PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Byers, D. S., Fareed, A., & Hreish, K. (2022). The vernacular ethics of stigmatized care: Reinterpreting acceptance and confidentiality for social work in the West Bank, Palestine. Social Service Review, 96(1), 73-109.  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/718581

Byers, D. S. & Cerulli, M. (2021). Staying in their own lane: Ethical reasoning among college students witnessing cyberbullying. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 14(4), 508-518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000180

Byers, D. S., Mishna, F., Solo, C. (2021) Clinical practice with children and adolescents involved with bullying and cyberbullying: Gleaning guidelines from the literature. Clinical Social Work Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-019-00713-3

Byers, D. S., McInroy, L. B., Craig, S. L., Slates, S., Kattari, S. K. (2020). Naming and addressing homophobic and transphobic microaggressions in social work classrooms. Journal of Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2019.1656688 

Byers, D. S., Vider, S., Smith, A. (2019). Clinical activism in community-based practice: The case of LGBT affirmative care at the Eromin Center, Philadelphia, 1973-1984. American Psychologist, 74(8), 868-881. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000523

Byers, D. S. & Shapiro, J. R. (2019). Renewing the ethics of care for social work under the Trump administration. Social Work, 64(2), 175-180.  https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swz008

Byers, D. S., Coburn, J., Hurvitz-Prinz, A., & Hustead, P. (2017). Learning together: A dialogue on collaborative MSW thesis advising. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 87 (4), 345-349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2017.1372662

Hreish, K., Okkeh, M., Fareed, A. J., Byers, D. S. (2017). Attitudes among young adults in Palestine about peers with substance use problems: Challenges and opportunities for community intervention design. International Social Work. 62(2), 726-740. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872817743562

Byers, D. S. (2016). Recognition of social pain among peers: Rethinking the role of bystanders in bullying and cyberbullying. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 86(4), 335-354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2016.1222771

Kokaliari, E., Berzoff, J., Byers, D. S., Fareed, A., Berzoff-Cohen, J., & Hreish, K. (2016). Teaching clinical social work under occupation: Listening to the voices of Palestinian social work students. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 36(2), 140-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2016.1142490

Byers, D. S. (2013). “Do they see nothing wrong with this?”: Bullying, bystander complicity, and the role of homophobic bias in the Tyler Clementi case. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, (94)4, 251-258. https://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.4325

Book Chapters

Hertz, P., Flanagan, L. M., Byers, D. S., Berzoff, J. (2021). The bridge: From theory to practice. In J. Berzoff, L. M. Flanagan, & P. Hertz (Eds.). Inside out and outside in: Psychodynamic clinical theory and psychopathology in contemporary multicultural contexts (5^th ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Byers, D. S., Thigpen, K. Z., & Wolfson, S. (2019). Working with LGBTQIA+ clients in the context of trauma, with a focus on transgender experience. In S. Ringel & J. Brandell (Eds.). Trauma: Contemporary Directions in Theory, Practice, and Research (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Byers, D. S. (2016). DSM-5 and the role of descriptive diagnosis. In J. Berzoff, L. M.  Flanagan, & P. Hertz (Eds.). Inside out and outside in: Psychodynamic clinical theory and psychopathology in contemporary multicultural contexts (4th ed.) (pp. 318-329). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Popular Writing

Vider, S. & Byers, D. S. (2021, June 5). A Supreme Court case poses a threat to LGBTQ foster kids. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/Supreme-Court-LGBTQ-foster.html

Vider, S. & Byers, D. S. (2015, December 10). Queer homeless youth, queer activism in transition. Slate.  http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/12/10/queer_homeless_youth_need_lgbtq_activists_to_fight_for_them.html#comments

Byers, D. S. & Coburn, J. (2015, August 28). The APA issued “aspirational” guidelines for transgender care. What can they accomplish? Slate.  http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/08/28/new_apa_guidelines_for_transgender_care_do_they_go_far_enough.htm

Vider, S. & Byers, D. S. (2015, February 18). The Fosters explores the fear and possibility of queer childhood. Slate.  http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/02/18/the_fosters_on_abc_family_presents_a_fresh_look_at_queer_childhood.html

Vider, S. & Byers, D. S. (2015, February 12). A half-century of conflict over attempts to “cure” gay people: The history of treatment of homosexuality shows that psychiatry may need a cure of its own. Time.  http://time.com/3705745/history-therapy-hadden/

Book Reviews

Byers, D. S. (2019). A queer ethic of conflict and the challenge of friendship (Review of S. Schulman’s Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair). GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7275716

Byers, D. S. (2017). M. Crastnopol: Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury. Psychoanalytic Social Work. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15228878.2017.1342550

Byers, D. S. (2015). Two new books rethinking antiracist intragroup and intergroup dialogue. Smith College Studies in Social Work. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2015.1066610

Byers, D. S. (2013). N. Yanay: The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse. Smith College Studies in Social Work. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2013.802197

Byers, D. S. (2013). RL Lucente: Character Formation and Identity in Adolescence: Clinical and Developmental Issues. Families in society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services. 

Byers, D. S. (2012). W. Feigelman, JR Jordan, JL McIntosh, and B. Feigelman: Devastating Losses—How Parents Cope with the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs. Clinical Social Work Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-012-0431-0