Julie Cwikel
Biographic Data
| ID | 248159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Cwikel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Cwikel |
| SIGNATURE | CWIKEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7890-8081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Social work for a greener planet
The warming of the planet and the currently increasing evidence of the climate crisis compel social workers to prepare themselves and their students to shoulder new roles and develop new models of education. This focused literature review provides the social work educator or activist with essential and suggested materials in order to teach and/or lead community projects in this area. It starts by providing details of the direct and indirect effec…
Postpartum Depression Symptoms in Various Sects of Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel
Using the Hackathon Model in Social Work Education
A recent innovation adapted from the world of commercial computer hacking is known as a Hackathon event. Hackathons are characterized by problem-solving in small groups, under time pressure, to develop creative solutions to a challenging problem. This paper presents the evaluation of a Hackathon applied in two courses on trauma-informed practice (one BSW and the other at MSW level). Students (N = 57) developed interventions to address group and c…
Rethinking Public Health as Sustainability and Environmental Health as Environmental Justice
"Rethinking Public Health as Sustainability and Environmental Health as Environmental Justice." , 112(1), pp. 77–78
Hospitalizations Among Chernobyl-Exposed Immigrants to the Negev of Israel, 1992–2017
Hidden Figures
Ethno-cultural origins, health beliefs and mothers’ behavior regarding infant vaccinations in Israel
To compare the health beliefs and infant vaccination behavior of mothers of four different ethno-cultural backgrounds: Israeli-born Jewish and Arab-Bedouin and immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia; to examine the associations between initial and subsequent infant vaccination behaviors of mothers and to identify predictors of vaccination behaviors. A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in selected community neighborhood…
Transforming contagion
E-therapy and social work practice
The use of information and communication technologies has greatly expanded and has far-reaching implications for social work practice. Following an international review of the literature, this study explored how social workers consider the issues associated with integration of e-therapy into their social work practice. A survey of Israeli social workers revealed that only 4 percent have actual experience with e-therapy. Respondents judged disable…
How Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Israeli Women Cope with Normative and Difficult Pregnancy and Childbirth Experiences
Shimrit Prins Engelsman, Ephrat Huss, Julie Cwikel, How Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Israeli Women Cope with Normative and Difficult Pregnancy and Childbirth Experiences, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, No. 33 (Fall 2018), pp. 136-157
Drawing (on) women’s military experiences and narratives – Israeli women soldiers’ challenges in the military environment
This article utilizes arts-based methods as a feminist methodology for understanding women’s experiences in military service, according to theories of feminist security studies. It explores how non-combatant women in the army retrospectively narrate stressful situations that happened during their military service. Using arts-based methods, we examine how they derive meaning from their experiences in a masculine, military environment, affected by …
Mothers’ strategies to strengthen their daughters’ body image
Existing studies of the mother–daughter relationship have focused mainly on the transfer of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for building body-acceptance or resilience to disordered eating. On the basis of a secondary analysis of four qualitative samples, we examined how mothers and their now-adult daughters reflect on the ways in which t…
Having It All? Unmarried Women Choosing Hetero-Gay Families
The study presented here considered heterosexual women who chose to conceive and raise children together with gay men outside marriage. In-depth interviews with 10 Israeli mothers who had established hetero-gay families revealed their motivations for choosing this family configuration and the characteristics they sought in the fathers. The findings revealed that the women maintained traditional values with respect to the ideal parental model, two…
Strategies for Resisting Eating Disorders Over the Life Course—A Mother-Daughter Case Analysis
This mother-daughter instrumental case study was selected from a data set of in-depth mother-daughter interviews conducted among Jewish American women for the insights it reveals. Thematic analysis was used to identify major family themes and strategies. Both mother and daughter reported on the historical and cultural setting, the efficacy of methods of treatment, the cross-generational transmission of eating disorders (ED), disordered eating beh…
Mothers’ Coping Styles During Times of Chronic Security Stress
In this study, we investigated the coping behaviors used by Israeli mothers to manage various sources of stress, including security-related stress, based on a life-course perspective of women's health. A random telephone survey of 302 mothers who had children under age 18 living at home was conducted in the Negev area. Measures of stress such as domestic violence, sources of tension in everyday life, and time pressure were assessed together with …
Innovation in schools of social work
An exploratory study was carried out on innovations introduced in schools of social work from 11 countries, based on a content analysis of semi-structured questionnaires. The innovations that emerged from these responses reflect, in part, the emerging requirements of coping with the global changes that affect social work practice today
Hidden Treasures” from Israeli Women's Writing Groups
This article presents the work of mental health practitioners and laywomen who have developed and applied a new model of working with women in groups, a model founded on feminist principles that uses women's writing as the vehicle for group work. The model maintains a delicate balance between the needs of the group, the needs of the women in their social environment, and the women's ability to be the broker of their time, place, and mode of expre…
Spiraling Between Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Women's Health Behaviors
A double helix spiral model is presented which demonstrates how to combine qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry in an interactive fashion over time. Using findings on women's health behaviors (e.g., menstruation, breast-feeding, coping strategies), we show how qualitative and quantitative methods highlight the theory of knowledge acquisition in women's health decisions. A rich data set of 48 semistructured, in-depth ethnographic interv…
Never-married childless women in Australia
The Hetero-Gay Family
The hetero-gay family is a relatively new family configuration that is headed by a heterosexual mother and gay father who conceive and raise children together, although residing separately. This article presents the unique characteristics of hetero-gay families and the potential implications for child development of growing up in a het-ero-gay family. Recent research on non-marital motherhood and fatherhood among gay men is used to inform the deb…
Implications of Ethnic Group Origin for Israeli Women’s Mental Health
Perception of Health Care Delivery in Israel
In this article, we describe the results of nine focus groups in which women were asked to discuss their perception of the women's health care delivery system in Israel. The focus groups, held in Israel in 2001, included nearly 150 women with diverse demographic characteristics. This project solicited focused input from women of different ages from the periphery as well as highly populated areas. The responses were categorized into designated the…
Contentious issues in research on trafficked women working in the sex industry
The trafficking of women and children for work in the globalized sex industry is a global social problem. Quality data is needed to provide a basis for legislation, policy, and programs, but first, numerous research design, ethical, and methodological problems must be addressed. Research design issues in studying women trafficked for sex work (WTSW) include how to (a) develop coalitions to fund and support research, (b) maintain a critical stance…
Researching Creations
In this article, the author examines the combination of arts-based research and art therapy within Bedouin women's empowerment groups. The art fulfills a double role within the group of both helping to illuminate the women's self-defined concerns and goals, and simultaneously enriching and moving these goals forward. This creates a research tool that adheres to the feminist principles of finding new ways to learn from lower income women from a di…
The Physical and Psychosocial Health of Bedouin Arab Women of the Negev Area of Israel
This study examined the self-reported health status of Bedouin Arab women in relation to two salient features of current Bedouin Arab social mores: the emphasis on maintaining a high rate of fertility and the social acceptance of domestic violence. A quota sample of 202 Bedouin Arab women ranging in age from 22 to 75 were personally interviewed. Fortyeight percent of the women reported a lifetime exposure to physical violence, and 30% reported do…
Contentious issues in research on trafficked women working in the sex industry
The trafficking of women and children for work in the globalized sex industry is a global social problem. Quality data is needed to provide a basis for legislation, policy, and programs, but first, numerous research design, ethical, and methodological problems must be addressed. Research design issues in studying women trafficked for sex work (WTSW) include how to (a) develop coalitions to fund and support research, (b) maintain a critical stance…
Researching Creations
In this article, the author examines the combination of arts-based research and art therapy within Bedouin women's empowerment groups. The art fulfills a double role within the group of both helping to illuminate the women's self-defined concerns and goals, and simultaneously enriching and moving these goals forward. This creates a research tool that adheres to the feminist principles of finding new ways to learn from lower income women from a di…
Never-married childless women in Australia
Spiraling Between Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Women's Health Behaviors
A double helix spiral model is presented which demonstrates how to combine qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry in an interactive fashion over time. Using findings on women's health behaviors (e.g., menstruation, breast-feeding, coping strategies), we show how qualitative and quantitative methods highlight the theory of knowledge acquisition in women's health decisions. A rich data set of 48 semistructured, in-depth ethnographic interv…
Having It All? Unmarried Women Choosing Hetero-Gay Families
The study presented here considered heterosexual women who chose to conceive and raise children together with gay men outside marriage. In-depth interviews with 10 Israeli mothers who had established hetero-gay families revealed their motivations for choosing this family configuration and the characteristics they sought in the fathers. The findings revealed that the women maintained traditional values with respect to the ideal parental model, two…
The Physical and Psychosocial Health of Bedouin Arab Women of the Negev Area of Israel
This study examined the self-reported health status of Bedouin Arab women in relation to two salient features of current Bedouin Arab social mores: the emphasis on maintaining a high rate of fertility and the social acceptance of domestic violence. A quota sample of 202 Bedouin Arab women ranging in age from 22 to 75 were personally interviewed. Fortyeight percent of the women reported a lifetime exposure to physical violence, and 30% reported do…
Caregiver burden among three-generation immigrant families in Israel
E-therapy and social work practice
The use of information and communication technologies has greatly expanded and has far-reaching implications for social work practice. Following an international review of the literature, this study explored how social workers consider the issues associated with integration of e-therapy into their social work practice. A survey of Israeli social workers revealed that only 4 percent have actual experience with e-therapy. Respondents judged disable…
Women brothel workers and occupational health risks
Study objectives: This study examined working conditions, reported morbidity, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression and their relation to an index of occupational health risk among women working in brothels in Israel. Design: Personal structured interviews with a scale of occupational risk that included seven self report items reflecting past and present morbidity and symptoms. Participants and setting: A purposive samp…
Drawing (on) women’s military experiences and narratives – Israeli women soldiers’ challenges in the military environment
This article utilizes arts-based methods as a feminist methodology for understanding women’s experiences in military service, according to theories of feminist security studies. It explores how non-combatant women in the army retrospectively narrate stressful situations that happened during their military service. Using arts-based methods, we examine how they derive meaning from their experiences in a masculine, military environment, affected by …
Mothers’ strategies to strengthen their daughters’ body image
Existing studies of the mother–daughter relationship have focused mainly on the transfer of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for building body-acceptance or resilience to disordered eating. On the basis of a secondary analysis of four qualitative samples, we examined how mothers and their now-adult daughters reflect on the ways in which t…
Strategies for Resisting Eating Disorders Over the Life Course—A Mother-Daughter Case Analysis
This mother-daughter instrumental case study was selected from a data set of in-depth mother-daughter interviews conducted among Jewish American women for the insights it reveals. Thematic analysis was used to identify major family themes and strategies. Both mother and daughter reported on the historical and cultural setting, the efficacy of methods of treatment, the cross-generational transmission of eating disorders (ED), disordered eating beh…
Innovation in schools of social work
An exploratory study was carried out on innovations introduced in schools of social work from 11 countries, based on a content analysis of semi-structured questionnaires. The innovations that emerged from these responses reflect, in part, the emerging requirements of coping with the global changes that affect social work practice today
Hidden Treasures” from Israeli Women's Writing Groups
This article presents the work of mental health practitioners and laywomen who have developed and applied a new model of working with women in groups, a model founded on feminist principles that uses women's writing as the vehicle for group work. The model maintains a delicate balance between the needs of the group, the needs of the women in their social environment, and the women's ability to be the broker of their time, place, and mode of expre…
Rethinking Public Health as Sustainability and Environmental Health as Environmental Justice
"Rethinking Public Health as Sustainability and Environmental Health as Environmental Justice." , 112(1), pp. 77–78
Volunteering in a voluntary community
The way in which kibbutz members define voluntarism, their attitudes toward it, the volunteering they do, their reasons for doing it, and the helping mechanisms and obstacles that the kibbutz offers were explored in a sample of four Israeli kibbutzim. This is a preliminary study of the way a unique society deals with a well-known field. Between-kibbutz differences were found mainly between the religious kibbutz and the others. No satisfactory exp…
Falls and subjective health rating among the elderly
Falls and subjective health rating among the elderly
Social Epidemiology
Social epidemiology, a sub-type of epidemiology, provides social workers with methodological tools that can lead to informed treatment choices in dealing with complex social problems. This paper defines social epidemiology, delineates the types of research questions that can generate data applicable to social interventions, and briefly outlines some of the standard methods in use, using homelessness as an example. These include the development of…
Caregiver burden among three-generation immigrant families in Israel
Volunteering in a voluntary community
The way in which kibbutz members define voluntarism, their attitudes toward it, the volunteering they do, their reasons for doing it, and the helping mechanisms and obstacles that the kibbutz offers were explored in a sample of four Israeli kibbutzim. This is a preliminary study of the way a unique society deals with a well-known field. Between-kibbutz differences were found mainly between the religious kibbutz and the others. No satisfactory exp…
A Comparison of a Vote Count and a Meta-Analysis Review of Intervention Research With Adult Cancer Patients
Objective: This study compares the utility of two methods of knowledge utilization in social work intervention: vote count review and meta-analysis. Methods: Using the two methods, the authors reviewed 40 intervention studies with adult cancer patients that used treatment techniques common in social work. The common research question was, which treatments are the most effective with cancer patients, differentiated by disease phase and type of dia…
Toxic turmoil
Part I: General Introduction to the Theme. 1. Ecological Disaster: a Concern for the Future J.M. Havenaar. 2. Public Health Aspects of Chemical Accidents. An Overview P.J. Baxter. 3. Understanding Psychological and Societal Response to Toxic Hazards. The Psychological Response of Individuals, Groups, Authorities and Media J.G. Cwikel, et al. Part II: Case Examples of Ecological Disasters. 4. Psychological Response of Mothers of Young Children to …
The Physical and Psychosocial Health of Bedouin Arab Women of the Negev Area of Israel
This study examined the self-reported health status of Bedouin Arab women in relation to two salient features of current Bedouin Arab social mores: the emphasis on maintaining a high rate of fertility and the social acceptance of domestic violence. A quota sample of 202 Bedouin Arab women ranging in age from 22 to 75 were personally interviewed. Fortyeight percent of the women reported a lifetime exposure to physical violence, and 30% reported do…
Women brothel workers and occupational health risks
Study objectives: This study examined working conditions, reported morbidity, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression and their relation to an index of occupational health risk among women working in brothels in Israel. Design: Personal structured interviews with a scale of occupational risk that included seven self report items reflecting past and present morbidity and symptoms. Participants and setting: A purposive samp…
The Hetero-Gay Family
The hetero-gay family is a relatively new family configuration that is headed by a heterosexual mother and gay father who conceive and raise children together, although residing separately. This article presents the unique characteristics of hetero-gay families and the potential implications for child development of growing up in a het-ero-gay family. Recent research on non-marital motherhood and fatherhood among gay men is used to inform the deb…
Implications of Ethnic Group Origin for Israeli Women’s Mental Health
Perception of Health Care Delivery in Israel
In this article, we describe the results of nine focus groups in which women were asked to discuss their perception of the women's health care delivery system in Israel. The focus groups, held in Israel in 2001, included nearly 150 women with diverse demographic characteristics. This project solicited focused input from women of different ages from the periphery as well as highly populated areas. The responses were categorized into designated the…
Contentious issues in research on trafficked women working in the sex industry
The trafficking of women and children for work in the globalized sex industry is a global social problem. Quality data is needed to provide a basis for legislation, policy, and programs, but first, numerous research design, ethical, and methodological problems must be addressed. Research design issues in studying women trafficked for sex work (WTSW) include how to (a) develop coalitions to fund and support research, (b) maintain a critical stance…
Researching Creations
In this article, the author examines the combination of arts-based research and art therapy within Bedouin women's empowerment groups. The art fulfills a double role within the group of both helping to illuminate the women's self-defined concerns and goals, and simultaneously enriching and moving these goals forward. This creates a research tool that adheres to the feminist principles of finding new ways to learn from lower income women from a di…
Never-married childless women in Australia
Hidden Treasures” from Israeli Women's Writing Groups
This article presents the work of mental health practitioners and laywomen who have developed and applied a new model of working with women in groups, a model founded on feminist principles that uses women's writing as the vehicle for group work. The model maintains a delicate balance between the needs of the group, the needs of the women in their social environment, and the women's ability to be the broker of their time, place, and mode of expre…
Spiraling Between Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Women's Health Behaviors
A double helix spiral model is presented which demonstrates how to combine qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry in an interactive fashion over time. Using findings on women's health behaviors (e.g., menstruation, breast-feeding, coping strategies), we show how qualitative and quantitative methods highlight the theory of knowledge acquisition in women's health decisions. A rich data set of 48 semistructured, in-depth ethnographic interv…
Mothers’ Coping Styles During Times of Chronic Security Stress
In this study, we investigated the coping behaviors used by Israeli mothers to manage various sources of stress, including security-related stress, based on a life-course perspective of women's health. A random telephone survey of 302 mothers who had children under age 18 living at home was conducted in the Negev area. Measures of stress such as domestic violence, sources of tension in everyday life, and time pressure were assessed together with …
Innovation in schools of social work
An exploratory study was carried out on innovations introduced in schools of social work from 11 countries, based on a content analysis of semi-structured questionnaires. The innovations that emerged from these responses reflect, in part, the emerging requirements of coping with the global changes that affect social work practice today
Strategies for Resisting Eating Disorders Over the Life Course—A Mother-Daughter Case Analysis
This mother-daughter instrumental case study was selected from a data set of in-depth mother-daughter interviews conducted among Jewish American women for the insights it reveals. Thematic analysis was used to identify major family themes and strategies. Both mother and daughter reported on the historical and cultural setting, the efficacy of methods of treatment, the cross-generational transmission of eating disorders (ED), disordered eating beh…
Having It All? Unmarried Women Choosing Hetero-Gay Families
The study presented here considered heterosexual women who chose to conceive and raise children together with gay men outside marriage. In-depth interviews with 10 Israeli mothers who had established hetero-gay families revealed their motivations for choosing this family configuration and the characteristics they sought in the fathers. The findings revealed that the women maintained traditional values with respect to the ideal parental model, two…
Mothers’ strategies to strengthen their daughters’ body image
Existing studies of the mother–daughter relationship have focused mainly on the transfer of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for building body-acceptance or resilience to disordered eating. On the basis of a secondary analysis of four qualitative samples, we examined how mothers and their now-adult daughters reflect on the ways in which t…
Drawing (on) women’s military experiences and narratives – Israeli women soldiers’ challenges in the military environment
This article utilizes arts-based methods as a feminist methodology for understanding women’s experiences in military service, according to theories of feminist security studies. It explores how non-combatant women in the army retrospectively narrate stressful situations that happened during their military service. Using arts-based methods, we examine how they derive meaning from their experiences in a masculine, military environment, affected by …
How Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Israeli Women Cope with Normative and Difficult Pregnancy and Childbirth Experiences
Shimrit Prins Engelsman, Ephrat Huss, Julie Cwikel, How Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Israeli Women Cope with Normative and Difficult Pregnancy and Childbirth Experiences, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, No. 33 (Fall 2018), pp. 136-157
Ethno-cultural origins, health beliefs and mothers’ behavior regarding infant vaccinations in Israel
To compare the health beliefs and infant vaccination behavior of mothers of four different ethno-cultural backgrounds: Israeli-born Jewish and Arab-Bedouin and immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia; to examine the associations between initial and subsequent infant vaccination behaviors of mothers and to identify predictors of vaccination behaviors. A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in selected community neighborhood…
Transforming contagion
Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Public health (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Law (7 works)