PHD. Students
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Adi Erez Ben-Haim
Degree- M.A in Social Work from University of Haifa.
Title of M.A. thesis: “Similarities and differences between adolescent boys and girls in emotion dialogues with their mother”.
Advisor: Dr. Nina Koren-Karie
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Sensitive challenging, emotional availability: What is the unique and the comprehensive contribution of fathers and mothers to their preschool children socio-emotional functioning?”.
Advisor: Dr. Nina Koren-Karie
Scholarships:
2010- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
2012-2015- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
E-mail address: adi.ee1983@gmail.com
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Ella Levert-Levitt
Degree- M.A in Developmental psychology, University of Haifa.
Title of MA Thesis: “Emotional Matching in Mother-Child Dialogues: Associations to Self- Representation in Pre-School Children“.
Advisor: Dr. Ora Aviezer
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Differential Susceptibility to Short- and Long-Term Effects of Lethal Combat”.
Supervising committee: Prof. Avi Sagi-Schwartz, Prof. Jay Belsky, Prof. Zahava Solomon, Prof. Richard Ebstein
Scholarships:
2010- Departmental Certificate of Excellence in Studies, Ben-Gurion University.
2012- Excellence scholarship for early completion of MA thesis, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
2013-2016- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
Publications:
Levert-Levitt E., Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2015). Integrated attachment theory. In J. D. Wright (ed.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (pp: 228-234), 2nd edition, Vol 12. Oxford: Elsevier.
Conferences’ Presentations:
Poster: Ad, E., Aviezer, O. & Tamari, R. (2013). Emotional congruency in mother-child Dialogues:
Associations to self-representation in pre-school children. A poster Session presented at The 6th
International Attachment Conference, Pavia, Italy
Symposium presentation: Levert-Levitt, E., Ziv, Y., Sagi-Schwartz, A. & Aviezer, O. (2015). Short term intervention study on classroom quality in Israeli kindergartens.
Reviewer for the SRCD conference (2015), Philadelphia, USA. Panel: Parenting & Parent-Child Relationships. Mentor: Prof. Avi Sagi-Schwartz.
E-mail address: ella1910@gmail.com
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Fadi Ayoub
Degree– M.A in Clinical & Educational Psychology, University of Haifa.
Title of M.A Thesis: “Parental Conditional Regard and Intimacy with Parents and Peers Among Arab Youth”.
Advisor: Prof. Ruth Sharabany
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Parental Conditional Regard, Autonomy Support and Adjustment among Arab Youth: Possible Mechanisms and Antecedents”.
Advisor: Prof. Ruth Sharabany
Scholarships:
2013- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
2014- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
2015- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa
E-mail address: fadi806@gmail.com
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Inbar Ariav-Paraira
Degree- M.A in Developmental psychology, University of Haifa.
Direct route to PHD
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Fine Tuning the Concept of Disrupted Maternal Affective Communication: Relations with Maternal Sensitivity, Infant Attachment, and Culture”.
Advisors: Prof. Avi Sagi-Schwartz and Prof. David Oppenheim
Scholarships:
2007-2010 – Excellence Scholarship, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
2011-2016 – President’s Scholarship for Excellence, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
Publications:
Mesman, J., van Ijzendoorn, M., Behrens, K., Carbonnel, O. A., Cárcamo, R., Cohen-Paraira, I., … Zreik, G. (2015). Is the ideal mother a sensitive mother? Beliefs about early childhood parenting in mothers across the globe. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1-13, Published online before print, doi: 10.1177/0165025415594030
E-mail address: inbarcp@gmail.com
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Lior Hamburger
Degree– M.A in Developmental Psychology, University of Haifa.
Title of M.A. Thesis: “Stability and Continuity in the Family Alliance from Toddlerhood to the Preschool age”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “The Social Skills of Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Family alliance’s contribution”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
Scholarships:
2014- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
E-mail address: liorham@gmail.com
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Michal Mottes Peleg
Degree– M.A in Clinical Psychology from Ben-Gurion University.
Title of M.A Thesis: “The Associations Between Maternal and Paternal Reflective Functioning and Quality of Mealtime Interaction in Families Having Children With and Without Feeding Disorders”.
Advisor: Dr. Na’ama Atzaba-Poria
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “The connection between parent child interaction and the social development of children with autism spectrum disorder”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
E-mail address: michal.mottes@gmail.com
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Michal Slonim
Degree– M.A in Developmental Psychology, University of Haifa.
Title of M.A Thesis: “The link between Family Alliance and Executive Functions among preschoolers”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Co-parenting and resolution of the diagnosis among parents of preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Their contributions to the Family alliance”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
Scholarships:
2008- Suzanne Zlotowski Award for outstanding candidates, Ben-Gurion University.
2011- Certificate of appreciation for academic achievement, Ben-Gurion University.
2012- Departmental Certificate of Excellence in Studies, Ben-Gurion University.
2014- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
2015- Scholarship for the completion of the Accelerated Track and the thesis within two years, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
E-mail address: michalslonim@gmail.com
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Moria Harel Yaron
Degree– M.A in Developmental Psychology, University of Haifa.
Title of M.A Thesis: “Emotion dialogues between challenging and easy foster children and their mothers: Associations with maternal insightfulness”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
Degree- M.A in Early Childhood Studies from the School of Education and School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Title of M.A Thesis: “Post-traumatic stress, Parenting Stress and Emotional Availability in Parents and Toddlers that Exposed to Recurrent Ongoing Traumatic Events”.
Advisor: Prof. Cory Shulman
Title of doctoral Dissertation: My proposed research seeks to explore the impact of Cannabis treatment on children with autism, who suffer from disruptive behaviors, on parent-child interaction. I plan to examine the Emotional Availability scales (EA) – a comprehensive construct, which describes both caregiver and child contributions to the parent-child relationship during a cannabis treatment.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
E-mail address: moriaharel@gmail.com
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Revital Tamari
Degree- M.A in clinical and educational psychology, University of Haifa.
Title of M.A Thesis: “The Influence of Maternal Reminiscing Style and Attachment Style on Their Preschool-Age Children’s Event Recall”.
Advisor: Dr. Ora Aviezer
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “The development of self through mother child autobiographical dialogues from preschool to early adolescence: A longitudinal study”.
Advisors: Dr. Ora Aviezer and Prof. David Oppenheim.
Scholarships:
2010-2013- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
Conferences’ Presentations:
Ad, E., Aviezer, O. & Tamari, R. (2013). Emotional congruency in mother-child Dialogues:
Associations to self-representation in pre-school children. A poster Session presented at The 6th
International Attachment Conference, Pavia, Italy
Tamari, R. & Aviezer, O. (2015). Can Adolescents Verbally Recall an Event They had Experienced in
Preschool? A poster session presented at The 2015 Biennial Meeting of The Society for Research
in Child Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
E-mail address: revital.tama@gmail.com
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Shira Yerachmiel
Degree- M.A in Developmental psychology, University of Haifa.
Title of M.A. Thesis: “Emotional dialogues between mothers who were Sexually abused in childhood and Adolescent children: Associations with trauma resolution level”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim and Dr. Nina Koren-Karie
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Shared versus non-Shared parenting plans following divorce: Implications for young adulthood”.
Supervising Committee: Prof. Avi Sagi-Schwartz, Chairperson, Dr. Nina Koren-Karie and Prof. William Fabricius.
Scholarships:
2010-2011- Excellence Scholarship, Dean of Students, University of Haifa.
2015-2017- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
E-mail address: syn2005@gmail.com
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Yael Maccabi
Developmental Psychologist
Degree– M.A in Developmental psychology, University of Haifa.
Title of M.A. Thesis: “Cognitive profiles of children with Autism on the K-ABC: Processing styles and IQ based subgroups”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “The Cooperative Family Alliance as a predictor of Joint Attention and Language Gains in Children with Autism”.
Advisor: Prof. David Oppenheim
Scholarships:
2015–2018- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
E-mail address: ymaccabi@gmail.com
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Ziv Shina
Degree- M.A in Developmental psychology, University of Haifa.
Direct route to PHD
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Young Adults from Shared Parenting versus Sole Custody Divorced Families: A Comparison between Parenting Plans Using the Kibbutz Environment”.
Advisor: Prof. Avi-Sagi Schwartz
Scholarships:
2010- Excellence Scholarship, Dean of Students, University of Haifa.
2011- Excellence Scholarship, Dean of Students, University of Haifa.
2012- Excellence Scholarship, Dean of Students, University of Haifa.
2013- Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
2014-2017- President’s Scholarship for Excellence, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
E-mail address: zshina@gmail.com