Children and Youth Services Review

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Volume 109, issue C, 2020

Family-level factors to reintegrate street-involved children in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Michael L. Goodman, Derrick C. Gibson, Larissa Baker and Sarah E. Seidel

Familial risk and protective factors affecting CPS professionals’ child removal decision: A decision tree analysis study

Luca Milani, Serena Grumi, Elena Camisasca, Sarah Miragoli, Daniela Traficante and Paola Di Blasio

Preschool teachers’ transition practices and parents’ perceptions as predictors of involvement and children’s school readiness

Jaime Puccioni, John Mark Froiland and Mariola Moeyaert

Unaccompanied minors and court mandated institutional care: A national registry-based study in Sweden

Mojgan Padyab, Malin Eriksson, Mehdi Ghazinour and Lena Lundgren

Involving child and youth advisors in academic research about child participation: The Child and Youth Advisory Committees of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership

Tara M. Collins, Lucy Jamieson, Laura H.V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Amanda Mayhew, Javita Narang, E. Kay M. Tisdall and Mónica Ruiz-Casares

Effects of South Korea’s educational welfare priority project on elementary- and middle-school students’ changes in self-esteem and adaptation to school life

Chong Min Kim and Jeon-Yi Lee

Journey to hope, self-expression and community engagement: Youth-led arts-based participatory action research

Laura Lee, Vanessa Currie, Neveen Saied and Laura Wright

Paper based vs. electronic records for clinical audit: Evidence of documentation of medication safety monitoring in youth prescribed antipsychotics

Nisreen Aouira, Sohil Khan, Brett McDermott, Helen Heussler, Alison Haywood, Abdullah Karaksha and William Bor

An investigation of predictors of attendance for fathers in behavioral parent training programs for children with ADHD

Andrea C. Nicolia, Gregory A. Fabiano and Chanelle T. Gordon

Mental and reproductive health in multisystem youth: An in-depth qualitative approach

Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo and Ivette Noriega

Psychometric testing of the Chinese version of ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tools Parent’s version (ICAST-P)

Chen Chen, Xi Wang, Jinliang Qin and Zixuan Huang

How everyone’s business can become no one’s business: A systems study of interprofessional referral to child contact centres

Louise Caffrey

Different trajectories of citizenship across latent classes of adolescent online risk behavior

Shinah Kim and Yoonsun Han

Urban Latinx parents’ attitudes towards mental health: Mental health literacy and service use

Louise E. Dixon De Silva, Carolyn Ponting, Giovanni Ramos, Maria V. Cornejo Guevara and Denise A. Chavira

Building a mental health literacy model and verbal scale for children: Results of a Delphi study

Justine Bale, Christine Grové and Shane Costello

Old age from children's perspective

Selvinaz Sacan, Derya Adibelli and Rahsan Cevik Akyil

Improving relationship quality in group care settings: The impact of implementing the CARE model

Charles V. Izzo, Elliott G. Smith, Deborah E. Sellers, Martha J. Holden and Michael A. Nunno

Adverse childhood experiences among foster parents: Prevalence and association with resilience, coping, satisfaction as a foster parent, and intent to continue fostering

Morgan E. Cooley, Bethany Womack, Jacqueline Rush and Kristie Slinskey

A randomized evaluation of 15 versus 25 weeks of individual tutoring for children in care

Andrea J. Hickey and Robert J. Flynn

Differences between adolescents who do and do not successfully complete their program within a non-residential alternative education facility

S. Pronk, E.A. Mulder, G. van den Berg, G.J.J.M. Stams, A. Popma and C. Kuiper

Provision of specialized services for children exposed to domestic violence: Barriers encountered in Violence Against Women (VAW) services

Katherine Reif, Peter Jaffe, Myrna Dawson and Anna-Lee Straatman

Impact of the United States federal child tax credit on childhood injuries and behavior problems

Whitney L. Rostad, Joanne Klevens, Katie A. Ports and Derek C. Ford

The need for preparing youth ageing out of foster care for independent living in South Africa

Mariska Shaw, Marie Steyn and Elzahne Simeon

Exploring the families of origin of LGBTQ former foster youth and their trajectories throughout care

Sarah Mountz and Moshoula Capous-Desyllas

Mediating effect of sleep satisfaction on the relationship between stress and self-rated health among Korean adolescents: A nationwide cross-sectional study

Jaeyoung Lee

Children’s wellbeing in a high-stakes testing environment: The case of Hong Kong

Esther Yin-Nei Cho and T.M.S. Chan

Parent-child contact during parent’s incarceration: A study of children of incarcerated parents in southern Ghana

Afua Amankwaa

Modeling the nonlinear relationship between structure and process quality features in Chinese preschool classrooms

Shuang Wang, Bi Ying Hu and Jeniffer LoCasale-Crouch

Employment outcomes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A literature review

Hussain A. Almalky

Buffering the effects of childhood trauma within the school setting: A systematic review of trauma-informed and trauma-responsive interventions among trauma-affected youth

Kaitlin Fondren, Monica Lawson, Ruth Speidel, Christina G. McDonnell and Kristin Valentino

Unaccompanied children in Flemish family foster care. Prevalence and associated factors of placement breakdown

Frank Van Holen, Cindy Blijkers, Lenny Trogh, Delphine West and Johan Vanderfaeillie

Prevalence of homelessness and co-occurring problems: A comparison of young adults in Victoria, Australia and Washington State, United States

Jessica A. Heerde, Jennifer A. Bailey, John W. Toumbourou, Bosco Rowland and Richard F. Catalano

The development of a risk and needs assessment instrument for truancy

Claudia E. van der Put

Academic performance and delinquent and aggressive behaviors among children with substance using mothers

Jing Zhang and Natasha Slesnick

How do adolescents experience sexting in dating relationships? Motivations to sext and responses to sexting requests from dating partners

Lauren A. Reed, Margaret P. Boyer, Haley Meskunas, Richard M. Tolman and L. Monique Ward

Negative life events, depression, and mobile phone dependency among left-behind adolescents in rural China: An interpersonal perspective

Rui Zhen, Lu Li, Xuanwen Liu and Xiao Zhou

Assessing self-control and strain of delinquent peer association trajectories within developmental perspectives: A latent class growth analysis approach

Sujung Cho and Yung Hyeock Lee

“Life is like this, not as good as poetry”: The lived experience of a Chinese rural vocational school student in a mandatory quasi-employment internship

Liqi Hou, Chao Wang, Xiaoxi Bai and Xinfeng Tang

Parent–grandparent coparenting relationship, marital conflict and parent–child relationship in Chinese parent–grandparent coparenting families

Xiaowei Li and Qianqian Liu

Birth children of foster carers: How do they experience the foster care placement

Laura Gypen, Delphine West, Frank Van Holen and Johan Vanderfaeillie

Building secure attachment bonds with at-risk, insecure late adolescents and emerging adults: Young people’s perceptions of their care workers’ caregiving behaviors

Mael Virat and Caroline Dubreil

The relationship between parent-child triangulation and early adolescent depression in Hong Kong: The mediating roles of self-acceptance, positive relations and personal growth

Sylvia Y.C.L. Kwok, Minmin Gu, Pasyn Synchaisuksawat and Wikki W.K. Wong

Parent mentoring relationships as a vehicle for reducing racial disparities: Experiences of child welfare-involved parents, mentors and professionals

Ruth Soffer-Elnekave, Wendy Haight and Bailey Jader

Potential conflict between the rights of the child and parental expectations in traditional child-rearing patterns: Resolving the tension

Obed Adonteng-Kissi

Factors that predict child welfare caseworker referrals to an evidence-based parenting program

Christina Myers, Antonio Garcia, Rinad Beidas and Zixiaojie Yang

“We are consultants, not collaborators”: Young people’s experiences with child protection meetings in Ghana

Ebenezer Cudjoe, Lars Uggerhøj and Alhassan Abdullah

The relationship between increases in low-income mothers’ education and children’s early outcomes: Variation by developmental stage and domain

Owen N. Schochet, Anna D. Johnson and Rebecca M. Ryan

School adjustment of internationally adopted children in primary school: A mother and teacher approach

Monica Dalen, Steinar Theie and Anne-Lise Rygvold

Who will go back home? Factors associated with decisions to address family reunification from residential care

Eduardo Martín, Patricia González-Navasa and Moisés Betancort

Perceived school climate and adolescents’ bullying perpetration: A moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and peers’ defending

Jiping Yang, Xingchao Wang and Li Lei

Veering off track in U.S. high schools? Redirecting student trajectories by disrupting punishment and math course-taking tracks

Jason Jabbari and Odis Johnson

Being bullied, psychological pain and suicidal ideation among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model

Jiamin Bao, Huanhuan Li, Wei Song and Songyuan Jiang

Child, family and system variables associated to breakdowns in family foster care

Carme Montserrat, Joan Llosada-Gistau and Nuria Fuentes-Peláez

The evolution and involution of service provision: Interactional understanding of the welfare of urban youth with disabilities in China

Miao Yu, Cai Yun Qi and Siu-ming To

Patterns of criminal activity among residential care-leavers in South Africa

Adrian D. van Breda

“Lie in the grass, the soft grass”: Relaxation accounts of young children attending childcare

Emma Cooke, Karen Thorpe, Andrew Clarke, Sandy Houen, Candice Oakes and Sally Staton

Childhood adversity classes of incarcerated men and their association with prison-based psychological distress and substance use

Nancy Wolff, Francisco Caravaca Sánchez and Eva Aizpurua

Bullying victimization at school and subjective well-being in early and late Peruvian adolescents in residential care: The contribution of satisfaction with microsystem domains

Xavier Oriol, Rafael Miranda and Jesus Unanue

Barriers to adoption and foster care and openness to child characteristics among transgender adults

Abbie E. Goldberg, Samantha Tornello, Rachel Farr, JuliAnna Z. Smith and Liam Miranda

Testing the effect of perceived social support on left-behind children’s mental well-being in mainland China: The mediation role of resilience

Xiaoyan Fan and Mengjia Lu

How the structure of egocentric Facebook networks is associated with exposure to risky content for maltreated versus comparison youth

Sonya Negriff

Cyberbullying: Roles of school psychologists and school counselors in addressing a pervasive social justice issue

Salman Elbedour, Salihah Alqahtani, Ibrahim El Sheikh Rihan, Joseph A. Bawalsah, Beverly Booker-Ammah and J. Fidel Turner

Access and utilization of financial services among poor HIV-impacted children and families in Uganda

Sicong Sun, Proscovia Nabunya, William Byansi, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Christopher Damulira, Torsten B. Neilands, Shenyang Guo, Flavia Namuwonge and Fred M. Ssewamala

Early intervention for children with intellectual and developmental disability using drama therapy techniques

Jiaojiao Wu, Keqin Chen, Ying Ma and Jana Vomočilová