Supervising Students

Post-Doctoral Fellows

2020-               Dr. Anna Harwood-Gross (Dec 2020-Nov, 2021)

2020-               Dr. Esther Schek (Dec 2020-Nov, 2021)

2016-2017       Dr. Leia Saltzman (August 2016- July 2017). Azrielli post-doctorate fellow

2016                Dr. Alana Siegel (July 2016- December 2016).

Ph.D. Students

2019-present   Gabi Bently. Fear of recurrence and resilience in breast cancer patients, Hebrew University.

2018- present  Rawan Dahabre. Trajectories of resilience and posttraumatic growth in Arab women coping with breast cancer. Hebrew University.

 

2016- 2022      Yaffa Stokar. End of Life, Posttraumatic growth, Compassion fatigue, Compassion satisfaction, Burnout, Healthcare Professionals. Hebrew University.

2014-2016       Leia Saltzman, Boston College, Dissertation (with Prof. Margaret Lombe). The Struggle to Grow: Reaching Constructive Posttraumatic Growth in Military Veterans Following a Group Intervention on Building Resilience.

2014-2016       Esther Judith Schek Positive Technologies for Promoting Emotion Regulation Abilities in Adolescents. CESCOM-Centre for Studies in Communication Sciences - Department of Human Sciences for Education - University of Milano-Bicocca

2009- 2011      Miri Bar-Halpern. Psy.D. Dissertation. (with Drs. Anne Pidano and Julian Ford) Becoming a superhero: the development of a book for children who have been exposed to terrorist attacks. University of Hartford.

2003- 2005     Meira Demb, Adelphi University NY, Clinical Psychology, Ph.D. Resilience in Time of Terror: Individual, Social and Familial Protective Factors in Israeli Adolescents.

M.A Students

2023              Noa Anikster-Oren. School of Social Work and Social Welfare. Traumatic giving births

2021-             Esther Benhamou. Department of Psychology, Hebrew University Moral Injury.

2018-2020     Hanan Jeries Khoury. Paul Baerwald School of Social work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University. Compassion, Compassion Fatigue and the journey between them Among Palliative Care Nursing Team.

2016-2017     Yael Gumpel. Paul Baerwald School of Social work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University. The role of social support and self-efficacy in moderating the impact of traumatic events and use of social media on posttraumatic growth.

2015-2017      Sharon Tzuberi. Paul Baerwald School of Social work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University. Co-regulation of emotions: The impact of war and trauma on mothers and young children.

2015-2016      Rawan Dahabre. Paul Baerwald School of Social work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University. Post traumatic Growth in breast cancer patients: Comparisons of the centrality of social support between Arab and Jewish women.  

2015-2016      Rachel Morris. Paul Baerwald School of Social work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University. Evaluation of PANDA BEAR intervention for building emotion and affect regulation in children.

2015-2016      Moshe Nagdai, University of Potsdam, Germany, Clinical Psychology, M.A. (with Prof. Dr. Psych. Ulrich Schiefele from the). Living Trauma: Exploring the effects that ongoing political violence, maternal emotion regulation and maternal post-traumatic distress have on a child's executive functions and sensory modulation abilities over time.

2013-2015      Reut Cohen, Ruppin Academic Center, Clinical Psychology, M.A. (with Dr. Hava Bar David). The relationship between the Type of Trauma, Alexitymia level, the level of Post-Traumatic Symptoms and Physical Complaints in children.

 2013-2014     Efrat Shmueli, Hebrew University, Clinical Psychology, M.A. (with Dr. Yifth Yovel). The relationship between parental and child posttraumatic related distress: Mothers and fathers of young children exposed to terrorism and war.

2013                Miri Barhak, Hebrew University, Child Clinical Psychology, M.A. (With Dr. Noa Saka). The Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1.5–5: Validation in a population-based Israeli-Jewish sample and comparisons to the cultural mean and an Israeli-Arab sample.

2012                Avi Kenan. Hebrew University, Clinical Psychology, M.A. (with Prof. Eitan Bachar). An alternative Mosel for identifying children with posttraumatic distress: using protective factors for screening.

2008-2009       Irit Schwartz, Hebrew University, Clinical Psychology, M.A. (with Dr. Yifth Yovel). Coping with radiotherapy for breast cancer among patients and their spouses: relationship between dyadic coping, chemotherapy, symptomatic distress, psychological distress and resilience.

2006-2007       Zukerman Itay, Hebrew University, Clinical Psychology, M.A. (with Dr. Yifth Yovel). The Association Between the development of emotional distress and posttraumatic disorder in toddlers exposed to terrorism, and parental characteristics.   

2005-2006       Simon Yuval, Tel Aviv Yaffo Academic College, Clinical Psychology, M.A. (with Prof Ronit Avitsur). Symptoms of posttraumatic distress, functional impairment and resiliency in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

2004-2005       Michal Rabinowitz, Hebrew University, Clinical Psychology, M.A. (with Dr.Joop Meijers). Social support and self-efficacy as protective factors from posttraumatic distress among adolescents exposed to terrorism.

2003-2004       Tomer Miron, Hebrew University, School of Education, Child Psychology, M.A. (with Dr. Joop Meijers). The Association between Exposure to Terrorism and Posttraumatic Distress to Risk Behaviors among Adolescents.

2003-2004       Zivit Ben Haim, Budapest University, Clinical Psychology, M.A. PTSD and Risk-Taking Behaviors among Adolescents in Continuous Reality of Terrorism.

2002-2003        Ayala Daie, Bar-Ilan University, Child Psychology, M.A. (with Dr. Eva Gilboa-Schechtman). Emotional Regulation among Adolescents Suffering from Posttraumatic Distress

Recent Research Grants

2019- 2023       Joint research with Utrecht university on Continuous Traumatic Stress (7,500$ for two years)

2017-2022       Predicting Resilience in Breast Cancer Patients for Helping Women to BOUNCE Back – BOUNCE. Funded by Horizon 2020 (A collaborative project with Finland, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Israel (A total of 4 million Euro, 515,000 Euro for the Hebrew University). Starting on November 2017.

2020- 2021     University of Alberta HREC Research Grant Competition. Research on: Moral Injury: A Comparative Study with Offspring of Holodomor and Holocaust Survivors with Prof Larysa Zasiekina from Eastern European National University, Ukraine. awarded $3,550 CAD.

Lectures on YouTube:

  • Van der kolk - Childhood adversity and attachment disruptions: Restoration by establishing synchrony (from 1:30’’- 2:00’’)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6p93kV054Q

 

  • The Psychological Toll of The War In Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jv5Ry_USp

 

Other Media:

  • Leaving Israel: A Hijacking Victim Tries to Remember
    Haaretz English, July 19 2023

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-19/ty-article-magazine/.prem...