OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Child & Youth Care Forum 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining Mothers’ Exposure to Community Violence: How Does it Influence Young Adolescents?	28
Eighteen Months of COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lenses of Self or Others: A Meta-Analysis on Children and Adolescents’ Mental Health	23
Why are they leaving? Understanding Associations between early childhood program policies and teacher turnover rates	23
Effects of an Online Play-Based Parenting Program on Child Development and the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial	19
The Impact of Educator Anxiety and Anxiety Literacy on Primary Educators’ Responses to Anxious Children	17
Joint Physical Custody and Children’s Physical and Mental Health	17
Assessing Efficacy and Benefit of a Behavioral Math Talk Intervention for Caregivers of Young Children	17
Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being: The Unique Contribution of Fathers	16
Teachers’ Perceptions of Quality in Head Start	16
Symptoms and Psychological Factors Linked to Anxiety Impairment in Adolescents	15
Assessing Emotional Distress in Adolescents: Psychometrics of the Spanish Version of the Social Emotional Distress Scale-Secondary	15
The Role of Temperamental Characteristics in Growth Rates of Theory of Mind: A Turkish Care Types Study	15
Children’s Social Interaction in Pre-school Education and Childcare Settings: A Systematic Review	14
Differential Susceptibility in the Intergenerational Transmission of Secure Base Script Knowledge?	12
Peer Dislike and Future School Adjustment in Early Adolescence: Recognizing Consequences for both Boys and Girls	11
Describing the Use of a Mindfulness-Based App for Sleep and Mental Well-Being, Across Age, in Children	11
Community Attachments are Associated with COVID-19 Public Health Behaviors Among Adolescents in Pakistan	9
Seattle Public Schools’ Student Survey of School Climate and Social Emotional Learning: Psychometric Analyses in the Context of a Research-Practice Partnership	8
“I’m Often Alone”: An Ethnographic Study of School Loneliness and Bullying in a Swedish Elementary School	8
Correction to: Multiple Determinants of Interaction Quality among Childcare Providers	8
The Relations Between Parents’ Beliefs, Parents’ Home Reading Practices, and Their Children’s Literacy Development in Kindergarten	8
From Helpless Rage to Loving Resistance: Resistance to Othering and Practices of Agency in Mentoring Children of Asylum Seekers in Israel	8
Family Strengthening to Prevent Family Separation and Entrance into Residential Care Institutions in Sierra Leone: A Quasi-experimental Study	8
Classroom and Behavior Management Training Needs and Perceptions: A Systematic Review of the Literature	7
Quality of Life of Parents Seeking Mental Health Services for Their Adolescent’s Social Anxiety: Psychometric Properties of the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form	7

Multilevel Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bioecological Systems Perspective of Parent and Child Experiences	7
Young People’s Perspectives on Parents Helping Young People Exposed to Trauma	7
Peer-Interactıon Group Support in Adolescents with Celiac Disease: A Randomized Controlled Study in Turkey	7
Pragmatic Language Differences in Conversation Might Differentiate between Autism and Trauma-related Disorders	7
Parents’ and Teachers’ Knowledge of Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents and Their Agreement Towards Screening	7
Beyond Likes and Follows: Investigating the Longitudinal Associations between Social Media Rumination and Internalizing Symptoms in Middle School Students	6
Introduction of Technology to Support Young People’s Care and Mental Health—A Rapid Evidence Review	6
The Roles of Therapeutic Alliance and Negative Cognitions in Parent-Led Treatment Versus Standard Care Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress	6
Child Social Support Moderates the Association Between Maternal Psychopathology and Child School Engagement	6
Supporting Youth Mental Health Through a Health Coaching Intervention with a Mindfulness Component: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial During COVID-19	6
Depressive Symptoms Over the Course of Adolescence Among Latinx Children of Immigrants and Non-immigrants and White Youth From Small Towns in the United States	6
Youth Development in the Pacific: A Decade in Review	6
Providers’ Perspectives on Implementing Mobile Crisis Services for Children and Youth in Connecticut	6
Bidirectional Effects and Interconnectivity of Risk and Protective Factors for Integration in Unaccompanied Migrant Children: A Systematic Review	6
Supporting School Mental Health Providers: Evidence from a Short-Term Telementoring Model	5
Peer and Supervisor Influence on School Mental Health Providers’ Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Practice	5
Age 4 Predictors of Age 5 Academic Achievement: A Multi-domain Model of Contextual, Parent, and Child Effects	5
The Effectiveness of School-Based Skills-Training Programs Reducing Performance or Social Anxiety: Two Randomized Controlled Trials	5
Early Cumulative Parent-Related Stressors and Growth Trajectories in Aggression and Delinquency During Early Adolescence: Testing the Family Stress Model Using a Latent Variable Growth Modeling Approa	5
Feeling Uprooted? Examining the Relevance of Homesickness and Fear of Missing Out for Adolescents in a Residential Program	5
Having Someone to Talk: A Buffer Against Maladaptive Academic Behavior During Adolescence?	5
Trajectories of Learning Attitude Profiles in Korean Middle School Students: Examining Developmental Patterns and the Influence of Parenting	5
Correction to: A 26-Year Study of Restraint Fatalities Among Children and Adolescents in the United States: A Failure of Organizational Structures and Processes	5
Reducing Psychological Stress of Chinese Adolescents by Mindfulness-Based Intervention: The Mediating Role of Resilience	5
Enduring Outcomes of Family-focused Youth Care: A Systematic Review of Child, Parent and Family Functioning After Care and at Follow-up	4
Measuring Character Strengths and Promoting Positive Youth Development in Zambia: Initial Findings from the GROW Hopes for Life Study	4
The Forms of Self-Criticising & Self-Reassuring Scale - Short Form for Adolescents: Psychometric Properties in Clinical and Non-Clinical Portuguese Samples	4
Understanding the Longitudinal Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Student Attendance	4
Using Teacher Prompts to Increase Leadership Skills in Preschool Children	4
Parent-Child Interactions During a Speech Preparation Task: A Comparison of OCD and Non-Clinical Control Families	4
Peer Victimization and Risk for Specific Charges Among Detained Youth	4
Mindfulness Training in Swiss Elementary Schools: Effectiveness and Role of Implementation Quality in a Cluster-Randomized Trial	4
Examining the Effectiveness of the Transdiagnostic Unified Protocol for Emotional Disorders Delivered to Youth Following Hurricane Harvey	4
Community-Based Treatment of Families with Adolescents with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (Level 1): Two Single Case Experimental Design Studies on the Effects of Multisystemic Therapy	4
The SSIS SEL Brief Scales – Student Form: Examining the Structural Validity of a Portuguese Version	4
“Man, This Isn’t Easy”: Exploring the Manifestation of Parentification Among Young Carers of a Parent with Huntington’s Disease	4
A Systematic Review of Mindfulness-Based School Interventions on Social Emotional Outcomes with Adolescents	4
Validation of the Perceptions of Racism in Children and Youth (PRaCY) Scale in Pittsburgh: Associations with Sexual Violence Experiences	3
Differential Trajectories of Social Withdrawal by Korean Parenting Profiles in the Transition from Childhood to Early Adolescence	3
Unveiling the Developmental Dynamics of Labeling Theory: Within-Individual Effects of Perceived Informal Labeling on Deviant Self-Concept in the Korean Context	3
Breaking the Link: Parental Attachment as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Cyber-Bullying	3
Risk and Protective Factors in Bullying Perpetration Committed by Bullied Children: An Application of the Multiple Disadvantage Model	3
What Works in Home-Start According to Parents and Volunteers	3
Youth-identified Considerations for Programming to Support Newcomers’ Healthy Development: A Group Concept Mapping Study	3
The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD): External Correlates and Incremental Validity over Alternate Psychopathy Measures	3
Correction to: Patterns of School Victimization and Problem Behaviors: Longitudinal Associations with Socioeconomic Well-Being and Criminal Justice Involvement	3
Systematic Review of the Psychometric Evidence Supporting Use of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, Short Form (DASS-21) with Youth	3
Home-Visiting Programming in Kindergarten-Readiness Interventions: Retention and Loss of Families	3
The Relationship Between Cumulative Ecological Risk and Adolescent Suicidal Ideation: The Moderating Role of the Meaning in Life	3
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Interventions for Children Affected by Armed Conflict in low-and middle-income Countries: A Systematic Review	3

Ecological Factors of Telemental Healthcare Utilization Among Adolescents with Increased Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effect of Gender	3
Students’ Perceptions of Factors Contributing to a Happy School Environment in Iran	3
The Mental Health of Young People Entering Custody: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	2
Physical Activity and Mental Health in Children and Youth: Clinician Perspectives and Practices	2
COVID-19 conversations: A qualitative study of majority Hispanic/Latinx youth experiences during early stages of the pandemic	2
A Pilot Open Trial of an Individualized Adaptation of Trauma and Grief Component Therapy (TGCT) in Children and Adolescents	2
Trauma Informed Care for Girls in the Children and Young Person Secure Estate (CYPSE): A Co-produced Rapid Evidence Review	2
High Rates of Anxiety Among Adolescents in a Partial Hospitalization Program	2
What Purpose do Voices Serve If No One is Listening? A Systematic Review of Children and Young People’s Perspectives on Living in the Foster Care System	2
Help-Seeking for Bullying Victimization Among Adolescents in Germany	2
Friendship Quality and Mental Health of Youth in Residential Care: The Moderating Role of Individual and Contextual Variables	2
“I Did a Lot of Good Today”: Child and Youth Care Workers’ Perceptions of Their Work	2
Thought Problems and Aggression Over Time Among Youth in Foster Care	2
Adolescent Attachment, Affect, and Behavior as Related to Coping Responses to a Psychosocial Stressor	2
Examining Child Labour Activities in South Africa	2
The Longitudinal Associations of Household Economic Pressure and Home Chaos with Children’s Executive Functioning, Word Reading, and School Readiness	2
Families’ and Practitioners’ Use of Culture in Youth Mental Health Services: A Double-Edged Sword	2
The Experiences, Enablers and Barriers of Compassion According To Residential Youth Care Workers in the Netherlands	2
Targeting Caregiver Psychopathology in Parent Management Training for Adolescents: A Scoping Review of Commercially Available Treatment Resources	2
Head Start’s impact on long-term School Success: assessing variation across latent classes of Family Risk	2
Salutogenesis and the Wellbeing of Siblings of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Contribution of Involvement, Resistance Resources, and Loneliness	2
Early Childhood Teachers’ Work Environment, Perceived Personal Stress, and Professional Commitment in South Korea	2
Adolescents’ Psychoactive Substance Use During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Cross Sectional Study in Italy	2
Children’s ADHD and Dysregulation Problems, DAT1 Genotype and Methylation, and their Interplay with Family Environment	1
Relationship Between Korean Adolescents’ Dependence on Smartphones, Peer Relationships, and Life Satisfaction	1
A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Preschool Children’s Reactions to Interparental Conflict and Their Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Japan	1
Start Earlier, Stay Healthier? An Earlier Start to Public Preschool May Improve Detection of Health Problems	1
Family Involvement in Child Mental Health: Exploring Policies and Practices from Community-Based Mental Health Centers	1
The Effects of a Cyberbullying Intervention Programme Among Primary School Students	1
Children’s Emotion Regulation and Subjective Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Intergenerational Perspective Among Racially and Economically Minoritized Mother-Child Dyads in the United States	1
Does Religiosity Matter? The Role of Subjective and Organizational Religiosity on Substance Use Among Adolescents	1
Children’s Experiences of Stress in Joint Physical Custody	1
Parental Discipline and Self-Regulation in Children Aged 2 to 5: A Meta-Analysis of Research Conducted From 2000 to 2022	1
Transition to Preschool: Paving the Way for Preschool Teacher and Family Relationship-Building	1
How Psychosocial Factors Relate to Climate in a Racially Stratified Sample School	1
Breakfast Club Conundrum: How Adolescent Peer Norms and Ecological Factors Relate with Achievement	1
Parenting Stress, Child Behavior Problems, and Household Chaos: Examining Parenting in Early Head Start Families	1
Family-Centered Attitudes and Actions in Youth Care and Special Education: Development and Evaluation of a New Measuring Instrument	1
Secondary Youth-Level Mechanisms of Change in Parent Training for Anxious Youth	1
Prospective Relations of Temperament and Peer Victimization with Changes in Social Competence in Early Childhood: The Moderating Role of Executive Functioning	1
Promoting Prescription Drug Safety Skills in School: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Technology-Based Curriculum	1
Stigma of Suicide’s Effects on Gatekeeping Behaviors Among Families in Mexico	1
Parent, Teacher, and Youth Reports on Measures of Reactive and Proactive Aggression	1
Who Declines and Who Improves in Wilderness Therapy?	1
Early Childhood Temperament Factors and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Preschool and School Aged- Children: A Systematic Narrative Review	1
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Anxiety of Adolescents in Québec	1
Exploring the Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Secure Children’s Home Admissions	1
Perceptions from Newcomer Multilingual Adolescents: Predictors and Experiences of Sense of Belonging in High School	1
Assessing Body Esteem in Adolescents: psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale (BESAA-S)	1
Promising Practices for Improving the Match Outcomes of Young Children: An Evaluation of the School-Based Literacy-Enhanced Mentoring (LEM) Program	1
Teachers as Youth Suicide Prevention Gatekeepers: An Examination of Suicide Prevention Training and Exposure to Students at Risk of Suicide	1
Well-being and Life Satisfaction in Children Living in Contexts of Political Violence: A Narrative Literature Review	1
Alliance Between Therapist and Multi-stressed Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effect of Family-Based Videoconferencing	1
Characteristics of Parents Who Spent Time Away from Home During Stay-at-Home Orders and Relation to Parenting Behaviors in Ohio	1
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Parental History and how they Relate to Subsequent Observed Parent–Child Interaction: A Systematic Review	1
An Evaluation of Child and Parent Outcomes Following Community-Based Early Intervention with Randomised Parent-Mediated Intervention for Autistic Pre-Schoolers	1
The Brief Adolescent Depression Screen: A Brief Screening Tool for Depression and Suicidal Behavior in Inpatient Adolescents	1
Correction to: Psychometric Evaluation of a Barriers to Mental Health Treatment Questionnaire for Latina/o/x Caregivers of Children and Adolescents	1
Longitudinal Investigation of Korean Adolescents’ Ego-Identity Development	1
Feeling Better: Experiences and Needs of Adolescents and Professionals Regarding Their Mentoring Relationship in Residential Youth Care	1
Identifying the Relationship Between Strength of School Social Support and Level of Hope in Children from Low-Income Families	1
Using Mindfulness Practices to Increase Self-Regulation in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten-Aged Children	1
Multiple Determinants of Interaction Quality among Childcare Providers	1
Exposure to COVID-19 Disruptions Moderates the Effect of Temperament on Anxiety in Preschool-Age Children	1