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Child Welfare and Adoption

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Nichole Roxas
University of California, Los Angeles
2
Erica M. Webster
Youth Development
3
Brandon Andrew Robinson
University of California, Riverside
4
Berit Skauge
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
5
Monique Botha
University of Stirling
6
Mélanie Doucet
McGill University
7
Rosemary Furey
Sheffield Hallam University
8
Clementine J. Degener
Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
9
Laura García‐Alba
Universidad de Oviedo
10
Theresa Rocha Beardall
University of Washington

Rising Stars Papers

1
What are the autism research priorities of autistic adults in Scotland?
Autism|2024
62 cit.
2
Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity
Journal of Marriage and the Family|2024
17 cit.
3
Intersectional Burdens: How Social Location Shapes Interactions with the Administrative State
RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences|2024
13 cit.
4
Intersectional Social Support: Gender, Race, and LGBTQ Youth Friendships
Society and Mental Health|2024
11 cit.
5
Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity
Journal of Marriage and the Family|2024
10 cit.
6
Legal reality or legal mirage? Examining the relationship between police violence, legal consciousness, and the promise of civil legal justice
Punishment & Society|2024
9 cit.
7
How Do Child Welfare Workers Understand and Practice Child Participation?
Child & Family Social Work|2024
7 cit.
8
“I Feel the Most Pleasure When I Don’t Have to Worry”: On Sexual Comfort, t4t, and Trans Pleasure
Sex & Sexualities|2025
6 cit.
9
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records?
Journal of Public Child Welfare|2024
5 cit.
10
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience: Family Resilience as a Promotive Factor in Young Children’s Flourishing
SAGE Open|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Leonard Burton
Center for the Study of Social Policy
2
Karmen Toros
Tallinn University
3
Doğan Yılmaz
Bilkent University
4
Melissa K. Peckins
St. John's University
5
Steven Roche
Australian Catholic University
6
Nicole Steils
King's College London
7
Dawnya Underwood
Heartland Alliance
8
Anna S. Lau
UCLA Health
9
Amelia Searle
Flinders University
10
Rebecca Dillard
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
‘I just want to go home, is what I need’ – Voices of Ukrainian refugee children living in Estonia after fleeing the war
Children and Youth Services Review|2024
20 cit.
2
The role of pain self-efficacy and pain catastrophising in the relationship between chronic pain and depression: A moderated mediation model
PLoS ONE|2024
20 cit.
3
A brief child-friendly reward task reliably activates the ventral striatum in two samples of socioeconomically diverse youth
PLoS ONE|2022
6 cit.
4
DC and RF performance of lateral AlGaN/GaN FinFET with ultrathin gate dielectric
Semiconductor Science and Technology|2022
6 cit.
5
The voices of parents in child protective services: A qualitative analysis of families’ struggles with COVID-19
Developmental Child Welfare|2022
6 cit.
6
Maltreatment type differences in cortisol stress response trajectories across adolescence
Child Development|2023
6 cit.
7
Mental Health Services for Unaccompanied Children in the United States
Journal of Loss and Trauma|2022
5 cit.
8
Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives
Journal of Social Work Practice|2023
5 cit.
9
‘Well, the Child Can’t Choose, Right?’: Foster Children’s Participation Experiences of Child Protection Removal Practices
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal|2023
5 cit.
10
Child-Centred Approach to Shared Parenting: Parents’ Experiences with Bird’s Nest Parenting Arrangement
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal|2022
4 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Edmund Sonuga‐Barke
King's College London
2
Mark E. Courtney
University of Chicago
3
Megan R. Gunnar
University of Minnesota
4
Richard P. Barth
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5
Charles H. Zeanah
Tulane University
6
John B. Reid
Bucks County Intermediate Unit
7
Dante Cicchetti
University of Minnesota
8
Michael Rutter
Dalhousie University
9
Mary Dozier
University of Delaware
10
Patricia Chamberlain
Oregon Social Learning Center

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule—Generic: A Standard Measure of Social and Communication Deficits Associated with the Spectrum of Autism
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders|2000
7.6k cit.
2
Resilience in the Face of Adversity
The British Journal of Psychiatry|1985
3.4k cit.
3
The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry|1986
2.8k cit.
4
Validity of adult retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences: review of the evidence
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry|2004
2.8k cit.
5
Autism as a strongly genetic disorder: evidence from a British twin study
Psychological Medicine|1995
2.5k cit.
6
The Neurobiology of Stress and Development
Annual Review of Psychology|2006
2k cit.
7
Equifinality and multifinality in developmental psychopathology
Development and Psychopathology|1996
1.8k cit.
8
Adult outcome for children with autism
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry|2004
1.8k cit.
9
Protective factors in children's responses to stress and disadvantage.
PubMed|1979
1.5k cit.
10
The Domain of Developmental Psychopathology
Child Development|1984
1.4k cit.

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