PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Vartanian, T., Byers, D. S., Shapiro, J., Solo, C. (In Press). The effects of relative income deprivation and low income on adult mental health. Journal of the Society of Social Work and Social Research.

Kumaria, S., Byers, D. S., McCarthy, K., & Moedano, C. (2023). Social identity as a factor in bystander responses to bias-based verbal aggression among college students. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 32(10), 1393-1411. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2023.2204844

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, E. (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

Byers, D. S. & Fareed, A. (2024). Should life in refugee camps feel ‘normal?’: The ethical stakes of social work among displaced Palestinians. In L. V. McLaughlin & C. Robbins (Eds.). Tania El Khoury’s live art: Collaborative knowledge production. Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12867752

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 (5th 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