E. Goldblatt Hyatt

Dr. E. Goldblatt Hyatt (they/them) is an administrator, clinician, and author with nearly 20 years' experience in the field of death and dying, grief and loss, and reproductive healthcare. A clinician-scholar, Dr. Goldblatt Hyatt's interests focus on reproductive justice: the right to have a child, the right to not have a child, the right to parent in safe and sustainable communities, and the right to bodily, sexual, and gender autonomy. In their clinical practice, they specialize in working with people who have had later abortions due to fetal anomaly: this is an area of passion and advocacy for Dr. Goldblatt Hyatt, and they have appeared alongside Pennsylvania Governors Tom Wolf and Josh Shapiro as well as featured by numerous campaigns by Planned Parenthood. They are currently a Hub Team Leader for the Rutgers Project ECHO Maternal Health Innovation (MHI) series in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Health that seeks to educate community providers about the many factors contributing to disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality across New Jersey.

A nationally-recognized speaker who has appeared on television, podcasts, and multimedia platforms, Dr. Goldblatt Hyatt is frequently commissioned to train healthcare providers, social workers, death educators, and ethicists. Their published "ACCEPT" and "DOUBLE RAINBOW" (with Dr. Judith McCoyd) approaches are the only known evidence-supported interventions for social work and mental health clinicians providing therapy to people who have terminated pregnancies for medical reasons.  Additionally, they are passionate about working with and creating safe spaces for adolescents struggling with identity development, grief, and questions of sexual orientation. 

A notable figure in thanatology, Dr. Goldblatt Hyatt is the author of the only self-help book available for bereaved teen siblings, entitled "Grieving for the Sibling You Lost" (New Harbinger Publications, 2015). Their commercial blogs can be found on websites including The Mighty, Huffington Post, and Scary Mommy, as well as editorials and articles in the New Jersey Star-Ledger and Slate Magazine, among many others

Over the course of their career, Dr. Goldblatt Hyatt has worked in settings as diverse as the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Department of Child Psychiatry at the University of Maryland, the Department of Psychiatry at Washington Hospital Center, and the Department of Oncology at Children's National Medical Center. They have served as an intern at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the division of Fetal Surgery/NICU and at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the Trauma service. In addition to working at Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, they have served as an adjunct faculty member and former dissertation chair at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, they were the department chair of psychology for seven years at Bryn Athyn College.

Books

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (ed.). (in press). Social work and reproductive justice: A necessary fit. Oxford University Press.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., Robboy A.C., McDaniel, T., Mazza, L., Kephart, C., & Gearhart, P. (2023). Living with babyloss. The Center for Growth 

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2015). Grieving for the sibling you lost: The teen’s guide to coping with grief and finding meaning after loss. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. Please see: https://www.newharbinger.com/author/erica-goldblatt-hyatt

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., & Sawyerr, T.C. (2024). "Liberating grief": Applying an anti-oppressive framework to the field. Studies in Clinical Social Work: Transforming Practice, Education, and Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/28376811.2024.2430571

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., Younes, M., & Witt, H. (2024). The moral conundrum of reproductive justice in social work. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 44(4), 347-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2024.2374251
 
Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., Wilpers, A., Ozan Bahtiyar, M., Hu, Y., Leon-Martinez, D., Chervenak, F., & McCoyd, J.L.M. (2023). “I don’t have a telephone to the fetus”: Clinicians’ conceptions of fetal patienthood in maternal-fetal surgery counseling. Social Science and Medicine, advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116525

Wilpers, A., Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., Ozan Bahtiyar, M., Hu, Y., Leon-Martinez, D., Chervenak, F. & McCoyd, J.L.M. (2023). “We all want to be able to tell you something hopeful”: Clinicians’ experiences providing maternal-fetal surgery counseling. Fetal Diagnosis & Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1159/000531535 

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2023). Radical informed consent: Considering a new approach for reproductive justice in social work practice. Critical and Radical Social Work, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021X16772547451432

McCoyd, J.L.M., Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., Ayckingil, A., & Hennessy, K. (2023). The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce. Death Studies, advance online publication.  

Duberstein, P.,…Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2022). The transtheoretical model of seemingly-innocuous biomedical exuberance (TRiBE): How the moral emotions fuel end of life care in the United States. Social Science and Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115546Get 

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., & McCoyd, J.L.M. (2022). Counseling pregnant people after previous termination of pregnancy due to fetal anomaly (TOPFA): The double RAINBOW approach. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2047179

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., McCoyd, J.L.M., & Diaz, M.F. (2022). From abortion rights to reproductive justice: A call to action. Affilia: Journal of Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099221077153 

Witt, H., Younes, M.K., & Goldblatt Hyatt. (2022). Examining social work students’ knowledge of and attitudes about abortion and curriculum coverage in social work. Affilia: Journal of Feminist Inquiry in Social Work. Advance online publication, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08861099211068241 

Younes, M.K., Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., Witt, H., & Franklin, C. (2021, advance online copy). A call to action: Addressing ambivalence and promoting advocacy for reproductive rights in social work education. Journal of Social Work Education. doi:10.1080/10437797.2021.1895930

LaSala, M.C., & Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2019). A bioethics approach to social work practice with transgender clients. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services. Advance Online Publication, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538720.2019.1653804

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2019). Then and now: Reflections on death at life’s beginning. Journal of Social Work in End of Life and Palliative Care. Retrievable from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15524256.2019.1577327

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2019). Nearly six years. Ars Medica, 14(1), 13-16. Retrievable from http://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/717

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2019). Disparities in access to hospice for medially-underserved minority groups: A summary of barriers and implications for clinical social work. Revista de Assistenta Sociala (Social Work Review), 1, 1-18.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2019). Falsely-accused clergy in therapy: A case study. Journal of Social Work and Christianity, 46(4), 87-103.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2019). Counseling women who have terminated a pregnancy due to fetal anomaly: The ACCEPT Model. Clinical Social Work. Advance Online Publication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-019-00732-0

Book Chapters and Readings

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., & Witt, H. (submitted chapter). Centering reproductive justice within a liberatory consciousness framework. In J. Chonody (Ed.), Teaching activities for social work: Creative pedagogies to engage students. Springer Nature.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2024). Therapy following an abortion. In J. Bindeman (Ed.), The abortion and mental health counseling handbook (pp. 119-128). Springer.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2021). Case presentation: Adolescence. In J.L.M. McCoyd, J.M. Koller, & C.A. Walter, Grief and loss across the lifespan: A biopsychosocial perspective (3rd ed.). Springer.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2020). X-Men: What they teach us about oppression and marginalization of the bereaved. In J. Harrington-Lamorie & R. Neimeyer (Eds.), Superhero grief: The transformative power of loss. Routledge.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2019). The outsider-insider perspective in life and grief. In B. Counselman Carpenter & A. Redcay (Eds.), Working with grief and traumatic loss: Theory, practice, personal self-care and reflection for clinicians. San Diego, CA: Cognella.

Witt, H., Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D., Franklin, C., & Younes, M. (2019). Self-determination and abortion access: A pro-choice perspective on the international social work code of ethics. In S.M. Marson & R,E, McKinney, Jr. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of social work ethics and values. New York, NY: Routledge.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. (2019). Shifting identities, shifting meanings: Adolescent siblings and grief. In M. Diaz and B. Shepherd (Eds.), Narrating practice with children and adolescents. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Goldblatt Hyatt, E.D. et al. (2024). Educators are not the enemy. The Edge. Retrievable from: https://www.theedgemedia.org/educators-are-not-the-enemy/

The women’s podcast. Irish Times, 2022, available at https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/the-womens-podcast/post-roe-america-take-your-vitamins-its-going-be-a-long-fight/ 

Social work and reproductive justice. Rutgers University Summer Series. 2022.

What the SCOTUS decision means for the landscape of abortion. With Mery Diaz. University of Buffalo in Social Work podcast. 2022.

Introduction to reproductive justice for social workers. NASW New York webinar. 2022. 

What the new landscape of abortion laws means for social work. Arizona State University, 2022. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1KMhZBOGo&t=2456s 

General’s briefing: Coping with mental health during COVID. With Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, June 18, 2020. Retrievable from https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTsZhRDC6D/

Managing COVID-19 during conception, pregnancy, and after birth. Rutgers Today. Retrievable from https://www.rutgers.edu/news/managing-covid-19-during-conception-pregnancy-and-after-birth

Questioning your narrative. The Lost Traveler Podcast, May 7, 2020. Retrievable from https://www.henryallen.org/podcast/episode/1b59a369/on-questioning-your-own-narrative

Interview with Deutsche Welle (DW) News Corporation (Germany). June 1st, 2019.

Governor Tom Wolf hosts rally in Ambler to protest anti-choice legislation. Montgomery County News, May 31st, 2019. Retrievable from http://www.montgomerynews.com/amblergazette/gov-tom-wolf-hosts-rally-to-protest-anti-choice-legislation/article_02c6324a-83e2-11e9-9009-7faa63757567.html

Women have abortions for many reasons aside from rape and incest. Here are some of them. CNN.com, May 22nd, 2019. Retrievable from https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/health/women-reasons-abortion-trnd/index.html

Today’s quote: “Our son never formed an airway”. KTBS Headlines, May 22nd, 2019. Retrievable from https://www.ktbs.com/weather/headlines/things-to-know-for-may-washington-brexit-tornadoes-dallas-slayings/article_699e22b7-e9f7-591d-8ac5-6fb65218e0b3.html

After Alabama gov signs ban, women are sharing their abortion stories with #youknowme. Independent Journal Review, May 16th, 2019. Retrievable from https://ijr.com/alabama-gov-ban-women-sharing-abortion-stories/

Near death experiences, death anxiety, and thanatology: Spiritable 21. Spiritable Podcast, May 15th, 2019. Retrievable from https://youtu.be/9Cb49_5JMjg or http://bit.ly/Spiritable

Research on final words. Dr. Oz, April 12, 2019. Retrievable from https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/last-words-what-do-peoples-final-words-mean?video_id=6025348235001

Whose womb is this anyway? February 6th, 2019. Retrievable from https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/trump-abortion-state-of-the-union.html