OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Feasibility of a Healthy Relationships Program with Youth at a Child Protective Services Agency	45
Adjustment of Ghanaian Youth in Institutional Care Compared to Youth in Family Care	24
A Comparative Analysis of Transitional and Permanent Supportive Housing Through the Lens of Young Adult Residents	23
Exploring Physical and Psychological Child Well-being Indicators in Mexican Children and Adolescents Placed in Residential Care	14
Findings from the Michigan EITC Access Project: ACEs Prevention Through Economic Intervention	14
Young Women in Foster Care: Social Support Capital as an Empowerment Resource against Gender-based Violence in Intimate Partners	13
Dyslexia in the Family: The Experience of Adolescents with Dyslexia	13
The Stressors, Complexities, and Coping Strategies Experienced by Frontline Worker’s Families During COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada	13
Family Context Matters: A Serial Mediation Model Extending the Relationship Between Interparental Conflict and Online Gaming Addiction of Adolescents	13
Adaptive responsivity: a Youth-Driven Model for Thriving in Foster Care	12
‘He’s out of control, I’m out of control, it’s just – I’ve got to do something’: a narrative inquiry of child to parent violence	10
How Adolescent Mothers Interpret and Prioritize Evidence About Perinatal Child Protection Involvement: Participatory Contextualization of Published Evidence	10
Foster Care Liaisons in Higher Education: A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Post-secondary Success Among College Students with Experience in Foster Care	10
Predictors of Food Insecurity and Childhood Hunger in the Bronx During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Housing Instability, Instrumental Social Support, and Child Maltreatment	9
Does Duration of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) Skills Groups Affect Outcomes: A Rapid Review	9
Children’s Perspectives on Their Living Environment: A Systematic Review	9
Correction to: Foster Caregiving and Child Outcomes in relative and non-relative Foster families	9
Formal and Informal Support among Mothers Aging out of Foster Care and Maternity Group Homes: Who Steps in When Mothers Age Out?	8
Supporting Sexual and Gender Diverse Young People: Exploring the Potential Benefit of the Tuned In! Intervention	8
Children as Participants in Research	8
Contact with Foster Care and the Juvenile Delinquency Court: A Prospective Examination from Birth through Age 18	8
Inherited Vulnerabilities and Innate Remedies: Reframing “Cycles of Child Maltreatment” Through Attention to the Wider Literature on Intergenerational Aspects of Trauma and Healing	7
Youth Interventions With and Without Supervised Practice: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis	7
Use of Self in Relational CBT: A Synthesized Approach for Disadvantaged Emerging Adults with Relational Trauma	7

Children Involved in Child-Welfare Systems and the Death of a Birth Parent: Implications of a Scoping Review with Sparse Findings	7
Ambiguous Compliments and Encouragement: Young Fathers’ Experiences of Care, Responsibility and Youth	7
Characteristics and Views of Young Unaccompanied Migrants Transitioning to Independent Living in the Catalan (Spain) Protection System	7
A Photovoice Study on the Experiences of Typically Developing Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: “Autism: A Room with Multiple Doors”	7
Examining the Protective Impact of Peer Relationships on Negative Self-Esteem among High-Risk Adolescents: The Interplay of Gender and Ethnicity	6
School Social Work in Sweden—Who are the Children in Counselling, and What Support are They Offered? A Protocol Study About Individual Counselling in Elementary Schools	6
Young Children’s Lives at Domestic Violence Shelters: Mothers’ Perspectives on Their Children’s Experiences	6
Personal Beliefs and Professional Realities: A Mixed-Methods Study of Child Sexual Abuse Workers’ Perspectives on Pornography	6
Underestimation of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse Risk in Frontline Child Protection Assessments: Evidence from Slovakia	6
Exploring the Role of Independent Living Workers in How Youth in Care Access and Utilize Technology	6
When Trauma Echoes: The Role of Prior Assault in PTSD and Growth Over Time After a New Sexual Assault	6
Parent and Youth Executive Function Outcomes Following Participation in the Online Boys Town Common Sense Parenting Program: A Pilot Study Based on Parental Ratings	5
A Book Review on Experimental Research Designs in Social Work: Theory and Application	5
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on stress and Access to Services for Licensed and Kinship Caregivers and Youth in Foster Care	5
The Impact of COVID-19 and Immigration Enforcement on Service Delivery for Immigrant Origin Families Involved in the Child Welfare System	5
Does Multidimensional Self-Concept Mediate the Relationship of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Bullying Victimization on Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation Among Adolescent Girls?	5
How Young People Portrayed Their Experiences in Therapeutic Residential Care in Portugal: A Mixed Methods Study	5
Implementation and Outcomes of the Trauma Ambassadors Program: A Case Study of Trauma-Informed Youth Leadership Development	5
I Can’t Hold On: Understanding the Instability of Female Syrian Care Leavers in Turkey	5
Preliminary Validation of a Novel Digital Measure of Emotion Regulation (The Three Circles) in Adolescents	5
The Main and Intersecting Predictive Effects of Out-of-Home Child Welfare Placement, Sex, and Ethnicity on Arrest in Canada	5
States’ Use of Medicaid Waivers for Children with Behavioral Health Needs is Associated with Lower Rates of Voluntary Child Welfare Placements	5
Predicting Cognitive Empathy in Children Using Random Forest Analysis: Differences Based on Perceived Pandemic Safety	5
Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescent Boys from Inner-City, Low-Income, Single-Mother Families: Evaluation of a Youth Program	4
Transformational Education in Youth Work: Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Findings	4
Suicidal Ideation and Its Correlates Among Adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago	4
Screening and Assessment of Suicidal Behavior in Transition-Age Youth with Foster Care Involvement	4
Fostering Self-Determination: A Review and Research Agenda Advancing Self-Determination Theory as a Unifying Framework for Youth Well-Being in Foster Care Research	4
Developing a Structural Understanding of School Social Work	4
Coping Strategies and Trauma-Informed Interventions for Residential Support Workers: We Lean on Each Other	4
Youth Gang Membership, Marginalized Identities, and Suicidality Disparities: Intersectional Implications for Research and Practice	4
“She is a Mother, but still Childish”. Exploring Adult Caregivers’ Perspectives on Adolescent Parenting	4
“Foster Care is a Roller Coaster”: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Foster Parent Experiences with Caregiving	4
The Role of Individual, Familial, and Extrafamilial Protective Factors on Non-engaged Youth’s Well-Being in the Sociopolitical Context of Hong Kong	4
Who Uses Youth Mentoring Frameworks and Guidelines?: A Scoping Review	4
Resilience in Adolescent Girls in Child Welfare: Reliability and Validity of the RS-14	4
Development of a Child-Informed Measure of Subjective Well-Being for Research on Residential Care Institutions and Their Alternatives in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	4
Examining the Influence of Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Connectedness on the Mental Health Symptoms of Black Adolescent Serious Offenders	4
A Better Adoption? Evolution, Challenges, and Projections of Chilean Adoption Policies and Practices	4
Quality of Relationships Between Residential Staff and Youth: A Systematic Review	4
Insights for Clinical Providers and Community Leaders: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children’s Mental Health Includes Caregiver Support	4
Does the State Impact Hope? The Impact of Direct and Vicarious Police Contact on the Optimism of Youth in Large Cities	4
To Belong: Narratives About Family Belonging Among Children in Foster Families or Where Custody has been Transferred	4
Ignored at Home, Acting Out Online: A SEM–ANN Model of Parental Phubbing and Adolescent Cyberbullying	4
Problematic Social Media Use and Conflict, Social Stress, and Cyber-Victimization Among Early Adolescents	4
Routes Out of Child Abuse to School Adjustments: A Comparison Between North Korean Adolescent Refugees and Native South Korean Adolescents	4
Exposure to Violence Within Dating, Peer, and Community Contexts Among African American and Hispanic/Latine Adolescents in High-Burden, Urban Communities	4
Advancing Our Understanding of Complex Intervention Development in Social Work: Co-Producing Support for Youth Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care	3
Initial Validation of the Barrier Assessment for Practice with Students Experiencing Homelessness (BAPSEH)	3
Characteristics, Circumstances and Support Needs of Older Young People Entering Care for the First Time: A Scoping Review	3

The Role of Dynamic Oriented Brief-Emergency-Psychotherapy (BEP) in Sexual Identity Development in Adolescence	3
Promoting Postsecondary Educational Success Among Young Parents in and Aging Out of Foster Care	3
The Contribution of Desire for Revenge and Perceptions of Injustice to Adolescent CSA Survivors’ Wellbeing	3
Foster Caregiving and Child Outcomes in relative and non-relative Foster families	3
Exploring Self Over Time: Associations Between Adolescents’ Self-Portrait Features and Social-Emotional Self-Reports	3
Claims for Contraceptive Care Among Female Youth Living in Foster Care by Type of Medicaid Insurance: An Analysis of Michigan’s Medicaid Claims Data	3
Translation, Adaptation and Preliminary Efficacy of the My FRIENDS Youth Program Among Pakistani Adolescent School Girls	2
“They Show Us that We’re Important”: Facilitators of Service Utilization Among Expectant and Parenting Youth with Foster Care Histories	2
“I Ran to Make a Point”: Predicting and Preventing Youth Runaway from Foster Care	2
Father–Child Relationship Quality and Social Functioning Among Children at Risk for Child Maltreatment	2
Supported Transitions in Public Care: A Case Study from a Norwegian Child Welfare Context	2
A Systematic Review of Music-Based Interventions to Improve Treatment Engagement and Mental Health Outcomes for Adolescents and Young Adults	2
Complex Trauma Evolution and the Influence of Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration among Young Mothers Formerly in Residential Care Using Ideal-Type Analysis	2
Emotional and Verbal Child Abuse in India: Critique of Existing Response Systems and Recommendations for Future	2
Correction: Contact with Foster Care and the Juvenile Delinquency Court: A Prospective Examination from Birth through Age 18	2
Emotional Parentification in the Context of Family Financial Hardship: Relationship with Adolescent Self-Esteem and Internalising Problems	2
A Recognition-Based Study of Frustrations, Risks, and Navigation in Career Transition Among Educationally Disadvantaged Young Women	2
The Role of Resilience as a Mediating Factor between Adverse Childhood Experience and Mental Health in Adolescents Receiving Child Welfare Services in Nova Scotia	2
Cultural and Model Minority Stress: Toward a Theory of Mental Health Distress Experiences of Indian American Youth	2
Intentional Practices of Adventure Therapy Facilitators: Shinning Light into the Black Box	2
Fostering Leaders of Our World: Facilitators and Barriers to Educational Success Among a Cohort of Foster Scholars in College	2
Utilization and Evaluation of Virtual Reality-based Interventions for the Training of Child Endangerment Assessment – A Scoping Review	2
A Qualitative Inquiry into the Outcomes of a Theatresports Social Service Program in Hong Kong	2
“It’s Fine if it Helps Mom”: Comparing Teenager’s and Parent’s Experiences with a Universal Parental Guidance Program	2
Linking Perceived Family and Peer Support to Hope in Syrian Refugee Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Academic Self-Efficacy	2
Flourishing After Foster Care: Examining Factors Affecting Flourishing in Transition Age Youth in the United States	2
The Effects of Psychological Resilience, Self-efficacy and Metacognition on Cyberbullying Among Adolescents	2
The Transition to Adulthood of Dual-System Youth in Quebec: A Focus on High School Graduation and Housing Situation	2
Mitigating Risks of Incarceration Among Transition-Age Foster Youth: Considering Domains of Social Bonds	2
Intervening in Suspected Child Maltreatment: Parents’ Responses to and Perceptions of Maltreatment in a Rural Midwestern County	2
Depression in High-Ability vs. Typically Developing Adolescents: A Symptom- and Disorder-Level Analysis	2
“I wasn’t Enrolled”: Exploring the Educational Narratives of Black Caribbean Youth Navigating Out-of-Home Care in Ontario’s Child Welfare System	2
Mental Health Literacy Boot Camp for Adolescents and Parents/Guardians in a Low-Resource Community: Acceptability and Recommendations for the Future	2
Voices of Parents in Turkey on Participation Rights of Children with Disabilities	1
The Perspectives of Black Youth on Risk and Protective Factors for Peer Involvement in the Juvenile Legal System	1
Co-Therapy in Therapeutic Groups for Male Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems: Exploring its Role and Effectiveness	1
Ethical Concerns with Referral to Privately-Owned Therapeutic Boarding Schools: The Case of Iowa's Midwest Academy	1
Excessive Technology Use and Social Media Disorder Among Turkish Adolescents: A Holistic Perspective	1
Farewell and Bon Voyage	1
Features of Service Delivery that Young People in Out-of-Home Care Who ‘Self-place’ and Stay in Unapproved Placements Value When Accessing a Specialist Support Service	1
Examining Mentors’ In-the-Moment Observations of Youth-Related Concerns Within an After School Mentoring Program	1
Caregivers’ Perspectives and Experiences on the Transition of Youth with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Out of Residential Care	1
Internet Exposure and Adolescent Depression: Unraveling the Roles of Appearance and Body Anxiety across Gender and Weight Groups	1
Integrating Interpersonal Aggression Content into Substance Use Prevention Programming: A Preliminary Adaptation of Keepin’ It REAL for Venezuelan Migrant Youth	1
The Lived Experience of Youth in Congregate Care: Youth Perceptions of Safety, Relationships, and Support Through Qualitative Inquiry with 10 Young Adults	1
What Mental Health and Wellbeing Interventions Work for Which Children and Young People in Care? Systematic Review of Potential Outcome Inequities	1
Developing a Screen for Foster Care and the Risk of Homelessness	1
Dismantling Whiteness: Integrating White Racial Socialization into Social Work Practice with Children and Families	1
What social norms are associated with parenting programs?	1
The Crucial Link: How Institutional Support Shapes the Professional Quality of Life of Foster Parents in France	1
Assessing the Links Between Exposure to Adverse Environments and Cyberbullying Perpetration and Victimization Among Chinese Rural Children	1
Social Work as Social Justice: Supporting the Autonomy of Students with Disabilities Through Alternatives to Guardianship	1
Cautions About Research Linking Abortion Restrictions to Child Maltreatment	1
Developing a Strengths-based Intervention for Foster Youth: Mixed-Methods Pilot of FMHC	1
“If You Prayed More, You Would Feel Better”: The Dual Nature of Religion and Spirituality on Black Youths’ Mental Health and Access to Care in Canada	1
Correction: Disabled Youth Transitioning from Care: An International Policy Analysis	1
An Interview Study with Professionals on Shared Decision-Making in Child and Adolescent Mental Health	1
Adolescent Decision-Making Interventions in Improving Career Choice and Reducing Risk Behaviors: A Systematic Review	1
Associations of Mental Health Service Utilization and Mental Health Diagnosis with Placement Instability Among Foster Children in a Southeastern State	1
Applying an Intergenerational Lens to the Associations Between Childhood Intimate Partner Violence Exposure, Child Maltreatment, and Adolescent Dating Violence Perpetration	1
Complicating Vulnerability: Reading the Multiplicity of Discourses on Chinese Left-Behind Children	1
A Photovoice Study of Self-Advocacy Among Youth in Residential Foster Care	1