Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 167, issue C, 2024

Effective components of services for recurrent care experienced parents: A literature review of what works

Vanessa Baxter, Susan McPherson and Pamela Cox

The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide in the context of (leaving) care: An empirical exploration of suicidal ideation among care-experienced young adults

Petra Göbbels-Koch

Peer and online victimization among Chinese adolescents: Unique direct and indirect relationships with psychological distress

Ning Ding and Chunkai Li

Women and men physically abused by closely related perpetrators over a lifespan. Revictimization and associations to situational factors in childhood

Rickard Pettersson, Mattias Strandh and Steven Lucas

Continuity and change in early material hardship domains on the development of children’s behavioral self-regulation in middle childhood

Qingyang Liu, Gabriel J. Merrin, Sara A. Vasilenko and Rachel A. Razza

Protective factors for externalising behaviour problems in children and adolescents living in out-of-home care: A systematic review

Elise Dalmaso, Amanda Taylor, Justine Whitham, Kimberly Klassman and Catia Malvaso

Experiences in the relationship between foster children and foster parents in specialized foster care—Thematic analysis conducted on five minute speech sample-data

Anna-Karin E. Åkerman, Rolf Holmqvist, Fredrik Falkenström, Kajsa Mansfeldt, Olle Östergren and Ann-Charlotte Münger

Double loss in the Chinese families of parental depression: A qualitative study

Alan Tsz Lun Tam and Mei Chun Cheung

Contact person intervention in Nordic countries: A comparative integrative review

Tiina Lehto-Lundén, Lotta Jägervi, Anu-Riina Svenlin, Kerstin Svensson and Johanna Moilanen

Exploring the effects of a 12-Week functional training program on fundamental motor skills for primary school children aged 6–7

Dong Zhang, Soh Kim Geok, Yoke Mun Chan, Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, Soh Kim Lam and Shanshan He

The mediated effect of youth council participation on the professional identity development of youth workers

Hyungjoo Yoon

Adolescents’ posttraumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic: The links between differentiation of self, parents’ posttraumatic growth, and adolescents’ gender

L. Hamama, M. Finklestein and Y. Hamama-Raz

‘Great times with board games’. Promoting the right to play for adolescents in residential care

Coral Gallardo-Masa, Rosa Sitjes-Figueras, Edgar Iglesias and Carme Montserrat

The relationship between adolescents' social development level and social anxiety: the multiple mediating roles of sense of self, authentic pride, and hubristic pride

Xuanxuan Lin, Rong Tan, Jianwen Chen and Rongzhao Wang

Volume 166, issue C, 2024

Confronting gender and sex binaries in transgender healthcare for adolescents: A parent’s autoethnographic account

Helen Gremillion

Australian parents of gender and sexuality diverse children: Labouring through the schooling experience

Tania Ferfolja and Jacqueline Ullman

Does gender moderate the relationship between protective factors and rule violating behavior?

Abigail Williams-Butler, Elizabeth Taylor, Sherry Hamby and Victoria Banyard

An examination of the ohio scales, short form, hopefulness domain, youth- and caregiver-report versions in a community care setting

Andrea C. Ng and Brad J. Nakamura

Childhood trauma, emotion regulation, peer attachment, and family functioning: A longitudinal network analysis

Lin Zhang, Yixiao Xu, Carter J. Funkhouser, Alessio Maria Monteleone and Xianglian Yu

The role of fathers’ and mothers’ acceptance in adaptive emotion regulation in Chinese preadolescents: Distinguishing between- and within-person effects

Linhui Huang, Yuanyuan Chen, Jianjun Zhu and Wei Zhang

Legal protections for sexual and gender minority youth in foster care: A review of Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (Normalcy Standards)

Amanda Cruce

Instruments evaluating child outcomes used in evidence-based family support programs: A scoping review

Ana Uka, Elisabeth Stefanek, Daiva Skučienė, Carmen Schneckenreiter and Georg Spiel

Associations of threat and deprivation-related childhood exposures with children’s mental health and flourishing: The moderating role of family resilience

Helal Uddin, Azharul Islam, Lutfun Nahar Lata, Shamsun Nahar, M. Zakir Hossin and Jalal Uddin

Therapeutic interventions with women and children in domestic violence shelters: A systematic scoping review

Ann MacRae, Margaret Kertesz and Tami Gavron

Tailoring of the career adaptabilities scale for Indonesian youth

Siti Aminah, Nur Hidayah, Fattah Hanurawan and Henny Indreswari

Early childhood education and early childhood special education teachers’ perceived stress, burnout, and depressive symptoms

Hyun-Joo Jeon, Kyong-Ah Kwon, Christina McCartney and Lindsay Diamond

Making sense of adoption disruption: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experiences of adoptive parents

Olivia Parker, Juliane A. Kloess, Sarah Saveker and Gary Urquhart Law

“I married because …”: Motivations to marry early among female spouses in child marriages in northern Ghana

Elizabeth Anokyewaa Sarfo, Joana Salifu Yendork and Anthony Vernon Naidoo

Antisocial behaviors at school: Analysis of normative and at-risk groups

A. Villafuerte-Díaz, M. Abate, C. Moreno and P. Ramos

On the edge of the image: Guiding the lenses to the individual service plan

Ueliton Peres de Oliveira, Rubia Fernanda Quinelatto and Willian Lazaretti da Conceição

Facilitators, barriers, and enablers of social workers’ utilization of an evidence-based parenting program: An exploratory mixed-method study

Tianyi Ma, Cassandra L. Tellegen and Matthew R. Sanders

A longitudinal study on the predictors of early grades learning attainments in low-and-middle-income countries: Evidence from Tanzania

Laurent Gabriel Ndijuye, Ma. Lovena Moneva and Ntide Dadi

The silent shadow in primary school: The invisible face of bullying

Savaş Varlık

Parent-to-Parent support perception and Parent-Child relationship in parents of children with special Needs: The mediating role of quality of life

Halime Miray Sümer Dodur and Büşra Çalişkan

Sex education in adolescence: A systematic review of programmes and meta-analysis

Sonia Barriuso-Ortega, María Fernández-Hawrylak and Davinia Heras-Sevilla

Responding to suicidal behaviour in children and young people with a child maltreatment history: A scoping review

Corinne Pollock, Brin F.S. Grenyer and Michelle L. Townsend

The cost-effectiveness and cost-consequences of a school-based social worker intervention: A within-trial economic evaluation

Elizabeth-Ann Schroeder, David Westlake, Shahd Daher, Linda Adara, Sharon Ayayo, Verity Bennett, Sungwook Kim, Fiona Lugg-Widger, Melissa Meindl, Lena Meister, Kim Munnery, Philip Pallmann, Louisa Roberts, Sarah Rawlinson, James White and Stavros Petrou

Effectiveness of mental-health interventions for children and adolescents placed in residential care by the welfare services: A systematic review

Rita Ramos Miguel, Laura Santos, Maria do Céu Salvador, Luiza Nobre Lima and Daniel Rijo

Using natural language processing approaches to characterize professional experiences of child welfare workers

Karikarn Chansiri, Xinyu Wei and Ka Ho Brian Chor

Positive impacts on child development of a home visiting program in Santiago del Estero, Argentina (2022–2023)

Ianina Tuñón, Fernando Longhi, Nicolás García Balus, Carolina Martínez, Valentina Passone and Agustín Salvia

Machine learning and public policy: Early detection of physical violence against children

María Edo, Victoria Oubiña and Marcela Svarc

Interventions for left-behind children in Mainland China: A scoping review

Jia Zhuang and Qiaobing Wu

Physical maltreatment, insecure attachment, and online gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents: A multi-group analysis of single and non-single child family

Yuhang Cheng and Shan Jiang

The cross-lagged relationship between adolescent school bullying and loneliness——The predictive role of childhood emotional maltreatment

Yanlin Chen, Ruibo Xie, Xinyu Wang, Rui Zhang, Weijian Li and Wan Ding

“Who is going to help us?”: A qualitative study on young care leaver’s experiences in Iran

Ayoub Eslamian, Rojan Afrouz and Amir Moghanibashi-Mansourieh

The efficacy of the Peace Ambassador Project: Promoting children’s emotional intelligence to address aggression in the early childhood classroom

Mun Wong and Thomas G. Power

Implementing universal maternal depression screening in Head Start: A convergent mixed methods study

Abigail Palmer Molina, Lawrence Palinkas, Yuliana Hernandez, Iliana Garcia, Scott Stuart, Todd Sosna and Ferol E. Mennen

“Suffering in silence”: How social workers in child welfare practice experience and manage burnout

Sulemana Fuseini

Community stakeholder feedback for development of a volunteer-coached behavioral activation for youth in a low-resource community

Namkee G. Choi, Mark Longley, Karen Smith, Leslie Goldstein, Annabelle Corum, Robina Poonawala and Karen Fingerman

Enhancing agency and empowering young people: The transformative impact of social and emotional learning programmes

Claire Paterson-Young, Ecem Karlıdağ-Dennis, Emma Egging and Richard Hazenberg

Mediation of expressive suppression and emotional well-being in the relationship between loneliness and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents

Xiaoli Du, Cody Ding, Guangcan Xiang, Huicun Duan, Jiayu Chen and Hong Chen

Youth leadership development in the 4-H Foods and Nutrition program

Allison G. Drabek, Xin Li, Barbara Bolick, Darlene H. Locke, Julie G. Gardner, Gary E. Briers and Jun Wang

Self-determination for students with disabilities during challenging times

Karrie A. Shogren, Haiying Long, Tyler A. Hicks and Helena R. Ferreira

Transactional models of depression via caregiver-child interactions: Evaluating conflict resolution as a source of resilience in adversity-exposed families

Jennifer A. Somers, Francesca R. Querdasi, Kristen A. Chu, Naomi Gancz, Emily Towner and Bridget L. Callaghan

Existing and desired child and family services from Afghan women’s point of view in Finland

Laleh Golamrej Eliasi, Hadi Farahani, Merja Anis and Anniina Kaittila

Impact of trauma and placement in residential or congregate care on the criminalisation of children in England/Wales and Australia

Claire Paterson-Young, Tatiana Corrales, Ian Warren and Patricia McNamara

Behavioral development in the Shadow of child Neglect: The roles of resilience and peer rejection

Xinwen Zhang and Steven Sek-yum Ngai

Gender differences in Chinese Adolescents’ school refusal: A network analysis to test the contribution of individual, family, and school factors

Haidong Liu, Yang Yang, Yunyun Zhang, Qi Gao, Libin Zhang, Wenyu Liang and Yukai Zhou

The role of the family’s ethnicity and correlates in social workers’ risk perceptions: Evidence from a vignette study in Hungary

Marianna Kopasz, Tamás Bartus and Ildiko Husz

Academic achievement among youth in foster care

Sheri Jenkins Keenan and Sam Choi

Do the effects of head start vary across time based on children’s exposure to different patterns of childhood adversity? Differential intervention effects using latent profile analysis and time-varying effect modeling

Daniel K. Cooper, Benjamin L. Bayly, Isabella Mallozzi, Fatima Jatoi and Jayxa K. Alonzo

“Longing to be cared about and cared for” Exploring Experiences of Trauma Therapy and Views on Future Trauma Therapy (Including Digital) for Young People in Rural Northern Sweden

Linda Wallin, Ulrika Lundqvist, Carl-Göran Svedin and Inga Dennhag

Maternal childhood polyvictimization and neglect of their children: Evidence among Salar Muslim women

Xiaoyuan Han, Clifton R. Emery and Weiyi Xie

Early childhood education contingencies for sustaining learning during school closures: Lessons from preschool remote education home visits in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Maila D.H. Rahiem

Preschool quality and developmental outcomes of preschool children in rural China: Evidence from longitudinal and subgroup analyses

Lei Wang, Dingjing Jiang, Jiao Pang, Conghong Yang, Siqi Zhang and Scott Rozelle

Preservice training perspectives among Florida foster parents

Morgan E. Cooley, Heather M. Thompson, Martie Gillen, Marianna Colvin and Robin Jimenez-Bean

Typologies of stably housed youth who experienced independent homelessness

Andrea Krieg and Carrie Coward Bucher

Understanding factors that impact the acquisition of Independent Living Skills among young people transitioning from Out-of-Home Care

Michael Starr, Reinie Cordier, Eduwin Pakpahan, Donna Chung and Lauren Parsons

Parents’ experiences of perinatal child protection processes: A systematic review and thematic synthesis informed by a socio-ecological approach

Samantha Burrow, Lisa Wood, Colleen Fisher, Renée Usher, Renna Gayde and O’Donnell, Melissa

Teachers as first responders in marginalized, urban communities: Stress and coping during unprecedented times for public education

Kristina Conroy, Averill Obee, Elena M. Schiavone, Anya E. Urcuyo, Elizabeth Cramer, Jonathan S. Comer and Stacy L. Frazier

Foster care adoption recruitment methods: A review of the literature amid calls for reform in the United States

Amy Cressman

A randomized trial of trauma-informed training content: Effects on preschool teachers’ trauma-informed attitudes, stress, and coping

Alysse M. Loomis and Devon Musson Rose

Doing with or doing to? A realist case study of factors affecting the implementation of guidance on child sexual exploitation in Wales

Juan Usubillaga, Sammi Fitz-Symonds, Donald Forrester, Louisa Roberts, Clive Diaz and Lilly Evans

Parental attachment and mental health in Chinese early adolescents: The mediation role of narcissism

Yingmin Chen, Kang Liu, Yue Zhu, Xiaoqian Fang, Yatong Ding and Wenjun Jiang

A model of community youth mental health support services in the global South: A description and use of school-based services delivered by a non-governmental organisation in South Africa

Suzanne Human, Maria E. Loades, Hermine Gericke, Gerrit Laning, Meriel Bartlett and Bronwynè J. Coetzee

Child-Directed Healing Play and student–teacher relationships. Evaluating a promising practice among primary-aged children in Zimbabwe

Pamhidzayi Berejena Mhongera

Children’s problems [لكشام]: A mixed-methods study on physical violence experienced by children living in the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria

Marieke J. Hopman and Jill Lobbestael

Policy and practice innovations in school-based mental health services

Stacey L. Bevan and Caroline C. DeWitt

Co-designing place-based co-located health and wellbeing infrastructure and services with high school students, educators, and health service providers

Jenna Gillett-Swan, Jeremy Kerr, Abbe Winter and Nicola Callard

Do early school- and family-related factors predict midlife psychological well-being? Findings from A prospective Black childhood cohort study

Mirinda M. Morency and Arthur J. Reynolds

Children’s experiences of Signs of Safety: A scoping review

Louise Caffrey, Eavan Brady, Orla Keegan, Siobhán Dunne, Greg Sheaf, Stephanie Holt and Robbie Gilligan

Exploring parenting behaviors, stress, and closeness among foster parents

Jenna Asbury, Jacquelyn K. Mallette and Natalia Sira

Linking early emotional abuse/neglect with young adolescents’ social (versus general) anxiety symptoms: A developmental cascade through emotion regulation

Shaofan Wang, Hongjian Cao, Nan Zhou and Qinglu Wu

Structural relationship among aggression, depression, smartphone dependency, and cyberbullying perpetration

Jiyoon Ban and Donghwa Kim

Parental mediation and mobile phone dependency among Chinese migrant children: A moderated mediation model of self-control and parent-child communication

Dan Huang, Wei Yin and Yingting Luo

The spillover of violence: The gendered relationship between parental physical violence and peers’ bullying victimization

Hayun Jang, Hyewon Son, S V Subramanian and Jinho Kim

“People talk about FASD diagnosis but barely any young people are asked about it”: Diagnosis perspectives and disability identity in adolescents with FASD

Miranda Eodanable, Sinead Rhodes and Katie Cebula

Editorial: LGBTIQ+ children in vulnerable contexts: Needs, experiences and resistances

Jose Antonio Langarita, Lucas Platero, Mafalda Esteves and Miguel Ángel López-Sáez

More time or more money? A longitudinal examination of parental involvement in shaping academic success of China’s left-behind children from 2010 to 2020

Wangqiong Ye, Yuechan Ye and Mingcan Wu

Longitudinal bidirectional relationships between deviant peer affiliation/core self-evaluation and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents

Rui Zhang, Ruibo Xie, Wan Ding, Shengcheng Song, Qingfeng Yang and Xiuyun Lin

Children with disabilities: Left behind or forgotten? Empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty measures

Khaufelo Raymond Lekobane and Thabile Anita Samboma

The reciprocal relations between perceived attachment to parents and Self-Concept clarity in adolescence

Jing Wang, Mingjia Liu, Zongkui Zhou and Qingqing Li

Living arrangements and mental health of children and adolescents with vision impairments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China

Paicheng Liu, Xiaoxuan Zheng, Jianxin Cheng, Yaqi Zhang and Yuxuan Yang

Integrated health and social care for pregnant women and young families in a vulnerable situation in the Netherlands: Professionals’ views on cross-sectoral collaboration

Nicole Smeets-Curvers, Mandy Stijnen, Polina Putrik and Maria Jansen

The social and emotional wellbeing of children in out-of-home care: A scoping review exploring structural and social factors

Karen Healy, Laura Simpson Reeves, Madonna Boman, Iryna Kolesnikova, Jenny Povey, Jemma Venables, Janeen Baxter and Kate Thompson

Examining deportation and detention-related separation and youth risk and protective factors and well-being

Lauren E. McPherson, Maura Shramko, Jia-Shyuan K. Su, Dora Palma and Maria Veronica Svetaz

What is the point of being able to enter a building if the service or activity is not adapted?”: Leisure opportunities for people with severe disabilities

Marta Mira-Aladrén, Javier Martín-Peña and Marta Gil Lacruz

Latent class analysis of adverse outcomes for youth transitioning out of foster care and early risk factors

Nelís Soto-Ramírez, Amber Baughman, Taylor Giles and Sultan Alsallum

The role of parenting in autonomy and executive function development among young children experiencing homelessness

Rebecca Distefano, Kayla M. Nelson, Alyssa R. Palmer, Ann S. Masten and Stephanie M. Carlson

Caregiver-child agreement in posttraumatic symptoms and outcomes in the child and family traumatic stress intervention

Carla S. Stover, Hilary Hahn, Kaitlin R. Maciejewski, Carrie Epstein and Steven Marans

The sustainability of a community-based learning collaborative to improve the use of trauma-informed evidence-based practices

Elizabeth Casline, Zabin Patel-Syed, Teresa Toranzo, Vanessa Ramirez and Amanda Jensen-Doss

Vocational rehabilitation services and career readiness for individuals with intellectual disability in Saudi Arabia

Hussain A. Almalky and Arwa M. Alwadei

Knowledge of and access to contraceptive information and services among teenagers with child welfare involvement: A descriptive study across the transition to high school

Katie Massey Combs, Sarah J. Racz and Heather Taussig

School absenteeism for children exposed to maternal incarceration and other adversities

Megan F. Bell, Matthew J. Spittal, Leonie Segal, Susan Dennison, Stuart A. Kinner, Sharon Dawe and David B. Preen

Understanding young caring in the UK pre- and post-COVID-19: Prevalence, correlates, and insights from three UK longitudinal surveys

Alejandra Letelier, Anne McMunn, Andy McGowan, Beth Neale and Rebecca Lacey