Shelby Elaine McDonald
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University
Shelby Elaine McDonald
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Biographical Description
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Shelby Elaine McDonald, PhD, is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and an Affiliate Researcher with the VCU School of Medicine's Center for Human-Animal Interaction.
Recent projects and publications can be found at: VCU Children, Families, and Animals Research (CFAR) Group
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Contact Details
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Shelby Elaine McDonald, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
1000 Floyd Avenue
Richmond, VA 23284-2027
https://www.socialwork.vcu.edu/about/ourteam.html
E-mail: sem9883@gmail.com
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Research Interests
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- Gender-based violence
- Prevention of violence against women and girls
- Ethnocultural variations in children’s exposure to intimate partner violence and related socioemotional outcomes
- Childhood trauma
- Positive youth development
- Human-animal interactions and anthrozoology
- Advanced quantitative methods
- Applied measurement
- The application of Item Response Theory in social work research
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Professional Affiliations
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- Society for Social Work & Research
- Council on Social Work Education
- Society for Research on Child Development
- American Psychological Association