Harold Grotevant

PhD, 1977, University of Minnesota

Center for Research on Families

Rudd Adoption Research Program

Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project

Dr. Grotevant continues to serve as the principal investigator on the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP), a longitudinal research study that focuses on the consequences of variations in openness in adoption arrangements for all members of the adoptive kinship network: birth mothers, adoptive parents, and adopted children, and for the relationships within these family systems. The sample includes children adopted domestically as infants through private adoption agencies across the United States. The project began in the mid-1980s in collaboration with Dr. Ruth G. McRoy, currently the Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professor Emerita in the Boston College School of Social Work. Dr. Grotevant and colleagues have completed four waves of this longitudinal study: when the adopted children were school age, adolescents, emerging adults, and young adults. Collection of the fourth wave was completed in 2015.

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Psy 391AD – The Psychology of Adoption (undergraduate senior seminar)
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Psy 391FT - Foster Care: Psychological and Societal Perspectives
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ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS SINCE 1990  (in reverse chronological order): To obtain individual copies, please send an email request to hgroteva@umass.edu.

Book chapters since 1990 appear after the listing of journal articles.

Grotevant, H.D., Wrobel, G.M., Fiorenzo, L., Lo, A.Y.H., & McRoy, R.G. (in press). Trajectories of birth family contact in infant adoptions. Journal of Family Psychology. Advance online publication - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000449

Lo, A. Y. H., Grotevant, H.D., & McRoy, R. G. (in press). Ethical considerations in adoption research: Navigating confidentiality and privacy across the adoption kinship network. Adoption Quarterly.

Sellers, C.M., Wyman Battalen, A., Fiorenzo, L., McRoy, R.G., & Grotevant, H.D. (in press). Adoptive mothers’ and fathers’ psychological distress: Parenting teens adopted from birth. Adoption Quarterly.

Wrobel, G.M., & Grotevant, H.D. (in press). Adoption-related curiosity at emerging adulthood. Adoption Quarterly.

Wyman Battalen, A., Sellers, C. M., McRoy, R.G., & Grotevant, H.D. (in press). Birth mothers now birth grandmothers: Intergenerational relationships in open adoptions. Adoption Quarterly.

Farr, R. H., Ravvina, Y., & Grotevant, H.D. (2018). Birth family contact experiences among lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents with school-age children. Family Relations, 67, 132-146.  DOI: 10.1111/fare.12295

Grotevant, H.D. (2018).  Commentary for Narrative Symposium, Healthcare challenges faced by adopted persons lacking family health history information: Claiming what is rightfully mine. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 8(2), 137-141.

Grotevant, H.D., Lo, A. Y. H., Fiorenzo, L., & Dunbar, N. D. (2017). Adoptive identity and adjustment from adolescence to emerging adulthood: A person-centered approach. Developmental Psychology, 53, 2195-2204.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000352

May, T., & Grotevant, H. (advance online publication, 12-30-2017). Autonomy, well-being, and the value of genetic testing for adopted persons. HEC Forum.    DOI  10.1007/s10730-017-9345-0

Grotevant, H.D., & Lo, A. Y. H. (2017). Adoptive parenting. Current Opinion in Psychology, 15, 71-75.

May, T., Strong, K. A., Zusevics, K. L., Jeruzal, J., Farrell, M. H., Kirschner, A. L., Derse, A. R., Evans, J. P., & Grotevant, H.D. (2016).  Does lack of ‘Genetic-Relative Family Health History’ represent a potentially avoidable health disparity for adoptees?,  American Journal of Bioethics, 16(12), 33-38. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2016.1240255

May, T., Evans, J. P., Strong, K. A., Zusevics, K. L., Derse, A. R., Jeruzal, J., Kirschner, A. L., Farrell, M. H., Grotevant, H.D. (2016). Issues of “Cost, Capabilities, and Scope” in characterizing adoptees’ lack of “Genetic-Relative Family Health History” as an avoidable health disparity: Response to open peer commentaries on “Does Lack of ‘Genetic-Relative Family Health History’ represent a potentially avoidable health disparity for adoptees?” American Journal of Bioethics, 16(12), W4-W8. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2016.1248581

Farr, R.H., Flood, M.E., & Grotevant, H.D. (2016). The role of siblings in adoption outcomes and experiences from adolescence to emerging adulthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 30, 386 – 396.

Garber, K.J., French, Q.Y.S., & Grotevant, H.D. (2015). Participation in the Adoption Mentoring Partnership: Mentors’ experiences of ethnic identity. In E. E., Pinderhughes & R. Rosnati (Eds.), Special issue: Adoptees’ ethnic identity within family and social contexts. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 150, 77-89.

Rosnati, R., Pinderhughes, E. E., Baden, A. L., Grotevant, H. D., Lee, R. M & Mohanty, J. (2015). New trends and directions in ethnic identity among internationally transracially adopted persons: Summary of special issue. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. In E. E., Pinderhughes & R. Rosnati (Eds.), Adoptees’ ethnic identity within family and social contexts. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 150, 91-96.

Garber, K. J., & Grotevant, H.D. (2015). “YOU were adopted?!”: Microaggressions towards adolescent adopted individuals in same race families. The Counseling Psychologist, 43, 435 – 462.

Grant-Marsney, H., Grotevant, H.D., & Sayer, A. (2015). Links between adolescents’ closeness to adoptive parents and attachment style in young adulthood. Family Relations, 64, 221-232.

Dolan, J. H., & Grotevant, H. D. (2014). The Treehouse Community: An innovative intergenerational model for supporting youth who have experienced foster care. Child Welfare, 93(4), 7-23.

French, C., Henney, S., Ayers-Lopez, S., McRoy, R. G., & Grotevant, H.D. (2014). Birth mothers’ perspectives on their relationship with the birth father 12 – 20 years after adoption. Journal of Family Issues, 35, 579-600. doi: 10.1177/0192513X12472892

Farr, R. H., Grant-Marsney, H.A., & Grotevant, H.D. (2014). Adoptees’ contact with birth parents in emerging adulthood: The role of adoption communication and attachment to adoptive parents. Family Process, 53, 656-671.  DOI: 10.1111/famp.12069

Farr, R. H., Grant-Marsney, H. A., Musante, D. S., Grotevant, H.D., & Wrobel, G. M. (2014). Adoptees’ contact with birth relatives in emerging adulthood. Journal of Adolescent Research, 29, 45 – 66.

Wrobel, G. M., Grotevant, H. D., Samek, D., & Von Korff, L. (2013).  Adoptees’ curiosity and information seeking about birth parents in emerging adulthood: Context, motivation, and behavior. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37, 441-450.  DOI: 10.1177/0165025413486420

Grotevant, H.D., McRoy, R.G., Wrobel, G.M., & Ayers-Lopez, S. (2013). Contact between adoptive and birth families: Perspectives from the Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project. Child Development Perspectives, 7, 193-198.

Grotevant, H.D., Rueter, M., Von Korff, L., & Gonzalez, C. (2011). Post-adoption contact, adoption communicative openness, and satisfaction with contact as predictors of externalizing behavior in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52, 529 - 536.

Henney, S.M.,  French, C. A., Ayers-Lopez, S., McRoy, R.G., & Grotevant, H.D. (2011). Post-placement relationships between birth mothers and their romantic partners. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 620 – 624.

Skinner-Drawz, B.A., Wrobel, G.M., Grotevant, H.D., & Von Korff, L. (2011). The role of adoption communicative openness in information seeking among adoptees from adolescence to emerging adulthood. Journal of Family Communication, 11, 181 - 197.

Von Korff, L., & Grotevant, H.D. (2011).  Contact in adoption and adoptive identity formation: The mediating role of family conversation. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 393 – 401.

Lee, R. M. and the Minnesota International Adoption Project. (2010). Parental perceived discrimination as a post-adoption risk factor for internationally adopted children and adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16, 493 – 500.

Lee, R. M., Seol, K. O., Sung, M., Miller, M. J., and the Minnesota International Adoption Project. (2010). The behavioral development of Korean children in institutional care and international adoptive families. Developmental Psychology, 46, 468 – 478.

Von Korff, L., Grotevant, H.D., Koh, B.D., & Samek, D. R.  (2010). Adoptive mothers: Identity agents on the pathway to adoptive identity formation. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 10, 122 – 137.

Ayers-Lopez, S., Henney, S., McRoy, R.G., Hanna, M., & Grotevant, H.D. (2008). Openness in adoption and the impact on birthmother plans for search and reunion. Families in Society, 89(4), 551-561..

Hellerstedt, W.L., Madsen, N.J., Gunnar, M.R., Grotevant, H.D., Lee, R.M., & Johnson, D.E. (2008). The International Adoption Project: Population-based surveillance of Minnesota parents who adopted children internationally. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 12(2), 162-171.

Grotevant, H.D., McRoy, R.G., Ayers-Lopez, S., & Wrobel, G.M. (2007). Système familial et Adoption ouverte: État des relations et évolution des enfants et des parents selon le Minnesota / Texas Adoption Project. Prisme. L’Adoption:État des lieux. No. 46, 38-59.

Grotevant, H.D., Wrobel, G.M., Von Korff, L., Skinner, B., Friese, S.C., Newell, J., & McRoy, R.G. (2007). Many faces of openness in adoption: Perspectives of adopted adolescents and their parents. Adoption Quarterly, 10(3-4). 79-101.

Gunnar, M., van Dulmen, M.H.M., and the Minnesota International Adoption Project Team. (2007). Behavioral problems of post-institutionalized internationally adopted children. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 129-148.

Henney, S., Ayers-Lopez, S., Mack, J.M., McRoy, R.G., & Grotevant, H.D. (2007). Birthmothers’ perceptions of their parented children’s knowledge of and involvement in adoption. Adoption Quarterly, 2007, 10(3-4), 103-129.

Henney, S., Ayers-Lopez, S., McRoy, R.G., & Grotevant, H.D. (2007). Evolution and resolution: Birthmothers’ experience of grief and loss at different levels of adoption openness. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 24(6), 875-889.

Berge, J.M., Green, K., Grotevant, H.D., & McRoy, R.G. (2006). Sibling narratives regarding contact in adoption. Adoption Quarterly, 9 (2/3), 81-103.

Berge, J. M., Mendenhall, T. J.,  Wrobel, G. M., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (2006). Adolescents’ feelings about openness in adoption: Implications for adoption agencies. Child Welfare,85, 1011-1039.

Dunbar, N., van Dulmen, M.H.M., Ayers-Lopez, S., Berge, J.M., Christian, C., Gossman, G., Henney, S.M.,  Mendenhall, T.J., Grotevant, H.D., & McRoy, R.G. (2006). Processes linked to contact changes in adoptive kinship networks. Family Process, 45, 449-464.

Fan, X., Miller, B.C., Park, E., Winward, B., Christensen, M., Grotevant, H.D., & Tai, R.H.  (2006). An exploratory study about inaccuracy and invalidity in adolescent self-report surveys. Field Methods, 18, 223-244.

Grotevant, H.D., van Dulmen, M. H., Dunbar, N., Nelson-Christinedaughter, J., Christensen, M., Fan, X., & Miller, B.C. (2006). Antisocial behavior of adoptees and nonadoptees: Prediction from early history and adolescent relationships. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 16, 105-131.

Lee, R.M., Grotevant, H.D., Hellerstedt, W., Gunnar, M., and the Minnesota International Adoption Project Team. (2006). Cultural socialization in families with internationally adopted children. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 571-580.

Von Korff, L., Grotevant, H.D., & McRoy, R.G. (2006). Openness arrangements and psychological adjustment in adolescent adoptees. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 531-534.

Gibson, P., Nelson-Christinedaughter, J., Grotevant, H.D., & Kwon, H-K. (2005). The well-being of African American adolescents within formal and informal adoption arrangements. Adoption Quarterly, 9(1), 59-78.

Mendenhall, T., Berge, J. M., Wrobel, G. M., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (2004). Adolescents’ satisfaction with contact in adoption. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21, 175 – 190.

Wrobel, G. M., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (2004). Adolescent search for birthparents: Who moves forward? Journal of Adolescent Research, 19, 132 - 151.

Wrobel, G. M., Kohler, J. K., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (2003). The Family Adoption Communication Model (FAC): Identifying pathways of adoption-related communication. Adoption Quarterly, 7(2), 53 – 84.

Wrobel, G. M., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (2003). Contact in adoption: The experience of adoptive families in the USA. Adoption and Fostering, 27(1), 57-67.

Henney, S., McRoy, R. G., Ayers-Lopez, S., & Grotevant, H. D. (2003). The impact of openness on adoption agency practices: A longitudinal approach. Adoption Quarterly, 6(3), 31-51.

Grotevant, H. D. (2003).  Counseling psychology meets the complex world of adoption. The Counseling Psychologist, 31, 753-762.

van Dulmen, M. H., Grotevant, H. D., Dunbar, N., Miller, B. C., Bayley, B., Christensen, M., & Fan, X. (2002). Connecting national survey data with DSM-IV criteria. Journal of Adolescent Health, 31, 475-481.

Kohler, J. K., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (2002). Adopted adolescents’ preoccupation with adoption: Impact of adoptive family dynamics. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 64, 93 - 104.

Fan, X., Miller, B. C., Christensen, M., Park, K-E., Grotevant, H. D., van Dulmen, M., Dunbar, N., & Bayley, B.  (2002). Questionnaire and interview inconsistencies exaggerated differences between adopted and non-adopted adolescents in a national sample. Adoption Quarterly, 6(2), 7-27.

Miller, B. C., Bayley, B., Christensen, M., Fan, X., Coyl, D., Grotevant, H. D., van Dulmen, M., & Dunbar, N. (2001). Who is adopted? Measuring adoption status using national survey data. Adoption Quarterly, 5(1), 23-43.

Grotevant, H. D., Wrobel, G. M., van Dulmen, M. H., & McRoy, R. G. (2001). The emergence of psychosocial engagement in adopted adolescents: The family as context over time. Journal of Adolescent Research, 16, 469 – 490.

Grotevant, H. D. (2001). Developing new insights from a process approach to adolescent development. Human Development, 44, 55 - 58.

Miller, B. C., Fan, X., Grotevant, H. D., Christensen, M., Coyl, D., & van Dulmen, M. (2000). Adopted adolescents’ overrepresentation in mental health counseling: Adoptees’ problems or parents’ lower threshold for referral? Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 1504 – 1511.

Miller, B. C., Fan, X., Christensen, M., Grotevant, H. D., & van Dulmen, M. (2000). Comparisons of adopted and nonadopted adolescents in a large, nationally representative sample. Child Development, 71, 1458 – 1473.

Gunnar, M. R., Bruce, J., & Grotevant, H. D. (2000). International adoption of institutionally-reared children: Research and policy. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 677 - 693.

Grotevant, H. D., Dunbar, N., Kohler, J. K., & Esau, A. L. (2000). Adoptive identity: How contexts within and beyond the family shape developmental pathways. Family Relations, 49, 379 – 387.

Grotevant, H. D. (2000). Openness in adoption. Research with the adoptive kinship network. Adoption Quarterly, 4(1), 45 – 65.

Fravel, D. L., McRoy, R. G., & Grotevant, H. D. (2000). Birthmother perceptions of the psychologically present adopted child: Adoption openness and boundary ambiguity. Family Relations, 49, 425 – 433.

Grotevant, H.D., Ross, N. M., Marchel, M. A., & McRoy, R. G. (1999). Adaptive behavior in adopted children: Predictors from early risk, collaboration in relationships within the adoptive kinship network, and openness arrangements. Journal of Adolescent Research, 14, 231-247.

Grotevant, H. D., Fravel, D. L., Gorall, D., & Piper, J. (1999). Narratives of adoptive parents: Perspectives from individual and couple interviews. In Fiese, B. H., Sameroff, A. J., Grotevant, H. D., Wamboldt, F. S., Dickstein, S., & Fravel, D. L.  The stories that families tell: Narrative coherence, narrative style, and relationship beliefs. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development  (pp. 69-93). Vol. 64(2), Serial No. 257.

Bengtson, P., &  Grotevant, H. D. (1999). The Individuality and Connectedness Q-sort: A measure for assessing individuality and connectedness in dyadic relationships.  Personal Relationships, 6, 213-225.

Wrobel, G. M., Kohler, J. K., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (1998). Factors related to patterns of information exchange between adoptive parents and children in mediated adoptions. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 19, 641-657.

Henney, S. M., Onken, S. J., McRoy, R. G., & Grotevant, H. D. (1998). Changing agency practices toward openness in adoption. Adoption Quarterly, 1(3), 45-76.

Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (1997). The Minnesota/Texas Openness in Adoption Research Project: Evolving policies and practices and their implications for development and relationships. Applied Developmental Science, 1, 166-184.

Grotevant, H. D. (1997).  Identity processes: Integrating social psychological and developmental approaches. Journal of Adolescent Research, 12, 354-357.

Grotevant, H. D. (1997). Family processes, identity development, and behavioral outcomes in adopted adolescents.  Journal of Adolescent Research, 12, 139-161.

Grotevant, H. D. (1997). Coming to terms with adoption: The construction of identity from adolescence into adulthood. Adoption Quarterly, 1(1), 3-27.

Christian, C. L., McRoy, R. G., Grotevant, H. D., & Bryant, C. M. (1997). Grief resolution of birthmothers in confidential, time-limited mediated, ongoing mediated, and fully disclosed adoptions. Adoption Quarterly, 1(2), 35-58.

Wrobel, G., Ayers-Lopez, S., Grotevant, H. D., McRoy, R. G., & Friedrick, M. (1996). Openness in adoption and the level of child participation. Child Development, 67, 2358-2374.

Mendenhall, T. J., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (1996). Adoptive couples: Communication and changes made in openness levels. Family Relations, 45, 223-229.

Grotevant, H. D., McRoy, R. G., Elde, C. L., & Fravel, D. L. (1994). Adoptive family system dynamics:  Variations by level of openness in the adoption.  Family Process, 33, 125-146.

Grotevant, H. D. (1994). A department head's perspectives on diversity: Domains and challenges. The Department Chair.

Betsworth, D. G., Bouchard, T. J., Jr., Cooper, C. R., Grotevant, H. D., Hansen, J. C., Scarr, S., & Weinberg, R. A. (1994). Genetic and environmental influences on vocational interests assessed using adoptive and biological families and twins reared apart and together.  Journal of Vocational Behavior, 44, 263-278.

Werrbach, G. B., Grotevant, H. D., & Cooper, C. R. (1992). Patterns of family interaction and adolescent sex role concepts.  Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 21, 609-623.

Matula, K. E., Huston, T. L., Grotevant, H. D., & Zamutt, A. (1992).  Identity and dating commitment among women and men in college.  Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 21, 339-356.

McRoy, R. G., & Grotevant, H. D. (1991).  American experience and research on openness.  Adoption and Fostering, 15(4), 99-111.

Werrbach, G. B., Grotevant, H. D., & Cooper, C. R. (1990).  Gender differences in adolescents' identity development in the domain of sex role concepts.  Sex Roles, 23, 349-362.

McRoy, R. G., Grotevant, H. D., Ayers-Lopez, S., & Furuta, A. (1990).  Adoption revelation and communication issues: Implications for practice with adoptive families.  Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 550-557.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES SINCE 1990 (in reverse chronological order)

 Grotevant, H.D., & McDermott, J. M. (2014). Adoption: Biological and social processes linked to adaptation. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 235 - 266.

Grotevant, H.D. (2012).  What works in open adoption. In P. A. Curtis & G. Alexander (Eds.), What works in child welfare (2nd Ed.). Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America.

Grotevant, H.D., Grant-Marsney, H. A., French, Q., Musante, D. S., & Dolan, J. H. (2012). The dynamic of poverty and affluence in child adoption. In R. King & V. Maholmes (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development. New York: Oxford University Press.

Grotevant, H. D. (2011).  Emerging issues in bridging developmental science, practice, and policy in the best interests of children without permanent parents. In R. McCall (Ed.), Children without permanent parents: Research, practice, and policy. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. (pp.274 – 281). Vol 76 (4), Serial No. 301.

Cooper, C. R., & Grotevant, H.D. (2011). Autonomy or connections? Identities as intergenerational projects. In C. R. Cooper, Bridging multiple worlds: Cultures, identities, and pathways to college. (pp. 33 – 48). New York: Oxford University Press.

Grotevant, H.D., & Von Korff, L. (2011). Adoptive identity. In S. Schwartz, K. Luyckx, & V. L. Vignoles (Eds.), Handbook of Identity Theory and Research. (pp. 585 – 601). New York: Springer.

Grotevant, H.D., Perry, Y. V., & McRoy, R.G. (2010). L’apertura nell’adozione: l’addattamento degli adolescenti all’interno del network realzione. In R. Rosnati (Ed.), Il legame adottivo: Contributi internatzionali per la ricerca e l’intervento. Milano: Edizioni Unicopli.

authorized translation from  Grotevant, H. D., Perry, Y., & McRoy, R. G. (2005). Openness in adoption: Outcomes for adolescents within their adoptive kinship networks. In D. Brodzinsky & J. Palacios (Eds.), Psychological issues in adoption: Research and practice. (pp. 167 – 186). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Grotevant, H.D. & McRoy, R.G.  (2009). Growing up adopted: Birth parent contact and developmental outcomes. In K. McCartney & R. A. Weinberg  (Eds.), Experience and development: A Festschrift in Honor of Sandra Wood Scarr. (pp. 203 – 230). New York: Psychology Press.

Berge, J.M., Green, K.M., Grotevant, H.D., & McRoy, R.G. (2009). Sibling issues in open adoption arrangements: Non-biologically related adopted siblings’ experiences with birth-family contact. In D.N. Silverstein & S.L. Smith (Eds.), Siblings in adoption and foster care: Traumatic separations and honored connections. (pp. 69-81). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Grotevant, H.D. (2009). Emotional distance regulation over the life course in adoptive kinship networks. In G. Wrobel & E. Neil (Eds.), International advances in adoption research for practice. (pp. 295 – 316). Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Grotevant, H.D. (2007). Openness in adoption: Re-thinking “family” in the United States. In M.C. Inhorn (Ed.), Reproductive disruptions: Gender, technology, and biopolitics in the new millennium. (pp. 122-143) New York: Berghahn Books.

Grotevant, H.D., Dunbar, N., Kohler, J.K., & Esau, A.L. (2007). Adoptive identity: How contexts within and beyond the family shape developmental pathways. In R.A. Javier, A.L. Baden, R.A. Biafora, & A. Comacho-Gingerich (Eds.), Handbook of adoption. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

McRoy, R.G., Grotevant, H.D., Ayers-Lopez, S., & Henney, S. (2007). Open adoptions: Longitudinal outcomes for the adoption triad. In R.A. Javier, A.L. Baden, R.A. Biafora, & A. Comacho-Gingerich (Eds.), Handbook of adoption. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Johnson, D.E. and International Adoption Project Team. (2006). Zusammenhange zwischen dem Wachstum von psychisch belasteten Kindern und kognitiver sowie emotionaler Entwicklung. [Growth in vulnerable children: Is it a marker for developmental and emotional well-being?] In K.H. Brisch & T. Hellbrügge (Eds.), Kinder ohne Bindung: Deprivation, Adoption und Psycholtherapie. [Children without attachment: Deprivation, adoption and psychotherapy.] (pp. 138 - 160). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Wrobel, G. M., Hendrickson, Z., & Grotevant, H. D. (2006).  Adoption. In K. Minke & G. Bear (Eds.), Children's needs III: Development, problems, and alternatives. Washington, D.C.: National Association of School Psychologists.

Grotevant, H. D., Perry, Y., & McRoy, R. G. (2005). Openness in adoption: Outcomes for adolescents within their adoptive kinship networks. In D. Brodzinsky & J. Palacios (Eds.), Psychological issues in adoption: Research and practice. (pp. 167 – 186). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Miller, B. C., Fan, X., & Grotevant, H. D. (2005). Methodological issues in using large-scale survey data for adoption research. In D. Brodzinsky & J. Palacios (Eds.), Psychological issues in adoption: Research and practice. (pp. 233-255). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Dunbar, N., & Grotevant, H. D. (2004). Adoption narratives: The construction of adoptive identity during adolescence. In M. W. Pratt & B. H. Fiese (Eds.), Family stories and the life course: Across time and generations. (pp. 135 – 161). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Grotevant, H.D., McRoy, R.G., & Ayers-Lopez, S. (2004). Contact after adoption: Outcomes for infant placements in the United States. In E. Neil & D. Howe (Eds.), Contact in adoption and permanent foster care: Research, theory, and practice. London: British Association for Adoption and Fostering.

Henney, S., Ayers-Lopez, S., McRoy, R.G., & Grotevant, H.D. (2004). A longitudinal perspective on changes in adoption openness: The birthmother story. In E. Neil & D. Howe (Eds.), Contact in adoption and permanent foster care: Research, theory, and practice. London: British Association for Adoption and Fostering.

Grotevant, H. D. (2001). Orchestrating differences: The making of a family psychologist. In S. K. Steinmetz & G. W. Peterson (Ed.) Intersections: Unique Career Paths to Studying Families. Marriage and Family Review, 31 (3/4), 113-127.

reprinted in S.K. Steinmetz & G.W. Peterson (Eds.) (2002). Pioneering paths in the study of families: The lives and careers of family scholars. (pp. 593-607). New York: Haworth Press.

Fiese, G. H., Sameroff, A. J., Grotevant, H. D., Wamboldt, F. S., Dickstein, S., & Fravel, D.L. (2001). Observing families through the stories that they tell: A multidimensional approach. In P. Kerig & R. Lindahl (Eds.), Family observational coding systems: Resources for systemic research. (pp. 259 – 271) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Grotevant, H. D. (2000). What works in open adoption.  In M. Kluger, G. Alexander, & P. Curtis (Eds.), What Works in Child Welfare. (pp. 235 – 242). Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America.

Wrobel, G. M., Kohler, J. K., Grotevant, H. D., & McRoy, R. G. (1999). The family adoption communication model (FAC): Identifying pathways of adoption-related communication. In M. Johnson (Ed.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Theory Construction and Research Methodology Workshop of the National Council on Family Relations.

Grotevant, H. D. (1999). Adoptive identity development: New kinship patterns, new issues. In A-L. Rygvold, M. Dalen, & B. Saetersdal (Eds.), Mine – yours – ours – and theirs: Adoption, changing kinship, and family patterns. (pp. 101 – 116). Oslo: University of Oslo.

Grotevant, H. D., & Kohler, J. K. (1999). Adoptive families. In M. Lamb (Ed.), Nontraditional families: Parenting and child development (2nd Ed.). (pp. 161-190) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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Grotevant, H. D., & Cooper, C. R. (1998). Individuality and connectedness in adolescent development: Review and prospects for research on identity, relationships, and context. In E. Skoe & A. von der Lippe (Eds.), Personality development in adolescence: A cross national and life span perspective. (pp. 3-37) London: Routledge.

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Grotevant, H. D. (1993).  The integrative nature of identity:  Bringing the soloists to sing in the choir.  In J. Kroger (Ed.), Discussions on ego identity (pp. 121-146).  Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum.

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Harold D. Grotevant, Ph.D., holds the Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, where he is the founding director of the Rudd Adoption Research Program. The work of this position connects adoption research with policy and practice through conferences, workshops, graduate and postdoctoral training, and stimulation of research activities.  His research focuses on relationships in adoptive families (especially open adoption), and on identity development in adolescents and young adults. His work has resulted in over 160 articles and chapters as well as several books, including Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections (with Ruth McRoy, Sage Publications, 1998). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the National Council on Family Relations; and recipient of awards for research, teaching, mentoring, outreach, and educational leadership.  In 2012, he was honored as the Outstanding Scholar in Adoption by the Adoption Initiative of St. John’s University and Montclair State University. In 2016, he was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal from UMass Amherst, the highest honor bestowed to faculty by the campus. He directs the Minnesota / Texas Adoption Research Project, which examines outcomes for adopted children whose families vary in terms of contact with their birth relatives. This longitudinal study, begun with Dr. Ruth McRoy in the mid-1980s, has followed the children and their families into young adulthood. For further information, please visit the Rudd Chair and the Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project.