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Sharon Lamb, Ed.D. is Distinguished Professor of Mental Health and comes to UMass Boston after 13 years teaching in the Psychology Department at Saint Michael's College in Colchester Vermont, and 7 years in the Clinical-Developmental Psychology Program at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She received her Ed.M. in Counseling and Consulting Psychology at Harvard Graduate School of Education and her Ed.D. in Human Development at Harvard Graduate School of Education after spending a year toward a Human Development degree at the University of Chicago. She has published widely in the fields of moral development, abuse and victimization, sexual development , psychotherapy with children and adolescents, the sexualization of girls, and media and marketing impact on the development of girls and boys. She served on the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls and currently published in Sex Roles a Feminist Forum article called "Feminist Ideals of Female Adolescent Sexuality: A Critique". She is currently working on two projects: a sexual ethics curriculum for high schoolers; and focus group research on victims, advocates, journalists, and sex offenders' views of new journalists' representations of sexual violence. Dr. Lamb is President-Elect of the Association for Moral Education and a member of APA's divisions 35, 46, and 53. Her co-authored book, Packaging Boyhood: Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes was published Oct. 13, 2009 and is available in bookstores.
Published Scholarship
BOOKS
Lamb, S., Mikel Brown, L., & Tappan, M. B. (2009, Nov.) Packaging boyhood: Superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes, NY: St. Martin’s Press.
Lamb, S., & L. Mikel Brown. (2006). Packaging girlhood: Rescuing our daughters from marketers’ schemes NY: St. Martin’s Press.
Lamb, S. (2006). Sex therapy and kids: Addressing their concerns through talk and play, NY: W.W. Norton & Co.
Lamb, S., & Murphy, J. (Eds.) (2002) Before forgiving: Cautionary views of forgiveness in psychotherapy, NY: Oxford University Press.
Lamb, S. (2002) The secret lives of girls: What good girls really do -- Sex play, aggression, and their guilt. NY: Free Press (a division of Simon and Schuster). Translated into Portuguese and Chinese.
Lamb, S. (Ed.) (1999), New versions of victims: Feminists struggle with the concept. NY: New York University Press.
Lamb, S. (1996). The trouble with blame: Victims, perpetrators and responsibility. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Kagan, J., & Lamb, S. (1987). The emergence of morality in young children, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
MOST RECENT ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
Lamb, S. (in preparation). Healthy sexuality in adolescent girls. Chapter in E. Zurbriggen & T. Roberts, The Sexualization of Girls, (Springer-Verlag or Oxford U Press), chapter solicited and due April 2009.
Lamb, S. (in press) Feminist Ideals of Healthy Sexuality for Teen Girls: A Critique. Sex Roles.
Lamb, S. (2009). Thinking outside the box: Why is there no boyhood studies journal? International Women’s Studies Journal.
Machia, M. & Lamb, S. (Machia, M. is my student, SMC ‘07) (2009). Sexualized innocence: Effects of magazine ads portraying adult women as sexy little girls. Journal of Media Psychology, 2, 15-24.
Zurbriggen, E., Collins, R., Lamb, S., Roberts, T., Tolman, D., & Ward, L. M. (American Psychological Association, Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls.) (2007). Report of the APA task force on the sexualization of girls. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Retrieved 4/12/08 from www.apa.org/pi/wpo/sexualization.htm.
Lamb, S. (2007). Have girls gone wild? Teenage girls, sex, and therapy. In Counseling Children and Young People, September, 20-22.
Lamb, S.(2006). Forgiveness therapy in gendered contexts: What happens to the truth? In Nancy N. Potter (Ed.), Trauma, truth, and reconciliation: Healing damaged relationships (pp. 229-256). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Lamb, S. (2006). Forgiveness, women, and responsibility to the group, Journal of Human Rights, 5, 1-16.
Remillard, A., & Lamb, S. (Remillard is my student SMC ’04) (2005). Adolescent girls’ coping with relational aggression. Sex Roles, 53, 221-229.
Lamb, S. (2005). Forgiveness therapy: The context and conflict. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 25, 61- 80.
Lamb, S. (2004) Sexual tensions in girls’ friendships. Feminism & Psychology, 14, 376-382.