Resilience, Coping, Recovery and Spirituality

Senior Faculty

 

 

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Prof. Yel Benyamini

Research Topics:
Future expectations and coping strategies as predictors of mental well-being, with a focus on fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth.

 

 

 

Prof. Liat Hamama

Research Topics:

Coping resources, subjective well-being

 

Prof. Zahava Solomon

Research Topics:

Psychiatric epidemiology; psychological and social effects of trauma including war, captivity, terrorism, and the Holocaust; identification of risk and resilience factors; evaluation of intervention effectiveness; treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with post-traumatic conditions.

 

 

Prof. Belle Gavriel-Fried

Research Topics:

Addiction and recovery

 

Prof. Hisham abu Raiya

Research Topics:

Religion, coping, spirituality, and mental well-being

 

Prof. Yafit Sulimani-Aidan

Research Topics:

Strengths-based and resilience-focused approaches and interventions in work with at-risk youth and young adults, and with the professionals who work with them.

 

 

 

 

Adjunct and Visiting Faculty

 

 

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Dr. Julia Gouzman

Research Topics:
Coping with chronic and acute illness, coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, and resilience in the face of health and illness challenges.

 

Dr. Paula Gerber-Epstein

 

Research Topics:
Development of resilience and personal and family recovery processes in the field of mental health.

 

 

 

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Dr. Guy Perel

Research Topics:
Analytical psychology, poetry.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Renana Stanger Elran

 

Dr. Ofir Levi

 

Research Topics:
The connection between prevention, resilience, and trauma.

 

 

Dr. Sandrine Brenner-Djian

 

 

PhD students and postdoctoral fellows

 

 

Daniel Franco

Research Topics:
The birth experience from fathers’ perspectives and its connection to mental health and well-being, with attention to themes related to the psychology of religion/spirituality and gender aspects.

 

Recent Publications
 

":Abu-Raiya, Hisham, "Religious/spiritual struggles, sanctification of sexuality, and sexual satisfaction among Israeli Jews
The study examines whether religious/spiritual struggles (tension and stress regarding religious and spiritual matters) related to sexuality predict sexual satisfaction among Israeli Jews. It also investigates whether sanctification of sexuality serves as a resource that may buffer the expected negative association between religious/spiritual struggles and sexual satisfaction.
In collaboration with : Annette Mahoney – Bowling Green State University

Sheked Tslil- Currently unaffiliated

 

Benimini Yael, "Women’s confidence in their body’s ability to give birth: The relationship to societal dictates regarding women’s bodies and their roles as mothers, and to the birth experience":

Research on factors that promote or undermine women’s confidence in their body’s ability to give birth, including personal perceptions of childbirth, physical experiences during pregnancy, social perceptions of motherhood, and personal tendencies such as self-objectificatio..
Funded by: Keren Sarah Peleg

 

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