Dr Lia Ring

senior lecturer and Head of field instruction unit
Dr Lia Ring
09-8983034
050-6595003
liaring@ruppin.ac.il

Building XT Room 343

Visit Hours by prior arrangement

Teaching

  • Social work methods and skills: Forming the helping relationship in social work
  • Supervising field of education
  • Interpersonal relationships in group
  • Family as a system
  • Critical reflection on intervention (MSW)

Research

  • Psychological mechanisms that contribute to the reduction of posttraumatic stress symptoms among women and men in the second half of life.
  • The effects and consequences of traumatic events on future-oriented perceptions and related psychological processes in later adulthood and later life.
  • Meanings attributed to grandparental roles and intergenerational family relationships in contexts of trauma and prolonged traumatic exposure.
  • Parenting and relationships with adult children in the context of trauma and ongoing traumatic stress.

Publications

Ring, L., & Taubman – Ben-Ari., O. (2025). "Grandparenting is stronger than me": Being a grandparent during collective traumatic circumstances. Family Relations, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70036

Taubman – Ben-Ari., O, Erel-Brodsky, H., Ring, L., & Mijalevich-Soker, E. (2025). Terror management theory in action during a realtime mortality salience experience: The case of parents' and grandparents' reactions to wartime. Death Studies, 1-14. Doi: 10.1080/07481187.2025.2551377

Mijalevich-Soker, E., Ring, L., Joffe, E., Awad-Yasin, M, Steger, M., & Taubman – Ben-Ari, O. (2025). Personal growth among pregnant women during war: The role of optimism and meaning in life. International Journal of Psychology, 60(4), e70087https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70087

Awad, M., Ring, L., Mijalevich-Soker, E., & Taubman – Ben-Ari., O. (2025). Vulnerability and complexity: Wartime experiences of Arab women during the perinatal period. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(4), 588. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22040588

Ben-David, B. M., Bressler, T. E., Ring, L., Shimon-Raz, O., & Palgi, Y. (2025). Trauma echoes: Factors associated with peritraumatic distress and anxiety five days following Iranian missile attack on Israel. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 16(1), 2446070. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2024.2446070

Ring, L., Mijalevich-Soker, E., Joffe, E., Awad, M, & Taubman – Ben-Ari., O. (2024). Post-traumatic stress symptoms and war-related concerns among pregnant women: The contribution of self-mastery and intolerance of uncertainty. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2024.2442471

Ring, L., Avidor, S., & Palgi, Y. (2023). Reclaiming hope: Subjective nearness to death as a moderator between posttraumatic stress symptoms and hope‏. Stress & Health. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3283