Dr. Amit Zriker

Email
zriker@gmail.com
    CV

    Higher Education

    2006-2009 - University of Haifa, School of Social Work, B.S.W (Summa Cum Laude)

    2009-2012 - University of Haifa, School of Social Work, Organization & Administration, M.S.W (Summa Cum Laude)

    2015-2021 - Bar-Ilan University, Louis & Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Ph.D.

    Review of Articles for Refereed Journals

    2019-Present - Meidaos - in Hebrew

    2020-Present - Hevra Ve-Revaha (Society & Welfare) - in Hebrew

    Other Scholarly Positions

    2012 - Present - Member, Ha-Histrarut HaHadasha (The New Union of Labor in Israel), Social Workers Union 

    2013 - Present - Delegate, Board Member, Ha-Histrarut HaHadasha (The New Union of Labor in Israel), Social Workers Union

    2016 - Present - Lecturer of Courses in Community Practice Issues, Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Services in Israel, in Collaboration with Wizo Organization and John Bryce College

    Participation in Scholarly Conferences

    2014 - Conference of Ph.D. Students in Schools of Social Work in Israel, Introduction of Ph.D. Programs in Schools of Social Work in Israel (Active Participation), Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, IL)

    2014 - The Program of Improving Accessibility to Higher Education of Arab Students, Workshops on Improving Accessibility to Higher Education of Arab Students (Active Participation), Van-Leer Institute (Jerusalem, IL)

    2014 - The 18th Annual Conference of the Social Workers' Union in Israel, Values and Systems: Professionalism, Reality and In Between (Poster and Active Participation), David Intercontinental (Tel Aviv, IL)

    2015 - The Israeli Labor Relations Research Association, The Challenges of Labor Market in Israel, (Active Participation), Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, IL)

    2016 - The Program of Improving Accessibility to Higher Education of Arab Students, Workshops on Improving Accessibility to Higher Education of Arab Students (Active Participation), Van-Leer Institute (Jerusalem, IL)

    2016 - The Program of Improving Accessibility to Higher Education of Arab Students, Workshops on Improving Accessibility to Higher Education of Arab Students (Active Participation), The Technion (Haifa, IL)

    2016 - TiSSA – The International Social Work & Society Academy 14th Annual Conference, Factors Contributing to Leadership Ability and Organizational Commitment among Adolescents Volunteering in a Therapy Center (Oral Presentation), Ghent, Belgium

    2016 - TiSSA – The International Social Work & Society Academy 14th Annual Conference, New Public Management and the Changing Welfare State (Chair), Ghent, Belgium

    2017 - Conference of Ph.D. Students in Schools of Social Work in Israel, Past Time Activity or A Life Time Activity? Linking Organization Type, Role Ambiguity, and Employees' Attachment Style to Their Professional Commitment to Social Work Profession in the First Couple of Years (Poster), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Be'er Sheva, IL)

    2017 - Bar-Ilan Conference for Volunteering, Volunteering and Social Impact: Integration, Unity and Cohesion (Active Participation), Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, IL)

    2017 - The 8th Annual Conference of ESPAnet Israel: Who Cares? Care and Compassion in the Welfare State in the Neo-Liberal Era, Negotiating with Faith: Professional Preferences of Haredi and Secular Social Work Students in Israel, Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, IL)

    2017 - The 19th Annual Conference of the Social Workers' Union in Israel, The Differences Between Haredi and Secular Social Work Students in Israel, David Intercontinental (Tel Aviv, IL)

    2017 - Professional Interventions in an Open Mind: A Joint Research Conference, Factors Contributing to the Development of Leadership Skills and Organizational Commitment among Adolescents Volunteering in a Therapy Center, Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, IL)

    2017 - ESWRA – The 7th European Conference for Social Work Research, The Professional Commitment of Novice Social Workers: The Influence of Attachment Style, Organizational Sector, and Role Ambiguity, Aalborg, Denmark

    2017 - The IFSW European Conference, Professional Preferences of Social Work Students: A Comparison Between Haredi and Secular Students, Reykjavik, Iceland

    2017 - TiSSA – The International Social Work & Society Academy 15th Annual Conference, Past Time Activity or a Life-Time Activity? The Professional Commitment of Novice Social Workers and the Relation to Organizational Sector, Role Ambiguity, and Attachment Style (Oral Presentation), Olsztyn, Poland

    2017 - TiSSA – The International Social Work & Society Academy 15th Annual Conference, Professional Preferences of Social Work Students: A Comparison Between Haredi and Secular Students (Oral Presentation), Olsztyn, Poland

    2017 - TiSSA – The International Social Work & Society Academy 15th Annual Conference, Social Work & Education (Chair), Olsztyn, Poland

    2018 - Macro Matters! Training, Teaching & Researching Macro-Practice in Social Work, Professional Commitment of Social Workers in an Era of Privatization of Social Services, Zefat Academic College (Zefat, IL)

    2018 - ESWRA – The 8th European Conference for Social Work Research, Social Work: A Past-Time Activity or A Life-Time Activity?, Edinburgh, Scotland

    2018 - ISSWOV (The International Society for the Study of Work & Organizational Values) - The Role of Values in the Organizations of the 21st Century, Burnout, Organizational Commitment, and Client Commitment among Ultra-Orthodox and Secular Practitioners in Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities (with Prof. Anat Freund) (Oral Presentation), Trieste, Italy

    2018 - ISSWOV (The International Society for the Study of Work & Organizational Values) - The Role of Values in the Organizations of the 21st Century, Professional Identities and Job Characteristics of Individual and Community Social Workers in Social Services Departments in Israel (with Prof. Anat Freund) (Oral Presentation), Trieste, Italy

    2018 - TiSSA – The International Social Work & Society Academy 16th Annual Conference, The Contribution of Personal, Environmental and Organizational Resources to the Adjustment of Youth Volunteers, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    2019 - The 10th Annual Conference of ESPAnet Israel: The Boundaries of the Welfare State in a Changing Reality, Professional Commitment of Social Workers in an Era of Privatization of Social Services, and its Link to Organizational Type, Role Ambiguity and Attachment Style (Oral Presentation and Poster), Ruppin Academic Center (Emek Hefer, IL) 

    2019 - The 10th Annual Conference of ESPAnet Israel: The Boundaries of the Welfare State in a Changing Reality, Social Workers Employed in Social Services Department in the Arab Sector: Political or Professional Commitment – Dilemmas, Difficulties and Challenges (Oral Presentation), Ruppin Academic Center (Emek Hefer, IL) 

    2019 - Conference of Ph.D. Students in Schools of Social Work in Israel, Growing Pains: Factors Contributing to Subjective Wellbeing, Leadership Ability and Future Orientation of Youth Volunteering, Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, IL)

    2019 - ESWRA – The 9th European Conference for Social Work Research, Social Workers in Social Services in the Arab Sector in Israel: Political or Professional Commitment – Dilemmas, Difficulties and Challenges (with Prof. Anat Freund and Fathi Abu-Younnis), Leuven, Belgium

    2019 - EASSW – The European Association of Schools of Social Work, Growing Pains: Predicting the Adjustment of Youth Volunteers, Madrid, Spain

    2019 - The 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - Understanding the Inclusive Organization, “All Glorious is the Princess within Her Chamber”: Ideological-Spiritual Fulfillment of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women in the Changing Employment Environment (with Prof. Anat Freund and Ester Shor), Boston, MA,USA

    2019 - The 8th International Conference of Sociology and Social Work - The Challenges of Democracy: Making Society in Times of Individualization, "Growing Pains": Predicting the Adjustment of Youth Volunteers by Their Personal, Environmental and Organizational Resources (Oral Presentation), Oporto and Coimbra, Portugal

    2019 - The 8th International Conference of Sociology and Social Work - The Challenges of Democracy: Making Society in Times of Individualization, Under Pressure: The Case of Social Workers in Social Services in the Arab Sector in Israel (with Prof. Anat Freund and Fathi Abu-Younnis) (Oral Presentation), Oporto and Coimbra, Portugal

    2020 - The 11th Annual Conference of ESPAnet Israel, "As They Are One from Israel": The Meaning Attributed to the Caregiving of Family Member with Intellectual-Developmental Disability in the ultra-Orthodox Society - Opportunities and Challenges in Culturally-Sensitive Intervention (Oral Presentation), Ashkelon Academic College

    2020 - The 11th Annual Conference of ESPAnet Israel, Leaving Intentions of Novice Social Workers: A Preliminary Explaining Model (with R. Ardity, A. Lavy, and R. Even-Zahav) (Oral Presentation), Ashkelon Academic College

    2020 - Conference of Ph.D. Students in the School of Social Work, Introduction of Ph.D. Dissertations in the Schools of Social Work (Active Participation), Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, IL)

    2020 - Academy of Management: Careers Division Community Conference - Careers in Context, Career Commitment among Social Workers: Contribution of Personal and Organizational Factors (with Prof. Anat Freund and Guil Javier Koltun), Vienna, Austria

    2020 - TiSSA – The International Social Work & Society Academy - A Virtual Conference for Ph.D. Students, Adjustment of Youth Volunteers' in Lens of the Systems Theory, Virtual Conference (via Zoom)

    2020 - The 2nd Annual Haifa International Social Science Workshops for Graduate Students, Growing Pains: Factors Contributing to Subjective Wellbeing, Leadership Ability and Future Orientation of Youth Volunteering, Virtual Conference (via Zoom)

    2020 - The Strength of the Community in Crisis and Routine, The Strength of the Community in Crisis and Routine (Active Participation), Virtual Conference (via Zoom)

    2020 - Community in a Changing Reality, Community and Identity; Using Community Assets; Volunteering as a Base for Personal and Community Resilience; Creating Eco-Systems,(Active Participation), Oranim – The Academic College of Education (via Zoom)

    2021 - ECSWE 2021 - European Conference on Social Work Education, Stress-Related Coping Strategies as Contributing Factors to Turnover Intentions among Social Work Student Supervisors: A Longitudinal Study (with Prof. Anat Freund and Dr. Galit Guez) (Oral Presentation), Tallinn, Estonia

    2021 - ECSWE 2021 - European Conference on Social Work Education, A Culturally-Based Socialization to Social Work: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Professional Preferences of Ultra-Orthodox and Secular Students in Israel (with Prof. Anat Freund) (Oral Presentation), Tallinn, Estonia

    2021 - ECSWE 2021 - European Conference on Social Work Education, Predicting the Adjustment of Youth Volunteers by Their Personal, Environmental and Organizational Resources (with Prof. Haya Itzhaky) (Oral Presentation), Tallinn, Estonia

    2021 - Conference of Ph.D. Students in the School of Social Work, To Grow and Prosper:  Subjective Wellbeing, Leadership Ability and Future Orientation of Youth Volunteering in a Therapy Center, Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, IL)

    Organization of Conferences or Sessions

    2019 - The 10th Annual Conference of ESPAnet Israel: The Boundaries of the Welfare State in a Changing Reality, Ruppin Academic Center (Emek Hefer, IL) - Chair of the Steering Committee 

    Invited Lectures \ Colloquium Talks

    2016 - Workshop for Community Social Workers (Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Services): Political Issues in Community Practice in Israel (Haifa, IL)

    2016 - Workshop for Community Social Workers (Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Services): Planning, Developing and Assessing Community Projects (Haifa, IL)

    2017 - Workshop for Community Workers (Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Services): Using the SWOT Model in Community Practice (Tel Aviv, IL)

    2017 - Workshop for Community Workers (Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Services): The Encounter Between Community Work and Politics in the Welfare State (Tel Aviv, IL)

    2019 - Workshop for Community Social Workers (Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Services): Political Issues in Community Practice in Israel (Haifa, IL)

    Publications

    Ph.D. Dissertation

    Zriker, A. (2021). The contributing factors to the subjective wellbeing, future orientation, and leadership ability of youth volunteering in a therapy center: The role of personal, environmental, and organizational resources. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University (in Hebrew, Supervised by Prof. Haya Itzhaky).

    Articles in Refereed Journals

    Freund, A., & Zriker, A. (2016). Past-time activity or lifetime activity? Linking organization type, role ambiguity, and employee's attachment style to his professional commitment to social work profession in the first couple of years. Society & Welfare, 36(3-4), 307-329 (in Hebrew) (Not Ranked).

    Zriker, A. (2018). Living in the profession or a profession for life? The professional commitment of early-career social workers. Meidaos, 86, 12-19 (in Hebrew) (Not Ranked).

    Freund, A., Zriker, A., & Abu-Younis, F. (2018). Between professional leadership and political leadership: Social workers in social services departments in the Arab local authorities in Israel. Society & Welfare, 38(1), 23-51 (in Hebrew) (Not Ranked).

    Freund, A., Zriker, A., & Shor, E. (2019). “All Glorious is the Princess within Her Chamber": The ideological-spiritual fulfillment of ultra-orthodox Jewish women in the changing employment environment. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work, 38(2), 140-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2019.1568351

    Even-Zahav, R., Dolberg, P., & Zriker, A. (2019). ESPAnet-Israel conference 2019: The boundaries of the welfare state in a changing reality - Who is outside and who is inside? Challenges and opportunities in social policy and its implementation. Meidaos, 90, 24-27 (in Hebrew) (Not Ranked).

    Freund, A., Koltun, G.J. & Zriker, A. (2019) Career commitment among social workers: Contribution of personal and organizational factors. Society & Welfare, 39(4), 689-710 (in Hebrew) (Not ranked)

    Freund, A. & Zriker, A. (2020). Do multiple commitments predict job satisfaction in non-profit organizations? A longitudinal analysis. European Journal of International Management. https://doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2020.10028834

    Freund, A., Zriker, A., & Sapir, Z. (2021). Optimal educational climate among students at risk: The role of teachers’ work attitudes. European Journal of Psychology of Educationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-021-00545-1

    Ben-Porat, A., Gil., L., Brafman, D., Zriker, A., & Levy, D. (2021). Secondary traumatic stress and posttraumatic growth among volunteers at a therapeutic riding center: The role of personal and environmental factor. Current Psychologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01704-9

    Abu-Younnis, F., Zriker, A., & Freund, A. (2021). The encounter between professional and cultural values of social workers in the Arab sector in Israel: Dilemmas, difficulties and challenges. European Journal of Social Workhttps://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2021.1934414

    Accepted for Publication

    Freund, A., Koltun, G.J., & Zriker, A. (2021). Career commitment among social workers: Contribution of personal and organizational factors. Accepted for publication in International Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728211031963

    Articles in Conference Proceedings

    Zriker, A., & Freund, A. (2017). Negotiating with faith: Professional preferences of Haredi and secular social work students in Israel. In M. Abd-El-Rahim (Ed.), ESPAnet 8th annual conference: Who cares? Care and compassion in the welfare state in the neo-liberal era (pp. 166-167). Ramat Gan, IL: Bar-Ilan University (in Hebrew).

    Zriker, A. (2019). Professional commitment of social workers in an era of privatization of social services, and its link to organizational type, role ambiguity and attachment style. In A. Zriker (Ed.), ESPAnet 10th annual conference: The boundaries of the welfare state in a changing reality - Who is outside and who is inside? Challenges and opportunities in social policy and implementations for research and practice (pp. 117-118). Emek Hefer, IL: Ruppin Academic Center (in Hebrew).

    Zriker, A., Freund, A., & Abu-Younnis, F. (2019). Social workers employed in social services department in the Arab sector: Political or professional commitment – Dilemmas, difficulties and challenges. In A. Zriker (Ed.), ESPAnet 10th annual conference: The boundaries of the welfare state in a changing reality - Who is outside and who is inside? Challenges and opportunities in social policy and implementations for research and practice (p. 119). Emek Hefer, IL: Ruppin Academic Center (in Hebrew).

    Zriker, A., Freund, A., & Koltun, G.J. (2019). Career commitment among social workers: Contribution of personal and organizational factors. In C.D. Almeida, H.R. Amaro da Luz, J. Marques, & J.V. Guerra (Eds.), Proceedings of the VIII ICSSW 2019 (pp. 216-227). Coimbra, Portugal: University of Coimbra, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

    Zriker, A., Freund, A., & Abu-Younnis, F. (2019). Under pressure: The case of social workers in social services in the Arab sector in Israel. In C.D. Almeida, H.R. Amaro da Luz, J. Marques, & J.V. Guerra (Eds.), Proceedings of the VIII ICSSW 2019 (pp. 479-490). Coimbra, Portugal: University of Coimbra, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

    Zriker, A. (2019). "Growing pains": Predicting the adjustment of youth volunteers by their personal, environmental and organizational resources. In C.D. Almeida, H.R. Amaro da Luz, J. Marques, & J.V. Guerra (Eds.), Proceedings of the VIII ICSSW 2019 (p. 28). Coimbra, Portugal: University of Coimbra, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

    Zriker, A. (2020). Growing Pains: Factors contributing to subjective wellbeing, leadership ability and future orientation of youth volunteering. In R. Shehman (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Haifa International Social Science Workshops for Graduate Students (pp. 10-11). Haifa, IL: University of Haifa (in Hebrew).

    Other Scientific Publications

    Zriker, A. (2012). Past time activity or life time activity? Linking organization type, role ambiguity, and employee's attachment style to his professional commitment to social work profession in the first couple of years. M.A. Thesis, School of Social Work, University of Haifa (in Hebrew, Supervised by Prof. Anat Freund).

    Courses

    7625502 - Individual in the Community

    7641401 - Intervention methods in community social work

    Last Updated Date : 27/09/2023