Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 124, issue C, 2021

What motivates highly trained child welfare professionals to stay or leave?

Lena Boraggina-Ballard, J. Sobeck and D. Honig

Intervention of adolescent' mental health during the outbreak of COVID-19 using aerobic exercise combined with acceptance and commitment therapy

Wenxin Xu, Wei Shen and Shen Wang

Community perceptions and practices of early childhood development in an urban-poor setting in Nairobi: Uncovering contextual drivers beneath poverty

Margaret Nampijja, Kenneth Okelo, Domnick Okullo, Ruth Muendo, Milka N. Wanjohi, Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage and Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo

Body weight perception and depressive symptoms in Chinese college students

Yueyun Zhang and Baozhong Liu

Mental health need and psychiatric service utilization patterns of refugee children in Turkey: A comparative study

Onur Tuğçe Poyraz Fındık, Veysi Çeri, Hatice Ünver, Neşe Perdahlı Fiş, Ayşe Rodopman Arman, Can Beşer, Eray Fadıloğlu and Dimitris Anagnostopoulos

Patterns of Chinese adolescents’ activity preferences: Predictors and associations with time spent on physical and sedentary activities

Zhuanzhuan Ma, Jinbo He and Tom Lu

Theorizing pathways to resilience among orphaned adolescents in institutional care in India

Rachna Mishra and Vanita Sondhi

The impact of parents anonymous on child safety and permanency

Cynthia Burnson, Sarah Covington, Bertha Arvizo, Jun Qiao and Elizabeth Harris

Effects of early learning environment on early childhood development in rural areas in China

Su Guo, Shanshan Guan and Xiaoqian Yan

Dynamics of child care subsidy use and material hardship

Jaeseung Kim and Julia R. Henly

Parental empowerment as a buffer between parental stress and child behavioral problems after family treatment

Harm Damen, Ron H.J. Scholte, Ad A. Vermulst, Petra van Steensel and Jan W. Veerman

Self-esteem and addictive smartphone use: The mediator role of anxiety and the moderator role of self-control

Qiufeng Gao, En Fu, Yanhui Xiang, Ge Jia and Shiyi Wu

Volume 123, issue C, 2021

Family dispute resolution: Characteristics of cases resolved by trial

Karine Poitras, Rachel Birnbaum, Michael Saini, Nicholas Bala and Francine Cyr

A systematic review of early childhood research on diversity and difference (1968–2019)

Karen Guo

Occupational risk factors in child protection social work: A scoping review

Emma Boonzaaier, Elmien Truter and Ansie Fouché

Longitudinal impact of the Second Step Child Protection Unit on teacher knowledge, attitude, and climate

Amanda Nickerson, Sunha Kim, Melissa Dudley, Jennifer A. Livingston and Margaret Manges

The association between adverse childhood experiences and young adult outcomes: A scoping study

Eonju Park, Jaegoo Lee and Jisu Han

Fidelity and flexibility of care activities in child-centered youth care for children growing up in families experiencing complex and multiple problems

Arjen van Assen, Jana Knot-Dickscheit, Hans Grietens and Wendy Post

The effects of parental involvement in parent–child reading for migrant and urban families: A comparative mixed-methods study

Shiguang Ni, Shuang Lu, Ke Lu and Haoyue Tan

The relationship between exposure to risky online content, cyber victimization, perception of cyberbullying, and cyberbullying offending in Korean adolescents

Sung-Man Bae

An in-depth examination of family child care providers and their engagement with outside systems using a mixed methods case study approach

Alison Hooper and Rena Hallam

Volume 122, issue C, 2021

The evolution and development of the value orientation of juvenile delinquency correction in China

Ling Yang and Qin Zhao

Parenting activities and the transition to home-based education during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shawna J. Lee, Kaitlin P. Ward, Olivia D. Chang and Kasey M. Downing

Agency and the school-to-work transition of care leavers: A retrospective study of Luxembourgish young people

Sabrina Göbel, Andreas Hadjar, Ute Karl and Julia A. Jäger

Analyzing factors for an optimum play environment through children’s subjective well-being indicators

Mari Corominas, Mònica González-Carrasco and Ferran Casas

Engaging youth voices to address racial disproportionality in schools: Exploring the practice and potential of youth participatory research in an urban district

Katie Richards-Schuster, Laura J. Wernick, Maren Henderson, Matthew Bakko, Miguel A. Rodriguez and Eric Moore

Disclosure of HIV/AIDS status to infected children in Ghana – A north-south comparison of barriers and enablers

Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah, Olena Ivanova, Michael Hoelscher, Inge Kroidl and Jonathan Mensah Dapaah

A multilevel approach to ECEC policies and intensity of formal childcare participation of young children in Europe

Özgün Ünver, Tuba Bircan and Ides Nicaise

The moderating role of parental support in the relationship between latent profiles of bullying victimization and sense of school belonging: A cross-national comparison

Yoonsun Han, Hae Rin Kang, Ji Won Choe and Hyein Kim

Positive peer relationships, coping and resilience in young people in alternative care: A systematic review

Sonal Haddow, Emily P. Taylor and Matthias Schwannauer

Adolescent parental attachment and intimate relationship in adulthood: An investigation of contextual factors and long-term outcomes of child sexual abuse

Fei Shen, Kristy Soloski and Yanhong Liu

Does residential care system orphanizes children? Perceived pathways to self-adjustment following institutionalization in Rwanda

Epaphrodite Nsabimana, Eugène Rutembesa, Darius Gishoma, Jeannette Uwineza, Fabienne Fasseur, Maria Herczog and Chantal Martin-Soelch

Implementation evaluation of an early intensive behavioral intervention program across three agencies serving young children with Autism: A mixed methods study

Tatiana Elisa Bustos, Aksheya Sridhar and Amy Drahota

Children’s services for the digital age: A qualitative study into current procedures and online risks among service users

Aiman El-Asam, Adrienne Katz, Cathy Street, Nijina M. Nazar and Maria Livanou

The joint association of family-level inadequate housing and neighbourhood-level antisocial behaviour with child mental health problems

Jinette Comeau, Laura Duncan, Carrie Smith, Tracy Smith-Carrier, Katholiki Georgiades, Li Wang and Michael H. Boyle

Sex preference in India: Trends, patterns and determinants

Papai Barman and Harihar Sahoo

Development and two-phased pilot RCT of a foster/kinship caregiver intervention to improve sexual health communication with youth

Kym R. Ahrens, Wadiya Udell, Katie Albertson, Sarah Lowry, Teah Hoopes and Alexis Coatney

Testing for seasonality in Canadian child welfare investigations

Margot Shields, Lil Tonmyr, Yves Morin, Wendy Hovdestad, Nicole Adams, Tonino Esposito, Laurie Jervis, Scott MacIsaac, Cheuk Pang, Michael Peterson, Diane Thompson, Martin Chabot and Nico Trocmé

Prevalence and predictors of post-traumatic stress symptoms and depressive symptoms among Bangladeshi students during COVID-19 mandatory home confinement: A nationwide cross-sectional survey

Mst. Sadia Sultana, Abid Hasan Khan, Sahadat Hossain, Adnan Ansar, Md Tajuddin Sikder and M. Tasdik Hasan

“It was a joke:” Patterns in girls’ and boys’ self-reported motivations for digital dating abuse behaviors

Lauren A. Reed, Siobhan M. Lawler, Jenny McCullough Cosgrove, Richard M. Tolman and L. Monique Ward

Independent and cumulative impacts of adverse childhood experiences on adolescent subgroups of anxiety and depression

Isak Kim, Angélica Galván and Nayoung Kim

“Why we could not study:” The gendered enrollment barriers of 1.25 generation immigrants

Daysi Ximena Diaz-Strong

Promoting quality in programs for infants and toddlers: Comparing the family child care and center-based teaching workforce

Jeanne L. Reid, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Samantha A. Melvin

Prevalence and socio-demographic, anthropometric, and cognitive correlates of internet gaming disorder among children in China

Xue Yang, Bishan Huang and Kei Man Wong

Stakeholder perspectives on the implementation of shared decision making to empower youth who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation

Samantha Sahl, Maria Isabella Pontoriero, Chloe Hill and Christopher E. Knoepke

Factors that inhibit and promote resilience following childhood maltreatment: A qualitative exploration of practitioner perspectives

Rebecca Dillard, Brieanne Beaujolais, Susan Yoon, Xiafei Wang, Karla Shockley McCarthy and Fei Pei

The relationship of needs assessed at entry into out-of-home care to children and youth’s later emotional and behavioral problems in care

Theodore P. Cross, Steve P. Tran, Eliza Betteridge, Robert Hjertquist, Tawny Spinelli, Jennifer Prior and Neil Jordan

Small becomes big, fast: Adolescent perceptions of how social media features escalate online conflict to offline violence

Caitlin Elsaesser, Desmond Upton Patton, Emily Weinstein, Jacquelyn Santiago, Ayesha Clarke and Rob Eschmann

What does research tell us about young people’s participation in decision making in residential care? A systematic scoping review

Lynne McPherson, Meaghan Vosz, Kathomi Gatwiri, Natalie Parmenter, Noel Macnamara, Janise Mitchell and Joe Tucci

Stakeholders’ perspectives on girls’ early marriage in Maneh and Samalqan, Iran

Zahra Mirzaee, Masoomeh Maarefvand, Mir Taher Mousavi, Nilufar Pourzand, Samaneh Hossienzadeh and Jagdish Khubchandani

Child placement after parental incarceration: The roles of parents’ race and sex

Kaelie Crockett and Ashley Larsen Gibby

Personal and professional impacts of work-related stress alleviation strategies among child welfare workers in child advocacy center settings

Oliver W.J. Beer, Rebecca Phillips, Megan M. Letson and Kathryn G. Wolf

Risk factors identified in prenatal child protection reports

Jenna Meiksans, Fiona Arney, Rosemaria Flaherty, Olivia Octoman, Alwin Chong, Fiona Ward and Cathy Taylor

The additive and interactive effects of parental harsh discipline and boys’ gender-related traits on boys’ externalizing problem behaviors

Yuzhu Wang, Cong Fu and Meifang Wang

The impact of drought on the health and livelihoods of women and children in India: A systematic review

Kisan Dilip Algur, Surendra Kumar Patel and Shekhar Chauhan

Associations between symptoms of common mental disorders, parental satisfaction and consideration for adoption breakdown in Brazilian adoptive parents

Maíra Lopes Almeida, Monique Souza Schwochow and Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

A case study on academic and vocational training for child offenders undergoing a multisystemic therapy-based rehabilitation order in Malaysia

Siti Balqis Mohd Azam, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar, Jal Zabdi Mohd Yusoff and Siti Hajar Abdul Rauf

Immediate psychological responses during the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic among Bangladeshi medical students

Farhana Safa, Afifa Anjum, Sahadat Hossain, Tonima Islam Trisa, Syeda Fatema Alam, Md. Abdur Rafi, Vivek Podder, Kamrun Nahar Koly, Dewan Tasnia Azad, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Rhedeya Nury Nodi, Fatema Ashraf, S.M. Quamrul Akhter, Helal Uddin Ahmed and M. Tasdik Hasan

When doing the right thing feels wrong: Moral distress among child welfare caseworkers

Amy S. He, Erica L. Lizano and Mary Jo Stahlschmidt

Child care institutions in India: Investigating issues and challenges in children’s rehabilitation and social integration

Evergreat Wanglar

Resilience of vocational students with disadvantaged characteristics in China: The role of mindfulness

Yafan Chen, Xiaoxia Xie and Chien-Chung Huang

Burden of anaemia among children aged 6–59 months and its associated risk factors in India – Are there gender differences?

Kamalesh Kumar Patel, Jyoti Vijay, Abha Mangal, Daya Krishan Mangal and Shiv Dutt Gupta

A multi-tiered systems of support blueprint for re-opening schools following COVID-19 shutdown

Christopher A. Kearney and Joshua Childs

Contraception use and fertility aspiration among currently married young men in India: Do gender attitudes matter?

Bal Govind Chauhan and Jang Bahadur Prasad

Prevalence, age of initiation, and patterns of co-occurrence of digital dating abuse behaviors nationwide

Alice M. Ellyson, Avanti Adhia, Vivian H. Lyons and Frederick P. Rivara

Linkages between consanguineous marriages and childhood stunting: Evidence from a cross-sectional study in India

Deepanjali Vishwakarma, Santosh Kumar Sharma and Parul Puri

N’KaNa-my dream: Community action towards the holistic child development in India

Siva Mathiyazhagan and Ziming Wang

A national study of child maltreatment reporting at the county level: Interactions among race/ethnicity, rurality and poverty

Brenda D. Smith, Qingyi Li, Kun Wang and Angela M. Smith

The effects of an innovative caregiver education program on knowledge of child development in China

Bin Tu, Yafan Chen, Shannon Cheung, Can Huang and Chien-Chung Huang

Examining the tensions between cultural models of care in family childcare and quality rating improvement systems

Sarah M. Garrity, Sascha L. Longstreth, Vanja Lazarevic and Felicia Black

A post-reunification service model: Implementation and population served

Berenice Rushovich, Kristin Sepulveda, Victoria Efetevbia and Karin Malm