Janelle R. Goodwill

My research focuses on mental health promotion and suicide prevention among Black Americans and other historically understudied groups.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Education

  • 2020 
    University of Michigan , PhD in Social Work & Psychology

Publications

  • 2021
    Black youth’s experiences with feelings of worthlessness, parent relationships, and suicide: Findings from a national probability survey, Journal of Adolescent Health
  • 2020
    Association between perceived public stigma and suicidal behaviors among college students of color in the US, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • 2020
    Testing for measurement invariance across gender in the 12-item CES-D: An investigation among a nationally representative sample of African Americans, Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
  • 2019
    Media representations of popular culture figures and the construction of Black masculinities, Psychology of Men and Masculinities
  • 2019
    Everyday discrimination, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation among African American men., Archives of Suicide Research
  • 2018
    An exploratory study of stress and coping among Black college men., American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Professional Memberships

  • Society for Social Work and Research
  • American Public Health Association
  • Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Contact Janelle for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision