Anne Bernstein is a professor at the Wright Institute. She is in private practice as a family psychologist and mediator. Clinical and research interests include stepfamilies, divorce and remarriage, adoption, collaborative reproduction, cultural diversity, and family change, including children's experience of nontraditional families. She is the associate editor for the website of Family Process.
She is the author of Flight of the Stork: What Children Think (and When) about Sex and Family Building, and Yours, Mine, and Ours: How families Change when Remarried Parents Have a Child Together. Recent publications include "Re-visioning, restructuring and Reconciliation: Clinical Practice with Complex Postdivorce Families" in Family Process, 46(1), "Remarriage: Redesigning Couplehood," in Papp, P. Couples Therapy in the New Age; "Reconstructing the Brothers Grimm: New Tales for Stepfamily Life," in Family Process 38(4); and "Straight therapists working with lesbians and gays in family therapy," JMFT, 26(3). She is on the Expert Council of the National Stepfamily Resource Center, an Advanced Practitioner Mediator with the Association for Conflict Resolution, and a Fellow in Family Psychology and in Media Psychology of the American Psychological Association.
A Charter Member, she has served AFTA as Vice President, Treasurer, Board Member, Interest Group chair, and on the Newsletter Editorial Board, Family Policy and Program Committees. In 2005, she received the Award for Distinguished Service to the American Family Therapy Academy.