Sharon Lamb Explained

Sharon Lamb
Birth Date:	11 September 1955
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Psychology
Workplaces:	University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Education and Human Development
Alma Mater:	Harvard Graduate School of Education
Known For:	Professor of counseling and school psychology
Awards:	Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) Health Professional Book Award
Spouse:	Paul Orgel
Children:	2 sons

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]

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

Lamb gained both her EdD in Human Development, and her EdM in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education. 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.

Personal life

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

• 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

Books

• Ph.D. . Lamb . Sharon . 1988 . The emergence of moral concern in the second year of life . . 20552754 .
• Book: Lamb . Sharon . Kagan . Jerome . The emergence of morality in young children . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 1990 . 9780226422329 .
• Book: Lamb, Sharon . The trouble with blame: victims, perpetrators, and responsibility . St. Martin's Press . Cambridge, Massachusetts London . 1999 . 9781429906326 .
• Book: Lamb, Sharon . New versions of victims: feminists struggle with the concept . New York University Press . New York . 1999 . 9780814751534 .
• Book: Lamb, Sharon . The secret lives of girls: what good girls really do - sex play, aggression, and their guilt . Free Press . New York . 2001 . 9780743201070 . registration .
• Book: Lamb . Sharon . Murphy . Jeffrie G. . Before forgiving: cautionary views of forgiveness in psychotherapy . Oxford University Press . Oxford New York . 2002 . 9780195145205 .
• Book: Lamb, Sharon . Sex, therapy, and kids: addressing their concerns through talk and play . W.W. Norton & Co . New York . 2006 . 9780393704792 .
• Book: Lamb . Sharon . Brown . Lyn Mikel . Packaging girlhood: rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes . St. Martin's Griffin . New York . 2007 . 9780312370053 . registration .
• Book: Lamb . Sharon . Brown . Lyn Mikel . Lyn Mikel Brown . Tappan . Mark . Packaging boyhood: saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes . registration . St. Martin's Griffin . New York . 2009 . 9781429983259 .
• Book: Lamb, Sharon . Sex ed for caring schools: creating an ethics-based curriculum . Teachers College Press . New York . 2013 . 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

• • • • • Available online as: Lamb . Sharon . Vozzola . Elizabeth C. . Moral development . Oxford Bibliographies Online . 10.1093/OBO/9780199756810-0056 . December 2011 .
    • Also available as Book: Lamb . Sharon . APA handbook of sexuality and psychology, Vol. 1: Person-based approaches . Plocha . Aleksandra . Sexuality in childhood . 415–432 . American Psychological Association . 10.1037/14193-014 . 2014 . 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

• Lamb . Sharon . Forgiveness, women, and responsibility to the group . Journal of Human Rights . 5 . 1 . 45–60 . 10.1080/14754830500485874 . January 2006 . 144580128 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Have girls gone wild? Teenage girls, sex, and therapy . Counseling Children and Young People . 18–22 . Counseling Children and Young People (CCYP) . September 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080517213836/http://www.ccyp.co.uk/journal_pdf/ccyp_autumn07b.pdf . dead . 2008-05-17 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Zurbriggen . Eileen L. . Collins . Rebecca L. . Roberts . Tomi-Ann . Tolman . Deborah L. . Ward . L. Monique . Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls . American Psychological Association (APA) . 2007 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Machia . Marty . Sexualized innocence: effects of magazine ads portraying adult women as sexy little girls . . 21 . 1 . 15–24 . 10.1027/1864-1105.21.1.15 . February 2009 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Commentary and criticism: girls, boys, and "girlhood" studies (Thinking outside the box: a call for new theory to underscore the need for boyhood studies?) . . 9 . 1 . 115–118 . 10.1080/14680770802619540 . March 2009 . 216643727 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Porn as a pathway to empowerment? a response to Peterson's commentary . . 62 . 5–6 . 314–317 . 10.1007/s11199-010-9756-8 . March 2010 . 144501261 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Feminist ideals for a healthy female adolescent sexuality: a critique . . 62 . 5–6 . 294–306 . 10.1007/s11199-009-9698-1 . March 2010 . 144574891 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Toward a sexual ethics curriculum: bringing philosophy and society to bear on individual development . . 80 . 1 . 81–106 . Spring 2010 . dead . https://archive.today/20140711105457/http://her.hepg.org/content/c104834k00552457/?p=292e94f6e4834e18bc2f65039fef25e5&pi=6 . 2014-07-11 . 10.17763/haer.80.1.c104834k00552457 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Graling . Kelly . Lustig . Kara . Stereotypes in four current AOUM sexuality education curricula: good girls, good boys, and the new gender equality . American Journal of Sexuality Education . 6 . 4 . 360–380 . 10.1080/15546128.2011.624477 . October 2011 . 142895120 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Peterson . Zoë D. . Adolescent girls' sexual empowerment: two feminists explore the concept . . 66 . 11–12 . 703–712 . 10.1007/s11199-011-9995-3 . June 2012 . 145018029 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Peterson . Zoë D. . The political context for personal empowerment: continuing the conversation . . 66 . 11–12 . 758–763 . 10.1007/s11199-012-0150-6 . June 2012 . 144130039 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Lustig . Kara . Graling . Kelly . The use and misuse of pleasure in sex education curricula . Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning . 13 . 3 . 305–318 . 10.1080/14681811.2012.738604 . May 2013 . 145512187 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Graling . Kelly . Wheeler . Emily E. . 'Pole-arized' discourse: an analysis of responses to Miley Cyrus's Teen Choice Awards pole dance . . 23 . 2 . 163–183 . 10.1177/0959353512472482 . May 2013 . 145604953 .
• Lamb . Sharon . Just the facts? The separation of sex education from moral education . Educational Theory . 63 . 5 . 443–460 . 10.1111/edth.12034 . October 2013 .
• Lamb, S. & Plocha, A. (2015) Pride, shame, and sexiness: Girls of color discuss race, body image, and sexualization. Girlhood Studies, 8(2), 86–102. DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2015.080207
• Randazzo, R., Farmer, K., & Lamb, S. (2015). Queer women's perspectives on sexualization in media. Journal of Bisexuality, 15(1), 1-31. DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2014.986315
• Lamb, S., Farmer, K., Kosterina, E., Lambe Sarinana, S., Plocha, A., & Randazzo, R. (2015). What's sexy? Adolescent girls discuss confidence, danger, and media influence. Gender & Education, 28(4), 527-545. DOI:10.1080/09540253.2015.1107528
• Lamb, S., & Randazzo, R. (2016). An examination of the effectiveness of a sexual ethics curriculum. Journal of Moral Education. DOI: 10.1080/03057240.2016.1156520
• Lamb, S., & Randazzo, R. (2016.) Sex education as a form of civics education in a neoliberal context. Curriculum Inquiry, 46(2), 148–167. DOI:10.1080/03626784.2016.1144465
• Lamb, S., & Brodt, M. (2017). Sexual ethics curriculum evaluation: A buzzing, blooming, confusion in the classroom. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage Press. DOI: 10.4135/9781473970670
• Lamb, S., Kosterina, E., Roberts, T., Brodt, M., Maroney, M. & Dangler, L. (2017). Voices of the mind: Hegemonic masculinity and others in mind during young men's sexual encounters. Men & Masculinities. DOI:10.1177/1097184X17695038
• Gable, S., Lamb, S., Brodt, M., & Attwell, L. (2017). Intervening in a ‘sketchy situation’: Exploring the moral motivations of college bystanders of sexual assault. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. DOI: 10.1177/0886260517730027

External links

• Profile page: Sharon Lamb University of Massachusetts Boston
• Sharon Lamb (personal website)
• Sexual Ethics Curriculum by Sharon Lamb (online course)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lamb, Sharon . Library of Congress . 10 July 2014 . New versions of victims, 1999: CIP t.p. (Sharon Lamb) data sheet (b. 09-11-55).
2. Web site: Faculty & staff: Sharon Lamb, EdD . University of Massachusetts Boston . 10 July 2014 . 23 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181023091805/https://www.umb.edu/academics/cehd/faculty/sharon_lamb . dead .
3. Web site: Society for the psychology of women: division 35 fellows: current fellows . American Psychological Association (APA) . 3 November 2015 .
4. Web site: Editorial board: Sexualization, Media, and Society. SAGE. 4 January 2016. 2015-10-27.
5. Lamb . Sharon . Zurbriggen . Eileen L. . Collins . Rebecca L. . Roberts . Tomi-Ann . Tolman . Deborah L. . Ward . L. Monique . Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls . American Psychological Association (APA) . 2007 .
6. Web site: Silverstein . Melissa . Spark summit – speaking out against the sexualization of girls . Women and Hollywood . 10 July 2014 . 20 October 2010 . 14 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190023/http://womenandhollywood.com/2010/10/20/spark-summit-speaking-out-against-the-sexualization-of-girls/ . dead .
7. Web site: Sharon Lamb . Sharon Lamb . 10 July 2014 .
8. Web site: 2006 Books For A Better Life Awards Winners . Book reporter . 10 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923193628/http://www.bookreporter.com.asp1-14.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com/features/awards-books-better-life.asp#2006_winners . 23 September 2015 .
9. Book: Lamb . Sharon . Brown . Lyn Mikel . Lyn Mikel Brown . Packaging Girlhood: rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes . St. Martin's Griffin . New York . 2007 . 9780312370053 . registration .
10. Web site: 2008 SSTAR Health Professional Book Award . Society for Sex Therapy and Research . 10 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924105326/http://www.sstarnet.org/CMS/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Health%20Professional%20Book%20Award%20Winner(2).pdf . 24 September 2015 .
11. Book: Lamb, Sharon . Sex, therapy, and kids: addressing their concerns through talk and play . W.W. Norton & Co . New York . 2006 . 9780393704792 .
12. Web site: New Civics Initiative Grants. The Spencer Foundation. 10 July 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714205001/http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/the-new-civics-research-grant-list. 14 July 2014.