Jillian Graves, LMSW, PhD

Jillian Graves is an associate professor at Eastern Michigan University in the School of Social Work. She has been a mental health practitioner in psychiatric outpatient, private practice, and juvenile court settings for over 25 years. Dr. Graves has worked with adolescents and adults, utilizing DBT, CBT, psychodynamic interventions, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and solution-focused interventions. Her scholarly work has focused on the experiences of family caregivers, especially siblings, in adolescent and emerging adult development and trauma-reactive violence. Her most recent research has focused on the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of retail workers and the use of relational coordination as a mitigating factor. She is currently the co-director of the IPE Center in the College of Health and Human Services.