Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon
Biographic Data
| ID | 179110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilanit |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasson-Ohayon |
| SIGNATURE | HASSON-OHAYON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5618-019X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond medication adherence: The moderating role of illness identity on recovery outcomes in serious mental illness
Co-parenting in the context of child psychiatric hospitalization: A multilevel qualitative study
The hospitalization of a child in psychiatric care presents parents with a confluence of emotional, relational, and practical challenges. This qualitative study explored co-parenting experiences in this context, focusing on how parents perceive the decision to hospitalize their child and interpret hospitalization's outcomes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 parents (13 dyads) and analyzed using a multilevel approach. At the indiv…
Health locus of control and fear of cancer recurrence: The moderating role of emotion regulation in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
Objective Health locus of control (HLC) encompasses beliefs about control over illness from three sources: ‘internal’, ‘powerful others’, and ‘chance’. An internal locus is adaptive in cancer patients, while powerful others and chance loci predict psychological distress. We examined the association between HLC and fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) in cancer survivors, considering the moderating role of emotion regulation.Methods and measures One-hu…
Cultural aspects of stigma toward people with serious mental illness: A meta-analysis of the association between individualism-collectivism and social distance
Predicting satisfaction with vocational status among people with serious mental illness in vocational services: The role of perceived skills and support
The study highlights the importance of perceived skills and support in enhancing satisfaction with vocational status for people with SMI regardless of the vocational service type. Whereas objective factors like employment status and salary contribute to vocational rehabilitation and quality of life, subjective perceptions of skills and support play a significant role in satisfaction with vocational status. The results suggest that vocational reha…
Choosing your Own Path”: Patterns of Use of Psychiatric Medication among Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Most individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) are advised to take psychiatric medication, but about half of them do not take it as prescribed. The binary concepts of "adherence" and "non-adherence" do not seem to capture the actual patterns of medication use. The current study mapped the different patterns of medication use among people with SMI and explored the characteristics of each pattern. Sixteen participants diagnosed with an SMI that…
Public stigma toward women, mothers and non-mothers, with serious mental illness in Jewish Ultraorthodox society
The study aimed to investigate stigma toward women with serious mental illness (SMI) within the Jewish Ultraorthodox community. It explored the impact of target motherhood, observers' parenthood, and psychological-flexibility on stigma. 150 participants were presented with a vignette depicting a woman with\without SMI and as mothers\non-mothers, then surveyed for their attitudes and social distance. High levels of stigma were found toward women w…
Emotion regulation and self-stigma among people with schizophrenia: The mediating role of depression
Self-stigma is a common phenomenon among people with schizophrenia and is related to negative outcomes such as psychological distress as well as poor emotion regulation (ER). However, few studies have examined possible moderators or mediators in the association between ER and self-stigma. In the present study, we examined two competing models regarding the role of depression as a moderator or mediator in the relationship between ER as an independ…
Antipsychotics and Identity: The Adverse Effect No One is Talking About
Attitudes toward and patterns of medication use among people with serious mental illness: There’s more than meets the eye
The current study reveals the complex ongoing process of forming attitudes toward medication and patterns of use. Recognizing and identifying them via a joint reflective dialog with mental health professionals can enhance alliance, shared decision-making, and person-centered recovery-oriented care
Communicating diagnoses to individuals with a first episode psychosis: A qualitative study of individuals perspectives
This study provides new insights into the experiences and specific information needed by individuals with a first episode of psychosis. Results suggest that individuals have different needs regarding the type of (what), how and when to receive information about diagnosis and treatment options. This requires a tailor-made process of communicating diagnosis. A guideline on when, how and what to inform, as well as providing personalized written info…
Self-stigma and cognitive insight in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis
Findings show that self-stigma was already present in the UHR phase, to a similar degree as in individuals with a diagnosis of a SSD, and is thus not dependent of previous experience of having a label of SSD. Cognitive insight in individuals at UHR of psychosis appears to be intact, but individuals at UHR showed more self-reflectiveness, and individuals at risk with high cognitive insight also experience high levels of self-stigma. Overall findin…
Narrative reconstruction therapy for prolonged grief disorder: Basic interventions and mechanisms of change
Narrative reconstruction is a time-limited integrative therapy, originally developed in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder and adjusted for the treatment of prolonged grief disorder (PGD). It consists of exposure to the loss memory and narrating a detailed written reconstruction of it. In this paper, we describe narrative reconstruction interventions and modifications for the treatment of PGD as well as the underlying mechanisms of cha…
Sleep Difficulties Among Covid-19 Frontline Healthcare Workers
COVID-19 frontline HCW were more likely to report sleep difficulties, mainly difficulty maintaining sleep, as compared with non-COVID-19 HCW working at the same hospital. Negative patient-care related experiences likely mediated the increased probability for those difficulties. Future research is needed to elucidate the long-term trajectories of sleep difficulties among HCW during large scale outbreaks, and to identify risk factors for their pers…
Coping With Information Style, Self‐Concealment, Internalized Stigma, and Family Burden Among Parents of Children With Psychiatric Disorders
Parents of children with psychiatric disorders who are hospitalized in a psychiatric unit often experience family burden. Family burden has been found to be affected by many variables related to parents' personal traits and ways of reacting to the disorder. The current study examined the association between information coping styles (monitoring and blunting) and family burden, among parents of children who were hospitalized in a day care unit. Th…
The Delivery of Diagnosis by Child Psychiatrists: Process Characteristics and Correlates of Distress
We describe the attitudes of child psychiatrists toward diagnosis delivery (DD) and explore potential stressful factors associated with the process. Eighty Israeli child psychiatrists completed a questionnaire on their perceptions of DD of schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We also conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 12 child psychiatrists who were asked to share thei…
Empathy and Its Relationship With Social Functioning in Individuals at Ultra-High Risk for Psychosis
Introduction: Social functioning is often impaired in the ultra-high-risk (UHR) phase of psychosis. There is some evidence that empathy is also impaired in this phase and that these impairments may underlie difficulties in social functioning. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether cognitive and affective empathy are lower in people in the UHR phase of psychosis in comparison to healthy controls, and whether possible impairments hav…
The Association Between Cannabis Use and Perceived Social Support: The Mediating Role of Decreased Social Network
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Effects of Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) Versus Therapeutic Alliance Focused Therapy (Taft) Among Persons With Serious Mental Illness
Risk factors for psychological distress during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Israel: Loneliness, age, gender, and health status play an important role
OBJECTIVE: Research on the psychological toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is being conducted in various countries. This study aimed to examine risk factors for mental health problems among Israeli adults during this crisis. METHODS: A total of 204 participants took part in the study. They completed self-report questionnaires assessing perceived stress, anxiety, quality of life, and various questions related to quarantine, pre-existing health issues,…
Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Covid-19 Isolated Patients and in Their Relatives
Background: While focusing on the management and care of COVID-19 patients, the mental health of these patients and their relatives is being overlooked. The aim of the current study was to measure anxiety and depression, and to assess their association with socio-demographic and pandemic-related stress factors in COVID-19 patients and their relatives during the initial stage of hospitalization. Methods: We assessed isolated hospitalized patients …
The experience of divine struggle following child loss: The Case of Israeli bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents
Child loss may undermine one's faith. Whereas much is known about religion's role following loss, less is known about the experience of divine struggle-namely, struggling with complex God-related emotions/beliefs-particularly among diverse sociocultural samples. Employing a narrative approach, we interviewed 20 bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents. Analysis revealed three types of divine struggle (explicit, implicit/silenced, none) differentiated by …
Attachment to God among Bereaved Jewish Parents: Exploring Differences by Denominational Affiliation
While much research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's interpersonal attachment, very little research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's attachment to God (ATG). Particularly, how ATG dimensions relate to different religious denominations (RD). To explore the relationship between ATG dimensions (avoidance/anxiety) and Jewish RDs. As the attachment theory was conceptualized to understand human …
Conceptualizations, assessments, and implications of personal recovery in mental illness: A scoping review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Attachment to God as a mediator of the relationship between religious affiliation and adjustment to child loss
The findings highlight the need to examine internal religion-related variables, such as ATG, while addressing religion and loss. From a clinical perspective, the findings may help therapists implement culturally sensitive practice as a part of spiritually informed psychotherapy. Enhancing therapists' familiarity with the client's internal constructs will enable a better evaluation and accommodation of therapy when working with bereaved parents. (…
Retrospective Accounts of the Process of Using and Discontinuing Psychiatric Medication
Refusal to take psychiatric medication as prescribed is often considered negative, harmful, and even reflective of a sign of one's illness. However, recent research from diverse sources has challenged this axiom. The current study investigated the reasons, processes, experiences, and perceived impacts of medication discontinuation. The study was carried out using the narrative approach to life stories method. Participants were 12 women and 9 men …
Antipsychotics and Identity: The Adverse Effect No One is Talking About
Narrative reconstruction therapy for prolonged grief disorder: Basic interventions and mechanisms of change
Narrative reconstruction is a time-limited integrative therapy, originally developed in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder and adjusted for the treatment of prolonged grief disorder (PGD). It consists of exposure to the loss memory and narrating a detailed written reconstruction of it. In this paper, we describe narrative reconstruction interventions and modifications for the treatment of PGD as well as the underlying mechanisms of cha…
The Relationship Between Consumer Insight and Provider-Consumer Agreement Regarding Consumer’s Quality of Life
Choosing your Own Path”: Patterns of Use of Psychiatric Medication among Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Most individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) are advised to take psychiatric medication, but about half of them do not take it as prescribed. The binary concepts of "adherence" and "non-adherence" do not seem to capture the actual patterns of medication use. The current study mapped the different patterns of medication use among people with SMI and explored the characteristics of each pattern. Sixteen participants diagnosed with an SMI that…
The experience of divine struggle following child loss: The Case of Israeli bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents
Child loss may undermine one's faith. Whereas much is known about religion's role following loss, less is known about the experience of divine struggle-namely, struggling with complex God-related emotions/beliefs-particularly among diverse sociocultural samples. Employing a narrative approach, we interviewed 20 bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents. Analysis revealed three types of divine struggle (explicit, implicit/silenced, none) differentiated by …
Attachment to God among Bereaved Jewish Parents: Exploring Differences by Denominational Affiliation
While much research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's interpersonal attachment, very little research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's attachment to God (ATG). Particularly, how ATG dimensions relate to different religious denominations (RD). To explore the relationship between ATG dimensions (avoidance/anxiety) and Jewish RDs. As the attachment theory was conceptualized to understand human …
The Relationship Between Consumer Insight and Provider-Consumer Agreement Regarding Consumer’s Quality of Life
Self-stigma, insight, and family burden among Israeli mothers of people with serious mental illness: Ethno-national considerations
The current cross-sectional study investigated and compared the associations between insight, self-stigma, and family burden among Jewish and Arab mothers of an adult son or daughter with serious mental illness (SMI) in Israel. A total of 162 Israeli mothers of a person with SMI participated in the study; 95 were Jewish (58.6%), and 67 were Arab (41.4%). Insight, self-stigma, and family burden scales were administered. Jewish mothers reported hig…
Conceptualizations, assessments, and implications of personal recovery in mental illness: A scoping review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Attachment to God as a mediator of the relationship between religious affiliation and adjustment to child loss
The findings highlight the need to examine internal religion-related variables, such as ATG, while addressing religion and loss. From a clinical perspective, the findings may help therapists implement culturally sensitive practice as a part of spiritually informed psychotherapy. Enhancing therapists' familiarity with the client's internal constructs will enable a better evaluation and accommodation of therapy when working with bereaved parents. (…
Randomized Controlled Trial of Adjunctive Social Cognition and Interaction Training, Adjunctive Therapeutic Alliance Focused Therapy, and Treatment As Usual Among Persons With Serious Mental Illness
As one of the areas of greatest concern for people with serious mental illness (SMI) are unmet social needs, psychosocial interventions have been developed to address them. The current study utilized a randomized controlled trial to examine the effectiveness of social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) versus a therapeutic alliance focused theraphy (TAFT) versus a treatment-as-usual (TAU) control group on social functioning and quality of …
Retrospective Accounts of the Process of Using and Discontinuing Psychiatric Medication
Refusal to take psychiatric medication as prescribed is often considered negative, harmful, and even reflective of a sign of one's illness. However, recent research from diverse sources has challenged this axiom. The current study investigated the reasons, processes, experiences, and perceived impacts of medication discontinuation. The study was carried out using the narrative approach to life stories method. Participants were 12 women and 9 men …
Risk factors for psychological distress during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Israel: Loneliness, age, gender, and health status play an important role
OBJECTIVE: Research on the psychological toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is being conducted in various countries. This study aimed to examine risk factors for mental health problems among Israeli adults during this crisis. METHODS: A total of 204 participants took part in the study. They completed self-report questionnaires assessing perceived stress, anxiety, quality of life, and various questions related to quarantine, pre-existing health issues,…
Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Covid-19 Isolated Patients and in Their Relatives
Background: While focusing on the management and care of COVID-19 patients, the mental health of these patients and their relatives is being overlooked. The aim of the current study was to measure anxiety and depression, and to assess their association with socio-demographic and pandemic-related stress factors in COVID-19 patients and their relatives during the initial stage of hospitalization. Methods: We assessed isolated hospitalized patients …
The experience of divine struggle following child loss: The Case of Israeli bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents
Child loss may undermine one's faith. Whereas much is known about religion's role following loss, less is known about the experience of divine struggle-namely, struggling with complex God-related emotions/beliefs-particularly among diverse sociocultural samples. Employing a narrative approach, we interviewed 20 bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents. Analysis revealed three types of divine struggle (explicit, implicit/silenced, none) differentiated by …
Attachment to God among Bereaved Jewish Parents: Exploring Differences by Denominational Affiliation
While much research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's interpersonal attachment, very little research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's attachment to God (ATG). Particularly, how ATG dimensions relate to different religious denominations (RD). To explore the relationship between ATG dimensions (avoidance/anxiety) and Jewish RDs. As the attachment theory was conceptualized to understand human …
Coping With Information Style, Self‐Concealment, Internalized Stigma, and Family Burden Among Parents of Children With Psychiatric Disorders
Parents of children with psychiatric disorders who are hospitalized in a psychiatric unit often experience family burden. Family burden has been found to be affected by many variables related to parents' personal traits and ways of reacting to the disorder. The current study examined the association between information coping styles (monitoring and blunting) and family burden, among parents of children who were hospitalized in a day care unit. Th…
The Delivery of Diagnosis by Child Psychiatrists: Process Characteristics and Correlates of Distress
We describe the attitudes of child psychiatrists toward diagnosis delivery (DD) and explore potential stressful factors associated with the process. Eighty Israeli child psychiatrists completed a questionnaire on their perceptions of DD of schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We also conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 12 child psychiatrists who were asked to share thei…
Empathy and Its Relationship With Social Functioning in Individuals at Ultra-High Risk for Psychosis
Introduction: Social functioning is often impaired in the ultra-high-risk (UHR) phase of psychosis. There is some evidence that empathy is also impaired in this phase and that these impairments may underlie difficulties in social functioning. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether cognitive and affective empathy are lower in people in the UHR phase of psychosis in comparison to healthy controls, and whether possible impairments hav…
The Association Between Cannabis Use and Perceived Social Support: The Mediating Role of Decreased Social Network
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Effects of Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) Versus Therapeutic Alliance Focused Therapy (Taft) Among Persons With Serious Mental Illness
Sleep Difficulties Among Covid-19 Frontline Healthcare Workers
COVID-19 frontline HCW were more likely to report sleep difficulties, mainly difficulty maintaining sleep, as compared with non-COVID-19 HCW working at the same hospital. Negative patient-care related experiences likely mediated the increased probability for those difficulties. Future research is needed to elucidate the long-term trajectories of sleep difficulties among HCW during large scale outbreaks, and to identify risk factors for their pers…
Attitudes toward and patterns of medication use among people with serious mental illness: There’s more than meets the eye
The current study reveals the complex ongoing process of forming attitudes toward medication and patterns of use. Recognizing and identifying them via a joint reflective dialog with mental health professionals can enhance alliance, shared decision-making, and person-centered recovery-oriented care
Communicating diagnoses to individuals with a first episode psychosis: A qualitative study of individuals perspectives
This study provides new insights into the experiences and specific information needed by individuals with a first episode of psychosis. Results suggest that individuals have different needs regarding the type of (what), how and when to receive information about diagnosis and treatment options. This requires a tailor-made process of communicating diagnosis. A guideline on when, how and what to inform, as well as providing personalized written info…
Self-stigma and cognitive insight in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis
Findings show that self-stigma was already present in the UHR phase, to a similar degree as in individuals with a diagnosis of a SSD, and is thus not dependent of previous experience of having a label of SSD. Cognitive insight in individuals at UHR of psychosis appears to be intact, but individuals at UHR showed more self-reflectiveness, and individuals at risk with high cognitive insight also experience high levels of self-stigma. Overall findin…
Narrative reconstruction therapy for prolonged grief disorder: Basic interventions and mechanisms of change
Narrative reconstruction is a time-limited integrative therapy, originally developed in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder and adjusted for the treatment of prolonged grief disorder (PGD). It consists of exposure to the loss memory and narrating a detailed written reconstruction of it. In this paper, we describe narrative reconstruction interventions and modifications for the treatment of PGD as well as the underlying mechanisms of cha…
Public stigma toward women, mothers and non-mothers, with serious mental illness in Jewish Ultraorthodox society
The study aimed to investigate stigma toward women with serious mental illness (SMI) within the Jewish Ultraorthodox community. It explored the impact of target motherhood, observers' parenthood, and psychological-flexibility on stigma. 150 participants were presented with a vignette depicting a woman with\without SMI and as mothers\non-mothers, then surveyed for their attitudes and social distance. High levels of stigma were found toward women w…
Emotion regulation and self-stigma among people with schizophrenia: The mediating role of depression
Self-stigma is a common phenomenon among people with schizophrenia and is related to negative outcomes such as psychological distress as well as poor emotion regulation (ER). However, few studies have examined possible moderators or mediators in the association between ER and self-stigma. In the present study, we examined two competing models regarding the role of depression as a moderator or mediator in the relationship between ER as an independ…
Antipsychotics and Identity: The Adverse Effect No One is Talking About
Health locus of control and fear of cancer recurrence: The moderating role of emotion regulation in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
Objective Health locus of control (HLC) encompasses beliefs about control over illness from three sources: ‘internal’, ‘powerful others’, and ‘chance’. An internal locus is adaptive in cancer patients, while powerful others and chance loci predict psychological distress. We examined the association between HLC and fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) in cancer survivors, considering the moderating role of emotion regulation.Methods and measures One-hu…
Cultural aspects of stigma toward people with serious mental illness: A meta-analysis of the association between individualism-collectivism and social distance
Psychology (25 works) · Psychiatry (22 works) · Clinical Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Mental health (13 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Mental illness (9 works) · Psychotherapist (9 works)