Dr. Haneen Elias

Mahamid, S., Sulimani-Aidan, Y., & Karram-Elias, H. (accepted). “They Call Me the Girl from Residential Care”: Risks and Stressors of Care Leavers in Arab Society in Israel". Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Elias, H. (accepted). “I’m all for her”: Arab Mothers’ Perception of Mother – Daughter relationship in young adulthood. Family Relations.

Pagorek-Eshel, S., Alnabilsy, R., & Elias, H. (2025). The psychological outcomes of online racism among young adult Arab Palestinians in Israel: the moderating role of identity and social media political participation. Journal of American Orthopsychiatry. 

Karram-Elias, H., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Alnabilsy, R. (2025). Exposure to Child Abuse and Neglect, and Formal and non-formal social support, in the presence of Post Traumatic Symptoms and Resilience among Young Arab-Palestinian Women in Israel. Children and youth Services Review. 

Even-Zahav, R., Gavriel – Fried, B., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Karram-Elias, H. (2025). Personal, social, and cultural engagement factors of academic success: The case of Arab students in the higher education system in Israel. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108, 102253. 

Karram-Elias, H. & Sulimani-Aidan Y. (2025). Future orientation among young adult Arabs in Israel following the October 7th events. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

Pagorek-Eshel, S., Greenaple, S., Alnabilsy, R., & Elias, H. (2025). An Ecological Perspective of Psychological Distress Predictors Among Minoritized Populations Facing a Collective Crisis: The Case of Arab Palestinians During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel. Social Work in Mental Health, 23(2), 210-230. 

Karram-Elias, H., & Hassan, H. (2025). “My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab Palestinian families in Israel. In Women's Studies International Forum (Vol. 109, p. 103061). Pergamon.‏ 

Haneen, K. E., Yafit, S. A., & Maayan, R. (2025). Belonging versus alienation among at-risk minority adults: The perspectives of social service providers of at-risk young adult Arabs in Israel. Children and Youth Services Review, 169, 108107.‏

Mahamid, S., Karram-Elias, H., & Sulimani-Aidan, Y. (2025). Emerging Strengths: Challenges and Coping Strategies in Emerging Adulthood among at-Risk Young-Adult Arab Palestinians in Israel. Emerging Adulthood, 21676968251339687

Ravid, M., Elias, H., & Sulimani-Aidan, Y. (10.2024). “Confused, alienated, and injured identity “: The role of minority ethnic identity in increasing the vulnerability of at- risk young-adult Arabs in Israel. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 

Elias, H., Alnabilsy, R., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Levin, L. (2024). Catch 22: Social workers’ perceptions of the socio-cultural and formal-structural factors that inhibit interventions with at-risk young Arab-Palestinian women in Israel. Children and Youth Services Review, 163, 107702. 

Sulimani-Aidan, Y., Ravid, M., & Elias, H. (2024). Using a strength-based approach to social work with minority groups: The case of at-risk young-adult Arabs in Israel. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 94(5), 582–590. 

Elias, H., Even-Zahav, R., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Gavriel – Fried, B. (2024). “Arab students do not reveal their difficulties":  Faculty Members' Perceptions of The Barriers to Higher Education among Arab Students in Israel. Intercultural Education, 35(2), 224-239

Elias, H., Alnabilsy, R., & Pagorek-Eshel, S. (2024). The meaning of abuse for young Arab women in Israel: Gender, social, and cultural mechanisms of control and supervision. Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 103, p. 102867. 

Elias, H., Alnabilsy, R., & Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Levin, L. (2024). Structural and socio-political barriers to provide services to Arab- Palestinian young women in Israel: The perception of the social workers. The British Journal of Social Work, 54 (2), 568-586‏ 

Elias, H., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Alnabilsy, R. (2024). Promoting context-informed perspective among social workers treating young Arab women abused in childhood. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 15 (1), 123-144. 

Karram-Elias, H. & Sulimani-Aidan, Y. (2024). “Adopting unsuitable solutions constitutes an additional risk factor”: Context-informed social work practice with at-risk young adult Arabs. Children and Youth Services Review, 161, 107616.‏

Levin, L., Karram-Elias, H., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Alnabilsy, R. (2023). State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services for Arab young women in Israel. Journal of Social Policy, 1-18.

Alnabilsy, R., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Elias, H. (2023). The self-identity construction of Arab young women who were abused in childhood within a complex cultural and socio-political context. Journal of Family Violence, 38(1), 91-103. 

Levin, L., Cohen-Brafman, M., Alnabilsy, R., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Elias, H. (2022). 'Poster girl': The discourse constructing the image of the ‘girl in distress’ receiving public welfare services in Israel. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 966778. 

Alnabilsy, R., Elias, H., & Pagorek-Eshel, S. (2022). Patterns of Receiving Support and Barriers to Service Consumption among Young Arab Women in Israel. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 42(4), 409-427.‏

Elias, H. & Even-Zahav, R. (2022). Leaving the margins: Promoting a context-informed perspective in social work education among Palestinian female students in Israeli academia. Israel Studies Review, 37(2), 36-57.

Pagorek-Eshel, S., Elias, H., Alnabilsy, R., & Grinapol, S. (2022). The association of social factors and COVID-19-related resource loss with depression and anxiety among Arabs in Israel. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 14(2),310-317.

Pagorek-Eshel, S., Alnabilsy, R., & Elias, H. (2022). The role of exposure to child abuse, social exclusion, and discrimination in explaining post traumatic symptoms and resilience among young Arab women in Israel. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 92(6), 731-740. 

Pagorek-Eshel, S., Elias, H., & Alnabilsy, R. (2021). 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, 36(4), 593-611

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