OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal is 3. 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
Social and Emotional Supports During College Years: Associations with Post-college Outcomes Among Alumni of Foster Care	10
An Examination of Coping Strategies and Intent to Leave Child Welfare During the COVID 19 Pandemic	10
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
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
Patterned Adolescent Socially Deviant Behavior	8
A Comparative Analysis of Transitional and Permanent Supportive Housing Through the Lens of Young Adult Residents	8
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
Does the State Impact Hope? The Impact of Direct and Vicarious Police Contact on the Optimism of Youth in Large Cities	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Farewell and Bon Voyage	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
Fatherhood in Foster Care: A Scoping Review Spanning 30 Years of Research on Expectant and Parenting Fathers in State Care	3
Expanding Sources of Recognition: Towards an Experience-Driven Framework for Reengaging Hikikomori and Semi-hikikomori	3