Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 126, issue C, 2021

Revisiting conventional wisdom: What do we know from 30 years of research on sibling placement in foster care?

Anna DiGiovanni and Sarah A. Font

The long-term effects of perceived parental control and warmth on self-esteem and depressive symptoms among Asian American youth

So-Young Park, Jungup Lee and Charissa S.L. Cheah

Placement stability among children in kinship and non-kinship foster placements across multiple placements

Jennifer Osborne, Lauren A. Hindt, Nathan Lutz, Nicole Hodgkinson and Scott C. Leon

Putting risk into perspective: Lessons for children and youth services from a participatory advocacy project with survivors of sexual violence in Albania, Moldova and Serbia

Silvie Bovarnick and Claire Cody

Impact of a physical education service-learning programme on ASD children: A mixed-methods approach

Oscar Chiva-Bartoll, María Maravé-Vivas, Celina Salvador-García and Teresa Valverde-Esteve

Proximal outcomes of Connecting, an evidence-based, family-focused prevention program for caregivers of adolescents in foster care

Kevin P. Haggerty, Susan E. Barkan, Martie L. Skinner and Koren Hanson

A machine learning approach for identifying predictors of success in a Medicaid-funded, community-based behavioral health program using the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)

Jesse D. Troy, Ryan M. Torrie and Daniel N. Warner

Parenting style and aggression in Chinese undergraduates with left-behind experience: The mediating role of inferiority

Chunyang Zhang, Xiujie Yang and Wei Xu

The mediating role of daytime sleepiness between problematic smartphone use and post-traumatic symptoms in COVID-19 home-refined adolescents

Tao Hu, Ying Wang, Ling Lin and Wanjie Tang

The impact of immigration-related separation and reunification on children’s education: Evidence from the American Community Survey 2010–2018

Kate Cartwright and Lauren Chacon

Types of child maltreatment and child welfare involvement among opioid-using mothers involved in substance use treatment

Angela Moreland, Carla Newman, Kathleen I. Crum and Funlola Are

Program quality components related to youth civic engagement

Jaime Ballard, Lynne Borden and Daniel Francis Perkins

Parenting – It’s a life: Where and how youth learn about establishing paternity, child support, and co-parenting

Bethany H. McCurdy, Carl F. Weems, Heather L. Rouse, Sesong Jeon, Maya Bartel, Janet N. Melby, Kate Goudy and Jo Ann Lee

Perceived needs and barriers related to continuing professional development of child protection social workers in Romania

Georgiana Cristina Rentea, Florin Lazăr, Shari Munch, Daniela Gaba, Anca Mihai and Alexandra Ciocănel

The role of gender attitudes in shaping girls’ participation in formal education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A matched of analysis of girls’ and caregivers’ perspectives

Debbie Landis, Kathryn Falb, Martin Nyanguba and Lindsay Stark

Building up secure relationships: Analysis of adult-child interactions in foster and adoptive families

Nuria Molano, Esperanza León, Maite Román, Jesús M. Jiménez-Morago and Carmen Moreno

Ready and able? Professional awareness and responses to young carers in Switzerland

Marianne Frech, Hannah Wepf, Martin Nagl-Cupal, Saul Becker and Agnes Leu

The incredible years parenting program for foster carers and biological parents of children in foster care: A mixed methods study

Mairead Furlong, Fergal McLoughlin and Sinead McGilloway

The impact of the school feeding programme on the education and health outcomes of South African children

Cyprian M. Mostert

Peer-rejected students: An analysis of their self-regulatory mechanisms

Jakub Hladik and Karla Hrbackova

Factors associated with post-college success for foster care alumni college graduates

Amy M. Salazar and Lisa Schelbe

Mental health and care needs of British children and young people aged 6–17

Jasmine Fledderjohann, Jayne Erlam, Bran Knowles and Karen Broadhurst

Foster youth and at-risk non-foster youth: A propensity score and structural equation modeling analysis

Sue D. Hobbs, Daniel Bederian-Gardner, Christin M. Ogle, Sarah Bakanosky, Rachel Narr and Gail S. Goodman

Promoting assertiveness in youth in foster care: Pilot testing a brief intervention in a randomized trial

Madeline S. Blocker, George H. Noell and Kelly N. Clark

Parental poverty, physical neglect and child welfare intervention: Dilemma and constraints of child welfare workers in Ghana

Alhassan Abdullah, Mary Ayim, Hajara Bentum and Clifton R. Emery

Trauma symptoms as factors associated with early motherhood among young women who had contact with child protective services

Madeleine Prévost-Lemire, Geneviève Paquette and Nadine Lanctôt

Adaption of distance learning to continue the academic year amid COVID-19 lockdown

Atika Qazi, Javaria Qazi, Khulla Naseer, Muhammad Zeeshan, Shiza Qazi, Olusola Abayomi-Alli, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Mohammad Darwich, Bandeh Ali Talpur, Glenn Hardaker, Usman Naseem, Shuiqing Yang and Khalid Haruna

Retention of child welfare caseworkers: The role of case severity and workplace resources

Brianne H. Kothari, Kelly D. Chandler, Andrew Waugh, Kara K. McElvaine, Jamie Jaramillo and Shannon Lipscomb

Clocking in: Employment outcomes for unaccompanied refugee minors leaving foster care in the United States

Robert G. Hasson, Thomas M. Crea, Scott D. Easton, Kerri Evans and Dawnya Underwood

Early impacts of Room to Grow: A multifaceted intervention supporting parents and children age zero to three

Christopher Wimer, Maria Marti, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Jane Waldfogel

Cyber deviance among adolescents in Taiwan: Prevalence and correlates

Ji-Kang Chen, Ching-Wen Chang, Zhiyou Wang, Li-Chih Wang and Hsi-Sheng Wei

Marginal changes, marginal impacts: The limits of changes to WIC and their ability to influence breastfeeding rates

Tim Bersak and Lyudmyla Sonchak

Professional carers’ attachment style and reflective functioning: Links with adolescent behavioral and emotional adaptation in residential care

Katherine Pascuzzo, Chantal Cyr, Marie-Pierre Joly, Mégan Rollin and Laurence Cyr-Desautels

In their voices: Experiences of adolescents during involuntary psychiatric hospitalization

Jessica L. Rice, Tony Xing Tan and Yanzheng Li

The children’s home network kinship navigator program improves family protective factors

Kerry Littlewood, Lawrence Cooper, Anna Yelick and Abhishek Pandey

Examining decision-making tools and child welfare involvement among Black families in Ontario, Canada

Kofi Antwi-Boasiako, Barbara Fallon, Bryn King, Nico Trocmé and John Fluke

State contexts and foster care adoption rates

Marina Haddock Potter and Sarah A. Font

Correlates of Internet addiction in Turkish adolescents

Ayda Karaca, Necip Demirci, Emine Caglar and Hande Konsuk Unlu

Predicting child outcomes in Bhutan: Contributions of parenting support and early childhood education programmes

Stephanie W.Y. Chan, Nirmala Rao, Caroline Cohrssen and Ben Richards

Early trauma and psychosocial outcomes among college students

Alayna R. Colburn, Kristen P. Kremer and Dylan B. Jackson

The Irie Homes Toolbox: A cluster randomized controlled trial of an early childhood parenting program to prevent violence against children in Jamaica

Taja Francis and Helen Baker-Henningham

Substance use and subjective health in Chinese Left-behind adolescents in rural areas: The moderating role of cognitive reappraisal

Daoyang Wang, Haibin Wang and Cuicui Wang

Volume 125, issue C, 2021

Factors associated with first and repeat births among females emancipating from foster care

Svetlana Shpiegel, Tammi Fleming, Lisa Mishraky, Sheila VanWert, Blanca Goetz, Elizabeth M. Aparicio and Bryn King

Psychological stress of university students in the hardest-hit areas at different stages of the COVID-19 epidemic

Yan Zhang, Xiaochen Cao, Aashiq,, Yufei Xie, Qiongyao Zhong, Guanghui Lei, Jingyuan Zhang, Qiang Xiao, Guixiang Wang, Yueran Bian, Simiao Xie and Fei Huang

Impact of MindUP on elementary school students’ classroom behaviors: A single-case design pilot study

Audrey Hang Hai, Cynthia Franklin, Allan Hugh Cole, Lisa S. Panisch, Yueqi Yan and Kristian Jones

The role of risk in child welfare decision-making: A prospective cohort examination of families transferred to ongoing child protection services after an investigation

Bryn King, Tara Black, Barbara Fallon and Yu Lung

Measuring the child’s home learning environment and its associated factors in Malda: A micro-level study in India

Rayhan Sk and Anuradha Banerjee

Comparison of intergenerational transmission of gender roles between single-parent families and two-parent families: The influence of parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes

Mengping Yang, I-Jun Chen, Yunping Song and Xiaoxiao Wang

A review of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): Applications for youth anxiety

Sharon Phillips and Matthew Mychailyszyn

Examining unique substance-related risk profiles for neglectful behaviors among parents with and without clinical depression

Nancy J. Kepple and Amittia Parker

Racial disparities in assignment to alternative response

Mi Jin Choi, Jangmin Kim, Ayla Roper, Catherine A. LaBrenz and Reiko Boyd

The rights of the child in voluntary care in Ireland: A call for reform in law, policy and practice

Rebekah Brennan, Conor O'Mahony and Kenneth Burns

A qualitative study into the reintegration of vulnerable migrant children and families after return to Kosovo: Findings from a follow-up

Daniëlle Zevulun, A. Elianne Zijlstra, Wendy J. Post and Erik J. Knorth

Service coordination for transition-age foster youth with disabilities: A survey of state independent living coordinators

Judy Havlicek and Lucy Bilaver

Covid-19 fallout: Interplay between stressors and support on academic functioning of Malaysian university students

Mohammad Noman, Amrita Kaur and Nida Nafees

A scoping review on psychosocial consequences of pandemics on parents and children: Planning for today and the future

Rusan Lateef, Ramona Alaggia and Delphine Collin-Vézina

Exploring the determinants of discipline and monitoring among non-resident African American fathers

Brianna P. Lemmons, Olajide N. Bamishigbin, Qiana R. Cryer-Coupet, Ericka M. Lewis, Marquitta S. Dorsey and Shawnice Johnson

The latent profile analysis of Chinese adolescents’ depression: Examination and validation

Runting Chen, Yueyi Huang and Meng Yu

“Overlapping and intersecting challenges”: Parent and provider perspectives on youth adversity during community reentry after incarceration

Christopher Bondoc, Jocelyn I. Meza, Andrea Bonilla Ospina, John Bosco, Edward Mei and Elizabeth S. Barnert