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{"title":"Domestic abuse and the impact on young children: A UK perspective","authors":"Hedy Cleaver","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108236","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108236","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Survivors and victims of domestic abuse are frequently fearful of revealing what is happening to them. Consequently, the increasingly high numbers reported to the police are likely to be a significant underestimation. This paper explores the impact of domestic abuse on young children. It is based on the scrutiny of a wide range of research, both national and international, and takes a developmental perspective. The paper initially explores how exposure to domestic abuse can affect the unborn child. The focus then turns to infants and discusses how domestic abuse can have a detrimental affect on the child’s health, education, and emotional and behavioural development before examining the possible long-term consequences. Finally, the implications for policy and practice are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108236"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining of participation, support and barrier of children with and without maltreatment: A cross-sectional study with caregiver perspective","authors":"Barkın Köse ,&nbsp;Kübra Ersoy ,&nbsp;Halim Toğa ,&nbsp;Emine Cansu Güler ,&nbsp;Özgün Kaya Kara ,&nbsp;Cihat Çelik ,&nbsp;Serkan Pekçetin","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Child maltreatment can harm children physically, mentally, and emotionally. It can affect children’s activities of daily living and social participation. This study aimed to compare the levels of participation, support and barriers for children who have been maltreated with children who have not been maltreated.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>The study included 70 maltreated (28 male, 42 female) and 52 non-maltreated (29 male, 23 female) caregiver of children aged 6–12 years.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A cross-sectional, direct survey method was used to collect data from caregiver of children. Participation, frequency of participation, support and barriers were assessed using the Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth (PEM-CY).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Statistically significant differences were found between children who were maltreated in the home context and children who were not maltreated in terms of participation frequency, participation level and environmental barriers scores (p &lt; 0.05). In addition, statistically significant differences were observed between children who were maltreated in the school and community context and children who were not maltreated in terms of environmental barriers, frequency of participation and level of participation scores (p &lt; 0.05).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The results of our study showed that the participation of children with a history of child maltreatment in home, school and community settings was significantly affected compared to the control group. In particular, it was observed that children with a history of child maltreatment needed more support in participating in activities in both home and school environments compared to their peers with normal development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108250"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Where am I meant to go from here?”: Young people’s experiences of navigating referral processes, waiting lists and access pathways in mental health services","authors":"Louise Lynch ,&nbsp;Anne Moorhead ,&nbsp;Maggie Long ,&nbsp;Isobel Hawthorne Steele","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Early intervention for mental health problems during youth can contribute to increased quality of life and the reduction in the rates of youth death by suicide. Young people often wait until their distress becomes severe before seeking help and service factors have been identified as impactful in how they access helping interventions.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This aim of this research was to explore young people’s experiences of accessing mental health services and the interventions provided.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Constructivist Grounded Theory methods (Charmaz, 2014) were used to analyse data collected from young people (n = 18) aged 16–25 years and living in the North West of Ireland, exploring their mental health help-seeking experiences to services. Data were collected through a focus group (n = 6) and interviews (n = 14), with two participants taking part in both.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Two sub-categories were identified, 1. <em>Navigating administration</em> and 2. <em>Accessing helping interventions</em> and key findings demonstrate that accessing services can be difficult due to convoluted service pathways that can include lengthy referral processes and waiting lists, especially within public healthcare systems. Actual help-seeking pathways were mapped, and analysis revealed the existence of a ‘referral loop’ where young people with severe distress were continuously referred without interim support, which was found to contribute to suicidality and disproportionately affect care-experienced youth. The most common interventions included psychopharmaceuticals and CBT. Participants reported valuing interventions that included collaboration and listening ear support most.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Ensuring that young people and their families have easier access to developmentally appropriate interventions and timely responses from services is essential in supporting young people with their mental health problems and improving their quality of life, which can reduce negative life outcomes, including death by suicide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108248"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender differences in school environment and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents: The multilevel mediating role of peer support","authors":"Jia Wang ,&nbsp;Pengyuan Li ,&nbsp;Yuan Fang ,&nbsp;Zhiyan Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Depressive symptoms pose significant health challenges to adolescent development worldwide. In the ecological systems framework, factors within the microsystem, like the school environment, can directly relate to individual psychological health. Given group-level nature of school environment, this relationship is inherently multilevel: the collective dimension of school environment provides a shared context that reflects cumulative school-wide factors, which, in turn, are linked to individual outcomes. While previous research explored the direct link between school environment and depressive symptoms, much less is known about the multilevel mediating mechanisms involved. This cross-sectional study utilized a dataset from 13,239 adolescents (50.8 % female; <em>M_age</em> = 13.435, <em>SD</em> = 0.964) across 85 Chinese schools collected in 2021–2022. Based on Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) with random slopes, a 2–1-1 multilevel mediating model was employed to investigate peer support’s mediating role between group-level school environment and depressive symptoms. Results showed a negative association between group-level school environment and depressive symptoms, mediated by peer support. Gender differences revealed stronger direct and indirect correlations for females. The findings emphasize fostering positive broad school environments and promoting individual peer support in combatting depressive symptoms, especially for female adolescents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108241"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Longitudinal effects of school connectedness on adolescents’ academic engagement: Mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction and the examination of gender differences in the mediation model","authors":"Yu Xia ,&nbsp;Menghao Ren ,&nbsp;Xiaohang Luo ,&nbsp;Mingping Wu ,&nbsp;Nan Jiang ,&nbsp;Xinyi Han ,&nbsp;Ruoshui Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Exploring the factors influencing adolescents’ academic engagement and identifying strategies to enhance it remain one of the crucial issues in psychological research. Guided by ecological and developmental frameworks, this study conducted a longitudinal design (with a six-month interval) involving 1,217 adolescents, aiming to explore the effects of school connectedness on adolescents’ academic engagement, along with the mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction and the examination of gender differences in the mediation model. Firstly, the results found that classmate connectedness and school belonging could significantly positively predict academic engagement, whereas teacher connectedness was not significant. Secondly, mediation model analysis showed that classmate connectedness and school belonging could indirectly affect academic engagement by satisfying adolescents’ autonomy, relatedness, and competence needs; the mediating effects in the relationship between teacher connectedness and basic psychological needs satisfaction were not significant. Moreover, gender differences were revealed in mediation model. Specifically, for boys, predominantly classmate connectedness influenced their academic engagement by satisfying their psychological needs; for girls, predominantly school belonging influenced their academic engagement by satisfying their psychological needs. This study deepens the understanding of adolescents’ academic engagement and enriches the theoretical and empirical discussions, providing practical guidance for promoting adolescents’ academic engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108245"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The relationship between violence against authority in the family and adolescent involvement in school bullying: The moderating role of parental psychological control","authors":"Li Zhang ,&nbsp;Jia Sun ,&nbsp;Miao Zhang ,&nbsp;Keshun Zhang ,&nbsp;Zhuo Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>This study aims to investigate the relationship between violence against authority in the family (including child-to-parent physical violence and parent-to-elder conflict) and adolescent involvement in school bullying, as either a victim or a perpetrator, while exploring the moderating role of parental psychological control.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The study sample consisted of 2132 students in grades 4–9 from a city in Shandong Province, China (<em>M</em> = 12.43, <em>SD</em> = 1.33). Instruments used included the Family Violence Behavior Questionnaire, revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire, and Parental Psychological Control Scale.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Violence against authority in the family has become a form of domestic violence that cannot be ignored, with 4.9 % of adolescents engaging in child-to-parent physical violence and 24.9% witnessing parent-to-elder conflict. Controlling for parent-to-child physical violence and parent-to-parent physical violence, child-to-parent physical violence, parent-to-elder conflict, and parental psychological control positively predicted adolescent perpetration of school bullying, while parent-to-elder conflict and parental psychological control positively predicted adolescent victimization from school bullying. Parental psychological control played a moderating role between family violence and bullying involvement. In cases of higher parental psychological control, the predictive effects of child-to-parent physical violence on adolescent perpetration and victimization of school bullying were strengthened. Similarly, the predictive effect of parent-to-child physical violence on adolescent victimization from bullying was also enhanced.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Families characterized by violence against authority and a ’violence + control’ pattern were associated with a higher risk of adolescent involvement in school bullying.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108244"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"University students’ perceptions of spanking as a child discipline strategy","authors":"Darius O. Love Jr.,&nbsp;Irma Saljic,&nbsp;Amruta Kuthe,&nbsp;Lucy McGoron","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108246","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108246","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Corporal punishment is a child discipline method in which a caregiver deliberately inflicts pain upon a child in response to child’s behavior. The immediate aim of corporal punishment is usually to alter children’s behavior. Multiple groups focused on promoting children’s health and well-being (e.g., The American Academy of Pediatrics) urge parents to use alternative discipline practices instead of spanking. Despite such recommendations, research suggests that spanking remains a common disciplinary practice—although some research does suggest that the prevalence has decreased across generations. There is still a need to understand the prevalence of spanking and the factors that impact attitudes toward spanking. This investigation examined rates of being spanked as a child and perceptions of using spanking as a disciplinary practice in 271 students recruited at a university with a diverse student body. The impact of multiple sociocultural factors and the relation between the history of being spanked as a child and current perceptions of spanking were examined. Results showed that approximately 70% of students reported being spanked as a child with some differences emerging from being an immigrant or first generation American and reported race. Additionally, students who reported being spanked had statistically significant higher rates of positive views towards using spanking as a disciplinary practice. Results are discussed within the context of public health campaigns aimed at reducing spanking rates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108246"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neighbourhood differences in the rates of criminal cautions and convictions for children in the care system","authors":"A. Leyland ,&nbsp;C.J.R Webb ,&nbsp;M.R. Bennett ,&nbsp;N. Hughes","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The disproportionate criminalisation of children in the care system is well-recognised globally. The likelihood of this criminalisation is influenced by place-based differences in the practices of child welfare and criminal justice services. Administrative data for a cohort of children in England (<em>N =</em> 1,708,570) was analysed at the level of the local authority (n = 152). The present study reports that for children across tiers of the child welfare service (e.g., out of home placements or supported at home by a social worker) there was substantial variation between local authorities in the rates of criminal cautions or convictions such that some local authorities had rates that were up to three times greater than other authorities. This difference was found after adjusting for the local authority conviction rate in the general population and the deprivation rate. There is an urgent need to address this inequity through better understanding of what underpins these differences and from the sharing of best practices to improve outcomes for our most vulnerable children.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108243"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Foster parents’ engagement in the development and maintenance of Indigenous children’s and youth’s cultural identities","authors":"Ashley L. Quinn ,&nbsp;Sheila Marshall ,&nbsp;Connie Bird ,&nbsp;Daniel Ji ,&nbsp;Frances Cabahug ,&nbsp;Judy Chau ,&nbsp;Madeline Elder","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108242","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108242","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Very little is known about what culturally matched and non-matched foster parents are doing together to support their Indigenous children’s cultural identities, although the outcomes of culturally matched caregiving for children are well documented. The purpose of this study was to describe how foster parents and caregivers engage together to support the development and maintenance of the cultural identities of Indigenous children and youth in their care. The action-project method, informed by contextual action theory, guided data collection and analysis. This qualitative method was used to understand the joint actions between caregivers – or between single caregivers and their significant support person – of the four dyads and two single caregivers (<em>N</em> = 10) who participated in this study. Three themes emerged from the research: nurturing children’s cultural connections, humility and self-education, and creatively finding and using social resources. All caregivers in the study described their efforts to connect children to their communities: (a) advocating for and on behalf of the children, (b) developing connections with the children and their family and community, and (c) maintaining a good relationship with others involved in the children’s circle of care. Research with transcultural foster parents suggests that cultural engagement is an important dimension of the caregiving experience. Further studies can investigate dilemmas foster caregivers experience in providing cross-cultural care. Future research on foster caregiver efforts to be authentic to their own cultures and to the cultures of their Indigenous foster children is warranted.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108242"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Protective factors in intergenerational trauma: A mixed methods investigation of the role of holistic well-being and parental empowerment by parents’ gender","authors":"Ray Eads ,&nbsp;Shelton Young ,&nbsp;Susan Yoon ,&nbsp;Camille R. Quinn ,&nbsp;Mo Yee Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108247","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Parents who have experienced trauma often experience symptoms and challenges that impact their children as well, potentially resulting in intergenerational trauma transmission. To help address intergenerational trauma, better understanding of strengths-based and holistic protective factors, as well as the interplay of gender and protective factors, can inform empowering interventions to support parents. This study used a convergent mixed methods design to explore the role of parents’ holistic well-being and parental empowerment in intergenerational trauma, with subsequent analysis of gender and fathers’ lived experiences. The analysis included 98 parents who completed quantitative and qualitative questions on an online survey. Regression analyses controlling for parents’ and children’s trauma exposures investigated affliction and equanimity domains of holistic wellness and parenting and connection domains of parental empowerment as predictors of child trauma symptoms. Three of four domains (except connection) were significant predictors among all parents. When examined by gender, only affliction was a significant predictor among mothers, and all four domains were significant predictors among fathers. To better understand the significance of these constructs among fathers, the qualitative responses from fathers were interpreted using thematic analysis and revealed major themes related to mental health challenges, dealing with the past, and motivation to break the cycle. Overall, the mixed methods analysis indicated the importance of reducing body-mind-spirit affliction and promoting equanimity and parental empowerment in addressing intergenerational trauma, especially among fathers. Based on these findings, clinicians should consider using strengths-based and holistic interventions to engage fathers as a protective resource in interrupting intergenerational trauma.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 108247"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}