University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
                Research Center for Group Dynamics

 

Sean Joe

Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Medical School

Sean Joe
5057 ISR
426 Thompson Street
Phone: 734-764-5162

Current research interests focuses on developing a father focused family-based interventions to prevent urban African-American adolescent males from engaging in multiple forms of self-destructive behaviors, including suicidal behavior. Dr. Joe co-chairs the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network's Research study Group on African- American Suicide. He also has significant interest in theoretical and methodological issues related to community level intervention research to address disparities, community organizing, and positive youth development.