Sean Seepersad, Assistant Professor in Child and Family Sciences

Office: FFS 305
Phone: 559-278-3081
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Education: B.S. Sociology with Psychology, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine; M.S. Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D. Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Experience and Research: Sean loves working directly with adolescents and young adults. As such his life has been marked with a variety of teaching experiences, which continued in his current career as an assistant professor at Fresno State. At the University of Illinois, he has worked as a teaching assistant for the eight semesters he has been a graduate student. He also worked with adolescents in Operation Snowball, a peer-support group for teens and most recently at Stone Soup of Fresno. His major research area is concerned with adolescent and young adult relationships. In particular he has focused on adolescent and young adult loneliness and intimacy and also the effect of the Internet on individuals' level of loneliness. For his dissertation, Sean conducted and evaluated a loneliness intervention program that he developed for college students. More recently, Sean has begun to look at Factors influencing the decision to become young mothers in the California Central Valley.