Abbie E. Goldberg

Abbie E. Goldberg is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts--Amherst and completed a clinical psychology internship at Yale Medical School. Her research explores family transitions and processes in diverse families, including same-sex parent families and adoptive-parent families. In particular, her work has focused on how families' relationships and identities change across the transition to parenthood and how gender and sexual orientation figure into individuals' adjustment and experience of parenthood. In addition, she has studied the school experiences of adoptive and same-sex parent families, and same-sex parent families' experiences of divorce. She has received funding for her research from the National Institutes of Health, the American Psychological Association, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Williams Institute, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Spencer Foundation.