Susan Sage Heinzelman, Director
116 Inner Campus Dr Stop A4900, GEB 4.200C, Austin Texas 78712 • 512-471-5765
Ruth G McRoy
Professor Emeritus — Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Contact
- E-mail: r.mcroy@mail.utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 471-0551
- Office: 3.208A
- Campus Mail Code: D3510
Biography
Professional Interests
Open adoptions, outcomes for birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted children, trans-racial adoptions, family preservation, special needs adoptions, post adoption services, female sexual abuse perpetrators, racial identity issues, adolescent pregnancy, effectiveness of residential treatment services.
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
- MSW, University of Kansas
- BA, University of Kansas
Research Projects
Completed projects have the year of completion.
- Minnesota Texas Adoption Research
- Assessment of Teen Parent Support Programs: Medical-Social Services Collaborative and Community-Based Case Management Models (2010)
- Coping and Resilience in Young Adolescents Exposed to Adult Intimate Partner Violence: Fahs-Beck Doctoral Research Award (2009)
- Travis County Foster Care Reintegration Project (2009)
- Adoptive and Foster Couples Retreat and Support Network Program (Healthy Marriage) (2007)
- The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids (2007)
- Adoption Assessment Project (2006)
- Interpersonal Violence and Adolescent Mothers: The Role of Personal Relationships in Student Success (2005)
- Adolescent Family Life Care Evaluation (2003)
- Community Relations/Cultural Awareness Assessment of the University of Texas at Austin Police Department (UTPD) (2003)
- Evaluation of STEPPING STONES, a Transitional Living Program for Homeless Youth (2002)
- Planning Grant for Minority Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Research Program (2001)
- Changing Adoption Agency Practices: Mental Health Implications for Birthparents, Adoptive Parents, and Adopted Children (2000)
- Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Travis County Follow-Up Evaluation (2000)
- CASA of Travis County Evaluation (1998)
- Development of a Curriculum in Cultural Diversity (1998)
- East Texas CASA: A Program Evaluation (1998)
- Evaluation of the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1998)
- Mental Health Treatment of Female Children and Adolescent Sex Offenders (1997)
- Residential Group Homes: An Outcome Evaluation of Treatment Effectiveness (1997)
- Evaluation Study of Post Adoption Services (1996)
