Beverly Greene (psychologist)

Beverly Greene (born 1950) is a professor in the Department of Psychology at St. John's University. She is a clinical psychologist known for her work on heterosexism, sexism, and racism. Greene is the author of close to 100 psychological literature publications. Greene is involved with the Association for Women in Psychology and the Society for the Psychology of Women. Greene is a specialist in the psychology of women and of gender and racial issues in the practice of psychology. She is one of sixteen women to have received the Distinguished Publication Award (DPA) from the Association for Women in Psychology in 2008.

Background

Greene was born in 1950, in East Orange, New Jersey. Greene is the oldest of 4 children. Her parents are Samuel and Thelma Greene.

Greene earned her undergraduate degree at New York University in 1973. She completed both her masters (1977) and doctorate (1983) in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University.

Academic career

In 1982, Greene worked in the Inpatient Child Psychiatry Division at Kings County Municipal Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Many of the clients she served were poor, African American children. The staff was predominantly white. Greene was encouraged by superior staff to advise coworkers how to treat and serve the minority population. Working at the Inpatient Child Psychiatry Division with a female doctor, Dorothy Gartner, sparked her interest in writing and teaching. Currently, she is the author of 11 books, with one as recent as 2013.

In 1991, Greene began her career at St. John's University in Queens. She became the first tenured professor that was African American. Along with teaching at St. John's, she has owned her own therapeutic practice since 1984. As of 2019, she is still practicing at her clinic and teaching at St. Johns University.

Research

Greene has several publications stemmed around lesbian, gay, and bisexual psychology, along with feminism. Her main focus has been on the complexities of the human identity, believing that the framework of a person should not be limited to a strict gender. Greene's advancement in psychology has shown people should not be marginalized based on race, gender, or sexual orientation.

Publications

Books

• Beverly Greene; John C Norcross; Gerald P Koocher co-editors, Psychologists Desk Reference, 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780199845491
• Greene, Beverly, and Dorith Brodbar. A Minyan of Women: Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity and Psychotherapy Practice. London: Routledge, 2011. ISBN 9781315874708
• Greene, Beverly, and Gregory M. Herek, co-eds. Lesbian and Gay Psychology: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications. Newbury Park (CA): Sage, 1994. ISBN 9780803953123

Other publications

• Greene, B.  (1985).  Considerations in the treatment of Black patients by white therapists. Psychotherapy,22,389-393.
• Greene, B.  (1993).  Human diversity in clinical psychology: Lesbian and gay sexual orientations. The Clinical Psychologist: Publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association,46,2,74-82.
• Greene, B. (2005, Dec.).  Psychology, Cultural Diversity & Social Justice: Beyond heterosexism and across the cultural divide. Invited paper. Journal of Counseling Psychology Quarterly,18,4,295-306.
• Greene, B. (2011). From Slave to Midwife: Healing in the Midst of Social Injustice. In L. Comas-Diaz & Weiner, M. B. (Eds.), Women Psychotherapists: Journeys in Healing(pp.57-72). New York: Jason Aronson.

Honors

In 1995 and 2010, Greene was awarded the Women of Color Psychologies Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology.

In 2008, she won the Distinguished Publication Award (DPA) from the Association for Women in Psychology in 2008.

The American Psychological Association awarded Greene with the Outstanding Achievement Award-Committee on Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Concerns Award in 1995.

In 2000, Greene was awarded the Heritage Award from the American Psychological Association.

The National Multicultural Conference and Summit awarded Greene the Dalmas Taylor Award in 2007.

In 2011 and 2013, Greene received the American Psychological Association Presidential Citation Award.