School of Social Work News

Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was selected as the new Director of the Joint Doctoral Program. Her appointment will begin on 1/1/2017 following the successful tenure of Professor Berit Ingersoll-Dayton who has served in this position since 1/1/2010.

Associate Professor Daphne Watkins project Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) is featured in Concentrate. Her project, is a social media-based intervention that seeks to combat that lack of support, information and conversation around critical issues affecting what Watkins calls "a minority within a minority."

Associate Professor Daphne Watkins new book "Mixed Methods Research a Pocket Guide to Social Work Research and Methods" was published by Oxford University Press. Watkins reviews the fundamentals of mixed methods research designs and the general suppositions of mixed methods procedures, look critically at mixed method studies and models that have already been employed in social work, and reflect on the contributions of this work to the field

Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was cited in The New York Times article, "A Master's Degree in...Masculinity?". 

Assistant Professor Daphne Watkins was interviewed by GUYalogue and featured in their article, “Redefining Manhood”.

Assistant Professor Daphne Watkins and Jaclynn Hawkins' (PhD student) article, "The Discipline’s Escalating Whisper: Social Work and Black Men’s Mental Health" was published in the March issue of Research on Social Work Practice journal.

Professor Daphne C. Watkins’ current research involves developing and testing an intervention she developed called the Young black men, masculinities, and mental health (or, "YBMen") project. The YBMen project is a five-week, Facebook-based intervention for college-aged black men that addresses the association between hegemonic masculinity and poor mental health."

Assistant professor Daphne Watkins was selected to receive ​the U-M Comprehensive Depression Center’s 2014 Phil Jenkins Award for Innovation in Depression Treatment.