Sean Joe

Associate Professor of Social Work, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty Associate, RCGD, I

Sean Joe

Degrees

BA, Africana Studies, 1991, State University of New York, Stony Brook;
MSW, Social Welfare, 1994, State University of New York, Stony Brook;
PhD, Social Work, 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BioSketch

Sean Joe, PhD, LMSW, holds a joint position as assistant professor in the School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan's School of Medicine. He is also a faculty associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Dr. Joe is a nationally recognized authority on suicidal behavior among African Americans. Current research projects focus on Black adolescents' mental health service use patterns, the role of religion in Black suicidal behavior (NIMH), salivary biomarkers for suicidal behavior, and development of father-focused, family-based interventions to prevent urban African American adolescent males from engaging in multiple forms of self-destructive behaviors (e.g., suicidal behavior).

He is the 2009 recipient of the Edwin Shneidman Award from the American Association of Suicidology for outstanding contributions in research to the field of suicide studies and the 2008 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work and Research. He has published in the areas of suicide, violence, and firearm-related violence.

Dr. Joe serves on the board of the Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN USA), the scientific advisory board of the National Organization of People of Color Against Suicide, and the editorial board of Advancing Suicide Prevention, a policy magazine. He is co-chair of the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network (ESIN) Research Study Group on African American Suicide, a national interdisciplinary group of researchers committed to advancing research in this area.

Personal Information

Email

sjoe@umich.edu

Web Sites

http://www.emergingscholars.net

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/race_self_destr_behaviors

Mailbox

INDI

284

Location

Room:	2780 SSWB
Phone:	(734) 763-6288
Fax:	(734) 763-3372

University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Selected Publications

Joe, S. (in press). Black suicide: A males burden. In W. Johnson (Ed.), What we have seen with our own eyes: Social work and social welfare responses to African American males. Oxford Press.

Merchant, C., Kramer, A., Joe, S., Venkataraman, S., & King, C. A. (in press). Predictors of multiple suicide attempt status in African American and Caucasian suicidal adolescents. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior.

Joe, S., Joe, E., & Rowley, L. L. (2009). Consequences of physical health and mental illness risks for academic achievement in grades K-12. Review of Research in Education, 33(1), 283-309.

Joe, S., Baser, R. Neighbors, H .W., Caldwell, C., & Jackson, J. S. (2009). 12-Month and lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts among black adolescents in the National Survey of American Life. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(3), 271-282.

Joe, S., Woolley, M., Brown, G., Ghahramanlou-Holloway, M., & Beck, A. (2008). Psychometric properties of the beck depression inventory-II in African-American suicide attempters. Journal of Personality Assessment, 90(5), 521-523.

Muroff, J., Edelson, G. A., Joe, S., & Ford, B. C. (2008). The role of race in diagnostic and disposition decision-making in a pediatric psychiatric emergency service. General Hospital Psychiatry, 30(3), 269-276.

Joe, S., Stein, D. J., Seedat, S., Herman, A., & Williams, D. R. (2008). Non-fatal suicidal behavior among South Africans: Results from the South Africa stress and health study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 43, 454-461.

Joe, S., & Neidemeir, D. (2008). Social work research on African Americans and suicide: A systematic 25-year review. Health and Social Work, 33(4), 249-257.

Shropshire, K., Pearson, J., Joe, S., Romer, D., & Canetto, S. (2008). Advancing prevention research on the role of culture in suicide prevention: An introduction. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 38(3), 321-322.

Miller, D., & Joe, S. (2008). Life span: Young adulthood. In T. Mizrahi & L. E. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social work. (20th ed.). National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, Inc.

Joe, S. (2008). Black male suicide. In E. Anderson (Ed.), Against the wall: Poor, young, black, & male (pp. 218-241). University of Pennsylvania Press.

Joe, S. & Neidemeir, D. (2008). Preventing suicide: A neglected social work research agenda. The British Journal of Social Work, 38(3), 507-530.

Joe, S., Stein, D., Seedat, S., Herman, A., & Williams, D. R. (2008). Prevalence and correlates of non-fatal suicidal behavior among South Africans. British Journal of Psychiatry, 192, 310-311.

Joe, S., Canetto, S., & Romer, D. (2008). Advancing prevention research on the role of culture in suicide prevention. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 38(3), 354-362.