Children and Youth Services Review

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Volume 34, issue 12, 2012

Socio-demographic and service provision characteristics associated with primary school attendance among the Most Vulnerable Children in Tanzania pp. 2255-2262

Naftali Bernard Ng'ondi

Timing of exits to legal permanency from out-of-home care: The importance of systems and implications for assessing institutional accountability pp. 2263-2272

Mark E. Courtney and Jennifer L. Hook

Outreach social workers for at-risk youth: A test of their attitudes towards crime and young offenders in Hong Kong pp. 2273-2279

Wing Hong Chui and Chan, Heng Choon (Oliver)

Maltreatment of children in out-of-home care: A review of associated factors and outcomes pp. 2280-2286

Anna Uliando and David Mellor

The perceived impact and acceptability of Group Triple P Positive Parenting Program for Aboriginal parents in Canada pp. 2287-2294

Carolyn Houlding, Fred Schmidt, Susan B. Stern, John Jamieson and Darcia Borg

Resilience in children and youth: A review pp. 2295-2303

Staci M. Zolkoski and Lyndal M. Bullock

Taxonomic systems in the field of health care, family care, and child and youth care: A systematic overview of the literature pp. 2304-2310

K.E. Evenboer, A.M.N. Huyghen, J. Tuinstra, S.A. Reijneveld and E.J. Knorth

Effectiveness of child protective services interventions as indicated by rates of recidivism pp. 2311-2318

David Solomon and Kia Åsberg

The influence of meeting time on academic outcomes in school-based mentoring pp. 2319-2326

Sarah E.O. Schwartz, Jean E. Rhodes and Carla Herrera

Conceptualizing the step-down for foster youth approaching adulthood: Perceptions of service providers, caseworkers, and foster parents pp. 2327-2336

Judy Havlicek, J. Curtis McMillen, Nicole Fedoravicius, David McNelly and Debra Robinson

Substance use among current and former foster youth: A systematic review pp. 2337-2344

Jordan M. Braciszewski and Robert L. Stout

Predicting outcomes of children in residential treatment: A comparison of a decision support algorithm and a multidisciplinary team decision model pp. 2345-2352

Ka Ho Brian Chor, Gary M. McClelland, Dana A. Weiner, Neil Jordan and John Lyons

Receiving mandated therapeutic services: Experiences of parents involved in the child welfare system pp. 2353-2360

Lianne Fuino Estefan, Martha L. Coulter, Carla L. VandeWeerd, Mary Armstrong and Peter Gorski

Effects of a school readiness intervention for children in foster care on oppositional and aggressive behaviors in kindergarten pp. 2361-2366

Katherine C. Pears, Hyoun K. Kim and Philip A. Fisher

Does childcare have an impact on the quality of parent–child interaction? Evidence from post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan pp. 2367-2373

Nazim N. Habibov

The subjective well-being of Spanish adolescents: Variations according to different living arrangements pp. 2374-2380

Tamar Dinisman, Carme Montserrat and Ferran Casas

Knowledge translation in the field of violence against women and children: An assessment of the state of knowledge pp. 2381-2391

Marie-Claude Larrivée, Louise Hamelin-Brabant and Geneviève Lessard

Substance use and victimization: Street-involved youths' perspectives and service implications pp. 2392-2399

Kimberly Bender, Sanna J. Thompson, Kristin Ferguson, Chelsea Komlo, Chelsea Taylor and Jamie Yoder

A longitudinal examination of predictors of delinquency: An analysis of data from the Mobile Youth Survey pp. 2400-2408

Wesley T. Church, Sara Tomek, Kathleen A. Bolland, Lisa M. Hooper, Jeremiah Jaggers and John M. Bolland

Characteristics of incarcerated fathers and mothers: Implications for preventive interventions targeting children and families pp. 2409-2415

Jean M. Kjellstrand, Jennifer Cearley, J. Mark Eddy, Dana Foney and Charles R. Martinez

Child training for physical aggression? pp. 2416-2422

L. Oriana Linares, MinMin Li and Patrick E. Shrout

Family level predictors of victimization and offending among young men: Rethinking the role of parents in prevention and interventions models pp. 2423-2432

Robin M. Hartinger-Saunders, Christine M. Rine, William Wieczorek and Thomas Nochajski

Children of incarcerated parents: Insights to addressing a growing public health concern in Australia pp. 2433-2441

A. Dawson, D. Jackson and A. Nyamathi

Preventing the sexual exploitation of minors in youth-serving organizations pp. 2442-2453

Sandy K. Wurtele

Child care assistance for families involved in the child welfare system: Predicting child care subsidy use and stability pp. 2454-2463

Shannon T. Lipscomb, Kendra M. Lewis, Katherine E. Masyn and Mary Elizabeth Meloy

The effects of domestic violence on children's behavior problems: Assessing the moderating roles of poverty and marital status pp. 2464-2473

Jeong Ah Yoo and Chien-Chung Huang

Accessing child developmental services predicts in-home placement of substance- and HIV-affected children pp. 2474-2480

Warren A. Reich and Kathryn L. Fuger

Individual and social network sexual behavior norms of homeless youth at high risk for HIV infection pp. 2481-2486

Kimberly A. Tyler and Lisa A. Melander

Effectiveness of the KEEP foster parent intervention during an implementation trial pp. 2487-2494

Joseph M. Price, Scott C. Roesch and Natalia Escobar Walsh

Influence of form and timing of social support on parental outcomes of a child-maltreatment prevention program pp. 2495-2503

Sonia Byrne, María José Rodrigo and Juan Carlos Martín

Volume 34, issue 11, 2012

Calculating and comparing the costs of multidimensional treatment foster care in English local authorities pp. 2141-2146

Lisa Holmes, Harriet Ward and Samantha McDermid

Out of care and into care again: A Danish register‐based study of children placed in out-of‐home care before their third birthday pp. 2147-2155

Mads Bonde Ubbesen, Liselotte Petersen, Preben Bo Mortensen and Ole Steen Kristensen

Direct and mediating effects of accessing sexually explicit online materials on Hong Kong adolescents' attitude, knowledge, and behavior relating to sex pp. 2156-2163

Siu-ming To, Steven Sek-yum Ngai and Siu-mee Iu Kan

Links between physical abuse in childhood and child neglect among adolescent mothers pp. 2164-2169

Jessica Dym Bartlett and M. Ann Easterbrooks

Professionalization in public child welfare: Historical context and workplace outcomes for social workers and non-social workers pp. 2170-2178

Maria Scannapieco, Rebecca L. Hegar and Kelli Connell-Carrick

My Life: Effects of a longitudinal, randomized study of self-determination enhancement on the transition outcomes of youth in foster care and special education pp. 2179-2187

Laurie E. Powers, Sarah Geenen, Jennifer Powers, Summer Pommier-Satya, Alison Turner, Lawrence D. Dalton, Diann Drummond and Paul Swank

Examining racial disproportionality in child protective services case decisions pp. 2188-2200

Sarah A. Font, Lawrence M. Berger and Kristen S. Slack

Dynamics that contribute to racial disproportionality and disparity: Perspectives from child welfare professionals, community partners, and families pp. 2201-2207

Keva M. Miller, Katharine Cahn and E. Roberto Orellana

Attachment theory and change processes in foster care pp. 2208-2219

David J. Tucker and Michael J. MacKenzie

Adoption in the child welfare system — A cross-country analysis of child welfare workers' recommendations for or against adoption pp. 2220-2228

Marit Skivenes and Øyvind Samnøy Tefre

Parental nativity and the decision to substantiate: Findings from a study of Latino children in the second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW II) pp. 2229-2239

Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Alan J. Dettlaff and Megan Finno

Youth care workers' views on the challenges of working with girls: An analysis of the mediating influence of practitioner gender and prior experience with girls pp. 2240-2246

Nadine Lanctôt, Marie-Hélène Ayotte, Mathilde Turcotte and Thérèse Besnard

“We need their help”: Encouraging and discouraging adolescent civic engagement through Photovoice pp. 2247-2254

Suzanne Pritzker, Alicia LaChapelle and Jeremy Tatum

Volume 34, issue 10, 2012

Ecological factors associated with sexual risk behaviors among detained adolescents: A systematic review pp. 1983-1991

Dexter R. Voisin, Jun Sung Hong and Kelly King

Engaging child welfare-involved families impacted by substance misuse: Scottish policies and practices pp. 1992-2001

Anne S. Robertson and Wendy Haight

Low-income families' selection of child care for their young children pp. 2002-2011

Sandra Tang, Rebekah Levine Coley and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

Life satisfaction and positive perceptions of the future among youth at-risk participating in Civic-National Service in Israel pp. 2012-2017

Drorit Levy, Rami Benbenishty and Tehila Refaeli

The link between developmental components (age and gender), need to belong and resources of self-control and feelings of happiness, and frequency of symptoms among Arab adolescents in Israel pp. 2018-2027

Qutaiba Agbaria, Tammie Ronen and Liat Hamama

Youth at entry to residential treatment: Understanding psychotropic medication use pp. 2028-2035

Annette K. Griffith, Gail Smith, Jonathan C. Huefner, Michael H. Epstein, Ronald Thompson, Nirbhay N. Singh and Laurel.K. Leslie

An evaluation of the effectiveness of a parent-to-parent program in changing attitudes and increasing parental engagement in the juvenile dependency system pp. 2036-2041

Alicia Summers, Steve M. Wood, Jesse R. Russell and Stephanie O. Macgill

Imagining the future: Community perceptions of a family-based economic empowerment intervention for AIDS-orphaned adolescents in Uganda pp. 2042-2051

Leyla Ismayilova, Fred Ssewamala, Elizabeth Mooers, Proscovia Nabunya and Srividya Sheshadri

Risk factors for involvement in delinquency among immigrants and native-born Israeli girls pp. 2052-2060

Olga Statland-Vaintraub, Mona Khoury-Kassabri, Mimi Ajzenstadt and Shabi Amedi

Engaging parents in parenting programs: Lessons from research and practice pp. 2061-2071

Nick Axford, Minna Lehtonen, Dwan Kaoukji, Kate Tobin and Vashti Berry

Risk factors for mental health diagnoses among children adopted from the public child welfare system pp. 2072-2080

David L. Hussey, Lynn Falletta and Abbey Eng

The benefits of an enhanced Nobody's Perfect Parenting Program for child welfare clients including non-custodial parents pp. 2081-2087

Deborah J. Kennett and Gail Chislett

Existence, relatedness, or growth? Examining turnover intention of public child welfare caseworkers from a human needs approach pp. 2088-2093

Yi-Yi Chen, Jisung Park and Aely Park

School-wide discipline and the intransigency of exclusion pp. 2094-2100

John W. Maag

Team decision making in child welfare pp. 2101-2116

Eva Nouwen, Stefan Decuyper and Johan Put

The parenting experiences of homeless adolescent mothers and mothers-to-be: Perspectives from a shelter sample pp. 2117-2122

Amy Dworsky and Patrick Meehan

The caregiver as gatekeeper for accessing health care for children in foster care: A qualitative study of kinship and unrelated caregivers pp. 2123-2130

Janet U. Schneiderman, Caitlin Smith and Lawrence A. Palinkas

Parental problems, case plan requirements, and service targeting in child welfare reunification pp. 2131-2138

Amy C. D'Andrade and Ruth M. Chambers

Volume 34, issue 7, 2012

Highlighting adolescents' involvement with the child welfare system: A review of recent trends, policy developments, and related research pp. 1197-1207

Cassandra Simmel

Strategies for longitudinal research with youth in foster care: A demonstration of methods, barriers, and innovations pp. 1208-1213

Yo Jackson, Joy Gabrielli, Angela M. Tunno and Erin P. Hambrick

Predicting public child welfare employees' intentions to remain employed with the child welfare organizational culture inventory pp. 1214-1221

Tonya M. Westbrook, Alberta J. Ellett and Kia Asberg

Respect in the workplace: A mixed methods study of retention and turnover in the voluntary child welfare sector pp. 1222-1229

Astraea Augsberger, Wendy Schudrich, Brenda G. McGowan and Charles Auerbach

Time banking service exchange systems: A review of the research and policy and practice implications in support of youth in transition pp. 1230-1236

Michael B. Marks

Fathers' involvement and preschool children's behavior in stable single-mother families pp. 1237-1242

Eirini Flouri and Lars-Erik Malmberg

Results from the Virginia Multidisciplinary Team Knowledge and Functioning Survey: The importance of differentiating by groups affiliated with a child advocacy center pp. 1243-1250

Shelly L. Jackson

Placement stability in the context of child development pp. 1251-1258

Marissa O'Neill, Christina Risley-Curtiss, Cecilia Ayón and Lela Rankin Williams

A systematic review: A quest for effective interventions for children and adolescents in street situation pp. 1259-1272

Isabel Berckmans, Marcela Losantos Velasco, Bismarck Pinto Tapia and Gerrit Loots

The pivotal role of child welfare supervisors in implementing an agency's practice model pp. 1273-1282

Lauren Frey, Mary LeBeau, Diane Kindler, Christopher Behan, Isabel M. Morales and Madelyn Freundlich

Stress in adoptive parents of adolescents pp. 1283-1289

Yolanda Sánchez-Sandoval and Jesús Palacios

The efficacy of a short cognitive–behavioral parent program in the treatment of externalizing behavior disorders in Romanian foster care children: Building parental emotion-regulation through unconditional self- and child-acceptance strategies pp. 1290-1297

Oana A. Gaviţa, Daniel David, Simona Bujoreanu, Alexandru Tiba and Dafina R. Ionuţiu

Motives of aboriginal foster parents pp. 1298-1304

Jason D. Brown, Julie Gerritts, Viktoria Ivanova, Nisha Mehta and Donna Skrodzki

Predictiveness of interpersonal cognitive distortions on university students' problematic Internet use pp. 1305-1308

Melek Kalkan

Child protection workers' experiences of working with high-conflict separating families pp. 1309-1316

Michael Saini, Tara Black, Kristen Lwin, Alena Marshall, Barbara Fallon and Deborah Goodman

Romanian adoptive families: Stressors, coping strategies and resources pp. 1317-1324

Anca Bejenaru and Maria Roth

An investigation into the efficiency of empathy training program on preventing bullying in primary schools pp. 1325-1330

Mustafa Şahin

The implementation of wraparound in California's Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project pp. 1331-1336

Charlie M. Ferguson

Evaluation of the impact of enhanced parental legal representation on the timing of permanency outcomes for children in foster care pp. 1337-1343

Mark E. Courtney and Jennifer L. Hook

Correlates of service utilization among homeless youth pp. 1344-1350

Kimberly A. Tyler, Sarah L. Akinyemi and Lisa A. Kort-Butler

Extended families and perceived caregiver support to AIDS orphans in Rakai district of Uganda pp. 1351-1358

Leyla Karimli, Fred M. Ssewamala and Leyla Ismayilova

Impact of intensive case management on child welfare system involvement for substance-dependent parenting women on public assistance pp. 1359-1366

Sarah Dauber, Charles Neighbors, Chris Dasaro, Annette Riordan and Jon Morgenstern

Participation in a summer sport-based youth development program for disadvantaged youth: Getting the parent perspective pp. 1367-1377

Allison Riley and Dawn Anderson-Butcher

Development and validation of classification models to identify hidden child molesters applying to child service organizations pp. 1378-1389

Gene G. Abel, Markus Wiegel, Alan Jordan, Nora Harlow, Yu-Sheng Hsu and Marc Martinez

Volume 34, issue 6, 2012

Interventions aiming to improve school achievements of children in out-of-home care: A scoping review pp. 1084-1091

Hilma Forsman and Bo Vinnerljung

Helping youth in care succeed: Influence of caregiver involvement on academic achievement pp. 1092-1100

Connie Cheung, Kristen Lwin and Jennifer M. Jenkins

The Letterbox Club: An account of a postal club to raise the achievement of children aged 7 to 13 in foster care pp. 1101-1106

Rose Griffiths

Leaving care: Looking ahead and aiming higher pp. 1107-1114

Sonia Jackson and Claire Cameron

On the Way Home: Program description and preliminary findings pp. 1115-1120

Alexandra L. Trout, Patrick M. Tyler, McLain C. Stewart and Michael H. Epstein

Maximizing educational achievement of youth in foster care and alumni: Factors associated with success pp. 1121-1129

Peter J. Pecora

Translating evidence into practice: Supporting the school performance of young people living in residential group care in Ontario pp. 1130-1134

Kiaras Gharabaghi

Education for disadvantaged groups — Structural and individual challenges pp. 1135-1142

Helena Johansson and Ingrid Höjer

Educating children and youth in care: A review of barriers to school progress and strategies for change pp. 1143-1149

H. Bruce Ferguson and Katherine Wolkow

Knowledge transfer resulting from the Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Care conference: How it is helping a child welfare organization to build a long term educational strategy pp. 1150-1153

Michael O'Brien

Using research and outcome data to improve educational services and supports for young people in care: A case study of a local children's aid society in Ontario pp. 1154-1160

Jill K. Stoddart

Access to post-secondary education: The importance of culture pp. 1161-1170

Ross Finnie

Educating young people in care: What have we learned? pp. 1171-1175

David Berridge

Preliminary effects of a group-based tutoring program for children in long-term foster care pp. 1176-1182

Julie Harper and Fred Schmidt

Effects of individual direct-instruction tutoring on foster children's academic skills: A randomized trial pp. 1183-1189

Robert J. Flynn, Robyn A. Marquis, Marie-Pierre Paquet, Lisa M. Peeke and Tim D. Aubry

Education in residential care and in school: A social-pedagogical perspective on the educational attainment of young women leaving care pp. 1190-1196

Maren Zeller and Stefan Köngeter

Volume 34, issue 5, 2012

Pregnancy and parenting among youth in foster care: A review pp. 867-875

Deborah V. Svoboda, Terry V. Shaw, Richard P. Barth and Charlotte Lyn Bright

The effectiveness of support groups in increasing social support for kinship caregivers pp. 876-881

Anne L. Strozier

Rethinking the role of early care and education in foster care pp. 882-890

Mary Elizabeth Meloy and Deborah A. Phillips

Behavior problems, foster home integration, and evidence-based behavioral interventions: What predicts adoption of foster children? pp. 891-899

Sonya J. Leathers, Jill E. Spielfogel, James P. Gleeson and Nancy Rolock

In and out of care. A profile and analysis of children in the out-of-home care system in Sweden pp. 900-907

Evelyn Khoo, Viktoria Skoog and Rolf Dalin

The longitudinal influence of parent–child relationships and depression on cyber delinquency in South Korean adolescents: A latent growth curve model pp. 908-913

Jeongseok Kong and Jinseop Lim

Pathways from non-Korean mothers' cultural adaptation, marital conflict, and parenting behavior to bi-ethnic children's school adjustment in South Korea pp. 914-923

Jung-Hee Shin, Hyun-Sim Doh, Jun Sung Hong and Johnny S. Kim

Influence of caregiver network support and caregiver psychopathology on child mental health need and service use in the LONGSCAN study pp. 924-932

Michael A. Lindsey, Tamika D. Gilreath, Richard Thompson, J. Christopher Graham, Kristin M. Hawley, Cindy Weisbart, Dorothy Browne and Jonathan B. Kotch

Pathways from social support to service use among caregivers at risk of child maltreatment pp. 933-939

Jiyoung Kang

An evaluation of factors leading to mentor satisfaction with the mentoring relationship pp. 940-945

Shannon M. Martin and Sarah K. Sifers

Academic performance of subsequent schools and impacts of early interventions: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Head Start settings pp. 946-954

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

Social relationships in children from intercountry adoption pp. 955-961

Natàlia Barcons, Neus Abrines, Carme Brun, Claudio Sartini, Victoria Fumadó and Diana Marre

Equivalent harm? The relative roles of maltreatment and exposure to intimate partner violence in antisocial outcomes for young adults pp. 962-972

Aely Park, Carolyn Smith and Timothy Ireland

Teacher involvement in school mental health interventions: A systematic review pp. 973-982

Cynthia G.S. Franklin, Johnny S. Kim, Tiffany N. Ryan, Michael S. Kelly and Katherine L. Montgomery

Who gets services and who does not? Multi-level approach to the decision for ongoing child welfare or referral to specialized services pp. 983-988

A. Jud, B. Fallon and N. Trocmé

The development and initial validation of the Immigrant Parental Stress Inventory (IPSI) in a sample of Korean immigrant parents pp. 989-998

Sun-Young Yoo and M. Elizabeth Vonk

Stigmatization associated with growing up in a lesbian-parented family: What do adolescents experience and how do they deal with it? pp. 999-1006

Loes van Gelderen, Nanette Gartrell, Henny M.W. Bos, Floor B. van Rooij and Jo M.A. Hermanns

Maximizing educational opportunities for youth aging out of foster care by engaging youth voices in a partnership for social change pp. 1007-1014

Angelique Day, Joanne Riebschleger, Amy Dworsky, Amy Damashek and Kieran Fogarty

Socialization process and social support networks of out-of-care youngsters pp. 1015-1023

Josefina Sala-Roca, Andreu Villalba Biarnés, Mercè Jariot García and Laura Arnau Sabates

Children without parents in the TANF caseload: Thinking beyond the child-only label pp. 1024-1034

Correne Saunders, Andrea Hetling, Pamela C. Ovwigho and Catherine E. Born

Neighborhood, poverty, and negative behavior: An examination of differential association and social control theory pp. 1035-1041

Wesley T. Church, Jeremiah W. Jaggers and Julie K. Taylor

Self-control, social support, and aggression among adolescents in divorced and two-parent families pp. 1042-1049

Liat Hamama and Anat Ronen-Shenhav

“I Don't Know What They Know”: Knowledge transfer in mandated referral from child welfare to early intervention pp. 1050-1059

April D. Allen, Justeen Hyde and Laurel K. Leslie

Pathways to service inequalities among Latinos in the child welfare system pp. 1060-1071

Antonio Garcia, Eugene Aisenberg and Tracy Harachi

Associations between center-based care accreditation status and the early educational outcomes of children in the child welfare system pp. 1072-1080

Laura H. Dinehart, Louis Manfra, Lynne F. Katz and Suzanne C. Hartman

Volume 34, issue 4, 2012

The role of cultural dissimilarity factors on child adjustment following foster placement pp. 597-601

Maurice Anderson and L. Oriana Linares

Kinship foster family type and placement discharge outcomes pp. 602-614

Andrew Zinn

Teacher assessment of behavior problems in foster care children pp. 615-621

Isabel M. Bernedo, María D. Salas, Miguel A. García-Martín and María J. Fuentes

Child support enforcement in the United States: Has policy made a difference? pp. 622-627

Chien-Chung Huang and Ke-Qing Han

Expected struggles: U.S. child care policy pp. 628-638

Elizabeth Palley

The impact of system of care support in adherence to wraparound principles in Child and Family Teams in child welfare in North Carolina pp. 639-647

Elizabeth H. Snyder, C. Nicole Lawrence and Kenneth A. Dodge

Caregiving grandmothers and their grandchildren: Well-being nine years later pp. 648-654

Catherine Chase Goodman

Moving forward without looking back: Performance management systems as real-time evidence-based practice tools pp. 655-659

Scottye J. Cash, Stephanie D. Ingram, Denise S. Biben, Shann J. McKeever, Ronald W. Thompson and Jared Z. Ferrell

Fostering empathy through stories: A pilot program for special needs adoptive families pp. 660-665

Catherine A. Faver and Erika Alanis

Improving accuracy and consistency in child maltreatment severity assessment in child protection services in Spain: New set of criteria to help caseworkers in substantiation decisions pp. 666-674

Ignacia Arruabarrena and Joaquín De Paúl

12-month follow-up outcomes for youth departing an integrated residential continuum of care pp. 675-679

Jay L. Ringle, Jonathan C. Huefner, Sigrid James, Robert Pick and Ronald W. Thompson

Supervisor training to support principle-driven practice with youth in foster care pp. 680-690

Grace Atukpawu, Elizabeth Mertinko, Graham Elliott and Denniston, John (Jack)

An analysis of the impact of the Strengthening Families Program on family reunification in child welfare pp. 691-695

Jody Brook, Thomas P. McDonald and Yueqi Yan

Facilitating mental health service use for caregivers: Referral strategies among child welfare caseworkers pp. 696-703

Alicia C. Bunger, Emmeline Chuang and Bowen McBeath

Political knowledge, attitudes and values among Palestinian and Jewish youth in Israel: The role of nationality, gender and religiosity pp. 704-712

Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz and Asher Ben-Arieh

Low income families' utilization of the Federal “Safety Net”: Individual and state-level predictors of TANF and Food Stamp receipt pp. 713-724

Kelly M. Purtell, Elizabeth T. Gershoff and J. Lawrence Aber

‘Working with vulnerable children’: Listening to the views of the service providers working with street children in Istanbul pp. 725-734

H. Özden Bademci

Youth workers in college: A replicable model for professional development pp. 735-739

Carrie Shockley and Ashleigh Thompson

Neighborhood effects on working mothers' child care arrangements pp. 740-747

Meirong Liu and Steven G. Anderson

The data behind the dissemination: A systematic review of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for use with children and youth pp. 748-757

Colleen E. Cary and J. Curtis McMillen

Effectiveness of support services for children and young people with challenging behaviours related to or secondary to disability, who are in out-of-home care: A systematic review pp. 758-770

Jenny Ziviani, Rachel Feeney, Monica Cuskelly, Pamela Meredith and Kathryn Hunt

School readiness among children of immigrants in the US: Evidence from a large national birth cohort study pp. 771-782

Wen-Jui Han, RaeHyuck Lee and Jane Waldfogel

Relationship between discordance in parental monitoring and behavioral problems among Chilean adolescents pp. 783-789

Yoonsun Han, Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, Cristina Bares, Julie Ma, Marcela Castillo and Jorge Delva

How child welfare workers perceive their work with undocumented immigrant families: An explorative study of challenges and coping strategies pp. 790-797

Katrin Križ and Marit Skivenes

Early childhood care and education attendance in Central Asia pp. 798-806

Nazim Habibov

Children who run away from foster care: Who are the children and what are the risk factors? pp. 807-813

Ching-Hsuan Lin

Material hardship and child socioemotional behaviors: Differences by types of hardship, timing, and duration pp. 814-825

Afshin Zilanawala and Natasha V. Pilkauskas

A comparative review of “how to” books for parents of ADHD children and “how to” books for parents of typical children pp. 826-833

Bora Pajo and Paul H. Stuart

The relationship between the cyberbullying/cybervictmization and loneliness among adolescents pp. 834-837

Mustafa Şahi̇n

Linking infants and toddlers in foster care to early childhood mental health services pp. 838-844

Marian E. Williams, Susan Park, Adriana Anaya, Sharon M. Perugini, Sheela Rao, Cameron L. Neece and Jennifer Rafeedie

Expediting permanent placement from foster care systems: The role of family group decision-making pp. 845-850

Eugene W. Wang, Matthew C. Lambert, Leah E. Johnson, Brock Boudreau, Rebecca Breidenbach and Donald Baumann

An organizational view of privatization: Is the private foster care agency superior to the public foster care agency? pp. 851-858

Julie A. Steen and Sarahlin Smith

Nonmedical use of prescription medications: A longitudinal analysis with adolescents involved in child welfare pp. 859-864

Tyrone C. Cheng and Celia C. Lo

Volume 34, issue 3, 2012

Setting the scene: The mix of family policy objectives and packages across the OECD pp. 487-498

Willem Adema

From comparative to global social policy: Lessons for development practitioners from UNICEF's Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities pp. 499-508

Gáspár Fajth, Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir and Sharmila Kurukulasuriya

Recent reforms in childcare and family policies in France and Germany: What was at stake? pp. 509-516

Jeanne Fagnani

The Nordic child care regime — History, development and challenges pp. 517-522

Niels Ploug

Parental leaves and early childhood education and care: From mapping the terrain to exploring the environment pp. 523-531

Peter Moss

A comparative study of child welfare systems: Abstract orientations and concrete results pp. 532-536

Neil Gilbert

Social protection and children in developing countries pp. 537-545

Shirley Gatenio Gabel

Cross-national measurement of school learning environments: Creating indicators for evaluating UNICEF's Child Friendly Schools Initiative pp. 546-557

Erin B. Godfrey, David Osher, Leslie D. Williams, Sharon Wolf, Juliette K. Berg, Catalina Torrente, Elizabeth Spier and J. Lawrence Aber

Child poverty in cross-national perspective: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study pp. 558-568

Janet C. Gornick and Markus Jantti

How do we measure and monitor the “state of our children”? pp. 569-575

Asher Ben-Arieh

Child care and school performance in Denmark and the United States pp. 576-589

Gosta Esping-Andersen, Irwin Garfinkel, Wen-Jui Han, Katherine Magnuson, Sander Wagner and Jane Waldfogel

The case for family benefits pp. 590-596

Jonathan Bradshaw

Volume 34, issue 2, 2012

Parents' perceptions of their participation in mandated family group meetings pp. 331-337

Yvonne Darlington, Karen Healy, Josephine Yellowlees and Fiona Bosly

Ecological correlates of substance use in African American adolescents living in public housing communities: Assessing the moderating effects of social cohesion pp. 338-347

Von E. Nebbitt, Margaret Lombe, Mansoo Yu, Michael G. Vaughn and Charu Stokes

Relationship between placement change during foster care and utilization of emergency mental health services pp. 348-353

Kya Fawley-King and Lonnie R. Snowden

Sexual abuse in sport: What about boys? pp. 354-359

Sylvie Parent and Joëlle Bannon

Improving adolescent health through school-based health centers in post-Katrina New Orleans pp. 360-368

Paul Hutchinson, Thomas W. Carton, Marsha Broussard, Lisanne Brown and Sarah Chrestman

A review of how states are addressing placement stability pp. 369-378

Joan M. Blakey, Sonya J. Leathers, Michelle Lawler, Tyreasa Washington, Chiralaine Natschke, Tonya Strand and Quenette Walton

Child care subsidy, child care costs, and employment of low-income single mothers pp. 379-387

Haksoon Ahn

Exposure to violence, student fear, and low academic achievement: African American males in the critical transition to high school pp. 388-395

Desmond Upton Patton, Michael E. Woolley and Jun Sung Hong

Sibling contact among Swedish children in foster and residential care—Out of home care in a family service system pp. 396-402

Tommy Lundström and Marie Sallnäs

Cross-system barriers to educational success for children in foster care: The front line perspective pp. 403-408

Kathleen Noonan, Meredith Matone, Sarah Zlotnik, Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, Caroline Watts, David Rubin and Cynthia Mollen

Making sense of adoption: Integration and differentiation from the perspective of adopted children in middle childhood pp. 409-416

Elsbeth Neil

Empowerment-based non-formal education for Arab youth: A pilot randomized trial pp. 417-425

Matthew H Morton and Paul Montgomery

Maternal re-partnering and new-partner fertility: Associations with nonresident father investments in children pp. 426-436

Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer

In, out and after care: Young adults' views on their lives, as children, in a therapeutic residential establishment pp. 437-450

Bernard Gallagher and Adam Green

Do short break and respite services for families with a disabled child in England make a difference to siblings? A qualitative analysis of sibling and parent responses pp. 451-459

Vicki Welch, Chris Hatton, Eric Emerson, Janet Robertson, Michelle Collins, Susanne Langer and Emma Wells

Placement stability in kinship and non-kin foster care: A Canadian study pp. 460-465

Gretchen Perry, Martin Daly and Jennifer Kotler

A method for estimating child poverty rates, projections for the short-term and the relationship between child poverty and child care subsidy receipt at the county level pp. 466-473

Vajeera Dorabawila, Kimberly DuMont and Susan Mitchell-Herzfeld

Psychosocial predictors of anger among university students pp. 474-479

Ayman M. Hamdan-Mansour, Latefa A. Dardas, Hani Nawafleh and Mohammad H. Abu-Asba