Stress and Trauma

Senior Faculty

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Prof. Yael Benyamini

Research Topic:

Research on risk factors and protective factors against depression and post-trauma after childbirth

Prof. Liat Hamama

Research Topic:

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

Prof. Zahava Solomon

Research Topic:

Psychiatric epidemiology psychological and social effects of traumas including wars, captivity, terrorism, and the Holocaust; identification of risk and resilience factors; evaluation of intervention effectiveness; treatment and rehabilitation of post-traumatic victims.

Prof. Karni Ginzburg

Research Topic:

Self-representations and body representations among survivors of traumatic events.

 

 

Prof. Guy Shilo

Research Topic:

Social pressures affecting the mental and physical health of minority groups.

 

Dr. Maya Fennig

Research Topic:

Multicultural mental health children affected by war and conflict.

Dr. Noga Tsur

Research Topic:

Interpersonal trauma and its implications for bodily perceptions and experiences; chronic post-traumatic pain; the relationship between bodily experiences during trauma and afterwards.

Dr. Shilat Nachum

Research Topic:

Identification and understanding of behavioral and neural mechanisms linking trauma and psychopathologies.

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

Dr. Daniela Shebar-Shapira

 

 

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Dr. Cigal Knei-Paz

 

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Dr. Adi Atrom

 

Dr. Ofir Levi

Research Topic:
יעילות ומועילות של טיפולים בפוסט טראומה / השפעות של טראומה על תקווה

 

MSW Ayal Varshaviak

 

 

Dr. Rony Berger

Research Topic:

הפחתת דעות קדומות וסטריאוטיפיזציה, תוכניות חברתיות רגשיות במרחב החינוכי, מיינדפולנס וחמלה

 

 

Dr. Julia Gouzman

Research Topic:

לחץ וטראומה במצבי בריאות וחולי

 

PhD students and postdoctoral fellows

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Bennit Gurish-Wingarten

Research Topic:
Changes in post-traumatic growth among female ex-prisoners of war: examining the roles of attachment and self-differentiation in these changes – a longitudinal study.

 

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Afnan Atrash Najjar

Research Topic:
Post-traumatic reactions of survivors of physical abuse in the Arab society.

 

Ada Talmon

Research Topic:
The role of embodied empathy in the vicarious transmission of post-traumatic orientation toward the body.

 

Chen Avidar

Research Topic:
Meanings of childhood sexual abuse for Palestinian men in Israel.

 

Racheli Hasson

Research Topic:
Healthy (and unhealthy) sexuality: Trauma in early childhood relationships and its connection to adult sexuality through a relational perspective.

Roi Levi

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


Recent Publications
 

Hasida Ben-Zur, Miri Cohen & Gouzman, Julia. "Posttraumatic growth moderates the effects of posttraumatic stress symptoms on adjustment and positive affective reactions in digestive system cancer patients." Psychology, Health & Medicine 20 (2014).


Talmon, Anat, & Ginzburg, Karni. “Body self” in the shadow of childhood sexual abuse: The long-term implications of sexual abuse for male and female adult survivors. Child Abuse & Neglect 76 (2018).


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, Shaham-Salomon, Nofar, & Ginzburg, Karni. "Differentiation of the self and the body and adjustment to motherhood–A latent class analysis." Journal of Affective Disorders 276 (2020).


Shilo, Guy, Antebi-Gruzka, Nadav, & Mor, Zohar. "Mental Distress, Well-Being, and Stress-Related Growth following an Anti-LGBQ Hate Crime among LGBQ Young Adults in Israel: The Effect of Familiarity with the Victims and the Mediating Role of Emotional Support." Journal of Homosexuality 67 (2020).


Hamama, Liat, Hamama-Raz, Yaira, & Native, Shlomit. "Posttraumatic Growth in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients: The Role of Illness Cognitions and Physical Quality in Life." Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis 15 (2020).
 

Tsur, Noga. "Chronic Pain Personification Following Child Abuse: The Imprinted Experience of Child Abuse in Later Chronic Pain." Journal of Interpersonal Violence (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).


Levi, Ofir, Ben Yehuda, Ariel., Pine, Daniel S., & Bar-Haim, Yair. "A Sobering Look at Treatment Effectiveness of Military-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Clinical Psychological Science  (2021).


Tsur, Noga & Katz, Carmit. "And then Cinderella was Lying in My Bed”: Dissociation Display in Forensic Interviews with Children Following Intra Familial Child Sexual Abuse.Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2021).
 

Tsur, Noga, Katz, Carmit, & Klebanov, Bella. “I Don’t Have Fur to Protect Me”: Children’s Experience of Pain as Communicated in Forensic Interviews Following Parental Physical Abuse.Children and Youth Services Review 120 (2021).

Tsur, Noga, Katz, Carmit, & Talmon, Anat. "The Shielding Effect of not Responding: Peritraumatic Responses to Child Abuse and Their Links to Posttraumatic Symptomatology.Child Abuse & Neglect 121 (2021).
 

Tsur, Noga, & Talmon, Ada. "Posttraumatic Orientation to Bodily Signals: A Systematic Literature Review." Trauma, Violence & Abuse (2021).

Kahalon, Rotem, Preis, Heidi., & Benyamini, Yael. "Mother-infant contact after birth can reduce postpartum post-traumatic stress symptoms through a reduction in birth-related fear and guilt.Journal of Psychosomatic Research 154 (2022).

 

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