Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Duncan Lindsey

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Volume 29, issue 12, 2007

Do good intentions beget good policy? A review of child protection policies to address intimate partner violence pp. 1469-1486

Kendra L. Nixon, Leslie M. Tutty, Gillian Weaver-Dunlop and Christine A. Walsh

Training as a factor in policy implementation: Lessons from a National Evaluation of Child Welfare Training pp. 1487-1502

Mary Elizabeth Collins, Maryann Amodeo and Cassandra Clay

Substance-exposed newborns: Hospital and child protection responses pp. 1503-1519

Krista Drescher Burke

Beginning street life: Factors contributing to children working and living on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan pp. 1520-1536

Mary L. Plummer, Mustafa Kudrati and Nassrin Dafalla El Hag Yousif

Volume 29, issue 11, 2007

Co-occurring problems for substance abusing mothers in child welfare: Matching services to improve family reunification pp. 1395-1410

Sam Choi and Joseph P. Ryan

State-designated special needs, post-adoption support, and state fiscal stress pp. 1411-1425

Mary Eschelbach Hansen

The social ecology of acculturation: Implications for child welfare services to children of immigrants pp. 1426-1438

Michelle A. Johnson

Grandparents' and social workers' experiences with the child welfare system: A case for mutual resources pp. 1439-1453

James W. Gladstone and Ralph A. Brown

Differential response: A critical examination of a secondary prevention model pp. 1454-1468

Amy Conley

Volume 29, issue 10, 2007

Special needs adoption from China: Exploring child-level indicators, adoptive family characteristics, and correlates of behavioral adjustment pp. 1269-1285

Tony Xing Tan, Kofi Marfo and Robert F. Dedrick

Civic engagement or token participation? Perceived impact of the citizen review panel initiative pp. 1286-1300

Valerie Bryan, Blake Jones, Erin Allen and Crystal Collins-Camargo

Can system integration improve mental health outcomes for children and youth? pp. 1301-1319

E. Michael Foster, Robert Stephens, Anna Krivelyova and Phyllis Gamfi

Foster children with an incarcerated parent: Predictors of reunification pp. 1320-1334

R. Anna Hayward and Diane DePanfilis

Structured decision making in juvenile justice: Judges' and probation officers' perceptions and use pp. 1335-1351

Jeffrey J. Shook and Rosemary C. Sarri

Factors associated with exiting and reentry into out-of-home care under Community-Based Care in Florida pp. 1352-1367

Svetlana Yampolskaya, Mary I. Armstrong and Amy C. Vargo

Supporting children and responding to their families: Capturing the evidence on family support pp. 1368-1394

Elizabeth Fernandez

Volume 29, issue 9, 2007

Adolescents adjusting to a group home environment: A residential care model of re-organizing attachment behavior and building resiliency pp. 1131-1141

Yolanda Hawkins-Rodgers

Child support and parental conflict in low-income families pp. 1142-1157

Royce A. Hutson

Resilience of youth in transition from out-of-home care to adulthood pp. 1158-1178

Clara Daining and Diane DePanfilis

A procedure for assessing parents' capacity for change in child protection cases pp. 1179-1188

Paul H. Harnett

Client feedback in child welfare programs: Current trends and future directions pp. 1189-1200

Amy J.L. Baker

"Caught" versus "Taught": Ethnic identity and the ethnic socialization experiences of African American adolescents in kinship and non-kinship foster placements pp. 1201-1219

Ann Schwartz

Mental health needs of urban children pp. 1220-1234

Ferol E. Mennen and Penelope K. Trickett

Fostering children with disabilities: A concept map of parent needs pp. 1235-1248

Jason Brown

Parental work schedules, family process, and early adolescents' risky behavior pp. 1249-1266

Wen-Jui Han and Jane Waldfogel

Volume 29, issue 8, 2007

The take-up of cash assistance among private kinship care families pp. 973-987

Michelle Sheran and Christopher Swann

Changes in family functioning and child behavior following intensive in-home therapy pp. 988-1009

Richard P. Barth, Johanna K.P. Greeson, Shenyang Guo, Rebecca L. Green, Sarah Hurley and Jocelyn Sisson

Foster parent perceptions of placement success pp. 1010-1020

Jason D. Brown and Melissa Campbell

An evaluation of recovery factors for foster care alumni with physical or psychiatric impairments: Predictors of psychological outcomes pp. 1021-1034

Tina M. Anctil, Laurie D. McCubbin, Kirk O'Brien and Peter Pecora

Maltreatment and delinquency: Investigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing pp. 1035-1050

Joseph P. Ryan, Denise Herz, Pedro M. Hernandez and Jane Marie Marshall

Medication assisted drug treatment and child well-being pp. 1051-1069

Lena M. Lundgren, Therese Fitzgerald, Nancy Young, Maryann Amodeo and Robert F. Schilling

Adoption of children and the contribution of the Osu Children's Home in Ghana pp. 1070-1084

Delali A. Akpalu

"Tomorrow is another problem": The experiences of youth in foster care during their transition into adulthood pp. 1085-1101

Sarah Geenen and Laurie E. Powers

Predictors of successful permanency planning and length of stay in foster care: The role of race, diagnosis and place of residence pp. 1102-1113

Marion A. Becker, Neil Jordan and Rebecca Larsen

Children and youth at risk in Israel: Findings and recommendations to improve their well-being pp. 1114-1128

Hillel Schmid

Volume 29, issue 7, 2007

Can cognitive-behavioral therapy increase self-esteem among depressed adolescents? A systematic review pp. 823-839

Tatiana L. Taylor and Paul Montgomery

Pathways Teen Mother Support Project: Longitudinal findings pp. 840-855

James R. McDonell, Susan P. Limber and Jennifer Connor-Godbey

Abuse type and substantiation status varying by recurrence pp. 856-869

Hwa-Ok Bae, Phyllis L. Solomon and Richard J. Gelles

Predisposition to seek mental health care among Black males transitioning from foster care pp. 870-882

Lionel D. Scott , Michelle R. Munson, J. Curtis McMillen and Lonnie R. Snowden

Prevalence and predictors of emotional and behavioral problems reported by teachers among institutionally reared children and adolescents in Turkish orphanages compared with community controls pp. 883-899

Zeynep Simsek, Nese Erol, Didem Oztop and Kerim Munir

Markov forecasting methods for welfare caseloads pp. 900-911

Jeffrey Grogger

Children in no-parent households: The continuity of arrangements and the composition of households pp. 912-932

Kathryn Hynes and Rachel Dunifon

Foster care placement among children who received inpatient psychiatric care pp. 933-940

Jung Min Park, Phyllis Solomon and David S. Mandell

The unique impact of out-of-home placement and the mediating effects of child maltreatment and homelessness on early school success pp. 941-960

John Fantuzzo and Staci Perlman

Assessing child exposure to adult domestic violence pp. 961-971

Jeffrey L. Edleson, Amanda L. Ellerton, Ellen A. Seagren, Staci L. Kirchberg, Sarah O. Schmidt and Amirthini T. Ambrose

Volume 29, issue 6, 2007

How are children and families faring a decade after welfare reform? Evidence from five non-experimental panel studies pp. 693-697

Kristen Shook Slack, Katherine A. Magnuson and Lawrence M. Berger

Family economic well-being following the 1996 welfare reform: Trend data from five non-experimental panel studies pp. 698-720

Kristen Shook Slack, Katherine A. Magnuson, Lawrence M. Berger, Joan Yoo, Rebekah Levine Coley, Rachel Dunifon, Amy Dworsky, Ariel Kalil, Jean Knab, Brenda J. Lohman and Cynthia Osborne

Maternal functioning, time, and money: The world of work and welfare pp. 721-741

Rebekah Levine Coley, Brenda J. Lohman, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Laura D. Pittman and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Maternal work and welfare use and child well-being: Evidence from 6 years of data from the Women's Employment Study pp. 742-761

Ariel Kalil and Rachel Dunifon

Work, welfare, and young children's health and behavior in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study pp. 762-781

Cynthia Osborne and Jean Knab

Welfare, work, and health care access predictors of low-income children's physical health outcomes pp. 782-801

Kristen Shook Slack, Jane L. Holl, Joan Yoo, Laura B. Amsden, Emily Collins and Kerry Bolger

Child, parent, and family predictors of child welfare services involvement among TANF applicant families pp. 802-820

Amy Dworsky, Mark E. Courtney and Andrew Zinn

Volume 29, issue 5, 2007

Multi-level influences on the practice of inter-agency collaboration in child welfare and substance abuse treatment pp. 545-556

Brenda D. Smith and Cristina Mogro-Wilson

Dating violence among emancipating foster youth pp. 557-571

Melissa Jonson-Reid, Lionel Scott, J. Curtis McMillen and Tonya Edmond

Barriers to employment among out-of-school youth pp. 572-587

Cynthia Miller and Kristin E. Porter

Length of service for foster parents: Using administrative data to understand retention pp. 588-599

Deborah Gibbs and Judith Wildfire

Burning "Centre Bolt": Experiences of sexually transmitted infections and health care seeking behaviour described by street boys in Urban Kenya pp. 600-617

Wanjiku Kaime-Atterhog, Gunilla Lindmark, Lars-Ake Persson and Beth Maina Ahlberg

Child welfare and the civic minimum pp. 618-636

Christopher Beem

High-risk youth transitions to adulthood: A longitudinal view of youth leaving the residential education in Finland pp. 637-654

Markku Jahnukainen

Self-perceptions of fulfilling the foster caregiver role: A preliminary analysis pp. 655-671

Susan A. Cole and Mary Keegan Eamon

The Assessment Checklist for Children -- ACC: A behavioral rating scale for children in foster, kinship and residential care pp. 672-691

Michael Tarren-Sweeney

Volume 29, issue 4, 2007

Helping maltreated children to find their Ibasho: Japanese perspectives on supporting the well-being of children in state care pp. 405-427

Sachiko Bamba and Wendy L. Haight

Caregiving grandmothers with vs. without child welfare system involvement: Effects of expressed need, formal services, and informal social support on caregiver burden pp. 428-441

Catherine Chase Goodman, Marilyn Kay Potts and Eileen Mayers Pasztor

Foster parents in Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care: How do they deal with implementing standardized treatment components? pp. 442-459

Pia Kyhle Westermark, Kjell Hansson and Bo Vinnerljung

Does substance abuse treatment make a difference for child welfare case outcomes? A statewide longitudinal analysis pp. 460-473

Beth L. Green, Anna Rockhill and Carrie Furrer

The quality of work life of child protective investigators: A comparison of two work environments pp. 474-489

Burton J. Cohen, Susan C. Kinnevy and Melissa E. Dichter

Assessment of intimate partner violence by child welfare services pp. 490-500

Andrea L. Hazen, Cynthia D. Connelly, Jeffrey L. Edleson, Kelly J. Kelleher, John A. Landverk, Jeffrey H. Coben, Richard P. Barth, Jennifer McGeehan, Jennifer A. Rolls and Melanie A. Nuszkowski

Effects of WIC and Food Stamp Program participation on child outcomes pp. 501-517

Bong Joo Lee and Lucy Mackey-Bilaver

Service use after court involvement in a sample of serious adolescent offenders pp. 518-544

Edward P. Mulvey, Carol A. Schubert and He Len Chung

Volume 29, issue 3, 2007

Smoke-free world for children's welfare: Perceptions of smoking in preadolescence pp. 283-293

Judit Bak and Bettina Piko

School-based children's saving accounts for college: The I Can Save program pp. 294-312

Margaret S. Sherraden, Lissa Johnson, William Elliott , Shirley Porterfield and William Rainford

Improving health services for foster youth: Multidisciplinary and multistakeholder perspectives and recommendations pp. 313-328

Janet U. Schneiderman, Devon Brooks, Barbara Facher and Jennifer Amis

Informal and formal supports and maternal child-rearing practices in at-risk and non at-risk psychosocial contexts pp. 329-347

Maria Jose Rodrigo, Juan Carlos Martin, Maria Luisa Maiquez and Guacimara Rodriguez

Research on the caretaking of children of incarcerated parents: Findings and their service delivery implications pp. 348-362

Thomas E. Hanlon, Steven B. Carswell and Marc Rose

School performance trajectories after the advent of reported maltreatment pp. 363-382

Jeffrey Leiter

Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial for evaluating the effectiveness of the Big Brothers Big Sisters community match program at the national level pp. 383-404

David J. De Wit, Ellen Lipman, Maria Manzano-Munguia, Jeffrey Bisanz, Kathryn Graham, David R. Offord, Elizabeth O'Neill, Deborah Pepler and Karen Shaver

Volume 29, issue 2, 2007

Child maltreatment, out-of-home placement and academic vulnerability: A fifteen-year review of evidence and future directions pp. 139-161

Susan Stone

An evaluation of post-adoption services pp. 162-179

Mandeep K. Dhami, David R. Mandel and Katy Sothmann

Child protection in Stockholm: A local cohort study on childhood prevalence of investigations and service delivery pp. 180-192

Knut Sundell, Bo Vinnerljung, Cecilia Andree Lofholm and Eva Humlesjo

Maternal welfare and employment experiences and adolescent well-being: Do mothers' human capital characteristics matter? pp. 193-215

Rebekah Levine Coley, Heather J. Bachman, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Brenda J. Lohman and Christine P. Li-Grining

Relationship between type of placement and competencies and problem behavior of adolescents in long-term foster care pp. 216-225

Jelena A. Marinkovic and Dusan Backovic

Capturing caregiver data: An examination of kinship care custodial arrangements pp. 226-246

Anne L. Strozier and Kerry Krisman

Predicting the effectiveness of the Home-Start parenting support program pp. 247-263

Jessica J. Asscher, Jo M.A Hermanns, Maja Dekovic and Ellen Reitz

A qualitative study of 369 child welfare professionals' perspectives about factors contributing to employee retention and turnover pp. 264-281

Alberta J. Ellett, Jacquelyn I. Ellis, Tonya M. Westbrook and Denise' Dews

Volume 29, issue 1, 2007

A child's-eye view of parent methamphetamine abuse: Implications for helping foster families to succeed pp. 1-15

Wendy Haight, Teresa Ostler, James Black, Kathryn Sheridan and Linda Kingery

Stories of working with homeless youth: On being "mind-boggling" pp. 16-34

Sean A. Kidd, Susan Miner, Diana Walker and Larry Davidson

Predictors of early childbearing: Evidence from the Chicago longitudinal study pp. 35-52

Joshua P. Mersky and Arthur J. Reynolds

Disruptions in foster care: A review and meta-analysis pp. 53-76

Mirjam Oosterman, Carlo Schuengel, N. Wim Slot, Ruud A.R. Bullens and Theo A.H. Doreleijers

Institutionalizing the "Child Welfare" state: A study of the development of Alabama's child welfare system, 1887-1931 pp. 77-91

Ike Burson

Kinship foster parents' perceptions of factors that promote or inhibit successful fostering pp. 92-109

Tanya M. Coakley, Gary Cuddeback, Cheryl Buehler and Mary Ellen Cox

Exploring the risks of substantiated physical neglect related to poverty and parental characteristics: A national sample pp. 110-121

Vernon Carter and Miranda R. Myers

Research on placement moves: Seeking the perspective of foster children pp. 122-137

Yvonne A. Unrau