Dr. Adi Barak

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Barak, A. (2013). Playback Theatre and Narrative Therapy: Introducing a New Model. Dramatherapy, 35, 108-119.

Leichtentritt, R. D., Yerushalmi, A., & Barak, A. (2013). Characteristics of the Ongoing Bond. British Journal of Social Work, 45(4), 1102-1118.

Barak, A., & Lichtentreit, R. (2014). The Configurations of Time in Bereaved Parents' Narratives. Qualitative Health Research, 24(8), 1090-1101.

Barak, A., Speilberger, J. & Gitlow, E. (2014). The Challenge of Relationships and Fidelity: Home Visitors' Perspectives. Children and Youth Services Review, 42, 50-58.

Barak, A., & Leichtentritt, R.D. (2015). Ideological Meaning Making After the Loss of a Child: The Case of Israeli Bereaved Parents. Death Studies, 39, 360-368.

Barak, A. (2016). Critical Consciousness in Critical Social Work: Learning from the Theatre of the Oppressed. British Journal of Social Work, 46(6), 1776-1792.

Leichtentritt, R. D., Shamir, M. M., Barak, A., & Yerushalmi, A. (2016). Bodies as means for continuing post-death relationships. Journal of health psychology, 21(5), 738-749.

Barak, A., & Leichtentritt, R.D. (2017). Creative Writing After Traumatic Loss: Towards a Generative Writing Approach. British Journal of Social Work, 47(3), 936-954.

Barak, A., & Stebbins, A. (2017). Reentry as Performance: Reflections from Institution X. Critical Social Policy, 37, 287-309.

Barak, A., & Stebbins, A. (2017). Imaginary Dialogues: Witnessing in Prison-Based Creative Arts Therapies. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 56, 53-60.

Elran-Barak, R., Barak, A., Lomranz, J., & Benyamini, Y. (2018) Proactive Aging among Holocaust Survivors: Striving for the Best Possible Life. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 73(8), 1446-1456.

Bina, R., Barak, A., Posmontier, B., Glasser, S., & Cinamon, T. (2018). Social workers’ perceptions of barriers to interpersonal therapy implementation for treating postpartum depression in a primary care setting in Israel. Health & social care in the community, 26, 75-84.

Elran Barak, R., Barak, A., Cohen-Ashkenazi, S., & Schifter, T. (2018). Barriers to Hospital Admission among People with Eating Disorders: A Qualitative Internet-Based Study. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27(6), 1784-1792.

Barak, A. (2019). Critical Questions on Critical Social Work: Students' Perspectives. The British Journal of Social Work, 49(8), 2130-2147.

Barak. I, & Barak, A. (2019). Israeli Ethiopian Female Adolescents' Perspectives on Alliances with Social Workers:  Agency, Power, and Performing Identity. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89(1), 77-85.

Barak, A. (2019). My Childhood Neighborhood: A Critical Autoethnography. Qualitative Inquiry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1077800419843565

Barak, A., Stebbins, A. (2020). Anticipated Alienation and Critical Social Work: Returning Citizens’ Perspectives on Reentry. The British Journal of Social Work. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa069

Wolk, N., Barak, A., & Yaniv, D. (2020). Different Shades of Beauty: Adolescents’ Perspectives on Drawing From Observation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-10.

Barak, A. (2020). Fusing Horizons in Qualitative Research: Gadamer and Cultural Resonances. Qualitative Research in Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2020.1854403

Barak, A. (2022). Corona Idiologia veavoda socialit: Mahshavot al politica vepsichoterapia bezman magefa [COVID-19, Ideology, and Social Work: Thoughts on Politics and Psychotherapy at a Time of a Pandemic]. Society and Welfare, 41(4), 470-475.

Barak, A., & Garber, M. (2022). Bereavement in political conflict: Ideological meaning-making and dialogue. Death Studies, 46(6), 1455-1464.

Kromholz, G., & Barak, A. (2023). The Experience of Loneliness Among Gay Men in Israel: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Homosexuality, 70(12), 2784-2805.

Barak, A. (2023). COVID-19, Bereavement and Political Psychotherapy: A Critical Social Work Perspective. The British Journal of Social Work, 54(5), 1830-1847.

Barak, A., Safyon, M., & Ben-Ezra, L. (2025). Ideological Meaning-Making in the Aftermath of Traumatic Loss: Radicalization as Meaning. Death Studies, 49(1), 77-86.

Barak, A., Timor-shlevin, S., Steinberg, A. (in press). A Critical Perspective on Social Services' Organizational Boundaries: Learning from Transgender Women. Journal of Social Work, 14680173241312779.

Barak, A., Ben Ezra, L., Safyon, M. (in press). Nationalizing the patient and privatizing the loss: Ideological meaning-making in the aftermath of Covid-19 related loss. Death Studies.       

Harwood-Gross, A., Elias, S., Lerner, K., Nacasch, N.,; Lawi, C., Brom, D., Barak, A. (in press). Veterans experiences of Somatic Experiencing and Prolonged Exposure therapies for PTSD: A qualitative analysis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Barak, A. (2020). From language to art: A Marcusian approach to critical social work pedagogy. In C. Morley, P. Ablett, C. Noble and S. Cowden (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work: New Perspectives on Educating for Social Change (pp. 96-107). London: Routledge.