Child & Family Social Work

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Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden	36
Lesbian and gay individuals' path into foster parenting in Norway—Barriers and facilitators at the person and system levels	33
What criteria do foster care workers take into account when recommending foster children's visiting arrangements with their birth parents	22
Deinstitutionalization of children in residential care facilities: Experiences and perceptions of professionals in Ghana	18
‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England	17
You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity and Transracial AdoptionBy AngelaTucker, Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2023. xi + 194 pp. $25.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐8070‐0651‐1	17
Reintegration of street‐connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme	17
Digitisation of Sibling and Social Relationships of Vulnerable Children in the Czech Republic: Implications for Digital Social Work	17
Factors Affecting Flemish, Lithuanian and Latvian Foster Parents' Perception of Problem Behaviour and Support Needs	16
Improving Emotional and Social Development in Preschool Children: Exploring the Effects of Mindfulness‐Based Mandala Intervention in Social Work Practice in Macao	14
Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia	14
Vulnerability and Children with Disabilities: Vision from a Chinese Context	13
Effective strategies for socio‐educational intervention during the process of transition to adult life of unaccompanied minors from Africa	13
The Responsibiligated Status: Exploring the Experiences of Hearing Children With Deaf Parents	13
Youth‐Reported Strengths and Challenges in Illinois Child Welfare Residential Care: An Analysis of Qualitative Data From > 500 Youth	13
The roles of moral sensitivity and father presence on the relationship between violent video game exposure and aggression among left‐behind adolescents	12
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What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems	12
Staff experience of a new approach to family safeguarding in OxfordshireChildren's Social Care Services	12
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An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience	12
Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana	11
Online Sexual Exploitation Among Adolescents in Tanzania: Exploring the Stigmas of Victimization and Help‐Seeking	11
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources	10
Is participation always appropriate? Social workers' perspectives on when to exclude children from conversations about contact visits	10

Child placement in the community: Socio‐religious challenges for Druze social workers in Israel	10
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care	9
A Pilot Study of the Usefulness of a Strength‐Based, Systemic and Trauma‐Informed Training Programme for Early Help Practitioners	9
The ‘virtuous’ cycle of parental empowerment: Partnering with parents to safeguard young people from exploitation	9
Sequential Dual Mediating Effects of Smartphone Dependence and Aggression on the Relationship Between Negative Parenting Attitudes and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents	9
Revisiting the influence of community social capital indices on child maltreatment rates: The moderating effects of place	9
When young people age out of care: Foster care in a life course and network perspective	9
Working and caring for a disabled adopted child during a pandemic	9
‘I never win’: How children and staff in residential facilities experience meaningful participation	8
Developing a model for child participation in child welfare services	8
Professionals' Insights on Supervision in Portuguese Residential Care	8
Authority Over Investigation Decisions in Child Welfare Services: How is it Distributed Among Social Workers, Managers and Citizen Representatives?	8
Variation in Outcomes of Mandated Child Welfare Referrals in Norway	8
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Using Family Needs Assessments to Guide Place‐Based Services for Vulnerable Families: Lessons From the COVID‐19 Pandemic	8
Experiences of Young People Leaving Children's Homes as a Form of Institutional Care: A Qualitative Study	8
Neglecting to consider early emotional development after abuse and/or neglect: Insights and recommendations from child welfare providers	7
Care Providers of Indigenous Children and Youth in the Child Welfare System: A Scoping Review	7
A qualitative study on parental mediation of rural‐to‐urban migrant children's smartphone use in China: Concerns, strategies and challenges	7
Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation	7
‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence	7
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Does parent report of child physical abuse and supervisory neglect differ by method of study recruitment or mode of survey administration?	7
The importance of clinician courtroom testimony for children exposed to domestic violence	7
Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes	7
Is There an Unrecognized Potential Pool of Foster Carers?	7
A structural equation model investigating the relationships among online and offline social capitals and child polyvictimization	6
Gender differences in cyberbullying tolerance, traditional bullying victimization and their associations with cyberbullying perpetration among Beijing adolescents	6
Does Urban Green Space Improve Household Well‐Being? Evidence From Chinese Cities	6
Effects of maternal adverse child experiences on parental maltreatment of children: An empirical study of mediating factors among Japanese mothers	6
Children of Divorced Parents—The Limitations of One‐Size‐Fits‐All Interventions	6
The Impact of Emotional Dissonance on Turnover Intent in Child Welfare Social Work: Test of a Moderated Mediation Model	6
Parenting through the lenses of risk and othering: Constructions of parental cannabis use in child protection court proceedings	6
‘The secret sauce’: Experience of a group‐based intervention for Black and Latino fathers	6
‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers	6
Pathways to parenting stress reduction among parents in South Africa	6
A solution‐focussed cognitive group intervention for event anxiety in vulnerable children: A randomized controlled trial	6
The Cycle of Violence: Childhood Abuse, Illicit Drug Use and Adult Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration	6
A step of faith: The experiences of street children in search of survival in Nakuru City, Kenya and its implications on policy	6
Exploring the Impact of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐Up on Infant Well‐Being: A Pre/Post Early Intervention Study	6
Shared and unique characteristics of school, cyber and family victimization among school‐aged children in Hong Kong	6
A Mixed‐Methods Study on the Associations Between Community Resilience and Parental Self‐Efficacy Among Parents of Children With Autism During War: The Mediating Role of Stress, Anxiety and Depression	6
Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care	6
Relationships Between Psychological Flexibility, Psychological Capital and Marital Quality Amongst Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	6
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth	5
Military‐Connected Adolescents' Coping Strategies and Psychological Well‐Being: The Moderating Role of Family Functioning	5
“Trying to be positive in the face of the storm”: The experiences of independent college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Parental care in trajectories of forced migration: Ruptures and changing conditions for family life	5
Readiness for independent living of youth in residential childcare: A comparative study	5
The Restorative Frame: A Grounded Theory Study of Protective Factors for Foster Care Disruptions	5

Accessibility of social services and ICT‐based services for children with disabilities and their families	5
Linking neighbourhood safety and children's internalizing and externalizing problems: Mediating role of maternal depression	5
Unpacking the Relationship Between COVID‐19‐Related Stress and Quality of Life Among High School Students: A Socio‐Ecological Resilience Perspective	5
A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development	5
Nowhere to go: Housing pathways of college students with foster care and homelessness experience	5
‘I Wouldn't Be Here Without Them’: An Explorative Study of Workplace Friendships and Well‐Being in Child and Family Social Workers	5
Responding to social and emotional vulnerability: Child welfare investigations involving older adolescents	5
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?	5
Examining the Likelihood of Being Referred to the Child Welfare Services in Sweden: Influences at the Individual, Peer and School‐Area Levels	5
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during COVID‐19: Findings from an Australian survey	5
Authenticity, power and the case record: A textual analysis of the participation of children and young people in their child protection conference	5
Care Leaving and Social Capital: Reflections on Findings From an Exploratory Intercountry African Study	5
Caregiver or care receiver: Adolescents' experience of caregiving to a parent with severe mental illness: A qualitative study	5
Self‐justification in decision‐making: Chinese child welfare workers' inconsistency of perceptions and experiences matters in reporting child abuse	4
Disability, Pregnancy, and Child Protective Services: Experiences of Birthing People in Ontario, Canada	4
Reporting a Black Child's Situation to Protective Services: Differences in Decision Making by Caseworkers in Administrative Areas With Disproportionately High and Low Reports	4
‘I Don't Know What I'd Do if My Kid Was Being Violent to Me, but These Parents Just Keep Pushing Through’: A Narrative Inquiry of Practitioner Responses to Child to Parent Violence	4
Are low academic achievers less resilient? Resilience of low and high academic achievers in Mainland China	4
Positive development of orphans in kinship care: The role of family stability	4
Stigma‐related barriers to participation in support groups for children: Social workers' experiences and destigmatizing strategies	4
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Parent–child relationship and parents' psychological well‐being among Malaysian families amid pandemic: The role of stress and gender	4
Navigating the Labyrinth: Challenges Faced by Child Protection Officers in Polygamous Bedouin Families in Israel	4
Fathers' Experiences in Parenting Autistic Children: A Qualitative Study	4
The social support systems of mothers with problematic substance use in their infant's first year	4
Family conflict as ontological (in)security for young people with experiences of homelessness	4
Analysing bully‐victim formation through symbolic interactionism: A case study in China	4
‘All in all … it begins with love’: The meanings of parental love in the context of child risk and protection among Israeli Ultra‐Orthodox Jewish parents	4
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence	4
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse	4
Harsh Versus Supportive (Grand)parenting Practices and Child Behaviour Problems in Urban Chinese Families: Does Multigenerational Coresidence Make a Difference?	4
Family Experience of Detention for Migratory Reasons: Findings From a Qualitative Systematic Review	4
Implementing the Power to Kids programme in home‐based (foster) care: Identifying the SAFETY approach	4
Evaluating the impact of a community‐based livelihood intervention on child protection: A mixed method approach	4
Fostering supportive interactions in the neighbourhood: Using visualized narratives	4
Empowering Children in Coping With Their Parents' Separation: The Views of Young Adults Looking Back on Their Childhood Experiences	4
Imposed and Self‐Imposed Isolation Among Children and Young People Who Have Grown Up in Domestic Abuse	4
Factors supporting resilience during out‐of‐home care: Experiences of former child welfare clients in Finland	4
The Resilience of Parents of Children With Developmental Disabilities: An Effort in Self‐Regulation and Spiritual Well‐Being	3
The reflection of desire for revenge and revenge fantasies in drawings and narratives of sexually abused children	3
Reversing the Gaze: An Autoethnographic Critique of Transracial–Transnational Adoption to Australia	3
Vulnerabilities among children of rag‐pickers: Examining health inequalities in the context of sustainable development goal 3	3
Strategies to increase fathers' engagement in child protection investigations due to domestic partner abuse in Sweden	3
‘A learning experience’: Disciplinary and parenting practices among Native American families	3
Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing Extra‐Familial Risks and Harms	3
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From Thought to Action: The Decision‐Making Process of Foster Parents	3
Making Accurate Judgements in Child Welfare: Comparing ChatGPT With Qualified Social Workers	3
Finding a Suitable Fostering Agency: Swedish Foster Carers' Reflections on Navigating a Mixed Welfare Market	3
Biographical histories of gendered parental substance use: Messages from mothers to professionals as to what interventions help or hinder journeys of recovery	3
Exploring Belief Systems in Kinship Fostering Practice in Igbo Indigenous Communities of Southeast Nigeria	3
The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Early Help: Critical reflections from embedded social care research	3
Exploring the mechanisms explaining the quality of sibling relationships when children are taken into care: A qualitative study of Norwegian children	3
Child Maltreatment in Families Receiving Mandatory Versus Voluntary Child Protection Support: A Matched Cohort Study	3
Special issue: Child protection in the digital age. Latent profiles in cyberbullying and the relationship with self‐concept and achievement goals in preadolescence	3
Residential Status Disparities in Social Participation and Quality of Life Among Chinese Children: The Mediating Role of Social Skills and Smartphone Addiction	3
Early Lifespan Trauma in Finnish Young Adults With an Out‐of‐Home Care Background—An Ecological Systems Perspective	3
Substance use and other factors associated with child welfare case duration: Looking beyond out of home care	3
The effects of mindfulness on mother–child relationships and maternal well‐being during the first COVID‐19 lockdown in Israel	3
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families	3
Lone parenthood in the COVID‐19 context: Israeli single gay fathers' perspective	3
‘It Isn't the Child Wearing Us Out, It's the System’: Navigating Support Systems When Struggling as Foster Parents in Norway	3
Parenthood in the shadow of COVID‐19: The contribution of gender, personal resources and anxiety to first time parents' perceptions of the infant	3
Stress Mindset Relates to Better Mental Health in Parents of Children With Special Needs: A Path Analysis Study	3
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship	3
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood: Risk and protective factors throughout their life course	3
Social Support System and Vulnerable Children in Need: Toward 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 3 ‘Good Health and Well‐Being’ (Part I)	3
How does family homelessness impact on children's development? A critical review of the literature	3
How Do Child Welfare Workers Understand and Practice Child Participation?	3
The attitudes and beliefs of the child protection workforce and why they matter to children who live with violence	3
‘The Cycle of Sibling Bullying’: Exploring the Links Between Sibling Bullying Victimization, External Support and Parent–Child Decision‐Making in Multichild Families	3
Nonmedical barriers and needs of rural children with disabilities and their families in Asia: A scoping review	3
‘Talk to Us, Not About Us’: Children's Understandings and Experiences of Participation in Australian Family Law	3
Effectiveness of a trauma‐informed intervention in a deinstitutionalization programme in rural Rwanda	3
Infant Vulnerability to Court Decision‐Making Processes Regarding OOHC: Perspectives of Frontline Workers	3
‘Disability is not a word we use’: Social workers' professional judgements about support for disabled young people leaving care	3
Family Stress Processes Underlying COVID‐19–Related Economic Insecurity for Mothers and Fathers and Children's Internalizing Behaviour Problems	3
What Knowledge and Skills Do Early Career Social Workers Need to Practice Effectively With Children and Families?	3
Social bonds, Internet usage time and bullying involvement: A study of rural secondary school students in China	3
Effects of COVID‐19 Lockdown on Children's Participation in Recreational Activities: The Experiences of Ghana's Children	3

Link between Internet addiction and depression and roles of social withdrawal and school belonging	3
Exploring Stability Within Kinship Care From the Perspective of Kinship Carer Advocates	3
Whose benefactors? Whose beneficiaries?—Negotiating help at the intersection between the family and the state	3
The outsider within: The agentic practices of Family Group Conference coordinators in the context of families with children at risk	3
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Navigating, being tricked, and blaming oneself—A meta‐synthesis of youth's experience of involvement in online child sexual abuse	3
‘It's making his bad days into my bad days’: The impact of coronavirus social distancing measures on young carers and young adult carers in the United Kingdom	2
Enabling Child‐Centred Case Recording in Children's Social Work: The Voice of Practitioners	2
Effectiveness of the International Child Development Programme: Results from a randomized controlled trial	2
Growing up in the shadow of domestic violence: Evidence from register data	2
Planning the Journey to Adulthood: The Role of Transition Plans in Flemish Youth Care to Support Young Care Leavers in Their Transition to Adulthood	2
A study of deviant behaviour among China's left‐behind children: The impact of strain, social control and learning	2
The Interplay Between Child and Parental Emotional Symptoms: Insights From Super Skills for Life Programme	2
Identifying key dimensions of indigenous led child welfare services: A qualitative literature review	2
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Social workers' perspectives on the role and function of independent experts in care proceedings in Norway: Contributions and devaluation	2
Longitudinal Dyadic Associations Between Maternal Monitoring, Household Environment and Mother–Adolescent Closeness	2
The Relationship Between Family Socio‐Economic Status and Preschool Children Parents' Parenting Sense of Competence: The Chain Mediating Role of Social Support and Psychological Capital	2
Improving the accuracy of social work judgements: A proof‐of‐concept study of a training programme	2
Child of two worlds: How foster care workers perceive their skills in dealing with worldview differences in foster care	2
Intervention programme for fathers who use domestic and family violence: Results from an evaluation of Caring Dads	2
‘I Am Still Concerned About Them’: Grandmother Kinship Caregivers and the Challenge of Abuse by Children in Their Care	2
The potential role of social and familial networks in shaping the well‐being of children in shelters for women survivors of intimate partner violence	2
Children's Perspective on Social Workers' Questioning Practices	2
Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory	2
Termination of Parental Rights on the Grounds of Intellectual/Developmental Disability: An Overlooked Policy and Health Issue	2
Students in out‐of‐home care: Their experiences of Transforming Educational Achievement for Children at Risk, an Australian education programme	2
The therapeutic alliance in context: Institutional factors that impact social work with families	2
Characterization of groups of siblings in residential child care in Spain	2
The Role of Children's Voices and Feedback Mechanisms in Family Justice	2
Identifying Deficiencies in Children's Residential Care in Finland: Inspectors' Views on Working With Information	2
Realizing the potential of a strengths‐based approach in family support with young people and their parents	2
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An anchor in instability or an inhibitor for development? Professional perceptions of siblinghood in family group homes in Israel	2
Class Peer Network and Heterogeneous Intervention Effects on Children's Social Information Processing Skills: Evidence From Let's Be Friends (Shaanxi) Trial 2	2
From Participation to Presence—What Young People Have to Say About Family Group Conferences	2
‘You have to go hunting for information’: Barriers to service utilization among expectant and parenting youth with experience in foster care	2
Navigating risk: Young women's pathways through the care, education and criminal justice systems	2
Family leadership among Israeli families of children with disabilities during the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic	2
‘I just want my parenting to be able to be better than what it is’: A qualitative exploration of parenting strengths and needs of mothers experiencing homelessness	2
Economic self‐sufficiency and the employment outcomes of care leavers: A 10‐year follow up	2
The Association Between Latino Cultural Concepts and Fatherhood Identity on Stigma for Fathers With a Child With a Disability	2
‘Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’): Ambiguous loss in the face of parental deportation	2
Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals	2
I do it for the children, and it's not a walk in the park: Parents' stories about how to maintain cooperative co‐parenting during the divorce process	2
“Fighting the invisible system”: A grounded theory study of the experiences of child protection social workers in England	2
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes	2
Factors Influencing the Outcomes of Discharge of Care Order Proceedings: An Examination of National Data, Children's E‐Records and Professional Interviews	2
A preliminary review of the parenting assessment and skill development service: A 10‐day residential service for families at risk of child maltreatment	2
Psychological Impact of Raising a Child With Autism: A Real Life Case Study of Expatriate Family	2
Exploring the Resettling Experiences of Refugee Families in Norway Through the Lens of Children and Their Parents	2
‘I Felt Brave’: A Mixed‐Methods Study on Participants' Parental Efficacy After Attending a Parent–Child Programme in a Remote Aboriginal Community	2
The ambivalent visit: Children's experiences of relating with their fathers during staying in shelters for women survivors of domestic violence	2
Involvement of children and young people in care order decision‐making—A Danish perspective	2
‘They feel like another child in care has their back’: An exploration of peer support between looked after children in Scotland	2
Grandparents with different health statuses as primary caregivers: Are they bad for children's health?	2
Work and family conflicts, depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours: An interdependent approach	2
The Implications of Wartime Evacuation for Israeli Families With Young Children: A Social Worker's Perspective	2
Repatriation and Reintegration of Children Returning From Conflict Zones to Tunisia: Experiences, Promising Practices, Challenges and Recommendations	2
The child's place in the foster family: Use of conventional names and adoption intentions throughout childhood	1
Who has naming rights? The framing of children's mental health issues in discursive therapy with their caregivers	1
Social capital and flourishing of left‐behind children in rural China: How basic psychological needs mediate?	1
Hidden champions: Exploring supportive family relationships of youth experiencing homelessness	1
Piloting the Mockingbird Family™ in Australia: Experiences of foster carers and agency workers	1
Integrated model of maternal caregiving in child HIV management in Chinese mother–child dyads living with HIV: A qualitative dyadic analysis	1
A resilience enhancing trauma‐informed program for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters: A qualitative study	1
Learning from the experience of parents in poverty: The power of recognition	1
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Predictors of reunification and other types of exit for maltreated children using shelter services in Serbia	1
Designing, Developing and Examining the Effectiveness of a Machine Learning–Based Mobile Recommendation System for Parents' Digital Parenting Skills	1
How Are Children Involved? Participation of Children in the Process of Matching With Foster Families	1
‘Youth are not something to check off your to do list’: Poetic inquiry into the symbols youth, parents and professionals use to reimagine supports for youth in foster care	1
Supervision and Monitoring in Informal Child Protection in Rural Context	1
Battling parenting: The consequences of secure care interventions on parents	1
‘It's rewarding because I get the love’: Grandparents raising grandchildren with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder	1
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Child Welfare Workers' Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Mandatory Reporting in Norway	1
Journeys of culturally connecting: Aboriginal young people's experiences of cultural connection in and beyond out‐of‐home care	1
Care Leavers' Perceived Well‐Being: Findings From a Co‐constructed Survey in Italy	1
Embodied practice in a disembodied time: How the COVID‐19 pandemic shaped direct work with children and young people	1
Manoeuvring Among Institutions and Pandemic Restrictions: When the Fantasy of Parenting After Divorce or Breakup and the Respective Emotions Matter	1
Dating violence in adolescents in residential care: Frequency and associated factors	1
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Military family dynamics in transition: The experiences of young people when their families leave the Australian Defence Force	1
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‘Who's got my back?’: Worker safety in the context of domestic abuse	1
Experiences From Treatment for Anxiety and Depression Among Youth in Foster Care: A Qualitative Study	1
Characteristics of the Qualitative Research on Inclusion of the Youngest Children in Child Welfare and Protection Work Processes: A Qualitative Systematic Review	1
Measuring the ratio of true‐positive to false‐positive judgements made by child and family social workers in England: A case vignette study	1
An Example of Gender Construction of Children From Different Socio‐Economic Levels Through the Phenomenon of Parenting	1
Perspectives of Children on Corporal Punishment in Domestic Settings in Ghana	1
How Effective Are Ireland's Monitory Mechanisms in Improving Its Child Protection and Welfare Services?	1
‘Devoted Despite It All’: Norwegian Child Welfare Workers' Experiences of Implementing a Therapeutic Model for Adolescents With Co‐Occurring Problems	1
The participation of parents in the protection system: The case of the Spanish legislation	1