Developmental Child Welfare
Developmental Child Welfare launched in January 2019. The journal arose out of a need for a dedicated platform for multi-disciplinary research applied to advance our understanding of the development, health (including mental health) and well-being of children and adolescents exposed to severe social adversity throughout the world.
The journal is now accepting submissions. To submit an article please see the Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The broad aim of the journal is to advance our understanding of the development, health (including mental health) and well-being of children and adolescents exposed to severe social adversity throughout the world, specifically maltreated children and adolescents who remain in their parents’ care, and those subsequently placed in alternative forms of care – as well as the long-term impact that these experiences have on adult development and the development of subsequent generations.
Within this broad aim, the journal’s scope is defined by both specific subject matter, and specific populations. Its subject coverage is limited to children’s psychological, neurological, physical and social development and functioning (including research pertaining to children’s physical and mental health, learning and education), as well as parental, caregiver and systemic factors that shape children’s development and functioning. Its population coverage is limited to maltreated children and adolescents who remain with their families; those placed by the state in statutory (i.e. foster, kinship or residential) care; those who exit statutory care to adoption or other permanent arrangements, including restoration to their parents’ care; as well as their parents and caregivers (where parenting and caregiver research is directly pertinent to children’s development).
The journal publishes the following types of articles:
1. Regular articles reporting fundamental or applied research
2. Research reviews
3. Research translation articles, including social policy analysis
4. Opinion articles and debate
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
| Jane Callaghan | University of Stirling, UK |
| Anna T. Smyke | Tulane University, USA |
| Lenneke Alink | Leiden University, the Netherlands |
| Lisa Fellin | University of Bergamo, Italy |
| Anouk Goemans | Leiden University, the Netherlands |
| Brenda Jones Harden | University of Maryland, USA |
| Michael MacKenzie | McGill University, Canada |
| Eamon McCrory | University College London, UK |
| Becci A. Akin | University of Kansas, USA |
| Isabel Bernedo | University of Malaga, Spain |
| Jill Duerr Berrick | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Johanna Bick | University of Houston, USA |
| Nina Biehal | University of York, UK |
| David Brodzinsky | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Emeritus), USA |
| Judy Cashmore | Sydney Law School & School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia |
| Chi Meng Chu | Ministry of Social and Family Development, and National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Delphine Collin-Vézina | McGill University, Canada |
| Chantal Cyr | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| Jorge Fernández del Valle | University of Oviedo, Spain |
| Robbie Duschinsky | Cambridge University, UK |
| Elaine Farmer | University of Bristol, UK |
| Danya Glaser | University College London, UK |
| Hans Grietens | University of Groningen, the Netherlands |
| Erin P. Hambrick | University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA |
| Sandra H. Jee | University of Rochester, USA |
| Andreas Jud | University of Ulm, Germany, and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland |
| Femmie Juffer | Leiden University, the Netherlands |
| Jana Kreppner | University of Southampton, UK |
| Sonya J. Leathers | University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
| Nikki Luke | University of Tennessee, USA |
| Judith Masson | University of Bristol, UK |
| Linda C. Mayes | Yale University, CT, USA |
| Dominic McSherry | Queens University Belfast, UK |
| Lenore M. McWey | Florida State University, USA |
| Joshua P. Mersky | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| Nick Midgley | University College London, UK |
| Helen Minnis | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Elsbeth Neil | University of East Anglia, UK |
| Assaf Oshri | University of Georgia, USA |
| Jesus Palacios | University of Seville, Spain |
| Bruce Perry | Northwestern University & The ChildTrauma Academy, USA |
| Joseph M. Price | San Diego State University, USA |
| Jodi Quas | University of California, Davis, USA |
| Elisa Romano | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| David M. Rubin | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Carlo Schuengel | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Julie Selwyn | University of Bristol, UK |
| Aron Shlonsky | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Jane F. Silovsky | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Centre, USA |
| Cassandra Simmel | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA |
| John Simmonds | CoramBAAF, UK |
| Gottfried Spangler | Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
| Trevor Spratt | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| Heather Taussig | University of Denver, USA |
| Johan Vanderfaeillie | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
| Bo Vinnerljung | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Harriet Ward | Loughborough University, UK |
| Charles Zeanah | Tulane University, USA |
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Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.