Youth in Transition
A special issue of Adolescents (ISSN 2673-7051). This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging and Contemporary Issue in Adolescence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2025 | Viewed by 154
Special Issue Editors
Interests: clinical practice with children and adolescents; family therapy and transtheoretical practice; motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy; brief psychody-namic and solution-focused therapy
Interests: interconnection of developmental trauma and neuroscience; neuroscientific interventions for justice involved youth; clinical practice with children and adolescents
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute a research article or practice review article to this Special Issue. Submission deadline: 1 September 2025.
This Special Issue aims to inform researchers and practitioners of evidence-based outcome findings and current practice trends affecting adolescents’ developmental issues in alternative care before transitioning into adulthood, including but not limited to these key areas:
- Adoption;
- Alternative education;
- Community-based care;
- CPS youth without placements;
- Foster youth transition;
- Kinship care;
- New service trends, e.g., service privatization;
- Other developmental or environmental interventions.
Prof. Dr. Monit Cheung
Dr. Lindamarie Olson
Dr. Xiafei Wang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- adolescents
- (foster) youth
- transition to adulthood
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