Schmid, K. (1994). Intergenerational relationships in adoptive families: Adoptive parents' interpretations. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Christian, C.L. (1995). Birthmother role adjustment in fully-disclosed, mediated and confidential adoptions. Unpublished masters thesis, University of Texas at Austin.

Fravel, D.L. (1995). Boundary ambiguity perceptions of adoptive parents experiencing various levels of openness in adoption. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Ross, N. M. (1995). Adoptive family processes that predict adopted child behavior and self-esteem. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Minnesota.

ten Broeke Balke, T. W. (1996). The percceptions of the role of birthfathers in adoption: A New Zealand perspective. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Gusukuma, I. (1997). Intercountry adoption: The experiences and adjustments of families adopting children from Latin America, China, and the United States. Unpublished doctoral dissertation: University of Texas at Austin.

Kohler, J.K. (1999). Adopted adolescents' preoccupation with adoption: The impact on adoptive family dynamics. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Minnesota.

Christian, C. L. (2000). Grief resolution of birthmothers: The impact of role development and varying degrees of openness. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.

Esau, A. L. (2000). Family contexts of birthmother identity and intimacy development. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

van Dulmen, M. H. M. (2001). The family as context for the development of close peer relationships among adopted adolescents. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Dunbar, N. (2003). Typologies of adolescent adoptive identity: The influence of family context and relationships. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Von Korff, L. (2004). Openness arrangements and psychological adjustment in adolescent adoptees. Unpublished masters thesis, University of Minnesota.

Wolfgram, S. M. (2005). Predicting contact over time between adoptive parents and birthmothers in the open adoptive kinship network. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Perry, Y.V. (2006). "Comparing:" A Grounded theory of adoptive mothers' lay beliefs about genetics. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Newell, J.E. (2008). Openness to experience: Links to communicative and structural openness in adoptive kinship networks. Unpublished masters thesis, University of Minnesota.

Von Korff, L. (2008). Pathways to narrative adoptive identity formation in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Skinner-Drawz, B. (2009). Adoptee information seeking: Changes between adolescence and emerging adulthood and the impact of adoption communicative openness. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Musante, D. (2010).  Family predictors of negative instability in adopted emerging adults. Unpublished masters thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Grant-Marsney, H. (2011). Adolescents’ attachment to adoptive parents: Predicting attachment styles in emerging adulthood. Unpublished masters thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst.