Children and Youth Services Review

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Volume 160, issue C, 2024

Agency, participation in decision making and wellbeing among care leavers in care system: A quantitative mediation study

Alessandro Pepe, Elisabetta Biffi, Chiara Carla Montà, Caterina Arciprete and Mario Biggeri

O le tagata ma lona aiga, o le tagata ma lona fa’asinomaga (Every person belongs to a family and every family belongs to a person): Development of a parenting framework for adolescent mental wellbeing in American Samoa

Emma J. Mew, Leiema Hunt, Robert L.M. Toelupe, Vanessa Blas, Julia Winschel, Joshua Naseri, Si'itia Soliai-Lemusu, Jennifer F. Tofaeono, Moelili'a A. Seui, Trude Ledoux-Sunia, Fiafia Sunia, Adney Reid, Derek Helsham, Sarah R. Lowe, Rhayna Poulin, Nicola L. Hawley and Jueta McCutchan-Tofaeono

Waitlist management in child and adolescent mental health care: A scoping review

Julie A. Eichstedt, Kara Turcotte, Grace Golden, Alexis E. Arbuthnott, Samantha Chen, Kerry A. Collins, Stephanie Mowat and Graham J. Reid

Strive to enhance supervised family time visits for children in foster care: Outcomes from a pilot study with randomization

Susan Barkan, Leah Rankin, Martie Skinner, Laura Orlando, Emiko Tajima and Kristen Greenley

Effects of childhood emotional neglect on pain empathy: Evidence from event-related potentials

Xiaojing Li, Lihua Zhou, Cody Ding and Zuoshan Li

Teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education of children with special educational needs and disabilities in central Asia

Daria Prisiazhniuk, Tsediso Michael Makoelle and Irina Zangieva

The associations between destructive parenting practice and addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone: A three-level meta-analysis

Qi Zhang and Xiaofeng Ma

“Being in the system is really difficult and…I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.” Trauma and the public sector system of care for youth

Taira Masuda and Susana Helm

In conversation with normativity: Perceptions and disruptions of inclusive education in Armenia

Philippa Mullins, Tigranuhi Hakobyan and Mara Harutyunyan

“Little by little, I go”: Multiple dimensions of distress and support for unaccompanied children in the United States

Robert G. Hasson , Clara A. Oliva, Bianca LaBella and Dahiana Rodriguez

The roles of classmate support, smartphone addiction, and leisure time in the longitudinal relationship between academic pressure and social anxiety among Chinese adolescents in the context of the “double reduction” policy

Chengjia Zhao, Mingxuan Du, Yanqiu Yu, Juliet Honglei Chen, Anise Man-Sze Wu, Dajin Du, Debora Baofeng Wang, Joseph T.F. Lau, Guoliang Yu and Guohua Zhang

“Why don't you go to bed on time”? parental psychological control and bedtime procrastination among Chinese adolescents

Yuhong Deng, Baojuan Ye and Qiang Yang

The impact of children’s services professionals on LGBTIQ youth: Knowledge, practices and needs

Jose Antonio Langarita, Lucas R. Platero, Miguel Ángel López-Sáez and Núria Sadurní-Balcells

The effectiveness of a child and parent-oriented modular education program on the prevention of child sexual abuse knowledge and parental views: A mixed method study

Vildan Apaydın Cırık and Nurgül Karakurt

An exploratory study of Saudi parents' perceptions and beliefs about institutional and home care for children with disabilities

Abdullah Alrubaian, Norah Alkhateeb and Deborah Tamakloe

Parental risk factors and children entering out-of-home care: The effects of cumulative risk and parent’s sex

Nell Warner, Jonathan Scourfield, Rebecca Cannings-John, Olivier Y. Rouquette, Alex Lee, Rachael Vaughan, Karen Broadhurst and Ann John

Health status and missed care among youth in care in British Columbia, Canada: A population study

James X. Wang, Sheila K. Marshall, Colleen Poon and Annie Smith

Do males have more favorable attitudes towards digital game use than Females: A Meta-Analytic review

Caiyan Liu, Zhikeng Wang, Yajiao Yang, Peipei Mao, Robert H. Tai, Zhihui Cai and Xitao Fan

Statewide aftercare services program for youth transitioning from foster care: Five-year trends in participation, services, and participant characteristics

Carl F. Weems, Janet N. Melby, Carol Behrer, Doug Wolfe and Mikaela D. Scozzafava

Social workers’ perspective on the impact of Covid-19 on clients’ vulnerability in Ghana

Emma Seyram Hamenoo

Implications of early attentional and behavioral regulation for adolescent flourishing: Variations in pathways across family income status

Ying Zhang, Qingyang Liu and Rachel Razza

Macro-level predictors of child removals: Do social welfare benefits and services reduce demand for children’s out of home placements?

Timo Toikko, Aleksandra Gawel, Juulia Hietamäki, Laura Häkkilä, Piia Seppälä and Ning Zhu

Perceptions from emerging adults with a history of homelessness on their experiences with housing, health and other support services

Keisha McDonald, Alina I. Palimaru, Rick Garvey, Elizabeth J. D'Amico and Joan S. Tucker

The role of maternal emotional expressivity in maternal marital satisfaction and adolescents' depressive symptoms among Chinese families: Moderated by family socioeconomic status

Yuchen Liu, Huiqi Wang, Shuang Bi, Xingying Li, Xueling Yang and You Wang

“I found the power of my presence”: Low income and noncustodial fathers’ experiences and insights from parenting young children through the COVID-19 pandemic

Tova B. Walsh, Michael Hoffmeister, Laura Zimmerman, David Pate and Darryl Davidson

Diversity through adversity: Adjustment profiles and protective factors of sexual and gender minority students in Portuguese schools

Telmo Fernandes, Inês Vázquez and Jorge Gato

Increasing resilience among LGBTQ youth: The protective role of natural mentors

Yafit Sulimani-Aidan, Guy Shilo and June C. Paul

Justice involvement and mental health in LGBTQ young people

Steven Hobaica, Myeshia N. Price, Jonah P. DeChants, Carrie K. Davis and Ronita Nath

Risk of child sexual abuse: A mixed-methods analysis of judicial decisions in the Youth Court of Québec

Camille Buisson, Karine Poitras and Christian C. Joyal

Playing with the child within: Early parenthood experiences of parents who were out-of-home placed during childhood

Amanda Samani and Elia Psouni

Risk and protective factors associated with child welfare involvement among maternal-infant dyads affected by prenatal substance use

Elysia Versen, Courtney L. Everson, Sunah S. Hwang and Whitney LeBoeuf

Ohio START: An adaption of the National Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams model

Elinam D. Dellor, Megan Allbright-Campos, Joyce Y. Lee, Alicia C. Bunger, Fawn Gadel and Bridget Freisthler

The association between family socioeconomic status and suicide ideation among adolescent: A conditional process model

Juncai Liu, Xuanyu Zhang, Qi Chen, Shixian Li, Xuehua Lu, Guangming Ran and Qi Zhang

Medical science and pedophilia: Knowledge, discourses, and representations of pedophilia in medical books from 1910 to 1990 in a Brazilian public library

Marcos Eduardo Miranda Santos and Jackson Ronie Sá-Silva

Feasibility and acceptability of a family navigator program to support foster parents of youth with mental health concerns

Heather J. Risser, Alexandra E. Morford, Ashley N. Murphy, Linzy M. Pinkerton, Clara Law, Yexinyu Yang, Emily Hersch, Katherine L. Wisner and Christina L. Boisseau

Acceptability and preliminary impact of a school-based SEL program for rural children in China: A quasi-experimental study

Linyun Fu, Zhen Zhang, Yuanyuan Yang and J. Curtis McMillen

Gender differences in child sexual abuse in China: Examining the mediation and moderation effects

Yuhong Zhu, Chenyang Xiao and Bin Zhu

Intergenerational conflict, contact with biological parents, and child functioning in kinship caregiver families

Sara Gable, Amelia Holliday, Jonathon Zars, Sonita Simelus, Angela Nickell and Bradd Anderson

Ukrainian refugee adolescents in Germany – A qualitative study on schooling experiences and the fulfillment of basic psychological needs

Sophia Chabursky, Jannika Gutt and Angelika Guglhör-Rudan

Trajectories of early childhood development in children experiencing homelessness

Ana Paula Bonner Septien, Kira Nagoshi, Emily Lundberg, Brendan Fogarty, Kate Barrand, Deborah Stolbach and Henning Tiemeier

Child-centred approach to shared parenting: Children’s experiences of bird’s nest parenting arrangements

Rafaela Lehtme

The effect of single mothers’ employment on their children’s mental health in young adulthood: Random effects model for longitudinal data

Jaewon Lee, Jennifer Allen and Hyejung Lim

Structural vulnerabilities and over-criminalization of LGBTQ + youth in the California justice system

Jax Kynn, Hannah Boyke, Sam McCarthy and Ari S. Gzesh

Barriers and facilitators to kinship care in Texas: A Multi-Stakeholder, mixed methods perspective

Lauren Q. Malthaner, Mike Henson-Garcia, Erinne Conner, Hilda Loria and Jill D. McLeigh

What do we know about children’s representation in child protection decisions? A scoping review

Frøydis Lønborg Haarberg

Vision problems and positive youth development: The mediating role of vision-related quality of life and the moderating role of self-control

Qinian Chen, Yiqing Wang, Ling Jiang, Tianjiao Gao, Pengyang Li, Yi Ding, Guogang Xin, Shuang Ma, Jing Guo, Xia Wang and Xiaohua Wang

Internet addiction, social anxiety and body mass index in adolescents: A predictive correlational design

Sümeyye Kavici and Sultan Ayaz-Alkaya

The contribution of gender shame to fathers’ absence from welfare services

I. Negbi and N. Baum

Spanking or arrest: Caregiver perceptions of the No Hit Zone policy and poster in pediatric clinics

Shaniece Criss, Botamina Sorial, Len Bowman, Alexandra Pollock, Paige Parham, Lochrane Grant, Nancy Henderson and Kerry Sease

Evaluation of the implementation of transition programs for students with intellectual disability in high schools in Saudi Arabia

Khalid N. Alasim and Wasmiya M. Al-Otabi

‘Known to services’ or ‘Known by professionals’: Relationality at the core of trauma-informed responses to extra-familial harm

Carlene Firmin, Kristine Langhoff, Roni Eyal-Lubling, Reima Ana Maglajlic and Michelle Lefevre

“Kids are in the middle of it” – Child protection practitioners reflect on indicators of coercive control and situational couple violence

Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins and Thomas Whelan

Psychotropic medication prescribing in male juvenile justice facilities

Ashley N. Anderson, John T. Rapp and Erica S. Ramey

Generational differences in latent classes of exposure to adverse childhood experiences

Phillip M. Hughes and Kathleen C. Thomas

Family economic stress and preschooler adjustment in the Chinese Context: The role of child routines

Yu Xu, Lixin Ren and Rebecca Y.M. Cheung

Enhancing youth Voices: Exploring community participation through youth workers

Mireia Sala-Torrent and Anna Planas-Lladó

Longitudinal and bidirectional relationships between parental rejection, peer attachment, and adolescent depression

Xiaoxia Yu, Yilin Zhang and Sufei Xin

A qualitative study on the perceptions of illness and hospitalization of school age children with cancer

Fatma Dinç, Aylin Kurt, Dilek Yıldız and Berna Eren Fidancı

Service utilization characteristics among adolescents from racial and ethnic minority groups at elevated risk for suicide: A scoping review

Lilian G. Bravo, Taleah A. Frazier, Brian Antonio Garcia, Ernestine C. Briggs, Julian D. Ford, Cheryl B. Jones, Gabriela Livas Stein, Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda and Cheryl Woods-Giscombe

Navigating the journey into formal employment for youth with disabilities in Bangladesh: A qualitative study

Stevens Bechange, Emma Jolley, Amrita Rejina Rozario, Utpal Mallick, Towhidul Islam, Simon Brown and Elena Schmidt

Transforming anger into resilience: The Zagreb Pride LGBTIQ NGO and stigmatized youth in Croatia

Vanja Dergić

What parents know: Informing a wider landscape of support for trans and gender diverse children and adolescents

Cris Townley and Carlie Henderson

Barriers and bridges to well-being for Latinx immigrant youth in a new Latinx destination: A digital narrative inquiry

Jenn M. Lilly

Children’s Subjective Well-Being During the Global Health Crisis of Covid-19: A Croos-Narional Comparison

Yuli Ketain Meiri, Hanita Kosher and Daphna Gross-Manos

Recruiting carers for older children and youth: Messages and methods of media campaigns

Hannah Wilkinson and Amy Conley Wright