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  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Harold D. Grotevant is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily within the social sciences and medicine, with a particular focus on child welfare, adoption, and reproductive health.

Their body of work is characterized by investigations into issues related to child welfare and adoption, reproductive health and technologies, assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy, family dynamics and relationships, ethics and legal issues in pediatric healthcare, attachment and relationship dynamics, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Harold D. Grotevant has contributed to the academic community with publications in a variety of venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Fertility and Sterility
  • Family Relations
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Adoption Quarterly
  • Parenting

Their recent papers reflect a continued focus on adoption and family dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • Adoptive Parenting Cognitions: Acknowledgement of Differences as a Predictor of Adolescents' Attachment to Parents, 2020, Parenting
  • Parents' experiences telling children conceived by gamete and embryo donation about their genetic origins, 2021, F&S Reports
  • Adoptive Parenting Cognitions in the Era of Open Adoption: Is Shared Fate Theory Still Relevant?, 2021, Family Relations
  • Tech-Mediated and Traditional Communication Modes in Adult Adoptees' Contact With Birth Parents, 2020, Family Relations
  • Unsettled adoptive identity: Understanding relationship challenges in adopted adolescents' identity narratives, 2023, Family Process

Their frequent collaborators have included:

  • Patricia E. Hershberger
  • Agatha M. Gallo
  • Kirby Adlam
  • Martha Driessnack
  • Susan C. Klock

Harold D. Grotevant's main fields of study include social sciences and medicine, with subfields covering safety research, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, reproductive medicine, sociology and political science, and demography.

Among honors received, they were named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Individuation in Family Relationships

    Harold D. Grotevant;Catherine R. Cooper

  • Patterns of interaction in family relationships and the development of identity exploration in adolescence.

    Harold D. Grotevant;Catherine R. Cooper

  • Toward a Process Model of Identity Formation

    Harold D. Grotevant

  • Individuality and connectedness in the family as a context for adolescent identity formation and role-taking skill.

    Catherine R. Cooper;Harold D. Grotevant;Sherri M. Condon

  • Adolescent development in family contexts.

    Harold D. Grotevant

  • Development of an objective measure to assess ego identity in adolescence: Validation and replication.

    Harold D. Grotevant;Gerald R. Adams

  • An Exploratory Study about Inaccuracy and Invalidity in Adolescent Self-Report Surveys

    Xitao Fan;Brent C. Miller;Kyung-Eun Park;Bryan W. Winward

  • Adoptive Identity: How Contexts Within and Beyond the Family Shape Developmental Pathways*

    Harold D. Grotevant;Nora Dunbar;Julie K. Kohler;Amy M. Lash Esau

  • International adoption of institutionally reared children: research and policy.

    Megan R. Gunnar;Jacqueline Bruce;Harold D. Grotevant

  • An extension of Marcia's Identity Status Interview into the interpersonal domain.

    Harold D. Grotevant;William Thorbecke;Margaret L. Meyer

  • Coming to Terms with Adoption: The Construction of Identity from Adolescence into Adulthood

    Harold D. Grotevant

  • Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections.

    Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy

  • Cultural Socialization in Families With Internationally Adopted Children

    Richard M. Lee;Harold D. Grotevant;Wendy L. Hellerstedt;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Comparisons of adopted and nonadopted adolescents in a large, nationally representative sample.

    Brent C. Miller;Xitao Fan;Mathew Christensen;Harold D. Grotevant

  • Assigned and chosen identity components: A process perspective on their integration.

    Harold D. Grotevant

  • Family assessment: A guide to methods and measures.

    Harold D. Grotevant;Cindy I. Carlson

  • The Stories that Families Tell: Narrative Coherence, Narrative Interaction, and Relationship Beliefs

    Barbara H. Fiese;Arnold J. Sameroff;Harold D. Grotevant;Frederick S. Wamboldt

  • The International Adoption Project: Population-based Surveillance of Minnesota Parents Who Adopted Children Internationally

    Wendy L. Hellerstedt;Nikki J. Madsen;Megan R. Gunnar;Harold D. Grotevant

  • Adopted Adolescents' Overrepresentation in Mental Health Counseling: Adoptees' Problems or Parents' Lower Threshold for Referral?

    Brent C. Miller;Xitao Fan;Harold D. Grotevant;Mathew Christensen

  • Individuality and connectedness in adolescent development: Review and prospects for research on identity, relationships, and context.

    Harold D. Grotevant;Catherine R. Cooper

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Vocational Interests Assessed Using Adoptive and Biological Families and Twins Reared Apart and Together

    Deborah G. Betsworth;Deborah G. Betsworth;Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.;Catherine R. Cooper;Harold D. Grotevant

Frequent Co-Authors

Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen Kent State University
Jerica M. Berge
Jerica M. Berge University of Minnesota
Xitao Fan
Xitao Fan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Richard M. Lee
Richard M. Lee University of Minnesota
Sandra Scarr
Sandra Scarr Yale University
Femmie Juffer
Femmie Juffer Leiden University
Miriam Steele
Miriam Steele New School
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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