Selected Writings on Child Development and Psychology
Dr. Carolyn Newberger's professional writings have appeared in professional
journals, books, popular magazines, and newspapers, and include analyses
of the state of American children, research reports on studies of children
that have been abused, and commentary on issues leading to and deriving
from the abuses of children. She has also appeared widely on local and
national television, including two appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
- Community Planning to Foster Resilience
in Children, Clauss-Ehlers. CS and Weist, MD, eds, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2004: 197-215. Clinical
and Institutional Interventions and Children's Resilience and Recovery
from Sexual Abuse (pdf)
- Journal of Religion and Abuse, Haworth Pastoral Press, volume 5 Number
3, 2003, pages 35 – 41 and 67-74. The
Sexual Abuse Crisis: What Have We Learned and What Issues Do We Still
Have to Face? (pdf)
- Amer. J. Orthopsychiat., 63(1), January 1993, 92-101. Mothers
of Sexually Abused Children: Trauma and Repair in Longitudinal Perspective
- Boston Globe, January 28, 1996, Book
Review of It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us by
Hillary Rodham Clinton (pdf)
- Boston Globe, October 3, 1996, Special
Child, Future Luxury - Book Review of Life As We Know It: A Father,
a Family, and an Exceptional Child by Michael Berube (pdf)
- Boston Globe, October 22, 1995, In Quarantine
with Fatigue and Resignation - Book Review of Amazing Grace: The Lives
of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol (pdf)
- Boston Globe, January 5, 1997, Secrets
and Lies: Bettleheim's Misuses of Enchantment - Book Review of The Creation
of Dr. B by Richard Pollak (pdf)
- Sexual Exploitation of Patients By Health Professionals, A.W. Burgess & C.R.
Hartman, editors, New York: Praeger, 1986, 99-106. When
the Pediatrician Is a Pedophile
- Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 22, 3:262-268,
1983. Child
Abuse: The Current Theory Base and Future Research Needs
- The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly - Health and Society, Vol. 54, No.
3, Summer 1976, 249-298. Child
Health in America: Toward a Rational Public Policy
Essays and Memoirs
These writings have flowed from Carolyn's personal experiences and reflections. They often concern experiences and events that illuminate larger issues in all our lives, such as generativity, our own and our loved one's aging, and the passions and perils of relationships. Told with humor and a light touch, these stories often evoke laughter through tears.
- June, 1996, Tap Dance Days (pdf)
- Boston Globe, June 9, 1996, It's Reunion
Time (pdf)
- November, 2002, An Old Dress (pdf)
- January, 2004, Options (pdf)
- February, 2005, Hidden Treasure (pdf)
- January, 2006, For the Moment (pdf)
Contact Carolyn for more information about her writings.
