Children and Youth Services Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Children and Youth Services Review is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Living in Italian residential care under COVID-19 restrictions. A survey on adolescents’ perspectives over their psychosocial wellbeing62
Development of a dissemination and implementation framework for an adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) prevention program in a rural community setting59
Parental attachment and mental health in Chinese early adolescents: The mediation role of narcissism47
A preliminary analysis of parent-child interaction therapy plus natural helper support to increase treatment access and engagement for low-income families of color47
Meta-analysis of family functioning and self-esteem among Chinese adolescents42
Sexual and reproductive health protective factors among adolescents with child welfare involvement41
Addressing the needs of infants and toddlers exposed to maltreatment: Examining the impact of an integrated early head start & children and youth services program40
Organizational supports for evidence use in child welfare40
The relationship between human rights, negative affect, bullying victimization, and life satisfaction among Korean adolescents: A national sample study38
Socioeconomic disparities in school life expectancy among India and its major states of India in the last decade: Insights from large scale household surveys data35
Home visiting in home-based child care: Staff and provider experiences34
Dialogic literary gatherings in out-of-home care to overcome educational inequalities by improving school academic performance34
Care practices and approaches with children experiencing attachment difficulties: A scoping review33
Effectiveness of a brief social network intervention for depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents under major chronic stress32
Psychometric properties of pandemic awareness scale for students aged 8–12: The case of COVID-1932
Case management in community mental health centers: Staffing considerations that account for client and agency context32
Families’ involvement with the child protection system in Portugal: A one-year follow-up study on case closure after receiving an evidence-based parenting program31
More money, more questions: How caregivers spent the expanded child tax credit30
Bullying victimization and aggression, physical activity and sedentary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis30
Effects of parenting styles on academic achievement: The moderating role of a country’s economic development30
“I’d lost trust and having to tell everyone the same story again and again and again…”: Bottlenecks and barriers to the application of therapeutic approaches within care services’ ecological systems28
Deeply navigating among cross-cultural issues makes you a better expert27
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children in foster care: A descriptive study of an overlooked child welfare population27
Emerging practices of foster care in Italy within the framework of the European child guarantee: case studies from a participatory perspective27
Trend and determinants of early marriage in Rajasthan: Evidence from the national family health survey25
Money or Time? The association between parental investment, school engagement and adolescent behavioral problem23
Evaluating the impact of Family Visit Coaching on future system contact23
Cultural influences on learning motivation: a comparative study of informal learning practices among Syrian refugee and Turkish child laborers in Turkey22
Perceived effects of an art therapeutic treatment (ArAT) for children and adolescents with psychosocial problems22
Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings22
Family resilience before and during the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent transition analysis22
“I found the power of my presence”: Low income and noncustodial fathers’ experiences and insights from parenting young children through the COVID-19 pandemic21
Effects of cultural stressors and family etiologic factors on behavioral and mental health among Mexican and other Latino/a immigrant parents in the United States21
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 analysis21
Predictors of care leavers’ health outcomes: A scoping review21
Facilitators and barriers to sexual and gender minority youth development: Addressing accessibility and “Isms”, building collaborations, and supporting mental health in community-based organizations21
A national New Zealand study of childhood non-offending contact with police and later offending in adolescence20
The associations between destructive parenting practice and addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone: A three-level meta-analysis20
Preventing child protective services system involvement by asking families what they need: Findings from a multi-site RCT of the community response program (CRP)20
Social behaviour changes via mindfulness practices in early childhood19
‘Love and knowledge’: Enhancing knowledge, fostering belonging, and advancing caring skills among community caregivers for children of asylum-seekers19
Child maltreatment and nonsuicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents: The mediating effect of psychological resilience and loneliness19
Corporal punishment in schools and community violence: a missing link?19
Factors affecting malnutrition of rural adolescent girls: Evidences from selected districts of West Bengal19
Measuring adverse childhood experiences in youth: metric development using a statewide youth survey19
Pedagogical shift and parental mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the United states18
Parental involvement and Chinese children’s cognitive and social-emotional school readiness: Differential effects across family socioeconomic status18
Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care18
Sociodemographic risk, school engagement, and community characteristics: A mediated approach to understanding high school dropout18
Care experienced LGBTQA + young people in out-of-home care in Australia: A case study18
Consequences of cyber dating abuse on adolescent victims: Systematic review18
Early childhood education and early childhood special education teachers’ perceived stress, burnout, and depressive symptoms18
Material Hardship, Labor Market Characteristics and Substantiated Child Maltreatment: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis17
Improving interventions for families with multiple problems: Identifying elements that predict improvement17
Universal school-based prevention program for decreasing the depressive symptoms of high school students on a part-time course: Developing the MIRaES program in Japan17
Social context of school satisfaction among primary and secondary school children in Hong Kong17
Evaluation of a brief online parenting training for community service providers in the Philippines17
The effectiveness of book-gifting programmes to enhance the reading skills of children in care: A randomised controlled trial of ‘Reading Together’ in England17
The aspirations and achievement motivation among care leavers: An exploration through life course perspective17
Organizational social context and academic achievement of youth in residential care: The mediating role of youth-caregiver relationship quality17
Contact with child protection services and subsequent rates of first police contact as a person of interest, victim or witness in early life17
Neighbourhood differences in the rates of criminal cautions and convictions for children in the care system17
Black girl magic: Empowerment stories of black dual status girls16
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Predictors of placement instability for sexually abused children served by child protection services16
Children’s perspectives on family members’ needs and support after child sexual abuse16
The moderating effect of COVID-19 stress on school racial climate and parent and child mental well-being16
Housing circumstances of disabled parents within the child welfare system16
Prevalence of grooming and sexting among Portuguese youth: Adaptation of the Questionnaire for Online Sexual Solicitation and Interactions with Adults and Sexting Questionnaire16
Association between early income variation around poverty thresholds, income trajectories, and birth, child, and family characteristics16
Variability in treatment outcomes from a housing intervention for young mothers misusing substances and experiencing homelessness by sexual identity16
Improvements in father-child interactions: Video observations from the Just Beginning study15
Perception of sex in the attitude-behavior relationship in school violence. A qualitative study15
Attachment representations and emerging borderline personality features in school-aged children under youth protective care, consulting psychologists or child psychiatrists, and from the general popul15
The impact of school’s security and restorative justice measures on school violence15
Family, mental health, and placement outcomes of a low-cost preventive intervention for youth in foster care15
What happens to children who don’t behave in residential care? A multi-informant mixed-methods study on discipline strategies15
Identifying core measures to be used in mental health research with care experienced young people: A Delphi study15
How do emotional abuse and emotional neglect differ in their influences on aggression in Chinese adolescents? The longitudinal mediation of relative deprivation15
The maladaptive side of Internet altruists: Relationship between Internet altruistic behavior and cyberbullying victimization15
Ohio START: An adaption of the National Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams model14
Preliminary impact of the say no to stigma intervention on attitudes toward mental illness: A pilot randomized clinical trial among primary school students in Uganda14
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A systematic review of intervention programs for school attendance problems14
Brief, digital, self-directed, and culturally adapted: Developing a parenting intervention for primary care14
Black adolescent altruism: Exploring the role of racial discrimination and empathy14
Associations of secondary victimization and social reactions with PTSD symptoms among young adult female survivors of sexual assault in South Korea14
A theory of change for one-on-one peer support for older adolescents and young adults14
Effect of digital natives on executive function: The mediating role of problematic Internet use14
Adoption of an evidence-based practice approach in the child and family care system in Europe: A comparative survey study14
The spillover of violence: The gendered relationship between parental physical violence and peers’ bullying victimization14
Parent-provider relationships in home visiting: An introduction to relational-cultural theory and critical race theory frameworks14
How Do Child Protective Service (CPS) Policies Keep Employees Safe: ACaseworker’s Perspective13
Rehabilitation of at-risk youth via educational nomadism program and development of place identity13
Implementing universal maternal depression screening in Head Start: A convergent mixed methods study13
On the edge of the image: Guiding the lenses to the individual service plan13
Challenges and solutions developed by the infant-toddler court teams to support child health services during the COVID-19 pandemic13
Understanding profiles of youth who use the Casey Life skills assessment13
Place-based approach to support children’s development towards sustainable development goals: A scoping review of current effort and future agenda13
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of group art therapy for children and adolescents of multicultural families: A focus on Korea13
Emerging adults’ social media engagement & alcohol misuse: A multidimensional, person-centered analysis of risk13
“We got to stand up and speak”: Youth in high-poverty, high-crime urban communities of color reflect on their cross-age mentoring program13
Living arrangements and mental health of children and adolescents with vision impairments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China13
Evaluation of the implementation of transition programs for students with intellectual disability in high schools in Saudi Arabia12
Welfare reform and childhood health status and utilization12
Enablers and barriers to the implementation of Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia12
Risk and protective factors for African American kinship caregiving: A scoping review12
Front line child welfare perspectives on the utility and implementation of intensive family preservation services12
Optimizing child protection systems: A systematic review of the literature on risk assessment practices12
The home environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in learning enjoyment and learning effort: A study of German lower secondary school students12
Belonging versus alienation among at-risk minority adults: The perspectives of social service providers of at-risk young adult Arabs in Israel12
Watch Me Rise: An evaluation of Wraparound with homeless youth with a child welfare history12
Food hardship as a strong predictor of tobacco and cannabis use among youth in WA state12
Adverse Childhood Experiences, sexual debut and substance use among Black justice-involved youth: The imperative of trauma-informed sexuality education12
A photovoice study of college students who have experienced foster care, relative care, and/or homelessness12
“Kids are in the middle of it” – Child protection practitioners reflect on indicators of coercive control and situational couple violence12
What do child maltreatment reports to child protective services tell us about the needs families and communities are experiencing?12
Vision problems and positive youth development: The mediating role of vision-related quality of life and the moderating role of self-control12
Children’s Subjective Well-Being During the Global Health Crisis of Covid-19: A Croos-Narional Comparison12
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Engaging youth for positive change: A mixed methods evaluation of site level program implementation & outcomes12
Designing a mentorship curriculum for assisting social reintegration among youth in institutional care in India12
Dialogic reconstruction of memories of violent sexual-affective relationships via dialogic gatherings of “Radical Love”12
School social workers’ experiences delivering mental health supports amid COVID-19 school reopening12
Belief in a just world mediates the relation between early life environmental unpredictability and poor cyber defending behavior in adolescence: Evidence from a longitudinal study12
Development of the protective factors Survey, military families (PFS-MF)12
Risky sexual behavior and STI testing among teens experiencing homelessness12
Protective factors in intergenerational trauma: A mixed methods investigation of the role of holistic well-being and parental empowerment by parents’ gender12
Association of pregnancy attitudes and intentions with sexual activity and psychiatric symptoms in justice-involved youth11
Mandated reporting policies and the detection of child abuse and neglect11
The role of emotion regulation strategies in the association between physical abuse and borderline symptoms among deprived youth in Ecuador11
Going back to the drawing board: The picture of family support in European constitutions11
Mediation of expressive suppression and emotional well-being in the relationship between loneliness and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents11
Fostering emotional and mental health in residential youth care facilities: A systematic review of programs targeted to care workers11
Revisiting general strain theory: Studying the predictors of adolescents’ antisocial behavior in Vestland county, Norway11
Policy responses to youth homelessness: Ireland and Flanders compared11
The effectiveness of Nurture Groups at supporting social and emotional outcomes: a systematic review11
Intra-year employment instability and economic well-being among urban households: Mitigating effects of the social safety net11
The dyadic parent-child interaction coding system (DPICS): Negative talk as an indicator of dysfunctional mother-child interaction11
Is the impact of the South African child support grant on childhood stunting robust? An instrumental variable evaluation11
Utilization and costs of health care and early support services in Germany and the influence of mental health burden during the postnatal period11
Gender and child custody outcomes across 16 years of judicial decisions regarding abuse and parental alienation11
Effect of multi-disciplinary deliberation on perceptions of risk and recommended actions in response to child abuse11
Testing the structure of the BERRI using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis11
Associations of food insecurity and material social support with parent and child mental health during COVID-1911
Examining the longitudinal association of parental attachment with self-control among adolescents: The mediating role of self-concept clarity11
Grandmother and grandchild reports of psychological difficulties among custodial Grandchildren: Whose view matters and why is it important?11
Peer and online victimization among Chinese adolescents: Unique direct and indirect relationships with psychological distress11
The effect of sexual concerns on placement changes and school transfers for youth in the child welfare system11
The relationship between violence against authority in the family and adolescent involvement in school bullying: The moderating role of parental psychological control11
Child protection and safeguarding in initial teacher education: A systematic scoping review11
What drives early childhood education attendance? The role of structural factors and personal beliefs in Germany11
Profiles of family resilience and college adjustment among Chinese Undergraduates: A latent profile and network analysis approach11
The differential association of socioeconomic vulnerabilities and neglect-related child protection involvement across geographies: Multilevel structural equation modeling11
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The effectiveness of UK-based interventions to reduce school exclusion. A systematic review10
Human service professionals’ observations of suboptimal parenting: Barriers to intervention and potential solutions10
“It’s okay to dream: Navigating trauma, healing, and futuring among LGBTQ + Black girls, transgender and nonbinary youth in New York State”10
The unintended consequence of school suspension: How school suspension impacted future grades and misconduct10
Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis10
“They had to change the model to fit the victim, versus the victim having to fit the model”: Innovative solutions in community response to commercial sexual exploitation10
“Great day! But now what?” Adolescents’ and foster carers’ experiences of a comprehensive health assessment for children in out-of-home care10
Making a way out of no way: The importance of improving financial instability among African American kinship care families10
Joint developmental trajectories of victimization and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents and the impact of childhood emotional maltreatment: “Boys’ Crisis” and “Girls’ Risk”10
Caregiver-child agreement in posttraumatic symptoms and outcomes in the child and family traumatic stress intervention10
Corrigendum to “Continuity and change in early material hardship domains on the development of children’s behavioral self-regulation in middle childhood” [Children Youth Services Review 167 (2024) 10710
Justice involvement and mental health in LGBTQ young people10
Effects at 12 months of a primary care intervention using finger puppets to support early language promotion: A pilot study10
Creating conditions that encourage youth engagement in family child welfare case planning meetings: A youth perspective10
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Social workers’ knowledge about children’s memory and child interviewing10
Models of school breakfast program implementation in Western Australia and the implications for supporting disadvantaged students10
What we know about the stigma of systems-involved youth: A scoping review of intersectional research with marginalised youth in contact with social services10
Enacting a child safety education programme in special education contexts10
The effectiveness of a child and parent-oriented modular education program on the prevention of child sexual abuse knowledge and parental views: A mixed method study10
Parent and adolescent depressive symptom among a national sample of Chinese families: The chained mediating roles of parental involvement and parent–child attachment10
Development of a cyberbullying victimization scale for adolescents in South Korea10
Beliefs of public health nurses about solution-focused parenting support – A questionnaire study10
The relationship between subjective well-being in school and children’s participation rights: International evidence from the Children’s Worlds survey10
Inequitable access to relative caregiving: Implications of foster care regulations in Finland, New Zealand, and the United States10
Detecting the risk of suicidal-related behaviours in teenagers by means of combined personality dimensions10
Academic expectation stress and online gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents: The mediating role of psychological distress and the moderating role of stress mindset10
The association between mental health and educational problems among adolescent girls in child welfare: moderating role of protective factors10
Research-policy-practice in developing a systems approach to child protection: a county-level case in China10
Relationships between co-parenting patterns and achievement motives in Chinese junior high school adolescents: A latent profile analysis10
Inclusion of vulnerable youth in school or work – How can individually tailored professional support contribute?10
Maternal and paternal parenting: The role of interparental positivity and negativity from a dyadic perspective10
From juvenile justice involvement to incarceration in young adulthood: Do independent living services matter?10
An examination of the ohio scales, short form, hopefulness domain, youth- and caregiver-report versions in a community care setting10
What makes a good learning culture? The role of professional development among child welfare workers9
‘Bichara’, ‘Katthai’: countering the discourse: understanding risk and resilience in response to child trafficking in the entertainment sector of Nepal9
Social support and emotional well-being among boarders and day school students: A two-wave longitudinal study9
Access to autism services and support needs in Morocco: Perspectives of autistic adults, caregivers, service providers, and civil society9
Evaluation of the Merseyside Navigator Programme: A hospital-based violence intervention programme for young people affected by or at risk of violence9
Transnational family life of displaced unaccompanied minors – A systematic review9
Building capacity to implement sexual health risk and substance use disorder prevention services in adolescent behavioral health treatment: A case study9
The effect of the resilience Psycho-Education program on 8th-grade students' resilience, school burnout, and school attachment levels9
Inequality in literacy skills at kindergarten entry at the intersections of social programs and race9
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Child maltreatment, social relationships and psychological distress: A multiple mediational analysis9
Development and validation of the youth development instrument (YDI): A comprehensive survey of adolescent health and well-being9
The impact of childhood sexual abuse on adolescent peer relationships: a social network analysis9
Foster children’s views of family: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis9
Psychometric validation of the French version of the adverse childhood experiences international questionnaire (ACE-IQ)9
Go to school. Go to college. Make something of your life9
Inclusive education in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus: Comparing parental satisfaction9
The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on Latinx mixed-status immigrant families in a restrictive immigration policy climate in the Southeast9
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Do early school- and family-related factors predict midlife psychological well-being? Findings from A prospective Black childhood cohort study9
Differences in suicidality and psychological symptoms between sexual and gender minority youth compared to heterosexual and cisgender youth in a psychiatric hospital9
The cross-lagged relationship between adolescent school bullying and loneliness——The predictive role of childhood emotional maltreatment9
Faith and access: The role of religion in formal mental health service utilization among Black adolescents9
I know it when I see it: How urban Latinx parents describe bullying9
Participatory research approaches to studying social capital in youth mentoring: Not the panacea we hoped for9
An integrative treatment model of EMDR and family therapy for children with severe symptomatology after child abuse and neglect: A SCED study9
“No Intervention, Just Straight Suspension”: Family perspectives of suspension and expulsion9
Children’s self-perception: Investigating associations with direct victimization, indirect victimization, and caregiver partner violence9
Concerns of emerging adults who were born and raised in planned lesbian-parent families9
Contextual determinants of re-reporting for families receiving alternative response: A survival analysis in a Midwestern State9
Child surgency and child aggression: The moderating effect of parental nurturance, emotion coaching, and family income9
The protective role of caretakers in the delinquency of detained youth in São Paulo, Brazil9
Extended caregiving arrangements in families from Chinese backgrounds: A qualitative research study from Sydney, Australia9
Strengths supporting resilience in individuals with learning disabilities: A scoping review8
Resilience in residential care: A qualitative study based on the voices of adolescents8
Exploring the influence of family relationship on students’ school well-being8
Improving adolescent outcomes in residential care: preliminary outcomes of a dialectical behavior therapy-informed treatment model8
Variation in state safety-net inclusivity and the health and well-being of children and parents in immigrant households8
Mental health-related hospitalisations associated with patterns of child protection and youth justice involvement during adolescence: A retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data from8
Pain Flashbacks: Exploration of intrusive pain symptoms following child abuse8
Effects of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Community-Based Mentoring Program on social-emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes of participating youth: A randomized controlled trial8
A systematic review of common elements of practice that support reunification8
Home sweet-and-sour home: Changes experienced by girls in a gender-sensitive and trauma-informed authoritative out-of-home placement8
Inclusive education in schools in Russia and Kazakhstan: Attitudes and well-being of teachers as related factors in the formation of an inclusive environment8
Young people with LGB identity and their sense of belonging: Evidence from Northern Ireland – A society emerging from violent social conflict8
Adoption process in South Africa: Experiences of transracial adoptive families8
Campus liaisons for students who have experienced foster care: Lessons learned from Texas legislation8
Facilitators and barriers to reunification among housing unstable families8
The mediating role of psychological resilience, anger, and hostility in university students’ attachment styles and life satisfaction8
Time for Me: Development and results of an RCT of a kinship navigator self-compassion and care toolkit for caregivers by caregivers8
Youth mental health first aid training outcomes among public safety professionals serving high-risk youth8
“Life becomes about survival”: Resettlement, integration, and social services among refugee parents8
Experiences of pregnancy prevention among youth experiencing homelessness8
Determinants of receiving child protection and welfare services following initial assessment: A cross-sectional study from the Republic of Ireland8
Youth care in time of COVID-19: Experiences of professionals and adolescent clients with telehealth8
Teenage pregnancy in Zimbabwe: A call for expedited interventions8
Care Leaver Statistics (CLS): Ethical challenges, rights-based perspectives and data protection in longitudinal research with marginalized and vulnerable groups8
Precarious parental employment, economic hardship, and parenting and child happiness amidst a pandemic8
Reflection on data right protection for minors in the digital age8
“Change is always hard”: A qualitative exploration of the Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) model implementation process within the context of the pandemics8
Autism spectrum disorder, parent coping, and parent concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic8
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