Social Work practice

Senior Faculty

 

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Prof. Evgeny Tartakovsky

Research Topic:

Psychology, organizational aspects of the welfare field
 

Dr. Lior Birger

Research Topic:

Social work practice with refugees, asylum seekers, and survivors of human trafficking

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Prof. Idit Weiss-Gal

Research Topic:
Critical practices in social work

 

Dr. Hagit Sinai Glazer

Research Topic:

The helping relationship in social work: organizational, professional, and institutional aspects in the practice of social services departments.

Prof. Belle Gavriel-Fried

 

Dr. Lia Levin

Research Topic:

The intersection of welfare policy, organizational aspects, personal characteristics, and the practice of social workers.

Dr. Noga Tsur

 

Prof. Liat Hamama

Research Topic:

Growth from trauma/crisis, the contribution of personal and environmental resources in situations of stress and trauma

Dr. Ido Katri

Research Topic:

Interpretation and perception of the law among professionals in the social welfare field.

Dr. Guy Feldman

 

Dr. Yael Itzhaki-Braun

Research Topic:

Community social work practic

Prof. Riki Savaya

 

 

 

Adjunct and Visiting Faculty

Dr. Galia Weinberg-Kurnik


 

Dr. Adi Artom

 

Dr. Sarit Smila Sened

 

Dr. Paula Gerber-Epstein

Research Topic:

Training, instruction, and implementation of recovery-promoting interventions.

Dr. Ofir Levy

Research Topic:

Group interventions and therapies.

Dr. Julia Gouzman

Research Topic:

Practice of social workers in the health field, remote treatment.

Dr. Meriam Haj Houri

 

 

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Dr. Daniela Shebar-Shapira

 

Dr. Adva Berkovitch Romano

 

 

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Dr. Amit Yamin

 


 

Dr. Guy Perel

Research Topic:

Analytical psychology, poetry.

Dr. Romain Jammal Abboud

Research Topic:

Professional identity in social work.

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Dr. Nora Korin Langer

 

Dr. Tamar Gitlitz

Research Topic:

Social work with older adults.

 

MSW Inbar Adler Ben Dor

 

MSW Lili Yaron-Melamed

 

Dr. Ilana Sacks

 

Mr. Omri Bing

 

MSW Ruth Frankenburg

Research Topic:

Community social work practice.

Ms. Shlomit Giloni Barak

 

 

MSW Dana Kirshenbaum

 

 

 

PhD students and postdoctoral fellows

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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, CarmitKlages, 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, RikiLevin, 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).

 

 

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