OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Population-Based Analysis of Birth Rates and Placement Patterns Among Care-Experienced Young Women in New South Wales, Australia	19
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	17
The Role of Executive Functioning on Alcohol and Illegal Substance Use Among Adolescent Offenders	16
Playing to Succeed: The Impact of Extracurricular Activity Participation on Academic Achievement for Youth Involved with the Child Welfare System	14
Moral Dilemmas in Foster Care Due to Religious Differences Between Birth Parents, Foster Parents, and Foster Children	12
Using a Social Work Perspective to Understand Contextual Factors Impacting Access to Informal Mentorship for Under-Resourced and Minoritized Youth	12
An Examination of Coping Strategies and Intent to Leave Child Welfare During the COVID 19 Pandemic	10
Social and Emotional Supports During College Years: Associations with Post-college Outcomes Among Alumni of Foster Care	10
A Qualitative Inquiry into the Outcomes of a Theatresports Social Service Program in Hong Kong	9
Beyond “Disconnected Youth”: Characterizing Developmental Heterogeneity in School or Work Connections During Emerging Adulthood	9
How Does Parental Support and Their Readiness to Change Affect Children with Behavior and Emotional Problems?	9
The Importance of Resources and Relationships: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Expectant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care	9
Moderating Effects of Positive Parenting on the Perceived Peer Alcohol Use and Adolescent Alcohol Use Relationship: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences	9
Fostering Self-Determination: A Review and Research Agenda Advancing Self-Determination Theory as a Unifying Framework for Youth Well-Being in Foster Care Research	8
Development and Validation of the Adolescent and Children in Risk of Abuse and Maltreatment Protective Factors Scale (ACRAM-PFS)	8
Promoting and Protecting the Developing Self-identity of the Young, Transracially Adopted Child in South Africa	8
Relationships to Self, Baby, Others, and System: A Narrative Analysis of the Transition to Parenthood for Young Mothers in Foster Care	8
Patterned Adolescent Socially Deviant Behavior	8
A Comparative Analysis of Transitional and Permanent Supportive Housing Through the Lens of Young Adult Residents	8
Adjustment of Ghanaian Youth in Institutional Care Compared to Youth in Family Care	7
Addressing Chronic School Absenteeism Through Intensive Home-Based Psychiatric Treatment: An Examination of the IICAPS Program	7
It’s All in the Head: Illness Perception is the Major Correlate of Quality of Life Among Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease	7
Flourishing in Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli Adolescents: The Role of Positive/Negative Affect and Family/Peer Support or Undermining	7
Does the State Impact Hope? The Impact of Direct and Vicarious Police Contact on the Optimism of Youth in Large Cities	7
Comparing Maltreatment Experiences for Young People with Child Protection or Dual System Involvement	6

Perceived Mutual Parent–Child Trust, Mobile Phone Conversations, and Development Outcomes of Boarding School Students in China	6
The Importance of Job Demands and Supports: Promoting Retention Among Child Welfare Workers	6
Findings from the Michigan EITC Access Project: ACEs Prevention Through Economic Intervention	6
Associations Between Acceptance-Rejection and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior in Japan: The Mediating Role of Sense of Authenticity	6
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	6
Social-Emotional Learning Interventions in Youth Sport: What Matters in Design?	6
The Patterns of In-Home Service Use and Their Relationships with Child Out-of-Home Care	6
Civic Engagement, Social Support, and Sense of Meaningfulness in Life of Adolescents Living in Hong Kong: Implications for Social Work Practice	5
Alternative Schools, Career and Technical Education, and Emerging Adult Black Men in Reentry: A Case Study	5
Need for Foster Homes, Foster Parent Recruitment, and Licensure: Comparing Foster Parent and Child Welfare Worker Perspectives	5
An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Paternal Commitments of Young Fathers: From the Pregnancy Test to the Child’s First Birthday	5
The Relationship Between Financial Aid and Postsecondary Completion Among Youth Formerly in Foster Care	5
Problematic Social Media Use and Conflict, Social Stress, and Cyber-Victimization Among Early Adolescents	5
What Changes for Young Carers? A Qualitative Evaluation of the Impact of Dedicated Support Provision for Young Carers	5
Resilience in Adolescent Girls in Child Welfare: Reliability and Validity of the RS-14	5
Feasibility of a Healthy Relationships Program with Youth at a Child Protective Services Agency	5
Associations of Mental Health Service Utilization and Mental Health Diagnosis with Placement Instability Among Foster Children in a Southeastern State	5
Economic Stress Among Low Income Latino Adolescent Fathers: An Application of the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model	5
Attachment, Emotional Regulation and Perception of the Institutional Environment in Adolescents in Residential Care Context	4
Psychiatric Prescribing in Child Welfare: Barriers to Evidence-Based Practice and an Agenda for Reform	4
Examining the Influence of Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Connectedness on the Mental Health Symptoms of Black Adolescent Serious Offenders	4
Wapítat Ttáwaxt (Community in Service to Community): Results of Community Stakeholder Engagement into the Initial Development of a Tribally Adapted Interdependent Life Skills Curriculum for American I	4
Transition from Foster Care: A Cross Sectional Comparison of Youth Outcomes Twenty Years Apart	4
The Socio-cultural Interpretation of Parental Stress of Chinese Parents of Children with Dyslexia: Implications for Social Work Practice	4
Children’s Rights and Their Life Situation in Domestic Violence Shelters—An Integrative Review	4
“Foster Care is a Roller Coaster”: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Foster Parent Experiences with Caregiving	4
Routes Out of Child Abuse to School Adjustments: A Comparison Between North Korean Adolescent Refugees and Native South Korean Adolescents	4
Adaptive responsivity: a Youth-Driven Model for Thriving in Foster Care	4
Foster Care Liaisons in Higher Education: A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Post-secondary Success Among College Students with Experience in Foster Care	4
Building Adolescent Self-efficacy and Resilience Through Social Action	4
Neighborhood Environment, Cultural Orientation, and Parenting: Understanding the Intergenerational Conflict in Asian Immigrant Families	4
Black Kin Caregivers: Acceptability and Cultural Adaptation of the Family Check-Up/Everyday Parenting Program	4
Experiences of Abuse: Homeless Former Foster Youth and Their Experiences of Abuse in Out-of-Home Care	4
Exploring the Relationships Among Student Outcomes and Case Management Services Delivered by School Social Workers	4
From Chaos to Normalization and Deconfinement: What did the Pandemic Unveil in Youth Residential Care	3
Correction to: Foster Caregiving and Child Outcomes in relative and non-relative Foster families	3
A Rapid Review of Non-death Bereavement Interventions for Children in Alternative Care	3
‘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	3
Psychological Processes Involved in Life Skill Transfer: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Youth Recognized as Being Socially Vulnerable	3
Fatherhood in Foster Care: A Scoping Review Spanning 30 Years of Research on Expectant and Parenting Fathers in State Care	3
Youth Gang Membership, Marginalized Identities, and Suicidality Disparities: Intersectional Implications for Research and Practice	3
Caregiver Factors in Children’s Trauma Treatment: A Review of the Literature	3
Beyond the 3%: Educational Success for All, Not the Privileged Few	3
Exposure to Violence Within Dating, Peer, and Community Contexts Among African American and Hispanic/Latine Adolescents in High-Burden, Urban Communities	3
Unfolding What Self-Compassion Means in Young Carers’ Lives	3
A Study of the Closed Childcare Institution Service in Estonia	3
Correction: How Adolescent Mothers Interpret and Prioritize Evidence About Perinatal Child Protection Involvement: Participatory Contextualization of Published Evidence	3
Improving Parenting Competency and Permanency Awareness for Kinship Foster Parents Through In-Service Licensure Training	3
Early parenthood for males and females with foster care experience: An exploratory study of predictive factors at entry to care during preadolescence	3
The Contribution of Professional Youth Work to the Personal Development and Social Participation of Socially Vulnerable Youngsters: A Dutch Longitudinal Cohort Study	3

How Adolescent Mothers Interpret and Prioritize Evidence About Perinatal Child Protection Involvement: Participatory Contextualization of Published Evidence	3
Anxiety and Self-Esteem: A Qualitative Study with Female Mexican American Adolescents and Mental Health Therapists	3
Assessing Homelessness and Incarceration Among Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, by Type of Disability	3
Psychometric Properties of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire among Adolescents with Substance Use Disorder Histories	3
Expanding Sources of Recognition: Towards an Experience-Driven Framework for Reengaging Hikikomori and Semi-hikikomori	3
Choosing Post-Secondary Vocational Education Pathways: Narratives of Young Adults with Previous System Involvement	3
Racial Matching in Foster Care Placements and Subsequent Placement Stability: A National Study	3
Insights for Clinical Providers and Community Leaders: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children’s Mental Health Includes Caregiver Support	3
Implementing and Evaluating Manualized Interventions in U.S. Organizations Serving Youth with Foster Care Experience: Lessons Learned from the Field	3
Farewell and Bon Voyage	3
What social norms are associated with parenting programs?	3
Predictors of Food Insecurity and Childhood Hunger in the Bronx During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Mexican Middle Schoolers’ Questions on Sexuality and Dating Relationships: A Descriptive Qualitative Analysis	3
Social Work and Youth Sport	3
Quality of Relationships Between Residential Staff and Youth: A Systematic Review	3
The Role of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) in the Lives of Transition-Age Youth with Foster Care Experience	2
How Far Have We Come? An Updated Scoping Review of Young Carers in the U.S.	2
Escape from School: Linking School Climate, Bullying Victimization, Resilience and School Truancy in a Moderated Mediation Model	2
Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescent Boys from Inner-City, Low-Income, Single-Mother Families: Evaluation of a Youth Program	2
COVID-19 Vaccination Perspectives Among Young Parents with Foster Care Backgrounds	2
The Lived Experience of Youth in Congregate Care: Youth Perceptions of Safety, Relationships, and Support Through Qualitative Inquiry with 10 Young Adults	2
Juggling Competing Responsibilities: Experiences with Parenting, Child Welfare, and Substance Use Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Bullying/Cyberbullying in Secondary Education: A Comparison Between Secondary Schools in Rural and Urban Contexts	2
Norwegian School Children’s Perceptions of the Child Protection Services	2
“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	2
Exploring Retrospective Place Attachment Toward Foster Homes	2
Contact with Foster Care and the Juvenile Delinquency Court: A Prospective Examination from Birth through Age 18	2
Advancing Our Understanding of Complex Intervention Development in Social Work: Co-Producing Support for Youth Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care	2
Validation of the Parental Feelings Inventory with Parents of Adolescent Clinical Sample	2
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	2
Youth-Caseworker Relationship Quality & Academic Resilience Among Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care	2
Foster Caregiving and Child Outcomes in relative and non-relative Foster families	2
Promoting Postsecondary Educational Success Among Young Parents in and Aging Out of Foster Care	2
Maybe It’s Time to Reinvent the Wheel: Re-Imagining Supportive Services for Youth Served by Public Systems in the Transition to Adulthood	2
Does Duration of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) Skills Groups Affect Outcomes: A Rapid Review	2
Involuntary Youth Transport (IYT) to Treatment Programs: Best Practices, Research, Ethics, and Future Directions	2
Family, Peer, and Neighborhood Influences on Urban Children’s Subjective Wellbeing	2
Parenting Behavior and Attitudes of a Group of South African Foster Parents Caring for Adolescents Presenting with Risk Behavior	2
Higher Education Outcomes for Students who Experienced Foster Care in Texas: Exploring the Impact of Liaison Legislation and Campus Support Programs	2
Formal and Informal Support among Mothers Aging out of Foster Care and Maternity Group Homes: Who Steps in When Mothers Age Out?	2
A Systematic Review of Sophisticated Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics in Child Welfare: Accuracy, Equity, and Bias	2
A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth and Foster Parents During COVID-19	2
Mitigating Risks of Incarceration Among Transition-Age Foster Youth: Considering Domains of Social Bonds	2
Young Carers, The Overlooked Caregiving Population: Introduction to a Special Issue	2
Ethical Concerns with Referral to Privately-Owned Therapeutic Boarding Schools: The Case of Iowa's Midwest Academy	2
Caregivers’ Perspectives of the Florida Guardianship Assistance Program and Its Impact on the Children in Their Care	2
What Mental Health and Wellbeing Interventions Work for Which Children and Young People in Care? Systematic Review of Potential Outcome Inequities	2
“We Do the Best We Can with What We Have”: Reflections from Residential Care Stakeholders on the Impacts of COVID-19	2
Patterns of Vicarious Police Contact and Youths’ Stress and Attitudes About the Police	2
The L.Y.G.H.T. Program: An Evaluation of a Peer Grief Support Intervention for Youth in Foster Care	2
Norwegian Foster Children’s Executive Functioning: Associations with School Performance and Adjustment at 8 Years of Age	2
An Intervention to Address Youth Sport Parent Spectator Behaviors in Louisiana: Lessons for Future Research and Social Work Practice	2
Supporting Sexual and Gender Diverse Young People: Exploring the Potential Benefit of the Tuned In! Intervention	2
Social Determinants of Youth Cigarette Use Over Time: Findings from the Arizona Youth Survey 2010–2018	2
Treatment Efficacy of Multiple Family Narrative Therapy for Chinese Families of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial	2
Integrating a Sport-Based Trauma-Sensitive Program in a National Youth-Serving Organization	2