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.