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{"title":"The role of parenting in autonomy and executive function development among young children experiencing homelessness","authors":"Rebecca Distefano ,&nbsp;Kayla M. Nelson ,&nbsp;Alyssa R. Palmer ,&nbsp;Ann S. Masten ,&nbsp;Stephanie M. Carlson","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A large body of research has shown homelessness is a risk factor for academic difficulties. However, some children experiencing homelessness begin kindergarten well-prepared and continue to succeed; this variability has motivated a search for protective factors supporting academic achievement in the context of homelessness. Two such factors might be children’s autonomy and executive function (EF), which allow children to take control of their own learning. The current study examined links between autonomy and EF skills, as well as the role of parenting in their development among young children experiencing homelessness. Participants included 78 parents and their children (<em>M</em>_age = 53 months) residing in emergency housing. Children were given an autonomy assessment and both cool and hot EF tasks; parent–child dyads completed a problem-solving task to measure autonomy-supportive parenting. Results indicated that child autonomy was significantly correlated with both cool and hot EF. Cool EF was related to academic skills. Autonomy-supportive parenting was significantly linked only to children’s cool EF above and beyond parental warmth, suggesting this dimension of parenting may play a unique role in the development of cool EF in the context of homelessness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 107997"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661626","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":"Living arrangements and mental health of children and adolescents with vision impairments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China","authors":"Paicheng Liu ,&nbsp;Xiaoxuan Zheng ,&nbsp;Jianxin Cheng ,&nbsp;Yaqi Zhang ,&nbsp;Yuxuan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107987","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107987","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Although studies have reported the negative effect of COVID-19 on children’s mental health, few studies worldwide have included children with disabilities. The mental health of visually impaired children, in particular, remains poorly understood. This study therefore investigated the mental health of children with vision impairments during the COVID-19 lockdown.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We administered a questionnaire survey to visually impaired students. Data were collected between July 28 and November 20, 2022. We administered 249 questionnaires and obtained 227 valid questionnaires. A sample of Chinese children and adolescents with vision impairments (N = 227, aged 6–18 years, 46 % girls) was employed to examine the relationship between children’s living arrangements and their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Compared to living with their father or other people, living with their mother reduced children’s depression score by 7.258 (<em>p &lt; 0.01</em>), but this effect was greater among boys than among girls. Among children who lived with their mother, the depression scores of the younger and older groups fell by 11.657 <em>(p &lt; 0.01)</em> and 5.393 <em>(p &lt; 0.01)</em>, respectively. Parents’ marital and economic status moderated the relationship between children’s living arrangements and mental health.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The mental health of visually impaired children living with their mother was notably better than that of those living with their father or other family. The government and society should pay close attention to visually impaired children and adolescents from economically disadvantaged families who lack maternal care.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 107987"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142560668","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":"Integrated health and social care for pregnant women and young families in a vulnerable situation in the Netherlands: Professionals’ views on cross-sectoral collaboration","authors":"Nicole Smeets-Curvers ,&nbsp;Mandy Stijnen ,&nbsp;Polina Putrik ,&nbsp;Maria Jansen","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107988","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>This qualitative study investigated the perspective of professionals from the medical, social, and public health care sectors with regard to: cross-sectoral collaboration in providing integrated health and social care during the first thousand days of life (preconception up to children aged two years) for pregnant women and young families in a vulnerable situation. This knowledge is needed for the enhancement of cross-sectoral collaboration and the implementation of integrated care.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Professionals (n = 35) were recruited from three deprived municipalities in South-Limburg, the Netherlands. Semi-structured interviews gained insight into professionals’ views, by using a theoretical framework based on the ‘National model for integrated care for childhood overweight and obesity’.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Professionals stressed the importance of addressing both medical and social risk factors in pregnant women and young families in a vulnerable situation. However, their interpretation of vulnerability differed, hindering collaborative working. Furthermore, cross-sectoral collaboration was restricted by lack of formal cooperation agreements between sectors, and unclear referral lines from the medical to the social sector. Professionals often did not know the expertise and role of other sectors. Digital information and referral systems are not connected between the sectors which acts as an inhibiting factor.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion/Conclusion</h3><div>This study highlights the need and ways to facilitate collaborative working between the medical, social, and public health care sectors in delivering integrated care. Recommendations include: 1) Enforcing implementation strategies aimed at facilitating collaborative working: formal regulations, structured agreements, and use of consistent definitions and protocols to facilitate integration; 2) Strengthen informal connections between professionals by the Solid Start local coalitions; 3) Align all professionals, also those not directly involved in the Solid Start local coalition, with the goals and vision of the coalition; 4) Implement a joint digital file or IT referral system to improve cross-sectoral collaboration; 5) Enhance collaboration between sectors at case level through multidisciplinary consultation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 107988"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661627","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":"School absenteeism for children exposed to maternal incarceration and other adversities","authors":"Megan F. Bell ,&nbsp;Matthew J. Spittal ,&nbsp;Leonie Segal ,&nbsp;Susan Dennison ,&nbsp;Stuart A. Kinner ,&nbsp;Sharon Dawe ,&nbsp;David B. Preen","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 108007"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661690","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":"Children with disabilities: Left behind or forgotten? Empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty measures","authors":"Khaufelo Raymond Lekobane,&nbsp;Thabile Anita Samboma","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107985","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognises the importance of multidimensional poverty and disability. Although there is compelling evidence suggesting that people with disabilities have a higher probability of being poor, studies that compare children with disabilities with those without disabilities remain scarce and limited to developed countries. Using the 2015/16 Botswana multi-topic household survey, we examined the link between childhood disability and multidimensional child poverty in Botswana. The study employs the conceptual framing of the capability and human rights-based approaches. Results reveal significant disparities in poverty levels between children with and those without disabilities across demographic, economic and geographical variables, with children with disabilities experiencing higher poverty levels than the rest of the children population. We conclude that children with disabilities in Botswana are left out and argue that deliberate efforts should be put in place to implement existing and develop new inclusive policies that ensure equal opportunities for children with disabilities in order not to be left behind. The paper provides policy implications for childhood disability and multidimensional child poverty research in Botswana.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 107985"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142571910","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":"Knowledge of and access to contraceptive information and services among teenagers with child welfare involvement: A descriptive study across the transition to high school","authors":"Katie Massey Combs ,&nbsp;Sarah J. Racz ,&nbsp;Heather Taussig","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite disproportionate rates of childbearing among youth with child welfare involvement, few studies have examined whether this population receives contraceptive information and knows how to access services. This longitudinal study examines responses from 245 youth with child welfare involvement (i.e., youth with an open child welfare case due to maltreatment) before and after the transition to high school. The same youth were interviewed at the end of 7th or 8th grade and roughly 2.5 years later about whether they received contraceptive information or education, if they knew how to access contraceptive services, if they received services, and sources of that information/services. By 10th /11th grade, most participants reported knowing how to access contraception and over half of females had received contraception. However, 18 % of females and 54 % of males had <em>never</em> received contraceptive education or information by 10th/11th grade. Schools were the dominant (often only) source of contraceptive education or information for males, while medical providers and schools were more common for females. Males were less likely than females to receive contraceptive education or information, know how to access services, or receive services. Contraception was perceived as, and in many cases was, accessible once youth were in high school. However, contraceptive information and education was received late and was incomplete for many youths irrespective of biological sex; for males, it was often never received. Implications for adults working with this population are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 108004"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661699","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 social and emotional wellbeing of children in out-of-home care: A scoping review exploring structural and social factors","authors":"Karen Healy ,&nbsp;Laura Simpson Reeves ,&nbsp;Madonna Boman ,&nbsp;Iryna Kolesnikova ,&nbsp;Jenny Povey ,&nbsp;Jemma Venables ,&nbsp;Janeen Baxter ,&nbsp;Kate Thompson","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107991","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107991","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The social and emotional wellbeing of children in out-of-home care (OOHC) is a matter of concern to child protection authorities, carers, families, and the children themselves. A growing body of research suggests that children in OOHC experience higher rates of social and emotional adversity compared to the general population and this, in turn, has flow-on effects for many other life outcomes, such as educational attainment, employment, family relationships, and health and wellbeing throughout their life course. Further, it is established that children in OOHC are disproportionately drawn from families and communities subject to structural disadvantage. This is an important consideration given that structural disadvantage is a known contributor to lower social and emotional wellbeing across the life course.</div><div>In this paper we explore the extent to which social and structural factors are recognised in the definition and operationalisation of social and emotional wellbeing in contemporary research about children in OOHC. We use a scoping review methodology to examine the peer-reviewed research on social and emotional wellbeing of children in OOHC published over the past 10 years (2014–2023). We identify five themes in this literature. We find most of the research on social and emotional wellbeing of children in OOHC focuses on the mental health, and emotional and behavioural components of wellbeing, with limited engagement with social and structural components of wellbeing. The social dimensions of wellbeing are largely concerned with one-on-one interactions between children and their immediate social network, such as interactions with carers, family, school, and neighbourhood. We consider the implications of these findings for recommendations to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of children in OOHC to include the impacts of structural disadvantage on the wellbeing of children in OOHC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 107991"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661623","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":"“What is the point of being able to enter a building if the service or activity is not adapted?”: Leisure opportunities for people with severe disabilities’","authors":"Marta Mira-Aladrén ,&nbsp;Javier Martín-Peña ,&nbsp;Marta Gil Lacruz","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107993","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107993","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leisure and relationships are crucial for human development, especially in the youth stage, and are recognised rights. Notwithstanding, young people with disabilities encounter many barriers to access these activities, especially those with severe disabilities. We aim to analyse their experiences and those of their families in this area. We conducted a reflexive thematic analysis of 25 interviews held with young people with severe disabilities and/or their guardians from different areas of Aragón (Spain). We detected difficulties, such as access to resources, and the relevance of family support and its impact. Aggravating factors, such as being institutionalised, being a migrant or having multidisability were assessed. After discussing participants’ proposals with current research, we proposed measures to improve social inclusion in the leisure of young people with severe disabilities, such as recognising the leisure assistant figure, the training for and more professionals, or the incorporation of the intersectional perspective into specialised social services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 107993"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661701","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":"Longitudinal bidirectional relationships between deviant peer affiliation/core self-evaluation and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents","authors":"Rui Zhang ,&nbsp;Ruibo Xie ,&nbsp;Wan Ding ,&nbsp;Shengcheng Song ,&nbsp;Qingfeng Yang ,&nbsp;Xiuyun Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107984","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents is worsening. Although adolescents’ peer relationships or self-perceptions have been found to be possible predictors of self-injury, the reverse effects of self-injury and their longitudinal dynamics remain unknown. Participants were recruited from several schools in Anhui Province, China (N = 966, Mage at Time 1 = 15.46) and completed follow-up measures at three-time points at 6-month intervals. Results showed that (1) two vicious circle mechanisms were found in the total sample, namely T2 deviant peer affiliation or T2 core self-evaluation mediating T1 and T3 self-injury. (2) Gender subgroups revealed that compared to boys, girls’ deviant peer affiliation stably predicted self-injury, and T2 self-injury mediated T1 deviant peer affiliation and T3 core self-evaluation. These findings suggest that effective interventions for self-evaluation and peer relationships may be a favorable perspective to reduce self-injury in adolescents and facilitate breaking the vicious cycle of self-injury.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 107984"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142571813","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":"Latent class analysis of adverse outcomes for youth transitioning out of foster care and early risk factors","authors":"Nelís Soto-Ramírez ,&nbsp;Amber Baughman ,&nbsp;Taylor Giles ,&nbsp;Sultan Alsallum","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107996","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Youth transitioning out of foster care are at high risk for adverse outcomes compared to their peers, but the factors that influence those outcomes are complex. Early intervention is key for this population but developing priorities can be a challenge. Researchers and programs serving these youth must be able to effectively target interventions to disproportionately affected youth to receive the best results. Previous studies have not considered the complexity and heterogeneity of assessing multiple youth outcomes in a sound methodological way. For this study, Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to identify youth with similar patterns and outcome experiences, using a practical demonstration with the public National Youth in Transition (NYTD) and Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) databases. This study aims: 1) to apply latent class analysis to determine latent classes of youth who transition out of foster care according to the adverse outcomes they experience; 2) to estimate whether youth sociodemographic characteristics and adverse youth’s experiences before and during foster care is associated with identified latent classes of youth adverse outcomes. Three latent classes were identified: 1) mostly homelessness outcome, 2) little or no adverse outcomes, 3) complex adverse outcomes. Our results further highlight that multiple youth’s experiences before and during foster care, youth sociodemographic characteristics, and events while in foster care are associated with youth’s outcomes once they transition out of foster care. Stakeholders and program administrators at welfare agencies may use these findings to enhance policy and procedures to ameliorate youth outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 107996"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142586543","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}