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Benatov, Joy; Klomek, Anat Brunstein; Shira, Barzilay; Apter, Alan; Carli, Vladimir; Wasserman, Camilla; Hoven, Christina W.; Sarchiapone, Marco; Balazs, Juit; Bobes, Julio; Brunner, Romuald; Corcoran, Paul; Cosman, Doina; Haring, Christian; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Keeley, Helen; Kereszteny, Agnes; Podlogar, Tina; Postuvan, Vita; Saiz, Pilar A.; Sisask, Merike; Varnik, Airi; Wasserman, Danuta – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Peer victimization is a major stressor adolescents often face in the school environment, and has been linked to depression and suicidal risk. This study analyzed the associations between three behavioral coping strategies (avoidance, seeking social support from adults/peers, and retaliation) and depression and suicidal ideation. Participants…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Bullying, Victims, Coping
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Lev-Wiesel, Rachel; Dar, Rotem; Paz, Yael; Arazi-Aviram, Anat; Yosef, Efrat; Sonego, Gali; Weinger, Susan; Doron, Hadas; Shenaar-Golan, Vered – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Boarding schools are the common 'out-of-home' placements for adolescents, due to various historical, religiously orthodox, and traditional reasons and due to dysfunction within families. The purpose of the current study is to examine the relationship between a free versus an enforced decision to enroll in a boarding school in terms of personal…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Decision Making, Correlation, Well Being
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Kokaliari, Efrosini; Berzoff, Joan; Byers, David S.; Fareed, Anan; Berzoff-Cohen, Jake; Hreish, Khalid – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2016
The authors were invited to teach clinical social work in the Palestinian West Bank. In order to teach, we designed a study exploring how 65 Palestinian social work students described the psychological and social effects of working under occupation. Students described social stressors of poverty, unemployment, lack of infrastructure, violence,…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Psychological Patterns, Coping
International Child Development Initiatives (NJ1), 2009
International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI) is a Dutch non-profit organization with a world-wide brief, and a focus on transitional and developing countries. ICDI promotes the well-being of children growing up in difficult circumstances. As a result of the global recession, 2009 was a challenging year for many organizations working in the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Child Development
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Levinson, Daphna; Haklai, Ziona; Stein, Nechama; Gordon, Ethel-Sherry – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006
An analysis of all emergency department admissions in Israel classified as an attempted suicide in the years 1996-2002 was done to examine attempted suicide rates by age and gender with particular attention to adolescents and young adults. Gender differences in attempted suicide rates were significant only during adolescence and young adulthood,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Gender Differences, Suicide
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Michael, Keren; Ben-Zur, Hasida – Journal of Adolescence, 2007
The research investigated the associations of social and affective factors with risk-taking in male and female adolescents. A sample of 269 Israeli adolescents completed questionnaires measuring frequency of involvement in risk-taking behaviours, relationships with parents, orientation towards peer group, depressive mood, and aggressive behaviour.…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries
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Taubman--Ben-Ari, Orit – Death Studies, 2004
The current series of studies was conducted to explore the interplay between death awareness, fear of intimacy, and unsafe sex. In Study 1 (n=73), making mortality salient led to higher willingness to engage in risky sexual behaviors, in comparison to a control condition. In addition, only in the mortality salience condition, lower fear of…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Fear, Sexuality, Death
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Laufer, Avital; Harel, Yossi; Molcho, Michal – Journal of School Violence, 2006
This study explores whether the association between substance use and involvement in youth violence is a unique association resulting from the properties of the drugs, or whether it is part of a larger behavioral cluster. The sample was composed of 1,571 10th grade students from the Israeli secular and religious state school systems, including…
Descriptors: State Schools, Jews, Intervention, Violence