| Trauma informed child welfare systems—A rapid evidence review L Bunting, L Montgomery, S Mooney, M MacDonald, S Coulter, D Hayes, ... International journal of environmental research and public health 16 (13), 2365, 2019 | 93 | 2019 |
| Open adoption: Adoptive parents' experiences of birth family contact and talking to their child about adoption M MacDonald, D McSherry Adoption & Fostering 35 (3), 4-16, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| Constrained adoptive parenthood and family transition: Adopters' experience of unplanned birth family contact in adolescence M MacDonald, D McSherry Child & Family Social Work 18 (1), 87-96, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Life under coronavirus: Children’s views on their experiences of their human rights L Lundy, B Byrne, K Lloyd, M Templeton, N Brando, ML Corr, E Heard, ... The International Journal of Children's Rights 29 (2), 261-285, 2021 | 34 | 2021 |
| ‘A picture of who we are as a family’: conceptualizing post‐adoption contact as practices of family display M MacDonald Child & Family Social Work 22, 34-43, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Understanding informal kinship care: a critical narrative review of theory and research M MacDonald, D Hayes, S Houston Families, Relationships and Societies 7 (1), 71-87, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
| Parenthood and open adoption: An interpretative phenomenological analysis M MacDonald Springer, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Hearing the voices of kinship foster carers in Northern Ireland: an inquiry into characteristics, needs and experiences S Houston, D Hayes, M MacDonald Families, Relationships and Societies 7 (2), 227-247, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
| Social work students on the island of Ireland: a cross-sectional survey C McCartan, J Byrne, J Campbell, D Coogan, G Davidson, D Hayes, ... Social Work Education 41 (2), 228-247, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe C Devaney, Ø Christiansen, J Holzer, M MacDonald, M Matias, ... European Journal of Social Work 26 (2), 335-347, 2023 | 11 | 2023 |
| Evidence Review L Bunting, L Montgomery, S Mooney, M MacDonald, S Coulter, D Hayes, ... Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Paramountcy, family rights and contested adoption: Does contact with birth relatives balance the scales? M MacDonald, P McLoughlin Child Care in Practice 22 (4), 401-407, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| Evidence review-Developing trauma-informed practice in Northern Ireland L Bunting, L Montgomery, S Mooney, M MacDonald, S Coulter, ... QUB, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Connecting of Disconnecting? Adoptive Parents’ Experiences of Post Adoption Contact and their Support Needs M MacDonald Health and Social Care Board (NI), 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
| Digital relationality, rights, resilience: conceptualising a digital social ecology for children’s birth family relationships when in care or adopted M MacDonald, AC Wright, A Taylor-Beswick, K Gillespie, S Collings The British Journal of Social Work 53 (1), 216-235, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |
| Supporting face-to-face birth family contact after adoption from care: Learning for trauma-sensitive practice M MacDonald The British Journal of Social Work 51 (3), 1060-1079, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| The conceptualisation and delivery of family support in Europe: A review of academic literature C Devaney, Ø Christiansen, J Holzer, M MacDonald, M Matias, ... | 6 | 2021 |
| Parenting capacity assessment and enhancement when a child has complex needs, developmental delay or a disability: A companions monograph to'building better futures' S Houston, L Montgomery, M MacDonald Health and Social Care Board, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Implementing E-mentoring with care-experienced youth under “lock-down”–a South African experience M MacDonald, A Dellis, S Mathews, JL Marco Journal of Children's Services 15 (4), 253-258, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| ‘They shouldn’t have to ask’: Exploring the need for specialist mental health services for care-experienced and adopted children and their families S Coulter, S Mooney, M MacDonald, L Daly Adoption & Fostering 46 (2), 166-183, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
