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Selected Writings on Child Development and Psychology

Dr. Carolyn Newberger's professional writings have appeared in professional journals, books, popular magazines, and newspapers. Her writings include work on parental conceptions and development as well as 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. For an Oprah Scoop that included Carolyn’s commentary on sexual abuse, please click here please click here:

• Parental Conceptions of Children and Child Rearing: A Structural-Developmental Analysis –Doctoral Thesis written by Carolyn Moore Newberger 1977 (pdf)
  
• Parental Awareness Scoring Manual


• 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)
• Journal of Religion and Abuse, Haworth Pastoral Press, volume 5 Number 3, 2003, pages 35 – 41. The Sexual Abuse Crisis: What Have We Learned? A Response to Archbishop Harry J. Flynn(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 5, 1997, Secrets and Lies: Bettleheim's Misuses of Enchantment - Book Review of The Creation of Dr. B by Richard Pollak (pdf)
• 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)
• McCalls, May, 1991, Surviving Sexual Abuse: How to The Children Fare? (pdf)
• Amer. J. Orthopsychiat. 58(4), 1988. Abuse and Victimization: A Life-Span Developmental Perspective
• Boston Globe, February 15, 1990, Long-term benefits for children who testify in abuse cases (pdf)
• Child Maltreatment: Theory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect. Cambridge University Press, 1989 pages 302-316. Cognitive foundations for parental care (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
• Amer. J. Orthopsychiat. 53(3), July 1983. Parental Awareness And Child Abuse: A Cognitive-Developmental Analysis of Urban and Rural Samples (pdf)
• Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 22, 3:262-268, 1983. Child Abuse: The Current Theory Base and Future Research Needs (pdf)
• Child Abuse, Eli Newberger, Boston: Little, Brown, 1982 Psychology and Child Abuse
• Journal Of Preventive Psychiatry ,Volume 1, Number 4,1982 pp. 443-451 Prevention of Child Abuse: Theory, Myth, Practice (pdf)
• New Directions for Child Development, 7, 1980, pp.45-66 The Cognitive Structure of Parenthood: Designing a Descriptive Measure (pdf)
• 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)
• March, 2009, The Light at the End of the Dock (pdf)
• March, 2009, Oasis (pdf)
• October, 2009, Revelations (pdf)

Contact Carolyn for more information about her writings.