Ortal Slobodin
Biographic Data
| ID | 233293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ortal Slobodin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ortal |
| FAMILY NAME | Slobodin |
| SIGNATURE | SLOBODIN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1371-5254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“There Is No Need for My Child to be Gifted”: Bedouin Parents’ and School Principals’ Constructions of Giftedness
Like other children from underserved populations, Bedouin children are severely underrepresented in gifted education. Although socioeconomic and educational disparities in Bedouin society are well recognized, very little is currently known about the role of families and schools in the identification and participation of Bedouin children in gifted education. Guided by a culturally responsive perspective on giftedness, we examined how Bedouin paren…
Can religious affiliation protect mothers from work–family conflict? A study of Jewish ultra-Orthodox and non-ultra-Orthodox mothers
Cultural Considerations in Parental Socialization: Study of Mothers From Five Israeli Minority Groups
Although the role of culture and context in parenting attitudes and practices has long been recognized, the current knowledge of cultural socialization processes in childhood remains limited. In this study, we examined how cultural considerations inform socialization processes in different national, religious, and immigrant groups in Israeli society. We analyzed 36 semi-structured interviews with mothers from five groups: Jewish ultra-Orthodox mo…
Religiousness and self-control in patients with substance use disorder (SUD) and comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Background: Religiousness has been positively associated with better mental health and stronger self-control, including in patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, data on religiousness in patients with SUD and comorbid ADHD are lacking. Objectives: This study aims to test in patients with SUD and comorbid ADHD whether (1) religiousness is negatively associated with SUD and ADHD sym…
Exploring the interplay of students’ values and lecturers’ teaching orientation during the shift to distance learning: A Person-Environment Perspective on Students’ Need Satisfaction
Applying a person-environment fit perspective, our study posited that the interplay between students’ personal values and lecturers’ teaching orientation predicted students’ psychological need satisfaction amidst the transition to distance learning in the initial weeks of the Covid19 pandemic. Our contention was that the more students valued openness-to-change and the less they valued conservation, the more they would experience need satisfaction…
God Did Not Create Us This Way: An Investigation into the Experiences of School Counselors Working with Arab-Muslim LGBTQ Youth
Schools play a key role in supporting, protecting, and advocating for LGBTQ students. However, educational programs worldwide tend to exclude and marginalize LGBTQ issues, especially when it comes to ethnic and racial minorities. In the current study, we examined Arab school counselors' experiences of working with Arab-Muslim LGBTQ youth. After 100 counselors declined to participate, the study included semi-structured interviews with 60 female co…
When is optimistic Expectation Most Beneficial? Optimistic expectations, conscientiousness and academic performance in a sample of freshman students
Previous studies have shown that a significant proportion of first-year students tend to maintain favorable self-assessments regarding future performance, displaying a pronounced optimism. This longitudinal study examined how expectations of future performance among freshman students are associated with their actual end-of-degree achievements. Based on the investment theory, we also examined the moderating role of the personality trait of conscie…
Infant screen media and child development: A prospective community study
The current study examined longitudinal associations between early screen media exposure (assessed at 6, 12, and 24 months) and the child's motor and language/communication development at the ages of 24 and 36 months. We also aimed to study whether these associations varied by socioeconomic status (SES). Participants were 179 parent‐infant dyads, recruited from well‐baby clinic services during routine visits. Child development measures included s…
When boys and girls make their first career decisions: Exploring the role of gender and field in high school major choice
Although choosing a high school major is often adolescents’ first significant career decision, little is known about the factors that enable adolescents to choose a high school major autonomously (i.e., a major that reflects their values and preferences) or the familial and individual constellations that affect this decision. The current study examined the mediating role of adolescents’ identity processing style in the association between perceiv…
This is my job now”: Exploring the identity shift of trailing mothers through the lens of feminist mothering
Trailing spouses who relocate to support their partners' careers abroad often experience a threat or challenge to their sense of identity. Prior studies have shown that because expatriation processes reinforce traditional gender roles, expatriate mothers are involved in intensive mothering practices and ideologies, often as a way of finding new meaning in their lives. The current study aimed to explore how motherhood and professional identity int…
Selective mutism in immigrant families: An ecocultural perspective
Although the diagnosis of selective mutism (SM) is more prevalent among immigrant children, the link between the disorder and an immigration background has been elusive. Guided by ecocultural models of development, the current study aimed to construct a theory-based description of SM while considering individual, family, and contextual risk factors. Participants were 78 children with SM (38.4% with an immigration background), and 247 typically de…
Beyond the language barrier: A systematic review of selective mutism in culturally and linguistically diverse children
Selective mutism is a childhood psychiatric disorder that has been associated with adverse psychological, social and educational outcomes. Although evidence suggests that culturally and linguistically diverse children might be overrepresented among children with selective mutism, a direct examination of how migration or minority status are associated with the development and persistence of the disorder is still scarce. Guided by eco-cultural pers…
An Authentic Inner Compass and Need Satisfaction as Wellbeing Resources in Bedouin Teaching Students During the Covid-19
A growing body of literature suggests that students from underserved backgrounds are more vulnerable to the adverse economic, emotional, and academic effects of the current COVID-19 pandemic. While this vulnerability was attributed to multiple structural and socio-cultural barriers, little attention has been paid to the role of psychological resources in preserving wellbeing in times of crisis and change. Guided by the Self-Determination Theory (…
Global and Local Trends Affecting the Experience of US and UK Healthcare Professionals during Covid-19: Twitter Text Analysis
Our results support the potential of utilizing Twitter discourse to monitor and predict public health responses in emergencies
“Keeping Culture in Mind”: Relational Thinking and the Bedouin Community
Guided by Muriel Dimen’s conceptualization of keeping “culture in mind”, the current paper describes an effort to integrate relational psychoanalytic ideas with school psychology in a cultural minority group of Bedouin families in Israel. To this aim, we arranged a seminar on relational ideas for educational psychologists from different ethnicities. Four themes emerged along the course of the seminar, each representing a “meeting of the minds” be…
Perceived Discrimination and Motivation to Pursue Higher Education in Ethiopian-Origin Students: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity
Research has increasingly recognized the adverse effects of perceived discrimination on the academic outcomes of children and adolescents from ethnic and racial minority backgrounds. However, little is known about the association between perceived discrimination and the motivation of ethnic minority students to pursue higher education. Guided by an academic resilience framework, the current study examined the relationship between perceived discri…
A culturally-competent approach to emergency management: What lessons can we learn from the Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic, like other disasters, is exposing and exacerbating social, economic, and health care inequalities. Although the ethical and clinical imperative of providing culturally-competent health care has long been recognized, the influence of culturally-competent interventions within emergency management has not been systematically examined. This paper discusses several culturally-competent strategies that were taken by the Israeli n…
Health-Care Services as a Platform for Building Community Resilience among Minority Communities: An Israeli Pilot Study during the Covid-19 Outbreak
Our results support the pivotal role of primary health care in building community resilience of minority communities in times of emergency and routine
Challenges in ADHD care for ethnic minority children: A review of the current literature
While attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been extensively studied in the past decades, the role of social and cultural practices in its assessment, diagnosis, and treatment has been often overlooked. This selective review provides an overview of research that explores social and cultural influences on help-seeking behavior in ethnic minority children with ADHD. Studies were selected that address cultural diversity in three areas …
Does optimism predict academic performance? Exploring the moderating roles of conscientiousness and gender
Although optimistic expectations often enhance students’ academic performance, they may also lead to academic failure if they are associated with unrealistic convictions of success. The present longitudinal study examined the moderating effects of personality factor conscientiousness and gender on the relationship between dispositional optimism and academic performance. The levels of dispositional optimism and conscientiousness in 175 undergradua…
Out of time: A temporal view on identity change in trailing spouses
Previous research on expatriate families has often emphasized the negative impact of relocation on female trailing spouses' well-being. In contrast to male employees who are sheltered from identity discontinuity by institutional frameworks, female trailing spouses often face a sudden loss of essential social and psychological functions that establish identities, such as a sense of belonging, professional achievement, and social interactions. This…
Between the eye and the gaze: Maternal shame in the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin
This paper seeks to understand the social power of maternal shame, using a framework that integrates feminist criticism of contemporary motherhood ideologies with philosophical theories that discuss shame in the broader context of visual perception. By using Lionel Shriver’s (2005) novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, the paper illustrates how shame operates in the interplay between the socio-cultural, gendered ideals of motherhood and mothers’ rep…
Mental health interventions for traumatized asylum seekers and refugees: What do we know about their efficacy
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of trauma-related problems among refugees and asylum seekers is extremely high due to adverse experiences associated with forced migration. Although the literature presents a considerable number of guidelines and theoretical frameworks for working with traumatized refugees and asylum seekers, the efficacy, feasibility and applicability of these interventions have little empirical evidence. AIMS: The purpose of this arti…
Family interventions in traumatized immigrants and refugees: A systematic review
The importance of the family as a unit in the aftermath of trauma necessitates the use of family interventions among immigrants and refugees. While abundant clinical material suggests that family-based trauma interventions are applicable across cultures, very little is known about the extent to which family treatment modalities are effective for immigrants and refugees. We conducted a systematic review of intervention studies that have been desig…
Military trauma and its sequel in families of Bedouin servicemen
Posttraumatic responses of veterans have an adverse impact on the family unit. These impacts include a variety of psychiatric, emotional, and behavioral problems in the veteran's partner and children. Despite the increased attention given today to the central role of the family in the aftermath of trauma, studies in families of non-Western minority servicemen almost do not exist. The current study examined the associations between veterans’ postt…
Out of time: A temporal view on identity change in trailing spouses
Previous research on expatriate families has often emphasized the negative impact of relocation on female trailing spouses' well-being. In contrast to male employees who are sheltered from identity discontinuity by institutional frameworks, female trailing spouses often face a sudden loss of essential social and psychological functions that establish identities, such as a sense of belonging, professional achievement, and social interactions. This…
Between the eye and the gaze: Maternal shame in the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin
This paper seeks to understand the social power of maternal shame, using a framework that integrates feminist criticism of contemporary motherhood ideologies with philosophical theories that discuss shame in the broader context of visual perception. By using Lionel Shriver’s (2005) novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, the paper illustrates how shame operates in the interplay between the socio-cultural, gendered ideals of motherhood and mothers’ rep…
Perceived Discrimination and Motivation to Pursue Higher Education in Ethiopian-Origin Students: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity
Research has increasingly recognized the adverse effects of perceived discrimination on the academic outcomes of children and adolescents from ethnic and racial minority backgrounds. However, little is known about the association between perceived discrimination and the motivation of ethnic minority students to pursue higher education. Guided by an academic resilience framework, the current study examined the relationship between perceived discri…
God Did Not Create Us This Way: An Investigation into the Experiences of School Counselors Working with Arab-Muslim LGBTQ Youth
Schools play a key role in supporting, protecting, and advocating for LGBTQ students. However, educational programs worldwide tend to exclude and marginalize LGBTQ issues, especially when it comes to ethnic and racial minorities. In the current study, we examined Arab school counselors' experiences of working with Arab-Muslim LGBTQ youth. After 100 counselors declined to participate, the study included semi-structured interviews with 60 female co…
Trauma amid ‘culture of avoidance’: Symptom profile of PTSD in Bedouin members of the Israel Defense Forces
The appropriateness and cultural relevance of the construct of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been questioned by previous studies of non-Western populations. The current study examined the symptom profile of PTSD in an ethnic minority group of Bedouin members of the Israel Defense Forces (N=317). Comparing individuals with PTSD to traumatized individuals without PTSD, we identified a pattern of symptoms that differed between the groups:…
Trauma amid ‘culture of avoidance’: Symptom profile of PTSD in Bedouin members of the Israel Defense Forces
The appropriateness and cultural relevance of the construct of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been questioned by previous studies of non-Western populations. The current study examined the symptom profile of PTSD in an ethnic minority group of Bedouin members of the Israel Defense Forces (N=317). Comparing individuals with PTSD to traumatized individuals without PTSD, we identified a pattern of symptoms that differed between the groups:…
Mental health interventions for traumatized asylum seekers and refugees: What do we know about their efficacy
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of trauma-related problems among refugees and asylum seekers is extremely high due to adverse experiences associated with forced migration. Although the literature presents a considerable number of guidelines and theoretical frameworks for working with traumatized refugees and asylum seekers, the efficacy, feasibility and applicability of these interventions have little empirical evidence. AIMS: The purpose of this arti…
Family interventions in traumatized immigrants and refugees: A systematic review
The importance of the family as a unit in the aftermath of trauma necessitates the use of family interventions among immigrants and refugees. While abundant clinical material suggests that family-based trauma interventions are applicable across cultures, very little is known about the extent to which family treatment modalities are effective for immigrants and refugees. We conducted a systematic review of intervention studies that have been desig…
Military trauma and its sequel in families of Bedouin servicemen
Posttraumatic responses of veterans have an adverse impact on the family unit. These impacts include a variety of psychiatric, emotional, and behavioral problems in the veteran's partner and children. Despite the increased attention given today to the central role of the family in the aftermath of trauma, studies in families of non-Western minority servicemen almost do not exist. The current study examined the associations between veterans’ postt…
Between the eye and the gaze: Maternal shame in the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin
This paper seeks to understand the social power of maternal shame, using a framework that integrates feminist criticism of contemporary motherhood ideologies with philosophical theories that discuss shame in the broader context of visual perception. By using Lionel Shriver’s (2005) novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, the paper illustrates how shame operates in the interplay between the socio-cultural, gendered ideals of motherhood and mothers’ rep…
Out of time: A temporal view on identity change in trailing spouses
Previous research on expatriate families has often emphasized the negative impact of relocation on female trailing spouses' well-being. In contrast to male employees who are sheltered from identity discontinuity by institutional frameworks, female trailing spouses often face a sudden loss of essential social and psychological functions that establish identities, such as a sense of belonging, professional achievement, and social interactions. This…
A culturally-competent approach to emergency management: What lessons can we learn from the Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic, like other disasters, is exposing and exacerbating social, economic, and health care inequalities. Although the ethical and clinical imperative of providing culturally-competent health care has long been recognized, the influence of culturally-competent interventions within emergency management has not been systematically examined. This paper discusses several culturally-competent strategies that were taken by the Israeli n…
Health-Care Services as a Platform for Building Community Resilience among Minority Communities: An Israeli Pilot Study during the Covid-19 Outbreak
Our results support the pivotal role of primary health care in building community resilience of minority communities in times of emergency and routine
Challenges in ADHD care for ethnic minority children: A review of the current literature
While attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been extensively studied in the past decades, the role of social and cultural practices in its assessment, diagnosis, and treatment has been often overlooked. This selective review provides an overview of research that explores social and cultural influences on help-seeking behavior in ethnic minority children with ADHD. Studies were selected that address cultural diversity in three areas …
Does optimism predict academic performance? Exploring the moderating roles of conscientiousness and gender
Although optimistic expectations often enhance students’ academic performance, they may also lead to academic failure if they are associated with unrealistic convictions of success. The present longitudinal study examined the moderating effects of personality factor conscientiousness and gender on the relationship between dispositional optimism and academic performance. The levels of dispositional optimism and conscientiousness in 175 undergradua…
“Keeping Culture in Mind”: Relational Thinking and the Bedouin Community
Guided by Muriel Dimen’s conceptualization of keeping “culture in mind”, the current paper describes an effort to integrate relational psychoanalytic ideas with school psychology in a cultural minority group of Bedouin families in Israel. To this aim, we arranged a seminar on relational ideas for educational psychologists from different ethnicities. Four themes emerged along the course of the seminar, each representing a “meeting of the minds” be…
Perceived Discrimination and Motivation to Pursue Higher Education in Ethiopian-Origin Students: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity
Research has increasingly recognized the adverse effects of perceived discrimination on the academic outcomes of children and adolescents from ethnic and racial minority backgrounds. However, little is known about the association between perceived discrimination and the motivation of ethnic minority students to pursue higher education. Guided by an academic resilience framework, the current study examined the relationship between perceived discri…
An Authentic Inner Compass and Need Satisfaction as Wellbeing Resources in Bedouin Teaching Students During the Covid-19
A growing body of literature suggests that students from underserved backgrounds are more vulnerable to the adverse economic, emotional, and academic effects of the current COVID-19 pandemic. While this vulnerability was attributed to multiple structural and socio-cultural barriers, little attention has been paid to the role of psychological resources in preserving wellbeing in times of crisis and change. Guided by the Self-Determination Theory (…
Global and Local Trends Affecting the Experience of US and UK Healthcare Professionals during Covid-19: Twitter Text Analysis
Our results support the potential of utilizing Twitter discourse to monitor and predict public health responses in emergencies
Beyond the language barrier: A systematic review of selective mutism in culturally and linguistically diverse children
Selective mutism is a childhood psychiatric disorder that has been associated with adverse psychological, social and educational outcomes. Although evidence suggests that culturally and linguistically diverse children might be overrepresented among children with selective mutism, a direct examination of how migration or minority status are associated with the development and persistence of the disorder is still scarce. Guided by eco-cultural pers…
When is optimistic Expectation Most Beneficial? Optimistic expectations, conscientiousness and academic performance in a sample of freshman students
Previous studies have shown that a significant proportion of first-year students tend to maintain favorable self-assessments regarding future performance, displaying a pronounced optimism. This longitudinal study examined how expectations of future performance among freshman students are associated with their actual end-of-degree achievements. Based on the investment theory, we also examined the moderating role of the personality trait of conscie…
Infant screen media and child development: A prospective community study
The current study examined longitudinal associations between early screen media exposure (assessed at 6, 12, and 24 months) and the child's motor and language/communication development at the ages of 24 and 36 months. We also aimed to study whether these associations varied by socioeconomic status (SES). Participants were 179 parent‐infant dyads, recruited from well‐baby clinic services during routine visits. Child development measures included s…
When boys and girls make their first career decisions: Exploring the role of gender and field in high school major choice
Although choosing a high school major is often adolescents’ first significant career decision, little is known about the factors that enable adolescents to choose a high school major autonomously (i.e., a major that reflects their values and preferences) or the familial and individual constellations that affect this decision. The current study examined the mediating role of adolescents’ identity processing style in the association between perceiv…
This is my job now”: Exploring the identity shift of trailing mothers through the lens of feminist mothering
Trailing spouses who relocate to support their partners' careers abroad often experience a threat or challenge to their sense of identity. Prior studies have shown that because expatriation processes reinforce traditional gender roles, expatriate mothers are involved in intensive mothering practices and ideologies, often as a way of finding new meaning in their lives. The current study aimed to explore how motherhood and professional identity int…
Selective mutism in immigrant families: An ecocultural perspective
Although the diagnosis of selective mutism (SM) is more prevalent among immigrant children, the link between the disorder and an immigration background has been elusive. Guided by ecocultural models of development, the current study aimed to construct a theory-based description of SM while considering individual, family, and contextual risk factors. Participants were 78 children with SM (38.4% with an immigration background), and 247 typically de…
Cultural Considerations in Parental Socialization: Study of Mothers From Five Israeli Minority Groups
Although the role of culture and context in parenting attitudes and practices has long been recognized, the current knowledge of cultural socialization processes in childhood remains limited. In this study, we examined how cultural considerations inform socialization processes in different national, religious, and immigrant groups in Israeli society. We analyzed 36 semi-structured interviews with mothers from five groups: Jewish ultra-Orthodox mo…
Religiousness and self-control in patients with substance use disorder (SUD) and comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Background: Religiousness has been positively associated with better mental health and stronger self-control, including in patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, data on religiousness in patients with SUD and comorbid ADHD are lacking. Objectives: This study aims to test in patients with SUD and comorbid ADHD whether (1) religiousness is negatively associated with SUD and ADHD sym…
Exploring the interplay of students’ values and lecturers’ teaching orientation during the shift to distance learning: A Person-Environment Perspective on Students’ Need Satisfaction
Applying a person-environment fit perspective, our study posited that the interplay between students’ personal values and lecturers’ teaching orientation predicted students’ psychological need satisfaction amidst the transition to distance learning in the initial weeks of the Covid19 pandemic. Our contention was that the more students valued openness-to-change and the less they valued conservation, the more they would experience need satisfaction…
God Did Not Create Us This Way: An Investigation into the Experiences of School Counselors Working with Arab-Muslim LGBTQ Youth
Schools play a key role in supporting, protecting, and advocating for LGBTQ students. However, educational programs worldwide tend to exclude and marginalize LGBTQ issues, especially when it comes to ethnic and racial minorities. In the current study, we examined Arab school counselors' experiences of working with Arab-Muslim LGBTQ youth. After 100 counselors declined to participate, the study included semi-structured interviews with 60 female co…
“There Is No Need for My Child to be Gifted”: Bedouin Parents’ and School Principals’ Constructions of Giftedness
Like other children from underserved populations, Bedouin children are severely underrepresented in gifted education. Although socioeconomic and educational disparities in Bedouin society are well recognized, very little is currently known about the role of families and schools in the identification and participation of Bedouin children in gifted education. Guided by a culturally responsive perspective on giftedness, we examined how Bedouin paren…
Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)