Children and Youth Services Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Children and Youth Services Review is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Occupational risk factors in child protection social work: A scoping review161
‘Love and knowledge’: Enhancing knowledge, fostering belonging, and advancing caring skills among community caregivers for children of asylum-seekers71
The child’s right to family life when living in public care: how to facilitate contact that preserves, strengthens, and develops family ties59
Scientific workshop program to improve science identity, science capital and educational aspirations of children at risk of social exclusion51
Corrigendum to “Measuring sexual interaction competence in adolescents: A validation study of the Sexual Interaction and Relationship Questionnaire (SIRQ)” [Child. Youth Serv. Rev. 163 (2024) 107813]44
Who teaches youth about police? Examining associations between knowledge sources and police interactions43
Fighting for opportunities for protection and rehabilitation after child sexual abuse39
Delving into teen dating violence, gender and health assets in a participatory educational intervention: A mixed methods evaluation37
Systemic family engagement to preserve and reunify families: Lessons from the U.S. and Chile36
Relative deprivation and aggressive behavior: The serial mediation of school engagement and deviant peer affiliation34
Identifying family engagement priorities in youth residential treatment settings: A group concept mapping study33
Consequences of cyber dating abuse on adolescent victims: Systematic review33
Expanding the child care table of influence: Reaching under-resourced families to understand their needs and barriers to accessing early childhood care and education33
Assessment of HIV and STI vulnerabilities and associated factors among street children in Islamabad capital territory, Pakistan33
Teleservices use among Latinx immigrant families during the Covid-19 pandemic32
Comparison of intergenerational transmission of gender roles between single-parent families and two-parent families: The influence of parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes32
Kinship navigation: Facilitating permanency and equity for youth in child welfare29
“If we didn't talk, we would be like ostriches burying our heads in the sand”: Attitudes toward sexuality, gender, and sex education among child protection social workers in Egypt29
Women and men physically abused by closely related perpetrators over a lifespan. Revictimization and associations to situational factors in childhood27
Families refusing assistance from the Norwegian child welfare Services- the importance of family characteristics, case processing and identified problems26
Editorial Board26
School climate and cyberbullying victimization: A meta-analysis25
Domestic abuse, primary care and child mental health services: A systems analysis of service coordination from professionals’ perspectives25
Family perspectives from users and non-users of subsidized child care: Benefits and barriers to subsidy participation25
A systematic review of psychological well-being interventions for child victims of school violence25
How do children describe their experiences of parental imprisonment: A qualitative scoping review25
Son-to-mother violence in the aftermath of domestic violence: Experiences of sons attending group violence prevention programs24
Net worth poverty and child Well-being: Black–White differences24
Understanding the importance of the physical environment in meetings between children and child welfare workers at the social services – A scoping review24
Evaluating the impact of Family Visit Coaching on future system contact24
Practices and settings which promote a psychological sense of community among young people who experience social marginalization: A scoping review23
Groupings between floating children and urban children: A Bourdieusian social network analysis of physical and social distance in space23
Determinants of school drop-out among adolescents in rural Sri Lanka23
Will violence cycle? The reciprocal relationship between children’s bullying involvement and interparental conflict23
Household crowding and income loss increases intimate partner violence during the pandemic among isolating families with young children in the United States22
Working with emotions in social work practice. A pride-building model for institutional care of young people22
A national New Zealand study of childhood non-offending contact with police and later offending in adolescence21
Designing HIV prevention interventions that are acceptable to young adults in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a mapping review and inductive thematic analysis20
Exploring child participation in protecting them from maltreatment: Lithuanian insights20
Investigating local policy responses to support care-experienced young people in China – A scoping review19
Predictors of care leavers’ health outcomes: A scoping review19
Money or Time? The association between parental investment, school engagement and adolescent behavioral problem19
Experiences during COVID-19: Needs of college students with a history of foster care19
Editorial Board19
Using a systems perspective to examine child protection systems and practice: A scoping review on child abandonment and institutionalisation in the Maghreb18
Risk of child sexual abuse: A mixed-methods analysis of judicial decisions in the Youth Court of Québec17
Recruiting carers for older children and youth: Messages and methods of media campaigns17
“Now I am calm because they guide you:” A mixed-method exploratory study of the service needs and experiences of Latine kinship caregivers in Washington State17
Exposure to neighborhood violence and insufficient sleep among adolescents in the United States: Findings from a population-based study17
The association between family socioeconomic status and suicide ideation among adolescent: A conditional process model17
The Black-White paradox of mental health in college students17
A qualitative study on the perceptions of illness and hospitalization of school age children with cancer17
An Exploration of Sex Trading for Compensation and LGBTQ+ Inclusive Screening Practices: Perspectives of Young People who have Experienced Sex Trading and/or Homelessness16
Framework and effects of the life story work based group intervention ANKOMMEN for adolescents in residential care in Germany. A qualitative analysis of interviews with participants16
Psychotropic medication prescribing in male juvenile justice facilities16
Children’s understandings of gender-based violence at home: The role school can play in child disclosure16
Navigation of self-conflict and role of self-acceptance within LGBTQ+ young people in contemporary Mongolia16
“They gotta beat us”: A qualitative investigation of multiple forms of violence and police interactions among urban youth16
Gender differences in the role of peer relationship quality on psychological symptoms in youth at-risk for maltreatment16
Effects of cultural stressors and family etiologic factors on behavioral and mental health among Mexican and other Latino/a immigrant parents in the United States15
Living in Italian residential care under COVID-19 restrictions. A survey on adolescents’ perspectives over their psychosocial wellbeing15
Empowerment-focused positive youth development programming for underprivileged youth in the Southern U.S.: A qualitative evaluation15
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and community environments15
Household income mobility and adolescent subjective well-being in China: Analyzing the mechanisms of influence15
“Hope dies last”: Children surviving captivity as conveyed in the interviews with the Israeli children who were held in Gaza15
Meta-analysis of family functioning and self-esteem among Chinese adolescents15
Systematic analysis on school violence and bullying using data mining14
Editorial Board14
School disruption of children in China: The influence of parents’ rural–urban migration14
Deportation threat and infant birthweight in California, 2003–2012: The role of place and immigrant mothers’ legal status14
Family separation as an oppressive tool: A scoping review of child separation from the primary caregiver as the result of migration policies14
Taking a stand against racism: The urgent need for SAWUBONA in child protection and foster care social work14
Relationship between adolescents’ perceptions of social support and their psychological well-being during COVID-19 Pandemic: A case study from Turkey14
“Something Had to Give”: A qualitative study of fathering in the early months of a global pandemic13
Raised in conditions of psychosocial deprivation: Effects of infant institutionalization on early development13
Perceptions of a Youth-Serving Training Program: A case study13
Implementation of training and coaching to improve goal planning and family engagement in early childhood home visiting13
Understanding the needs of foster parents of youth with special health care needs: Perceptions, barriers, and recommendations13
Community resource and social safety net information, knowledge, and use among parents of young children in a homeless shelter13
Risk perceptions and experience in child protection decision-making: A comparative study of student social workers in Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand13
Do we get what we expect? A qualitative study of preschool teachers’ experiences with the Incredible Years® Teacher Classroom Management program13
Stability in statutory kinship care: A grounded theory study of placement stability in Australia13
Staff perspectives on the successful families program model: Combining supportive housing with wraparound services for teen families13
Social behaviour changes via mindfulness practices in early childhood13
A validation study of the Colorado Family Support Assessment 2.013
Networking people for goal attainment: Psychosocial processes facilitating resilience of care-leavers in South Africa13
Longitudinal linkages among immigrant mothers’ language proficiency, parental self-efficacy, and school involvement12
Family stress and self-efficacy in parents of children with special needs: The regulatory role of perceived social support12
Informalizing childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: Policy responses to childcare and their implications for working parents in Denmark, England and Germany12
Poverty and children entering care in England: A qualitative study of local authority policymakers’ perspectives of challenges in Children’s Services12
The need and acceptability of a youth mental health mentoring model to supplement adolescent outpatient mental health services12
The significance of religion when matching children with migrant background and foster carers − child welfare workers’ perspectives12
Childhood experiences, growing up “in care,” and trust: A quantitative analysis12
Youth views of community needs: A photovoice collaboration12
Sociodemographic risk, school engagement, and community characteristics: A mediated approach to understanding high school dropout12
Child welfare triage: Use of screening threshold analysis to evaluate intake decision-making12
Editorial Board12
Child’s age at migration, high school course-taking and higher education12
Implementation and effectiveness of the Indian Child Welfare Act: A systematic review12
Well-being, school and age, from the understandings of Chilean children12
Daily experiences and close relationships incarcerated youth: Perspectives of inmates and prison staff11
A national review of child welfare competency models11
Is lifestyle a bridge between perceived social support and depression in Chinese university students?11
Youth Lens methodology: Critical participatory action research with youth in Cleveland, Ohio11
Resilience among children in foster care: Variability in adaptive functioning and associated factors11
How child welfare professionals search for, access, and share information: Findings from the National child welfare information study11
What happens when we ask? A phenomenological focus group on HIV prevention and sexual health education among emancipated foster care youth11
Editorial Board11
Affective acculturation and psychological well-being of children: The case of children from multicultural families in Korea11
The Historical Roots of Governance Deficits in Israeli Early Childhood Education and Care Services11
The associations between destructive parenting practice and addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone: A three-level meta-analysis11
Mental health stigma, community support, and somatic complaints among Latinx youth11
Evaluation of interprofessional training to strengthen communication and coordination among providers working with expectant mothers and infants affected by substance use11
Parental access to ‘Sexual Conviction Record Check’ sex offender registry in Hong Kong11
Caregiver perceptions of the pediatric medical home model to address the health services needs of youth in foster care11
Child labor in Vietnam: Issues and policy implications11
Effect of parental competences on anxious-depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in adolescents: Exploring the mediating role of mindfulness10
The association between family physical environment and child maltreatment10
Editorial Board10
Criminal justice system contact of students with disabilities by race and ethnicity: Examining the role of school police10
Sexual and reproductive health among marginalized and system-involved youth10
Child self-report and child-parent agreement regarding health-related quality of life under COVID-19 lockdown in the French Grand Est area10
The relationship between human rights, negative affect, bullying victimization, and life satisfaction among Korean adolescents: A national sample study10
Do courts know how to incentivize? Behavioral response of non-resident parents to child support obligations10
Do child care characteristics during toddlerhood explain income-based gaps in reading and math skills at preschool?10
Socioeconomic disparities in school life expectancy among India and its major states of India in the last decade: Insights from large scale household surveys data10
Reasons used by Flemish foster care workers in family reunification decision making10
Measurement of traumatic experiences of children within survey and intervention research: A Systematic Review of the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen10
Psychometric properties of pandemic awareness scale for students aged 8–12: The case of COVID-1910
The role of family relationships in youth mentoring: An ecological perspective10
Feasibility and preliminary outcomes from a non-randomized trial of the free talk program in a short-term juvenile detention facility10
Sexting and behavioral health in first-time justice-involved adolescents10
‘My disability was my own responsibility’: An institutional ethnography of the transitional experiences of disabled young people leaving care10
Editorial Board10
Increasing access to justice for children: A brief report on the Brazilian Sign Language version of the NICHD protocol10
Care experienced LGBTQA + young people in out-of-home care in Australia: A case study10
Adolescent firearm suicide risk patterns: A latent class analysis using U.S. National Violent Death Reporting System surveillance data, 2007–20179
Service coordination for transition-age foster youth with disabilities: A survey of state independent living coordinators9
Latent classes among substance-involved families in child welfare: Associations with treatment completion and reunification9
Mental health need and psychiatric service utilization patterns of refugee children in Turkey: A comparative study9
Day-to-day variation in adolescent food insecurity9
Needs of youth enrolled in a statewide system of care: A latent class analysis9
Mental health difficulties in students with suspected COVID-19 symptoms and students without suspected COVID-19 symptoms: A cross-sectional comparative study during the COVID-19 pandemic9
“Don’t Give Up”: Persevering for a better life through community college among students with foster care experience9
Common elements to reduce seclusion in child and adolescent residential care settings: A synthesis of literature and semi-structured interviews9
Effectiveness of mixed-mode parenting training program during the COVID-19 pandemic: A quasi-experiment study in Hong Kong9
Factors affecting malnutrition of rural adolescent girls: Evidences from selected districts of West Bengal9
How adolescents view the role of the wilderness in wilderness therapy: “I am in the middle of nowhere and that is okay”9
Factors associated with post-college success for foster care alumni college graduates9
O le tagata ma lona aiga, o le tagata ma lona fa’asinomaga (Every person belongs to a family and every family belongs to a person): Development of a parenting framework for adolescent mental wellbeing9
Managing Youth Trauma Effectively: Evaluating the virtual delivery of a brief psychoeducational group for caregivers of trauma-exposed young children9
Adult characteristics, skills, and approaches that facilitate supportive relationships with youth: A qualitative investigation of Sources of Strength9
Adaptation and psychometric properties of the Greek version of Youth Efficacy/Empowerment Scale – Mental Health9
Anticipated unmet educational expectations following youth police contact9
The child abuse reporting guideline compliance in Korean newspapers9
A systematic review of early childhood research on diversity and difference (1968–2019)9
Can leadership make the difference? A scoping review of leadership and its effects in child and youth care9
The emotional terrain of foster and kinship carers’ relationships with parents of children in care: Carers’ perspectives9
“Fiction is the reality”: A qualitative study on digital game addiction and reality perception in young adults9
Testing stability of self-control over time among South Korean Youth using semi-parametric group-based modeling9
The meaningful participation of children in matters that affect them: Child participation in the context of child protection across five European countries8
Associations between service use and behavioral health trajectories among young adults experiencing homelessness8
Preschool quality and developmental outcomes of preschool children in rural China: Evidence from longitudinal and subgroup analyses8
Improving child behavior through parent training in child welfare services: A mixed-methods study of families receiving in-home services8
Developing and evaluating the validity and reliability of the Iranian preschool food frequency questionnaire (IP-FFQ)8
The efficacy of the Peace Ambassador Project: Promoting children’s emotional intelligence to address aggression in the early childhood classroom8
Rural China and the gender gap in early social-emotional development8
Promoting child welfare and supporting families in Europe: Multi-dimensional conceptual and developmental frameworks for national family support systems8
Translation and validation of the evidence-based practice attitude scale (EBPAS-15) to Brazilian Portuguese: Examining providers’ perspective about evidence-based parent intervention8
Development of a dissemination and implementation framework for an adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) prevention program in a rural community setting8
A scoping review on knowledge, beliefs, and practices towards HIV/AIDS among Indian adolescents8
The effect of family economic capital on the cognitive ability of migrant children in China8
Early childhood education and early childhood special education teachers’ perceived stress, burnout, and depressive symptoms8
Experiences of current UK service provision for co-occurring parental domestic violence and abuse, mental ill-health, and substance misuse: A reflexive thematic analysis8
In what kinds of communities do people on the sex offender registry live? An analysis of ten states8
Seeking approval first: Mental health care utilization and engagements among MENA adolescents in the United States8
The need for affiliation and depression amidst the post-acute pandemic: The mediation of self-esteem and moderation of insecure attachment among university students8
A study on regulating factors of the influence of Children’s negative emotions on mothers' parenting stress: A study of China's post-80s generation8
ACT Raising Safe Kids Program improves parenting practices, beliefs about physical punishment, management of anger, and mental health: Initial evidence from a study in Brazil8
Support in the transition to adulthood for individuals with child-welfare involvement histories8
Unveiling alternative schools: A systematic review of cognitive and social-emotional development in different educational approaches8
The lesser evil for youth with behavioural problem: Basis for decision-making on time-out placements in child welfare8
A scoping review of housing stabilization interventions for youth experiencing homelessness8
Effect of violence exposure on aggressive intervention in Chinese college students: A moderated mediation model8
Facilitators and barriers to the implementation and sustainability of child-parent psychotherapy in Sweden: Clinicians’ experiences8
The role of fathers’ and mothers’ acceptance in adaptive emotion regulation in Chinese preadolescents: Distinguishing between- and within-person effects8
Academic achievement among youth in foster care8
Facilitators and barriers to sexual and gender minority youth development: Addressing accessibility and “Isms”, building collaborations, and supporting mental health in community-based organizations8
Intergenerational conflict, contact with biological parents, and child functioning in kinship caregiver families8
The Irie Homes Toolbox: A cluster randomized controlled trial of an early childhood parenting program to prevent violence against children in Jamaica8
Policing juvenile delinquency in China: Exploring the influence of officer-related individual and organizational factors on discretionary police decision-making8
Adoptees' basic need satisfaction within romantic relationships: The role of attachment orientations and relational attitudes7
The social and emotional wellbeing of children in out-of-home care: A scoping review exploring structural and social factors7
Do dyslexia laws help students with visual impairments receive needed reading supports? A mixed-methods approach7
Impact of Medicaid expansion and methadone coverage as a medication for opioid use disorder on foster care entries during the opioid crisis7
The role of risk in child welfare decision-making: A prospective cohort examination of families transferred to ongoing child protection services after an investigation7
“Longing to be cared about and cared for” Exploring Experiences of Trauma Therapy and Views on Future Trauma Therapy (Including Digital) for Young People in Rural Northern Sweden7
“There’s no disenfranchisement when you’re sitting in that room”: Evaluating a South Australian loss and grief support group for foster and kinship carers7
Regional trends and the role of school support staff in suspensions of students with disabilities7
Prevalence and factors associated with multidimensional child deprivation: Findings from the Future of Families and Child Well-Being Study7
Screening, service provision, and information sharing practices of juvenile facilities7
Parental attachment and mental health in Chinese early adolescents: The mediation role of narcissism7
“Suffering in silence”: How social workers in child welfare practice experience and manage burnout7
A review of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): Applications for youth anxiety7
Editorial Board7
Mental health services use among adolescent bullying victims in Australia: Results from a nationwide survey7
Exploring the determinants of discipline and monitoring among non-resident African American fathers7
Influences of sibling disability and childhood caregiving experiences on interest in a disability-specific helping profession7
“From analog to digital”: The feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a positive parenting program for street-connected mothers in Kenya7
Informal kinship caregivers’ parenting experience7
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 analysis7
Feasibility and acceptability study of the online ACT-Raising Safe Kids program7
The contribution of replicated follow-up studies to improving transitional housing programs for youths aging out of care in Israel7
Hope and resilience as protective factors linked to lower burnout among child welfare workers7
Self-determination for students with disabilities during challenging times7
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children in foster care: A descriptive study of an overlooked child welfare population7
The sustainability of a community-based learning collaborative to improve the use of trauma-informed evidence-based practices7
Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings7
Sexual and reproductive health protective factors among adolescents with child welfare involvement7
The relationship between preadoptive adversity and intercountry adoptees’ adjustment: A mediating or moderating role of adoptive parenting?7
A preliminary analysis of parent-child interaction therapy plus natural helper support to increase treatment access and engagement for low-income families of color7
Analysis of parenting informational needs for mothers with infants and toddlers using text-mining7
An exploration of the motivations and barriers to being a foster parent in Florida7
The voice of the child in social work practice: A phenomenological analysis of practitioner interpretation and experience7
The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide in the context of (leaving) care: An empirical exploration of suicidal ideation among care-experienced young adults7
Adolescents raised by single parents: Examining the impact of spiritual education lessons on school connectedness, wellbeing, and resilience7
Examining deportation and detention-related separation and youth risk and protective factors and well-being7
Does gender moderate the relationship between protective factors and rule violating behavior?7
Dialogic literary gatherings in out-of-home care to overcome educational inequalities by improving school academic performance6
Existing and desired child and family services from Afghan women’s point of view in Finland6
Editorial: LGBTIQ+ children in vulnerable contexts: Needs, experiences and resistances6
Little Talks: Building Home Visiting’s Capacity to Promote Communication and Language Skills for Children under Three Years of Age6
Cost-effectiveness of a parenting program to reduce children’s behavioral problems among families receiving child protection services and other family support services – A randomized controlled trial6
Efficacy of the Project Futures self-determination coaching model for college students with foster care backgrounds and mental health challenges6
Internet-based prenatal interventions for maternal health among pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Is contact with birth parents beneficial to children in non-kinship foster care? A scoping review of the evidence6
Case management in community mental health centers: Staffing considerations that account for client and agency context6
The role of teachers’ practices in low-SES mothers’ motivation and involvement in education6
Revisiting conventional wisdom: What do we know from 30 years of research on sibling placement in foster care?6
Identifying enablers and barriers to the implementation of Functional family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia6
Bullying victimization and aggression, physical activity and sedentary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Interventions to support parents who use methamphetamine: A narrative systematic review6
Do socio-structural factors influence the incidence and reporting of child neglect? An analysis of multi-sectoral national data from Switzerland6
A roadmap to enhancing community based participatory research strategies and collaborative efforts with populations impacted by commercial sexual exploitation6
How beliefs about adversity predict depression among Chinese rural left-behind adolescents: The roles of self-esteem and stressful life events6
Family economic hardship and children’s behavioral and socio-emotional outcomes in middle childhood: Direct and indirect pathways6
Online parenting support: Meta-analyses of non-inferiority and additional value to in-person support6
Mapping key actors in family support. A European perspective6
Policy and practice innovations in school-based mental health services6
Investigating health adversity and school engagement among clinically referred children and youth using the interRAI Child and Youth Mental Health Assessment6
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