Certifications

Narrative Therapy Levels I and II

OCD Foundations

Permanency and Adoption Competency Training

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT)

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Refugee Mental Health

Press

https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/programs/phd-programs/phd-students/carolyn-oconnor/

https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/news/strengthening-community-communication-and-research-through-art/

https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/news/social-workers-experienced-depression-ptsd-and-anxiety-at-alarming-rates-during-pandemic/

Publications

Alaggia, R., O’Connor, C., West, K., & Fuller-Thomson, E. (2022). Troubled times: Canadian social workers’ early adversities, mental health and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Social Work. DOI: 10.1177/00208728221144380

O’Connor, C., & Begun, S. (2022). Understanding sexual consent among adolescents: Protocol for a scoping review. Social Science Protocols, 1-7.

Zhao, K., Lenz, T., & O’Connor, C. (2022). Conceptualizing anti-Asian racism in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for action to social workers. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.

Alaggia, A., OConnor, C., & Scott, M. (2022). “Change your number”: When technology intersects with coercive control, intimate partner violence, and legal systems. In R. Alaggia & C. Vine (Eds.), Cruel but not unusual: Violence in Canadian families (3rd ed.). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/C/Cruel-But-Not-Unusual

Jaffe, P., Sinclair, D., Olszowy, L., Saxton, M., Reif, K., & O’Connor, C. (2022). Giving voice to women and children killed in the context of domestic homicide: Lessons learned from Death Review Committees. In R. Alaggia & C. Vine (Eds.), Cruel but not unusual: Violence in Canadian families (3rd ed.). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/C/Cruel-But-Not-Unusual

Begun, S., Barman-Adhikari, A., O’Connor, C., & Rice, E. (2020). Social support and pregnancy attitudes among youth experiencing homelessness. Children and Youth Services Review.

King, B., Fallon, B., Black, T., Filippelli, J., & O’Connor, C. (2018). Troubled teens and challenged caregivers: Characteristics associated with the decision to provide child welfare services to adolescents in Ontario, Canada. Child and Youth Services Review, 87(205-215).

O’Connor, C., & King, B. (2018). Review of Durrant et al., 2017: The abolition vs. limitation position of corporal punishments in Ontario: Did the Supreme Court do right by Canada’s children? Toronto, ON: Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal. http://cwrp.ca/researchwatch/3344

 O’Connor, C., & Collin-Vézina, D. (2017). Review of Thibodeau et al., 2017: Anxious and avoidant attachment styles determined as important mechanisms between child neglect and significant adolescent sexual risk behaviors. Toronto, ON: Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal. http://cwrp.ca/researchwatch/3341

King, B., Fallon, B. A., Boyd, R. K., Black, T., Antwi-Boasiako, K., & O’Connor, C. (2017). Racial differences and the contribution of caregiver and socioeconomic risk factors to child welfare investigative decision-making in Ontario. Child Abuse & Neglect, 73(89-105).