Dr. Avital Kaye Tzadok

Head, Social Work Department
Faculty of Social & Community Sciences
Dr. Avital Kaye Tzadok
avitalk@ruppin.ac.il

building 9, room 3

Visit Hours Sunday, 12:00-13:00 By appointment

Teaching

  • Social Work methods and skills
  • Quantitative research methods
  • Empirical seminar
  • Groups as a method of intervention
  • Dilemmas in group work
  • OUR course - a partnership between students and adolescent girls

Research

  • Resilience
  • Posttraumatic Growth
  • Hope
  • Group work
  • Feminist Social Work
  • Adolescence

Publications

Kaye-Tzadok, A., Icekson, T. (2022). A phenomenological exploration of work-related posttraumatic growth among high functioning adults maltreated as children. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1048295. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048295.

 Icekson, T., Kaye-Tzadok, A. & Aharon-Peeri, N. (2023). How adults maltreated as children relate to work supervisors: relational patterns and processes. Current Psychology, 42, 9347–9360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02242-0

Icekson, T., Kaye-Tzadok, A., & Ben-David, Y. (2023). Leaders in times of transition: Virtual self-efficacy, participant behaviors, and leader perceptions of adaptive interpersonal group processes. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice. Advance online publication.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gdn0000208 

Kaye-Tzadok, A., Ben-Arieh, A., Kosher, H. (2019). Hope, material resources and subjective well-being of 8 to 12-year-old children in Israel​. Child Development, 90(2), 344-358. 

Kaye-Tzadok, A., & Davidson-Arad, B. (2016). Posttraumatic growth among women survivors of childhood sexual abuse: its relation to cognitive strategies, posttraumatic symptoms and resilience​. Psychological Trauma, Theory, Research, Practice & Policy, 8(5), 550-558. 

Nadan, Y., & Kaye-Tzadok, A. (2019). The virtual arena: A call for a new domain of child subjective well-being​. Child Indicators Research, 12(2), 461-477.