Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

‍Ricciardelli, L. A., Knierim, M., & Toland, A. M. (2026). Using the ASWB professional licensing exam as an organizing framework for instructing social work research. Journal of Social Work Education.

Ricciardelli, L. A., Herzog, J. R., Knierim, M. T., Lewis, M. L., Toland, A. M., & McGarity, S. V. (2025). A process evaluation of online and face-to-face options in a U.S.-based MSW program: Examining differences in student perspectives and needs. Social Work Education, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2025.2582735

Toland, A. M., Blakey, J. M., Rolock, N., Ocasio, K., & Selleck, K. (2024). Adoption-informed care: What clinicians in the United States need to know. Adoption Quarterly, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2024.2352385

Toland, A. M. (2024). Down the rabbit hole: The mental health implications of adoption trauma on people adopted at birth. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 30(2), 88–103. https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/2054

Book Chapters

Blakey, J. M., Toland, A. M., Coleman, J., Rolock, N., & Selleck, K. (in press). Child welfare reform or abolishment: The evolution and future of the U.S. child welfare system. In B. D. Smith & C. C. Gilliam (Eds.), Advancing child welfare: Navigating the intersection of policy, practice, and research. Cognella.

Selleck, K., Toland, A. M., & Blakey, J. M. (2023). From denial to disproportionality: History of racism in the child welfare system. In L. S. Abrams & A. J. Dettlaff (Eds.), Social work, white supremacy, and racial justice: Reckoning with our history, interrogating our present, and re-imagining our future (Part I—Our Historical Legacy of Racism and White Supremacy) (pp. 170–187). Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197641422.003.0009