Family Processes with a Focus on Father Involvement that Support Children's Wellbeing
One of my research areas focuses on the underlying family processes with a focus on father involvement that support children's wellbeing, especially children from low-income, unmarried, ethnic and race minority families. For example, my dissertation, Family Processes Underlying Economic Insecurity, Father Involvement, and Child Outcomes in Low-Income Families, examines the links between low family income, material hardship, interparental conflict, father engagement, and children’s socioemotional outcomes. This work is funded by the Administration for Children and Families (Children's Bureau), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (90PR0009). I use data from the Building Strong Families project, which includes a large and racially diverse sample of low-income families with young children. My work in this area includes:
Lee, S. J., Pace, G. T., Lee, J. Y., & Altschul, A. (under review). Parental relationship status as a moderator of the associations between mothers’ and fathers’ conflict behaviors and early child behavior problems. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Impact Factor: 3.064)
Lee, J. Y., Volling, B. L., & Lee, S. J. (2020). Testing the father-child activation theory: A replication study with low-income unmarried parents. Psychology of Men & Masculinities (Special Issue on Fathering: New Perspectives, Paradigms, and Possibilities). Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/men0000301 (Impact Factor: 1.926)
Lee, J. Y., Pace, G.T., Lee, S. J., & Altschul, I. (2019). The associations of constructive and destructive interparental conflict to child well-being among low-income families. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/0886260519835872 (Impact Factor: 3.064)
Lee, J. Y., Volling, B. L., Lee, S. J., & Altschul, I. (2019). Longitudinal relations between coparenting and father engagement in low-income residential and nonresidential father families. Journal of Family Psychology, 34(2), 226-236. doi:10.1037/fam0000612 (Impact Factor: 2.231)
Volling, B. L., Stevenson, M. M., Safyer, P., Gonzalez, R., & Lee, J. Y. (2019). In search of the father-infant activation relationship: A person-centered approach. Monographs of the Society of Research in Child Development, 84(1), 50–63.doi:10.1002/mono.12404
Father Engagement and Father-Friendly Parenting Interventions
This area of research focuses on fathering and masculine identity, the links between father engagement behaviors, and father-inclusive parent education programs. Data from the Building Strong Families project and Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study were used along with primary data collected through qualitative interviews. My work in this area include:
Lee, J. Y., Lee, S. J., Lin, M., Albuja, A. F., & Volling, B. (under review) Challenges and joys of becoming a first time parent amongst urban community fathers. Children and Youth Services Review. (Impact Factor: 1.684)
Lee, S. J., Pace, G. T., Lee, J. Y., & Knauer, H. (2018). The association of paternal warmth and parenting stress to child behavior problems. Children and Youth Services Review, 91, 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.05.020 (Impact Factor: 1.383)
- Lee, S. J., Sanchez, D. T., Grogan-Kaylor, A. C., Lee, J. Y., & Albuja, A. (2018). Father early engagement behaviors and infant low birth weight. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 22(10), 1407-1417. doi:10.1007/s10995-018-2521-2. (Impact Factor: 1.821)
Lee, J. Y., Knauer, H. A., Lee, S. J., MacEachern, M., & Garfield, C. (2018). Father-inclusive perinatal parent education programs: A systematic review. Pediatrics, 142(1), 1-18. doi:10.1542/peds.2018-0437 (Impact Factor: 5.515)
Lee, J. Y., & Lee, S. J. (2018). Caring is masculine: Stay-at-home fathers and masculine identity. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 19(1), 47-58. doi:10.1037/men0000079 (Impact Factor: 1.926)
Child Maltreatment, Wellbeing of Foster Care Children and Families, and Child Welfare System Reform
In this area of research, I explore factors that contribute to child maltreatment (e.g., corporal punishment), clinical work with fathers at risk of maltreating their children, and systemic reform of the child welfare systems through consent decrees. Most recently, I have begun investigating the wellbeing of foster children and families during COVID-19 using social media data, as well as the overrepresentation of race and ethnic minority children in foster care to better inform culturally responsive interventions. My work in this area includes:
Lee, J. Y., Ortega, R. M., Ortega, M. B., & Twine, S. L. (under review). Working with alleged male perpetrators of child maltreatment: Use of a parenting observation protocol. Social Work. (Impact Factor: 1.667)
Lee, J. Y. (in press). Child welfare reform: The role of federal court oversight in child protective service workers’ caseloads. Child Abuse Review. (Impact Factor: 1.206)
Klika, J. B., Lee, S., & Lee, J. Y. (2019). Prevention of child maltreatment. In J. B. Klika & J. R. Conte (Eds.), The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, Fourth Edition (pp. 235-251). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Lee, J. Y., Grogan-Kaylor, A. C., Lee, S. J., Ammari, T., Lu, A., & Davis-Kean, P. (2020). Stay-at-home mothers’ and fathers’ discipline-related tweets. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29(3), 817-830. doi:10.1007/s10826-019-01691-3. (Impact Factor: 1.016)
Lee, J. Y., Gilbert, T., Lee, S. J., & Staller, K. M. (2019). Reforming a system that cannot reform itself: Child welfare reform by class action lawsuits. Social Work, 64(4), 283-291. doi:10.1093/sw/swz029 (Impact Factor: 1.667
Clinical Social Work Practice Using Technology
This area of research focuses on using technology, including mobile devices and apps to engage in clinical social work practice. I explore both standalone and add-on programs to support existing interventions. This is an area of growing interest given the recent transition to teletherapy in my clinical practice in response to COVID-19. My work in this area thus far includes:
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: Tools for practice with individuals, organizations, and communities (pp.54-71). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Lee, J. Y., & Harathi, S. (2015). Using mHealth in social work practice with low-income Hispanic patients. Health & Social Work, 40(4), 1-4. doi:10.1093/hsw/hlv078 (Impact Factor: 1.115)
