My research integrates Critical Disability Studies with children's socio-emotional development, focusing on the intersections between social and familial environments, and the child's awareness, validation, and coping with emotional experiences. I examine how therse factors are associated with emotional development and mental health outcomes.
As a clinical pyschologist at Schneider Children's Medical Center, I am particularly interested in the role of adolescents' emotion regulation and parents' emotion validation in the development of self-injury and suicidality. Additionally, I explore how these factors may serve as critical components in the design of effective interventions.
My work to date has focused on the socio-emotional development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children across the lifespan, specifically in the context of social, medical, and familial environments that adhere to the medical model of disability and emphasize normalization. As a research associate at the University of Haifa, I am currently developing intervention programs designed to create environmental changes in schools to promote soical inclusion of children and adolescents with disabilities.
I am also affiliated with the Department of Developmental Psychology at Leiden Universiy, Focus on Emotions lab: www.focusonemotions.nl
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