Loss and Bereavement

 Senior Faculty

 

 

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Prof. Ronit Leichtentritt

Research Topics:

Ethical dilemmas (right to die, posthumous sperm retrieval, causing death).

Prof. Hisham abu Raiya

 

 

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

Ms. Ruth Frankenburg

Research Topics:

Community coping with loss and bereavement.

Galia Weinberg-Kurnik 

 

 

PhD students and postdoctoral fellows

Roi Levi

Research Topics:

Loss, grief, and post-traumatic growth among LGBTQ+ individuals and their parents.

 

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Talila Nesser Konda

Research Topics:
Memory and forgetting: the lived experience of losing a parent during the period of infantile amnesia.

 

Moran Buta Shamer

Research Topics:
The meaning of the transition to motherhood among mothers without a mother.

Dr. Reem Nashef-Hamoudah

Research Topics:
The experience of bereavement following the loss of a grandchild in war among grandmothers and grandfathers from the Arab and Druze communities in Israel

 

 

 

(Photo: Studio Bayan)

Natali Mor

Research Topics:
The meaning of the longing for death.

 

 

 

Recent Publications
 

Leichtentritt, Ronit D., Leichtentritt, Judy, & Mahat Shamir, Michal. "Shadows from the past: The mothering experience of women survivors of maternal suicide." Journal of Social Work 18 (2018).
 

Mahat-Shamir, Michal, Davidson Arad, BilhaShilo, Guy, Adler, Ronit, & Leichtentritt, Ronit D. "The family in the view of Israeli adolescents in foster care." Journal of Social Work 18 (2018).
 

Mahat-Shamir, Michal, Hamama-Raz, Yaira, & Leichtentritt, Ronit D. "Body perception and organ donation: Bereaved parents’ perspectives." Qualitative Health Research 29 (2019).


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).


Leichtentritt, Ronit D. & Weinberg Kurnik, Galia. "Bereaved parents’ unwillingness to participate in a joint research interview: The case of feticide." Health Care for Women International 41 (2020).
 

Rezniski, Shirli, Doron, Israel, & Leichtentritt, Ronit D. "Perception of death and its role in end-of-life decisions." In S. Brill, J. Cohen-Mansfield, H. Hazan & S. Lavi (Eds.), When life ends: Medicine, law and culture confronting death in Israel (Hebrew; Hakibutz Hameohad: Red Line Pub, 2020).
 

Rezniski, Shirli, Doron, Israel, & Leichtentritt, Ronit D. "Towards the end of life – making medical decisions: From autonomy to relational autonomy." Maazani Michpat 13 (2020) (Hebrew).
 

Weinberg-Kurnik, Galia, Anchoo, Ofra. & Leichtentritt, Ronit D. "Standing in Spaces and Feeling Alright: The Experience of Bereaved Fathers of Fallen Soldiers in Israel." Psychology of Men and Masculinity 22 (2021).


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).


Mahat-Shamir, Michal, Leichtentritt, Ronit D., Zinman, Lara, & Pitcho-Prelorentzos, Shani. "The unseen: Disenfranchised grief experiences among bereaved family members as a result of homicide." In R. Peled-Laskov, E. Soham & M. Hovav (eds.), Victims of crime: Juridical, social and psychological outcomes. (Hebrew; in press).

 

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