OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Feasibility of a Healthy Relationships Program with Youth at a Child Protective Services Agency	34
Adjustment of Ghanaian Youth in Institutional Care Compared to Youth in Family Care	26
Relationships to Self, Baby, Others, and System: A Narrative Analysis of the Transition to Parenthood for Young Mothers in Foster Care	19
Young Women in Foster Care: Social Support Capital as an Empowerment Resource against Gender-based Violence in Intimate Partners	17
It’s All in the Head: Illness Perception is the Major Correlate of Quality of Life Among Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease	17
A Comparative Analysis of Transitional and Permanent Supportive Housing Through the Lens of Young Adult Residents	16
Family Context Matters: A Serial Mediation Model Extending the Relationship Between Interparental Conflict and Online Gaming Addiction of Adolescents	15
Foster Care Liaisons in Higher Education: A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Post-secondary Success Among College Students with Experience in Foster Care	12
Findings from the Michigan EITC Access Project: ACEs Prevention Through Economic Intervention	12
Adaptive responsivity: a Youth-Driven Model for Thriving in Foster Care	11
Correction to: Foster Caregiving and Child Outcomes in relative and non-relative Foster families	11
Predictors of Food Insecurity and Childhood Hunger in the Bronx During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
‘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
Racial Matching in Foster Care Placements and Subsequent Placement Stability: A National Study	10
How Adolescent Mothers Interpret and Prioritize Evidence About Perinatal Child Protection Involvement: Participatory Contextualization of Published Evidence	10
Children as Participants in Research	10
Predictors of Positive Parenting: Mexican and Puerto Rican Mothers Vulnerable to Child Welfare Involvement	9
Supporting Sexual and Gender Diverse Young People: Exploring the Potential Benefit of the Tuned In! Intervention	9
Formal and Informal Support among Mothers Aging out of Foster Care and Maternity Group Homes: Who Steps in When Mothers Age Out?	9
Youth Interventions With and Without Supervised Practice: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis	9
Does Duration of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) Skills Groups Affect Outcomes: A Rapid Review	9
Use of Self in Relational CBT: A Synthesized Approach for Disadvantaged Emerging Adults with Relational Trauma	9
Contact with Foster Care and the Juvenile Delinquency Court: A Prospective Examination from Birth through Age 18	9
Inherited Vulnerabilities and Innate Remedies: Reframing “Cycles of Child Maltreatment” Through Attention to the Wider Literature on Intergenerational Aspects of Trauma and Healing	8
Examining the Protective Impact of Peer Relationships on Negative Self-Esteem among High-Risk Adolescents: The Interplay of Gender and Ethnicity	8

Exploring the Role of Independent Living Workers in How Youth in Care Access and Utilize Technology	8
Young Children’s Lives at Domestic Violence Shelters: Mothers’ Perspectives on Their Children’s Experiences	8
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	8
Underestimation of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse Risk in Frontline Child Protection Assessments: Evidence from Slovakia	8
Children Involved in Child-Welfare Systems and the Death of a Birth Parent: Implications of a Scoping Review with Sparse Findings	7
Implementation and Outcomes of the Trauma Ambassadors Program: A Case Study of Trauma-Informed Youth Leadership Development	7
“Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp	7
When Trauma Echoes: The Role of Prior Assault in PTSD and Growth Over Time After a New Sexual Assault	7
How Young People Portrayed Their Experiences in Therapeutic Residential Care in Portugal: A Mixed Methods Study	7
The Main and Intersecting Predictive Effects of Out-of-Home Child Welfare Placement, Sex, and Ethnicity on Arrest in Canada	7
Characteristics and Views of Young Unaccompanied Migrants Transitioning to Independent Living in the Catalan (Spain) Protection System	7
Parent and Youth Executive Function Outcomes Following Participation in the Online Boys Town Common Sense Parenting Program: A Pilot Study Based on Parental Ratings	7
I Can’t Hold On: Understanding the Instability of Female Syrian Care Leavers in Turkey	7
Does Multidimensional Self-Concept Mediate the Relationship of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Bullying Victimization on Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation Among Adolescent Girls?	7
To Belong: Narratives About Family Belonging Among Children in Foster Families or Where Custody has been Transferred	6
A Book Review on Experimental Research Designs in Social Work: Theory and Application	6
Resilience in Adolescent Girls in Child Welfare: Reliability and Validity of the RS-14	6
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on stress and Access to Services for Licensed and Kinship Caregivers and Youth in Foster Care	6
The Role of Individual, Familial, and Extrafamilial Protective Factors on Non-engaged Youth’s Well-Being in the Sociopolitical Context of Hong Kong	6
States’ Use of Medicaid Waivers for Children with Behavioral Health Needs is Associated with Lower Rates of Voluntary Child Welfare Placements	6
Suicidal Ideation and Its Correlates Among Adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago	6
Screening and Assessment of Suicidal Behavior in Transition-Age Youth with Foster Care Involvement	6
Pregnancy and Parenting Experiences of Care-Experienced Youth in Ghana and Uganda	6
The Impact of COVID-19 and Immigration Enforcement on Service Delivery for Immigrant Origin Families Involved in the Child Welfare System	6
Fostering Self-Determination: A Review and Research Agenda Advancing Self-Determination Theory as a Unifying Framework for Youth Well-Being in Foster Care Research	6
Problematic Social Media Use and Conflict, Social Stress, and Cyber-Victimization Among Early Adolescents	5
Insights for Clinical Providers and Community Leaders: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children’s Mental Health Includes Caregiver Support	5
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	5
Does the State Impact Hope? The Impact of Direct and Vicarious Police Contact on the Optimism of Youth in Large Cities	5
Youth Gang Membership, Marginalized Identities, and Suicidality Disparities: Intersectional Implications for Research and Practice	5
Ignored at Home, Acting Out Online: A SEM–ANN Model of Parental Phubbing and Adolescent Cyberbullying	5
Examining the Influence of Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Connectedness on the Mental Health Symptoms of Black Adolescent Serious Offenders	5
Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescent Boys from Inner-City, Low-Income, Single-Mother Families: Evaluation of a Youth Program	4
Improving Parenting Competency and Permanency Awareness for Kinship Foster Parents Through In-Service Licensure Training	4
Routes Out of Child Abuse to School Adjustments: A Comparison Between North Korean Adolescent Refugees and Native South Korean Adolescents	4
A Better Adoption? Evolution, Challenges, and Projections of Chilean Adoption Policies and Practices	4
Father–Child Relationship Quality and Social Functioning Among Children at Risk for Child Maltreatment	4
Intentional Practices of Adventure Therapy Facilitators: Shinning Light into the Black Box	4
Promoting Postsecondary Educational Success Among Young Parents in and Aging Out of Foster Care	4
The Role of Dynamic Oriented Brief-Emergency-Psychotherapy (BEP) in Sexual Identity Development in Adolescence	4
“Foster Care is a Roller Coaster”: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Foster Parent Experiences with Caregiving	4
Exposure to Violence Within Dating, Peer, and Community Contexts Among African American and Hispanic/Latine Adolescents in High-Burden, Urban Communities	4
“She is a Mother, but still Childish”. Exploring Adult Caregivers’ Perspectives on Adolescent Parenting	4
Assessing Homelessness and Incarceration Among Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, by Type of Disability	4
Initial Validation of the Barrier Assessment for Practice with Students Experiencing Homelessness (BAPSEH)	4
Supported Transitions in Public Care: A Case Study from a Norwegian Child Welfare Context	4
Foster Caregiving and Child Outcomes in relative and non-relative Foster families	4
Quality of Relationships Between Residential Staff and Youth: A Systematic Review	4
Transformational Education in Youth Work: Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Findings	4
Advancing Our Understanding of Complex Intervention Development in Social Work: Co-Producing Support for Youth Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care	4

Claims for Contraceptive Care Among Female Youth Living in Foster Care by Type of Medicaid Insurance: An Analysis of Michigan’s Medicaid Claims Data	4
The Contribution of Desire for Revenge and Perceptions of Injustice to Adolescent CSA Survivors’ Wellbeing	4
The Transition to Adulthood of Dual-System Youth in Quebec: A Focus on High School Graduation and Housing Situation	4