Joyce Y. Lee, MS, MSW, LCSW, is a child welfare and family strengthening scholar whose program of research centers around promoting the well-being of children and families from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Lee's primary research interest involves investigating family processes, with a focus on father involvement, that benefit children's development. Specifically, she uses family theories to examine mechanisms underlying the links between economic insecurity and the developmental outcomes of children from unmarried couple families with low income. She is particularly interested in studying how fathers and their parenting behaviors mediate such relations. Joyce has received a highly competitive federal Family Strengthening Scholar's grant (90PR0009) from the Administration from Children and Families (Children's Bureau), United States Department of Health and Human Services to support this work. As a secondary area of research, Joyce focuses on fathers' masculine identities, early father engagement behaviors, and the evidence-base of early parent education programs that are inclusive and supportive of fathers and their parenting needs. Joyce's third area of research centers around using technology, including mobile devices and social media platforms, to examine the parenting beliefs of or deliver services to difficult-to-reach populations, as well as engage in clinical social work practice with diverse client groups. Her next and future area of research includes preventing child maltreatment and promoting the well-being of foster children and their families through both direct services rooted in evidence-based programs and child welfare system reform.
Overall, Lee’s research (and her teaching) is rooted in her social work practice experiences with children and families at a community-based youth empowerment program, as well as her clinical practice with children and families involved in the child welfare system. She also uses her research to inform family strengthening policies, relevant targets for parenting and family interventions, and clinical work with children and families that have histories of maltreatment.
Lee is currently a licensed clinical social worker in the State of Michigan and a licensed social worker in the State of New Jersey.
Family processes, family strengthening; father involvement, father engagement; technology leverage in social service delivery, evidence-based parent education programs; child development, child welfare, child maltreatment prevention
Phone | Fax | Room | Address | |
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joyceyl@umich.edu | 4734 SSWB | University of Michigan School of Social Work Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | ||
4663 SSWB | University of Michigan School of Social Work Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | |||
B660 SSWB | University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 S. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
Year | Degree | School | |
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2018 | MS | University of Michigan | |
2013 | MSW | Columbia University | |
2011 | BSW | Rutgers University |
Personal Website |
Lee, J. Y. (in press). Child welfare reform: The role of federal court oversight in child protective service workers’ caseloads. Child Abuse Review.
Lee, S. J., Lee, J. Y., & Chang, O. D. (2020). Characteristics and lived experiences of modern stay-at-home fathers. In H.E. Fitzgerald, K. von Klitzing, N. Cabrera, J. Scarano do Mendonca, & T. Skjothaug (Eds.), Handbook of Fathers and Child Development: Prenatal to Preschool. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Lee, S. J., Walsh, T. B. & Lee, J. Y. (2019). Mobile technology in social work practice. In L. Goldkind, L. Wolf, & Freddolino P. P. (Eds.), Digital Social Work: Cases Across Fields of Practice (pp. 54-71). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Volling, B. L., Stevenson, M. M., Safyer, P., & Lee, J. Y. (2019). In search of the father-infant activation relationship: Comparing variable-centered versus person-centered analytic approaches. Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development, 84(1), 50-63.
Lee, S. J., Walsh, T. B., & Lee, J. Y. (2019). mDad: Helping dads be better parents with mobile phones. In L. Goldkind, L. Wolf, & P.P. Freddolino (Eds.), Digital Social Work: Tools for Practice with Individuals, Organizations, and Communities (pp. 54 -71). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Klika, B., Lee, S. J., & Lee, J. Y. (2018). Prevention of Child Maltreatment. In Klika, B. & Conte, J. (Eds.), American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Handbook on Child Maltreatment (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Lee, J. Y., & Lee, S. J. (2016). Caring is masculine: Stay-at-home fathers and masculine identity. Psychology of Men & Masculinity.
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 South University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106