Dr. Shlomit Weiss Dagan

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shlomit.weiss-dagan@biu.ac.il
Fields of Interest

Poverty; Poverty and Social Work; Child welfare Policy; Trauma; Social Policy

    CV

    Shlomit holds BA, MA, and Ph.D. all from Bar-Ilan University.  Her dissertation titled ‘Child Abuse Therapists: Factors of Secondary Traumatization, Vicarious Post Traumatic Growth and Sense of Treatment Effectiveness among Child Protection Workers in Israel’ done under the supervision of Prof. Haya Itzhaky and Dr. Anat Ben Porat. After completing her PhD Shlomit conducted post-doctorate research at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), hosted by the head of PhD program in the School of social policy, Prof. Ram Cnaan. During her academic sabbatical, Shlomit was an academic visitor at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and studied the field of poverty in aging across Europe.

     Her research interest is social welfare policy, poverty and inequality from a critical theory perspective. Her recent publications deal with inequality of right take-up through an intersectionality lens; poverty aware paradigm; Aging, agency and poverty; community social work and more.

    Publications

    Weiss-Dagan, S., Timor-Shlevin, S. Aging, poverty, and agency: Reconceptualizing resistance to poverty in older age. The British Journal of Social WorkDOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcae107

    WeissDagan, S., & Taubman – Ben‐Ari, O. (2024). Perceived stress and personal growth following the transition to military service: The role of sense of coherence and perceived social support. Stress and Health, e3406https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3406

    WeissDagan, S. (2023). Intersectionality, agency and take‐up of benefits among families living in poverty. Social Policy & Administration, 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12921

    Weiss-Dagan, S., Aviv, I., Eliyahou, A., Levy, D., Makaros, A., Freiberg, S., & Zriker, A.  (2023). ‏ A Community Social Work Paradigm: Thoughts and Reflections. Social Work.

    Ali-Saleh Darawshy, N., Lev, S. & Weiss-Dagan, S. (2023) Voicing or Silence: Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli Social Workers’   Relationships during Political Turmoil. British Journal of Social Work. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad219

    Weiss-Dagan, S., Dagan, N., Kromer-Nevo, M. (2023). Otherness, Poverty and Law: The Case of the Western Wall Beggars. Social Security, 119, 83-108. https://www.btl.gov.il/Publications/Social_Security/bitachon_119/Documents/40-%D7%93%D7%92%D7%9F.pdf

    Weiss-Dagan, S., Aviv, I., Eliyahou, A., Levy, D., Makaros, A., Freiberg, S., & Zriker, A. (2023). The Road Map for Formulating Community Social Work Paradigm. Society & Welfare, 43(1), 35-42. https://www.gov.il/he/Departments/DynamicCollectors/molsa-social-and-welfare-magazine-publications?skip=0&magazine_name=%D7%97%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%AA%20%D7%9E%D7%92%2F1

    Weiss-Dagan, S., & Krumer-Nevo, M. (2021). Poverty Awareness: Development and Validation of a New Scale for Examining Attitudes regarding the Aetiology and Relational–Symbolic Aspects of Poverty. The British Journal of Social Work.‏

    Weiss‐DaganS., Levi, D., Refaeli, T., & Itzhaky, H. (2021). Emerging adulthood among backpackers: The contribution of internal and external factors to sense of community. Journal of Community Psychology.

    Weiss-DaganS., & Cnaan, R. A. (2020). Understanding the evolution of national child welfare policies: The case of Israel. Children and Youth Services Review108, 104515.‏

    Weiss-Dagan, S., Ben-Porat, A., & Itzhaky, H. (2020). Secondary traumatic stress and vicarious post-traumatic growth among social workers who have worked with abused children. Journal of Social Work, 1468017320981363.

    Itzhaky, H., Weiss-Dagan, S., Taubman Ben-Ari, O., (2018). Internal and community recourses' contribution to level of posttraumatic symptoms - The case of tourists after the earthquake in Nepal, 2015. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (2017).

    Weiss-Dagan, S., Itzhaky, H., Taubman Ben-Ari, O. Backpackers in the Nepal 2015 Earthquake: The Contribution of Personal and Social Resources to Mental Health. Journal of Community Psychology 46, 689-700.

    Itzhaky, H. Weiss-Dagan, S., Ben-Porat, A. (2017). The contribution of effective supervision and its three functions to the secondary traumatization of social workers who treats child abuse. Society & Welfare (Hebrew).

    Weiss-Dagan, S., Ben-Porat, A., & Itzhaky, H. (2018). The Contribution of Role Characteristics and Supervisory Functions to Supervision Effectiveness. Clinical Social Work Journal46, 341-349.

    Kissil, K., Itzhaky, H., Weiss-Dagan, S. (2016). International tourists’ reactions to a natural disaster: Experiences of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal among Israeli travelers, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 29, 522-529.

    Weiss-Dagan, S., Ben-Porat, A., Itzhaky, H. (2016). Child protection workers dealing with child abuse: The contribution of personal, social and organizational resources to secondary traumatization. Child Abuse & Neglect51, 203-211.

    Courses

    7622201 - Between Policy and Poverty

    7640501 - The Welfare State in a Changing Reality

    7641501 - Social Case Work for Community Social Workers

    7662701 - Poverty Aware Social Work

    7682901 - Social work and social policy changes

     

    Research
    • Analysis and comparison of social policy
    • Poverty
    • Poverty and social work
    • Child welfare policy
    • Secondary traumatization
    • Post-traumatic growth

    Last Updated Date : 06/10/2024