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School of Nursing Faculty

Barbara-Jean Sullivan, PhD, MSN, RN
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Lecturer II

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Room 2158
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482
Telephone: (734) 647-0178
FAX: (734) 936-5525
bjbsull@umich.edu

Research Interests
Developmental traumas
Prevention of physical and
psychiatric sequelae through
early intervention.

Dr. BJ (Barbara-Jean) Sullivan, is a board certified Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse and a fully licensed Clinical Psychologist.  She coordinates both the undergraduate and graduate programs in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Dr. Sullivan’s clinical practice is at the U-M Department of Psychiatry Rachel Upjohn Depression Center where she mentors psychiatric nurse practitioner students in their clinical work.  Her clinical interests center around mood disorders.  In particular, she is interested in life adjustments (e.g., chronic illness, childbearing, marriage, divorce, college life, etc.) and the interface of psychosocial factors in the regulation of biologically managed affective disorders.  Dr. Sullivan’s research includes studies of self esteem and depression in people with diabetes, dyadic adjustment in couples coping with SIDS, and transitional objects and phenomena.  Her current research is in the area of self management in mood disordered patients as well as the impact of developmental trauma on later life transitions.

Last updated July 22, 2005.