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• Exploring Child Development: Risk and Opportunity, A Student Study Guide. Wadsworth Press: Belmont, CA, 1994.
• Play's Place in Public Education for Young Children. National Education Association: Washington, D.C., 1992.
  
• Early Childhood At Risk: Actions and Advocacy for Young Children. National Education Association: Washington D.C., 1989.
  
• The Feeling Child: Affective Development Reconsidered, N. Curry, ed. "Helping Children in Times of Trouble and Crisis." Haworth Press: New York, NY, 1986.

• "Helping Migrant Families Give their Children an Even Start toward School Success: A Case Study of One Rural Florida Community's Efforts." AECI 2001 Theme Issue, August 2001, on
• "Nontraditional Educational Settings."

• "Thinking about Transformation: A Counselor Educator and an Artist Speak of Creativity, Art and Therapeutic Change," with Sheila Elias. The Journal of Humanistic Education and Development
• "Wounds Need Healing after Elian Leaves," A featured Letter to the Editor, Ft. Myers News-Press, 7/7/2000.
  
• Ft. Myers News-Press Featured Article on Education, "Students Get Dose of Diversity, 6/29/2000.
  
• "East Meets West: Dialogues and Divergence," an exploration recent books on Eastern and Western meantal health theorists and practitioners, particularly in traditions of psychoanalysis and Buddhism, written with Fred Eppsteiner, M.S.W. A lead article developed for the journal READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, American Orthopsychiatric Society, 15(1), March 2000.
  
• "Collaborating for Child Care in Times of Change" with Marjorie Wilson, Ed.D., Children Our Concern March 2000.
  
• "Every Faction Must be Heard," A featured Letter to the Editor on the Bonita Springs Mayoral Election, Ft. Myers News-Press, 4/16/2000.
• Letter to Atlantic Monthly in response to article "Betty Friedan,: pp. 14-15, January 2000- issue.
  
• Book review on Creating Competence from Chaos: A Comprehensive Guide to Home-based Services by Marion Lindblad-Goldberg et al. for the journal READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, American Orthopsychiatric Society. V. 14 (3), p. 25, September 1999.
  
• "Community Help Needed by Suncoast: Today's Featured Letter to the Editor," Ft. Myers News-Press, October 8, 1999, p. 6B.
  
• Book review on Strengthening Family Resilience by Froma Walsh for the journal READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, American Orthopsychiatric Society. V. 14 (2), p.25, June 1999.
• "Forgiveness, Then Healing: Today's Featured Letter to the Editor," Ft. Myers News-Press, January 21, 1999, p. 20A.
  
• "Domestic Violence Shame of Lee," a featured article in the "Insight" section in the Sunday edition of the Ft. Myers News-Press, December 13, 1998, p. 6B.
  
• "Scoopers, Spreaders, Sliders and Synchophants, the County and CRAs," an article in the "Insight" section in the Sunday edition of the Ft. Myers News-Press, Mjuly 20, 1998, p. 13A.
  
• "Model for Meeting our Multicultural Challenges," a guest opinion in the Ft. Myers News-Press, March 8, 1998, p. 4B.
  
• "Chaos Theory and Campus Child Care: A Case Study on the Evolving Family Resource Center at Florida Gulf Coast University" with Karen VanderVen and Marci Greene. National Forum of Educational Administration and Supervision, 15 (2), 1998.
  
• "Time Out Means Talking It Out Too," an Insight column in the Ft. Myers News-Press, November 3, 1996, p. 36A.
  
• "South Pointe: Apples versus Oranges," Miami Herald, Editorial Page (10A), August 29, 1994.
  
• "Transatlantic Learnings" with Angelina Bartoli, National Children's Homes of Great Britain, Journal of Child and Youth Care Workers, Spring 1994, pp 72-80.
  
• "A Conversation with Christopher Schenk: Trends in Early Childhood Education, United States and United Kingdom," Childhood Education, 69 (3), Spring 1993.
  
• "Living with Parents Every Day of the Year," Day Care and Early Education, 20 (1) Fall 1992 issue.
• "Caring for Crack Babies: Issues, Policies and Programs in One U.S. County," for the Congress Proceedings of Federation International Communatives Educatives 1992 Luxembourg Presentation. pp. 104-120.
  
• Book review on No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care for the journal READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, 7 (4) December 1992,
  American Orthopsychiatric Society. Book review of Early Literacy by McLane and McNamee for READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, V. 5 (4) December 1990,
  American Orthopsychiatric Society.
• "Intervention for Children at Risk: The Teacher as Change Agent in Classrooms and in Society." Child and Youth Care Administration, 3 (1) Fall 1990.
  
• "Tailor Your Testimony." Young Children, 45 (6) September 1990, p.3.
  
• Monthly columns in Women & Mothers: The Working Newsletter for Business Women & Mothers: September 1990: "Dual Career Challenge: 1990 and Beyond"; August 1990: "Lifelong Loving= Lifelong Caring: Burdens of Caregiving at Each End of the Life Cycle"; June 1990: "Forging Ahead to the Year 2000".
  
• "Roger and Me," New York Times: Letter to Editor, March 26, 1990.
  
• "Holidays, Holy Days or Wholly-dazed: Contrasting Approaches to the Use of "Special Days" In Early Childhood Curriculum," Young Children, Fall 1989.
  
• "Helping Children in Times of Trouble and Crisis," Children in Contemporary Society, 17 (4), Spring 1986.
• "Child's Play: The Best Way to Acquire Skills," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 29, 1985.
  
• "A Call to Action," Young Children, 40 (1), November 1984.
  
• "Crosscultural Perspectives on Childrearing and Child Care," International Content for Teacher Education, Ohio State University, Fall 1984.
  
• "Seeing Me, Being Me, Becoming the Me I Want To Be: The Import of the Dream in Identity Formation in Women's Early Adult Years," Women & Therapy, 3 (3), Winter 1984.
  
• "Evaluating and Improving Campus Child Care: A Case Study," Child Care Quarterly, 13 (3), 1984.
  
• "Questions and Answers about Improving Physical Environments for Young Children," Child Care Quarterly, 12 (3), Fall 1983.
  
• "Designing and Assessing Day Care Environments in Hospital Setting," with Mary Ann Hvizdos, Day Care And Early Education, Winter 1982.
  
• "Understanding and Combatting Stress in Family Day Care," The Journal of Child Care, 1 (1), September 1982.
• "A Biographical Study of the Psychosocial Development Issues in the Lives of Six Female Psychotherapists in Their Thirties," Women & Therapy, 1 (1), Spring 1982.

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