Gabriela Spector-Mersel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 203333 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gabriela Spector-Mersel |
| NOMBRES | Gabriela |
| APELLIDO | Spector-Mersel |
| FIRMA | SPECTOR-MERSEL G |
| AFILIACIONES | Sapir College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9318-1426 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 181 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
“It’s a very hard lesson, but still a lesson”
This study examined the lived experiences of older adults displaced from the Israeli region near Gaza upon the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war in 2023. The region's residents, already exposed to decades of continuous traumatic situation, were evacuated under emergency conditions and remained displaced for approximately 5 to 8 months at the time of the interviews. Using an inductive qualitative design, semistructured interviews were conducted with…
Social work students’ intention to work with older adults
Social work students in different countries often exhibit low intention to pursue careers with older adults, raising questions about the potential role of social work education in shaping this intention. This cross-sectional study examined a theoretical model exploring how knowledge about older adults, acquired through coursework and direct contact during fieldwork, relates to students’ self-evaluation of knowledge. It also examined how self-eval…
The point isn't that we're old, but that we're the founders’
You are a foreigner and will always be a foreigner
Cumulative trauma
We suggest conceptualizing cumulative trauma responses as an intersecting trajectory model, between the effects of previous traumatic events and those of the current one, reflecting a combination of individuals' resilience and vulnerability. Suitable policies/practices in which each specific traumatic event is seen alone, as well as in tandem with others, should be implemented. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Growth and pain in life-story reflection of students in helping professions
The importance of reflective pedagogy is widely acknowledged in HE and is a cornerstone of the helping professions curricula, enhancing students’ self-awareness and reflective skills. The literature emphasizes the virtues of reflection for the students’ personal and professional growth but insufficiently addresses the emotional pain entailed. To contribute to filling this gap, we examined how 103 students of social work and educational counseling…
The second empty nest
Alone in the shadow of terror
Continuous traumatic situations (CTS) caused by prolonged exposure to terrorist threat can harm individuals' mental and physical health. For older adults living alone in CTS, this risk joins the challenges of aging and loneliness, creating a triple vulnerability. No previous research has explored this particular vulnerability and specifically addressed the coping strategies and internal resources used by older adults to manage these stressful cir…
Dignity in Action in the Home Hospice
Home hospice (HH) is a palliative care framework that is becoming more and more common in Western countries. HH staff face unique challenges, resulting mainly from their multiple clients and the provision of care in a private territory. Despite the recognized role of professionals in preserving end-of-life (EOL) dignity, how HH staff conceive of EOL dignity has remained unexplored. To fill this lacuna, we invited the multidisciplinary staff of an…
I Was Born Into a Nightmare”
From Military Masculinity toward Hybrid Masculinities
This study examines how Israeli men who are army veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress and consequently participated in therapy engage 'new masculinities' ideologies. Drawing from interview data with these veterans, we find changes in the men's perceptions of masculinity and sense of themselves as men. They expressed this shift through criticisms of military masculinity and disassociating from the idea of man-as-fighter, disputing th…
The crisis in achieving a sense of manhood among Israeli veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress symptoms
Styles of narrative selection in crafting life stories
Life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades. Despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disregarded, that is, the different styles in which life stories unfold. Although there are references to the process within which life stories are produced, emphasizing selection as its organizing principle, no efforts have been made to explore the diverse m…
Mechanisms of Selection in Claiming Narrative Identities
Aiming at a tight correspondence between narrative epistemology and methodology, a model for interpreting narratives is proposed that derives from a theoretical conception of how identities are claimed via stories. The narrative production is conceived as consisting of six mechanisms of selection, through which biographical facts are chosen, filtered, and sorted, with the purpose of confirming an established end point. Accordingly, the analysis s…
Narrative research
As a result of the popularization of the narrative idea and the considerable diversity existing among narrative studies, a rather “all included” conception has arisen, in which the framework of narrative inquiry has been significantly blurred. For narrative inquiry to persist as a unique mode of investigation into human nature, a complementary dialogue is required that aims at outlining its core, alongside the emphasis given in the literature on …
Never-aging Stories
This article offers a conceptual model for understanding masculinity that stresses the temporal dimension. While deconstructing masculinity according to various factors, gender scholarship has disregarded one of the most crucial ones: age. In this respect, current theorization fails to recognize time as the basic dimension of the human condition. Combining the ideas of Bernice Neugarten with the central metaphor of narrative theory, the present m…
Narrative research
As a result of the popularization of the narrative idea and the considerable diversity existing among narrative studies, a rather “all included” conception has arisen, in which the framework of narrative inquiry has been significantly blurred. For narrative inquiry to persist as a unique mode of investigation into human nature, a complementary dialogue is required that aims at outlining its core, alongside the emphasis given in the literature on …
Mechanisms of Selection in Claiming Narrative Identities
Aiming at a tight correspondence between narrative epistemology and methodology, a model for interpreting narratives is proposed that derives from a theoretical conception of how identities are claimed via stories. The narrative production is conceived as consisting of six mechanisms of selection, through which biographical facts are chosen, filtered, and sorted, with the purpose of confirming an established end point. Accordingly, the analysis s…
Never-aging Stories
This article offers a conceptual model for understanding masculinity that stresses the temporal dimension. While deconstructing masculinity according to various factors, gender scholarship has disregarded one of the most crucial ones: age. In this respect, current theorization fails to recognize time as the basic dimension of the human condition. Combining the ideas of Bernice Neugarten with the central metaphor of narrative theory, the present m…
Styles of narrative selection in crafting life stories
Life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades. Despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disregarded, that is, the different styles in which life stories unfold. Although there are references to the process within which life stories are produced, emphasizing selection as its organizing principle, no efforts have been made to explore the diverse m…
The crisis in achieving a sense of manhood among Israeli veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress symptoms
From Military Masculinity toward Hybrid Masculinities
This study examines how Israeli men who are army veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress and consequently participated in therapy engage 'new masculinities' ideologies. Drawing from interview data with these veterans, we find changes in the men's perceptions of masculinity and sense of themselves as men. They expressed this shift through criticisms of military masculinity and disassociating from the idea of man-as-fighter, disputing th…
The second empty nest
Never-aging Stories
This article offers a conceptual model for understanding masculinity that stresses the temporal dimension. While deconstructing masculinity according to various factors, gender scholarship has disregarded one of the most crucial ones: age. In this respect, current theorization fails to recognize time as the basic dimension of the human condition. Combining the ideas of Bernice Neugarten with the central metaphor of narrative theory, the present m…
Narrative research
As a result of the popularization of the narrative idea and the considerable diversity existing among narrative studies, a rather “all included” conception has arisen, in which the framework of narrative inquiry has been significantly blurred. For narrative inquiry to persist as a unique mode of investigation into human nature, a complementary dialogue is required that aims at outlining its core, alongside the emphasis given in the literature on …
Mechanisms of Selection in Claiming Narrative Identities
Aiming at a tight correspondence between narrative epistemology and methodology, a model for interpreting narratives is proposed that derives from a theoretical conception of how identities are claimed via stories. The narrative production is conceived as consisting of six mechanisms of selection, through which biographical facts are chosen, filtered, and sorted, with the purpose of confirming an established end point. Accordingly, the analysis s…
The crisis in achieving a sense of manhood among Israeli veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress symptoms
Styles of narrative selection in crafting life stories
Life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades. Despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disregarded, that is, the different styles in which life stories unfold. Although there are references to the process within which life stories are produced, emphasizing selection as its organizing principle, no efforts have been made to explore the diverse m…
I Was Born Into a Nightmare”
From Military Masculinity toward Hybrid Masculinities
This study examines how Israeli men who are army veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress and consequently participated in therapy engage 'new masculinities' ideologies. Drawing from interview data with these veterans, we find changes in the men's perceptions of masculinity and sense of themselves as men. They expressed this shift through criticisms of military masculinity and disassociating from the idea of man-as-fighter, disputing th…
Growth and pain in life-story reflection of students in helping professions
The importance of reflective pedagogy is widely acknowledged in HE and is a cornerstone of the helping professions curricula, enhancing students’ self-awareness and reflective skills. The literature emphasizes the virtues of reflection for the students’ personal and professional growth but insufficiently addresses the emotional pain entailed. To contribute to filling this gap, we examined how 103 students of social work and educational counseling…
The second empty nest
Alone in the shadow of terror
Continuous traumatic situations (CTS) caused by prolonged exposure to terrorist threat can harm individuals' mental and physical health. For older adults living alone in CTS, this risk joins the challenges of aging and loneliness, creating a triple vulnerability. No previous research has explored this particular vulnerability and specifically addressed the coping strategies and internal resources used by older adults to manage these stressful cir…
Dignity in Action in the Home Hospice
Home hospice (HH) is a palliative care framework that is becoming more and more common in Western countries. HH staff face unique challenges, resulting mainly from their multiple clients and the provision of care in a private territory. Despite the recognized role of professionals in preserving end-of-life (EOL) dignity, how HH staff conceive of EOL dignity has remained unexplored. To fill this lacuna, we invited the multidisciplinary staff of an…
Cumulative trauma
We suggest conceptualizing cumulative trauma responses as an intersecting trajectory model, between the effects of previous traumatic events and those of the current one, reflecting a combination of individuals' resilience and vulnerability. Suitable policies/practices in which each specific traumatic event is seen alone, as well as in tandem with others, should be implemented. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
The point isn't that we're old, but that we're the founders’
You are a foreigner and will always be a foreigner
“It’s a very hard lesson, but still a lesson”
This study examined the lived experiences of older adults displaced from the Israeli region near Gaza upon the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war in 2023. The region's residents, already exposed to decades of continuous traumatic situation, were evacuated under emergency conditions and remained displaced for approximately 5 to 8 months at the time of the interviews. Using an inductive qualitative design, semistructured interviews were conducted with…
Social work students’ intention to work with older adults
Social work students in different countries often exhibit low intention to pursue careers with older adults, raising questions about the potential role of social work education in shaping this intention. This cross-sectional study examined a theoretical model exploring how knowledge about older adults, acquired through coursework and direct contact during fieldwork, relates to students’ self-evaluation of knowledge. It also examined how self-eval…
Psychology (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Narrative (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Art (3 obras)