Faculty

Dexter R. Voisin, Ph.D.

Dexter Voisin

Dexter R. Voisin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration. His fields of special interest include social work practice, cultural diversity, community and family violence, sexual abuse, substance abuse, adolescent HIV risk behaviors and international HIV prevention.

His prior and current research projects involve the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding the pathways that illuminate the relationship between violence exposures and HIV drug and sexual risk behaviors among adolescents; and international HIV prevention. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the William T. Grant Foundation. His most recent project is a study entitled "Predictors of HIV Risk Behaviors among Urban Adolescents" funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles which appears in journals such as American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Social Work Education, Social Work, and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

An expert on adolescents, violence exposure and sexual risk behaviors, his expertise has been sought by the media, legal firms, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, community agencies, and scholarly journals. He currently serves as Consulting Editor for Social Work, the Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services and the Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth. Additionally, he serves as reviewer for a number of professional journals in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and medicine.

At SSA, Professor Voisin teaches direct practice in the core curriculum, advanced courses on effective cross-cultural practice and clinical social work research, and a doctoral course on models of prevention. He has extensive social work practice expertise in the areas of substance abuse, adult psychopathology, and adolescent and family therapy.

He is a Faculty Associate with the Chapin Hall Center for Children and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. Professor Voisin is also a Research Affiliate with the Adolescent Health Study at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health (principal investigator, Dr. Ralph DiClemente). In addition, he has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine.

Professor Voisin received his B.A. (psychology, cum laude) from St. Andrews College, M.S.W (practice) from the University of Michigan, and Ph.D. (practice) from Columbia University School of Social Work.