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What parents know: Informing a wider landscape of support for trans and gender diverse children and adolescents Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Cris Townley, Carlie Henderson
The childhood and adolescence of transgender and gender diverse children and young people (trans children) is contested in many areas, such as media, education, health, and increasingly in the political sphere. Parents and carers of trans children navigate services and societal relations in their journey to affirm their children, from happy childhood to trans adults. This paper reports on the accounts
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Transforming anger into resilience: The Zagreb Pride LGBTIQ NGO and stigmatized youth in Croatia Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Vanja Dergić
After an intensive marriage referendum campaign in 2013, organized by the ‘In the Name of Family’ organisation (Cro. ), the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman was included in the Croatian constitution. At the time of the campaign, the participants in this research were young people, most of whom were in elementary or secondary school. Considering most of them had not come out
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Navigating the journey into formal employment for youth with disabilities in Bangladesh: A qualitative study Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Stevens Bechange, Emma Jolley, Amrita Rejina Rozario, Utpal Mallick, Towhidul Islam, Simon Brown, Elena Schmidt
Despite the fact that youth employment is a government policy priority in Bangladesh, young people have higher unemployment rates than the overall working population. Young men and women with disabilities are the most vulnerable growing up with stigma and discrimination, low self-esteem and often inequitable access to the services and skills they require to earn a living. This qualitative study adopted
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Psychotropic medication prescribing in male juvenile justice facilities Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Ashley N. Anderson, John T. Rapp, Erica S. Ramey
This study examined medical files for former residents of six juvenile residential facilities. A review of medical files for 223 male, justice-involved adolescents revealed that 139 (62.33 %) received one or more psychotropic medications during at least one of their stays. Of the residents who received at least one medication (n = 139), prescribers most often prescribed antidepressants (74.8 %), antipsychotics
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“Kids are in the middle of it” – Child protection practitioners reflect on indicators of coercive control and situational couple violence Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins, Thomas Whelan
How relevant is differentiating between coercive control and situational couple violence in statutory child protection practice with families experiencing domestic and family violence?
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Internet addiction, social anxiety and body mass index in adolescents: A predictive correlational design Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Sümeyye Kavici, Sultan Ayaz-Alkaya
This study was conducted to measure internet addiction, social anxiety, body mass index and determine predisposing factors for these problems among adolescents. The target population of this predictive correlational study consisted of adolescents who enrolled in a youth center in Turkiye. Overall, 484 participants were included in the study. Data were collected through a personal information form,
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Generational differences in latent classes of exposure to adverse childhood experiences Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Phillip M. Hughes, Kathleen C. Thomas
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have increased across generations; however, it is unclear how ACE exposure clusters into classes and how exposure differs by generation. To examine this clustering, we used data from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (n = 56,262). We identified ACEs exposure classes and examined the probability of belonging to each ACEs exposure class by birth
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Evaluation of the implementation of transition programs for students with intellectual disability in high schools in Saudi Arabia Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Khalid N. Alasim, Wasmiya M. Al-Otabi
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation of transition programs for students with intellectual disability served in special high school institutes and self-contained classroom programs in general education high schools, and their challenges. We specifically explore special education teachers’ support for implementing the transition programs for students with intellectual disability
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Spanking or arrest: Caregiver perceptions of the No Hit Zone policy and poster in pediatric clinics Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Shaniece Criss, Botamina Sorial, Len Bowman, Alexandra Pollock, Paige Parham, Lochrane Grant, Nancy Henderson, Kerry Sease
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What do we know about children’s representation in child protection decisions? A scoping review Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Frøydis Lønborg Haarberg
This scoping review presents an overview of existing research about children’s representation in child protection decision-making and identifies the knowledge gaps. Representation arrangements to ensure that children’s views and/or best interests are heard are crucial as children, caregivers, and social workers often cannot represent children adequately. This international peer-reviewed scoping review
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The contribution of gender shame to fathers’ absence from welfare services Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 I. Negbi, N. Baum
Based on in-depth interviews with 44 parents in Israel the study presents factors that inhibited fathers from applying for help from welfare services. The findings show the effects of “gender shame”. Apparently, both genders consider fathers’ appealing for welfare services as an indication of failure to fulfil their role as breadwinners, a view that undermines their male identity. This view led many
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Barriers and facilitators to kinship care in Texas: A Multi-Stakeholder, mixed methods perspective Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Lauren Q. Malthaner, Mike Henson-Garcia, Erinne Conner, Hilda Loria, Jill D. McLeigh
Kinship caregivers are often considered the preferred placement for children in foster care. Children placed with kinship caregivers tend to have better emotional and behavioral health outcomes than children placed in other settings. Despite this, kinship caregivers receive limited resources to help provide for the children in their care. This study utilized focus groups, interviews, and an online
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Structural vulnerabilities and over-criminalization of LGBTQ + youth in the California justice system Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Jax Kynn, Hannah Boyke, Sam McCarthy, Ari S. Gzesh
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ + ) youth are overly represented in the juvenile justice system, which stems from their structural vulnerability. LGBTQ + youths’ structural vulnerability, the societal criminalization of LGBTQ + individuals’ sexual and gender expression, and over-policing place these youth at greater risk of being charged with prostitution and related offenses
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The effect of single mothers’ employment on their children’s mental health in young adulthood: Random effects model for longitudinal data Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Jaewon Lee, Jennifer Allen, Hyejung Lim
Based on a longitudinal approach, this study explores the effect of single mothers’ employment from pregnancy to their children’s preschool years on their adult children’s self-esteem and depression. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 for Children and Young Adults (NLSY79 CY) were employed to pair mothers and their adult children
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Child-centred approach to shared parenting: Children’s experiences of bird’s nest parenting arrangements Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Rafaela Lehtme
While shared parenting is considered the best model for meeting children’s needs, we still lack knowledge about the impact of different custody arrangements on child well-being, including potential effects on children’s health and stability of a lifestyle that involves travelling between households. Employing an interpretive phenomenological research design and the ‘responsibility to needs’ approach
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Trajectories of early childhood development in children experiencing homelessness Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Ana Paula Bonner Septien, Kira Nagoshi, Emily Lundberg, Brendan Fogarty, Kate Barrand, Deborah Stolbach, Henning Tiemeier
The experience of homelessness early in life can potentially disrupt childhood development. Enrollment in early education has been identified as a buffer to promote adequate development. Nevertheless, there has not yet been a quantitative assessment of the developmental trajectories of children experiencing homelessness receiving early education. We compared the development of children from birth to
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Ukrainian refugee adolescents in Germany – A qualitative study on schooling experiences and the fulfillment of basic psychological needs Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Sophia Chabursky, Jannika Gutt, Angelika Guglhör-Rudan
This study delves into the psychological well-being and basic psychological need fulfillment of Ukrainian refugee adolescents in the German schooling system during the 2022/2023 school year, following their displacement due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine in February 2022. Empirical studies indicate that forced migration disrupts children's lives, making them more vulnerable to mental distress
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Intergenerational conflict, contact with biological parents, and child functioning in kinship caregiver families Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Sara Gable, Amelia Holliday, Jonathon Zars, Sonita Simelus, Angela Nickell, Bradd Anderson
Over time, federal child welfare policy has shaped a preference for states to make every effort to place children with kinship caregivers before non-kin, foster caregivers. The current study focuses on two aspects of out-of-home care that past research indicates differ between kin and non-kin foster care arrangements: frequency of conflict between caregivers and biological parents (higher among kin
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Feasibility and acceptability of a family navigator program to support foster parents of youth with mental health concerns Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Heather J. Risser, Alexandra E. Morford, Ashley N. Murphy, Linzy M. Pinkerton, Clara Law, Yexinyu Yang, Emily Hersch, Katherine L. Wisner, Christina L. Boisseau
This pilot study assessed the acceptability and feasibility of the viding cess o nnoative &vidence-Based Intervention (PROACTIVE) Family Navigator Program for foster parents of children with mental health needs. Foster parents ( = 7) participated in four video conference sessions with a family navigator over the course of one month. In this study, family navigators were psychology doctoral students
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Medical science and pedophilia: Knowledge, discourses, and representations of pedophilia in medical books from 1910 to 1990 in a Brazilian public library Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Marcos Eduardo Miranda Santos, Jackson Ronie Sá-Silva
Pedophilia is defined as a multifaceted and complex phenomenon associated with various domains of knowledge. This article investigates the representation of pedophilia in medical literature from 1910 to 1990, focusing on a Brazilian public library’s collection. Through documentary analysis, the study examines the evolution of medical discourse surrounding pedophilia and its impact on societal perceptions
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Risk and protective factors associated with child welfare involvement among maternal-infant dyads affected by prenatal substance use Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Elysia Versen, Courtney L. Everson, Sunah S. Hwang, Whitney LeBoeuf
A 5-year retrospective cohort study ( 4,178) was conducted to identify trends and outcomes associated with child welfare-involved maternal-infant dyads affected by perinatal substance use in Colorado. Two linked data sources were used: (1) vital records birth and death certificate data on live births between 2013 and 2019 and (2) child welfare data from the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information
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“I found the power of my presence”: Low income and noncustodial fathers’ experiences and insights from parenting young children through the COVID-19 pandemic Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Tova B. Walsh, Michael Hoffmeister, Laura Zimmerman, David Pate, Darryl Davidson
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new challenges for families and communities worldwide and profoundly affected family relationship, roles, and routines. This study aimed to better understand the specific experiences of low-income and noncustodial fathers – a group of parents often marginalized or overlooked in both research and practice – parenting infants, toddlers, and young children during the pandemic
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Ohio START: An adaption of the national sobriety treatment and recovery teams model Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Elinam D. Dellor, Megan Allbright-Campos, Joyce Y. Lee, Alicia C. Bunger, Fawn Gadel, Bridget Freisthler
The Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) model is an evidence-supported intervention for families with at least one child under age 6 involved in the child welfare system due to substance misuse. The hallmark of the START model is early identification and linkage to addiction treatment services. To address the dual problem of heightened need for addiction treatment services and limited treatment
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Playing with the child within: Early parenthood experiences of parents who were out-of-home placed during childhood Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Amanda Samani, Elia Psouni
Experience of out-of-home care (OHC) is associated with life-long vulnerability, and research indicates that parents with experiences of OHC are at higher risk of having their own children placed in out-of-home care. However, research on these parents is limited and lacks a resilience perspective. Here, we focused on parents with OHC experience as children but with custody of their own children (N = 12)
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Risk of child sexual abuse: A mixed-methods analysis of judicial decisions in the Youth Court of Québec Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Camille Buisson, Karine Poitras, Christian C. Joyal
In Québec, Canada, the allows child protection services to intervene in situations of serious risk of sexual abuse. Although the litigation of these cases is frequent, few studies have focused on the decision-making process of judges in Youth Court. The present study aims to document the criteria used by the judges to substantiate allegation of serious risk of sexual abuse and to render a placement
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Justice involvement and mental health in LGBTQ young people Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Steven Hobaica, Myeshia N. Price, Jonah P. DeChants, Carrie K. Davis, Ronita Nath
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people experience higher rates of justice involvement (e.g., arrests, detainment) and poor mental health compared to their peers. This study examined the relationship between justice involvement and mental health among 33,993 LGBTQ young people (ages 13–24) from the United States. Being from particular regions, experiencing housing
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Increasing resilience among LGBTQ youth: The protective role of natural mentors Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Yafit Sulimani-Aidan, Guy Shilo, June C. Paul
Based on the minority stress model, which emphasizes the unique risk stressors that impact LGBTQ youths’ lives, and the resilience perspective, which emphasizes the interaction between protective and promotive factors in youth and their surroundings, we investigated in this exploratory study the mechanism by which natural mentoring relationships contribute to LGBTQ youths’ hope. A web sampling of LGBTQ
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Diversity through adversity: Adjustment profiles and protective factors of sexual and gender minority students in Portuguese schools Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Telmo Fernandes, Inês Vázquez, Jorge Gato
Negative school experiences, such as bullying, compromise the well-being and mental health of adolescents, particularly those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ + ). The aim of the current study was to identify different profiles of psychological adjustment among students according to their exposure to risk (higher levels of bullying victimization) and evidence
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An exploratory study of Saudi parents' perceptions and beliefs about institutional and home care for children with disabilities Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Abdullah Alrubaian, Norah Alkhateeb, Deborah Tamakloe
Quality care is critical to the quality of life and well-being of persons with disabilities. However, children with disabilities face unprecedented challenges which include access to assistive technology and rehabilitative devices, social exclusion, and negative attitudes in their various care settings. The present qualitative study seeks to understand parents' perceptions of home or institutional
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Implications of early attentional and behavioral regulation for adolescent flourishing: Variations in pathways across family income status Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Ying Zhang, Qingyang Liu, Rachel Razza
The current study examined preschoolers’ attentional and behavioral regulation as unique predictors of adolescent flourishing. Additional interests included the role of social competence and academic competence as mediators and poverty-status as a moderator of these pathways. Data were drawn from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study and included an analytic sample of 2,266 ethnically and
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Parental risk factors and children entering out-of-home care: The effects of cumulative risk and parent’s sex Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Nell Warner, Jonathan Scourfield, Rebecca Cannings-John, Olivier Y. Rouquette, Alex Lee, Rachael Vaughan, Karen Broadhurst, Ann John
Parental difficulties, including mental ill health, substance misuse, domestic violence and learning disability have been associated with children entering out-of-home care. There is also evidence that these issues may co-occur within families. Understanding how the co-occurrence of these difficulties is associated with care entry is complex because they may co-occur in the same or different household
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Statewide aftercare services program for youth transitioning from foster care: Five-year trends in participation, services, and participant characteristics Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Carl F. Weems, Janet N. Melby, Carol Behrer, Doug Wolfe, Mikaela D. Scozzafava
Research shows that youth who leave foster care to live independently are often at risk of homelessness, less education, unemployment/poverty, and mental health issues. There are a number of reasons for this increased risk. A variety of aftercare services for youth leaving foster care are designed to help address these risks. The purpose of this study was to examine trends in participation and understand
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Perceptions from emerging adults with a history of homelessness on their experiences with housing, health and other support services Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Keisha McDonald, Alina I. Palimaru, Rick Garvey, Elizabeth J. D'Amico, Joan S. Tucker
Homelessness is a significant public health problem in the U.S., where nearly 3.5 million emerging adults (ages 18–25) experience homelessness while unaccompanied by a parent or guardian. Emerging adults are a particularly vulnerable group, even without the added stress of homelessness. Being unhoused can exacerbate negative outcomes in wellbeing and functioning and also increase risky behaviors. These
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Macro-level predictors of child removals: Do social welfare benefits and services reduce demand for children’s out of home placements? Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Timo Toikko, Aleksandra Gawel, Juulia Hietamäki, Laura Häkkilä, Piia Seppälä, Ning Zhu
The purpose of this macro-level study is to examine the effects of social welfare benefits and services on the demand for child removals. The study is based on the panel data of Finnish municipalities (N = 293) and their social welfare indicators for the period 2010–2021. Linear regression analysis was conducted to analyze the associations between the dependent variable (child removals) and the main
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Social workers’ perspective on the impact of Covid-19 on clients’ vulnerability in Ghana Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Emma Seyram Hamenoo
Leaning on Vulnerability as a theoretical foundation, this study explores the perspective of social workers in Ghana, a global south country, concerning the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on their clients. Using a descriptive qualitative approach as a methodological standpoint, the study engaged 25 social workers, consisting of ten males and 15 females, selected through snowball sampling and interviewed
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Do males have more favorable attitudes towards digital game use than Females: A Meta-Analytic review Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Caiyan Liu, Zhikeng Wang, Yajiao Yang, Peipei Mao, Robert H. Tai, Zhihui Cai, Xitao Fan
With increasing research attention on digital game use for purposes of both entertainment and non-entertainment (e.g., education and learning, training), more empirical studies have been conducted to explore various issues related to digital games and their uses and applications. Given the background of gender difference related to technology in general, gender difference in attitudes toward digital
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Health status and missed care among youth in care in British Columbia, Canada: A population study Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 James X. Wang, Sheila K. Marshall, Colleen Poon, Annie Smith
Youth in care (YIC) are a marginalized population with high health care needs and barriers to access, resulting in lifelong health disparities. This study examines the health of Canadian YIC and their engagement with the Canadian health care system on a population level. Data were retrieved from the 2018 British Columbia Adolescent Health Survey, a cross-sectional population survey of Grade 7–12 students
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“Little by little, I go”: Multiple dimensions of distress and support for unaccompanied children in the United States Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Robert G. Hasson III, Clara A. Oliva, Bianca LaBella, Dahiana Rodriguez
Unaccompanied children are a vulnerable group of immigrants who arrive to the United States (US) without a parent or caregiver. A growing body of research demonstrates that unaccompanied children experience trauma before, during, and after their arrival to the US. A gap in research in the US is a deeper understanding of how unaccompanied children describe the challenges they experience in resettlement
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The effectiveness of a child and parent-oriented modular education program on the prevention of child sexual abuse knowledge and parental views: A mixed method study Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Vildan Apaydın Cırık, Nurgül Karakurt
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a modular training program on the prevention of child sexual abuse (CSA) on the level of sexual abuse knowledge of children and their parents and the views of parents. The study was conducted in a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. In the quantitative part of the research, a randomized quasi-experimental method with a pre-test/post-test, and a control
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The associations between destructive parenting practice and addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone: A three-level meta-analysis Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Qi Zhang, Xiaofeng Ma
With the constantly growing popularity of internet and smartphone among adolescents and adults, there has been a concern that their excessive and habitual uses of both technologies have increased the risk for psychological and physical difficulties. Destructiveparentingpractice has been considered a critical factor linked with addiction behaviors in internet and smartphone, but existing findings have
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The impact of children’s services professionals on LGBTIQ youth: Knowledge, practices and needs Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jose Antonio Langarita, Lucas R. Platero, Miguel Ángel López-Sáez, Núria Sadurní-Balcells
Since the 2010s, LGBTIQ children have become increasingly visible in Spain, a visibility reflected in their inclusion in public policies at both national and regional levels. Regions such as Catalonia and Madrid have passed legislation that creates specific services and protocols to protect these children. However, the actual impact of these laws and services has not yet been assessed. This article
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Transformation of child welfare Institutions in Bandung, West Java: A case of deinstitutionalization in Indonesia Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ni Luh Putu Maitra Agastya, Sarah Wise, Margaret Kertesz, Santi Kusumaningrum
The enactment of the National Standard of Care for Child Welfare Institutions in 2011 signifies Indonesia's commitment to deinstitutionalization by guiding the transformation of the country’s Child Welfare Institutions, from facility-based childcare homes or orphanages, to centers of community-based children and family services. Yet, evidence of this transformation of Child Welfare Institutions is
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Self-determination and parents’ perceptions and practices: Opportunity and performance Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Abdalmajeed H. Alrabiah
Self-determination is an important right for all individuals and is associated with positive transition outcomes, particularly among children with disabilities. Parents play an essential role in supporting their child’s development of self-determination. This study examined Saudi parents’ support of self-determination and their perception of their children with disabilities’ performance. Surveys were
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In conversation with normativity: Perceptions and disruptions of inclusive education in Armenia Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Philippa Mullins, Tigranuhi Hakobyan, Mara Harutyunyan
In Armenia, inclusive education has gained increasing presence in state policy documents and legislation, as well as in civil society organisations’ advocacy work and reporting. Currently, all special () schools are set to be transformed to resource centres and disabled children to be transferred to general schools by 2025. However, the implementation of inclusive education thus far has been characterised
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“Being in the system is really difficult and…I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.” Trauma and the public sector system of care for youth Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Taira Masuda, Susana Helm
Youth involved in public sector services for substance use and other forms of mental health, juvenile justice, foster care, or homelessness report higher rates of trauma compared to the general youth population. We interviewed 26 youth, ages 14–21, with lived experience in public systems of care for the purpose of a state-contracted needs assessment evaluation. Qualitative analysis of these data indicated
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Teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education of children with special educational needs and disabilities in central Asia Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Daria Prisiazhniuk, Tsediso Michael Makoelle, Irina Zangieva
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Young people with LGB identity and their sense of belonging: Evidence from Northern Ireland – A society emerging from violent social conflict Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Joseph Charles Van Matre, Dirk Schubotz
In 2023 Northern Ireland celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement (GFA) which is regarded as a milestone of the Northern Ireland peace process. Via the 1998 Northern Ireland Act, the peace process saw equality and anti-discrimination legislation being implemented in Northern Ireland that legislates that public authorities must carry out their duties with due regard to equality
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School social workers’ experiences delivering mental health supports amid COVID-19 school reopening Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Tasha M. Childs, Aidyn L. Iachini
Child and adolescent mental health needs are at unprecedented rates in the continued wake of COVID-19. While prior research has examined school mental health practice during initial COVID-19 school closures, few studies have examined school mental health practice amid COVID-19 school reopening. This exploratory study investigates school social workers’ perceptions of their mental health service and
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The heuristic divergence between community reporters and child protection agencies: Negotiating risk amidst shifting sands Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Emily Keddell, Sarah Colhoun, Pauline Norris, Esther Willing
Children enter the statutory part of ‘notify-investigate’ child protection systems via the reports of others, combined with acceptance by the statutory agency. This key nexus determines entry or deflection from statutory child protection services. To examine the decision reasoning and processes of community (non-governmental organisation) workers that underpin reports to statutory services. Participants
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Business as (un)usual: A critical policy and legal analysis of Australia’s COVID-19 ‘free childcare’ policy Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 E. Hunkin, Peter Alsen
From 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of childcare in the lives of families and children, as well as its economic importance to nation states. In Australia, pandemic effects threatened the childcare sector’s viability, leading to a period of ‘fee free’ childcare policy. After decades of rigorous marketisation, this unprecedented ‘fee free’ period dispelled the state
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Strive to enhance supervised family time visits for children in foster care: Outcomes from a pilot study with randomization Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Susan Barkan, Leah Rankin, Martie Skinner, Laura Orlando, Emiko Tajima, Kristen Greenley
Child welfare system reforms are needed to help support families and prevent removal of children who may safely remain in the home. For those children who have been removed from their parents’ care, parent–child visits are a way to help maintain bonds and attachment and may help mitigate the trauma of removal. The primary goals of this randomized, controlled study were to assess the effects of the
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Attachment, regulation, and competency in emerging adults: Validating a framework of resilience in a population with adverse childhood experiences Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Elizabeth R. Watters, Kayla Reed-Fitzke, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a pervasive problem linked to a myriad of negative outcomes (e.g., anxiety, depression) across key developmental periods, including emerging adulthood. The attachment, regulation, and competency (ARC) Framework of Resilience offers several factors through which the associations between ACEs and mental health symptoms may be reduced. Examine the utility of the
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Waitlist management in child and adolescent mental health care: A scoping review Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Julie A. Eichstedt, Kara Turcotte, Grace Golden, Alexis E. Arbuthnott, Samantha Chen, Kerry A. Collins, Stephanie Mowat, Graham J. Reid
Background: Although many mental health disorders first emerge during early childhood or adolescence, there is a significant gap between demand and availability of mental health resources, leading to long waitlists for services. Objective: The objective of this scoping review was to identify and characterize the research literature related to the range of waitlist management strategies that have been
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Agency, participation in decision making and wellbeing among care leavers in care system: A quantitative mediation study Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alessandro Pepe, Elisabetta Biffi, Chiara Carla Montà, Caterina Arciprete, Mario Biggeri
Care leavers are young people who have grown up in the care system, either in foster care or in residential care homes in transition from care to adulthood. They are a vulnerable group, with a high risk of negative outcomes such as poor mental health. The development of agency and the promotion of well-being are two of the most important aspects of the psychological and educational intervention with
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Honoring Family: Using parent partner expertise to strengthen a child welfare coaching program Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Stacy Dunkerley, Amanda Brown, Becci Akin, Vickie McArthur
Increasingly, the child welfare system is acknowledging the importance of incorporating parent voice and expertise into changes in child welfare practice, policy, and research; however, there is limited knowledge on how to incorporate parents’ expertise into program-level change. This study sought input from parent partners on the shared principles of a statewide coaching program for child welfare
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Facilitators and barriers to the implementation and sustainability of child-parent psychotherapy in Sweden: Clinicians’ experiences Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Karin Pernebo, Mary Alåsen, Anna Axhed, Pamela Massoudi
Trauma-informed evidence-based treatments for the youngest children are insufficiently and unevenly implemented, and access to effective interventions for young children and their families is scarce in Sweden and internationally. Child-parent psychotherapy (CPP) is one of only a few treatment models for trauma-exposed children under the age of 6 years. The aim of this study was to explore the extent
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“Welfare used to mean darkness – Now it’s beaming with light”: Professionals and parents’ perceptions of a family preservation program in Israel Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Yoa Sorek, Rachel Szabo-Lael, Aya Almog-Zaken
Few studies have examined the implementation of family preservation and reunification programs. Meeting this gap, a research project examined Israel’s innovative pilot program Families on the Growth Track (FGT). The two-year program was designed to promote the government’s policy of ensuring a permanent and nurturing family for every child by targeting families with difficulties in parental functioning
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Young people’s experiences of informal kinship care in Luwero, Uganda Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Simone Datzberger, Jenny Parkes, Amiya Bhatia, Rehema Nagawa, Joan Ritar Kasidi, Brian Junior Musenze, Karen Devries
There is strong evidence that outside parental care, informal kinship care is the most practiced, sustainable and affordable form of childcare in SSA (sub-Saharan Africa). As a longstanding cultural tradition, informal kinship care embraces childcare as the responsibility of all extended family members, and often the wider community. However, over the past decades, informal kinship care has become
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O le tagata ma lona aiga, o le tagata ma lona fa’asinomaga (Every person belongs to a family and every family belongs to a person): Development of a parenting framework for adolescent mental wellbeing in American Samoa Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Emma J. Mew, Leiema Hunt, Robert L.M. Toelupe, Vanessa Blas, Julia Winschel, Joshua Naseri, Si'itia Soliai-Lemusu, Jennifer F. Tofaeono, Moelili'a A. Seui, Trude Ledoux-Sunia, Fiafia Sunia, Adney Reid, Derek Helsham, Sarah R. Lowe, Rhayna Poulin, Nicola L. Hawley, Jueta McCutchan-Tofaeono
American Samoan adolescents experience a high prevalence of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. To complement existing health system efforts, family-based interventions may be a feasible, cost-effective, and relevant opportunity to promote mental health. This community-partnered, qualitative study aimed to: (1) identify potential
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Advancing a prevention-oriented support system for the health and safety of children Children and Youth Services Review (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Daryl J. Higgins, Todd I. Herrenkohl, Bob Lonne, Debbie Scott