Children and Youth Services Review

1979 - 2025

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Volume 156, issue C, 2024

Participatory research approaches to studying social capital in youth mentoring: Not the panacea we hoped for

Rebecca Lynn Radlick and Sarah Przedpelska

The effect of the resilience Psycho-Education program on 8th-grade students' resilience, school burnout, and school attachment levels

Kemal Koçhan and Ayşe Aypay

Family factors and offline/online risk behaviors among South Korean adolescents: A multidimensional approach using latent profile analysis

Yoonsun Han, Seonyeong Kim, Taekho Lee and Suna Kim

Adaptation and psychometric properties of the Greek version of Youth Efficacy/Empowerment Scale – Mental Health

Sofia Konstantopoulou, Evanthia Sakellari, Kalliopi Triantafyllou, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Andre Sourander and Gerasimos Kolaitis

Advancing the need for medical social workers in paediatric wards at a public health hospital in South Africa

Raisuyah Bhagwan and Celest Heeralal

Effectiveness of mixed-mode parenting training program during the COVID-19 pandemic: A quasi-experiment study in Hong Kong

Dandan Wu, Eva Yi Hung Lau and Thomas G. Power

Predictors of teen sexual behavior

Andrew Langan and Marina Mileo Gorzig

Parental burnout in the context of the socio-health crisis and its relationship with abuse and neglect

Catalina Piraino, María Pía Santelices, María Josefina Escobar, Daniela Oyarce and Hedwig Johanna Antonia van Bakel

Psychometric properties of the perceived stress scale short form (PSS-10) in Chinese adolescents: Validity, measurement invariance across gender and left-behind status

Wei Chen, Yuxin Liang, Jiayuan Cheng, Enhui Xie, Qiqi Zhu and Jie Liu

Barriers to accessibility of learning among minority refugee children: A systematic literature review

Placidius Ndibalema

Low-achieving adolescent students' perspectives on their interactions with classmates. An exploratory study to inform the implementation of a social emotional learning program in prevocational education

Marion C.E. van de Sande, Minne Fekkes, René F.W. Diekstra, Carolien Gravesteijn, Paul L. Kocken and Ria Reis

Care practices and approaches with children experiencing attachment difficulties: A scoping review

Lalita Kaur, Lauranne Gendron-Cloutier and Marjorie Montreuil

Mental health and wellbeing interventions for care-experienced children and young people: Systematic review and synthesis of process evaluations

Sarah MacDonald, Rob Trubey, Jane Noyes, Soo Vinnicombe, Helen E. Morgan, Simone Willis, Maria Boffey, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Michael Robling, Charlotte Wooders and Rhiannon Evans

Risk and protective factors for African American kinship caregiving: A scoping review

Qi Wu, Yiqi Zhu, Kanisha Brevard, Shiyou Wu and Judy Krysik

Is lifestyle a bridge between perceived social support and depression in Chinese university students?

Ma Yichen and Lu Chuntian

Linking WIC program and HMO administrative data to study the impact of WIC participation

Tabashir Z. Nobari, Claudia L. Nau, Catherine M. Crespi, Corinna Koebnick, Xia Li, Shannon E. Whaley and May C. Wang

Daily experiences and close relationships incarcerated youth: Perspectives of inmates and prison staff

Gizem Erdem, Zeynep Betül Yücesoy and Ayşe Esra Ersayan

Stability in statutory kinship care: A grounded theory study of placement stability in Australia

Annaley Clarke, Karen Healy, Debby Lynch and Gerald Featherstone

A rapid evidence assessment of barriers and strategies in service engagement when working with young people with complex needs

Kimberly Klassman, Catia Malvaso, Paul Delfabbro, Lauren Moulds and John Young

Service-level barriers and facilitators to father engagement in child and family services: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

Marek B. Baran and Vilas Sawrikar

Segmented assimilation of migrant children in urban public schools of China: Impact of family resources and school segregation on their educational aspirations

Hui Qiu and Xiao Liang

How does kinship and foster care differ on caregiver-child relationship quality and child and caregiver mental health?

Alison Hassall, Sarah McKenna and Dave S. Pasalich

Relationship between bullying victimization and suicide ideation among Chinese adolescents: A moderated chain mediation model

Ji Sun, Yongfei Ban and Jiang Liu

Effectiveness of a brief social network intervention for depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents under major chronic stress

Lin Fu, Yueyue Zhou, Hao Zheng, Jin Cheng, Yue Fan, Buzohre Eli and Zhengkui Liu

Parental access to ‘Sexual Conviction Record Check’ sex offender registry in Hong Kong

Yu-Ju Huang, Gabriela Mohr, Monit Cheung and Patrick Leung

Policies to reduce child poverty and child maltreatment: A scoping review and preliminary estimates of indirect effects

Hyunil Kim, Yun Young Kim, Eun-Jee Song and Liliane Windsor

Relational security: Balancing care and control in a youth justice detention setting in Australia

Sanne Oostermeijer, Poni Tongun and Diana Johns

Is there a gender-based analysis of unaccompanied migrant minors? A systematic review of the evidence

Tatiana Avignone, Gloria Fernández-Pacheco Alises and Mercedes Torres-Jiménez

An Exploration of Sex Trading for Compensation and LGBTQ+ Inclusive Screening Practices: Perspectives of Young People who have Experienced Sex Trading and/or Homelessness

Lara B. Gerassi, Caro Cruys, Nicole Hendry and Maria del Carmen Rosales

The importance of supporting evolving capacity: The need to support young people with cognitive impairment in out-of-home-care

Shona Bates, Rosemary Kayess, Edgar Julian Laurens and Ilan Katz

The role of social identity and self-efficacy in predicting service providers’ use of Stepping Stones Triple P following training

Cassandra L. Tellegen, Martha Schoch, Julie Hodges, Kim Peters, Matthew R. Sanders, Bruce Tonge, Stewart Einfeld, Kate Sofronoff and Kylie M. Gray

Care and education: Instability, stigma and the responsibilisation of educational achievement

Katie Ellis and Claire Johnston

Effect of intervention programs to promote fundamental motor skills among typically developing children: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Dong Zhang, Kim Geok Soh, Yoke Mun Chan and Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh

Acceptability, feasibility and perceived effectiveness of online and remote mental health and wellbeing interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study with care-experienced young people, carers and professionals

Rhiannon Evans, Emily Cunningham, Lorna Stabler, Rachael Vaughan, Brittany Davies, Aimee Cummings, Maria Boffey, Charlotte Wooders and Dawn Mannay

Reintegration of Russian children returned from war zones in the Middle East: Directions, actors, barriers

Maria Kozlova, Igor Mikheev and Alfiya Lyapina

Mitigating mental health and wellbeing challenges among young populations: A scan of youth-led initiatives across Canada to inform psychosocial program development

Khandideh K.A. Williams, Charlotte Evans, Maud Mazaniello-Chézol and Alayne M. Adams

The moderated mediating effect of community integration in depressive symptoms which are related to childhood adversity and suicide attempts by adolescents who have dropped out of school

Hae-seon Cho and Sung-Man Bae

The mediating effect of psychological strengths and resilience on enhancing youth employability through social entrepreneurship education and training

Hau-lin Tam, Angus Yuk-fung Chan, Toby Tin-on Fung and Stanley Oloji Isangha

Inequitable access to relative caregiving: Implications of foster care regulations in Finland, New Zealand, and the United States

Michael Hoffmeister

The effect of the ZERO TO THREE Infant-Toddler Court Teams on type and time of exits from out-of-home care: A new study ten years after the first competing risks analysis

Cecilia Casanueva, Jason Williams, Marianne Kluckman, Sarah Harris and Jenifer Goldman Fraser

Predictors of placement instability for sexually abused children served by child protection services

Lauranne Gendron-Cloutier, Isabelle Daigneault and Tonino Esposito

Assessing a measure of organizational environment among Indigenous child welfare agencies

Sarah J. Dow-Fleisner, Nina Gregoire, Megan Stager, Kyler Woodmass, Jeffrey W. More and Susan J. Wells

Increasing the likelihood of kinship Placements: Testing the effectiveness of an intensive family search and engagement intervention

Emily Smith Goering, Sarah Kaye, Lucia Reyes, Stephanie Beleal, Alyse Almadani, Caitlin Proctor-Frazier and Elisa Rosman

Professionals’ understanding of the County Lines phenomenon: Insights from a study exploring the perceptions of young peoples’ supported accommodation staff

Jessica Pearson and John Cavener

“Will there always be this dark side?” Gay teenage boys’ sexual experiences with adult men

Ofer Kronenfeld and Yochay Nadan

Educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam: Implications for disadvantaged children

Pham Tien Thanh, Nguyen Hoang Mai Tram and Le Thanh Tung

Underreporting child maltreatment during the pandemic: Evidence from Colorado

Alexa Prettyman

What relationship variables predict a more reliable proxy reporter of adolescent wellbeing? A systematic review

Kirstie Northfield, Anthony J. Saliba and Keith M. Harris

Early childhood and primary school Teachers’ experiences and needs in working with trauma-impacted Children: A systematic review and thematic synthesis

Yihan Sun, Andrea Tamblyn, Heather Morris, Crystal Boothby, Helen Skouteris and Claire Blewitt

“Lost connection”: Pandemic related disruptions to schooling and social services among Latinx immigrant youth and families

Jennifer L. Siegel, Nalini Junko Negi, Guadalupe A. Bacio, Tural Mammadli and Dana Kobrin

Socioeconomic disparities in school life expectancy among India and its major states of India in the last decade: Insights from large scale household surveys data

Anita Pal, Madhusudan J.V., Dolly Kumari and Vineet Kumar Kamal

Latent profile analysis of risk and protective factors among foster parents: A cross-sectional study

Taylor Dowdy-Hazlett and Shelby L. Clark

Associated factors and patterns of school bullying among school-aged adolescents in China: A latent class analysis

Fangdu Liu, Yaming Yang, Ping Lin, Yue Xiao, Yan Sun, Gaoqiang Fei, Jiachang Gu, Yanyuan Meng, Xuanli Jiang, Xiaoyu Wang, Jiating Sheng, Minhui Li, Lorann Stallones, Henry Xiang and Xujun Zhang

The global context of youth engagement: A scoping review of youth councils in municipal government

Astraea Augsberger, Mary E. Collins and Riana C. Howard

Mentoring for care-experienced young people: A rapid review of program design

Ben Arnold Lohmeyer, Joel Robert McGregor, Zoe Crittenden and Catherine Hartung

Exposure to neighborhood violence and insufficient sleep among adolescents in the United States: Findings from a population-based study

Philip Baiden, Enoch Azasu, Catherine A. LaBrenz, John F. Baiden, Edinam C. Gobodzo, Vera E. Mets and Marisa N. Broni

Online disinhibition and adolescent cyberbullying: A systematic review

Lin Wang, Shan Jiang, Ziyao Zhou, Wanyan Fei and Wanyi Wang

Testing the structure of the BERRI using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Andrei D. Viziteu, Luís Costa da Silva, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Saul Hillman, Miriam Silver, Meryl Westlake and Jasmine Harju-Seppänen

Associations between service use and behavioral health trajectories among young adults experiencing homelessness

Graham DiGuiseppi, Eric R. Pedersen, Anthony Rodriguez, Elizabeth J. D'Amico and Joan S. Tucker

Intersecting transitions among 2S/LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness: A scoping review

Trevor Goodyear, Koharu Loulou Chayama, John L. Oliffe, Hannah Kia, Danya Fast, Caroline Mniszak, Rod Knight and Emily Jenkins

Latin American children in Ontario child welfare: An examination of investigation disparities

Bryn King, Henry Parada, Barbara Fallon, Veronica Escobar Olivo, Laura M. Best and Joanne Filippelli

Administrators’ perspectives on organizational environmental factors facing 4-H youth development

Jeremy Elliott-Engel, Donna M. Westfall-Rudd, Megan Seibel, Eric Kaufman and Rama Radhakrishna

Belonging mediates changes to resilience among separated siblings at camp-based reunification intervention

Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, Faith VanMeter and Jeffrey Waid

“Don’t tell me how to tell my story”: Exploring young people’s perceptions around what it means to ‘feel (mis)understood’ by adults in supporting roles

Emily Cunningham, Isla Jamieson-MacKenzie, Christina McMellon, Martha McCallin, Myada Eltiraifi, Levi Smith and Katie Hepburn

A Latent Class Analysis: Are caregiver factors associated with U.S. adolescents' mental health?

Hyejoon Park, Sojeong Nam, Jeongwoon Jeong and Jihyun Jane Min

Resilience among children in foster care: Variability in adaptive functioning and associated factors

Pablo Carrera, Maite Román and Jesús M. Jiménez-Morago

An Assessment of the Internal Structure of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Using Two Samples of High-Risk Adolescents

Kristina K. Childs, Sara L. Bryson, Melanie F.P. Soderstrom and April Reed

Outcomes of youth with foster care experiences based on permanency outcome – Adoption, aging out, long-term foster care, and reunification: A systematic review

Abigail Rose Lindner and Ryan Hanlon

The prevalence of mental health disorders amongst care-experienced young people in the UK: A systematic review

Aimee Cummings and Katherine Shelton

Trauma-informed programs in Australian schools: A systematic review of design, implementation and efficacy

Lise Newton, Carol A. Keane and Mitchell K. Byrne

Effects of teacher support on math engagement among Chinese college students: A mediated moderation model of math self-efficacy and intrinsic value

Yan Gan and Juan Peng

Online grooming among Portuguese adolescents and the COVID-19 lockdown: Relationship with other types of victimization

Telma Catarina Almeida and Inês Barreiros

Peer relationships, emotional and behavioral problems in siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Nuray Caner, Yağmur Sezer Efe, Birgül Vural and Elif Bilge Ertaş

Psychometric characteristics of the knowledge of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder scale (KADDS) in a sample of Colombian teachers

Carolina Robledo-Castro, Christian Hederich-Martínez and Diana Marcela Montoya-Londoño

Child care access for families raising children with disabilities

Molly A. Costanzo and Katherine Magnuson

Psychological comorbidities and suicidality in sexual and gender minority foster youth

Dana M. Prince, Meagan Ray-Novak, Krystel Tossone, Emily Peterson, Braveheart Gillani and Laura Mintz

Identifying risk of child welfare involvement in Orange County births with the Bridges Program

John Prindle, Eunhye Ahn, Regan Foust and Emily Putnam-Hornstein

Associations of youth mentoring with parent emotional well-being and family functioning: Longitudinal findings from a study of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada

Gizem Erdem, David L. DuBois, Simon Larose, David J. De Wit and Ellen L. Lipman

Parenting: There is an app for that. A systematic review of parenting interventions apps

Oana Alexandra David, Ioana Alexandra Iuga and Ionela Simona Miron

Supporting academic achievement of children in out-of-home care through effective interventions: results of a systematic review and meta-analyses

Julie Goulet, Christine Maltais, Isabelle Archambault, Véronique Noël and Muriel Guériton