Sharon L. Bethea, Ph.D.
COUN-401 Professional Orientation and Legal/Ethical Practices
COUN-402 Developmental Counseling
COUN-403 Theories of Counseling
COUN-408 Research Seminar
COUN-415 Children and Youth in School and Family Systems
COUN-430 Social and Cultural Diversity in Counseling
ICSE-103 Introduction to Inner City Studies
AFAM-200 Introduction to African/African American Studies
AFAM-301 Foundations of African Civilizations
AFAM-302 Foundations of Africans in the Diaspora
AFAM-303 Global Collaborations: Cross Cultural Research in Ghana
COUN-406 Group Counseling
Research Interests
African/Black Psychology; African Centered Spirituality; Sawubona Healing Circles; Genocide and Human Rights; Youth Civic Engagement; Oakland Freedom Schools
Education
University of Missouri at Columbus
Educational Psychology, Ph.D.
John F. Kennedy University
Clinical Psychology, M.A.
Specialization: Marriage, Family, Child, and Adolescent Counseling
San Francisco State University
Psychology, B.A.
Selected Publications
Kafanabo, E., Neville, H.A., Bethea, S.L. (In review). Siasa na Jamii: Civic Engagement among Secondary School Students in Tanzania. Journal of Black Psychology.
Bethea, S. L., Hickson, J. (2022). Honoring and Celebrating the Women of the Black Panther Party. In Huberta L Jackson (ed.). Afrikan American Women: Living at the Crossroads of Race, Gender, Class, and Culture. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing
Bethea, S. L. (2018). Kuja Nyumbani: Using African centered pedagogy to educate Black students in the academy. In O. Perlow, D. Wheeler, S. Bethea, B (eds.). Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing within and beyond the Academy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Perlow, O., Wheeler, D., Bethea, S., Scott B. (2018). Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing within and beyond the Academy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Tavakoli, S., Mei-Whei Chen, M., Zook, N., Bethea, S. L. (2015). Attachment, combat exposure, and post-trauma cognitions as predictors of PTSD and PTG in Veterans. Journal of Military and Government Counseling. (3) 2, 113-130.|
Bethea, S. L., Payne, M. (2015). Children’s defense fund: Oakland freedom school. In Shujaa, M. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of African cultural heritage in North America. Thousand Oaks: Sage 2015.
Perlow O., Bethea, S. L., Wheeler, D (2014). Dismantling the master’s house: Black women faculty challenging white privilege/supremacy in the college classroom. Understanding and Dismantling Privilege.
Bethea, S. L. (2013) The impact of Oakland freedom school’s summer youth program on the psychosocial development of African American youth. Journal of Black Psychology, (38) 4, 442-454
Bethea, S. L. (2013). Illumination of the spirit: The evolution of an African centered social justice counselor. In J. Carlson & J. Kottler (eds.). Helping Beyond the 50 Minute Hour: Therapists Involved in REAL Social Action. NewYork: Routledge, 2012.
Bethea, S. L., Allen, T. (2013). Past & present societal influences on Black couples that impact sex, love, and intimacy. In Helm, K. & Carlson, J. (ed,). Love, Intimacy, Sex and the African American Couple – New York: Routlege, 2012.
Bethea, S. L. (2008). A chronology of the education of Black people in Illinois to 1874. Illinois Transatlantic Slave Trade Commission 2008 Report II: v2
Smith, S. M. & Bethea, S. L. (2004). The emotionally intelligent educator. NABTE Review, 31, 69-75.
Additional Information
In addition to her teaching responsibilities in the Department of Counselor Education, Dr. Bethea also teaches as an affiliate faculty member in the African/African American and Inner City Studies programs.