Resilience, Coping, Recovery and Spirituality
Senior Faculty
Research Topics:
Future expectations and coping strategies as predictors of mental well-being, with a focus on fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth.
Research Topics:
Psychiatric epidemiology; psychological and social effects of trauma including war, captivity, terrorism, and the Holocaust; identification of risk and resilience factors; evaluation of intervention effectiveness; treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with post-traumatic conditions.
Research Topics:
Strengths-based and resilience-focused approaches and interventions in work with at-risk youth and young adults, and with the professionals who work with them.
Adjunct and Visiting Faculty
Research Topics:
Coping with chronic and acute illness, coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, and resilience in the face of health and illness challenges.
Research Topics:
Development of resilience and personal and family recovery processes in the field of mental health.
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows
Daniel Franco
Research Topics:
The birth experience from fathers’ perspectives and its connection to mental health and well-being, with attention to themes related to the psychology of religion/spirituality and gender aspects.
Recent Publications
":Abu-Raiya, Hisham, "Religious/spiritual struggles, sanctification of sexuality, and sexual satisfaction among Israeli Jews
The study examines whether religious/spiritual struggles (tension and stress regarding religious and spiritual matters) related to sexuality predict sexual satisfaction among Israeli Jews. It also investigates whether sanctification of sexuality serves as a resource that may buffer the expected negative association between religious/spiritual struggles and sexual satisfaction.
In collaboration with : Annette Mahoney – Bowling Green State University
Sheked Tslil- Currently unaffiliated
Benimini Yael, "Women’s confidence in their body’s ability to give birth: The relationship to societal dictates regarding women’s bodies and their roles as mothers, and to the birth experience":
Research on factors that promote or undermine women’s confidence in their body’s ability to give birth, including personal perceptions of childbirth, physical experiences during pregnancy, social perceptions of motherhood, and personal tendencies such as self-objectificatio..
Funded by: Keren Sarah Peleg
