Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 142, issue C, 2022

Costs and benefits of an early intervention for juvenile offenders – The ‘Treatment Foster Care Oregon Program’

E. Vimefall, F. Sahrblom and K. Nordlöf

Changes of social anxiety in Chinese adolescents during 2002 ∼ 2020: An increasing trend and its relationship with social change

Sufei Xin, Haiyun Peng and Liang Sheng

The educational, social, and emotional impact of COVID19 on Rohingya refugee youth: Implications for educators and policymakers

Ifrah Mahamud Magan, Krushika Uday Patankar and Rahma Ahmed

Socio-economic status and living situation of care leavers in Austria

Wolfgang Hagleitner, Stephan Sting and Thomas Maran

An evaluation of the comprehensive child protection support services in South Korea: Focusing on preventing maltreatment recurrence and improving safety

Bong Joo Lee and Haerynn Jeong

Effectiveness of the Incredible Years parenting program for children with behavioral problems: An experience in a developing country during a pandemic

Ruziana Masiran, Normala Ibrahim, Hamidin Awang, Lim Poh Ying, Chan Tze Lin and Sankari Ganesh Narayanasamy

Independent living programs and services for youth 'aging out' of care in Canada and the U.S.: A systematic review

Melanie M. Doucet, Johanna K.P. Greeson and Nehal Eldeeb

A national review of child welfare competency models

Chad McDonald, Kristen West, Cole Benson and Charmaine Brittain

Collaborative skills development: Theory and practice

Matthew Gibson and Mark Chesterman

The power of connectedness: Associations between caring non-parental adult relationships, school attendance, and discipline among foster-involved youth

Brittani A. Lamb, Knoo Lee, Sarah M. Espinoza and Barbara J. McMorris

Self-injury prevalence in adolescents: A global systematic review and meta-analysis

Natasha Lemos Lucena, Thais Aranha Rossi, Laylla Mirella Galvão Azevedo and Marcos Pereira

Initial impact of the California continuum of care reform act on youth’s experiences in out-of-home care

Stacy Metcalf, Kelli L. Dickerson and Jodi A. Quas

Impact of malocclusion on bullying in school children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Djessyca Miranda e Paulo, Murilo Navarro de Oliveira, Walbert de Andrade Vieira, Carlos Flores-Mir, Matheus Melo Pithon, Marcos Alan Vieira Bittencourt and Luiz Renato Paranhos

Relations among home visit quality, parent-child interactions, and children’s outcomes

Kere Hughes-Belding, Carla Peterson, Hyun-Joo Jeon, Luke Huber, Hawa Conteh and Anne Plagge

Impact of home visiting programs on parenting stress in low-income women: Findings from a community-based trial at an urban health department

Joshua P. Mersky, Colleen E. Janczewski, ChienTi Plummer Lee and Tajammal Yasin

Supporting youth and families to prevent risky youth behavior and delinquency: An impact evaluation of a family counseling program in the Caribbean

Stephanie G. Stahlberg, Alberto Díaz-Cayeros and Rachel Pizatella-Haswell

Construct and predictive validity of the AAPI-2 in a low-income, urban, African American sample

Catherine A. Moon

Social support and resilience among Burmese adolescent refugees: Examining ethnic identity searching and belonging as moderators

Elli Cole, Shu Su, Anjolii Diaz and Mengxi Zhang

Reasons, willingness, and intention to be a foster family: A community-sample study

Eunice Magalhães, Patrício Costa, Vânia S. Pinto, João Graça, Joana Baptista, Sofia Ferreira, Emma Castro, Catarina Anjos and Lucilina Gouveia

Transnational family life of displaced unaccompanied minors – A systematic review

Franziska Anna Seidel, Nora Hettich and Sigrid James

Television watching as a routine activity: New evidence involving the relationship between television watching and delinquency

Jaeyong Choi, Ilhong Yun and Julak Lee

Why does systemic supervision support practitioners’ practice more effectively with children and families?

Lisa Bostock, Louis Patrizio, Tessa Godfrey and Donald Forrester

Early childhood education and care policies in the U.S. And their impact on family violence

Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Felicia Hardi, Bri Stormer, Joyce Y. Lee, Megan Feely, Whitney Rostad, Derek C. Ford, Melissa T. Merrick, Catherine A. Murphy and J. Bart. Klika

Early assessment of the risk of child welfare involvement for preventive purposes

Claudia van der Put, Mark Assink, Daan Schmitz, Arjan de Jager, Geert Jan Stams and Levi van Dam

Volume 141, issue C, 2022

Preventing child protective services system involvement by asking families what they need: Findings from a multi-site RCT of the community response program (CRP)

Kristen S. Slack, Lawrence M. Berger, Aaron Reilly, Rachel Reynders and Julie Y. Cai

Engaging youth for positive change: A mixed methods evaluation of site level program implementation & outcomes

Kyle M. Bennett, Jeanna M. Campbell and Scott P. Hays

Watch Me Rise: An evaluation of Wraparound with homeless youth with a child welfare history

Robin Lindquist-Grantz, Kimberly Downing, Meredith Hicks, Cherie Houchin and Victoria Ackman

Feasibility and acceptability study of the online ACT-Raising Safe Kids program

Camila Regina Lotto, Elisa Rachel Pisani Altafim and Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares

Born into care: Associations between area-level deprivation and the rates of children entering care proceedings in Wales

Stefanie Doebler, Karen Broadhurst, Bachar Alrouh, Linda Cusworth and Lucy Griffiths

“You can really be hurt by someone just like you”: Practitioners’ perceptions of preadolescent peer sexual abuse

Dafna Tener, Laura I. Sigad, Carmit Katz, Mor Shemesh and Yael Zooker Zabib

Lay health workers engaging Latino fathers: A qualitative study

Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Iliana Flores, Madeleine Tremblay and Miya L. Barnett

The effectiveness of trauma treatment approaches in refugee children and adolescents: A systematic review

Emel Genç

The relationship between shyness and cyberbullying victimization: A moderated mediation model

Jinzhe Zhao, Ling Bao, Pujue Wang and Jingyu Geng

Giving a voice to adolescents in residential care: Knowledge and perceptions of commercial sexual exploitation and runaway behavior

Noemí Pereda, Marta Codina, Diego A. Díaz-Faes and Bárbara Kanter

Developing an equitable measure of parent engagement in early childhood education for urban schools

Deborah Gross, Amie F. Bettencourt, W. Holmes Finch, Corinne Plesko, Rachael Paulson and Demetria L. Singleton

Improvements in father-child interactions: Video observations from the Just Beginning study

Kristen Harknett, Patrizia Mancini and Virginia Knox

How child abuse by kindergarten teachers (CAKT) happens in a Chinese context: Findings based on 35 cases of CAKT

Guan Huang, Dong Ping Qiao, Mengyao Lu and Ting Ting Lian

How school staff hesitate to report child maltreatment in Japan: A process model of child protection, generated via grounded theory

Yuriko Yanagi and Kota Takaoka

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children in foster care: A descriptive study of an overlooked child welfare population

Joyce Y. Lee, Tara Ogilvie, Susan H. Yoon, Jaclyn Kirsch, Eun Koh and Michael S. Spencer

Pockets of love. Unaccompanied children in institutional care in Finland

Iida Kauhanen, Mervi Kaukko and Maija Lanas

Regional trends and the role of school support staff in suspensions of students with disabilities

Melissa R. Jenkins, David Ansong, Andrae Banks and Tiffany D. Dangleben

From time-out to expulsion: A national review of states’ center-based child care licensing exclusionary discipline regulations

Martha Buell, Rachel Fidel, Jason T. Hustedt, Stephanie Kuntz and Gerilyn Slicker

Multidimensional measurement of child social exclusion: Development and psychometric properties of the social exclusion scale for children (SESC)

Shan Jiang, Chaoxin Jiang, Yuhang Cheng and Weimin Li

Using latent class analysis to identify clinical subgroups and pathways of youth in a therapeutic foster care program

Stephen Shimshock, Ka Ho Brian Chor and Paul D. Brylske

Trajectories and predictors of child abuse in Chinese children aged 4–7 years: A growth mixture model analysis

Chen Chen

Volume 140, issue C, 2022

Do socio-structural factors influence the incidence and reporting of child neglect? An analysis of multi-sectoral national data from Switzerland

Rahel Portmann, Tanja Mitrovic, Hakim Gonthier, Céline Kosirnik, René Knüsel and Andreas Jud

Associations of food insecurity and material social support with parent and child mental health during COVID-19

Kaitlin P. Ward and Shawna J. Lee

The impact of cessation or continuation of family violence on children

M.K.M. Lünnemann, M.P.C.M. Luijk, F.C.P. Van der Horst, J. Jongerling and M. Steketee

Factors associated with repeated use of a mobile response service for children: An observational retrospective cohort study

Kayla M. Theriault, Kellie G. Randall, Jeffrey J. Vanderploeg and Timothy M. Marshall

Hard to succeed: A call for social change from mothers with substance use in the child welfare system

Marianna L. Colvin and Heather Howard

Practice approaches to combat child trafficking in trafficking-sensitive areas in Ghana: Experiences of practitioners involved in child trafficking interventions

Crispin Rakibu Mbamba, Ignatus Kpobi Ndemole, Sarah Madinatu Hassan, Isaac Arthur and Sarah Mountz

What happens when we ask? A phenomenological focus group on HIV prevention and sexual health education among emancipated foster care youth

Ijeoma Opara, Ashley Lizarraga, David T. Lardier, Andriana Herrera, Pauline Garcia-Reid and Robert J. Reid

Let’s talk about love: Perceptions of children in residential care

Carole Côté and Marie-Ève Clément

Mental health and behavioral outcomes among Jamaican women: The role of childhood abuse & witnessing parental violence

Kerry A. Lee, Sharon Rose Priestley and Kevin K. Hylton

A network analysis of post-traumatic stress among youth aging out of the foster care system

Gia Elise Barboza and Romello Valentine

The experience of invisibility among birth children of foster parents

Chaya Possick, Yael Doft, Dalit Binschtock and Merav Langental-Cohen

Professional stakeholders’ perceptions of child marriage in Lebanon among Syrian refugees

Negin Najjarnejad and Nicole Bromfield

Sexual and reproductive health protective factors among adolescents with child welfare involvement

Katie Massey Combs, Mackenzie Cook Lee, Virginia Ramseyer Winter and Heather Taussig

Minority and low-SES families’ experiences during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: A qualitative study

Judith L. Perrigo, Anya Samek and Michael Hurlburt

Family-level correlates of disruptive behavior challenges among children in Southwestern Uganda

William Byansi, Phionah Namatovu, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Joshua Kiyingi, Josephine Nabayinda, Abel Mwebembezi, Apollo Kivumbi, Christopher Damulira, Jennifer Nattabi, Flavia Namuwonge, Mary M. McKay, Kimberly Hoagwood and Fred M. Ssewamala

Trajectories of mental health services for youth in foster care with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Orion Mowbray, Kylee Probert, Jamie Jaramillo, Brianne H. Kothari and Bowen McBeath

Psychological capital mediates the influence of meaning in life on prosocial behavior of university students: A longitudinal study

Shuyue Zhang, Ya-Nan Fu, Qun Liu, Ofir Turel and Qinghua He