Joseph (Joe) A. Himle

Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Joseph (Joe) A. Himle

Degrees

  • BA, 1983, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
  • MSW, Social Work, 1984, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
  • PhD, Social Work and Personality Psychology, 1995, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BioSketch

Associate Professor Joseph Himle's research interests focus on mental health intervention research with adults and youth. Himle's current intervention projects include treatment development projects focused on bringing cognitive behavioral therapy to underserved populations. He is involved in epidemiological research focused on anxiety disorders in the African American population. Dr. Himle holds a joint appointment with the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. Other areas of research/scholarly interest: the relationship between psychosocial interventions and neurobiological factors, mental disorders, social work practice in mental health.


Personal Information
Email himlej@umich.edu
Web Sites  Academic Vitae
Mailbox  67
INDI  146
 Location
Room: 3792 SSWB
Phone: (734) 615-0611
Fax: (734) 763-3372
 University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
 Location
Phone: (734) 764-5348
Fax: (734) 936-7868
 University of Michigan
Department of Psychiatry
4250 Plymouth Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Selected Publications

Howard, M. O., Himle, J. A., Jenson, J. M., & Vaughn, M. G. (in press). Revisioning social work clinical education: Recent developments in relation to evidence-based practice. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work.
Himle, J. A., Baser, R. E., Taylor, R. J., Campbell, R. D., & Jackson, J. S. (2009). Anxiety disorders among African Americans, blacks of Caribbean descent, and non-Hispanic whites in the United States. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23(5), 578-590.
Tolman, R. M., Himle, J., Bybee, D., Abelson, J., Hoffman, J., & Van Etten-Lee, M. (2009). Impact of social anxiety disorder on employment among women receiving welfare benefits. Psychiatric Services, 60, 61-66.
Himle, J. A., Muroff, J. R., Taylor, R. J., Baser, R. E., Abelson, J. M., Hanna, G. L., et al. (2008). Obsessive-compulsive disorder among African Americans and Blacks of Caribbean descent: Results form the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). Depression and Anxiety, 25(12), 993-1005.
Gloster, A. T, Richard, D. C. S., Himle, J. A., Koch, E., Anson, H., Lokers, L., & Thornton, J. (2008). Accuracy of retrospective memory and covariation estimation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 642-655.
Himle, J. A., Perlman, D., & Lokers, L. (2008). Prototype awareness enhancing and monitoring device for trichotillomania. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 1187-1191.
Van Noppen, B., Himle, J. A., & Steketee, G. (2007). Obsessive-compulsive disorder. In B. Thyer & J. Wodarski (Eds.), Social work in mental health: An evidence-based approach (pp. 377-400). New York: Wiley.
Himle, J. A., Fischer, D. J., & Lokers, L. (2007). Panic disorder and agoraphobia. In B. Thyer & J. Wodarski (Eds.), Social work in mental health: An evidence-based approach (pp. 331-349). New York: Wiley.
Hanna, G. L., Veenstra-VanderWeele, J., Cox, N. J., Van Etten-Lee, M. L., Fischer, D. J., Himle, J. A., et al. (2007). Evidence for a susceptibility locus on chromosome 10p15 in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. Biological Psychiatry.
Dickel, D. E., Veenstra-VanderWelle, J., Bivens, N. C., Wu, X., Fischer, D. J., Himle, J. A., et al. (2007). Association studies of serotonin system candidate genes in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 61, 322-329.
Muroff, J. R., Jackson, J. S., Mowbray, C. T., & Himle, J. A. (2007). The influence of gender, patient volume and time on clinical diagnostic decision-making in the psychiatric emergency services. General Hospital Psychiatry, 29(6), 481-488.
Taylor, S. F., Martis, B., Fitzgerald, K. D., Welch, R. C., Abelson, J. L., Himle, J. A., et al. (2006). Medial frontal cortex activity and loss-related responses to errors. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26(15), 4063-4070.
Ruffolo, M., Gioia, D., Fischer, D., Himle, J., Adlaf, A., & Lindsay, R.
(2006). An exploratory study of parent and young adult perspectives on the transition from the child mental health system to the adult mental health system. In L. Gordon, J. Bradley, N. Aue, & A. Holman(Eds.), Building on family strengths: Research and services in support of children and families: 2005 conference proceedings. Portland, OR: Portland State University Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health.
Dickel, D. E., Veenstra-VanderWeele, J., Cox, N. J., Wu, X., Fischer, D. F., Himle, J. A., et al. (2006). Association testing of the positional and functional candidate gene SLC1A1/EAAC1 in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63(7), 778-785.
Himle, J. A., Van Etten, M. L., Janeck, A. S., & Fischer, D. J. (2006). Insight as a predictor of outcome in behavioral group treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30(5), 661-666.
Himle, J. A., Fischer, D. J., Van Etten, M. L., Muroff, J., Lokers, L., Hanna, G. L., et al. (2006). Videoconferencing-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behavior Research and Therapy, 44(12), 1821-1829.
Himle, J. A., & Hoffman, J. (2006). Exposure therapy for Hypochondriasis. In D. Richard & D. Lauterbach (Eds.), Handbook of exposure therapies (pp. 299-310). New York: Academic Press.
Himle, J. A., Fischer, D. J., Van Etten Lee, M., & Muroff, J. (2006). Childhood anxiety disorders. In R. J. Waller (Ed.), Fostering child and adolescent mental health in the classroom (pp. 77-98). New York: Sage.
Himle, J. A. (2006). Cognitive Behavior Therapy for anxiety disorders. In T. Ronen & A. Freeman (Ed.), Cognitive Behavior Therapy in clinical social work practice. New York: Springer.
Hanna, G. L., Fischer, D. J., Chadha, K. R., Himle, J. A., & Van Etten, M. (2005). Familial and sporadic subtypes of early-onset Obsessive Compulsive disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 895-900.
Hanna, G. L., Fingerlin, T., Himle, J. A., & Boehnke, M. (2005). Complex segregation analysis of obsessive-compulsive disorder in families with pediatric probands. Human Heredity, 60(1), 1-9.
Hanna, G. L., Fischer, D. J., Chadha, K. R., Himle, J. A., & Van Etten, M. (2005). Familial and sporatic subtypes of early-onset obsessive compulsive disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 895-900.
Fischer, D. J., Himle, J. A., & Thyer, B. A. (2005). Using multiple evaluation methods to assess client progress: A female adolescent with obsessive compulsive disorder. In C. W. LeCroy & J. M. Daley (Eds.), Case studies in child, adolescent, and family treatment (pp. 254-265). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Hanna, G. L., Fingerlin, T. E., Himle, J. A., Curtis, G. C., & Boehnke, M. (2005). A family study of obsessive-compulsive disorder with pediatric probands. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 134B(1), 13-19.
Fitzgerald, K. D. Welsh, R. C., Gehring, W. J., Abelson, J. A., Himle, J. A., Liberzon, I., et al. (2005). Error-related hyperactivity of the anterior cingulate cortex in obsessive compulsive disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 57(3), 287-294.