Article
Family Studies
Jie Liu, Yan Yao, Xun Deng, Xiongwei Xu, Wen He
Summary: This study examines the relationship between emotional abuse and adolescent NSSI urges and finds that self-esteem and ego depletion may mediate this relationship, while resilience can moderate the impact of emotional abuse on ego depletion.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Sarah J. Dow-Fleisner, Nina Gregoire, Megan Stager, Kyler Woodmass, Jeffrey W. More, Susan J. Wells
Summary: This article discusses the development and testing of a modified version of the Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment (COHA), called the Comprehensive Organizational Environment Assessment (COEA). The COEA was specifically designed for Indigenous child welfare agencies in Canada and showed strong internal consistency and convergent validity in the study.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Emily Cunningham, Isla Jamieson-MacKenzie, Christina Mcmellon, Martha Mccallin, Myada Eltiraifi, Levi Smith, Katie Hepburn
Summary: This study explores young people's conceptualizations and perspectives of feeling (mis)understood within adult relationships. The findings, co-designed and co-produced with young people, suggest that feeling understood by supporting adults has a positive impact on young people's wellbeing and mental health, while feeling misunderstood has the converse effect and makes young people less likely to seek further support.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
M. Mofizul Islam
Summary: This study examined the relationship between child discipline practices and early childhood development (ECD). The findings suggest that children who experience nonviolent disciplinary measures are more likely to be on track in their ECD, while those who experience violent disciplinary measures are more likely to have delayed development.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Huiping Zhang, Weiwei Wang, Jamie M. Lachman
Summary: This study demonstrates the effectiveness of the online Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children (PLH-YC) program in preventing child maltreatment in Chinese families, specifically reducing corporal punishment, emotional abuse, and general maltreatment while promoting positive parenting strategies.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Noemie Allard-Gaudreau, Sebastien Poirier, Mireille Cyr
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with delayed disclosure of child sexual abuse (CSA) and found that being forced to perform sexual acts is one of the factors related to delayed disclosure.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Sasha S. Svendsen, Terri Lewis, Antonia E. Chiesa, Andrew P. Sirotnak, Daniel M. Lindberg
Summary: The study found a high level of burnout risk among Child Abuse Pediatricians, with limited effectiveness of fellowship educational activities in addressing burnout. Therefore, it is necessary to more effectively address burnout education within the training experience of CAP fellows.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, Faith Vanmeter, Jeffrey Waid
Summary: This study tested the impact of belonging on youth resilience in a camp setting and found that belonging partially mediated the changes in youth resilience from pre-test to post-test.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2024)
Review
Family Studies
Lalita Kaur, Lauranne Gendron-Cloutier, Marjorie Montreuil
Summary: Attachment difficulties in children can lead to negative outcomes such as psychiatric disorders, low self-esteem, and socioemotional difficulties. This scoping review identified evidence-based care practices and approaches for healthcare providers when caring for children with attachment difficulties. Beneficial approaches include increasing providers' knowledge of attachment theories, understanding children's needs, limiting behavior-modification approaches, implementing attachment theory-based clinical and organizational practices to avoid restraint use, and promoting healthy attachment attitudes.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Gizem Erdem, Zeynep Betul Yucesoy, Ayse Esra Ersayan
Summary: This qualitative study explored the adaptation of youth to imprisonment by examining their daily experiences and close relationships from a deprivation theory perspective. The findings revealed that incarcerated youth faced social deprivation factors such as stigma and discrimination, estrangement from peers, longing for family, and forming closer relationships with siblings and parents through family visits. They viewed non-parental adults in prison as crucial sources of financial, social, and emotional support, and referred to their newly established peer relationships as kinship. However, prison staff held negative attitudes towards youth, families, and peers, interpreting the youth's close relationships as toxic and blaming families for their suffering. They perceived the youth's new relationships with peers and non-parental adults as 'deviancy training'.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Katie Ellis, Claire Johnston
Summary: Research highlights the challenges faced by care leavers in achieving educational success, despite their academic achievements. Factors such as instability, stigma, and lack of institutional support create significant barriers for care experienced students. It is important to consider structural and systemic issues that contribute to lower educational attainment, rather than solely focusing on individual successes.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2024)
Article
Social Work
Siu-ming To, Cheryl Danielle Lau, Ching-pong Alex Fong, Man-yuk Adam Chan
Summary: This study examined the influence of individual, familial, and extrafamilial protective factors on the relationship between stress from the sociopolitical environment and the psychosocial well-being of non-engaged youth in Hong Kong. The findings revealed that mental distress among non-engaged youth was positively associated with sociopolitical stress but negatively associated with resilience and peer support. Additionally, resilience, family support, and youth empowerment in the community were positively associated with life satisfaction.
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SOCIAL WORK JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Social Work
Dauda Busari, Juliet Amarachukwu Nwafor
Summary: This qualitative study investigated 64 mothers and would-be mothers in Lagos State about their pregnancy expectations. Mothers agreed that truths and realities about pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood are often masked or infrequently discussed in the motherhood narrative.
JOURNAL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Social Work
Augustino Tile, Robert Michael Lihawa, Jennifer Kasanda Sesabo, Harold M. L. Utouh, Fred Alfred Rwechumgura
Summary: This study examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on labor force participation in East African countries and finds that the prevalence of HIV/AIDS has reduced labor force participation in the region. As a result, governments need to prioritize disease prevention and treatment to promote the development and productivity of the labor force in the region.
GLOBAL SOCIAL WELFARE
(2023)
Article
Social Work
Rachel French, Amanda Boccelli, Kathryn Valosky, Emilie Oliver, Tanya Uritsky, Jessica McCullion, Samantha Zwiebel, Tracy Andrews
HEALTH & SOCIAL WORK
(2023)
Article
Social Work
Melike Yavas Celik, Zerrin Cigdem
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the vulnerability perceptions of healthcare mothers with children aged between 4-8 years. The study found that the participants' perception of vulnerability was high, especially among healthcare mothers in the 21-35 age group who needed psychological support.
JOURNAL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Jakub Sowula, Franziska Gehrig, Lyle A. Scruggs, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Gabriela Ramalho Tafoya
Summary: This article highlights the limitations of unidimensional analyses in the comparative welfare state literature and emphasizes the need for a more holistic, multidimensional approach to understand the complexities of welfare state change and continuity.
SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Social Work
Brianna M. Lombardi, Lisa de Saxe Zerden, Amy Prentice, Sarah Grace Downs
Summary: Value-based payment models can improve patient health by focusing on quality of care rather than quantity of health services. Social workers in primary care settings play important roles in improving the quality of health services for vulnerable patients by identifying and addressing patients' social determinants of health.
SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE
(2023)
Review
Social Work
Leandi Erasmus, Cornelia Hester Margaretha Bloem
Summary: This study examines the characteristics and challenges of developmental social work training in the Global South, providing core conclusions and recommendations. Six main themes that should be highlighted when teaching developmental social work in the Global South are critical thinking and reflective practice, political social work, field placement programs, indigenisation, decolonisation and historical context, economic development and empowerment, and theoretical course content. To keep social work relevant in the Global South, it is important for governments to provide resources to universities to enable effective developmental social work training.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK
(2023)
Article
Family Studies
Lillian A. Steedman, Elizabeth L. Jeglic, Georgia M. Winters
Summary: This study examined the abilities of parents and non-parents to recognize sexual grooming behaviors, and found that the overall sample was more likely to recognize sexual grooming when presented with behaviors from all stages of the Sexual Grooming Model or behaviors related to desensitization to touch and sexual content. There was a discrepancy between participant confidence in their recognition abilities and their actual measured abilities, highlighting the need for targeted educational efforts to increase awareness in behaviors that may be indicative of abuse.
JOURNAL OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT TRAUMA
(2023)
