Robert Joseph (Robert) Taylor

Associate Dean for Research and Sheila Feld Collegiate Professor of Social Work, and Faculty Associa

Degrees

BA, Sociology, 1974, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL;
MSW, Social Work, 1976, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
PhD, Social Work and Sociology, 1983, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BioSketch

Robert Joseph Taylor is the Sheila Feld Collegiate Professor of Social Work and the school's associate dean for research. He is also the associate director of the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research and is a faculty associate with the Center for Afro-American and African Studies. Professor Taylor has published extensively on the informal social support networks (i.e., family, friends, and church members) of adult and elderly Black Americans. He has been principal investigator of several grants from the National Institute on Aging that examine the role of religion in the lives of Black and White elderly adults. He has been co-principal investigator with James Jackson on several grants from the National Institute of Mental Health on the correlates of mental health and mental illness among Black Americans, including the only major national study of the prevalence of mental illness among Black Americans (The National Survey of American Life). He has edited two books, Family Life in Black America (1997) and Aging in Black America (1993) with James S. Jackson and Linda M. Chatters. He is also the lead author of the book, Religion in the Lives of African Americans: Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives (2004) with Linda Chatters and Jeff Levin. He is the founding editor of African American Research Perspectives and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and Journal of Marriage and the Family.

Personal Information

Email

rjtaylor@umich.edu

Web Sites

http://www.isr.umich.edu/rcgd/prba/

Mailbox

INDI

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Primary Location

Room:	3778 SSWB
Phone:	(734) 936-2618
Fax:	(734) 763-3372

University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Secondary Location

Room:	2847 SSWB
Phone:	(734) 615-9601
Fax:	(734) 763-3372

University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Selected Publications

Woodward, A. T., Taylor, R. J., Neighbors, H. W., Chatters, L. M., & Jackson, J. S. (2008). Use of professional services and informal support by African Americans and Caribbean blacks with mental disorders. Psychiatric Services, 59(11), 1292-1298.

Taylor, R. J., Thornton, M. C., Hunter, A. G. & Lincoln, K. D. (in press). Advances in research on aging and supportive networks. In J. S. Jackson (Ed.), The African American elderly. Springer Press.

Lincoln, K. D., Chatters, L. M., & Taylor, R. J. (in press). Church-based negative interaction among older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites. In M. Silverstein & R. Giarrusso (Eds.), From generation to generation: Continuity and discontinuity in aging families. Johns Hopkins Press.

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.

Woodward, A. T., Bullard, K. M., Taylor, R. J., Chatters, L. M., Baser, R. E., & Perron, B. E. (in press). Use of complementary and alternative medicines for mental and substance use disorders: A comparison of African Americans Black Caribbeans, and non-Hispanic Whites. Psychiatric Services.

Perron, B., Alexander-Eitzman, B., Watkins, D. C., Taylor, R. J., Jackson, J. S., Neighbors, H. W., et al. (in press). Ethnic differences in delays to treatment for substance use disorders: African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and non-Hispanic whites. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.

Chatters, L. M., & Taylor, R. J. (in press). African Americans. In K. Markides (Ed.), The encyclopedia of health and aging. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Gonzalez, H. M., Croghan, T. W., Taylor, R. J., Neighbors, H. W., Hinton, L., Jackson, J. S., et al. (in press). Predictors of antidepressant use in nationally representative sample of U.S. community-dwelling Blacks (African Americans and Caribbean Blacks): Results from the National Survey of American Life. Psychiatric Services.

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.

Bryant, C. M., Taylor, R. J., Lincoln, K. D., Chatters, L. M., & Jackson, J. S. (2008). Marital satisfaction among African Americans and Black Caribbeans: Findings from the National Survey of American Life. Family Relations, 57(2), 239-253.

Chatters, L. M., Taylor, R. J., Bullard, K. M., & Jackson, J. S. (2008). Spirituality and subjective religiosity among African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Whites. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 47, 725-737.

Chatters, L. M., Bullard, K. M., Taylor, R. J., Woodward, A. T., Neighbors, H. W., & Jackson, J. S. (2008). Religious participation and DSM-IV disorders among older African Americans: Findings from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16, 957-965.

Chatters, L. M., Taylor, R. J., Lincoln, K. D., & Jackson, J. S. (2008). Religious coping among African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and non-Hispanic Whites. Journal of Community Psychology, 36(3), 371-386.

Neighbors, H. W., Caldwell, C., Williams, D. R., Nesse, R., Taylor, R. J., Bullard, K. M., Torres, M., & Jackson, J. S. (2007). Race, ethnicity, and the use of services for mental disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 485-494.

Ford, B. C., Bullard, K. M. Taylor, R. J., Neighbors, H. W., Toler, A., & Jackson, J. S. (2007). Lifetime and 12-Month prevalence of DSM-IV disorders among older African Americans: Findings from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(8), 652-659.

Taylor, R. J., Chatters, L. M., & Jackson, J. S. (2007). Religious participation among older black Caribbeans in the United States. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 62, S251-S256.

Taylor, R. J., Chatters, L. M., & Jackson, J. S. (2007). Religious and spiritual involvement among older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and Non-Hispanic Whites: Findings from the National Survey of American Life. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 62, S238-S250.

Lincoln, K. D., Chatters, L. M., Taylor, R. J., & Jackson, J. S. (2007). Profiles of depressive symptoms among African Americans and Caribbean Blacks. Social Science and Medicine, 65, 200-213.

Mattis, J. S., Taylor, R. J., Chatters, L. M., Neighbors, H. W., Mitchell, N., Zapata, A., et al. (2007). The use of ministerial support by African Americans: A focus group study. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77(2), 249-258.

Chatters, L. M., & Taylor, R. J. (2007). African Americans. In K. Markides (Ed.), The encyclopedia of health and aging. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Levin, J., Chatters, L. M., & Taylor, R. J. (2006). Religious factors in health and medical care among older adults. Southern Medical Journal, 99(10), 1168-1169.

Chatters, L. M., & Taylor, R. J. (2006). Religion and families. In V. Bengtson, D. Klein, A. Acock, K. Allen, & P. Dilworth-Anderson (Eds.), Sourcebook of family theory and research (pp. 517-522). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lincoln, K. D., Chatters, L. M., & Taylor, R. J. (2005). Social support, traumatic events, and depressive symptoms among African Americans. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67(3), 754-766.

Levin, J., Chatters, L. M., & Taylor, R. J. (2005). Religion, health, and medicine in African Americans: Implications for physicians. Journal of the National Medical Association, 97(2), 237-249.

Taylor, R. J., Lincoln, K. D., & Chatters, L. M. (2005). Supportive relationships with church members among African Americans. Family Relations, 54(4), 501-511.