Dr. Haneen Elias

Lecturer- Social Work Department
Lecturer- Social Work Department
Dr. Haneen Elias
Haneene@ruppin.ac.il

Teaching

  • Intervention Methods in Social Work
  • Diagnostic and Evaluation Skills in Social Work
  • Professional training in the field
  • Critical approaches in social work as a basis for context-informedpractice
  • Domestic Violence
  • Emperical Theoritical Seminar

Research

  • Risk and Resilience in Transition to Adulthood among at-Risk Young-Adult Arabs in Israel: A Context-Informed Perspective
  • The Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse amongArab Young Women in Israel- The research fund of the National Insurance Institute of Israel
  • Gender and Socio-Cultural Adequacy of Public Social Policy for Assisting Arab Young Arab Women in Israel- grant awarded by the Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space
  • Arab students' success in higher education in Israel- Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space

Publications

​Pagorek-Eshel, S., Elias, H., Alnabilsy, R., & Grinapol, S. (accepted). The association of social factors and COVID-19-related resource loss with depression and anxiety among Arabs in Israel. Psychological Trauma: Theor​y, Research, Practice, and Policy. 

​Pagorek-Eshel, S., Elias, H., & Alnabilsy, R. (2020). Young Arab women’s processes of coping with girl abuse: Intersection of patriarchal oppression and being a national Minority in Israel.​ Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 1-19 

Elias, H., Alnabilsy, R., & Pagorek-Eshel, S. (2019). Barriers to receiving support among young Arab women in Israel who have been abused in childhood. British Journal of Social Work, 49(8), 2073-2091. DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcz007

Elias, H. & Haj-Yahia, M. (2019). On the lived experience of sex offenders’ therapists: Their perceptions of intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences and patterns of coping. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 34(4), 848-872. DOI: 10.1177/0886260516646090 

Elias, H. & Haj-Yahia, M. (2017). Therapists’ perceptions of their encounter with sex offenders.​ International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 61(10), 1151- 1170. DOI: 10.1177/0306624X16629972 

Haj-Yahia, M. M., Sousa. C., Alnabilsy, R., & Elias, H. (2015). The influence of Palestinian physicians’ patriarchal ideology and exposure to family violence on their beliefs about wife beating.​ Journal of Family Violence, 30(3), 263- 276. DOI 10.1007/s10896-015-9671- 4 

​Elias, H., & Alnabilsy, R. (2019). Child abuse and neglect in Palestinian society in Israel. In M. M. Haj-Yahia, O. Nakash, & I. Levav. (Eds.), Mental health of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel. Indiana University Press.

Alnabilsy, R., & Elias, H. (2019). Intimate partner violence against Palestinian women in Israel. In M.M. Haj-Yahia, O. Nakash, & I. Levav. (Eds.), Mental health of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel. Indiana University Press. 

Elias, H., Alnabilsy, R., & Pagorek-Eshel, S. (2020). The Long- Term Consequences of Child Abuse among Arab Young Women in Israel.​ The National Insurance Institute of Israel. (pp. 176) [Hebrew] 

Elias, H., & Alnabilsy, R. (2018). A look at the implementation of a policy on child abuse in Arab society. Nekudat Mifgash, 14, 54-57. (Hebrew)

Competitive research grants

  • 2021 - Israel Science Foundation (PI)

  • 2020 - The Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space

  • 2018 - The Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space

  • 2017 - The Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space

  • 2017 - The National Insurance Institute of Israel