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Branco, S.F., Espinueva Aure, M., Sosnovskaya, A., Kim, J., and Newton, G. (2026). Who
supports transracial adult adoptees through consciousness? A secondary analysis study. Genealogy.

Kim, J., Diebold, J., Jones, A.S., Bidwell, L. & Hill, K. (2026). Voluntary placement of children into foster care: Perspectives of child welfare stakeholders. Social Sciences, 15(5), 276.

Miola, R., Coker, K., McGinnis, H.A., Kim, A.Y., Cho, S., Kim, S., Baden, A.L., & Kim, J. (2026). Exploring the role of critical consciousness on complex trauma for adopted adults. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

Kim, J. & Sellmaier, C. (2026). Disabled social work students’ experiences of stigma in higher education. Journal of Social Work Education, 62(2), 136-148

Kim, J., Branco, S.F. & Newton, G. (2026). Exploring transracial adoptees’ experiences developing adoption consciousness.Adoption Quarterly.

Kim, J., Hanlon, R., Day, A., Woo, C., Vanderwill, L. & Dallimore, E. (2025). I was being used more as a babysitter than a foster parent: Qualitative findings from foster parent surveys in two states. Families in Society.

Kim, J. & Chung Sherman, M.J. (2024) Critiques of adoption. Encyclopedia of Social Work, Oxford University Press.

Kim, J., Lindley, J., Zhou, X., Lee, H., & Lee, R. (2024). Korean Adoptees Who Adopt: Ethnic, Racial, and Adoption Socialization with Second-Generation Adoptees. Adoption Quarterly, 1-23.

Kim, J. (2023). Afterward. In Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung (Eds.). When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology. Harper Collins. 

Branco, S.F., Kim, J. & Newton, G. (2024). The adoptee consciousness model: Integration with family counseling theory and practice. The Family Journal.

Branco, S.F., Kim, J., Newton, G., Cooper-Lewter, S. & O’Loughlin, P. (2023). Out of the fog and into consciousness: A model of adoptee awareness. International Body Psychotherapy Journal 22(1), 53-66. 

Sellmaier, C. & Kim, J. (2023). Working and caring for a disabled adopted child in times of  COVID-19. Child and Family Social Work, 28(1), 222-235. 

Kim, J. (2023). Adoption disruption and displacement. International Social Services Newsletter, Spring 2023.

Day, A., Garcia-Rosales, K., Hanlon, R., Vanderwill, L., Kim, J., & Dallimore, E. (2023). Who are our caregivers? An assessment of the characteristics of foster parents at certain foster parenting milestones across two states. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 17(3), 517-542.

Kim, J. (2022). A brief history of foster care. CW360: Supporting collaborative birth and foster parent relationships. (Summer, 2022). University of Minnesota School of Social Work.

Kim, J. (2022). Welcome to the conversation. CASCW Connect, Issue #34. Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota.

Hanlon, R., Kim, J., Woo, C., Day, A., Vanderwill, L., & Dallimore, E. (2022). An exploratory study of the impact of COVID‐19 on foster parenting. Child & Family Social Work, 27(3), 371-380.

Kim, J. (2022). “Forever family is like a manufactured Hallmark idea”: Adoption discontinuity experiences of intercountry adoptees. Child Abuse & Neglect, 130, 105184.

Hanlon, R., Feltner, A., Day, A., Vanderwill, L., Kim, J., & Dallimore, E. J. (2021). Systematic review of foster parent recruitment. Child welfare, 99(1), 117-142.

Kim, J.R. (2021).  Race and power in transracial and transnational adoption: Historical legacies, current issues, and future challenges. In C. Wijeyesinghe, (Ed.). The Complexities of Race: Emerging Issues Related to Culture, Policy, Identity, and Social Justice Practice. New York University Press.

Koh, B. D., & Kim, J. (2021). Examining the intersection of ethics and adoption. Adoption Quarterly, 24(1), 1-4.

Sellmaier, C., & Kim, J. (2021). Disability accommodation experiences of social work students in the United States. Social Work Education, 40(7), 872-887.

Zhou, X., Kim, J., Lee, H., & Lee, R. M. (2021). Korean adoptees as parents: Intergenerationality of ethnic, racial, and adoption socialization. Family Relations, 70(2), 637-652.

Kim, J.R. & Sellmaier, C. (2020). Making disability visible in social work education. Journal of Social Work Education. 56(3), 496-507.

Kim, J.R. (2020).  Impact of new technologies on family finding. CW360: Permanency and Transitions to Adulthood (Fall 2020). University of Minnesota School of Social Work.

Kim, J., & Tucker, A. (2020). The inclusive family support model: Facilitating openness for post‐adoptive families. Child & Family Social Work, 25(1), 173-181.

Wu, C.S., Lee, S.Y., Zhou, X., Kim, J.R., Lee, H.W., & Lee, R.M. (2020). Hidden among the hidden: Transracially adopted Korean American adults raising multiracial children. Developmental Psychology, 56(8), 1431-1445

Koh, B.D., Kim, J.R., & McRoy, R. (2020). Adoption-specific curricula in Higher Ed. In Wrobel, G., Helder, E. & Marr, E. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Adoption. Taylor & Francis, 493-507.

Kim, J., Piescher, K., & LaLiberte, T. (2019). Adoption discontinuity in intensive out-of-home care settings. Adoption Quarterly, 22(4), 307-329.

Kim, J.R. (2019). United State of America: The experiences of intercountry adoptive parents opting for out-of-home care for their child. International Reference Center for the Rights of Children Deprived of their Family – ISS Monthly Review No. 237, December 2019, 10-11.

Kim, J.R., Myers, K., McKee, K. & Raleigh, E. (2019). Conceptualizing an Adoption Pedagogy: Expanding Beyond “Teaching Adoption.” Adoption & Culture, 7(1), 1-5.

Curricular Resource on Issues of Disability and Disability-Competent Care: Diversity and Justice Supplement.Disability Competent-Care Curriculum Workgroup/CSWE
Council on Disability and Persons with Disabilities and the Center for Diversity and Economic Justice (2019).

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McGinnis, H.A., Baden, A.L., Kim, A.Y. & Kim, J.R. (2019). Generational shifts: Adult adoptee scholars’ perspective on future research and practice. Rudd Adoption Research Program Publication Series: The Future of Adoption. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Kimball, E. & Kim, J.R. (2019). Virtual boundaries: Ethical considerations for use of social media in social work. In Bent-Goodley, T.B., Williams, J.H., Teasley, M.L., & Gorin, S. (Eds.), Grand Challenges for Society: Evidence-Based Social Work Practice. Washington, D.C.: NASW Press, 314-317.

Semanchin Jones, A., Kim, J.R., Hill, K. & Diebel, J. (2018). Voluntary placements in child welfare: A comparative analysis of state statutes. Children and Youth Services Review, 88, 387-394

Kim, J.R. (2017). “You can’t run into a burning building without getting burned yourself”: An ecological systems perspective of parents choosing out-of-home care for an intercountry adopted child. Families in Society, 98(3), 169-177.

Koh, B.D., Kim, J.R., & McRoy, R. (2017). Exploring adoption-specific curricula in undergraduate and Graduate degree programs. Adoption Quarterly, 20(3), 252-265.

Kim, J.R. (2016). The good kind of immigrants. In Shin, S.Y. (Ed.) A good time for the truth: Race in Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Kim, J.R. & Hall, B. (2016). Transracial and intercountry adoptions: School issues. In Fong, R. & McRoy, R. (Eds.) Transracial and intercountry adoptions: Cultural guidance for professionals and educators. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Kim, O.M., Kim, J.R. & Tarnowski, R. (2017). Intercountry Adoption. In Dolan, P. & Frost, N. (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Global Child Welfare. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

Kim, J.R. (2016). Book Review: How Chinese are you? Adopted Chinese youth and their families negotiate identity and culture. Affilia, 31(3), 390-390

Kim, J.R. (2014). Internationally adopted children with disabilities in out of home care: Emerging research on adoptive parent perspectives. The Roundtable, 27(2). 

Kimball, E., & Kim, J. (2013). Virtual boundaries: Ethical considerations for use of social media in social work. Social Work, 58(2), 185-188.

Kim, J.R. (2013). An overview of adoption for children with disabilities. CW360: The Intersection of child welfare and disability: Focus on children (Spring, 2013). University of Minnesota School of Social Work.

Kim, J.R. (2013). Cooking Lessons. In Chi, S. & Moberg Robinson, E. (Eds.) Voices of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience. New York: Greenwood Press.

Kim, J.R. (2012). Some children see him: A transracial adoptee’s view of color-blind Christianity. Journal of Christian Legal Thought, 2(1).

Kim, J.R. (2012). Breaking the silence: Teaching my children how to talk about race and racism. In Ost-Vollmers, K. and Rebholtz, A. (Eds.) Adoptees as Parents. CQT Media & Publishing.

Kim, J. (2008). Waiting for God: Korean American Adoptee experiences of religion and spirituality. In David Yoo and Ruth Chung (Eds.) Religion and Spirituality in Korean America.University of Illinois Press.

Kim, J. (2006). Scattered seeds: The Christian influence on the Korean adoption phenomenon. In Jane Jeong Trenka, Sun Yung Shin and Chinyere Oparah (Eds.) Outsider’s within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. U of Minnesota Press.