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Sharon Lamb

Sharon Lamb (born September 11, 1955)[1] is an American professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston's, College of Education and Human Development,[2] and a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).[3] She also sits on the editorial board of the academic journals Feminism & Psychology, and Sexualization, Media, and Society.[4]

Sharon Lamb
Born (1955-09-11) September 11, 1955 (age 69)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard Graduate School of Education
Known forProfessor of counseling and school psychology
SpousePaul Orgel
Children2 sons
AwardsSociety for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) Health Professional Book Award
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Boston, College of Education and Human Development

Lamb is one of the authors of the APA's report into the sexualization of girls,[5] which according to an article on Women and Hollywood is "the most downloaded document in the history of the APA’s website".[6] She is also a co-author for the APA's Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women.

Sharon Lamb also practices psychology in Shelburne Vermont where she performs evaluations for the courts, attachment evaluations and custody evaluations, and sees private therapy clients.

Education

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Lamb gained both her EdD in Human Development, and her EdM in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education.[2] She also obtained her PhD at the Free University (Vrije Universiteit) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, under the supervision of philosophers Doret de Ruyter and Jan Steutel.[citation needed]

Personal life

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She is married to the pianist Paul Orgel and has/had two sons.[7] Her younger son died on July 6, 2018, at the age of 26. Her older son lives with his family in Austin, Texas.

Grants and awards

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  • 2006 Books for a Better Life Award (Childcare/Parenting)[8] for "Packaging Girlhood"[9]
  • 2007 "Gift of Time" Mid-Career Sabbatical Award from the Association for Moral Education to create a Sexual Ethics Curriculum,
  • 2008 Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) Health Professional Book Award[10] for "Sex, Therapy, and Kids"[11]
  • 2013 The Spencer Foundation, New Civics Initiative Grants for research into Sex Education as Ethics Education in the New Civics[12]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Lamb, Sharon (1988). The emergence of moral concern in the second year of life (Ph.D. thesis). Harvard University. OCLC 20552754.
  • Lamb, Sharon; Kagan, Jerome (1990). The emergence of morality in young children. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226422329.
  • Lamb, Sharon (1999). The trouble with blame: victims, perpetrators, and responsibility. Cambridge, Massachusetts London: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781429906326.
  • Lamb, Sharon (1999). New versions of victims: feminists struggle with the concept. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814751534.
  • Lamb, Sharon (2001). The secret lives of girls: what good girls really do - sex play, aggression, and their guilt. New York: Free Press. ISBN 9780743201070.
  • Lamb, Sharon; Murphy, Jeffrie G. (2002). Before forgiving: cautionary views of forgiveness in psychotherapy. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195145205.
  • Lamb, Sharon (2006). Sex, therapy, and kids: addressing their concerns through talk and play. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 9780393704792.
  • Lamb, Sharon; Brown, Lyn Mikel (2007). Packaging girlhood: rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9780312370053.
  • Lamb, Sharon; Brown, Lyn Mikel; Tappan, Mark (2009). Packaging boyhood: saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9781429983259.
  • Lamb, Sharon (2013). Sex ed for caring schools: creating an ethics-based curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press. ISBN 9780807753989.
  • Lamb, Sharon (2016). Girls of color, sexuality, and sex education, Palgrave/Macmillan.
  • Lamb, S. & Gilbert, J. Editors. (in press). Cambridge handbook of sexual development: Children and adolescents. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lamb, S. (June 5, 2019). The not good enough mother, Boston: Beacon Press.

Chapters in books

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  • Lamb, Sharon (2006), "Forgiveness therapy in gendered contexts: What happens to the truth?", in Potter, Nancy N. (ed.), Trauma, truth and reconciliation: healing damaged relationships, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 229–256, ISBN 9780198569435
  • Lamb, Sharon; Plocha, Aleksandra (2011), "The underlying ethics in sex education: What are the needs of vulnerable groups?", in de Ruyter, Doret J.; Miedema, Siebren (eds.), Moral education and development: a lifetime commitment, Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers, pp. 163–177, ISBN 9789460917141
  • Lamb, Sharon (2011), "The place of mutuality and care in democratic sexuality education: incorporating the other person", in Carlson, Dennis; Roseboro, Donyell L. (eds.), The sexuality curriculum and youth culture, New York: Peter Lang, pp. 29–43, ISBN 9781433110009
  • Lamb, Sharon (2011), "Sexual tensions in girls' friendships", in Kimmel, Michael; Aronson, Amy (eds.), The gendered society reader (4th ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 554–558, ISBN 9780199733712
  • Lamb, Sharon; Vozzola, Elizabeth C. (2012), "Moral development", in Meyer, Luanna H. (ed.), Oxford bibliographies, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199756810 Available online as: Lamb, Sharon; Vozzola, Elizabeth C. (December 2011). "Moral development". Oxford Bibliographies Online. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199756810-0056.
  • Lamb, Sharon (2013), "Healthy sexuality in adolescent girls", in Zurbriggen, Eileen L.; Roberts, Tomi-Ann (eds.), The sexualization of girls and girlhood: causes, consequences, and resistance, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 278–301, ISBN 9780199731657
  • Lamb, Sharon (2014), "The hard work of pleasure", in Allen, Louisa; Rasmussen, Mary Lou; Quinlivan, Kathleen (eds.), The politics of pleasure in sexuality education: pleasure bound, New York: Routledge, pp. 136–152, ISBN 9780415812269
  • Lamb, Sharon; Plocha, Aleksandra (2014), "Sexuality in childhood", in Tolman, Deborah L.; Diamond, Lisa M. (eds.), APA handbook of sexuality and psychology (person-based approaches), vol. 1, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, pp. 415–432, ISBN 9781433813696 Also available as Lamb, Sharon; Plocha, Aleksandra (2014). "Sexuality in childhood". APA handbook of sexuality and psychology, Vol. 1: Person-based approaches. American Psychological Association. pp. 415–432. doi:10.1037/14193-014. ISBN 978-1-4338-1371-9.
  • Lamb, S. & Randazzo, R. (2016) Obstacles to teaching ethics in sexuality education. In J. Ponzetti (Ed.) Evidence-based approaches to sex education: A global perspective 113–129). NY: Routledge.
  • Lamb, S. & Brodt (2017). Psychotherapy with girls: The problems of real girls and the distractions of diagnosis.  In APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women.
  • Lamb, S., White, L., & Plocha, A. (in press). Childhood sexuality. In S. Lamb & J. Gilbert (in press). Cambridge handbook of sexual development: Children and adolescents.
  • Jarkovska, L., & Lamb, S. (in press).  Not innocent but vulnerable: An approach to childhood sexuality. In S. Lamb & J. Gilbert (in press). Cambridge handbook of sexual development: Children and adolescents.

Journal articles

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References

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  1. ^ "Lamb, Sharon". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 10, 2014. New versions of victims, 1999: CIP t.p. (Sharon Lamb) data sheet (b. 09-11-55)
  2. ^ a b "Faculty & staff: Sharon Lamb, EdD". University of Massachusetts Boston. Archived from the original on October 23, 2018. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  3. ^ "Society for the psychology of women: division 35 fellows: current fellows". American Psychological Association (APA). Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  4. ^ "Editorial board: Sexualization, Media, and Society". SAGE. October 27, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  5. ^ Lamb, Sharon; Zurbriggen, Eileen L.; Collins, Rebecca L.; Roberts, Tomi-Ann; Tolman, Deborah L.; Ward, L. Monique (2007). "Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls". American Psychological Association (APA). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Silverstein, Melissa (October 20, 2010). "Spark summit – speaking out against the sexualization of girls". Women and Hollywood. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  7. ^ "Sharon Lamb". Sharon Lamb. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  8. ^ "2006 Books For A Better Life Awards Winners". Book reporter. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  9. ^ Lamb, Sharon; Brown, Lyn Mikel (2007). Packaging Girlhood: rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9780312370053.
  10. ^ "2008 SSTAR Health Professional Book Award" (PDF). Society for Sex Therapy and Research. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  11. ^ Lamb, Sharon (2006). Sex, therapy, and kids: addressing their concerns through talk and play. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 9780393704792.
  12. ^ "New Civics Initiative Grants". The Spencer Foundation. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
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