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
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
‘I was putting her first’: Birth parents' experiences of ‘consent’ to adoption from care in England	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
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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
Issue Information	12
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience	12
The roles of moral sensitivity and father presence on the relationship between violent video game exposure and aggression among left‐behind adolescents	12
Online Sexual Exploitation Among Adolescents in Tanzania: Exploring the Stigmas of Victimization and Help‐Seeking	11
Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana	11
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

Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources	10
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
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
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
Issue Information	8
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
‘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
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
Issue Information	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Issue Information	4
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
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
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
From Thought to Action: The Decision‐Making Process of Foster Parents	3
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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
Stress Mindset Relates to Better Mental Health in Parents of Children With Special Needs: A Path Analysis Study	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
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