Family, Intimate Relationships and Parenthood
Senior Faculty
Research Topic:
Parents of children on the autism spectrum, parenting children and adolescents with health conditions
Research Topic:
Motherhood and fatherhood in contexts of risk, violence, and social exclusion
Research Topic:
Processes of bodily empathy, and the intergenerational transmission of post-traumatic orientation toward bodily signals
Adjunct Faculty
Research Topic:
Fatherhood in a cultural-political context, parent-child relationships, the impact of parenting styles on child development, long-term effects of various parenting practices, and the influence of parent-child relationships during late childhood and adolescence on adult family relationships.
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows
Noa Cohen
Research Topic:
The sibling subsystem, the family system, and the dynamics of abuse
Ayelet Guy Manashe
Research Topic:
The experience and meaning of love among parents whose children have been placed in out-of-home care.
Inbal Hindi
Research Topic:
Children's perception of the sibling experience.
Bella Klevanov
Research Topic:
The presence of others during incidents of child abuse within the family.
Ada Talmon
Research Topic:
The role of bodily empathy in the intergenerational transmission of a post-traumatic orientation toward the body.
Recent Publications
Talmon, Anat, Horovitz, Michal, Shabat, Nitzan, Shechter-Haramati, Orna, & Ginzburg, Karni. “Neglected moms”-The implications of emotional neglect in childhood for the transition to motherhood. Child Abuse & Neglect 88 (2019).
Talmon, Anat, & Ginzburg, Karni. "Chased by the past: The relation between childhood maltreatment and fear of childbirth." Sex Roles 81 (2019).
Talmon, Anat, Finzi-Dottan, Ricky, & Ginzburg, Karni. “I will love you (me) forever”—A longitudinal study of narcissism and emotional adjustment during the transition to motherhood." Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment 12 (2020).
Katz, Carmit, & Glucklich, Talia. "Please, Help Me!": Children’s Perceptions of Parental Dispute as Shared in Forensic Interviews Following Alleged Maltreatment." Family Process 60 (2020).
Tsur, Noga. "'My Own Flesh and Blood:' The Implications of Child Maltreatment for the Orientation Towards the Body among Dyads of Mothers and Daughters." Child Abuse & Neglect 104 (2020).
Sinai-Glazer, Hagit, Lipshes-Niv, Maya, & Peled, Einat. "The Construction of Maternal Identity among Israeli Mothers Who are Welfare Clients." Child and Family Social Work 25 (2020).
Palmor Haspel, Shoshi, Benyamini, Yael, & Ginzburg, Karni. "Transactional model of parental adjustment and caregiving burden following a children’s acquired disability." Journal of Pediatric Psychology 45 (2020).
Talmon, Anat, & Tsur, Noga. "Intergenerational Transmission of Childhood Maltreatment and Eating Disorder Behaviors: Shedding Light on the Mother-Daughter Dyad and Grandmother-Mother-Daughter Triad." Children and Youth Services Review 129 (2021).
Shilo, Guy, & Benyamini, Yael, Kahalon, Rotem, & Preis, Heidi. "Maternal Expectations among Pregnant Women from Single, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Parented Families." Journal of Family Issues 42 (2021).
Katz, Carmit, & Tener, Dafna. "My Brother’s Keeper? The Sibling Subsystem in the Context of Physical and Sexual Child Abuse." Family Process 60 (2021).
Kosher, Hanita, & Katz, Carmit. "Impairment in Parent-Child Relations in the Context of High-Intensity Parental Dispute: Practitioners’ Perceptions and Experiences." Children and Youth Services Review 132 (2022).
Kahalon, Rotem, Yanushevsky Cnaani, Gil, Preis, Heidi, & Benyamini, Yael. "The complex effects of maternal expectations on postpartum depressive symptoms: When does a protective factor become a risk factor?" Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology (in press).
