Smadar Ben-Asher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3811908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Smadar Ben-Asher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Smadar |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Asher |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-ASHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Achva Academic College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From a View of the Hospital as a System to a View of the Suffering Patient
Purpose: Hospitals aspire to provide patient-centered care but are far from achieving it. This qualitative mixed methods study explored the capacity of hospital directors to shift from a hospital systemic-view to a suffering patient-view applying the Salutogenic theory. Methods: Following IRB, we conducted in-depth narrative interviews with six directors of the six Israeli academic tertiary public hospitals, focusing on their managerial role. In …
An Inverted Container in Containing and Not Containing Hospitalized Patients—A Multidisciplinary Narrative Inquiry
Objective: Patient-centered care calls to contain patients in their time of crisis. This study extends the knowledge of provider patient interactions in the hectic environment of acute care applying Bion's container-contained framework from psychoanalysis. Methods: Following ethical approval, we performed a narrative inquiry of the experiences of ten patients upon discharge from lengthy hospitalizations in acute care. Interviews were conducted up…
An Adlerian-Based Narrative Inquiry of Temporal Awareness, Resilience, and Patient-Centeredness Among Emergency Physicians-The Gyroscope Model
Introduction Although extensive research examined time perceptions among patients in the emergency department (ED), studies on temporal awareness among emergency physicians is scant. Salutogenics is the theoretical anchor. Methods The sample comprised ten emergency resident physicians from an Israeli public tertiary hospital. Narrative interviews were conducted. To determine the theme of the study, Adlerian narrative analysis was performed. To id…
Commemoration labour as a mechanism of symbolic violence exercised upon national widows
This study aims to examine the experience of national widows, who are expected by the state to practice commemoration labor. We claim that the state puts pressure on the widows, either openly or covertly, to perform commemoration labor, thereby depriving them of their right to private grief suited to their personality and needs. It is further claimed that the demand on the widows for commemoration labor corresponds closely to the phrase coined by…
Negative Symbolic Capital and Politicized Military Widowhood
This article presents the diametrically opposed experience of politicized widowhood of Jewish and Muslim Bedouin war widows. Widows in both sectors were interviewed regarding their perceived experiences of widowhood. While Jewish war widows are glorified and become national symbols, Bedouin widows are subject to marginalization and exclusion and cannot take advantage of the unique benefits they are accorded as war widows by the state. The artic…
Liminality and Emotional Labor among war widows in Israel
This article focuses on Israeli army widows from the religious-Zionist sector and the Bedouin sector. We show how these women are compelled by their cultural context to either suffer liminal identity or to invest in exhausting Emotional Labor and fake their authentic selves. The surrounding society expects much more Emotional Labor of religious-Zionist widows than of their Bedouin counterparts; in contrast, the societal status of Bedouin widows r…
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
How does it feel to be an anti-martyr’s widow? The interplay of religious capital and negative symbolic capital of war widows
This article demonstrates the contrasting experiences of military widows in the modern Jewish Orthodox and the Bedouin sectors in Israel. While fallen Jewish soldiers are honored in a fashion similar to martyrs, Bedouin fallen soldiers are perceived as anti-martyrs; their anti-martyr status causes predicaments for their widows. While Jewish war widows are glorified, their Bedouin counterparts are subject to various modes of marginalization and ex…
The attitude of the local press to marginal groups
This article examines the 2001‒2003 coverage by the local press in the Haifa region of the struggle of the fishermen who claimed to have contracted cancer as a result of coming into contact with the polluted water of the Kishon River. It shows that the local press chose to deliver to its readers an ‘interpretive package’ that portrays the fishermen as ‘The River’s Heroes’, a group fighting for justice and morality for the benefit of all. However,…
Bedouin Children and Their Reality Perceptions of the War Between Israel and Gaza
In the military conflict between Israel and Gaza, the Bedouins in Israel find themselves under attack by rockets launched from Gaza, and at the same time identifying with family members in Gaza who suffer casualties as a result of Israel’s operations. Bedouin children experience a threat to their safety, and are required to enter protected spaces when the siren sounds. Simultaneously, they are exposed to the Arab media, which one-sidedly views Is…
Perceptions of the Absence and Reintegration of a Prisoner of War Father from the Perspective of His Children as Adults
Projective Identification as a Defense Mechanism when Facing the Threat of an Ecological Hazard
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
Bedouin Children and Their Reality Perceptions of the War Between Israel and Gaza
In the military conflict between Israel and Gaza, the Bedouins in Israel find themselves under attack by rockets launched from Gaza, and at the same time identifying with family members in Gaza who suffer casualties as a result of Israel’s operations. Bedouin children experience a threat to their safety, and are required to enter protected spaces when the siren sounds. Simultaneously, they are exposed to the Arab media, which one-sidedly views Is…
Projective Identification as a Defense Mechanism when Facing the Threat of an Ecological Hazard
Perceptions of the Absence and Reintegration of a Prisoner of War Father from the Perspective of His Children as Adults
The attitude of the local press to marginal groups
This article examines the 2001‒2003 coverage by the local press in the Haifa region of the struggle of the fishermen who claimed to have contracted cancer as a result of coming into contact with the polluted water of the Kishon River. It shows that the local press chose to deliver to its readers an ‘interpretive package’ that portrays the fishermen as ‘The River’s Heroes’, a group fighting for justice and morality for the benefit of all. However,…
Bedouin Children and Their Reality Perceptions of the War Between Israel and Gaza
In the military conflict between Israel and Gaza, the Bedouins in Israel find themselves under attack by rockets launched from Gaza, and at the same time identifying with family members in Gaza who suffer casualties as a result of Israel’s operations. Bedouin children experience a threat to their safety, and are required to enter protected spaces when the siren sounds. Simultaneously, they are exposed to the Arab media, which one-sidedly views Is…
How does it feel to be an anti-martyr’s widow? The interplay of religious capital and negative symbolic capital of war widows
This article demonstrates the contrasting experiences of military widows in the modern Jewish Orthodox and the Bedouin sectors in Israel. While fallen Jewish soldiers are honored in a fashion similar to martyrs, Bedouin fallen soldiers are perceived as anti-martyrs; their anti-martyr status causes predicaments for their widows. While Jewish war widows are glorified, their Bedouin counterparts are subject to various modes of marginalization and ex…
Liminality and Emotional Labor among war widows in Israel
This article focuses on Israeli army widows from the religious-Zionist sector and the Bedouin sector. We show how these women are compelled by their cultural context to either suffer liminal identity or to invest in exhausting Emotional Labor and fake their authentic selves. The surrounding society expects much more Emotional Labor of religious-Zionist widows than of their Bedouin counterparts; in contrast, the societal status of Bedouin widows r…
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
Negative Symbolic Capital and Politicized Military Widowhood
This article presents the diametrically opposed experience of politicized widowhood of Jewish and Muslim Bedouin war widows. Widows in both sectors were interviewed regarding their perceived experiences of widowhood. While Jewish war widows are glorified and become national symbols, Bedouin widows are subject to marginalization and exclusion and cannot take advantage of the unique benefits they are accorded as war widows by the state. The artic…
Commemoration labour as a mechanism of symbolic violence exercised upon national widows
This study aims to examine the experience of national widows, who are expected by the state to practice commemoration labor. We claim that the state puts pressure on the widows, either openly or covertly, to perform commemoration labor, thereby depriving them of their right to private grief suited to their personality and needs. It is further claimed that the demand on the widows for commemoration labor corresponds closely to the phrase coined by…
From a View of the Hospital as a System to a View of the Suffering Patient
Purpose: Hospitals aspire to provide patient-centered care but are far from achieving it. This qualitative mixed methods study explored the capacity of hospital directors to shift from a hospital systemic-view to a suffering patient-view applying the Salutogenic theory. Methods: Following IRB, we conducted in-depth narrative interviews with six directors of the six Israeli academic tertiary public hospitals, focusing on their managerial role. In …
An Inverted Container in Containing and Not Containing Hospitalized Patients—A Multidisciplinary Narrative Inquiry
Objective: Patient-centered care calls to contain patients in their time of crisis. This study extends the knowledge of provider patient interactions in the hectic environment of acute care applying Bion's container-contained framework from psychoanalysis. Methods: Following ethical approval, we performed a narrative inquiry of the experiences of ten patients upon discharge from lengthy hospitalizations in acute care. Interviews were conducted up…
An Adlerian-Based Narrative Inquiry of Temporal Awareness, Resilience, and Patient-Centeredness Among Emergency Physicians-The Gyroscope Model
Introduction Although extensive research examined time perceptions among patients in the emergency department (ED), studies on temporal awareness among emergency physicians is scant. Salutogenics is the theoretical anchor. Methods The sample comprised ten emergency resident physicians from an Israeli public tertiary hospital. Narrative interviews were conducted. To determine the theme of the study, Adlerian narrative analysis was performed. To id…
Psychology (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · History (3 works)