Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 57, issue C, 2015

Effects of kinship care on behavioral problems by child age: A propensity score analysis pp. 1-8

Qi Wu, Kevin R. White and Kanisha L. Coleman

Evaluating the self-expressed unmet needs of emancipated foster youth over time pp. 9-18

Colleen C. Katz and Mark E. Courtney

School engagement among LGBTQ high school students: The roles of safe adults and gay–straight alliance characteristics pp. 19-29

Kristie L. Seelman, Nicholas Forge, N. Eugene Walls and Nadine Bridges

Linking state child care and child welfare policies and populations: Implications for children, families, and policymakers pp. 30-39

Mary Elizabeth Meloy, Shannon T. Lipscomb and Madeline J. Baron

It's not as simple as it sounds: Problems and solutions in accessing and using administrative child welfare data for evaluating the impact of early childhood interventions pp. 40-49

Beth L. Green, Catherine Ayoub, Jessica Dym Bartlett, Carrie Furrer, Adam Von Ende, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Joanne Klevens and Peggy Nygren

Better Futures: A validated model for increasing postsecondary preparation and participation of youth in foster care with mental health challenges pp. 50-59

Lee Ann Phillips, Laurie E. Powers, Sarah Geenen, Jessica Schmidt, Nichole Winges-Yanez, Isha Charlie McNeely, Lindsay Merritt, Candis Williamson, Shannon Turner, Harry Zweben and Celeste Bodner

Factors affecting permanency for legally free children & youth: A study of Colorado's legally free population across age groups, 2008–2014 pp. 60-67

Dallas J. Elgin, Jonathan Sushinsky, Andrew Johnson, Gretchen Russo and Tiffany Sewell

Factors reducing the risk of internet addiction in young people in their home environment pp. 68-74

Arkadiusz Wąsiński and Łukasz Tomczyk

Using child welfare assessments and latent class analysis to identify prevalence and comorbidity of parent service needs pp. 75-82

Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner, Jennifer L. Bellamy, Duck-Hye Yang and Cheryl Smithgall

Immigration enforcement and mixed-status families: The effects of risk of deportation on Medicaid use pp. 83-89

Edward D. Vargas

Strengthening youth participation in civic engagement: Applying the Convention on the Rights of the Child to social work practice pp. 90-97

Katie Richards-Schuster and Suzanne Pritzker

Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services: Explaining the ‘inverse intervention law’ pp. 98-105

Paul Bywaters, Geraldine Brady, Tim Sparks, Elizabeth Bos, Lisa Bunting, Brigid Daniel, Brid Featherstone, Kate Morris and Jonathan Scourfield

Mental health outcomes among child welfare investigated children: In-home versus out-of-home care pp. 106-111

Anne-Marie Conn, Moira A. Szilagyi, Sandra H. Jee, Aaron K. Blumkin and Peter G. Szilagyi

Exiting or retaining owner-occupied housing in the United States 1999–2009: How do social programs matter? pp. 112-126

Lawrence M. Berger, J. Michael Collins and Timothy M. Smeeding

Child-centered play therapy with young children who are anxious: A controlled trial pp. 127-133

Hayley L. Stulmaker and Dee C. Ray

Workplace stress and job satisfaction among child protective service workers in South Korea: Focusing on the buffering effects of protective factors pp. 134-140

Youngsoon Chung and JongSerl Chun

An examination of the relationships between professional quality of life, adverse childhood experiences, resilience, and work environment in a sample of human service providers pp. 141-148

Amanda R. Hiles Howard, Sheri Parris, Jordan S. Hall, Casey D. Call, Erin Becker Razuri, Karyn B. Purvis and David R. Cross

Invisible children? Professional bricolage in child protection pp. 149-158

Lars Alberth and Doris Bühler-Niederberger

A multidimensional child poverty index in China pp. 159-170

Di Qi and Yichao Wu

The Treatment Outcome Package (TOP): A multi-dimensional level of care matrix for child welfare pp. 171-178

David R. Kraus, Elizabeth E. Baxter, Pamela C. Alexander and Jordan H. Bentley

Does SNAP serve as a safety net for mothers facing an economic shock? An analysis of Black and White unwed mothers' responses to paternal imprisonment pp. 179-192

Yiyoon Chung

Crossover youth post arrest: Placement status and recidivism pp. 193-200

Hui Huang, Joseph P. Ryan, Antoinette Sappleton and Yu-Ling Chiu

Do poorer youth have fewer friends? The role of household and child economic resources in adolescent school-class friendships pp. 201-211

Simon Hjalmarsson and Carina Mood

Volume 56, issue C, 2015

Therapeutic crisis intervention system in residential care for children and youth: Staff knowledge, attitudes, and coping styles pp. 1-6

Mally Shechory Bitton and Sarit Rajpurkar

The Child Protection Clinic: A mixed method evaluation of parent legal representation pp. 7-17

Wendy Haight, Jane Marshall and Joanna Woolman

Understanding service provision and utilization for vulnerable youth: Evidence from multiple informants pp. 18-25

Haibin Li, Linda Liebenberg and Michael Ungar

Ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system: A Norwegian national cohort study pp. 26-32

Trine Staer and Ragnhild Bjørknes

The Vital Few foster parents: Replication and extension pp. 33-41

John G. Orme and Donna J. Cherry

Social and emotional learning services and child outcomes in third grade: Evidence from a cohort of Head Start participants pp. 42-51

Fuhua Zhai, C. Cybele Raver and Stephanie M. Jones

Treatment of the Sexually Abused Child: Review and Synthesis of Recent Meta-Analyses pp. 52-60

Lorraine T. Benuto and O’Donohue, William

Who am I? Who do you think I am? Stability of racial/ethnic self-identification among youth in foster care and concordance with agency categorization pp. 61-67

Jessica Schmidt, Shanti Dubey, Larry Dalton, May Nelson, Junghee Lee, Molly Oberweiser Kennedy, Connie Kim-Gervey, Laurie Powers and Sarah Geenen

Parental preschool choices and challenges when young children and their families experience homelessness pp. 68-75

Jamie Taylor, Britton Gibson and Kate Hurd

Child abuse/neglect risk assessment under field practice conditions: Tests of external and temporal validity and comparison with heart disease prediction pp. 76-85

Will Johnson, Thomas Clancy and Pascal Bastian

Targeting youth at risk for gang involvement: Validation of a gang risk assessment to support individualized secondary prevention pp. 86-96

Karen M. Hennigan, Kathy A. Kolnick, Flor Vindel and Cheryl L. Maxson

Does sibling relationship matter to self-concept and resilience in adolescents under residential care? pp. 97-106

Catarina Pinheiro Mota and Paula Mena Matos

Foster youth and drug use: Exploring risk and protective factors pp. 107-115

Ravinder Barn and Jo-Pei Tan

Perceived discrimination, socioeconomic status, and mental health among Latino adolescents in US immigrant families pp. 116-125

Vanessa Ríos-Salas and Andrea Larson

A study of disabled children and child protection in Scotland — A hidden group? pp. 126-134

Kirsten Stalker, Julie Taylor, Deborah Fry and Alastair B.R. Stewart

Juvenile justice, mental health, and the transition to adulthood: A review of service system involvement and unmet needs in the U.S pp. 139-148

Kristyn Zajac, Ashli J. Sheidow and Maryann Davis

Professional challenges experienced by child and youth care workers in South Africa pp. 149-160

Lesiba Molepo and Catharina Sophia Louisa Delport

Co-production of ICT and children at risk: The introduction of the Child Index in Dutch child welfare pp. 161-168

Inge Lecluijze, Bart Penders, Frans J.M. Feron and Klasien Horstman

Disability pension among adult former child welfare clients: A Swedish national cohort study pp. 169-176

Bo Vinnerljung, Lars Brännström and Anders Hjern

Mentoring in the social context: Mentors' experiences with mentees' peers in a site-based program pp. 185-192

Julia Pryce, Samantha Giovannetti, Renée Spencer, L. Christian Elledge, Grace Gowdy, Marisa L. Whitley and Timothy A. Cavell

Volume 55, issue C, 2015

Effects of parental monitoring on aggressive behavior among youth in the United States and South Korea: A cross-national study pp. 1-9

Jungup Lee and Karen A. Randolph

Child protection in Tanzania: A dream or nightmare pp. 10-17

Naftali Bernard Ng'ondi

Job burnout and affective wellbeing: A longitudinal study of burnout and job satisfaction among public child welfare workers pp. 18-28

Erica L. Lizano and Michalle Mor Barak

Psychosocial characteristics and service needs of Canadian suburban male youth at risk for homelessness pp. 29-36

Julie L. Wershler and Scott T. Ronis

The effectiveness of creative bibliotherapy for internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors in children: A systematic review pp. 37-47

Paul Montgomery and Kathryn Maunders

The role of fathers in reducing dating violence victimization and sexual risk behaviors among a national sample of Black adolescents pp. 48-55

Binta Alleyne-Green, Claudette Grinnell-Davis, Trenette T. Clark and Qiana R. Cryer-Coupet

Perceptual difference of child neglect among Korean parents and children: Implications for child welfare policy pp. 56-61

Jong Baek Choi and Madhavappallil Thomas

Non-parental adults in the social and risk behavior networks of sexual minority male youth pp. 62-70

Emma M. Sterrett, Michelle Birkett, Lisa Kuhns and Brian Mustanski

Factors influencing decision making about the placement of children in care: Development of the Child Placement Questionnaire pp. 71-83

Jenna Meiksans, Marie Iannos and Fiona Arney

Building an evidence-base for the training of evidence-based treatments in community settings: Use of an expert-informed approach pp. 84-92

Ashley T. Scudder and Amy D. Herschell

Protective factors among Latino families involved with child welfare: A review of Spanish protective factor research on child maltreatment prevention in seven countries pp. 93-102

Andrew M. Bailey, Adam M. Brazil, Aislinn Conrad-Hiebner and Jacqueline Counts

Compliance and Internalization in Preschool Foster Children pp. 103-110

Brenda Jones Harden, Aimée Drouin Duncan, Colleen I. Morrison, Carlomagno Panlilio and Robert B. Clyman

Exploring the path from foster care to stable and lasting adoption: Perceptions of foster care alumni pp. 111-120

E. Susana Mariscal, Becci A. Akin, Alice A. Lieberman and DaKie Washington

How early is early intervention and who should get it? Contested meanings in determining thresholds for intervention pp. 121-127

Kylie Valentine and Ilan Katz

Testing a path model of relationships between gender, age, and bullying victimization and violent behavior, substance abuse, depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts in adolescents pp. 128-137

Karen P. Reed, William Nugent and R. Lyle Cooper

Correlates of traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration among Australian students pp. 138-146

Ibrahim Tanrikulu and Marilyn Campbell

Finding their Way: Perceptions of risk, resilience, and positive youth development among adolescents and young adults from public housing neighborhoods pp. 147-158

Shandra S. Forrest-Bank, Nicole Nicotera, Elizabeth K. Anthony and Jeffrey M. Jenson

Social images of residential care: How children, youth and residential care institutions are portrayed? pp. 159-169

Maria Manuela Calheiros, Margarida Vaz Garrido, Diniz Lopes and Joana Nunes Patrício

Accessing quality early care and education for children in child welfare: Stakeholders' perspectives on barriers and opportunities for interagency collaboration pp. 170-181

Sei-Young Lee, Stephanie M. Benson, Sacha M. Klein and Todd M. Franke

Child fatality in Intercountry adoption: What media reports suggest about deaths of Russian children in the U.S pp. 182-192

Rebecca L. Hegar, Olga Verbovaya and Larry D. Watson

Do they get what they expect?: The connection between young adults' future expectations before leaving care and outcomes after leaving care pp. 193-200

Yafit Sulimani-Aidan

Statewide dissemination of an evidence-based practice using Breakthrough Series Collaboratives pp. 201-209

Jason M. Lang, Robert P. Franks, Carrie Epstein, Carla Stover and Jason A. Oliver

Fragile families in the American welfare state pp. 210-221

Irwin Garfinkel and Afshin Zilanawala

Experiences and needs of homeless youth with a history of foster care pp. 222-231

Kimberly Bender, Jessica Yang, Kristin Ferguson and Sanna Thompson