Unrau, Yvonne A., Font, Sarah A., & Rawls, Glinda. (in press). Readiness for college engagement among students who have aged out of foster care. Children and Youth Services Review.
Unrau, Yvonne A., Font, Sarah A., & Murphy, Sandra R. (in press). Placement moves of foster children as perceived by foster parents residing in urban and semi-urban communities. Journal of Public Child Welfare.
Unrau, Yvonne A., Hamilton, Ronicka, & Putney, Kristin. (2010). The challenge of retaining college students who grew up in foster care. Retention Success, April, 1-5.
Unrau, Yvonne A. (2010). From foster care to college: The Seita Scholars Program at Western Michigan University. Reclaiming Children and Youth, 20(2), 17-20.
Unrau, Yvonne A., Chambers, Ruth, Seita, John R., & Putney, Kristin S. (2010). Defining a foster care placement move: The perspective of adults who formerly lived in multiple out-of-home
placements. Families in Society, 91(4), 426-432.
Unrau, Yvonne A., Seita, John R., & Putney, Kristin S. (2008). Former foster youth remember multiple placement moves: A journey of loss and hope. Children and Youth Services Review, 30(11), 1256-1266.
Unrau, Yvonne A. (2007). Research on placement moves: Seeking the perspective of foster children. Children and Youth Services Review, 29(1), 122-137.
Unrau, Yvonne A., Conrady-Brown, Michelle, Zosky, Diane, and Grinnell, Richard M., Jr. (2006). Connecting youth in foster care with needed mental health services: Lessons from research on help-seeking. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 3(2), 91-109.
Wehrmann, Kathryn C., Unrau, Yvonne A., and Martin, Judith A. (2006). United States. In M. Colton and M. Williams (Eds.) Global perspective on foster family care. Lyme Regis: Russell House Publishing.
Unrau, Yvonne A., and Coleman, Heather D. (2006). Evaluating program outcomes as event histories. Administration in Social Work, 30 (1), 45-65.
Unrau,
Yvonne A., and Grinnell, Richard M. Jr. (2005). Exploring
out-of-home placement as a moderator of help-seeking behavior
among adolescents who are high risk. Research on Social
Work Practice, 15(5), 516-530.
Unrau,
Yvonne A., and Grinnell, Richard M. Jr. (2005). The
impact of social work research courses on research self-efficacy
for social work students. Social Work Education, 24(6)
639-651.
Unrau,
Yvonne A., and Wells, Michael A. (2005). Patterns
of foster care service delivery. Children and Youth Services
Review, 27(5), 511-531.
Adam,
Najma, Zosky, Diane L., and Unrau, Yvonne A. (2004). Improving
the research climate in social work curricula: Clarifying learning
expectations across BSW and MSW research courses. Journal
of Teaching in Social Work, 24(3), 1-18.
Unrau,
Yvonne A., Wells, Michael A. and Hartnett, Mary Ann (2004). Removing
barriers to service delivery: An outcome evaluation of a 'remodelled'
foster care programme. Adoption and Fostering, 28(2),
20-30.
Unrau, Yvonne A. and Beck Ann R. (2004). Increasing
research self-efficacy among students in professional academic
programs. Innovative Higher Education, 28(3), 187-194.
Bergquist,
Kathleen Ja Sook, Campbell, Mary E. and Unrau, Yvonne A. (2003).
Caucasian parents
and Korean adoptees: A survey of parent's perceptions. Adoption
Quarterly, 6(4), 41-58.
Sieppert,
Jackie D. and Unrau, Yvonne A. (2003). Revisiting the Calgary
evaluation project: A look at children's participation in family
group converencing. Protecting Children, 18(1-2), 113-118.
Unrau,
Yvonne A. and Wehrmann, Kathryn C. (2003). Comparing academic
and practitioners perceptions on preparing BSW students for competent
child welfare practice. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work,
8(2), 17-36.
Unrau,
Yvonne A., Coleman, Heather D., and Stampley, Cheryl D. (2002).
Qualitative research habits and the BSW student: Preparing competent
generalist practitioners. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work,
7(2), 114-126.
Unrau,
Yvonne A. (2001) Using exit interviews
to illuminate outcomes in program logic models: A case example.
Evaluation and Program Planning, 23(4), 353-361.
Coleman,
Heather D., Unrau, Yvonne A. and Manyfingers, Brenda (2001). Revamping
family preservation services for Native families. Journal
of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 10(1), 49-68.
Sieppert,
Jackie D., Hudson, Joe and Unrau, Yvonne A. (2000). Family
group conferencing in child welfare: Lessons from a demonstration
project. Families in Society, 81(4), 382-391.
Unrau,
Yvonne A., and Coleman, Heather D. (1998). Understanding and interpreting
polytomous logistic regression. Research on Social Work Practice,
8(2), 223-235.
Unrau,
Yvonne A., and Coleman, Heather D. (1997). BSW students coding
qualitative data: A teaching and research note. Journal of
Baccalaureate Social Work, 3(1), 97-107.
Unrau,
Yvonne A. (1997). Predicting use of child welfare services after
intensive family preservation services. Research on Social
Work Practice, 7(1), 202-215.
Jenson,
Jeffrey M., Jacobson, Maxine, Unrau, Yvonne A., and Lair-Robinson,
Rick. (1996). Intervention for victims of child sexual abuse:
An evaluation of the Children's Advocacy Model. Child and
Adolescent Social Work, 13(2), 139-156.
Unrau,
Yvonne A. (1995). Defining the black box of family preservation
services. A conceptual framework for service delivery. Community
Alternatives,7(2), 49-62.
Unrau,
Yvonne A. (1993). Expanding the role of program evaluation in
social welfare policy analysis. Evaluation Review, 17(6),
653-662.
Unrau,
Yvonne A. (1993). A program logic model approach to conceptualizing
social service programs. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation,
8(1), 117-134.
Unrau,
Yvonne A., Grinnell, Richard M., Jr., and Stephens, Mike. (1992).
Child related characteristics associated with preventing out-of-home
child placement in home-based family-centered programs. Community
Alternatives, 4(1), 49-65.