Thesis and Dissertatations

Year			Student	Advisor
2026	"The Childhood Experience in the Shadow of the Addiction": The Childhood Experience of Men who Grow Up with a Father Addicted to Gambling and the Way they Perceive its Implications	MA	Ben-Simon Karin	Associate Prof. Anat Ben-Porat
2026	A retrospective examination of the experiences of men and women who grew up in ideological communities in Judea and Samaria, shaped by the backdrop of terrorist events, and how these experiences contributed to their identity formation.	MA	Merovitz Hodaya	Dr. Shirley Ben-Shlomo
2026	Family Member’s Intention to Encourage Help-Seeking for Postpartum Depression: The Role of Recognition, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Stigma	MA	Vorst Adina	Dr. Rena Bina
2026	Ideological Meaning-Making after a Loss of a Parent to COVID-19	MA	Elharar Shahar	Dr. Adi Barak
2026	Intent to seek help among women who participated in an online screening program for postpartum depression: Enabling factors according to the behavioral model for the use of health services	MA	Maugami Vered	Dr. Rena Bina
2026	Parental Choices Regarding Treatment Interventions: A Comparison between Parents of Children with Recognized versus Unrecognized Neurodevelopmental Disabilities	MA	Zoaretz Chen	Dr. Yael Karni Visel
2026	Professional and Emotional Coping of Social Workers Accompanying Women Affected by Ongoing Trauma While They Continue to be Harmed	MA	Rivkind Dana	Dr. Sagit Lev
2026	Risk management and commitment to the organization amongst IDF mental health officers exposed to suicidal patients of different severity levels: the mediating roles of situational anxiety and occupational self-efficacy	MA	Nevet Golan Maayan	Dr. Nomi Werbeloff Becker
2026	Social-Political Involvement of Social Services Departments: An Organizational Perspective	MA	Kadish Hefetz Elyah	Dr. Shachar Timor-Shlevin
2026	The Contribution of Role Appraisal, Organizational Justice, Supervisor Support, Self-Efficacy, and Spirituality to Employees’ Turnover in Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Israel	MA	Khatib Banan	Dr. Rena Bina
2026	The Contribution of Self-Efficacy, Autonomy, Autonomy-Supportive Parenting, Familial Support, and Sense of Community Belonging to the Psychological Well-Being of People with Mental Disorders	MA	Bartal Yana	Dr. Rena Bina
2026	The Contribution of Socioeconomic Level and Personal Characteristic and Conditions Resources to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Emergency Medical Personnel	MA	Assif Benaya	Dr. Shlomit Weiss Dagan
2026	The experience of motherhood among women in prostitution with drug addiction	MA	Peretz Sheleg Lee-Or Leah	Dr. Adi Barak
2026	The Lived Experience of Corneal Transplant Recipients Following Keratoconus Throughout the Stages of Waiting, Transplantation, and Recovery	MA	Perlmutter Ben-Horin Ronnie	Dr. Shirley Ben-Shlomo, Dr. Ayelet Oreg
2026	The perception of the social workers' role in the pregnancy termination committee, the dilemmas that they face, and the process of their decision-making	MA	Maor Haver Ayana	Dr. Sagit Lev
2026	The Relationship between Professional Identity Statuses, Religious Identity Statuses and Secondary Traumatic Stress amongst Workers in the Emergency Room	MA	Halevy Shulamit	Prof. Rachel Dekel
2026	The relationship between working in a hospital during the Covid-19 outbreak and post-traumatic symptoms and burnout among healthcare hospital workers	MA	Degabli Chen	Prof. Sara Freedman, Dr. Yael Shoval Zuckerman
2026	The Role of Young Adult Communities in Promoting Separation-Individuation and Identity Formation among Religious-Zionist Singles	MA	Warhaftig Porat Hodaya	Dr. Shirley Ben-Shlomo
2026	Women's Perceptions of Intimate Relationships Following shelter Residency	MA	Sela Moran	Prof. Rachel Dekel
2025	A Virtual Embodiment for Changing Self-Conception among Adolescents	PhD	Kapah Reut	Prof. Sara Freedman
2025	Behind Her Eyes: The Marital and Parental Experience of Spouses of Sex Offenders Living in the Community in Israel	MA	Klayman Niv	Associate Prof. Anat Ben-Porat
2025	Between Past and Present: Examining the Experience and Coping of Holocaust Survivors in Old Age in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Iron Swords War	MA	Moussafir Inbal	Dr. Sagit Lev
2025	Cultural Competence Among Social Workers from the Perspective of Clients Dealing with Illness	MA	Awwad Matary Souhad	Dr. Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy
2025	Effect Of Couple Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention When One Partner Suffers From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder On Post-Traumatic Symptoms, Emotional Distress, Relationship Satisfaction and Violence	MA	Shitrit Rotem	Prof. Rachel Dekel, Dr. Yael Shoval Zuckerman
2025	Examining the characteristics of couples’ communication in relationships where one partner suffers from post trauma stress symptoms	MA	Susana Gang Or	Prof. Rachel Dekel