Justin S. Lee, PhD, LCSW

Assistant Professor and Practicum Field Director, Social Work Program

Research Interests

Dr. Lee is interested in studying refugee integration, particularly focusing on improving cultural adaptation in mental health treatment. He is also interested in studying Hispanic/Latino health disparities, particularly in the areas of type 2 diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Lee is most familiar with community-based participatory research methods, particularly qualitative methods in English and Spanish.

Research Gate Profile

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin_Lee19

Sample Publications

Lee, J. S., & Weng, S. (2019). Building bridges: Strategies to overcome challenges in social work with immigrants and refugees. Athens Journal of Social Sciences. 2019 6(3): 213-228.

Weng, S., & Lee, J. S. (2015).  Why do immigrants and refugees give back to their communities and what can we learn from their civic engagement? Voluntas.

Bio

In addition to his teaching and administrative duties for the social work program, Dr. Lee is currently evaluating optimal group interventions for treating refugee survivors of torture. In addition, he also works as a clinical therapist with refugee clients in the community as part of a larger study.    

Prior to joining ISU, Dr. Lee worked as a project collaborator on an NIH funded project designed to increase the number of academics conducting health disparities research. He was also a project coordinator on a 2.5 year AHRQ grant. 

Dr. Lee has held previous faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Barton College.  He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University; Master of Social Work from Eastern Washington University.