Child & Family Social Work

Papers
(The TQCC of Child & Family Social Work 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Factors Affecting Flemish, Lithuanian and Latvian Foster Parents' Perception of Problem Behaviour and Support Needs40
Youth‐Reported Strengths and Challenges in Illinois Child Welfare Residential Care: An Analysis of Qualitative Data From > 500 Youth39
‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England27
Digitisation of Sibling and Social Relationships of Vulnerable Children in the Czech Republic: Implications for Digital Social Work23
You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity and Transracial AdoptionBy AngelaTucker, Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2023. xi + 194 pp. $25.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐8070‐0651‐122
Vulnerability and Children with Disabilities: Vision from a Chinese Context20
The Responsibiligated Status: Exploring the Experiences of Hearing Children With Deaf Parents18
‘He Can Be Whatever He Wants to Be!?’: How Parents of a Child With a Disability Navigate Their Expectations for Their Child's Achievement and Success16
What criteria do foster care workers take into account when recommending foster children's visiting arrangements with their birth parents15
Lesbian and gay individuals' path into foster parenting in Norway—Barriers and facilitators at the person and system levels15
Deinstitutionalization of children in residential care facilities: Experiences and perceptions of professionals in Ghana14
Reintegration of street‐connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme14
Diverse Pathways and the Role of Timing: Youth Experiences of Leaving Care in China13
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden13
Family Dynamics and Self‐Esteem: The Impact of Perceived Parental Rejection on Adolescents and Their Adult Siblings13
Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia13
Negotiating Responsibility: Professionals' Perspectives on Separated Parents' Protective Duties in the Swedish Context13
Improving Emotional and Social Development in Preschool Children: Exploring the Effects of Mindfulness‐Based Mandala Intervention in Social Work Practice in Macao13
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems13
Renaming in Adoption: Exploring Name Ambivalence in Adoptive Parents' Name Stories12
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Effective strategies for socio‐educational intervention during the process of transition to adult life of unaccompanied minors from Africa12
The roles of moral sensitivity and father presence on the relationship between violent video game exposure and aggression among left‐behind adolescents12
Is Parental Monitoring Associated With Behavioural Health Services Utilization for Juvenile Legal System‐Involved Youth?11
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Online Sexual Exploitation Among Adolescents in Tanzania: Exploring the Stigmas of Victimization and Help‐Seeking11
Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana11
Staff experience of a new approach to family safeguarding in OxfordshireChildren's Social Care Services10
Children's Agency in Contact Disputes: Navigating Protection, Participation and Alienation10
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience10
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Child placement in the community: Socio‐religious challenges for Druze social workers in Israel9
A Pilot Study of the Usefulness of a Strength‐Based, Systemic and Trauma‐Informed Training Programme for Early Help Practitioners9
Parenting Practices and Challenges for Latin American Migrant Families in Santiago de Chile9
Experiences of Young People Leaving Children's Homes as a Form of Institutional Care: A Qualitative Study9
Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources9
Professionals' Insights on Supervision in Portuguese Residential Care8
When young people age out of care: Foster care in a life course and network perspective8
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care8
Variation in Outcomes of Mandated Child Welfare Referrals in Norway8
The ‘virtuous’ cycle of parental empowerment: Partnering with parents to safeguard young people from exploitation8
Sequential Dual Mediating Effects of Smartphone Dependence and Aggression on the Relationship Between Negative Parenting Attitudes and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents8
Is participation always appropriate? Social workers' perspectives on when to exclude children from conversations about contact visits8
Authority Over Investigation Decisions in Child Welfare Services: How is it Distributed Among Social Workers, Managers and Citizen Representatives?8
The Struggle for Survival of Syrian Immigrant Single Mothers: A Qualitative Study in Türkiye8
Working and caring for a disabled adopted child during a pandemic8
Revisiting the influence of community social capital indices on child maltreatment rates: The moderating effects of place8
Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation7
Is There an Unrecognized Potential Pool of Foster Carers?7
Using Family Needs Assessments to Guide Place‐Based Services for Vulnerable Families: Lessons From the COVID‐19 Pandemic7
Care Providers of Indigenous Children and Youth in the Child Welfare System: A Scoping Review7
A Review of Laws Governing Marital Separation in India: (In)visible Children?7
The importance of clinician courtroom testimony for children exposed to domestic violence7
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Neglecting to consider early emotional development after abuse and/or neglect: Insights and recommendations from child welfare providers7
Developing a model for child participation in child welfare services7
Does parent report of child physical abuse and supervisory neglect differ by method of study recruitment or mode of survey administration?7
Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes7
‘I never win’: How children and staff in residential facilities experience meaningful participation7
‘I chose the bad’: Youth's meaning making of being involved in self‐harm content online during adolescence7
Nowhere to go: Housing pathways of college students with foster care and homelessness experience6
Relationships Between Psychological Flexibility, Psychological Capital and Marital Quality Amongst Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder6
The Cycle of Violence: Childhood Abuse, Illicit Drug Use and Adult Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration6
‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers6
A structural equation model investigating the relationships among online and offline social capitals and child polyvictimization6
Does Urban Green Space Improve Household Well‐Being? Evidence From Chinese Cities6
Parenting through the lenses of risk and othering: Constructions of parental cannabis use in child protection court proceedings6
Gender differences in cyberbullying tolerance, traditional bullying victimization and their associations with cyberbullying perpetration among Beijing adolescents6
Unpacking the Relationship Between COVID‐19‐Related Stress and Quality of Life Among High School Students: A Socio‐Ecological Resilience Perspective6
‘The secret sauce’: Experience of a group‐based intervention for Black and Latino fathers6
A qualitative study on parental mediation of rural‐to‐urban migrant children's smartphone use in China: Concerns, strategies and challenges6
Children of Divorced Parents—The Limitations of One‐Size‐Fits‐All Interventions6
The Impact of Emotional Dissonance on Turnover Intent in Child Welfare Social Work: Test of a Moderated Mediation Model6
A step of faith: The experiences of street children in search of survival in Nakuru City, Kenya and its implications on policy6
Disadvantageous but How Much?: Immigration Paradox From a Different Perspective6
Shared and unique characteristics of school, cyber and family victimization among school‐aged children in Hong Kong6
Exploring the Impact of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐Up on Infant Well‐Being: A Pre/Post Early Intervention Study6
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 Depression6
Girls Leaving Care: Establishing Relational Agency Through Relational Responsiveness in Out‐of‐Home Placements and Aftercare5
Readiness for independent living of youth in residential childcare: A comparative study5
Responding to social and emotional vulnerability: Child welfare investigations involving older adolescents5
Family Experience of Detention for Migratory Reasons: Findings From a Qualitative Systematic Review5
Caregiver or care receiver: Adolescents' experience of caregiving to a parent with severe mental illness: A qualitative study5
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth5
Care Leaving and Social Capital: Reflections on Findings From an Exploratory Intercountry African Study5
‘I Wouldn't Be Here Without Them’: An Explorative Study of Workplace Friendships and Well‐Being in Child and Family Social Workers5
The Restorative Frame: A Grounded Theory Study of Protective Factors for Foster Care Disruptions5
Reporting a Black Child's Situation to Protective Services: Differences in Decision Making by Caseworkers in Administrative Areas With Disproportionately High and Low Reports5
“Trying to be positive in the face of the storm”: The experiences of independent college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
The Associations Between Trait Mindfulness, Relationship Efficacy and Interparental Relationship Quality for Couples Receiving Support Services: A Dyadic Data Analysis5
Disability, Pregnancy, and Child Protective Services: Experiences of Birthing People in Ontario, Canada5
Parental care in trajectories of forced migration: Ruptures and changing conditions for family life5
Did I Save or Hurt the Child? Analysis of the Experience of Art Therapists Working in Schools in the Arab Society in Israel Regarding the Obligation to Report Violence Again5
Facilitating Children's Perspectives: Three Dimensions for Customizing Participatory Methodologies5
Military‐Connected Adolescents' Coping Strategies and Psychological Well‐Being: The Moderating Role of Family Functioning5
Examining the Likelihood of Being Referred to the Child Welfare Services in Sweden: Influences at the Individual, Peer and School‐Area Levels5
Accessibility of social services and ICT‐based services for children with disabilities and their families5
Pathways to parenting stress reduction among parents in South Africa5
Fathers' Experiences in Parenting Autistic Children: A Qualitative Study5
Longitudinal Association Among Internet Addiction, Cyberbullying Victimization and Quality of Life Among Children: Is Parental Mediation a Protective Factor?5
A solution‐focussed cognitive group intervention for event anxiety in vulnerable children: A randomized controlled trial5
Analysing bully‐victim formation through symbolic interactionism: A case study in China4
Reversing the Gaze: An Autoethnographic Critique of Transracial–Transnational Adoption to Australia4
‘Distracting and Disruptive:’ Why Nearly 40% of Forensic Interviewers Do Not Take Notes During Investigations of Suspected Child Maltreatment4
Factors supporting resilience during out‐of‐home care: Experiences of former child welfare clients in Finland4
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Navigating the Labyrinth: Challenges Faced by Child Protection Officers in Polygamous Bedouin Families in Israel4
Impact of Parenting Dynamics on Early Childhood Development: An Exploratory Study Among Primiparous Working Mothers in Kerala, India4
Implementing the Power to Kids programme in home‐based (foster) care: Identifying the SAFETY approach4
Family conflict as ontological (in)security for young people with experiences of homelessness4
Fostering supportive interactions in the neighbourhood: Using visualized narratives4
Residential Status Disparities in Social Participation and Quality of Life Among Chinese Children: The Mediating Role of Social Skills and Smartphone Addiction4
Positive development of orphans in kinship care: The role of family stability4
Imposed and Self‐Imposed Isolation Among Children and Young People Who Have Grown Up in Domestic Abuse4
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse4
The social support systems of mothers with problematic substance use in their infant's first year4
Linking neighbourhood safety and children's internalizing and externalizing problems: Mediating role of maternal depression4
Children's participation in child protection—How do practitioners understand children's participation in practice?4
Harsh Versus Supportive (Grand)parenting Practices and Child Behaviour Problems in Urban Chinese Families: Does Multigenerational Coresidence Make a Difference?4
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence4
Empowering Children in Coping With Their Parents' Separation: The Views of Young Adults Looking Back on Their Childhood Experiences4
Stigma‐related barriers to participation in support groups for children: Social workers' experiences and destigmatizing strategies4
Are low academic achievers less resilient? Resilience of low and high academic achievers in Mainland China4
Shifting the Perspective Through Participatory Research: Adolescents' Perceptions on Their Needs for Development4
Self‐justification in decision‐making: Chinese child welfare workers' inconsistency of perceptions and experiences matters in reporting child abuse4
Parent–child relationship and parents' psychological well‐being among Malaysian families amid pandemic: The role of stress and gender4
‘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 Violence4
How Do Professionals Portray Adolescents' Resilience in Residential Care? A Qualitative Study4
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Care Practices in Residential Child Homes: Caregiver and Youth Voices4
Effects of COVID‐19 Lockdown on Children's Participation in Recreational Activities: The Experiences of Ghana's Children3
Family functioning under COVID‐19: An ecological perspective of family resilience of Hong Kong Chinese families3
Exploring the mechanisms explaining the quality of sibling relationships when children are taken into care: A qualitative study of Norwegian children3
Link between Internet addiction and depression and roles of social withdrawal and school belonging3
The Resilience of Parents of Children With Developmental Disabilities: An Effort in Self‐Regulation and Spiritual Well‐Being3
Exploring Stability Within Kinship Care From the Perspective of Kinship Carer Advocates3
Social Support System and Vulnerable Children in Need: Toward 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 3 ‘Good Health and Well‐Being’ (Part I)3
Strategies to increase fathers' engagement in child protection investigations due to domestic partner abuse in Sweden3
Infant Vulnerability to Court Decision‐Making Processes Regarding OOHC: Perspectives of Frontline Workers3
The outsider within: The agentic practices of Family Group Conference coordinators in the context of families with children at risk3
Understanding South Korean Immigrant Adolescents' Experiences of Staying Home Alone3
Substance use and other factors associated with child welfare case duration: Looking beyond out of home care3
School‐to‐Work Transitions Among Out‐of‐Home Care and Aftercare Experienced Individuals: A Norwegian National Register Study3
Making Accurate Judgements in Child Welfare: Comparing ChatGPT With Qualified Social Workers3
Stress Mindset Relates to Better Mental Health in Parents of Children With Special Needs: A Path Analysis Study3
The attitudes and beliefs of the child protection workforce and why they matter to children who live with violence3
Early Lifespan Trauma in Finnish Young Adults With an Out‐of‐Home Care Background—An Ecological Systems Perspective3
The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Early Help: Critical reflections from embedded social care research3
From Thought to Action: The Decision‐Making Process of Foster Parents3
Municipal Differences in Thresholds for Investigations and Interventions by Child Welfare and Protection Services3
Parental Migration and Left‐Behind Children's Health‐Seeking Behaviours: Evidence From Rural China3
‘It Isn't the Child Wearing Us Out, It's the System’: Navigating Support Systems When Struggling as Foster Parents in Norway3
How Do Child Welfare Workers Understand and Practice Child Participation?3
Nonmedical barriers and needs of rural children with disabilities and their families in Asia: A scoping review3
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‘Talk to Us, Not About Us’: Children's Understandings and Experiences of Participation in Australian Family Law3
Child Maltreatment in Families Receiving Mandatory Versus Voluntary Child Protection Support: A Matched Cohort Study3
Divorcescapes: Family Conflicts and Children's Lived Spaces3
Digital Professional Practice, Digital Competences and Impact on Family Support Services3
Finding a Suitable Fostering Agency: Swedish Foster Carers' Reflections on Navigating a Mixed Welfare Market3
The effects of mindfulness on mother–child relationships and maternal well‐being during the first COVID‐19 lockdown in Israel3
Biographical histories of gendered parental substance use: Messages from mothers to professionals as to what interventions help or hinder journeys of recovery3
Special issue: Child protection in the digital age. Latent profiles in cyberbullying and the relationship with self‐concept and achievement goals in preadolescence3
Contributors to well‐being of Chinese left‐behind families: A dyadic perspective from family resilience and grandparent–grandchild relationship3
Social bonds, Internet usage time and bullying involvement: A study of rural secondary school students in China3
What Knowledge and Skills Do Early Career Social Workers Need to Practice Effectively With Children and Families?3
Mind the Gap: Formal Kinship Care and Children's Participation in Decision Making3
Exploring Belief Systems in Kinship Fostering Practice in Igbo Indigenous Communities of Southeast Nigeria3
‘The Cycle of Sibling Bullying’: Exploring the Links Between Sibling Bullying Victimization, External Support and Parent–Child Decision‐Making in Multichild Families3
Views and Experiences of Children and Social Workers About Communication in Social Work Exchanges: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review3
Vulnerabilities among children of rag‐pickers: Examining health inequalities in the context of sustainable development goal 33
Expectations and Concerns of Adoptive Families of Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder3
Whose benefactors? Whose beneficiaries?—Negotiating help at the intersection between the family and the state3
Child‐Rearing Involvement and Parental Emotional Exhaustion: The Moderating Role of Supportive Relationships for Mothers and Fathers in Italian Dual‐Earner Families3
‘Disability is not a word we use’: Social workers' professional judgements about support for disabled young people leaving care3
Navigating, being tricked, and blaming oneself—A meta‐synthesis of youth's experience of involvement in online child sexual abuse3
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