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Dana Lassri

Dr. Dana Lassri is a lecturer and the director of the ChARMS (Childhood Adversities, Resilience, and Mental health under Stress) Research Lab at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a research fellow at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London (UCL) and a fellow in the Haruv Institute. Dr. Lassri is also a practicing licensed clinical psychologist.

Her research and practice focus on the impact of traumatic and chronic stress on psychological, interpersonal, and biological development and well-being throughout the lifespan. She is particularly interested in deciphering underlying mechanisms and identifying individual differences in psychosocial risk and protective factors and their relation to resilience. Her overall aims are to advance knowledge in these areas and to develop and implement intervention programs (e.g., mentalizing, self-compassion) to enhance resilience in diverse populations within clinical, education, and social welfare settings. She specifically examines these issues within the context of childhood adversities, secondary traumatic stress among helping professionals, and the bio-psycho-social aspects of living with a chronic disease, endometriosis.

To achieve these goals, Dr. Lassri has created an integrative resilience and risk framework by combining resilience theory with transdiagnostic models to investigate the role of personal and interpersonal resources in individuals' responses to stressful events across diverse contexts. Psychological theories used in determining the potential underpinnings of resilience and risk are mentalization, object relations, and social-cognitive theories, which emphasize that mental representations of the self may underlie subjective processes, regulate behavior, and influence response to stress. Dr. Lassri utilizes complex statistical methods as well as mixed quantitative and qualitative designs to enhance the depth and breadth of her research.

Dr. Lassri aims to bridge between research and practice by combining rigorous research with practical applications and promoting research-informed practices. Her teaching aligns with her research – clinical and research-oriented courses- i.e., Integrative Psychotherapy, and Mentalization-based Treatment Practicum, aim at helping students improve their clinical and mentalizing skills.

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