Shelby Elaine McDonald, PhD, is an Associate 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