Ph.D. Students

  • Dorit Eldar. Subject: Young Adult Sons and Daughters of Divorced Parents (October 1998-August 2004, together with Prof. Charles Greenbaum). 
  • Lauren Wolfsfeld. Subject: The Effect of Students’ Learning and Pedagogic Style on their Professional Competence as a Result of Field Work Practicum (October 2001-November 2007). 
  • Becky Leshem. Subject: The Mental Health Consequences of the Exposure of Israeli Youth to Community Violence: The Moderating Roles of Family Support and Teacher Support (April 2004-June 2007). 
  • Nader Shhadi. Subject: Families Who Lost Their Child Through October 2000 Demonstrations: Processes of Grief, Trauma, and Identity (March 2004-December 2007). 
  • Zohar Shahar-Lavee. Subject: Families of Women Victims of Femicide (May 2003-November 2011). 
  • Boaz Brunstein. Subject: Parents’ Responses to the Victimization of their Children at School (March 2003-April 2010). 
  • Yigal Leshem. Subject: Divorced Formerly Battered Women in the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel (January 2004-December 2012). 
  • Haneen Ilias-Karram. Subject: On Being a Therapist of Sex Offenders: Personal, Interpersonal, and Professional Processes (October 2007-May 2013). 
  • Raghda Naboulsy. Subject: The Lived Experience of Arab Battered Women (October 2007-March 2014). 
  • Neveen Ali Saleh. Subject: Mental Health Consequences of Exposure to Community Violence: A Study among Palestinian Parents and their Children (March 2012-May 2018). 
  • Anat Danan-Vass. Subject: The Experience of Children of Battered Women Staying in Shelters for Battered Women (October 2012-May 2020). 
  • Nati Becker. Subject: Perceptions of Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Young Adults of their Experience of Life in the Shadow of their Divorced Parents. (October 2013-February 2021). 
  • Nehad Zarkawy. Subject: The Experience of Sex Offenders in Therapy (October 2013-April 2021). 
  • Heba Zedan. Subject: The Experience of Newly Wed Arab Couples With Racism and Micro-Aggression and their Impact on Their Mental Health, Marital Relations, and Parenting (October 2015-April 2023). 
  • Shireen Sokar. Subject: Long-Term Effects of Exposure to Child Abuse and Neglect on Marital Relations and Parenting among Newly Wed Arab Couples. (January 2018- Dissertation submitted in April 2023). 
  • Limor Lotan. Subject: Identity Characteristics of Adults Adopted as Children: A Trauma Theory Driven Narrative Research. (October 2018- April 2022). 
  • Arwa Majadlih. Subject: The Relationship Between Young Adults' Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Risk Behaviors, and Future Aspirations (September 2022-Continue).