Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 162, issue C, 2024

Developing and evaluating the validity and reliability of the Iranian preschool food frequency questionnaire (IP-FFQ)

Fatemeh Khorramrouz, Maryam Khosravi, Kazem Eslami and Majid Khadem-Rezaiyan

Breaking taboos in sex education to promote self-protective knowledge and skills in children: A human-centered, stakeholder co-design approach for developing a cross-cultural sensitive board game

M. Kazem Najafi, Zahra Alizadeh, Mahnaz Dehghani, Philipp Herzog and Parisa Azimisefat

Sharing care and sharing costs? Child support and child-related expense-sharing post-separation in Finland and Wisconsin, US

Mari Haapanen, Quentin H. Riser, Judith Bartfeld, Lawrence M. Berger, Mia Hakovirta, Daniel R. Meyer and Anneli Miettinen

Enhancing engagement in parenting programs: A comparative study of in-person, online, and telehealth formats

Qiyue Cai, Gretchen Buchanan, Tori Simenec, Sun-Kyung Lee, Sydni A.J. Basha and Abigail H. Gewirtz

Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare utilization among children in U.S. foster care: Recommendations to challenge the status quo based on a scoping review

Angelise Radney, Joyce Y. Lee, Amy Xu, Hannah R. Steinke, Cecilia Mengo and Michelle Johnson-Motoyama

Poverty and children entering care in England: A qualitative study of local authority policymakers’ perspectives of challenges in Children’s Services

Davara L. Bennett, Sophie Wickham, Ben Barr and David Taylor-Robinson

Attentive to learning? Supporting social workers’ monitoring of learning skills in children placed in foster care

Charlotte Bredahl Jacobsen, Cecilie Koustrup and Nina Madsen Sjö

Factors in use of mental health services for bullied children: An application of the behavioral model of health services utilization

Tyrone C. Cheng and Celia C. Lo

Resilience in residential care: A qualitative study based on the voices of adolescents

Micaela Pinheiro, Eunice Magalhães and Joana Baptista

Informalizing childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: Policy responses to childcare and their implications for working parents in Denmark, England and Germany

Thurid Eggers, Christopher Grages and Birgit Pfau-Effinger

Reclaiming their rights: A comprehensive framework for the reintegration of children abducted and held hostage during armed conflict and political violence

Carmit Katz, Maayan Jacobson and Ayelet Noam Rosenthal

How Do Child Protective Service (CPS) Policies Keep Employees Safe: ACaseworker’s Perspective

Karlissa Wise, LaToya Carter, Leslie Alyssa Bamba and Rachel Barr

Examining the pathways between overt and relational victimization, loneliness, phobic anxiety, and suicidal ideation

Zhiyou Wang, Lin Wang, Shan Jiang and Shichao Zhang

Children with homeostatically maintained and homeostatically defeated subjective well-being in Indonesia

Ihsana Sabriani Borualogo and Ferran Casas

Human service professionals’ observations of suboptimal parenting: Barriers to intervention and potential solutions

Amy J.L. Baker, Marla R. Brassard, Janet Rosenzweig and Roslyn Murov

Beyond the binary sex-gender system in Tseltal Mayan communities: Embodiment of two cases of youth sex-gender dissidence experiences in San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas, Mexico

Rubén de J. Solís Mecalco

Caregiver, Youth, and Community Partner Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19 on African American families

Terri N. Sullivan, Colleen S. Walsh, Carine E. Leslie, Katherine M. Ross, Skylar A. Radabaugh and Marcia A. Winter

Associations of inattention, hyperactivity, and sex with behavioral–emotional symptoms among children with mathematical disability

Tuija Aro, Kenneth Eklund, George Hynd and Timo Ahonen

Unveiling the protective role of school engagement: Mitigating cyberbullying perpetration through mastery and student-student relationship

Lin Wang, Ting Ge and Xiaojing Gao

Career identity among children leaving out-of-home care: Implications on Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy

Hyun Lee and Hana Lee

Volume 161, issue C, 2024

Youth with disabilities in residential care in the community: Perceptions and experiences in the transition period

Lúcia Canha, Laura Owens, Celeste Simões, Ricardo Rodrigues and Maria João Gonçalves

Disrupting the family stress-proximal process: A scoping review of interventions for children with incarcerated parents

Elsia A. Obus, Allison Pequet, Chloe R. Cristian, Alexa Garfinkle, Celeste A. Pinto and Sarah A.O. Gray

The interaction of race/ethnicity and school-connectedness in presenting internalizing and externalizing behaviors among adolescents

Mijin Choi, Sei-Young Lee, Jangmin Kim and Jungup Lee

A scoping review on knowledge, beliefs, and practices towards HIV/AIDS among Indian adolescents

Pranita Patsani, Jayashree Parida, Susangita Jena, Arpita Panda, Prasanna Kumar Patra, Sanghamitra Pati, Harpreet Kaur and Subhendu Kumar Acharya

Untangling risky discourse with evidence: A scoping review of outcomes for teen mothers’ offspring

Lee SmithBattle, Sarah Bekaert, Wisitsri Phengnum and Joanne Schneider

Working with emotions in social work practice. A pride-building model for institutional care of young people

Peter M. Jansson and Nina V. Gunnarsson

Gender socialization and supportive school settings for elementary-aged LGBTIQ+ children

Tonya D. Callaghan, Nicole Richard, Caitlin Campbell and Jamie Anderson

Do adults listen? A qualitative analysis of the narratives of LGBTQI adolescents in Madrid

Irene Blanco-Fuente, Ruth A. Ancín, Pilar Albertín-Carbó and Yolanda Pastor

“Adopting unsuitable solutions constitutes an additional risk factor”: Context-informed social work practice with at-risk young adult Arabs in Israel

Karram-Elias Haneen and Sulimani-Aidan Yafit

The parent–child relationship in the digital era: The mediator role of digital parental awareness

Mehmet Toran, Taibe Kulaksız and Bülent Özden

Mapping key actors in family support. A European perspective

Lucía Jiménez, John Canavan, Sofía Baena, David Herrera, Andy Lloyd, Johanna Schima and Anna Jean Grasmeijer

Practices and settings which promote a psychological sense of community among young people who experience social marginalization: A scoping review

Danielle Maude Littman

A comparative analysis of protective and promotive factors of at-risk youth in the community and in residential care settings in Israel

Yafit Sulimani-Aidan and Eran Melkman

Household crowding and income loss increases intimate partner violence during the pandemic among isolating families with young children in the United States

Monica Lawson, Rebecca Weston, Michaela Simon and Montana Baker

The meaning of a youth council for suicide prevention: A reflective study with the youth council members

Kristen Haddad, Alaina Delsignore, Julia-Grace B. Dunn, Alyssa Hann, Hosein Hashemian, Sumaiya Hossain, Diya Joshi, Elsa Khan, Aiden Lenox, Liz Radway, Maya Sivakumaran, Sammy Stenger, Felissa E. Wallace, Joel Taylor and Lisa M. Vaughn

Mental health, negative life events and resilience among adolescents in contact with the child welfare services

Rebekka Andersen Furuhaug, Vivian Elise Jaeger Markussen, Mari Hysing, Sondre Aasen Nilsen, Ove Heradstveit and Kristin Gärtner Askeland

Determinants of receiving child protection and welfare services following initial assessment: A cross-sectional study from the Republic of Ireland

Donna O'Leary, Alistair Christie, Ivan J. Perry and Ali S Khashan

Life-World Design: A career counseling program for future orientations of school students

Angel Hor Yan Lai, Eliza Lai Yi Wong, Wendy Suet Yee Lau, Elaine Yin Ling Tsui and Cynthia Tsz Ching Leung

Feeling adequately heard by Adults, perceived safety and Children’s life Satisfaction: A multinational comparison of individualist and collectivist cultures across 18 countries

Chaoxin Jiang and Hao Song

Social workers’ knowledge about children’s memory and child interviewing

Charlotte Löfgren, Emelie Ernberg and Sara Landström

Adoptees' basic need satisfaction within romantic relationships: The role of attachment orientations and relational attitudes

Rami Tolmacz, Lilac Lev-Ari, Rachel Bachner-Melman and Meitar Timor

The mediating role of Self-Competence in the relationship between parental involvement and support and Children’s social Skills: Evidence from China

Yaping Yue, Jinjiao Huang, Haojie Yuan, Yifei Zhao, Jiayuan Lei and Jieqiong Fan

I know it when I see it: How urban Latinx parents describe bullying

Eric Landers, Catherine Howerter, Kymberly Harris and Juliann Sergi McBrayer

Experiences of grief and maltreatment among orphans in foster homes in Namibia

Mienke van der Brug and Veronika N. Hango

Identification of important features in overweight and obesity among Korean adolescents using machine learning

Serim Lee and JongSerl Chun

Children dually involved with statutory child protection and juvenile justice in Australia: A developmental cascade framework

Jordan White, Phillipa Evans and Ilan Katz

A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of group art therapy for children and adolescents of multicultural families: A focus on Korea

Soyeon Kong and KyeongA Han

Parental involvement and Chinese children’s cognitive and social-emotional school readiness: Differential effects across family socioeconomic status

Xiaoying Xia

Designing HIV prevention interventions that are acceptable to young adults in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a mapping review and inductive thematic analysis

Oluwaseyi Dolapo Somefun, MaryJane Ijeoma Nweje, Marisa Casale, Genevieve Haupt Ronnie, Lucie Cluver, Asha George and Elona Toska

Will violence cycle? The reciprocal relationship between children’s bullying involvement and interparental conflict

Shengcheng Song, Ruiqiong Xie, Deqin Tan, Zhifan Yuan, Weijian Li and Wan Ding

Navigation of self-conflict and role of self-acceptance within LGBTQ+ young people in contemporary Mongolia

Dorjjantsan Ganbaatar, Cathy Vaughan, Shahinoor Akter, Sugarmaa Myagmarjav and Meghan A. Bohren

Utilizing video prompting with people with severe disabilities: A systematic literature review

Abdulaziz M. Alasmari, Matthew E. Brock and Abdulrahman S. Alsultan

Intra- and interpersonal influences on child adjustment and resilience in welfare care: A qualitative study with former caregivers in Switzerland

Sarah J. Mäder, Myriam V. Thoma, Aileen N. Salas Castillo, Melanie Dorigo and Shauna L. Rohner

Changes in home environment, lifestyles, and mental health among preschoolers who experienced lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 in Shanghai

Yunting Zhang, Jin Zhao, Zhangsheng Yu, Donglan Zhang, Saishuang Wu, Yue Zhang, Xi Chen, Guanghai Wang, Jun Zhang and Fan Jiang

Predicting preschool problems

Jens Dietrichson and Rasmus H. Klokker

Parent and adolescent depressive symptom among a national sample of Chinese families: The chained mediating roles of parental involvement and parent–child attachment

Yizhen Ren, Xinyi Wang, Aiyi Liu, Jiefeng Ying and Xinchun Wu

Children's cognitive development: does parental wage employment matter?

Linh Nguyen and Huu-Luat Do

Effect of digital natives on executive function: The mediating role of problematic Internet use

Gai Zhao, Jinmeng Liu and Haibo Zhang

A national New Zealand study of childhood non-offending contact with police and later offending in adolescence

Kelly Foster, Myron Dean Friesen and Darren Walton

What promotes engagement in formal and informal help relationships? Perspectives of commercially sexually exploited youth

Roni Eyal-Lubling, Ayelet Prior, Einat Peled and Guy Shilo

Parental emotional warmth and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents: The mediating effect of bullying involvement and moderating effect of the dark triad

Ke-Nan Qin and Xiong Gan

Evaluation of a brief online parenting training for community service providers in the Philippines

Dominiq Ruth G. Reyes, Rosanne M. Jocson, Liane Peña Alampay, Bernice Landoy Mamauag, Jennel C. Reyes and Jamie M. Lachman

Serious suicidal thoughts, suicide plans, and mental health service use among youth during the COVID-19 pandemic

Namkee G. Choi, C. Nathan Marti and Bryan Y. Choi

Perceptions of the use of restraint with children and young adults with disabilities and mental health disorders: A review of the literature

Allie M. Cramer, Ashley S. Virgin and Lucy Barnard-Brak

Mindful parenting, internalized and externalized problem behaviors among children: A latent cross-lagged model

Ran Ma, Dan Chen, Jackelyn De Alwis and Wei Xu

An Aboriginal-led, systemic solution to Aboriginal baby removals in Australia: Development of the Bringing Up Aboriginal Babies at Home program

Sarah Wise, Jason King, Julie Sleight, Stella Omerogullari, Lorne Samuels, Alicia Morris and Trezalia Skeen

A cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the mediation effect of positive and negative affects in the relationship between self-compassion and resilience in early adolescents

Ali Eryılmaz, Hacer Yıldırım-Kurtuluş and Murat Yıldırım

The mediating role of resilience in the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and emotional neglect and codependency

Zöhre Kaya, Kübra Kale, Ferdi Yağan and Şermin Kaya

Brief online ACT intervention to improve adolescents’ well-being: Effectiveness among adolescents with depressive symptoms during COVID-19

K. Keinonen, P. Lappalainen, A. Puolakanaho, K. Kaipainen, R. Lappalainen and N. Kiuru

The emotional terrain of foster and kinship carers’ relationships with parents of children in care: Carers’ perspectives

Karen Healy, Jemma Venables, Jenny Povey, Janeen Baxter, Sue Scull, Kate Thompson and Madonna Boman

On your mark, get set, go: The athletic recruitment and postsecondary experiences of Black male college athletes formerly in foster care

Blayne D. Stone

Unveiling the significant contribution of Child and Youth Care Workers in South African township schools

Roelf Reyneke

Effects of stressful life events on suicide risk among orphaned and left-behind adolescents in China: The mediating roles of loneliness and subjective well-being

Shiying Li, Xinnan Wang, Ping Yu, Yiqi Zhang and Rui Yuan

The effect of family economic capital on the cognitive ability of migrant children in China

Yichao Wu and Yuan Zhang

Interventions for pregnant youth and young mothers experiencing homelessness: A systematic review

Racha Lakrouf, Laurence Roy, Cécile Arbaud and Christine Stich

Promoting child welfare and supporting families in Europe: Multi-dimensional conceptual and developmental frameworks for national family support systems

Harriet Churchill, Carmel Devaney and Angela Abela

Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and mental health symptoms among young adults

Camie A. Tomlinson, Sunny H. Shin, Casey Corso and Gabriela Ksinan Jiskrova

Parents’ attitudes toward and experiences with seeking informal mentors for their children

Lindsey M. Weiler, Meredith Scafe, Angela M. Keyzers, Renée Spencer, Kaleb Burningham and Timothy A. Cavell

The need and acceptability of a youth mental health mentoring model to supplement adolescent outpatient mental health services

Lindsey M. Weiler, Alexandra N. Hanson, Claire Busse, Emma Aronson and Patti J. Neiman

A comparison of definitions of school bullying among students, parents, and teachers: An experimental study from China

Zepeng Gong, Zhiwei Tang, Jing Zhou, Ziqiang Han and Jingran Zhang

Family child care educators’ experiences and decision-making related to serving children during COVID-19 and implications for supporting educators after the pandemic

Alison Hooper and Claire Schweiker