Certifications
Narrative Therapy Levels I and II – Narrative Therapy Centre
OCD Foundations – Project ECHO
Permanency and Adoption Competency Training – Adoption Council of Ontario
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) – Medical University of South Carolina
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) – LivingWorks
Press
https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/programs/phd-programs/phd-students/carolyn-oconnor/
https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/news/strengthening-community-communication-and-research-through-art/
Publications
Ganson, K., O’Connor, C., Nagata, J. M., Testa, A., Jackson, D. B., & Mishna, F. (accepted). Associations between receiving non-consensual image and video sexts and average sleep duration among adolescents and young adults. Sexual Health.
O’Connor, C., Alaggia, R., & Nixon, K. (in press). “Something’s got to give”: A qualitative exploration of child welfare responses to cases of intimate partner violence exposure in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Family Violence.
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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872822114438
O’Connor, C., & Begun, S. (2022). Understanding sexual consent among adolescents: Protocol for a scoping review. Social Science Protocols, 5(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.7565/ssp.v5.6738
Zhao, K., Lenz, T., & O’Connor, C., & Fang, L. (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, 31(3-5), 302-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2022.2070892
Alaggia, A., O’Connor, 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, 113, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104959
King, B., Fallon, B., Goulden, A., O’Connor, C., & Filippelli, J. (2019). What constitutes risk for young mothers? An examination of child protection investigations involving adolescent and transition-age mothers. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 100(4), 409-421. https://doi.org/10.1177/1044389419847319
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. Children and Youth Services Review, 87, 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.037
King, B., Fallon, B. A., Boyd, R. K., Black, T., Antwi-Boasiako, K., & O’Connor, C. (2017). Factors associated with racial differences in child welfare investigative decision-making in Ontario, Canada. Child Abuse & Neglect, 73, 89-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.09.027