Students

Social Work (1976-1990)

M.A.

Tamar Arad, The use of disciplinary techniques and moral development in delinquent and nondelinquent adolescents (co-supervision with Prof. Zvi Eisikovits).

Yisrael Ascher, Help-giving by a worker beyond the line of duty.

Rachel Dvir, Custody dispute as perceived by Israeli social workers (co-supervision with Prof. Zvi Eisikovits) See paper # 48 in list of publications. See more

Liora Findler, Assessment of maternal and family risk factors affecting the infant’s physical development, the mother’s perception of the infant and the mother’s perception of the family unit (co-supervision with Prof. Victor Florian).

Currently professor in the school of social work at Bar Ilan University.

Contract information: findler@biu.ac.il, Personal page.

Avner Galili, The adjustment of “out sider children” to kibbutz life.

Raphaela Ginger, Education for parenthood as a means of increasing fathers’ competence in their babies’ upbringing.

Irit Goldenberg, Value biases of social workers about the role of mothers and fathers in the family and treatment (co-supervision with Prof. Rivka Eisikovits).

Yael Harel, The congruence of the quality of attachment between two children to a single caregiver.

Tirtsa Joels, Mother-Infant interaction observed during “Love hour” in Kibbutz infants’ houses and the development of infant-mother attachment.

Nina Koren-Karie, Professional decisions made by social workers regarding infant-mother attachment co-supervised with Prof. Alexander Guiora) See paper # 47 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Rivka Resheff, Childrearing fathers and their influence on preschoolers. See paper # 26 in list of publications Hebrew reprints https://tinyurl.com/4tj2ny

Lester Zaruches, Characteristics of fathers of physically abused children in Israel.

Psychology (1990-present)

M.A.

Lina Ammar, The Ideal Sensitive Mother According to Perceptions of Arabic Mothers

Shiran Amosi, The Relationship between Post-Divorce Child Parenting and Self-Esteem in Young Adults

Halelli Asher-Rabino, Children migration after divorce – developmental psychological aspects and guide lines for construction of educated legal policy

Gali Aviv, The relation between attachment and temperament during infancy and development of anxiety 11 years later (co-supervision with Prof. Yair Bar-Haim)

Gili Ben-Ari, Association between objective and subjective sleep measurements and infant temperament as perceived by their mothers

Anat Ben-Noon, Choosing child-care arrangements for infants in Israel: Maternal considerations, attitudes, knowledge, and sources of information (co-supervision with Prof. Nina Koren-Karie).

Daphna Ben-Yehuda, The socio-emotional and family background of mothers who choose day care centers for their infants.

Lior Brody Luzon, Quality of Preschool Teacher-Child Emotional Dialogues and their Relation to Teacher's Burnout (co-supervision with Prof. Nina Koren-Karie).

Dorith Bustan, Early intervention for the improvement of mother-premature-infant interaction) co-supervision with Prof. Yohanan Eshel) See paper # 27 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Chaviva Deitcher-Mizrachi, Quality of day care, sensitivity of the caregiver and aggressive behavior in early childhood in daycare centers in Israel (co-supervision with Dr. Efi Stolarski).

Shachar Duek, The Role of Trauma Memory Modification in Posttraumatic Stress Outcomes: A Prospective Study of War Veterans (co-supervision with Prof. Sharon Dekel).

Noa Egoz-Mizrachi, The emotional quality of day care centers in Israel (co-supervision with Prof. Nina Koren-Karie). See paper # 96 list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Gil Eisen Tessel, The Long-Term Implications of Post-Divorce Parenting Plans While Considering Age at the Time of Parental Divorce.

Maayan Eliahu Ifhar, Characteristics of Emotional Availability of the Caregiver and of Emotional Response of the Child during Diaper Changing: a relation to day care quality (co-supervision with Dr. Efi Stolarski).

Bat-Chen Gabay, Interaction between Structure and Process Characteristics of Child Center Care in Israel (co-supervision with Dr. Efi Stolarski).

Motti Gini, Patterns of attachment in infancy as related to emotional responses to separations in early adolescence: A longitudinal study.

Elad Green, The relation between protective factors and risk factors during the Holocaust and between lack of mourning, trauma and post-traumatic symptoms: Fifty years after World War II (co-supervision with Dr. Dr. Sarit Alkalay).

Tali Grossmann, Intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust trauma and the adreno-cortical system.

Nurit Gur-Yaish, Characterization of two early intervention programs: “HORIM” and “HATAF” (co-supervision with Prof. Nina Koren-Karie).

Currently senior lecturer in the M. Teach Program at Oranim College of Education.

Contact information: ngur@univ.haifa.ac.il, Personal Page.

Yoav Guttman, Marital Change in The Transition from Middle Age to The Third Age Among Combat Veterans.

Sarit Guttmann-Steinmetz, The emotional availability of the mother-infant dyad: Interrelatedness with mother’s perception of her marital relations and social support systems (co-supervision with Prof. Nina Koren-Karie).

Anat Heimberg, The Israeli educational system’s attunement to emotional-developmental needs: High-school student’s perspective.

Kinneret Levavi, Congruence between child and teacher reports on the child's self-concept: Relations to quality of classroom climate (co-supervision with Prof. Yair Ziv).

Aya Klein-Manor, The Associations among Children's Attachment Representations, Self- Concept, and Social Behavior in Kindergarten (co-supervision with Prof. Yair Ziv).

Irena Krivosheev, The role of the perception of the parental bonding in the process of intergenerational transmission of attachment between mothers and their adult children in families of Ex-Prisoners from the Yom Kippur war (co-supervision with Prof. Gad Zerach).

Yafit Los-Hasdiel, The family environment and teacher-student relationship in relation to first grade students' academic motivation.

Yamit Nehab, Mothers' Mind-Mindedness toward their infants at 6 months: Relations with infant attachment at 1 year and with children's attribution of mind at age 4.5 (co-supervision with Prof. David Oppenheim).

Yamit Ophir-Goldstein, The Moderating Effects of Genetics Towards Resilience and Adaptation in Holocaust survivors.

David Oppenheim, The relationship between early infant attachment and later social-emotional development in kindergarten kibbutz children (co-supervision with Prof. Ruth Sharabany).

See papers # 38, 39 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Haifa.

Contact information: oppenhei@psy.haifa.ac.il, Personal Page.

Tsabar Oz, The link between adolescent self-concept and the representations of their relationship with their parents (co-supervision with Prof. Ora Aviezer).

Hadil Saba, Maternal sensitivity - Universal or culture-bound.

Naama Snir, In face of the future: Future orientation and cognitive strategies of defensive pessimism and optimism (co-supervision with Prof. Rachel Seginer).

Dalit Spindel Havis, The Long Term Effects of Early Care: Prediction of Adolescent Behavioral Adjustments in Relationship to the Type of Attachments and Types of Child Care during Infancy (co-supervision with Prof. Ora Aviezer).

Yinon Teitelbaum, Quality of Preschool Teacher-Child Emotional Dialogues and their Relations to the Child's Exploration and Initiative Behavior (co-supervision with Prof. Nina Koren-Karie).

PhD

Sarit Alkalay

Pro-social Tendencies of Adult Daughters of Holocaust Survivors (co-supervision with Hadas Wiseman). See paper # 134 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently lecturer in the Department of Psychology at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College

Contact information: saritalkalay@gmail.com, Personal Page.

Efrat Barel

Consequences of the Holocaust for Survivors: A Meta-Analysis (co-supervision with Marinus van IJzendoorn). See paper # 107 in list of publications https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently senior lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College.

Contact information: efratb@yvc.ac.il, Personal Page.

Inbar Cohen Paraira

Fine Tuning the Concept of Disrupted Maternal Affective Communication: Relations with Maternal Sensitivity, Infant Attachment, and Culture (co-supervision with Prof. David Oppenheim). See papers # 136, 137, 138 in list of publications https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Contact information: inbarcp@gmail.com

Ayelet Etzion-Carasso

Establishment of goal corrected partnership between mothers and their children: Relations with attachment in infancy (co-supervision with Prof. David Oppenheim).

Contact information: aetzion@gmail.com

Ayala Friedman (Ph.D. Leiden University)

Surviving early childhood trauma: Effects of the Holocaust on survivors’ psychological and physiological well-being (co-supervision with Marinus van IJzendoorn and Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg). See papers # 108, 110, 115 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently lecturer in the department of early childhood education at Oranim College of Education.

Contact information: ayala.fridman@gmail.com, Personal Page.

Motti Gini

Joint story telling between mothers and their 7-year-olds: relations to early.

Attachment (co-supervision with David Oppenheim). See paper # 98 in list of publications https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Contact information: mottigini@gmail.com

Tirtsa Joels

Attachment Representation and Spousal Relationship in Second Generation to the Holocaust

Currently Professor in the Interdisciplinary Programs in Child Development and Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa.

Contact information: joels@psy.haifa.ac.il, Personal Page.

Ella Levert-Levitt

Differential Susceptibility to Short- and Long-Term Effects of Lethal Combat (in progress) (supervising committee: Jay Belsky, Zahava Solomon, Richard Ebstein).

Nina Koren-Karie

Differences between mothers who send their infants to day care centers versus mothers who stay at home with their infants (Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (co-supervision with Prof. Charles Greenbaum)

Currently professor in the school of social work at the University of Haifa.

Contact information :nkoren@psy.haifa.ac.il, Personal Page

Zvi Mark

Teacher-student relationship as a “secure base” for the child’s emotional wellbeing, academic motivation and functioning in school. See paper # 118 in list of publications Hebrew reprints https://tinyurl.com/4tj2ny

Contact information zvi.mark@gmail.com

Miri Scharf

Patterns of Attachment and Emotional Expression Among Adolescents in different Family and Educational Environments (co-supervision with Prof. Rachel Hertz-Lazarovitz).

Currently Professor in the department of counseling and human development at the University of Haifa.

Contact information: scharfm@edu.haifa.ac.il, Personal Page.

Liat Segal

Quality of Preschool Teacher-Child Emotional Dialogues and their Relations to the Child's Emotional Understanding, Problem Behavior, Prosocial Behavior and Empathy Concern (in progress) (co-supervision with Prof. Nina Koren-Karie).

Efrat Sher-Censor

Discrepancies between Adolescents and Mothers perception of their communication: Relation with communication characteristics and emotional and cognitive factors. (co-supervision with David Oppenheim). See paper # 112 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently Professor in the Interdisciplinary Programs in Child Development at the University of Haifa.

Contact information: esher@psy.haifa.ac.il, Personal Page.

Ziv Shina

The effect of various parenting plans following divorce in childhood on the wellbeing of young adults (in progress) (supervising committee: Prof. Ora Aviezer, Prof. Linda Nielsen).

Efi Stolarski

Caregiver sensitivity and the quality of daycare: Risk factors and moderating factors in early childhood care facilities settings in Israel.

Currently lecturer in the department of early childhood education at Oranim College of Education.

Contact information: efistol@gmail.com, Personal Page

Shirly Shira Yerachmiel

Shared versus non-shared parenting plans following divorce: Implications for I young adulthood (in progress) (supervising committee: Prof. William Fabricius, Prof. Nina Koren-Karie).

Yair Ziv

Infant-mother attachment and social information processing in middle childhood (co-supervision with David Oppenheim). See paper # 87 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development, University of Haifa.

Contact information: yziv@edu.haifa.ac.il, Personal Page.

Ghadir Zreik

Infant-Mother attachment in the Arab population in Israel.

(co-supervision with David Oppenheim). See paper # 130, 132 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently lecturer in the Department of Psychology at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College.

Contact information: gadir_zr@yahoo.com, Personal Page.

Post Doc

Ora Aviezer

Ora has been a key player in the study of communal sleep in Israeli kibbutzim, look for details in the pertinent Research section). See items 28, 29, 32, 38, 39, 53, 56, 62, 64, 65, 71, 74, 76, 78, 92, 105, see publications list https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n.

Currently professor in the Department of Psychology at Tel Hai College.

Contact information: oaviezer@psy.haifa.ac.il, Personal Page.

Maayan Davidov

Currently Professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew university of Jerusalem.

Contact information: maayan.davidov@gmail.com, Personal Page.

Outstanding undergraduates with remarkable achievements

The two Yair: An exceptional and inspirational case of two undergraduate students who had taken a very bold and ambitious research initiative while still BA students. Each of them has become a leader in his respective field.

Yair Berson

See paper # 75 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently professor in the Degroote School of Business at McMaster University.

Contact information: bersony@mcmaster.ca, Personal Page.

Yair Bar Haim

See paper # 75 in list of publications. https://tinyurl.com/2p8khm5n

Currently Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the Tel Aviv University.

Contact information: yair1@tauex.tau.ac.il, Personal Page.