Deborah O'Connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4548977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah O'Connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Connor |
| SIGNATURE | CONNOR D O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transforming long-term care
Culturally responsive care is essential to meaningful relationship-building in long-term care (LTC) settings, yet there is limited understanding of how Relationship-Centered Care (RCC) is interpreted and enacted in contexts shaped by shared cultural frameworks. This critical ethnographic study examines how RCC practices unfolded within an ethno-specific LTC home serving predominantly Chinese older adults in Vancouver, drawing on document review, …
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect
Mental capacity (MC) is increasingly recognized as one of the most complex and nuanced constructs that has legal, health and social care implications. Although the UN (2006) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides a strong foundation for asserting a rights-based approach that arguably calls into question the use of this construct entirely, a more moderate, practically-focused approach recognizes that mental (in)capac…
Mothering through a child's addiction journey
Someone dies from an opioid overdose every two hours in North America. These statistics became personal when my eldest son died from a drug overdose—he had been in recovery for a year, excited about the prospect of welcoming his unborn daughter into the world, and desperately committed to staying drug-free. He had been struggling with substance abuse for over twelve years. As a mother and Social Worker, I spent those years feeling helpless and de…
Family care across diverse cultures
Stigma, discrimination and agency
Email as a Data Collection Tool when Interviewing Older Adults
This article explores several aspects of electronic communication, specifically its advantages and disadvantages within the context of a brief experience using email to interview elders. Two older adults participated via email as the psychosocial impact of aging was collected using such venue. Our experiences are compared with published reports from others to analyze the benefits and limitations of email as a research tool. The email was spontane…
Dementia at the Intersections
From personhood to citizenship
Journeying the Quagmire
In the struggles to have its legitimacy recognized, qualitative research has been framed as a singular entity understood in relation to quantitative research. This interpretation is now being challenged, resulting in the emergence of increasingly complex, frequently contradictory, and often unarticulated understandings of the goals and practices associated with qualitative research. This article chronicles the pragmatic and ethical struggles the …
From personhood to citizenship
Dementia at the Intersections
Stigma, discrimination and agency
Family care across diverse cultures
Journeying the Quagmire
In the struggles to have its legitimacy recognized, qualitative research has been framed as a singular entity understood in relation to quantitative research. This interpretation is now being challenged, resulting in the emergence of increasingly complex, frequently contradictory, and often unarticulated understandings of the goals and practices associated with qualitative research. This article chronicles the pragmatic and ethical struggles the …
Email as a Data Collection Tool when Interviewing Older Adults
This article explores several aspects of electronic communication, specifically its advantages and disadvantages within the context of a brief experience using email to interview elders. Two older adults participated via email as the psychosocial impact of aging was collected using such venue. Our experiences are compared with published reports from others to analyze the benefits and limitations of email as a research tool. The email was spontane…
Journeying the Quagmire
In the struggles to have its legitimacy recognized, qualitative research has been framed as a singular entity understood in relation to quantitative research. This interpretation is now being challenged, resulting in the emergence of increasingly complex, frequently contradictory, and often unarticulated understandings of the goals and practices associated with qualitative research. This article chronicles the pragmatic and ethical struggles the …
From personhood to citizenship
Dementia at the Intersections
Email as a Data Collection Tool when Interviewing Older Adults
This article explores several aspects of electronic communication, specifically its advantages and disadvantages within the context of a brief experience using email to interview elders. Two older adults participated via email as the psychosocial impact of aging was collected using such venue. Our experiences are compared with published reports from others to analyze the benefits and limitations of email as a research tool. The email was spontane…
Stigma, discrimination and agency
Family care across diverse cultures
Mothering through a child's addiction journey
Someone dies from an opioid overdose every two hours in North America. These statistics became personal when my eldest son died from a drug overdose—he had been in recovery for a year, excited about the prospect of welcoming his unborn daughter into the world, and desperately committed to staying drug-free. He had been struggling with substance abuse for over twelve years. As a mother and Social Worker, I spent those years feeling helpless and de…
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect
Mental capacity (MC) is increasingly recognized as one of the most complex and nuanced constructs that has legal, health and social care implications. Although the UN (2006) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides a strong foundation for asserting a rights-based approach that arguably calls into question the use of this construct entirely, a more moderate, practically-focused approach recognizes that mental (in)capac…
Transforming long-term care
Culturally responsive care is essential to meaningful relationship-building in long-term care (LTC) settings, yet there is limited understanding of how Relationship-Centered Care (RCC) is interpreted and enacted in contexts shaped by shared cultural frameworks. This critical ethnographic study examines how RCC practices unfolded within an ethno-specific LTC home serving predominantly Chinese older adults in Vancouver, drawing on document review, …
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)