Beverly Greene
Biographic Data
| ID | 4490283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly Greene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly |
| FAMILY NAME | Greene |
| SIGNATURE | GREENE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ruth Hall (1948–2023)
Ruth Hall, born on June 7, 1948, grew up in Painesville, Ohio and died after a prolonged illness on June 22, 2023. Ruth was a clinician, a university professor, and a scholar. In each role, she advocated for inclusion and diversity. Her scholarship addressed mental health issues of women of color, and she was very frequently invited to consult and provide diversity training to varied groups. Ruth had a lifelong interest in exercise and athletics.…
Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World
The use and abuse of religious beliefs in dividing and conquering between socially marginalized groups
This article discusses the use and abuse of religious beliefs and their role in divide-and-conquer strategies. Divide-and-conquer strategies are engaged to disrupt potential coalitions between and among marginalized group members, specifically sexual minority groups and people of color. Tensions between these groups have been exacerbated by the debate on same-sex marriage and comparisons between the discriminatory treatment of each group. A compo…
Riding Trojan Horses from Symbolism to Structural Change
Against the backdrop of the historical 2008 presidential election, I discuss the ways that the election of marginalized group members to public office can be used to silence the discourse on the social marginalization of group members and to remove these analyses from their appropriate context. I emphasize the need to materialize alternatives to the dominant cultural narrative as one way of contextualizing the behavior of marginalized group membe…
Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identities
I began this issue with the premise that family members are often the first people we know who are members of our ethnic group. It is family who are often the first bearers of the culture that we c
A Minyan of Women
The use and abuse of religious beliefs in dividing and conquering between socially marginalized groups
This article discusses the use and abuse of religious beliefs and their role in divide-and-conquer strategies. Divide-and-conquer strategies are engaged to disrupt potential coalitions between and among marginalized group members, specifically sexual minority groups and people of color. Tensions between these groups have been exacerbated by the debate on same-sex marriage and comparisons between the discriminatory treatment of each group. A compo…
Multicultural Feminist Therapy
Psychological theory needs to be representative of the full range of human experience by being based in the experience of all groups of people. The women honored in this chapter, Jean Lau Chin, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Oliva Espin, Beverly Greene, and Monica McGoldrick, are all feminist therapists, researchers, scholars, clinicians and writers who have directed some substantial portion of their professional attention toward understanding the critical …
African American Lesbians and Other Culturally Diverse People in Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
The treatment of African American lesbians and other culturally diverse people in psychodynamic psychotherapies has been challenged as inappropriate. The Eurocentric, sexist, and heterocentric origins of these therapies have been viewed as intrinsically insensitive to the unique needs of diverse group members. Moreover, they have been viewed as pathologizing of nondominant cultural values and behaviors, while legitimizing the social pathologies o…
Not Any One Thing
The complex legacy of social class on African American lesbians in relationships was examined using a case study approach. Six highly educated, middle class African American lesbians in their mid-thirties to mid-fifties were interviewed in this exploratory study. Differences in social class were perceived as the reason for the conflict in these relationships. Conversely, similarities in social class were described as making relationships operate …
African American Lesbian and Bisexual Women
This article explores the convergence of racism, sexism, and heterosexism in the lives of African American women, particularly lesbian and bisexual women, and its effects on the development of their sexuality and sexual identity. Specifics of this discussion focus on African American women, however, the struggles reflected in their development of a personal identity exemplify the kinds of struggles that most women of color encounter. These strugg…
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity among Lesbians and Gay Men
Ethnic and cultural diversity among lesbians and gay men
Frontnote - James Baldwin Native Gay and Lesbian Issues - Terry Tafoya The Two Spirited A National Survey of the Intimate Relationships of African-American Lesbians and Gay Men - Letitia Anne Peplau, Susan D Cochran and Vickie M Mays A Look at Commitment, Satisfaction, Sexual Behavior and HIV Disease Leaving the Confederate Closet - Bonnie Ruth Strickland Female, Lesbian and Jewish - Sari H Dworkin Complex and Invisible From Apartheid to Mandela'…
Psychotherapy with African American women
African American women live and develop in the context of many diverse individual realties and societal circumstances that may challenge or facilitate their optimal development. These interrelated realities are but a few of those which serve as the crucible in which psychotherapy with African American women takes place. A discussion of the salient factors that must be considered in the culturally literate and competent delivery of psychological s…
Lesbians and Gay Men of Color
Lesbian Women of Color
(1996). Lesbian Women of Color. Journal of Lesbian Studies: Vol. 1, Classics in Lesbian Studies Part I, pp. 109-147
Sins of Omission and Commission
No abstract available for this article
African American Lesbian Couples
African Americans are a marginalized group in American society as are women and lesbians. African American lesbians are marginalized even in the broader gay and lesbian community. Their devalued position in the social hierarchy gives rise to a condition referred to as the ''triple jeopardy.'' They are objects of racial, gender, and heterosexist institutional oppression. As a result of these circumstances, African American lesbians face a range of…
Aids, Identity, and Community
Hit hard by the AIDS epidemic in the United States and in much of Europe, the gay and lesbian community has been forced to examine existing notions of what it means to belong to a community based on sexual orientation. The editors of this second volume in the annual series on Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Issues have collected a perceptive array of chapters that explore sexual behavior, personal identity, and community memberships…
Cultural Competence in Feminist Family Therapy
In recent years African American families have assumed a higher level of visibility among consumers of psychological services. Despite this they are often reluctant consumers with a history of insensitive treatment from mental health institutions. Many African American men and women are also wary of feminism. These factors may leave the feminist family therapist with unique challenges in providing treatment to African American families. This arti…
Lesbian and Gay Psychology
Ethnic-minority lesbians and gay men
Clinical psychological research has been a part of a significant growth of scholarly literature in mental health that appropriately explores relevant cultural variables and their effects on both the mental health and treatment of ethnic minority group members. A similar expansion of material seeking to develop affirmative perspectives in the treatment of gay men and lesbians has also found its way into the psychological literature. Scarcely any r…
The Abused and Neglected Foster Child
Behavioral and emotional problems have been observed in emotionally vulnerable children in foster care under certain circumstances. A common pattern involves the unpredictable appearance of a previously absent or unavailable natural parent. Such an occurrence precipitates the reawakening of the child’s ambivalent feelings toward both natural and foster parents as well as their fears of abandonment. This frequently leads to behavior that is opposi…
Teaching Ethics in Psychotherapy
No abstract available for this article
Sturdy Bridges
No abstract available for this article
Lesbian Women of Color
(1996). Lesbian Women of Color. Journal of Lesbian Studies: Vol. 1, Classics in Lesbian Studies Part I, pp. 109-147
What Has Gone Before
The role of mother is an important one for many Black women, and it is accompanied by tasks not shared by their white counterparts, specifically, racial socialization of Black children. It is important therefore that psychotherapists understand additional stressors brought to bear on Black women as mothers as well as the effect of those stressors on their parenting skills. This paper focuses on the legacy of adaptive strengths Black women have ex…
Sturdy Bridges
No abstract available for this article
African American Lesbian and Bisexual Women
This article explores the convergence of racism, sexism, and heterosexism in the lives of African American women, particularly lesbian and bisexual women, and its effects on the development of their sexuality and sexual identity. Specifics of this discussion focus on African American women, however, the struggles reflected in their development of a personal identity exemplify the kinds of struggles that most women of color encounter. These strugg…
When the Therapist is White and the Patient is Black
No abstract available for this article
Psychotherapy with African American women
African American women live and develop in the context of many diverse individual realties and societal circumstances that may challenge or facilitate their optimal development. These interrelated realities are but a few of those which serve as the crucible in which psychotherapy with African American women takes place. A discussion of the salient factors that must be considered in the culturally literate and competent delivery of psychological s…
African American Lesbian Couples
African Americans are a marginalized group in American society as are women and lesbians. African American lesbians are marginalized even in the broader gay and lesbian community. Their devalued position in the social hierarchy gives rise to a condition referred to as the ''triple jeopardy.'' They are objects of racial, gender, and heterosexist institutional oppression. As a result of these circumstances, African American lesbians face a range of…
The use and abuse of religious beliefs in dividing and conquering between socially marginalized groups
This article discusses the use and abuse of religious beliefs and their role in divide-and-conquer strategies. Divide-and-conquer strategies are engaged to disrupt potential coalitions between and among marginalized group members, specifically sexual minority groups and people of color. Tensions between these groups have been exacerbated by the debate on same-sex marriage and comparisons between the discriminatory treatment of each group. A compo…
Multicultural Feminist Therapy
Psychological theory needs to be representative of the full range of human experience by being based in the experience of all groups of people. The women honored in this chapter, Jean Lau Chin, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Oliva Espin, Beverly Greene, and Monica McGoldrick, are all feminist therapists, researchers, scholars, clinicians and writers who have directed some substantial portion of their professional attention toward understanding the critical …
Sins of Omission and Commission
No abstract available for this article
Teaching Ethics in Psychotherapy
No abstract available for this article
Riding Trojan Horses from Symbolism to Structural Change
Against the backdrop of the historical 2008 presidential election, I discuss the ways that the election of marginalized group members to public office can be used to silence the discourse on the social marginalization of group members and to remove these analyses from their appropriate context. I emphasize the need to materialize alternatives to the dominant cultural narrative as one way of contextualizing the behavior of marginalized group membe…
Not Any One Thing
The complex legacy of social class on African American lesbians in relationships was examined using a case study approach. Six highly educated, middle class African American lesbians in their mid-thirties to mid-fifties were interviewed in this exploratory study. Differences in social class were perceived as the reason for the conflict in these relationships. Conversely, similarities in social class were described as making relationships operate …
Cultural Competence in Feminist Family Therapy
In recent years African American families have assumed a higher level of visibility among consumers of psychological services. Despite this they are often reluctant consumers with a history of insensitive treatment from mental health institutions. Many African American men and women are also wary of feminism. These factors may leave the feminist family therapist with unique challenges in providing treatment to African American families. This arti…
The use and abuse of religious beliefs in dividing and conquering between socially marginalized groups
This article discusses the use and abuse of religious beliefs and their role in divide-and-conquer strategies. Divide-and-conquer strategies are engaged to disrupt potential coalitions between and among marginalized group members, specifically sexual minority groups and people of color. Tensions between these groups have been exacerbated by the debate on same-sex marriage and comparisons between the discriminatory treatment of each group. A compo…
Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identities
I began this issue with the premise that family members are often the first people we know who are members of our ethnic group. It is family who are often the first bearers of the culture that we c
A Minyan of Women
African American Lesbians and Other Culturally Diverse People in Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
The treatment of African American lesbians and other culturally diverse people in psychodynamic psychotherapies has been challenged as inappropriate. The Eurocentric, sexist, and heterocentric origins of these therapies have been viewed as intrinsically insensitive to the unique needs of diverse group members. Moreover, they have been viewed as pathologizing of nondominant cultural values and behaviors, while legitimizing the social pathologies o…
When the Therapist is White and the Patient is Black
No abstract available for this article
Sturdy Bridges
No abstract available for this article
What Has Gone Before
The role of mother is an important one for many Black women, and it is accompanied by tasks not shared by their white counterparts, specifically, racial socialization of Black children. It is important therefore that psychotherapists understand additional stressors brought to bear on Black women as mothers as well as the effect of those stressors on their parenting skills. This paper focuses on the legacy of adaptive strengths Black women have ex…
Lesbian and Gay Psychology
Ethnic-minority lesbians and gay men
Clinical psychological research has been a part of a significant growth of scholarly literature in mental health that appropriately explores relevant cultural variables and their effects on both the mental health and treatment of ethnic minority group members. A similar expansion of material seeking to develop affirmative perspectives in the treatment of gay men and lesbians has also found its way into the psychological literature. Scarcely any r…
The Abused and Neglected Foster Child
Behavioral and emotional problems have been observed in emotionally vulnerable children in foster care under certain circumstances. A common pattern involves the unpredictable appearance of a previously absent or unavailable natural parent. Such an occurrence precipitates the reawakening of the child’s ambivalent feelings toward both natural and foster parents as well as their fears of abandonment. This frequently leads to behavior that is opposi…
Teaching Ethics in Psychotherapy
No abstract available for this article
Aids, Identity, and Community
Hit hard by the AIDS epidemic in the United States and in much of Europe, the gay and lesbian community has been forced to examine existing notions of what it means to belong to a community based on sexual orientation. The editors of this second volume in the annual series on Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Issues have collected a perceptive array of chapters that explore sexual behavior, personal identity, and community memberships…
Cultural Competence in Feminist Family Therapy
In recent years African American families have assumed a higher level of visibility among consumers of psychological services. Despite this they are often reluctant consumers with a history of insensitive treatment from mental health institutions. Many African American men and women are also wary of feminism. These factors may leave the feminist family therapist with unique challenges in providing treatment to African American families. This arti…
Lesbians and Gay Men of Color
Lesbian Women of Color
(1996). Lesbian Women of Color. Journal of Lesbian Studies: Vol. 1, Classics in Lesbian Studies Part I, pp. 109-147
Sins of Omission and Commission
No abstract available for this article
African American Lesbian Couples
African Americans are a marginalized group in American society as are women and lesbians. African American lesbians are marginalized even in the broader gay and lesbian community. Their devalued position in the social hierarchy gives rise to a condition referred to as the ''triple jeopardy.'' They are objects of racial, gender, and heterosexist institutional oppression. As a result of these circumstances, African American lesbians face a range of…
Psychotherapy with African American women
African American women live and develop in the context of many diverse individual realties and societal circumstances that may challenge or facilitate their optimal development. These interrelated realities are but a few of those which serve as the crucible in which psychotherapy with African American women takes place. A discussion of the salient factors that must be considered in the culturally literate and competent delivery of psychological s…
Ethnic and cultural diversity among lesbians and gay men
Frontnote - James Baldwin Native Gay and Lesbian Issues - Terry Tafoya The Two Spirited A National Survey of the Intimate Relationships of African-American Lesbians and Gay Men - Letitia Anne Peplau, Susan D Cochran and Vickie M Mays A Look at Commitment, Satisfaction, Sexual Behavior and HIV Disease Leaving the Confederate Closet - Bonnie Ruth Strickland Female, Lesbian and Jewish - Sari H Dworkin Complex and Invisible From Apartheid to Mandela'…
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity among Lesbians and Gay Men
African American Lesbian and Bisexual Women
This article explores the convergence of racism, sexism, and heterosexism in the lives of African American women, particularly lesbian and bisexual women, and its effects on the development of their sexuality and sexual identity. Specifics of this discussion focus on African American women, however, the struggles reflected in their development of a personal identity exemplify the kinds of struggles that most women of color encounter. These strugg…
Not Any One Thing
The complex legacy of social class on African American lesbians in relationships was examined using a case study approach. Six highly educated, middle class African American lesbians in their mid-thirties to mid-fifties were interviewed in this exploratory study. Differences in social class were perceived as the reason for the conflict in these relationships. Conversely, similarities in social class were described as making relationships operate …
African American Lesbians and Other Culturally Diverse People in Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
The treatment of African American lesbians and other culturally diverse people in psychodynamic psychotherapies has been challenged as inappropriate. The Eurocentric, sexist, and heterocentric origins of these therapies have been viewed as intrinsically insensitive to the unique needs of diverse group members. Moreover, they have been viewed as pathologizing of nondominant cultural values and behaviors, while legitimizing the social pathologies o…
Multicultural Feminist Therapy
Psychological theory needs to be representative of the full range of human experience by being based in the experience of all groups of people. The women honored in this chapter, Jean Lau Chin, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Oliva Espin, Beverly Greene, and Monica McGoldrick, are all feminist therapists, researchers, scholars, clinicians and writers who have directed some substantial portion of their professional attention toward understanding the critical …
The use and abuse of religious beliefs in dividing and conquering between socially marginalized groups
This article discusses the use and abuse of religious beliefs and their role in divide-and-conquer strategies. Divide-and-conquer strategies are engaged to disrupt potential coalitions between and among marginalized group members, specifically sexual minority groups and people of color. Tensions between these groups have been exacerbated by the debate on same-sex marriage and comparisons between the discriminatory treatment of each group. A compo…
Riding Trojan Horses from Symbolism to Structural Change
Against the backdrop of the historical 2008 presidential election, I discuss the ways that the election of marginalized group members to public office can be used to silence the discourse on the social marginalization of group members and to remove these analyses from their appropriate context. I emphasize the need to materialize alternatives to the dominant cultural narrative as one way of contextualizing the behavior of marginalized group membe…
Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identities
I began this issue with the premise that family members are often the first people we know who are members of our ethnic group. It is family who are often the first bearers of the culture that we c
A Minyan of Women
The use and abuse of religious beliefs in dividing and conquering between socially marginalized groups
This article discusses the use and abuse of religious beliefs and their role in divide-and-conquer strategies. Divide-and-conquer strategies are engaged to disrupt potential coalitions between and among marginalized group members, specifically sexual minority groups and people of color. Tensions between these groups have been exacerbated by the debate on same-sex marriage and comparisons between the discriminatory treatment of each group. A compo…
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