Child Abuse & Neglect

Article	Citations
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	147
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	128
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	105
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	92
A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	83
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	78
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	68
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	65
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	65
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	64
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	63
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	63
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	62
Trauma behind the keyboard: Exploring disparities in child sexual abuse materials exposure and mental health factors among investigators and forensic examiners – A network analysis	59
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	58
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	57
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	57
Supporting resilience among young people at risk of child abuse in Ethiopia: The role of social system alignment	53
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	49
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	47
Professional and informal help-seeking among low-income adolescents exposed to violence in the community and at school	46
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	43
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation	42
Child maltreatment and substances use throughout adolescence and adulthood: Data from a Brazilian Birth Cohort	41
In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-19	41

What drives change in children receiving telephone-delivered Common Elements Treatment Approach (t-CETA)? A multiple n = 1 study with Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon	41
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	40
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	40
Are different types of childhood adversities correlated within and across time? A comparison of data on adversity co-occurrence from three longitudinal birth cohort studies	40
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	39
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	39
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	39
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	39
Changing the paradigm: Using strategic communications to promote recognition of child sexual abuse as a preventable public health problem	38
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	38
“Instead of just taking my baby, they could've actually given me a chance”: Experiences with plans of safe care among birth parents impacted by perinatal substance use	37
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study	37
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	37
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	36
Child maltreatment and emergency department visits: a longitudinal birth cohort study from infancy to early adulthood	36
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	36
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	36
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	36
Violence and abuse experiences and associated risk factors during the COVID-19 outbreak in a population-based sample of Norwegian adolescents	36
Differences in ambulance attendances between children with and without an identified history of out-of-home-care	35
Factors associated with poor neurological outcome in children after abusive head trauma: A multicenter retrospective study	35
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and their associations with depression, life satisfaction and short-form video addiction in Chinese college students	35
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder in women: A prospective cohort study in China	35
Child welfare workers satisfaction and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of agency staff in Ohio	35
Editorial: Letter from Tracie O. Afifi, the incoming editor-in-chief of Child Abuse & Neglect	35
The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia	35
Psychological maltreatment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: A multiple mediation model	34
Aggressive parenting behavior among grandparents providing childcare for grandchildren: A case study of Shenzhen, China.	33
Factors associated with reunification and placement move for children placed in kinship care under the age of thirteen	33
Severe sexual abuse in childhood and altered neurophysiological response to reward in female adults	32
Adverse childhood experiences, HIV and sexual risk behaviors ― Five sub-Saharan countries, 2018–2020	32
School bullying among refugee and non-refugee adolescent students in Lebanon	31
Nurturing roots: Motivations of Inuit foster parents caring for Inuit children in Nunavik	31
Attachment & biobehavioral catch-up participation & reunification in a family treatment court	31
Sexual exploitation of children: Barriers for boys in accessing social supports for victimization	30
Cumulative risk, factor analysis, and latent class analysis of childhood adversity data in a nationally representative sample	30
Changes in parents' mental health related to child out-of-home care placements: A Swedish national register study	30
Building skills and resilience in child abuse pediatricians: A novel program to address Secondary Traumatic Stress	29
Early adverse childhood experiences and preschoolers' attentional regulation: A latent class analysis	29
Effects of formal center-based care and positive parenting practices on children in foster care	29
The shielding effect of not responding: Peritraumatic responses to child abuse and their links to posttraumatic symptomatology	29
Linkages between childhood emotional maltreatment and adulthood marital attitudes among rural first-generation college students in China: A latent profile analysis and multigroup comparisons	29
Adverse childhood experiences in Australian youth adjudicated for sexual offences and non-sexual violent offences	28
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board	28
Impressions of child advocacy center leaders: How problematic sexual behavior in children and adolescents is perceived by community professionals	28
Health-related quality of life after child maltreatment in institutions: Results from a representative population-based sample in Germany	27
Psychological and physical abuse towards four-year-old children as reported by their parents: A national Finnish survey	27
Social anxiety and bullying victimization: A three-level meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies	27
Maximizing the return on investment in Early Childhood Home Visiting through enhanced eligibility screening	27
Positive developments and ongoing challenges in supporting child and youth resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	27

Childhood maltreatment and suicide attempts: A prospective cohort study in Chinese middle school students	27
Profiles of abuse and neglect and the association with mental health indicators among a large sample of boys and girls from India	27
Exposure to family and domestic violence is associated with lower attendance and higher suspension in school children	27
Why emotional neglect brings suicidal ideation? The mediating effect of meaning in life and the moderating effect of post-stress growth	27
Reactions to the disclosure of intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline	26
The missing link between poverty and child maltreatment: Parental burnout	26
Peer parent programs in child welfare: A systematic review	26
Sibling sexual abuse: What do we know? What do we need to know? Stage 1 analysis of a 2-stage scoping review	25
Associations between experiences of childhood maltreatment and perceived acceptability of child maltreatment: A cross-cultural and exploratory study	25
The ethics of child maltreatment surveys in relation to participant distress: Implications of social science evidence, ethical guidelines, and law	25
Dual system youth and their pathways in Los Angeles County: A replication of the OJJDP Dual System Youth Study	25
Technology assisted child sexual abuse: Professionals’ perceptions of risk and impact on children and young people	25
The impact of case factors on the initial screening decision in child welfare investigations in Norway	24
Future orientation in justice-involved youth: The effects of adverse and positive childhood experiences, and being dual-status	24
Receipt of parenting, disability, unemployment, and other income support payments in persons aged 16 to 33 years – the associations with child maltreatment	24
Child protection system involvement in children of incarcerated mothers: A linked data study	24
COVID-19: Differences in sentinel injury and child abuse reporting during a pandemic	24
Psychological resilience and childhood maltreatment: The role of self-efficacy, personality functioning and social support in young adult residential care leavers	24
Testing a hybrid risk assessment model: Predicting CSAM offender risk from digital forensic artifacts	24
Home visitors' needs and perceptions of the benefits of a home visiting program for childcare support in Japan: A qualitative study of home visitors	24
Disparities in adverse childhood experiences by race/ethnicity, gender, and economic status: Intersectional analysis of a nationally representative sample	24
The effect of therapeutic and deterrent messages on Internet users attempting to access ‘barely legal’ pornography	24
Transdiagnostic factors in the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the role of childhood abuse and neglect in establishing latent profiles of risk and resilience	23
Child maltreatment online education for healthcare and social service providers: Implications for the COVID-19 context and beyond	23
Longitudinal trajectories of depressive symptoms among sexually abused adolescents involved in child protection services	23
The mediating role of adolescent psychopathology in the association between frequent or severe childhood abuse and labor market inactivity in young adulthood: A causal mediation approach	23
Foster youth's placement preferences: The roles of kin, siblings, and age	23
A qualitative analysis of child protection professionals' challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C): Translation and adaptation to Mexican Spanish, and psychometric properties tested in Mexico City adolescents	23
Childhood sexual abuse and cholesterol risk: Testing body mass index as a mediator across gender in a national sample of adults	23
Caring Dads intervention for fathers who have perpetrated abuse within their families: Quasi-experimental evaluation of child protection outcomes over two years	23
On the relationship between economic inequality and child maltreatment: Takeaways from the special issue and future directions	23
Child protective services contact and youth outcomes	23
Psychosocial functioning as a mediator between childhood trauma and symptom severity in patients with schizophrenia	23
Labor trafficking of children and youth in the United States: A scoping review	23
“It burns her more than it burns for me”: The sibling subsystem in the context of child physical abuse as portrayed by children during forensic interviews	23
Association between lifetime sexual violence victimization and selected health conditions and risk behaviors among 13–24-year-olds in Lesotho: Results from the Violence Against Children and Youth Surv	22
Motivations and perspectives on the use of corporal punishment at home: A qualitative study of Ghanaian parents	22
Aims & Scope	22
Abusive head trauma: Annual medical costs for inpatient care of children managed at a single tertiary care centre in Malaysia	22
Positive childhood experiences serve as protective factors for mental health in pandemic-era youth with adverse childhood experiences	21
Childhood abuse and risk of migraine: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
The association between peer rejection and aggression types: A meta-analysis	21
Modeling changes in adolescent health risk behaviors approaching and just after the time of emancipation from foster care	21
Exploring nursing students' awareness about child abuse and neglect	21
“Maybe what happened is actually OK?” Child sexual abuse by authority figures in the ultra-orthodox community in Israel: Survivors' perceptions of their relationships with the perpetrator	21
Exploring the relationship between adoption and psychological trauma for children who are adopted from care: A longitudinal case study perspective	21
Rediscovering latent trauma: An adopted adult's perspective	21
Chronic bullying victimization and life satisfaction among children from multicultural families in South Korea: Heterogeneity by immigrant mothers' country of origin	21
Protecting children from maltreatment during COVID-19: Struggling to see children and their families through the lockdowns	21
The role of childhood maltreatment and mental health disorders on suicidal behaviour in adolescents	20
Adverse childhood experiences, mental health, and social functioning: A scoping review of the literature	20
Racial/ethnic and gender disparities in child protection decision-making: What role do stereotypes play?	20
A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents	20
What's the matter with ACEs? Recommendations for considering early adversity in educational contexts	20
Parents' and professionals' perspectives on school-based maltreatment prevention education for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities	20
Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and association with dating violence and symptoms of mental illness among adolescents in the Dominican Republic	20
What's missing? Violently injured Black men's narratives around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)	19
Offenders' approaches to overcoming victim resistance in technology-assisted child sexual abuse	19
Disclosure and help-seeking behaviors related to sexual and physical violence in childhood and adolescence: Results from the Namibia Violence Against Children and Youth Survey	19
The impact of stay-at-home orders on the rate of emergency department child maltreatment diagnoses	19
Growth recovery lines in children: A comparison between psychosocial short stature and other pathological causes of short stature	19
The reliability and validity of the brief measures of perceived childhood harshness and unpredictability: A revised Chinese version for emerging adults	19
Making every contact count: Can healthcare professionals do more to avoid preventable child deaths?	19
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board	19
The association between early reports to Child Protective Services and developmental trajectories through middle childhood	18
The religious implications of being sexually abused by a rabbi: Qualitative research among Israeli religious men	18
A macro-level understanding of levels and trends in the abuse and homicide of children, 1997–2020	18
Drivers to implementing a whole-system approach to enquiring about adverse childhood experiences: A mixed methods evaluation from a single county in England	18
The global impact of COVID-19 on child protection professionals: A scoping review and thematic analysis	18
The mediating role of self-regulation on the link between child maltreatment and later substance use among Latinx youth	18
Associations between prospective and retrospective measures of child abuse and self-reported adult health at midlife	18
“No one wants you back, you will stay here forever”: Exploring the story of the Israeli children who were held in captivity by Hamas	18
A national survey of pediatric emergency medicine physicians on improving education in child maltreatment recognition and reporting child abuse & neglect	18
What do children say about seeking help in situations of gender-based violence? Different perspectives depending on whether they have experienced such situations or not	18
Development and validation of a self-report measure assessing failures in the mentalization of trauma and adverse relationships	17
The relationship between national racism and child abuse among Palestinians in Israel: The moderating role of coping strategies	17
Family characteristics, responses, and dynamics associated with sibling sexual abuse: A scoping review	17
Examining mental health service use across intergenerational patterns of child protection system contact: A case for cross-sector supports	17
Childhood maltreatment predicts poorer executive functioning in adulthood beyond symptoms of internalizing psychopathology	17

Leveraging machine learning for effective child maltreatment prevention: A case study of home visiting service assessments	17
The influence of childhood abuse and prenatal intimate partner violence on childbirth experiences and breastfeeding outcomes	17
Psychological maltreatment and aggression in preadolescence: Roles of temperamental effortful control and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies	17
Interparental violence and children's attentional bias: The mediating effect of parental harsh discipline in China	17
Invisible children and non-essential workers: Child protection during COVID-19 in Israel according to policy documents and media coverage	17
The role of maternal child maltreatment history and unsupportive emotion socialization in the intergenerational transmission of emotion regulation difficulties	17
Child maltreatment, adult romantic attachment and parental sense of competence	17
Preliminary findings for adverse childhood experiences and associations with negative physical and mental health and victimization in transmasculine adults	17
Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study	17
Lifetime psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents with severe conduct problems – A register-based follow-up study	17
Latent profiles of bullying perpetration and victimization: Gender differences and family variables	17
A latent profile analysis of social anxiety among Chinese left-behind children and adolescents: Associations with online parent-child communication and online social capital	17
Association of routine school closures with child maltreatment reporting and substantiation in the United States; 2010–2017	17
Child maltreatment and NR3C1 exon 1F methylation, link with deregulated hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and psychopathology: A systematic review	16
Examining the profiles of school violence and their association with individual and relational covariates among South Korean children	16
Adolescent substance use at the intersections of foster care, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, and sex assigned at birth	16
Emotional valence and the types of information provided by children in forensic interviews	16
The problematization of child sexual abuse in policy and law: The Indonesian example	16
Pilot randomized controlled trial of an attachment- and trauma-focused intervention for kinship caregivers	16
Mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in Europe: A systematic review	16
County-level analysis on occupation and ecological determinants of child abuse and neglect rates employing elastic net regression	16
“Maybe I imagined it, maybe it really was all just childish play”: Complexity and ambiguity in survivors' perceptions of harmful preadolescent sexual behavior	16
Re-referrals to Child Protective Services for children born to young parents	16
Implementation of a screening tool for child sex trafficking among youth presenting to the emergency department – A quality improvement initiative	16
Association between Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child maltreatment among a cohort of fragile families	15
Is teacher violence a form of betrayal trauma? Relationship with mental health problems among young adults	15
Association between maternal dissatisfaction with oneself at birth and shaking and smothering toward the offspring up to 18 months old	15
Client and staff experiences assessing adverse childhood experiences in a clinical setting: Results from the First Nations ACE Study	15
Pathways of Care: A longitudinal study of children in care in Australia	15
‘It's not like we use the word emotional abuse’. A study on Norwegian child welfare workers understanding of emotional abuse	15
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board	15
The interplay of childhood trauma, oxytocin, and impulsivity in predicting the onset of methamphetamine use	15
Does it add up? Educational achievement mediates child maltreatment subtypes to allostatic load	15
Traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in pediatrics: Implications of factor XIII deficiency and consumptive coagulopathy in abusive head trauma evaluation	15
Childhood emotional abuse and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents: The sequential masking effect of ruminative thinking and deliberate rumination	15
Children are in need of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan	15
Responding to concerns related to the measurement of ICD-11 complex posttraumatic stress disorder using the International Trauma Questionnaire	15
Listening to the Children Involved in Violent Military Conflict	15
Multi-level factors associated with psychological resilience in the face of adverse childhood experiences among Chinese early adolescents	15
The impact of childhood emotional abuse on the developmental trajectory of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents: The mediating role of self-compassion and peer attachment	15
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on child abuse and neglect: A cross-sectional study in a French Child Advocacy Center	15
Caseworker documentation of mothers in foster care: A case study in California	15
Child and adolescent maltreatment patterns and risk of eating disorder behaviors developing in young adulthood	14
Swedish interpreters' views and experiences of interpreting child forensic interviews	14
Case reports unlocked: Harnessing large language models to advance research on child maltreatment	14
Moderated mediation analyses: Exploring the complex pathways between school bullying and suicidal ideation among vocational school students in China	14
Comparing bullying to ACEs in the national survey of children's health: Examining 2016–2019 prevalence trends among children and adolescents	14
War and reintegration for girls and young women in northern Uganda: A scoping review	14
A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe	14
Factors contributing to filicide-suicide: Differences between male and female perpetrators	14
“I felt like I was going to cause conflict. So, I kept quiet …” (Female child rape victim, 15 years)	14
How societal responses to COVID-19 could contribute to child neglect	14
Comparison of crosswalk methods for translating ICD-9 to ICD-10 diagnosis codes for child maltreatment	14
Neighborhood collective efficacy reduces child maltreatment through decreasing parenting stress: A longitudinal path model	14
Change in Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) scores over time among children and youth in out-of-home care: A latent growth curve analysis	14
Examining the role of child welfare worker characteristics and the substantiation decision	14
“Just listen to me”: Experiences of therapy after childhood sibling sexual abuse	14
Preventing harmful sexual behavior in primary schools: Barriers and solutions	13
Effectiveness of digital game-based GISCC program on cyberbullying prevention among Chinese adolescents	13
Parenting stress and children's trauma symptoms over the course of TF-CBT: Examining differences between relative and foster/adoptive caregivers	13
Health services utilization and cost of abusive head trauma in Taiwan: A population-based retrospective matched cohort study	13
Do parenting behaviors intended as discipline vary by household religious affiliation in Cameroon?	13
Association between adverse childhood experiences and brain volumes among Japanese community-dwelling older people: Findings from the NEIGE study	13
Childhood irritability-aggression profiles and parent-to-child violence: Evidence of interactive effect in predicting youth violence	13
Systematic review and critical appraisal of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire — Short Form (CTQ-SF)	13
Predictors of symptom severity and change among youth in trauma-informed residential care	13
Developing a trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy application for adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors: A conceptual framework	13
Assessing the effects of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP) on child abuse and neglect	13
Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and substance use in youth offenders in Singapore	13
Parenting stress among new parents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Comparing the prevalence of sexual behaviors and victimization among adolescents based on child welfare system involvement	13
Aims & Scope	13
Aims & Scope	13
Children's right to participation in residential care: A staff-based study in Portugal	13
A spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on child abuse and neglect in the city of Los Angeles, California	13
“She was willing to send me there”: Intrafamilial child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of boys	13
Unraveling cyber sexual abuse of minors: Psychometrics properties of the Multidimensional Online Grooming Questionnaire and prevalence by sex and age	13
A trauma-informed substance use disorder prevention program for transracially adopted children and adolescents	12
Truancy: The relevance of resilience-related internal assets, student engagement and perception of school success in youth living with parents and in residential care	12
Interrelationships between childhood maltreatment, depressive symptoms, functional impairment, and quality of life in patients with major depressive disorder: A network analysis approach	12
Associations between early child adversity and lifetime suicide attempts among gender diverse individuals: A moderated mediation	12
The association between adverse childhood experiences and depression trajectories in the Add Health study	12
Response to the Reddy, Williams-Isom, & Putnam-Hornstein's brief “Racial sensitivity training: An inadequate solution to systemic racial disparities in child protection systems”	12
Shadows of doubt: Ambivalent acknowledgment of abuse and identification with the aggressor	12
The role of individual-, family-, and school-level resilience in the subjective well-being of children exposed to violence in Namibia	12
Disclosure and non-disclosure of childhood sexual abuse in Australia: Results from a national survey	12
A scoping review of child grooming strategies: pre- and post-internet	12
Mothers' experiences of emotional abuse from an intimate partner and its associations with children's developmental outcomes at 5 years	12
The effects of child maltreatment and exposure to intimate partner violence on the co-occurrence of anxious/depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior	12
Routine screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) still doesn't make sense	12
Early adolescent development in the face of violence: A systematic review running	12
Trauma-informed care as a rights-based “standard of care”: A critical review	12
Examining the relative impact of adverse and positive childhood experiences on adolescent mental health: A strengths-based perspective	12
Orphan discipline and child neglect: An analysis from 48 countries	12
Attachment and social support mediate associations between polyvictimization and psychological distress in early Uganda and Kenya adolescents	12