ד"ר ניווין עלי סאלח דראושה

Higher Education

2018-2020 - Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Minnesota, Department of Family and Social science & Institute of Child Development, hosted by Professor Abigail Gewirtz.

2012-2018 - PhD The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare. Name of supervisor: Professor Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia. Dissertation title: Exposure of Arab Parents and their Children to Community Violence and its Effects: Examining Protective and Risk Factors as Moderator and Mediator Factors.

2007-2010 - MA in Social work, The University of Haifa, School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences. Name of supervisor: Prof. Amnon Boehm. Dissertation title: Factors Influencing Political Involvement of Social Workers and Support of their Clients Political Involvement.

1999-2002 - BA in Social work, The University of Haifa, School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences.    

Professional Training

2019 - Participation in Foundations and Applications of R (FAR): Tidying, Visualizing, Modeling workshop, College of Education & Human development, Research Methodology Consulting Center, University of Minnesota.

2019 - Participation in workshop in the topic: Teaching with impact, by the Israeli Institute, New-York.

2011 - Handling and treating trauma in Arab society, Israel Trauma Coalition.

2010 - Applying the 12 steps program and treating domestic violence.

2006 - Coping with domestic violence, Ministry of Social Affairs & Social Services.

2005 - Biological and physiological aspects of sexuality - IFPA, Social and psychological aspects of sexuality.

2004 - Education on sexuality for social workers. Israel Family Planning Association.

2003 - Diagnosis and primary intervention of drug abuse. Ministry of Social Affairs & Social Services.

2002 - Women leadership to promote women's health. Israel Association for Community Centers.

2002 - The role of women in Israel and abroad. University of Haifa.

2001 - Women in the community. Givat Haviva.

Clinical and Professional Experience

2023-2024 - Member bord at the Ad’aar Association- Forum of professionals to oppose the murder of women.  

2012-2014 - Social worker, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Hadassah Hospital, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem.

2003-2005 - Social work coordinator, Enosh Recreation Center for the Mentally Impaired, Iksal.

2006-2007 - Group facilitator, Children for Peace Child Israel, Musmus.

2002-2001 - Women’s activity coordinator, Yafia Community Center, Yafia.

2002-2012 - Social work coordinator, Unit for Prevention and Treatment for Families Exposed to Domestic Violence, Bureau for Social Services, Iksal.

Teaching Experiencing

2025 - Lecturer titled: Community Violence: Aspects, Impacts, and Challenges in Intersecting Contexts" A lecture for professionals’ employees of the "Noshmim" program – the program framework for addressing poverty and risk under the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs (February).

2021-2025 - Senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, The Louis & Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work: Methods in Social work, Academic writing skills, Identity, Sensitivity and Cultural Competence in Social Work, Academic orientation in social work.

2020-2021 - Senior lecturer at Hadassah Academic Collage Jerusalem, Department of social work, Teaching 4 courses: 1. Primary intervention methods in social work for first year students, 2. Social work interventions: methods and techniques for third year students, 3. Developmental psychology across the life span and 4. The Arab society in Israel & social work.

2017-2018 - Instructor at the Mechina Preparatory Program, Rothberg Sadarah/Kidma. An International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Taught an introduction to research methods and academic writing course.

2017-2018 - Instructor in College of Sakhnin for Arab Teachers Education in Jerusalem. Taught four courses: 1. Emotional intelligence for early-childhood; 2. Social-emotional development in young children; 3. Early-childhood education, theory and practice. 4. Academic writing and research methods course.

Research Experience

2024-2025 Exploring Vulnerability and Resilience Among Arab Older Adult Israeli Citizens in Post-Iron Swords War and Northern Tensions Evacuation Context. Funded by The Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Ageing (MCIA).

2023-2024 Social work and community violence in Arab society

2021-2022 The personal, the professional, and the national domains: Relationship   between Jewish and Palestinian social workers from Israel in conflict-ridden areas.

2020-2021 Main researcher on research titled: “Mental health service use by women victims of intimate partner violence following mental health reform in Israel” Faculty of Public Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  

2017-2018 Research assistant, Faculty of Public Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

2014-2015 Main researcher lead and instructor 25 research assistances in collecting data aimed on examining exposure to community and    family violence among Palestinian Israeli family, dyads parents and their adolescents

Presentations

Sagit Lev, Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy, & Shlomit Weiss-Dagan “Managing Crisis: Perspectives of Social Workers om management role during violent political crisis”. 23-26 June 2025 ECSWE, European Conference on Social Work Education, Salzburg, Austria (Virtual Participation).

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Sagit Lev (April 2025) “The Coping of Older Adults in Arab Society with Evacuation Following the Iron Swords War and the Tension in the North: Risk and Resilience Factors”. Paper presented at Older Adults in War: Between Knowledge and Research, Civil Initiatives, and Professional Interventions Conference, Haifa University, Haifa.

Neveen Ali Saleh Darawshy, Maya Lavie-Ajayi & Shachar Timor-Shlevin (March 2025) “Professional and Personal Attitudes Toward Discussing Sexuality and Degree of Religiosity among Social Workers”. ECSWR- 14^th European Conference for Social Work Research, Munich, Germany.

Lev, S., Ali-Saleh Darawshy, N., & Weiss Dagan, S. (February 2025). " Crisis Management: Reflective Processes of Researchers in Research on Social Workers in Mixed Cities in Israel During the Events of May 2021". Paper presented at the WCQR2025 – 9th World Conference on Qualitative Research. Krakow, Poland.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Suhad Matari-Awad "Cultural Competence Among Social Workers from the Perspective of Clients Dealing with Illness"September 25-25, 2024, Social Workers Conference, Social Work in a Changing World, Jerusalem, Israel.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy, Sagit Lev, & Shlomit Weiss-Dagan “When the outside penetrates the inside: The relationship between Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli social workers in mixed cities during the events of May 2021. September 24-25, 2024: “Social Workers Conference, Social Work in a Changing World, Jerusalem, Israel.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy- “Challenges Faced by Departmental Managers in Arab Social Service Departments Addressing Community Violence Exposure”, The International Social Work and Society Academy (TISSA), University of West Attics, Athens August 25-28, 2024,

Nihaya Daoud, Nabil Geraisy, Omaima Farhat, Sammy Rahal, Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy, Evgeny Knaifel, Beatris Agronsky. May 29-30, 2024 "Accessibility of mental health services in the Arab community following the mental health reform: Attitudes, barriers, and facilitators for utilization. The Triennial Conference of the Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry in the Era of Innovation in the Shadow of War. Herzliya, Israel. Oral presentation.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Maya Lavie-Ajayi - May 15-18, 2024 “Dialogue and silence in a reality that make no sense: We don't know anything but that: relationship is knowledge. The 20^th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy, Sagit Lev, & Shlomit Weiss-Dagan – April 16-19, 2024 "WhatsApp Interactions Amid Conflict: Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli Social Workers in May 2021". Tthe 13^th European Conference for Social Work, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy- January 10-14, 2024. Exposure to Community Violence: Mental Health Outcomes in Social workers. EPoster in Society for social Work and Research (SSWR) 28^th Annual Conference, Washington DC USA.

Sagit Lev, Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy, & Shlomit Weiss-dagan- When the outside penetrates the inside: The relationship between Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli social workers in mixed cities during the events of May 2021. June 19-21, 2023

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy, Sagit Lev, & Shlomit Weiss-dagan- June 15-16 , 2023 Voicing or Silence: Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli Social Workers' Relationships during Political Turmoil. Social Work Education and Research Annual Conference -JSWEC- Glasgow

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy (Chair): Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Adi Barak, Ayelet Oreg, Alison S. Perez. Autoethnography: A Love letter to Urbana: collaboration and autoethnography. May 15-17, 2023. Panel Presentation in The 19th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI)Urbana, Illinois, USA.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia - May 16, 2023. The Relationship Between Experiencing Childhood Abuse, Deterioration of Psychological Well-Being, and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms During Adulthood: The Mediating Roles Self-Efficacy and Collective Efficacy. Presentation in Haruv Conference- Haifa.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy- March 5, 2023 Participating in a panel discussion focused on women's leadership in a challenging reality at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.Jerusalem.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy, Sagit Lev, & Shlomit Weiss-dagan - February 15, 2023 Voicing or Silence: Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli Social Workers' Relationships during Political Turmoil. The Forum 13 for Social Policy Research ,Espanet Israel- , Israel [Hebrew].

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy- March 22, 2022 Teaching cultural sensitive and competence in social work, what we know and what we still need to know? Seminar Department, The Louis & Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Nihaya Daoud- April 6-8, 2022 Barriers for accessing mental health service among women experiencing intimate partner violence and mental health issues. 11 ^th European Conference for Social Work Research, Amsterdam The Netherlands.  (ECSWRA)

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Nihaya Daoud March 27, 2022 Barriers for treatment following the mental health reform among women suffering from dual problem of intimate partner violence and mental health distress. The Forum for Social Policy Research ,Espanet Israel.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Nihaya Daoud March 30, 2022 Barriers among women suffering from Intimate Violence and Mental Health Distress Following the Mental Health Reform. The Israel National Institute For Health Policy Research, Tel Aviv.

Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia - November 1, 2021 The Long-Term Outcomes of Childhood Abuse: Mental Health, Self-Efficacy and Collective Efficacy. Poster presented in The International Society for Trauma Stress Studies- ISTSS, Virtual 37th Annual Meeting, Trauma in Context Moving Beyond the Individual.

June 3, 2021 Extending a Military Family Stress Model: Gender Differences and Implication for Prevention. Presentation at the SPR Virtual 29 Annual Meeting. Addressing Racism and Disparities when Considering Biology and Context, The Premier Prevention Research Conference, USA.

August 31, 2020 Israeli Palestinian adolescents' exposure to community violence and their academic achievements: The indirect effects of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Poster presented in the 25^th San Diego International Virtual Summit on Violence, Abuse and Trauma Across the Lifespan, USA.

November 14-16 ,2019 The association between parents’ combat exposure, parental locus of control, and PTSD symptoms. Poster presented in The International Society for Trauma Stress Studies- ISTSS, Boston, USA.

May 15-16, 2019   Second international conference on child maltreatment: Intervention prevention programs for exposure to community violence: Conclusion and implications. Haruv USA at OU-Tulsa.

November 8-9, 2018     Intervention and prevention programs for exposure to community violence among children and youth: A systematic review- Abstract presented in the Haruv post doc semi-annual meeting- New York City, John Jay College and Graduate Center, CUNY.

February 27, 2018     Political involvement among social workers: Comparison between minority groups (Arabs) vs. majority groups (Jewish). Paper presented to the 2018 Zefat Declaration of Macro Practice in Social Work.

November 20, 2017   Exposure of Palestinian Adolescents from Israel to Community Violence and its Consequences.  National Conference of Social Workers, Power and Empowerment, 80th Anniversary of Social Work in Israel. David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv.

July, 2017       Exposure of Palestinians in Israel to community violence and its Implications, A presentation at the Mada Al-Carmel Third Conference for Palestinian PhD Students. Mada Al-Carmel the Arab Center for Applied Social Research- Nazareth.

April 19-21, 2017 Post-traumatic stress symptoms and psychological well-being as effects of exposure to community violence among Palestinian parents from Israel. Paper presented to ECSWR 2017, Aalborg, Denmark.

March 23-25, 2017    Post-traumatic stress symptoms and psychological well-being as effects of exposure to community violence among Palestinian parents from Israel. Poster presentation, the 2017 International Convention of Psychological Science -Vienna, Austria.

February 7, 2017       Posttraumatic stress symptoms and psychological well-being as effects of exposure to community violence among Palestinian parents from Israel. Paper presented to the Third National Conference of Doctoral Students of Social Work Schools. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Charlotte and Jack Spitzer Department of Social Work.

Honors and Awards

2024-2025 Member of The Young Scholars Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences- The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2025-2027 The Israeli National Institute for Health Policy Research. Community Violence, Workplace Violence, and their Impacts on Health and Burnout in Medical and Nursing staff in Primary Care Clinics in Arab localities in Israel: Nihaya Daoud & Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy

2024-2025 The Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Ageing (MCIA). Exploring Vulnerability and Resilience Among Arab Older Adult Israeli Citizens in Post-Iron Swords War and Northern Tensions Evacuation Context" (Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy and Dr. Sagit Lev)

2021-2022 Research grant from The Walter-Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab     Coexistence, Tel-Aviv University. “Relationship between Jewish and Palestinian social workers from Israel in conflict-ridden areas” (With Dr. Sagit Lev & Dr Sholamit Weiss-Dagan)

2019-2020  The Hebrew University scholarship program for post-doctoral students to excellent female doctoral students.

2019-2020 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Institute for translational research in children’s mental health, College of educational and human development, University of Minnesota.

2019-2020 Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the Israeli Institute.

2018-2019 Post-Doctorate Fellowship, Haruv Institute scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Israeli Institute grant.

2017 Mada al-Carmel Grant for supporting Palestinian PhD research students in Israel.

2014-2017 President’s Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students, the Faye Kaufman Memorial Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2014 Hevruta Scholarship, through the Faculty of Social Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2013-2014 Funding supporting the PhD research, The Jean & Fanny Tolkowsky-Gutman Foundation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.     

Current Professional Activities and Associations

2019- present   Ad-hoc reviewer       International Journal of Psychology

2019- present   Ad-hoc reviewer       Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect

2019- present  Ad-hoc reviewer        Journal of Child and Family Studies

2019- present   Ad-hoc reviewer      Children and Youth Services Review

2020- present   Ad-hoc reviewer      Children and Youth Services Review

2021- present   Ad-hoc reviewer       Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect

2021- present   Ad-hoc reviewer      Children and Youth Services Review

2022- present   Ad-hoc reviewer     International Journal of Psychology

2022- present   Ad-hoc reviewer     Journal of Child and Family Studies

2022- present   Ad-hoc reviewer     The British Journal of Social work

2023- present   Ad-hoc reviewer     Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect

2023- present   Ad-hoc reviewer      Journal of Child and Family Studies

2023- present   Ad-hoc reviewer     Children and Youth Services Review

2023- present   Ad-hoc reviewer      The British Journal of Social Work

2024- present    Ad-hoc reviewer     American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

2025- present   Ad-hoc reviewer       Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect

2025- present   Ad-hoc reviewer       Violence Against Women

2025- present    Ad-hoc reviewer      Social Work Journal

2025- present    Ad-hoc reviewer      Plus One