Ronit D Leichtentritt
Biographic Data
| ID | 125093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronit D Leichtentritt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronit D |
| FAMILY NAME | Leichtentritt |
| SIGNATURE | LEICHTENTRITT R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0092-3705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Constructing existential threat: Political discourse, leadership, and the social management of mortality
In contexts of prolonged insecurity, existential threat becomes a central organizing principle of collective life. Terror Management Theory (TMT) has focused on intrapsychic responses to mortality salience. However, researchers have paid less attention to how public discourse constructs mortality-related threats. This study examines how political communication articulates and manages existential threat over time. Using a qualitative thematic anal…
Dislocated and Disrupted: Experiences of Gay Intended Fathers with Pregnancy Loss via International Surrogacy
This research focuses on the experiences of gay intended fathers with the loss of a pregnancy via international surrogacy, with the aim of exploring a relatively under-researched experience and expanding the knowledge relevant to their needs following pregnancy loss. Twelve Israeli gay men who experienced pregnancy loss via international surrogacy were interviewed. Ricoeur-inspired interpretative phenomenological analysis was conducted to explore…
Witnessing evil: Moral injury and the struggle with revenge among Israeli reserve soldiers.
This study explores the experiences of 20 Israeli reserve soldiers who were assigned to manage the bodies of the victims following Hamas's October 7, 2023, attacks. Although not present during the atrocities, these soldiers became witnesses to their aftermath-encountering mutilated corpses, destroyed homes, and traces of deliberate cruelty. Their testimonies reveal an acute confrontation with human evil. Thematic analysis highlights four interrel…
Siblings’ encounters with a subsequent child after sibling loss
This study presents a qualitative analysis of 16 interviews with Israeli siblings who experienced the loss of a sibling followed by the addition of a new child to the family. The study explores how bereaved siblings encounter and make sense of the subsequent child within the family context. Using thematic analysis, four key themes emerged: (a) resentment toward parents' decision to have another child; (b) the absence of an appropriate term to def…
Creating Life Amidst Death: The Lived Experience of Medical Professionals Performing Posthumous Sperm Retrieval
Posthumous sperm retrieval (PHSR) situates fertility clinicians at the paradoxical intersection of medical practice: creating the possibility of life during encounters with the dead. Little is known about how practitioners navigate the tension between professional duty and human vulnerability in such an extreme context. To address this research gap, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 Israeli medical professionals (physicians, embryologist…
Walking in blood, running for life: The visceral dialectics of body handling
This study aimed to explore the visceral and embodied experiences of body handlers, examining how the physical body registers, processes, and resists traumatic exposure. Utilizing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, a secondary analysis was conducted on narratives from twenty Jewish male IDF reservists tasked with identifying and processing human remains following the October 7th attack. Drawing on Foucault's metaphor of the mirror, the fin…
“Death is a part of me”: Trauma survivors’ relationship with death
This study, based on secondary data analysis, examines how survivors of traumatic loss relate to death. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the findings show that survivors develop a paradoxical intimacy with death, experienced in shifting roles as companion, pursuer, protector, and sovereign. No longer a distant abstraction, death emerges as a constant, embodied presence that reshapes identity and everyday existence. Survivors describe moving fluidl…
Supervising interpretive research in doctoral social work education
This study explores the experiences of academic supervisors guiding PhD students conducting qualitative interpretive research in social work departments. Shifting the analytical lens from supervisees to supervisors, it examines the distinctive commitments, tensions, and dilemmas inherent in interpretive supervision. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, the study draws on in-depth interviews with 12 experienced supervisors from Israel ( …
A new heterotopia: Reconfiguring presence and absence between life and death in an era of liquid modernity
Examining the emerging epistemic shift in Western society's relationship with death, this article contends that contemporary cultural-technological practices are reconfiguring life-death binary experiences. Drawing on Foucault's concept of heterotopias and Bauman's theory of liquid modernity, we explore how the boundaries between the living and the dead are reconfigured through hybrid spaces of posthumous proximity. Through three illustrative pra…
Continuing bonds and the posthumous child
The strategies that bereaved individuals use to establish an ongoing bond with the deceased have attracted considerable attention. However, the narratives of young widows pregnant at the time of their partner's death reveal unique strategies that have not yet received attention in the literature. This interpretive phenomenological research explores the strategies employed by 13 Israeli widows who lost their partners while pregnant. Continuing bon…
"Whose mother am I?" Maternal identity reconstruction among bereaved mothers of infants who died of Sids
The term sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) refers to the unexpected and medically unexplained death of an infant, typically during sleep. This study examines how maternal identity is reconstructed among 14 Jewish Israeli mothers who experienced the loss of a baby to SIDS. We began with the assumption, well-grounded in modern grief models, that loss undermines the bereaved identity and in the case of SIDS the undermine of maternal identity is li…
Parts that hold one together: Compartmentalization as resilience in body handling
Exposure to dead bodies is widely recognized as a profoundly traumatic experience that is frequently linked to elevated levels of psychological distress. This study aimed to explore the strategies implemented by body handlers to preserve their psychological well-being while fulfilling their duties. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 Israeli reservist soldiers called up to duty to handle human remains following the October…
The relationship of long-term bereaved siblings with their parents
No strength to stop: Persevering in fertility treatment despite repeated failures – A qualitative investigation
Experiences of maternal-fetal medicine specialists conducting feticide
This study is a qualitative analysis of 14 interviews with specialists in maternal-fetal medicine in Israel who implement feticide by injection at a late stage of pregnancy. The goal of this study was to reach an interpretive understanding of the physicians' experience. The study focuses on five major themes: (1) involvement in the decision-making process; (2) emotional control and medical expertise; (3) perception of feticide as dirty work; (4) …
To ventilate or not to ventilate: A qualitative analysis of physicians’ experience during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic
Little is known about experiences of physicians when deciding on initiating life support during medical crises of mass casualties and undersupply. We performed a qualitative analysis of interviews with 14 physicians about their decision-making experience when considering initiating mechanical ventilation in patients with severe COVID-19 during the early pandemic. Three themes were revealed: (a) The accumulating clinical experience with invasive v…
I occasionally wear his huge sweaters… but I often prefer not to think about it: Bereaved children talking and not talking about parental loss
The unique perspective of children communicating about the loss of a parent has rarely been studied. In this qualitative research, we interviewed 12 children aged 7-12 and asked them about their experience communicating their loss. The children's verbal and non-verbal communication was characterized by constant movements away from and closer to various aspects of their loss, illustrated by three main themes: (a) children either talking about the …
Navigating the paradox: Strategies utilized by pregnant widows in an attempt to reconcile life and death
Losing a spouse is a traumatic experience, especially at a younger age. This experience is arguably more intense and complex if the woman becomes a widow while pregnant. In the current study, we examined the strategies Israeli women who became widows while pregnant utilized to reconcile life and death. Twelve adult women who became widows while pregnant participated in this study, which involved in-depth semi-structured interviews. A thematic ana…
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth
The loss of a family member is often conceptualized as a disruption in one's life story. However, when a loss occurs prior to, or during, one's birth, the bereaved life stories are not interrupted by the loss, but rather begin with loss. The paper offers a new conceptualization of these losses as "congenital losses" and captures the core aspects of this phenomenon. A qualitative phenomenological analysis of 34 in-depth semi-structured interviews …
Standing in spaces and feeling alright: The experience of bereaved fathers of fallen soldiers in Israel
Body Perception and Organ Donation: Bereaved Parents’ Perspectives
The view of the body in sociological, psychological, and gender studies may be broadly summarized to three metaphors: (a) the body as a machine, (b) the body as Self, and (c) the body as sacred and sanctified entity. Each of these philosophical views has an impact on organ donation. The current study aimed at revealing body perception of bereaved Israeli parents who agreed to donate organs of their deceased child. A deductive and inductive themat…
Bereaved parents’ unwillingness to participate in a joint research interview: The case of feticide
Bereaved parents who have undergone feticide are reluctant to participate in a joint interview. Barthes' intertextuality approach is used to examine the texts of their separate interviews in order to arrive at an interpretive understanding of this phenomenon. Our results indicate that socially constructed gender roles and medical-biological and economic constructs, shape the parents' perceptions and actions. Both men and women behave based on the…
Creative Writing after Traumatic Loss: Towards a Generative Writing Approach
Meaning-reconstruction theory explains bereavement in terms of an ongoing striving to find meaning. The expressive writing paradigm claims that writing, through disclosure, can facilitate meaning-reconstruction. In this article, we explore how writing, and specifically the writing of poetry, facilitates meaning-reconstruction for bereaved parents who are coping with a sudden traumatic loss of a child. Ten Israelis who lost a child in a terror att…
Mothers' Continuing Bond With the Baby: The Case of Feticide
The nature of the ongoing bond maintained by the bereaved with the deceased has attracted considerable attention, but studies have generally ignored postdeath relationships when loss occurs in utero. The goal of this research was to reach an interpretive understanding of the continuing bond experience among Israeli mothers who underwent feticide, examining the strategies they use in maintaining a postdeath relationship with a child they did not k…
Justifications of feticide
This qualitative research explores the justifications that Israeli women provided for their decision to end their late-stage pregnancies, or in other words to undergo feticide. A constructivist approach was used, as it recognizes the significance of sociocultural narratives in the construction of people's experiences. Data from in-depth interviews were analyzed using an adapted version of constant comparative analysis to identify and develop cate…
Ideological Meaning Making After the Loss of a Child: The Case of Israeli Bereaved Parents
The study provides a view of ideological meaning-making processes of 10 Israelis who lost a child examining the parents' perspectives and written public documents. The texts and interviews were analyzed using Gadamer's hermeneutic philosophy. Findings indicate that bereaved parents construct conflicting ideologically oriented viewpoints: doubting and affirming the Zionist ideology; ascribing sense and senselessness to the loss; and joining the et…
Silenced voices: Israeli mothers' experience of feticide
Bodies as means for continuing post-death relationships
Secondary analysis of data from 30 people in three interview studies shows that bereaved people use their own and the deceased's body in their continuing efforts to maintain a relationship with the departed. Following the continuing bond perspective, the study reveals three body-associated strategies for maintaining post-death relationships: (a) the presence of the deceased in the bereaved's body, (b) body-associated actions and activities, and (…
The Experience of Miscarriage in First Pregnancy: The Women's Voices
The study is a qualitative analysis of 19 interviews with Israeli women who have lost a first pregnancy to miscarriage. Neither the public nor health care professionals are fully aware of the implications and significance of miscarriage to the woman who has lost the pregnancy. The goal of this study was to understand and give voice to the women's experience. Five themes were revealed--the greater the joy, the more painful the crash; the nature an…
Representations of fathers and mothers in court petitions for dependent minor status for children at risk
The Construction of Troubled and Credible Patients: A Study of Emotion Talk in Palliative Care Settings
In this article, the authors select two categories of dying patients, "troubled" and "credible," from two larger studies conducted in three palliative care settings. They explore how nurses construct dying patients' moral identities and how they use emotion talk to interpret patients' behavior. The authors carried out a microanalysis of talk-in-action using discourse analysis and conversation analysis. Strategies used for the construction of mora…
Understanding Noncustodial Fathers' Family and Life Satisfaction From Resource Theory Perspective
The study is an exploratory attempt to examine family and life satisfaction of 212 noncustodial fathers 3 years following divorce, using path analysis to validate the hypothesized ordering among six dependent variables suggested by resource theory. Results indicated the significant predictors of family and life satisfaction were perceived economic well-being, cooperative communication during conflict and during coparenting, low importance of reso…
A General Theory for Perceptual Indicators of Family Life Quality
Configurations of Time in Bereaved Parents' Narratives
In this study, we examined the configurations of time within narratives of bereaved Israeli parents, employing Gadamer's hermeneutic philosophy as the research methodology. Our results reveal that following a sudden violent loss, parents experienced a change in their sense of time. Three nonexclusive time possibilities were evident in the participants' narratives: time stopped, time moved forward, and time moved backward. Although most of the soc…
The construction of the good death
My Parent's Dignified Death is Different from Mine: Moral Problem Solving about Euthanasia
The purpose of the study was to explore the moral problem solving of Israeli adult children concerning passive euthanasia when considering the death of any citizen in society, one's own death, a partner's death, and the impending death of an elderly ill parent. The qualitative analysis of 12 in-depth interview transcripts by analytic induction and constant comparison methods revealed how adults think about moral problems that are of differing dis…
Old ties and new relationships: Bereaved girlfriends' experiences in new romantic relationships after the loss
This study examined the experience of 16 Israeli bereaved girlfriends of fallen soldiers who developed new romantic relationships after the loss. Following the relational dialectical viewpoint, our analysis indicates that the bereaved girlfriends simultaneously experienced strong commitment to continuity but no less strong commitment to the present. This dialectical tension was reflected in the participants' need to preserve their commitment to t…
No one sees the fathers: Israeli fathers' experience of feticide
Characteristics of the Ongoing Bond
The nature of the ongoing bond maintained by a bereaved person with a deceased one has attracted considerable attention in recent years, but studies have generally been limited to a functional viewpoint which examines only the outcomes of the bond. The current study provides a unique view of the ongoing bond which is maintained by the bereaved with the deceased; the characteristics of this bond are examined. The narratives of nine bereaved Israel…
Young Male Street Workers: Life Histories and Current Experiences
Journal Article Young Male Street Workers: Life Histories and Current Experiences Get access Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Ronit D. Leichtentritt Senior lecturer in the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Correspondence to Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Ph.D., Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Holocaust survivors' perspectives on the euthanasia debate
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth
The loss of a family member is often conceptualized as a disruption in one's life story. However, when a loss occurs prior to, or during, one's birth, the bereaved life stories are not interrupted by the loss, but rather begin with loss. The paper offers a new conceptualization of these losses as "congenital losses" and captures the core aspects of this phenomenon. A qualitative phenomenological analysis of 34 in-depth semi-structured interviews …
Unanticipated Death of a Partner: The Loss Experience of Bereaved Girlfriends of Fallen Israeli Soldiers
This qualitative study examined the loss experience of 15 Israeli bereaved girlfriends of fallen soldiers. The girlfriends of fallen Israeli soldiers are socially unacknowledged as being bereaved. This disenfranchised experience of grief is conveyed through social exclusion components and personal experiences of grief that were conceptualized into four themes: (a) learning about the loss; (b) loneliness and lack of social support; (c) intensifyin…
Beyond Favourable Attitudes to End-of-Life Rights: The Experiences of Israeli Health Care Social Workers
This is a qualitative study of eighteen Israeli health care social workers' experiences at times of end-of-life decisions in light of the 2007 law that legitimises patients' rights to withhold life-sustaining treatments under certain conditions. Results convey a troublesome picture in which social workers tend to remove themselves from involvement in these decisions due to an experience of inefficiency. The study reveals two main obstacles to inv…
Adolescent and Young Adult Male-to-Female Transsexuals: Pathways to Prostitution
Journal Article Adolescent and Young Adult Male-to-Female Transsexuals: Pathways to Prostitution Get access Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Ronit D. Leichtentritt Correspondence to Dr Ronit D. Leichtentritt or Dr Bilha Davidson Arad, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bilha Davidson-Arad Bilha Dav…
Navigating the paradox: Strategies utilized by pregnant widows in an attempt to reconcile life and death
Losing a spouse is a traumatic experience, especially at a younger age. This experience is arguably more intense and complex if the woman becomes a widow while pregnant. In the current study, we examined the strategies Israeli women who became widows while pregnant utilized to reconcile life and death. Twelve adult women who became widows while pregnant participated in this study, which involved in-depth semi-structured interviews. A thematic ana…
A common-sense model of injury perceptions
The aim of this study was to clarify the difference between perceptions of injury and illness. A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted with 38 individuals who had been injured in the past, 8 medical psychologists, 62 graduate psychology students, and 19 health professionals treating injured patients. Data were analyzed by modified analytic induction and constant comparison methods. Common-sense perceptions of injury ove…
Divorced mothers' self‐perception of their divorce‐related communication with their children
This is a qualitative study of divorce‐related communication between mothers and children, as recounted by 20 Jewish Israeli mothers. We adopt the communication privacy management theory, focusing on mothers' subjective experiences of communication, their management of dialectic tension between concealment and disclosure – namely, not only what mothers choose to disclose to and hide from their children, but also the feelings, concerns and percept…
The Meaning That Young Israeli Adults Ascribe to the Least Undesirable Death
The study examines descriptions by 14 Israeli young adults of the least undesirable death. The transcripts of essays and interviews were analyzed by phenomenological methods to determine themes and interpret their synthesis into the essence of the phenomenon. The least undesirable death was perceived as multi-dimensional, based on 4 themes: the time, manner, and place in which death occurs, and the importance of death being beneficial to others. …
Family Beliefs About End-of-Life Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective
Elderly Israelis and their family members (n = 41) from 13 nuclear families were interviewed individually and conjointly concerning their beliefs about end-of-life decisions that would involve prolonging life or hastening death. The transcribed interviews were analyzed using the hermeneutic phenomenology approach since the purpose of the study was to reveal and interpret beliefs that were not easily visible to participants. The premise of the stu…
Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to Economic Stress
The purposes of the study were to test the hypotheses of stress and management theories concerning responses to an economic stressor and to identify differences between farm men and women in responses to the same event. The study verified by path analysis that the behavioral economic adjustment strategies activated by 298 women and 294 men were influenced by the affective responses of perceiving emotional stress and the cognitive deciding process…
Holocaust survivors' perspectives on the euthanasia debate
Ethiopean and Israeli Students' Adjustment to College: The effect of the Family, Social Support and Individual Coping Styles
The present study examines the individual, family, and social resources that influence the academic adjustment of Ethiopian students as compared to Israeli students. More specifically, the study examines the influence of sense of coherence, coping styles, family cohesion and adaptability, and social support on the academic adjustment of these two populations. Academic adjustment was measured using three dimensions: (a) the student's assessment of…
My Parent's Dignified Death is Different from Mine: Moral Problem Solving about Euthanasia
The purpose of the study was to explore the moral problem solving of Israeli adult children concerning passive euthanasia when considering the death of any citizen in society, one's own death, a partner's death, and the impending death of an elderly ill parent. The qualitative analysis of 12 in-depth interview transcripts by analytic induction and constant comparison methods revealed how adults think about moral problems that are of differing dis…
Understanding Noncustodial Fathers' Family and Life Satisfaction From Resource Theory Perspective
The study is an exploratory attempt to examine family and life satisfaction of 212 noncustodial fathers 3 years following divorce, using path analysis to validate the hypothesized ordering among six dependent variables suggested by resource theory. Results indicated the significant predictors of family and life satisfaction were perceived economic well-being, cooperative communication during conflict and during coparenting, low importance of reso…
A General Theory for Perceptual Indicators of Family Life Quality
The Good Death: Reaching an Inductive Understanding
The study examines descriptions by twenty-six elderly Israelis of a good death. The transcripts of personal interviews were analyzed using phenomenological methods to determine general and essential essences of the good death phenomenon. The good death was perceived as a multidimensional phenomenon based on eighteen general essences that were condensed into five essential essences that included the physiological, personal, interpersonal, social a…
The Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies
Understanding Non Custodial Fathers' Relationships with Children from Resource Theory Perspectives
The study explored fathers' involvement in the oldest child's activities and the quality of the father-child relationship three years after divorce. The sample included 123 unmarried fathers without physical custody of their children, whose oldest child was 11–19 years of age. Fathers' perceptions of personal resources increased the likelihood of cooperative communication during conflict and coparenting (giving resources), and decreased the likel…
The construction of the good death
Construction of the Victim Impact Statement for Sexually Abused Minors: A Dramaturgy Approach
This study examines victim impact statements (VIS) constructed by six Israeli social workers for the sentencing process in 17 cases of sexual abuse of minors. The VIS is seen not as a systematic description of the victim made by the social worker, but rather as a construction resulting from the relation between the child's story and the social worker's understanding and interpretation of it. As such, the paper identifies a number of strategies so…
Family Beliefs About End-of-Life Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective
Elderly Israelis and their family members (n = 41) from 13 nuclear families were interviewed individually and conjointly concerning their beliefs about end-of-life decisions that would involve prolonging life or hastening death. The transcribed interviews were analyzed using the hermeneutic phenomenology approach since the purpose of the study was to reveal and interpret beliefs that were not easily visible to participants. The premise of the stu…
Euthanasia: Israeli Social Workers' Experiences, Attitudes and Meanings
Sixteen social workers in Israel were interviewed about their experiences with and attitudes towards various forms of euthanasia, as well as the meanings they ascribe to them. Using phenomenological analysis, seven themes were identified, emphasizing individual, interpersonal, organizational, social and therapeutic considerations, and suggesting a holistic and integrative structure of the phenomenon. The themes were arrived at by identifying dist…
The Meaning That Young Israeli Adults Ascribe to the Least Undesirable Death
The study examines descriptions by 14 Israeli young adults of the least undesirable death. The transcripts of essays and interviews were analyzed by phenomenological methods to determine themes and interpret their synthesis into the essence of the phenomenon. The least undesirable death was perceived as multi-dimensional, based on 4 themes: the time, manner, and place in which death occurs, and the importance of death being beneficial to others. …
Adolescent and Young Adult Male-to-Female Transsexuals: Pathways to Prostitution
Journal Article Adolescent and Young Adult Male-to-Female Transsexuals: Pathways to Prostitution Get access Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Ronit D. Leichtentritt Correspondence to Dr Ronit D. Leichtentritt or Dr Bilha Davidson Arad, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bilha Davidson-Arad Bilha Dav…
Young Male Street Workers: Life Histories and Current Experiences
Journal Article Young Male Street Workers: Life Histories and Current Experiences Get access Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Ronit D. Leichtentritt Senior lecturer in the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Correspondence to Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Ph.D., Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The Construction of Troubled and Credible Patients: A Study of Emotion Talk in Palliative Care Settings
In this article, the authors select two categories of dying patients, "troubled" and "credible," from two larger studies conducted in three palliative care settings. They explore how nurses construct dying patients' moral identities and how they use emotion talk to interpret patients' behavior. The authors carried out a microanalysis of talk-in-action using discourse analysis and conversation analysis. Strategies used for the construction of mora…
The Experience of Miscarriage in First Pregnancy: The Women's Voices
The study is a qualitative analysis of 19 interviews with Israeli women who have lost a first pregnancy to miscarriage. Neither the public nor health care professionals are fully aware of the implications and significance of miscarriage to the woman who has lost the pregnancy. The goal of this study was to understand and give voice to the women's experience. Five themes were revealed--the greater the joy, the more painful the crash; the nature an…
Representations of fathers and mothers in court petitions for dependent minor status for children at risk
Spiritual Beliefs among Israeli Nurses and Social Workers: A Comparison Based on Their Involvement with the Dying
The purpose of the study was to compare spiritual beliefs and practices between nurses and health care social workers based on their involvement with dying patients. Exposure to the dying was identified by two indicators: the percentage of terminally ill patients in the provider's care and the work environment. On the basis of the literature, differences were expected between the two types of professionals and the three degrees of involvement wit…
Invisible Palestinian Women: ‘You’re Not From Around Here’
One of the outcomes of the ongoing Israeli—Palestinian conflict has been the phenomenon of hasty marriages of convenience between Palestinian women from the Occupied Territories and Israeli Arab men. The children of these couples are Israeli citizens, while their mothers find themselves living in Israel illegally for years on end, ineligible for services that are provided to legal residents and in constant fear of deportation. This article is bas…
Beyond Favourable Attitudes to End-of-Life Rights: The Experiences of Israeli Health Care Social Workers
This is a qualitative study of eighteen Israeli health care social workers' experiences at times of end-of-life decisions in light of the 2007 law that legitimises patients' rights to withhold life-sustaining treatments under certain conditions. Results convey a troublesome picture in which social workers tend to remove themselves from involvement in these decisions due to an experience of inefficiency. The study reveals two main obstacles to inv…
Construction of court petitions in cases of alternative placement of children at risk: Meaning‐making strategies that social workers use to shape court decisions
This study examines court petitions constructed by 19 Israeli social workers in cases involving the placement of 37 maltreated children in alternative care. The petition is seen not as a systemic description of the child made by the social worker, but rather as a construction based on the social workers' understandings and interpretations with the aim of shaping court decisions. As such, the article describes a number of meaning-making strategies…
Silenced voices: Israeli mothers' experience of feticide
Divorced mothers' self‐perception of their divorce‐related communication with their children
This is a qualitative study of divorce‐related communication between mothers and children, as recounted by 20 Jewish Israeli mothers. We adopt the communication privacy management theory, focusing on mothers' subjective experiences of communication, their management of dialectic tension between concealment and disclosure – namely, not only what mothers choose to disclose to and hide from their children, but also the feelings, concerns and percept…
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