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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of an Online Play-Based Parenting Program on Child Development and the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial	21
Assessing Efficacy and Benefit of a Behavioral Math Talk Intervention for Caregivers of Young Children	21
Eighteen Months of COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lenses of Self or Others: A Meta-Analysis on Children and Adolescents’ Mental Health	19
The Impact of Educator Anxiety and Anxiety Literacy on Primary Educators’ Responses to Anxious Children	19
Children’s Social Interaction in Pre-school Education and Childcare Settings: A Systematic Review	18
Why are they leaving? Understanding Associations between early childhood program policies and teacher turnover rates	18
Do Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Contribute to Risk for Restrictive Behavioral Interventions for Detained Youth?	18
Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being: The Unique Contribution of Fathers	17
Peer Dislike and Future School Adjustment in Early Adolescence: Recognizing Consequences for both Boys and Girls	17
Symptoms and Psychological Factors Linked to Anxiety Impairment in Adolescents	17
The Role of Temperamental Characteristics in Growth Rates of Theory of Mind: A Turkish Care Types Study	16
Lower Secondary Students’ Well-Being Profiles: Stability, Transitions, and Connections with Teacher–Student, and Student–Student Relationships	16
Teachers’ Perceptions of Quality in Head Start	14
Joint Physical Custody and Children’s Physical and Mental Health	11
Family Strengthening to Prevent Family Separation and Entrance into Residential Care Institutions in Sierra Leone: A Quasi-experimental Study	11
Assessing Emotional Distress in Adolescents: Psychometrics of the Spanish Version of the Social Emotional Distress Scale-Secondary	11
Correction to: Multiple Determinants of Interaction Quality among Childcare Providers	11
Differential Susceptibility in the Intergenerational Transmission of Secure Base Script Knowledge?	11
Multilevel Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bioecological Systems Perspective of Parent and Child Experiences	9
“I’m Often Alone”: An Ethnographic Study of School Loneliness and Bullying in a Swedish Elementary School	9
The Relations Between Parents’ Beliefs, Parents’ Home Reading Practices, and Their Children’s Literacy Development in Kindergarten	9
Seattle Public Schools’ Student Survey of School Climate and Social Emotional Learning: Psychometric Analyses in the Context of a Research-Practice Partnership	9
Child Social Support Moderates the Association Between Maternal Psychopathology and Child School Engagement	8
Classroom and Behavior Management Training Needs and Perceptions: A Systematic Review of the Literature	8
Child Temperament, Caregiving Representations, and Parental Reflective Functioning: Links with Callous-Unemotional Traits in Toddlers	8

Pragmatic Language Differences in Conversation Might Differentiate between Autism and Trauma-related Disorders	8
Beyond Likes and Follows: Investigating the Longitudinal Associations between Social Media Rumination and Internalizing Symptoms in Middle School Students	8
Young People’s Perspectives on Parents Helping Young People Exposed to Trauma	8
Youth Development in the Pacific: A Decade in Review	7
Introduction of Technology to Support Young People’s Care and Mental Health—A Rapid Evidence Review	7
Parents’ and Teachers’ Knowledge of Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents and Their Agreement Towards Screening	7
Providers’ Perspectives on Implementing Mobile Crisis Services for Children and Youth in Connecticut	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
Supporting Youth Mental Health Through a Health Coaching Intervention with a Mindfulness Component: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial During COVID-19	7
Head-Toes for Neurodiverse Learners: Adapting an Existing Behavioral Self-regulation Assessment	6
Peer and Supervisor Influence on School Mental Health Providers’ Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Practice	6
Bidirectional Effects and Interconnectivity of Risk and Protective Factors for Integration in Unaccompanied Migrant Children: A Systematic Review	6
The Roles of Therapeutic Alliance and Negative Cognitions in Parent-Led Treatment Versus Standard Care Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress	6
Having Someone to Talk: A Buffer Against Maladaptive Academic Behavior During Adolescence?	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
Age 4 Predictors of Age 5 Academic Achievement: A Multi-domain Model of Contextual, Parent, and Child Effects	6
Feeling Uprooted? Examining the Relevance of Homesickness and Fear of Missing Out for Adolescents in a Residential Program	5
Trajectories of Learning Attitude Profiles in Korean Middle School Students: Examining Developmental Patterns and the Influence of Parenting	5
Supporting School Mental Health Providers: Evidence from a Short-Term Telementoring Model	5
Pre-adoption Experiences and Attachment Disorders in Portuguese Adopted Children	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
The Effectiveness of School-Based Skills-Training Programs Reducing Performance or Social Anxiety: Two Randomized Controlled Trials	5
Reducing Psychological Stress of Chinese Adolescents by Mindfulness-Based Intervention: The Mediating Role of Resilience	5
Measuring Character Strengths and Promoting Positive Youth Development in Zambia: Initial Findings from the GROW Hopes for Life Study	5
Understanding the Longitudinal Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Student Attendance	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
Peer Victimization and Risk for Specific Charges Among Detained Youth	4
The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD): External Correlates and Incremental Validity over Alternate Psychopathy Measures	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
The Forms of Self-Criticising & Self-Reassuring Scale - Short Form for Adolescents: Psychometric Properties in Clinical and Non-Clinical Portuguese Samples	4
“Man, This Isn’t Easy”: Exploring the Manifestation of Parentification Among Young Carers of a Parent with Huntington’s Disease	4
The Relationship Between Cumulative Ecological Risk and Adolescent Suicidal Ideation: The Moderating Role of the Meaning in Life	4
Enduring Outcomes of Family-focused Youth Care: A Systematic Review of Child, Parent and Family Functioning After Care and at Follow-up	4
Examining the Effectiveness of the Transdiagnostic Unified Protocol for Emotional Disorders Delivered to Youth Following Hurricane Harvey	4
Investigating Sex Differences in the Association Between Alexithymia and Adjustment Outcomes Among Detained Youth	4
Mindfulness Training in Swiss Elementary Schools: Effectiveness and Role of Implementation Quality in a Cluster-Randomized Trial	4
Unveiling the Developmental Dynamics of Labeling Theory: Within-Individual Effects of Perceived Informal Labeling on Deviant Self-Concept in the Korean Context	3
Differential Trajectories of Social Withdrawal by Korean Parenting Profiles in the Transition from Childhood to Early Adolescence	3
The Development and Validation of the Adolescent Self-Criticism Scale (ASCS)	3
Families’ and Practitioners’ Use of Culture in Youth Mental Health Services: A Double-Edged Sword	3
The Experiences, Enablers and Barriers of Compassion According To Residential Youth Care Workers in the Netherlands	3
“How Do I Draw Something That Doesn’t Exist?” A Qualitative Exploration of (Pre)Adolescents’ Constructions and Negotiations of Personal and Ideal(Ized) Bodies Through Drawings	3
Breaking the Link: Parental Attachment as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Cyber-Bullying	3
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Interventions for Children Affected by Armed Conflict in low-and middle-income Countries: A Systematic Review	3
Risk and Protective Factors in Bullying Perpetration Committed by Bullied Children: An Application of the Multiple Disadvantage Model	3
Validation of the Perceptions of Racism in Children and Youth (PRaCY) Scale in Pittsburgh: Associations with Sexual Violence Experiences	3
Systematic Review of the Psychometric Evidence Supporting Use of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, Short Form (DASS-21) with Youth	3
Youth-identified Considerations for Programming to Support Newcomers’ Healthy Development: A Group Concept Mapping Study	3

Students’ Perceptions of Factors Contributing to a Happy School Environment in Iran	3
What Works in Home-Start According to Parents and Volunteers	3
A Systematic Review of Mindfulness-Based School Interventions on Social Emotional Outcomes with Adolescents	3
Home-Visiting Programming in Kindergarten-Readiness Interventions: Retention and Loss of Families	3
Physical Activity and Mental Health in Children and Youth: Clinician Perspectives and Practices	3
Ecological Factors of Telemental Healthcare Utilization Among Adolescents with Increased Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effect of Gender	3
Psychosocial Recovery in Children and Adolescents with Suicide Attempts: A Population-Based Study in Latin American	3
Adolescent Attachment, Affect, and Behavior as Related to Coping Responses to a Psychosocial Stressor	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
Childcare Provider Self-Reported Practices During Naptime: A Qualitative Study	2
Friendship Quality and Mental Health of Youth in Residential Care: The Moderating Role of Individual and Contextual Variables	2
Examining Child Labour Activities in South Africa	2
Negative Rearing Behavior and Its Association with Maladaptive Metacognition in Children and Adolescents with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder	2
Help-Seeking for Bullying Victimization Among Adolescents in Germany	2
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	2
“I Did a Lot of Good Today”: Child and Youth Care Workers’ Perceptions of Their Work	2
Parent, Teacher, and Youth Reports on Measures of Reactive and Proactive Aggression	2
Adolescents’ Psychoactive Substance Use During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Cross Sectional Study in Italy	2
The Mental Health of Young People Entering Custody: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	2
Targeting Caregiver Psychopathology in Parent Management Training for Adolescents: A Scoping Review of Commercially Available Treatment Resources	2
Early Childhood Teachers’ Work Environment, Perceived Personal Stress, and Professional Commitment in South Korea	2
Trauma Informed Care for Girls in the Children and Young Person Secure Estate (CYPSE): A Co-produced Rapid Evidence Review	2
Head Start’s impact on long-term School Success: assessing variation across latent classes of Family Risk	2
Psychological Distress and Peer Dynamics in Adolescent Summer Care Programs: A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis	2
The Longitudinal Associations of Household Economic Pressure and Home Chaos with Children’s Executive Functioning, Word Reading, and School Readiness	2
The Inside Scoop: Facilitator Perspectives on an Afterschool Group Mentoring Program for Youth	2
A Pilot Open Trial of an Individualized Adaptation of Trauma and Grief Component Therapy (TGCT) in Children and Adolescents	2
The Brief Adolescent Depression Screen: A Brief Screening Tool for Depression and Suicidal Behavior in Inpatient Adolescents	2
High Rates of Anxiety Among Adolescents in a Partial Hospitalization Program	2
Salutogenesis and the Wellbeing of Siblings of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Contribution of Involvement, Resistance Resources, and Loneliness	2
Family Involvement in Child Mental Health: Exploring Policies and Practices from Community-Based Mental Health Centers	2
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Parental History and how they Relate to Subsequent Observed Parent–Child Interaction: A Systematic Review	1
Start Earlier, Stay Healthier? An Earlier Start to Public Preschool May Improve Detection of Health Problems	1
Early Childhood Temperament Factors and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Preschool and School Aged- Children: A Systematic Narrative Review	1
Professionals’ Confidence, Training, and Victim Blaming: Views on Physical and Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse	1
Psychological Maltreatment Impairs Children’s Automatic Response Inhibition in Implicit Emotion Regulation: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials	1
Parental Discipline and Self-Regulation in Children Aged 2 to 5: A Meta-Analysis of Research Conducted From 2000 to 2022	1
Multiple Determinants of Interaction Quality among Childcare Providers	1
Prospective Relations of Temperament and Peer Victimization with Changes in Social Competence in Early Childhood: The Moderating Role of Executive Functioning	1
How Psychosocial Factors Relate to Climate in a Racially Stratified Sample School	1
Well-being and Life Satisfaction in Children Living in Contexts of Political Violence: A Narrative Literature Review	1
Children’s ADHD and Dysregulation Problems, DAT1 Genotype and Methylation, and their Interplay with Family Environment	1
Family-Centered Attitudes and Actions in Youth Care and Special Education: Development and Evaluation of a New Measuring Instrument	1
Treating Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: The Therapeutic Potential of Overnight Summer Camp	1
The Effects of a Cyberbullying Intervention Programme Among Primary School Students	1
Stigma of Suicide’s Effects on Gatekeeping Behaviors Among Families in Mexico	1
Self-Efficacy and Prosocial Behavior Across Bullying Involvement Roles	1
Suicides Among Youth and Social Environment: Is There Evidence for Correlation, or Merely Ecological Fallacy?	1
Youth Development Staff Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Mixed Methods Study	1
A Disruption, Not an Interruption: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Care in Iowa	1
Using Mindfulness Practices to Increase Self-Regulation in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten-Aged Children	1
Transition to Preschool: Paving the Way for Preschool Teacher and Family Relationship-Building	1
Correction to: Psychometric Evaluation of a Barriers to Mental Health Treatment Questionnaire for Latina/o/x Caregivers of Children and Adolescents	1
Promoting Prescription Drug Safety Skills in School: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Technology-Based Curriculum	1
A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Preschool Children’s Reactions to Interparental Conflict and Their Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Japan	1
Teachers as Youth Suicide Prevention Gatekeepers: An Examination of Suicide Prevention Training and Exposure to Students at Risk of Suicide	1
Parenting Stress, Child Behavior Problems, and Household Chaos: Examining Parenting in Early Head Start Families	1
An Evaluation of Child and Parent Outcomes Following Community-Based Early Intervention with Randomised Parent-Mediated Intervention for Autistic Pre-Schoolers	1
Does Religiosity Matter? The Role of Subjective and Organizational Religiosity on Substance Use Among Adolescents	1
Who Declines and Who Improves in Wilderness Therapy?	1
Secondary Youth-Level Mechanisms of Change in Parent Training for Anxious Youth	1
Characteristics of Parents Who Spent Time Away from Home During Stay-at-Home Orders and Relation to Parenting Behaviors in Ohio	1
Children’s Daily Activity Patterns and the Influence of Multilevel Ecological Factors	1
Assessing Body Esteem in Adolescents: psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale (BESAA-S)	1
Children’s Mental Health Distress and Barriers to Help-Seeking: Insights from the Tinkle Friend Chatline	1
Enhancing Social Understanding in Middle Childhood: a Conversation Training Study	1
Perceptions from Newcomer Multilingual Adolescents: Predictors and Experiences of Sense of Belonging in High School	1
Promising Practices for Improving the Match Outcomes of Young Children: An Evaluation of the School-Based Literacy-Enhanced Mentoring (LEM) Program	1
Breakfast Club Conundrum: How Adolescent Peer Norms and Ecological Factors Relate with Achievement	1
Relationship Between Korean Adolescents’ Dependence on Smartphones, Peer Relationships, and Life Satisfaction	1
Identifying the Relationship Between Strength of School Social Support and Level of Hope in Children from Low-Income Families	1
Exposure to COVID-19 Disruptions Moderates the Effect of Temperament on Anxiety in Preschool-Age Children	1
Book Babies Home Visiting Intervention: Evidence of Effect on Literacy-Promoting Practices and Children’s Early Language	1