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

 Shelby Elaine McDonald, PhD, MSW

Assistant Professor

School of Social Work

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

1000 Floyd Avenue

Richmond, VA 23284-2027

smcdonald3@vcu.edu

https://www.socialwork.vcu.edu/about/ourteam.html

E-mail: sem9883@gmail.com

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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

• Society for Social Work & Research 
• Council on Social Work Education
• Society for Research on Child Development
• American Psychological Association