The Trauma and Resilience Research Group
Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://en.sw.huji.ac.il/resilience-research-group
The Trauma and Resilience Research Group is a group of researchers from the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem who conduct multidisciplinary research on the broad consequences of trauma and the factors that promote or inhibit resilience. We are interested in local and international research projects that employ an ecological perspective and focus on risk and protective behaviors, violence in different contexts, racism, macroaggressions and mass trauma.
Our Team:
Miriam Schiff, Ph.D is a Professor and Zena Harman Chair in Social Work at Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is also the chair of the Baerwald school and Hadassah university medical center research group on social work in health care. Her research interests are in (a) the moderators and mediator factors explaining the associations between man-made trauma and substance use as well as other health and mental health indicators among children and adolescents; (b) rehabilitation and grief and bereavement among veterans and their families; (c) social work in health care including the impact of COVID-19 on social workers and vulnerable groups.
Miriam.schiff@mail.huji.ac.Il.
Dana Lassri, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and director of the ChARM research Lab at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a research fellow at UCL, and a clinical psychologist. Her research and practice focus on the implications of childhood adversities and exposure to traumatic stress throughout the life span, secondary traumatic stress among helping professionals and teaching staff, and the bio-psycho-social aspects of Endometriosis. Her main objectives are identifying risk and protective factors and promoting resilience via the development of psychotherapeutic (mentalizing-based) interventions in these fields.
Dana.Lassri@mail.huji.ac.il.
Ohad Gilbar, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Gilbar – both in terms of research and clinical work – has focused on the contribution of traumatic event exposure, PTSD/CPTSD, and gender in face–to-face and cyber intimate partner violence. Additionally, he works on developing and validating measurements to assess these issues.
ohad.gilbar@mail.huji.ac.il.
Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, Ph.D. is a Full Professor at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a clinical psychologist. Her research topics focus on risk and protective factors for childhood PTSD, relational trauma, resilience and posttraumatic growth, and recently, on the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
ruth.pat-horenczyk@mail.huji.ac.il
Postdoctoral Fellows
2020- Dr. Anna Harwood-Gross. Research on Moral Injury. Funded by a grant from the School of Social Work, Hebrew University Internal Grant and anna.harwood-gross@mail.huji.ac.il
2020- Dr. Esther Schek (Dec 2020-Nov, 2021). Research on Enhancing the emotion regulation skills of children and adolescents through a technology based protocol and the use of Biofeedback. Funded by the Ministry of Absorption.
estherschek@hotmail.com
2016 - 2017 Dr. Leia Saltzman (August 2016- July 2017). Research on Posttraumatic growth trajectories. Funded by Azrielli post-doctorate fellowship.
2016 Dr. Alana Siegel (July 2016- December 2016). Research on Youth Radicalization
Ph.D. Students
2019-present Gabi Bently. Research on: Fear of recurrence and resilience in breast cancer patients, Hebrew University, in progress. Funded by Horizon 2020 (EU. gabiyonib@gmail.com
2018- present Rawan Dahabre. Research on: Trajectories of resilience and posttraumatic growth in women coping with breast cancer. Hebrew University, in progress. Funded by Horizon 2020 (EU).
rawan.dahabre@mail.huji.ac.il
2017-present Michal Levinski: Research on: Lifetime Cumulative Adversity and Health in Old Age- Environmental and Personal Aspects. michal.levinsky@mail.huji.ac.il
2016- present Yaffa Stokar. Research on: The effects of End-of-Life care on medical health professionals. Funded by the Center for End of Life Care, The Hebrew University.
yaffa.stokar@mail.huji.ac.il
2016-present Efrat Saakat. Research on: Integration into Labor Market and Substance Use among IDF Veterans with Disabilities from the Gaza War of 2014. efrat.sakat@mail.huji.ac.il
Research Projects:
2020 - present
COVID–19 research: University Students and the Coronavirus Pandemic. Prof. Miriam Schiff, Prof. Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, and Prof. Emeritus Rami Benbenishty.
https://campaign.huji.ac.il/blog-node/university-students-and-coronavirus-pandemic
2020 - present
COVID-19 – its perceived impact on health care social worker and social work practice: An International multisite study. Prof. Miriam Schiff,
2020 - 2021
A Comparative Study with Offspring of Holodomor and Holocaust Survivors Prof. Ruth Pat-Horenczyk and Dr. Becky Leshem from Achva Academic College with Prof Larysa Zasiekina from Eastern European National University, Ukraine. University of Alberta HREC Research Grant Competition.
2019 - 2021
Utrecht University with Prof Trudy Mooren from Utrecht University, The Nederland and Dr. Becky Leshem from Achva Academic College. Funded by the two universities joint grant for collaborative research.
2017 - 2021
Predicting Resilience in Breast Cancer Patients for Helping Women to BOUNCE Back – BOUNCE. A collaborative project with Finland, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Israel funded by Horizon 2020
2017-2018
Trauma violence and micro aggression among Jewish and Arab youth. Funded by the school of Social work, Hebrew University.
2016-2017
Radicalization among Youth. Funded by the school of Social Work, Hebrew University
Nov, 2016
International Conference on: Shielding youth from radicalization: A pro-social initiative to build resilience, Hebrew University, Nov 20, 2016
A Research Workshop on Community Resilience by Michael Ungar from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Hebrew University, Nov 22, 2016. Funded by: The Halbert Centre’s Israeli-Canadian Faculty Collaboration Grant.
Selected Publications of the research group (last 5 years)
Under review
Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, R., Bergman, Y.S., Schiff. M, Goldberg, A., Cohen, A., Leshem, B., Jubran, H., Worku-Mengisto, W., Berkowitz, R. & Benbenishty, R. (under review). COVID-19 related difficulties and coping among university students: The moderating role of media-related exposure and stress
Schiff. M., Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, R., Benbenishty, R. (under review). University students coping with COVID-19 challenges: Do they need help?
Schiff, M., Shinan-Altman, S., & Rosenne, H. (under review). Israeli Health Care Social Workers’ Personal and Professional Concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: The Work–Family Role Conflict
Schiff, M., Helton, J., & Fu, J. (under review). Adverse childhood experiences and obesity over time.
Schek, E.J., Dias, J., Realdon, O, Schramm-Yavin, S., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Paiva, A., Mantovani, F. (2020, under review). Emoregulators and building resilience: A feasibility study.
In press
Stokar, Y. N., & Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2020, in press). Effects of End of Life Care on Medical Health Professionals: A Dialectical Approach. Palliative & Supportive Care.
2021
S. Brickman, S, Fox, M. & Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2021). Self-Regulation Capacities in Children Exposed to Trauma. In: C.W. Greenbaum, M. M. Haj-Yahia & C. Hamilton (Eds.) Handbook of Political Violence and Children: Psychosocial Effects, Intervention, and Prevention Policy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190874551.003.0012.
2020
Hamama‐Raz, Y., Hamama, L., Pat‐Horenczyk, R., Stokar, Y. N., Zilberstein, T., & Bron‐Harlev, E. (2020). Posttraumatic Growth and Burnout in Pediatric Nurses: The Mediating Role of Secondary Traumatization and The Moderating Role of Meaning in Work. Stress and Health. First published: 13 November 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3007
Schiff, M., Zasiekina, L., Pat-Horenczyk, R. & Rami Benbenishty (2020). COVID-Related Functional Difficulties and Concerns Among University Students During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Binational Perspective. J Community Health.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00930-9.
Brom, D., Weltman, A., Harwood-Gross, A. & Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2020). Peace of Mind: Enhancing coping and posttraumatic growth among Israeli reservists in the aftermath of combat. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and related Disciplines, 57(1), 4-12.
Pat-Horenczyk, R., Zamir, O., Yochman, A., Schiff, M., Brickman, S., Lerner, M., & Brom, D. (2020). Long-term impact of maternal posttraumatic symptoms on children’s regulatory functioning: A four-year follow-up study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(2), 131-137.
https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000479.
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2019
A. Siegel, S. Brickman, Z. Goldberg & R. Pat-Horenczyk. (2019). Preventing Future Terrorism: Intervening on Youth Radicalization. In: Hoven C., Amsel L., Tyano S. (Eds) An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health. Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care. Springer, Cham. Chapter 19 (pp. 391-417).
Pat-Horenczyk, R. & Schiff, M. (2019). Continuous Traumatic Stress and the Life Cycle: Exposure to Repeated Political Violence in Israel. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21, 71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-019-1060-x.
Hamama-Raz, Y., & Pat-Horenczyk, R., Roziner, I, Perry S. Stemmer, S. (2019). Can posttraumatic growth after breast cancer promote positive coping? A Cross-Lagged study. Psycho-Oncology. DOI: 10.1002/pon.5017
Yochman, A. & Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2019). Sensory Modulation in Children Exposed to Continuous Traumatic Stress. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma. DOI: 10.1007/s40653-019-00254-4
Hamama, L., Hamama‐Raz, Y., Stokar, Y. N., Pat‐Horenczyk, R., Brom, D., & Bron‐Harlev, E. (2019). Burnout and perceived social support: The mediating role of secondary traumatization in nurses vs. physicians. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(11), 2742-2752. doi: 10.1111/jan.14122.
Georgios C. Manikis, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, Dimitrios I Fotiadis, Manolis Tsiknakis, Panagiotis Simos, Konstantina Kourou, Paula Poikonen- Saksela, Haridimos Kondylakis, Evangelos C Karademas, Kostas Marias, Dimitrios G Katehakis, Lefteris Koumakis & Angelina Kouroubali (2019). Computational Modeling of Psychological Resilience Trajectories During Breast Cancer Treatment Conference: 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE). October 2019. DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2019.00082.
Evangelos Chatzidimitriou, Eleni Kolokotroni, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, Shlomit Perry, Yaira Hamama-Raz, Salomon M. Stemmer, Chariklia Tziraki, and Georgios S.Stamatakos, “In-silico systems for well-being: Artificial Intelligence based analysis of psychological, mental, functional and quality of life aspects of life after breast cancer treatment,” Book of Abstracts, VPH2020 (Virtual Physiological Human Conference 2020), Paris, France (online), 24-28 August 2020, pp. 573-574.
2018
Baum, N. L., Stokar, Y. N., Ginat-Frolich, R., Ziv, Y., Abu-Jufar, I., Cardozo, B. L., Pat-Horenczyk, R. & Brom, D. (2018). Building Resilience Intervention (BRI) with teachers in Bedouin communities: From evidence informed to evidence based. Children and Youth Services Review, 87 (1), pp. 186-191.
Saltzman, L. Y., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Lombe, M., Weltman, A., Ziv, Y., McNamara, T., Takeuchi, D., Brom, D. (2018). Post-Combat Adaptation: Improving Social Support and Reaching Constructive Growth Journal for Anxiety Stress and Coping, 31(4), 418-430, DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2018.1454740
Weltman, A., Kessker, Y., Rechavi, S., Ziv, Y., Wardi, J., Pat-Horenczyk, R. & Brom, D. (2018). Peace of Mind: Building resilience and posttraumatic growth in the aftermath of combat. Harefua, 175(7), 415-418. (in Hebrew).
2017
Pat‐Horenczyk, R., Cohen, S., Ziv, Y., Achituv, M., Brickman, S., Blanchard, T., & Brom, D. (2017). Stability and Change in Posttraumatic Distress: A 7‐Year Follow‐Up Study of Mothers and Young Children Exposed to Cumulative Trauma. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 30(2), 115-124. DOI 10.1002/jts.
Saltzman, L.Y., Solomyak, L., & Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2017). Addressing the Needs of Children and Youth in the Context of War and Terrorism: The Technological Frontier, Current Psychiatry Reports, 19(6), 30. DOI: 10.1007/s11920-017-0786-6.
Schiff, M., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Ziv, Y., & Brom, D. (2017). Multiple Traumas, Maternal Depression, Mother–Child Relationship, Social Support, and Young Children’s Behavioral Problems. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-23. DOI: 10.1177/0886260517725738.
Brom, D., Stokar, Y., Lawi, C., Nuriel‐Porat, V., Ziv, Y., Lerner, K., & Ross, G. (2017). Somatic experiencing for posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled outcome study. Journal of traumatic stress, 30(3), 304-312. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22189
Schek, E.J., Mantovani, F., Olivia Realdon, O., Dias, J., Ana Paiva, A., Schramm-Yavin, S. & Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2017). Positive Technologies for Promoting Emotion Regulation Abilities in Adolescents. In: Giokas K., Bokor L., Hopfgartner F. E (Eds) eHealth 360°. Springer International Publishing, pp.169-174. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_23.
2016
Hamama-Raz, Y., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Perry, S., Ziv, Y., Bar-Levav, R., & Stemmer, S. M. (2016). The Effectiveness of Group Intervention on Enhancing Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Breast Cancer Patients: A 2-Year Follow-up. Integrative Cancer Therapies, 15(2), 175-182. DOI: 10.1177/1534735415607318.
Pat-Horenczyk, R., Achituv, M., Asulin-Peretz, L., Kaminer, H., Kaplanski, N., & Rozenblatt, O. & Brom, D. (2016). Mothers and young children under fire: Comparing exposure to ongoing terror with exposure to time-limited war. Megamot 50(2), 29-54 (in Hebrew).
Pat-Horenczyk, R., Saltzman, L. Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Perry, S.., Ziv, Y., Ginat-Frolich, R., & Stemmer, S. M. (2016). Stability and Transitions in Posttraumatic Growth Trajectories among Cancer Survivors: LCA and LTA Analyses. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, practice and policy, 8(5), 541-5419. DOI: 10.1037/tra0000094.