TALKS

Peer-Reviewed Presentations – Recent and Upcoming

Kumaria, S., Byers, D. S., McCarthy, K. M., Moedano, C. (2021, October). Building caring and accountable campus environments: Confronting the limits of bystander theory. [Oral Presentation/ Panel]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Orlando, FL.

Byers, D. S., Vider, S., Smith, A. (2019, October). Emergent understandings of LGBTQ+ affirmative care at the Eromin Center, Philadelphia, 1973-1983. [Oral Presentation/Panel]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Denver, CO.

Slates, S., Moedano, C, Byers, D. S., Garran, A. M. (2019, October). Inclusion means changing: Supporting first-generation students in MSW programs. [Oral Presentation/Panel]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Denver, CO.​

Byers, D. S., Moss, T., Sousa, C., Gonzalez Benson, O., Husain, A. (January 2019). Translation within international qualitative inquiry: Power, positionality, and creation of meaning. [Roundtable]. Society for Social Work Research (SSWR), Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.​

Byers, D. S., McInroy, L. B., Craig, S. L., Kattari, S. K., Slates, S. (November 2018). Naming and addressing homophobic and transphobic microaggressions in social work education. [Oral Presentation/Panel]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Orlando, FL.​

Byers, D. S. (January, 2018). Public shaming and moral narcissism: Community justice among bystanders of peer aggression. [Oral Presentation]. Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), Annual Conference, Washington, DC. ​

Byers, D. S., Fareed, A., Berzoff, J., Kokaliari, E., Hreish, K. (January, 2018). Too close for comfort: Palestinian students grounding clinical conceptualization in community trauma. [Oral Presentation]. Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), Annual Conference, Washington, DC. ​

Byers, D. S., Redmond, M., Garran, A. M. (October, 2017). I’m entitled to my opinion: Ethics education in an “alternative facts” era. [Oral Presentation/Panel]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Dallas, TX.

Alessi, E. J., Byers, D. S., Harris-Jackson, T., Craig, S. L. (October, 2017). Practical tools for teaching affirmative practice during the current political climate [Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (CSOGIE) Connect Session Oral Presentation/Panel]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Dallas, TX.​

Byers, D. S. (October, 2016) Staying in their lane: White students learning to (not) help across difference. [Poster]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Byers, D. S., Vider, S., Rose, D., Hernandez, J., Rothenberg, L. (October, 2015). Clinical activism in LGBT depathologization: Social work’s historical and ongoing role. [Poster]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Denver, CO. 

Byers, D. S., Kokaliari, E., Fareed, A., Hreish, K., Berzoff, J. (January, 2015). Social work in the West Bank: The Palestinian student perspective. [Oral Presentation]. Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA

Byers, D. S., Berzoff, J., Kokaliari, E. (October, 2014). Clinical social work education in the West Bank: An exploratory study. [Oral Presentation]. Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Tampa, FL.

Byers, D. S. (November, 2013). Relational cross-cultural pedagogy in the West Bank. [Oral Presentation]. On panel: Byers, D. Corbin, J., Berzoff, J., Teaching globally, thinking critically: Co-constructing knowledge through difference, Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Annual Program Meeting, Dallas, TX.

Byers, D. S. (May, 2013). Feelings from home: A case study within a case study of intercultural transference and countertransference. [Oral Presentation]. Ninth Annual International Congress of Qualitative Research, Champaign-Urbana, IL.

Drisko, J., the Greater Boston Hospital Social Work Administrators Group, & Byers, D. S. (April, 2012). Unspoken truths: What do social workers really do in hospitals? [Oral Presentation]. Massachusetts NASW Symposium, Framingham, MA

Invited Presentations – Recent and Upcoming

Byers, D. S. (January 15, 2021). Ethical reflexivity for anti-racist and anti-oppressive social work practice. Lecture by Zoom for Rutgers University School of Social Work.

Byers, D. S. (November 15, 2019). The ethics of stigmatized care: Clinical activism in theory-to-practice gaps among social workers and students. Lecture at Binghamton University, Department of Social Work, Binghamton, NY.

Byers, D. S. (September 22, 2018). Clinical activism and the ethics of care in precarity: Field supervision of social work students in the West Bank. Presentation for the Center for Family Wellbeing at Bryn Mawr College.

Byers, D. S. (November 30, 2017). Bullying and cyberbullying in emerging adulthood: Learning from college students who try to help targeted peers. Presentation for student affairs staff at Bryn Mawr College.

​Byers, D. S. (November 29, 2017). Transnational perspectives on bullying and cyberbullying. Presentation as part of a panel organized by Carolina Haussman-Stabile: Globalization and its impact on mental health, education, and social justice services in the United States and Chile. Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. ​

Byers, D. S. (July 21, 2017). Community-based trauma exposure and clinical supervision: A Palestinian case study. Lecture for the 2017 Annual Field Conference, Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, MA.

Byers, D. S. (December 5, 2016). Learning from adolescents and young adults who try to help targeted peers. Lecture for the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work, Seattle University, Seattle, WA.​

Byers, D. S. (June 28, 2016). Supporting peer bystanders of bullying and cyberbullying. Presentation for an invited panel: Cyberbullying and Beyond: The Role of Online Spaces in Spreading Violence and Victimization. Inaugural Community and School Violence Prevention Symposium, University of Connecticut School of Social Work, Hartford, CT.

Byers, D. S. (November 14, 2014). Implications of DSM-5 in clinical social work education. Lecture at Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto.

Byers, D. S. (March 3, 2014). DSM-5 across the social work curriculum: Conceptual and practical considerations. Invited lecture for the faculty of Simmons College School for Social Work.

Byers, D. S. (February 21, 2014). DSM-5 across the social work curriculum: Conceptual and practical considerations. Invited lecture for the Winter faculty meeting at Smith College School for Social Work.

Byers, D. S. (October, 2012, multiple dates). Ongoing psychosocial assessment with individuals. A mini-course about theories of biopsychosocial assessment, presented several times as a visiting lecturer at Al-Quds University.

Byers, D. S. (October, 2012, multiple dates). The clinical case study in social work practice. A mini-course about the forms and uses of written and presented clinical case studies, presented as a visiting lecturer at Al-Quds University.

Byers, D. S. (October 14, 2010). LGBT youth: Does bullying contribute to suicide risk? Presented at the Brown Bag Series at Wentworth Institute of Technology.