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David McConnell

David McConnell

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
8158
World Ranking
2197
National Ranking
124

Overview

David McConnell is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and focuses on research primarily within the social sciences and psychology. Their work spans several subfields including safety research, clinical psychology, education, sociology and political science, and health.

The main topics of David McConnell's research include:

  • Disability Rights and Representation
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Healthcare Innovation and Challenges
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Elder Abuse and Neglect
  • Family Support in Illness

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Child Maltreatment
  • Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability
  • Sociology of Health & Illness

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David McConnell include:

  • The devolution of eugenic practices: Sexual and reproductive health and oppression of people with intellectual disability, 2022, Social Science & Medicine
  • Child Maltreatment Investigations in Canada: Main and Moderating Effects of Primary Caregiver Cognitive Impairment, 2020, Child Maltreatment
  • Reasonable Efforts? Child Maltreatment Investigations and Service Referrals of Parents With Ascribed Cognitive Impairments in Canada, 2021, Child Maltreatment
  • Intimate partner violence against women with intellectual disability: A relational framework for inclusive, trauma-informed social services, 2022, Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Childhood experience, family support and parenting by people with intellectual disability, 2021, Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability

The research collaborations of David McConnell involve frequent co-authors including:

  • Marjorie Aunos
  • Laura Pacheco
  • Shanon Phelan
  • Maurice A. Feldman
  • Lyndsey Hahn

This body of work reflects a focus on issues pertaining to intellectual disability, child maltreatment, family support, and social service frameworks, examined across diverse social and healthcare contexts.

Best Publications

  • Advances in Research on Networked Learning

    Peter M. Goodyear;Sheena Banks;Vivien Hodgson;David McConnell

  • From financial hardship to child difficulties: main and moderating effects of perceived social support.

    D. McConnell;R. Breitkreuz;A. Savage

  • The relationship between available support, unmet needs and caregiver burden in patients with advanced cancer and their carers.

    Louise Sharpe;Phyllis Butow;Claire Smith;David McConnell

  • Stereotypes, parents with intellectual disability and child protection

    David McConnell;Gwynnyth Llewellyn

  • The Prevalence and Outcomes of Care Proceedings Involving Parents with Learning Difficulties in the Family Courts

    Tim Booth;Wendy Booth;David McConnell

  • Research on networked learning: An overview

    Peter Goodyear;Sheena Banks;Vivien Hodgson;David McConnell

  • Resilience in families raising children with disabilities and behavior problems

    David McConnell;Amber Savage;Rhonda Breitkreuz

  • Mothers with learning difficulties and their support networks

    G Llewellyn;D McConnell

  • Prevalence and outcomes for parents with disabilities and their children in an Australian court sample.

    Gwynnyth Llewellyn;David McConnell;Luisa Ferronato

  • Stress and Resilience Among Families Caring for Children with Intellectual Disability: Expanding the Research Agenda

    David McConnell;Amber Savage

  • Information booklets about cancer:: factors influencing patient satisfaction and utilisation

    Phyllis Butow;Elizabeth Brindle;David McConnell;Robert Boakes

  • Parents' and professionals' perceptions of family-centered care for children with autism spectrum disorder across service sectors

    Sandra Hodgetts;David Nicholas;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;David McConnell

  • Promoting health and home safety for children of parents with intellectual disability: a randomized controlled trial

    Gwynnyth Llewellyn;David McConnell;Anne Honey;Rachel Mayes

  • Parental cognitive impairment and child maltreatment in Canada

    David McConnell;Maurice Feldman;Marjorie Aunos;Narasimha Prasad

  • Networked Learning: Inviting Redefinition

    Peter Goodyear;Vivien Hodgson;Petar Jandrić

  • Women with intellectual disability at risk of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes.

    D. McConnell;R. Mayes;G. Llewellyn

  • Disability and Discrimination in Statutory Child Protection Proceedings

    David McConnell;Gwynnyth Llewellyn

  • Improving the letters we write: an exploration of doctor-doctor communication in cancer care.

    D McConnell;P N Butow;M H N Tattersall

  • Changes in quality of life in patients with advanced cancer: evidence of response shift and response restriction.

    Louise Sharpe;Phyllis Butow;Clair Smith;David McConnell

  • Misconception: The Experience of Pregnancy for Women with Intellectual Disabilities

    Rachel Mayes;Gwynnyth Llewellyn;David McConnell

  • Context‐contingent decision‐making in child protection practice

    David McConnell;Gwynnyth Llewellyn;Luisa Ferronato

Frequent Co-Authors

Gwynnyth Llewellyn
Gwynnyth Llewellyn University of Sydney
Maurice A. Feldman
Maurice A. Feldman Brock University
Lister Staveley-Smith
Lister Staveley-Smith University of Western Australia
Eric Emerson
Eric Emerson Lancaster University
Bryan Gaensler
Bryan Gaensler University of California, Santa Cruz
Simon Johnston
Simon Johnston Australia Telescope National Facility
Elaine M. Sadler
Elaine M. Sadler University of Sydney
Michael A. Dopita
Michael A. Dopita Australian National University
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney

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