Stress and Trauma
Senior Faculty
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Research on risk factors and protective factors against depression and post-trauma after childbirth
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Growth from trauma/crisis the contribution of personal and environmental resources in situations of stress and trauma.
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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.
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Self-representations and body representations among survivors of traumatic events.
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Social pressures affecting the mental and physical health of minority groups.
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Interpersonal trauma and its implications for bodily perceptions and experiences; chronic post-traumatic pain; the relationship between bodily experiences during trauma and afterwards.
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Identification and understanding of behavioral and neural mechanisms linking trauma and psychopathologies.
Adjunct Faculty
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הפחתת דעות קדומות וסטריאוטיפיזציה, תוכניות חברתיות רגשיות במרחב החינוכי, מיינדפולנס וחמלה
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows
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.
Racheli Hasson
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Healthy (and unhealthy) sexuality: Trauma in early childhood relationships and its connection to adult sexuality through a relational perspective.
Ada Talmon
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The role of embodied empathy in the vicarious transmission of post-traumatic orientation toward the body.
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Yael Hollander
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Patterns of peri-traumatic responses to childhood abuse and neglect and their implications for mental and physical health among adolescents:
the role of self-differentiation and positive life experiences.
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Shani Shaked
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The relationship between childhood abuse and neglect and the practice of tattooing.
Shahar Habar
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The implications of childhood abuse — with a particular focus on moral injury among survivors of childhood abuse as part of a mechanism of identification with the aggressor.
Tamar Rosenberg
Research Topic:
"The Link Between Childhood Abuse and Trauma Reenactment: The Role of Confusion and Identification with the Perpetrator"
Ayana Halpern
Research Topic:
Partners of individuals with gambling addiction: inhibiting and facilitating factors in the recovery process.
Recent Publications
Levi Ofir, "Effectiveness of CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy) and Trauma-Focused Dynamic Therapy":
How effective are CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy) and Trauma-Focused Dynamic Therapy for trauma survivors of the Iron Swords War.
In collaboration with: The National Center for Trauma and Resilience, Tel Aviv University
Levi Ofir, "Effectiveness of trauma-focused group couples intervention with couples who were at home in the Gaza Envelope on 7/10/23":
Based on a trauma-focused intervention protocol developed in 2011 for soldiers, a group couples intervention is being conducted with couples from the Gaza Envelope who survived the attack on 7/10 while at home. Under this intervention, measures of post-trauma symptoms, couple relationship quality, and functioning are assessed before the intervention, after it, and during follow-up sessions.
