David brodzinsky biography

Professor David Brodzinsky

Visiting Scholar - June 2025

David Brodzinsky is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University in the United States (1974-2006).  He did his PhD in Developmental Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1969-1974) under the supervision of Irving Sigel, with additional training in Clinical Psychology at the Irving Schwartz Institute for Children and Youth in Philadelphia (1972-1974).

For more than four decades, his research and scholarly writings have focused primarily on developmental, family, and clinical issues in adoption and foster care. Among the many topics he has explored are: children’s understanding of and coping with adoption; adoption-related loss and trauma; transracial and transnational adoption; parenting issues in adoption and fostering; identity issues in adoption; adoption by sexual-minority adults; clinical assessment and treatment issues in working with adoption kinship members;