עברית

Dr. Sagit Lev

Email
sagit.lev@biu.ac.il
Fields of Interest

Social work and ethics; Old age; Institutions for long-term care

CV

2012-2016    PhD        Bar-Ilan University, School of Social Work

2008-2011    M.A        Bar-Ilan University, School of Social Work

1996-1999    B.A        Bar-Ilan University, School of Social Work

Post Doctoral Studies

2017-2018               University of Haifa, Department of Gerontology

Awards/ Honors

2021 - Research grant from the National Insurance Institute

2020 - Research grant from Impact Center, Bar Ilan University

2020 - Research grant from Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Study of End of  Life

2012 - Doctoral fellowship of excellence, Bar-Ilan University

2010 - A scholarship from Myers-JDC-Brookdale and Eshel

Presentations

Lev, S. (July, 2021). Mediator of the Professional Education and Practice 1

Lev, S. & Dolberg, P. (July, 2021). "You Killed the Hospital, They Have No Place Left": The Experience of Nursing Home Multidisciplinary Staff in Israel during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Paper presented at the 20th thinking qualitatively virtual conference.

Lev, S. & Dolberg, P. (July, 2021). Family visitations in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience and perceptions of family members and staff. Poster presented at the 20th thinking qualitatively virtual conference.

Dolberg, P. & Lev, S. & (July, 2021). “Let me touch him”: The experiences of family caregivers of nursing homes residents during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Israel. Paper presented at the 20th thinking qualitatively virtual conference.

Lev, S., Zychlinski, E.& Kagan, M. (2021, April). Secondary traumatic stress among social workers: The contribution of resilience, social support exposure to violence and ethical conflicts. Paper presented at ISWED- International social work education and development online conference 2021.

  • (July, 2021). 42nd International Conference of the Stress Trauma Anxiety and Resilience Society (STAR)

Lev, S., Zychlinski, E. & Kagan, M. (2021, April). The Ethical Conflict of Dual Obligations Amongst Social Workers: The Role of Organizational Affiliation and Seniority. Paper presented at ISWED- International social work education and development online conference 2021.

Lev, S., Zanbar, L. & Faran,Y (2020, February). Can Psychological, Physical, and Socially Vulnerable Life Situations Predict Ageism? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel. [Hebrew]

  • Paper presented at the ESPAnet Conference, Ashkelon, Israel [Hebrew]

Lev, S., Dolberg, P., Enelgrad, A. & Lang, B. (2020, February). Attitudes and perceptions of Inspectors in nursing homes in Israel regarding the wellbeing and safety of the residents. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel. [Hebrew]

Lev, S., & Ayalon, L. (2017, February).  A typology of social workers in long term care facilities in Israel. Paper presented at the ESPAnet Conference, Ramat Gan, Israel [Hebrew]

  • (2019, May) The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden

Lev, S., Wurm, S., & Ayalon, L. (2016, June). Origins of ageism at the individual level. Paper presented at the COST meeting Cohesion - Ageism from a Multi-national, Interdisciplinary Perspective, Tel-Aviv, Israel [Hebrew]

  • (2017, February).  Paper presented at the COST meeting Cohesion - Ageism from a Multi-national, Interdisciplinary Perspective, Krakow, Poland.

Lev, S. (2016, April). The development and content validation of a questionnaire to assess moral distress among social workers in long term care facilities. Paper presented at the Advancing the Study of Ageing through Innovative Methodologies Conference, Chester, England. 

Lev, S., & Ayalon, L. (2016, February).  Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess moral distress among social workers in long-term care facilities Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel. [Hebrew]

  • (2017, February). ESPAnet Conference, Ramat Gan, Israel [Hebrew].
  • (2017, November) National Conference of Social Workers, Tel-Aviv, Israel [Hebrew]. 
  • (2019, May) The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Deusdad, B., & Lev, S. (2015, June). The illusion of de-institutionalization through long-term care policies. Paper presented at the COST meeting Cohesion - Social Services, Welfare State and Places, Lund, Sweden.

Lev, S., & Pace, C. (2015, October). Realities of LTC strategies in services for older adults in the Mediterranean: an illusion of deinstitutionalization. Paper presented at the COST meeting Cohesion - Social Services, Welfare State and Places, Reggio Calabaria, Italy.

Lev, S. (2014, March).  The obligation dilemma of the social worker in the nursing home in the light of the privatization process in Israel. Paper presented at the COST meeting Cohesion - Social Services, Welfare State and Places, Barcelona, Spain.

 Lev, S., & Ayalon, L.  (2014, January). The obligation dilemma in nursing home: A theoretical model. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Israeli Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel [Hebrew].

Lev, S., & Ayalon, L. (2012, March). The obligation dilemma of the social worker in the nursing home. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Israeli Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • (2014, January) National Conference, Social Work in Health Care Systems, Jerusalem, Israel [Hebrew].
  • (2015, November ) National Conference of Social Workers, Tel-Aviv, Israel [Hebrew]. 

AD HOC Reviewer

2021- International Journal of Older People Nursing

2021- American Journal of Industrial Medicine

2014- 2018; Ageing & Society

2015; 2019- British Journal of Social Work

2018; 2019- Ageing & Society

2018- Journal of Gerontological Social Work

2018- Research on Aging

 2019- Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

2019- Hevra Urevacha [Society & Welfare] (in Hebrew)

Publications

Articles in Periodicals

Lev, S., Harel, D Goldblatt, H. & Band-Winterstein, T. (2021). The Interplay Between Poly-Victimization and Sexual Assault in Late Life in the Context of Life-Course Perspective. Violence Against Women

Lev, S., Zychlinski, E.& Kagan, M. (2020). Secondary traumatic stress among social workers: The contribution of resilience, social support exposure to violence and ethical conflicts. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Zychlinski, E., Lev, S., & Kagan, M. (2020). The Ethical Conflict of Dual Obligations Amongst Social Workers: The Role of Organisational Affiliation and Seniority. The British Journal of Social Work 50 (6), 1854–1870, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa076

Goldblatt, H., Band-Winterstein, T., Lev, S., & Harel, D. (2020). “Who Would Sexually Assault an 80-Year-Old Woman?” Barriers to Exploring and Exposing Sexual Assault Against Women in Late Life. Journal of interpersonal violence, DOI: 10.1177/0886260520934440.

‏ Ayalon, L., Lev, S., & Lev, G. (2020). What can we learn from the past about the future of gerontology: Using natural language processing to examine the field of gerontology? The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Vol. XX, No. XX, 1–10 doi:10.1093/geronb/gbaa066.

Band-Winterstein, T., Goldblatt, H., & Lev, S. (2019). Breaking the Taboo: Sexual Assault in Late Life as a Multifaceted Phenomenon—Toward an Integrative Theoretical Framework. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 1524838019832979.‏

Lev, S., & Ayalon, L. (2018). Development and content validation of a questionnaire to assess moral distress among social workers in long-term care facilities. Social work in health care, 57(3), 190-205.‏

Lev, S., & Ayalon, L. (2018). A Typology of Social Workers in Long-Term Care Facilities in Israel. Social work, 63(2), 171-178.‏

Lev, S., & Ayalon, L. (2018). Moral distress among long-term care social workers: questionnaire validation. Research on Social Work Practice, 28(5), 628-637.‏

Lev, S., & Ayalon, L. (2016). Coping with the obligation dilemma: Prototypes of social workers in the nursing home. British Journal of Social Work, 46 (5), 1318–1335

Ayalon, L., Lev, S., Green, O., & Nevo, U. (2016). A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions designed to prevent or stop elder maltreatment. Age and Ageing, 45(2), 216-227.

Lev, S., & & Ayalon, L. (2015). Running between the raindrops: The obligation dilemma of the social worker in the nursing home. Health & Social Work, 40(1), 10-18.

Ayalon, L., Lev, S., & Rotstein, A. (2014). Who will take care of me? Perceptions and expectations of future long-term care needs among middle-aged and older Israelis. Senior Housing & Care Journal, 22(1), 43-58.  

Lev, S., & Ayalon, L. (2014). Developing a model for explaining the obligation dilemma of the social worker in the nursing home. Hevra Urevacha [Society & Welfare]. 34(2), 259-279. (in Hebrew)

Publications Under review

Lev, S. & Dolberg, P. (under review). "You Killed the Hospital, They Have No Place Left": The Experience of Nursing Home Multidisciplinary Staff in Israel during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Band-Winterstein, T., Goldblatt, H., & Lev, S. (under review) Forms of Sexual Assault against Older Women in the Context of Acquaintance Relationships: An Intersectional Perspective.

Courses

7621202 - Intervention Methods with the Individual 

7622502 - Skills of Intervention with Individuals

7627601 - Issues in Ethics and Social Work 

7666501 - Ethics in Social Work 

7666601 - Issues in Old Age and Social Work (Master's Degree Retraining Program)

 

Research

1.  Ethical conflicts and dilemmas of social workers

2. Various aspects of long-term care facilities (e.g., residents, staff members, organizational culture, ethical climate, attitudes and policy)

3. Abuse and neglect of older adults

Last Updated Date : 27/09/2023