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Child and Youth Care

This guide is to assist you in researching topics related to the Child and Youth Care field. On this page you will find a partial index of articles relating to adverse childhood experiences and trauma informed care.

Source: Cronholm, P. F., Forke, C. M., Wade, R., Bair-Merritt, M. H., Davis, M., Harkins-Schwarz, M., Pachter, L. M., & Fein, J. A. (2015). Adverse childhood experiences: Expanding the concept of adversity. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 49(3), 354–361.

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Bullying Community Violence Neighbourhood Safety
Racism Foster Care Abuse
Neglect Household Dysfunction

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Bullying

A meta‐analysis of the relationship between moral disengagement and bullying roles in youth

Bullying, cyberbullying, and youth health behaviors

Bullying in children: impact on child health

Exploring Bullying Perpetration and Victimization Among Adolescent Girls in the Child Welfare System: Bully-Only, Victim-Only, Bully-Victim, and Noninvolved Roles

Who Suffers Most From Being Involved in Bullying—Bully, Victim, or Bully‐Victim?

Preadolescent children's perception of power imbalance in bullying: A thematic analysis

Bullying in early adolescence: The role of the peer group

The bully and the bullied

Community Violence

Community Violence in Context: Risk and Resilience in Children and Families

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on mental disorders in young adulthood: Latent classes and community violence exposure

Adolescents' exposure to community violence and associations with after‐school activities across two samples

The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low‐income urban sample in Brazil

Neighbourhood Safety

Safeguarding the Relational Guardians of African Children and Young People Living in Places of Safety Care

Perceptions of community safety and social activity participation among youth in South Africa

Perceived School and Neighborhood Safety, Neighborhood Violence and Academic Achievement in Urban School Children

Childhood Protective Factors and Future Adult Health Outcomes in an Urban Environment

The Effects of Neighborhood Context on Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Among Adolescents Involved in the Juvenile Justice System: Latent Classes and Contextual Effects

Child Rights Based and Trauma Informed Training in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

 

Racism

The Unspoken

Anti-Black racism in the early years: the experiences of Black families and early childhood educators in Nova Scotia

What's race got to do with it? A proposed framework to address racism's impacts on child and adolescent mental health in Canada

Racism is a Thing! Re-examination of the Concepts of Care and Relational Practice in the Preparation of Child and Youth Care Practitioners

The overrepresentation of First Nations children and families involved with child welfare: Findings from the Ontario incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect

Abuse after abuse: The recurrent maltreatment of American Indian children in foster care and adoption

 

Foster Care

No child left behind … except the foster child

Perceptions of Mental Health Needs and Supports among College Students Who Aged Out of Foster Care

Are children and adolescents in foster care at greater risk of mental health problems than their counterparts? A meta-analysis

A Positive Youth Development Approach to Improving Mental Health Outcomes for Maltreated Children in Foster Care: Replication and Extension of an RCT of the Fostering Healthy Futures Program

Multiple Types of Childhood Maltreatment, Sleep, and Anxiety in Former Foster Youth

Vulnerable citizens: The oppression of children in care

Abuse:
Physical, Emotional, Sexual

Psychological evaluation of children victims of sexual abuse: development of a protocol

 

Vulnerable Little Hearts and the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences

A retrospective approach to examining child abuse disclosure

Unheard voices of children on child abuse and neglect

Complementing the therapist: Child care work with sexually abused youth

 

Neglect:
Physical, Emotional

Do adult mental health services identify child abuse and neglect? A systematic review

Do children unintentionally report maltreatment? Comparison of disclosures of neglect versus sexual abuse

The global challenge of the neglect of children

Educators' experiences of coping with cases of child abuse and neglect: Challenges and supports

Child protection training for professionals to improve reporting of child abuse and neglect

A population-based case control study of suicide among youth reported for abuse and neglect

Developmental Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect: Implications for Intervention

Household Dysfunction:
Mental Illness, Incarcerated relative, Interpersonal violence, Substance Abuse, Divorce

Family climate in children living with parents who harmfully consume alcohol
'If i whistled in her ear she'd wake up': Children's narration about their experiences of growing up in alcoholic families

Supporting children of parents with a mental illness

Acceptability of Family Violence: Underlying Ties Between Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse

The Association Between Polyvictimization in Childhood and Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse in Adulthood

A prevalence study of children with imprisoned fathers: annual and lifetime estimates

Symbiotic Harms of Imprisonment and the Effect on Children's Right to Family Life

Unmet Health Care Needs among Children Exposed to Parental Incarceration

The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Family Structures: Evidence from Children in Rural China

Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing

Long-term emotional consequences of parental alienation exposure in children of divorced parents: A systematic review

Does Parental Conflict Explain Why Divorce Is Negatively Associated with Child Welfare?

Parental education, divorce, and children’s educational attainment: Evidence from a comparative analysis

The Impact of the Opioid Epidemic on Children and Adolescents

Caregiver drug use in Ontario child welfare investigations: The need for coordinated intervention

Trends from 2005 to 2018 in child maltreatment outcomes with caregivers' substance use

Trauma Informed and Restorative Practice

Trauma-informed care (TIC)