Please join Dr. David Brodzinsky to discuss trauma and its impacts on children in our January NPAC Live event. We will discuss the need for preparation and post-placement support, the role of violated expectations that creates stress in adoptive parents, and the need to identify adoption-competent therapists to ensure success of a placement. Please come prepared with questions! We look forward to seeing you there!

David Brodzinsky, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at Rutgers University and a clinical and training consultant for the Center for Adoption Support and Education and the National Center on Adoption and Permanency. For the past three decades, his research and scholarly writing has focused primarily on issues related to the adjustment of adopted children and their families. Dr. Brodzinsky lives in Glendale, CA, where he maintains a private consultation practice focusing on mental health issues in adoptive kinship members. He has worked with countless public and private adoption agencies and has conducted training workshops on adoption and foster care throughout North America and Europe. He has published widely on the psychology of adoption in professional journals and is the co-author or co-editor of six books on adoption, including Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family Diversity. Email: dbrodzinsk@comcast.net

Contact: Rachel Wegner, wegner@adoptionsupport.org