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The association between thought disturbance and suicidal ideation within and across ethnoracial groups of juvenile legal system-involved youth 思想障碍与自杀意念之间的关系在不同种族的青少年法律系统涉及的青少年群体

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108283

Elizabeth C. Thompson , Kaitlin Sheerin , Kara A. Fox , Nazaret Suazo , Anthony Spirito , Kathleen Kemp

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Childhood immigration enforcement exposure and young adults’ anxiety: A mixed methods study 儿童移民执法暴露与年轻人焦虑：一项混合方法研究

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108276

Eunju Lee , Joanna Dreby , Yeeun Hong , Tola Seng

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A self-guided, academic-focused online parenting program to promote positive parenting and parent well-being: A randomized controlled trial in Hong Kong 一个自我引导的、以学术为中心的在线育儿计划，旨在促进积极的育儿和父母的幸福：香港的一项随机对照试验

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108275

Yan Li , Florrie Fei-Yin Ng , Irene Nga-Lam Sze , Jenny Yau

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Associations between child neglect, informal interventions in food neglect, and child stunting: Evidence from the Ghana families study 儿童忽视、对食物忽视的非正式干预与儿童发育迟缓之间的关系：来自加纳家庭研究的证据

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108273

Alhassan Abdullah , Clifton Emery , Yanfeng Xu , Felix Mensah

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“Going around the long route to get where I want to be”: Exploring the university experiences of care leaver students “走漫漫长路，去我想去的地方”：探索离校学生的大学经历

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108270

Grace Killmer , Linda Chiodo , Carolina Aguirre , Laurie Chapin , Humberto Oraison , Romana Morda , Jarrod Weir , Daniel Loton , Reanna Clark , Mark Danko , Lizzie Knight , Peter Richard Gill

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From childhood deprivation to losing their own children to adoption: Poverty, trauma and adoption among marginalized mothers in Israel 从童年被剥夺到失去自己的孩子被收养：以色列边缘化母亲的贫困、创伤和收养

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108274

Shira Rosenberg-Lavi

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Creating a public facing dynamic literature map to advance the science in child maltreatment 创建面向公众的动态文献地图，以推进儿童虐待科学

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108271

Melissa Jonson-Reid , Ellis Ballard , Sinko Wang , Liwei Zhang , Jun-Hong Chen , Eunhye Ahn , Katie Allen , Allison Setili , Darejan Dvalishvilli

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Exploring the role of ecological systems and intersectionality in shaping the academic performance of Chinese adolescents 探讨生态系统和交叉性在塑造中国青少年学业成绩中的作用

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108266

Xixi Kang, Wen-Jui Han

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Choice preferences for mental health services among young adults in China: A discrete choice experiment 中国年轻人心理健康服务的选择偏好：一个离散选择实验

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108267

Luqi Yuan , Bo Li , Shuyun Fan , Juan Chen

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Narrative development among emerging adults who aged out of foster care: Patterns and implications for adaptation 脱离寄养的新生成人的叙事发展：模式和适应的含义

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Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108268

AnnaMaria Boullion , Linnea B. Linde-Krieger , Efrat Sher-Censor , Tuppett M. Yates

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