Resilience, Coping, Recovery and Spirituality

Senior Faculty

 

 

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Prof. Yel Benyamini

Research Topics:
Future expectations and coping strategies as predictors of mental well-being, with a focus on fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth.

 

 

 

Prof. Liat Hamama

Research Topics:

Coping resources, subjective well-being

 

Prof. Zahava Solomon

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.

 

 

Prof. Belle Gavriel-Fried

Research Topics:

Addiction and recovery

 

Prof. Hisham abu Raiya

Research Topics:

Religion, coping, spirituality, and mental well-being

 

Prof. Yafit Sulimani-Aidan

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

 

 

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Dr. Julia Gouzman

Research Topics:
Coping with chronic and acute illness, coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, and resilience in the face of health and illness challenges.

 

Dr. Paula Gerber-Epstein

 

Research Topics:
Development of resilience and personal and family recovery processes in the field of mental health.

 

 

 

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Dr. Guy Perel

Research Topics:
Analytical psychology, poetry.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Renana Stanger Elran

 

Dr. Ofir Levi

 

Research Topics:
The connection between prevention, resilience, and trauma.

 

 

Dr. Sandrine Brenner-Djian

 

 

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
 

Julia Gouzman, Miri Cohen, Hasida Ben-Zur, Einat Shacham-Shmueli, Dan Aderka, Nava Siegelmann-Danieli & Alex Beny. "Resilience and Psychosocial Adjustment in Digestive System Cancer." Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings 22 (2015).


Abu-Raiya, Hisham, & Jamal, Haneen. "The links between religious coping and subjective well-being among Israeli-Muslims who lost a beloved person through death." Death Studies 45 (2019).


Nouman, Hani, & Benyamini, Yael. "The contribution of social-environmental factors to the emotional adjustment of Israeli religious Jewish women coping with infertility." Women & Health 59 (2019).


Nouman, Hani, & Benyamini, Yael. "Religious women’s coping with infertility: Do culturally adapted religious coping strategies contribute to well-being and health." International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 26 (2019).


Abu-Raiya, Hisham, Sasson, Tali, Pargament, Kenneth I., & Rosmarin, David H. "Religious coping and health and well-being among Jews and Muslims in Israel." International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 30 (2020).


Abu-Raiya, Hisham, Sasson, Tali, Russo-Netzer, Pninit. "Presence of meaning, search for meaning, satisfaction with life, and depressive symptoms among a diverse Israeli sample." The International Journal of Psychology 56 (2020).


Levi, Ofir. "The role of hope in psychodynamic therapy (PDT) for complex PTSD (C-PTSD)." Journal of Social Work Practice 34 (2020). 


Abu-Raiya, Hisham, & Sulleiman, Reem. "Direct and indirect links between religious coping and posttraumatic growth among Muslims who lost their kids due to automobile accident." Journal of Happiness Studies 22 (2021).


Hamama, Liat, & Levin-Dagan, Naama. "People who Contracted COVID-19: The Mediating Role of Shame and Guilt in the Link between Threatening Illness Perception and Mental Health Measures." Anxiety, Stress, & Coping (2021).


Todorova, Irina, Albers, Liesemarie, Aronson, Nicole, Baban, Adriana, Benyamini, Yael... & Ζlatarska, Asya. “What I thought was so important isn’t really that important”: International perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-1 pandemic." Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine 9 (2021)

 

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