Family, Intimate Relationships and Parenthood

Senior Faculty

Prof. Evgeny Tartakovsky

Research Topic:

Motivations for Parenthood

Prof. Liat Hamama

Research Topic:

Parents of children on the autism spectrum, parenting children and adolescents with health conditions

 

Prof. Yael Benyamini

Research Topic:
Pregnancy and childbirth, and the transition to parenthood

 

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Prof. Einat Peled

Research Topic:

Motherhood and fatherhood in contexts of risk, violence, and social exclusion

 

Prof. Bilha Davidson Arad

Research Topic:

Mental Health  


Prof. Ronit Dina Leichtentritt

Research Topic:

Family Coping with Loss

 


Prof. Karni Ginzburg

Research Topic:

Parenting in the shadow of childhood trauma

 

Prof. Guy Shilo

Research Topic:

Family definitions, non-heterosexual families, LGBTQ parenting

 

Dr. Noga Tsur

Research Topic:

Processes of bodily empathy, and the intergenerational transmission of post-traumatic orientation toward bodily signals

 


 

 

Dr. Hagit Sinai Glazer

Research Topic:
Motherhood and well-being

 

 

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Rotem Shapira

 

 

Dr. Paula Gerber-Epstein

 

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Dr. Sigal Kani-Paz

 

 

Dr. Meirav Shamir-Dardikman

 

Dr. Maram Masarwa

 

Mr. Eyal Varshavyak

 

Dr. Galia Weinberg-Kornick

 

Adv. Shmuel Moran

 

Dr. Guy Perl

Research Topic:
Analytical Psychology, Poetry

 

 

 

 

Dr. Roman Jamal Aboud

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

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Noa Cohen

Research Topic:
The sibling subsystem, the family system, and the dynamics of abuse

 

 

Tami Samish-Namlich

Research Topic:
The relationship between post-traumatic symptoms, parental identity, and components of social information processing and the parental functioning of Israeli mothers of preschool children.

 

Ayelet Guy Manashe

Research Topic:
The experience and meaning of love among parents whose children have been placed in out-of-home care.

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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.

 

Reut Aram Fichman

Research Topic:
Parental perception and quality of life among parents living in poverty: The role of personality factors, structural factors, perception, and social action.

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Tamar Dahan

Research Topic:

Women victims of violence convicted of killing their abusive partners.

Nitzan Kidra

Research Topic:
Women's confidence in their body's ability to give birth.


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).

 

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