Education
- Bachelor’s in Psychology & Speech Communications- Blackburn College
- Master’s in Social Work- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Additional Campus Affiliations
Clinical Professor, School of Social Work
Clinical Professor, Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Clinical Professor, Center for Global Studies
I have experience working in inpatient and outpatient settings, with children, adolescents, adults and older adults. I have managed a community-based program for older adults and clinically supervised therapists in a social service agency. Straight out of grad school, I worked as a home health/hospice social worker at a local hospital. I opened up my own private psychotherapy practice in 2006, working with all sorts of issues and life challenges, showing a special interest in Perinatal Mood Disorders.
Recent Publications
Mcdonald, H. G., Asbill, M., Powell, T. L., Billman, S., Ozkan, S., & Faulkner, S. (2019). A Collaborative Study Abroad Model: Inspiring Fiscally Underrepresented Students. In J. Hoffman, P. Blessinger, & M. Makhanya (Eds.), Strategies for Facilitating Inclusive Campuses in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion (pp. 179-195). (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning; Vol. 17). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120190000017013
Tabb, K. M., Choi, S., Pineros-Leano, M., Meline, B., McDonald, H. G., Kester, R., & Huang, H. (2015). Perinatal depression screening in a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program: Perception of feasibility and acceptability among a multidisciplinary staff. General Hospital Psychiatry, 37(4), 305-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2015.03.008
McDonald, H., & Balgopal, P. (1998). Conflicts of American immigrants: assimilate or retain ethnic identity. Migration World, 26(4), 14-18.
Parraga, H. C., & McDonald, H. G. (1996). Etiology of Tourette’s disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35(1), 2-3. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004583-199601000-00003