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Ruth McRoy

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Ruth McRoy received her BA degree in Psychology and Sociology and Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. She received her PhD in social work from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. She holds the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professorship in Services to Children and Families and is the Director of the Center for Social Work Research at the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.

McRoy has been involved in adoptions practice for many years. In the 1970s she worked as an adoptions and birthparent counselor for the Kansas Children's Service League, and served as propject coordinator of Black Adoption Program and Services in Kansas City.

Dr. McRoy's research interests include, among many others, family preservation, open adoptions, emotionally disturbed adopted children, cultural diversity, and African American adoptions. She has co-authored five books and numerous articles, with her latest book, Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues published in January of 1999.

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