowen McBeath, Crystal Collins-Camargo and Emmeline Chuang

Educational equity: A scoping review of the state of literature exploring educational outcomes and correlates for children experiencing homelessness

Kristin A Parrott, Melody Huslage and Courtney Cronley

Preliminary evaluation of A Home Within psychotherapy with clients with a history of foster care

Saralyn C. Ruff, Deanna Linville, June M. Clausen and Jean Kjellstrand

The cumulative effects of developmental assets on self-control during adolescence: A short-term longitudinal study

Guo-Xing Xiang and Xiong Gan

School breakfast and young children’s absenteeism: Does meal location matter?

Michael A. Gottfried and Jacob Kirksey

The impact of socioeconomic status on self-determined learning motivation: A serial mediation analysis of the influence of Gaokao score on seniority in Chinese higher vocational college students

Endale Tadesse, Chunhai Gao, Jing Sun, Sabika Khalid and Cai Lianyu

“No Intervention, Just Straight Suspension”: Family perspectives of suspension and expulsion

Charis L. Wahman, Tiffany Steele, Elizabeth A. Steed and Lisa Powers

The dyadic parent-child interaction coding system (DPICS): Negative talk as an indicator of dysfunctional mother-child interaction

María Cañas, Izaskun Ibabe, Ignacia Arruabarrena and Joaquín De Paúl

Service delivery goals and underlying interprofessional practices: A scoping review to support interprofessional collaboration in the field of child protection

Sarah Seekamp, Lesley-Anne Ey, Shelley Wright, James Herbert and Margarita D Tsiros

A conceptual model to guide collaborative reflective practice and values-driven child welfare decision-making

Sarah Godoy, Kirsten Kainz, Kanisha Brevard and Oprah Keyes

LGBTQ+ Young People’s Health and Well-being Experiences in Out-of-home Social Care: A scoping review

Jason Schaub, Willem J. Stander and Paul Montgomery

Out-of-home care and diagnosed mental and behavioral disorders among youth with and without prenatal substance exposure – A longitudinal register-based cohort study

Anne M. Koponen, Niina-Maria Nissinen, Mika Gissler, Hanna Kahila, Ilona Autti-Rämö and Taisto Sarkola

Empowerment-focused positive youth development programming for underprivileged youth in the Southern U.S.: A qualitative evaluation

Lindsay R. Ruhr and Lindsey Jordan Fowler

How might changes to family income affect the likelihood of children being in out-of-home care? Evidence from a realist and qualitative rapid evidence assessment of interventions

S. Wood, J. Scourfield, L. Stabler, S. Addis, D. Wilkins, D. Forrester and S.L. Brand

Future expectations of adolescents in Residential Care: The role of self-perceptions

Yolanda Sánchez-Sandoval, Claudia Aragón and Laura Verdugo

Good enough residential care setting: Child-parent contact and youth adjustment in the context of staff attitudes towards parent involvement

Netanel Shalem and Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz

Police stops and youths’ educational expectations: Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Dylan B. Jackson, Alexander Testa, Daniel C. Semenza, Rebecca Skinner and Michael G. Vaughn

Development and validation of a predictive risk model for runaway among youth in child welfare

Ka Ho Brian Chor, Zhidi Luo, Amy Dworsky, Rameela Raman, Mark E. Courtney and Richard A. Epstein

Coping and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among Chinese youth in the peak and remission periods of COVID-19

Chun Chen, Chunbo Li, Mingyang Chen, Lingling Wang, Yaqin Zhu and Zhuoying Zhu

Predictors of adolescent truancy: The importance of cyberbullying, peer behavior, and parenting style

José-Julián Escario, J. Ignacio Giménez-Nadal and Anna V. Wilkinson

Beliefs of public health nurses about solution-focused parenting support – A questionnaire study

Liesbeth Theuns-Boumans, Jolanda Mathijssen, Carin Rots-de Vries and Ien van de Goor

The impact of COVID-19 on campus-based support programs serving students with foster care experience: Focus groups with administrators and students

Kizzy M. Lopez, Jennifer M. Geiger, Nathanael J. Okpych, Sara I. Gamez and Danielle Larregui

Mental health stigma, community support, and somatic complaints among Latinx youth

Alissa Der Sarkissian, Jill D. Sharkey and Alison Cerezo

Neighborhood matters: Neighborhood violence, collective efficacy, and social emotional development in early childhood

Julia M. Fleckman, Stephanie Tokarz, Megan Claire Craig-Kuhn, Maeve E. Wallace and Katherine P. Theall

“Dual jurisdiction? It doesn’t work like that:” Practitioner decision-making at the juvenile justice and child welfare nexus

Lauren Ashley Morgan

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a solution-focused intervention in child protection services

Antonio Medina, Mark Beyebach and Felipe E. García

Family team decision meeting and child welfare service disparities: The influence of race and poverty

Haksoon Ahn, Yanfeng Xu, Kimberly A. Williams, Kimberly Parks-Bourn, Syreeta Williams and Denise Conway

Exploring the self-efficacy of foster youth participating in a pre-college summer program

M. Sebrena Jackson, Krystal Dozier, Alex D. Colvin and Angela N. Bullock

Self-efficacy, academic performance and school transition among orphaned adolescents in southern Uganda

Proscovia Nabunya, William Byansi, Christopher Damulira and Fred M. Ssewamala