Dr. Shira Pagorek Eshel
Teaching
- Social Work Methods and Skills
- Trauma Resilience and Growth
- Ecological Perspectives on Stress and Trauma
- Social Work with Men in Stress and Crisis
- Research Thesis Seminar
Research
- Traumatic Stress amon individuals and families
- Gender and cultural aspects in traumatic situations
- Fatherhood
Publications
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 Ethnic Identity, National Self-Definition, and Social Media Political Participation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ort0000888
Even-Zahav, R. 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
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, 108453.
Pagorek-Eshel, S., Greenaple, S., Alnabilsy, R., & Elias, H. (2025). An ecological perspective of psychological distress predictors among minorities 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.
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
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., 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, 103, 102867.
Elias, H., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Alnabilsy, R. (2024). Promoting context informed perspective among service providers treating young Arab women who were abused in childhood in Israel. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 15(1), 123-144
Alnabilsy, R., Elias, H., & Pagorek-Eshel, S. (2023). Patterns of using social and mental health services and barriers to services among young Palestinian women in Israel. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 42(4), 409-427.
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.
Elias, H., Even-Zahav, R., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Gavriel–Fried, B.(2023). “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.
Alnabilsy, R., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Elias, H. (2023). The self-identity Bconstruction 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.
Pagorek-Eshel, S., Alnabilsy, R., & Elias, H. (2022). The role of exposure to child abuse, social exclusion, and discrimination in predicting posttraumatic symptoms and resilience among young Arab women in Israel. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 92(6), 731.
