Social Work practice
Senior Faculty
Research Topic:
Social work practice with refugees, asylum seekers, and survivors of human trafficking
Research Topic:
The helping relationship in social work: organizational, professional, and institutional aspects in the practice of social services departments.
Research Topic:
The intersection of welfare policy, organizational aspects, personal characteristics, and the practice of social workers.
Research Topic:
Growth from trauma/crisis, the contribution of personal and environmental resources in situations of stress and trauma
Research Topic:
Interpretation and perception of the law among professionals in the social welfare field.
Adjunct and Visiting Faculty
Research Topic:
Training, instruction, and implementation of recovery-promoting interventions.
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows
Sharon Razon
Research Topic:
The relationship between components of professional identity among social workers in the public sector and personal values, perceptions of the organizational demand for implementing 'managerialism,' and client involvement in decision-making.
Noa Frizian-Steinberg
Research Topic:
Predicting the intention to work in the field of aging among social work students.
Milena Yaari
Research Topic:
Factors predicting the sustainability of social-business ventures.
Recent Publications
Katz, Carmit. "Stand by Me: The Effect of Emotional Support on Children`s Testimonies." British Journal of Social Work (2013).
Katz, Carmit, Barnetz, Zion, & Hershkowitz, Irit. "The Effect of Drawing on Children's Experiences of Investigations following Alleged Child Abuse." Child Abuse & Neglect 38 (2014).
Katz, Carmit, Klages, Anna-Lisa, & Hamama, L. "Forensic Investigation with Children: Exploring the Richness of Children's Drawing and the Richness of their Testimony." Children and Youth Services Review 94 (2018).
Levin, Lia, Benish-Weisman, Maya, & Savaya, Riki. "Value Profiles and Perceived Job Performance of Social Workers in Israel." British Journal of Social Work 50 (2020).
Levin, Lia, Roziner, Ilan, & Savaya, Riki. "Professional Identity, Perceived Job Performance and Sense of Personal Accomplishment among Social Workers in Israel: The Overriding Significance of the Working Alliance." Health & Social Care in the Community (2020).
Tartakovsky, Eugene. "Ethnic Minority and Majority Social Workers Working with Ethnic Minority Clients: Culture-Bound Professional Interventions and Burnout Among Arab and Jewish Israeli Social Workers." Research on Social Work Practice (2021, published online).
Tartakovsky, Eugene. "Acculturation Orientations, Professional Interventions and Burnout Amongst Ethnic Minority Social Workers Working with Ethnic Minority Clients: A Case of Arab Citizens of Israel." The British Journal of Social Work (2021, published online).
Itzhaki-Braun, Yael. "Coping with COVID- 19: Resilience factors among community social workers." British Journal of Social Work (2021).
Savaya, Riki, Levin, Lia, & Roziner, Ilan. "Social Workers in Israel: Daily Stressors, Work Benefits, Burnout and Well-Being." British Journal of Social Work 51 (2021).
Feldman, Guy, Itzhaki-Braun, Yael, Frankenburg, Ruth, & Friedman-Haser, Gal. "Let’s talk about our feelings: Emotional labour of community practice in times of pandemic." Social Policy & Administration (2022).
