Menny Malka
Biographic Data
| ID | 4250024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Menny Malka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Menny |
| FAMILY NAME | Malka |
| SIGNATURE | MALKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1829-4284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Communication practices in confidential sexual health chat support service on sex and sexuality among adolescents
This study examines communication practices in a Confidential Sexual Health Chat Support Service (CSHCSS) for adolescents in Israel. Based on 191 anonymized chat transcripts from a 2022 digital counseling initiative run by a sexual assault crisis center, the study analyzes how trained counselors addressed questions related to sex, sexuality, and relationships. Using qualitative content analysis, three overarching categories of communication were …
‘What would I like to tell the world about myself?’ Using photovoice with vulnerable children from Israel and India in an international social work context
This case study explores a photovoice-based project within an international social work education program, involving two vulnerable groups: five children with autism from Israel and 11 children without parental care from India. The children created photovoices on the theme ‘What would I like to tell the world about myself?’ A total of 32 photovoices were analyzed, revealing four themes: Beyond Vulnerability, Positive Self-Identity, Dreams for the…
Using the Photovoice Working Model for Healthy Sexuality in Everyday Sexuality-Based Social Work Interventions with Adolescents
Background Social work has traditionally prioritized addressing risk behaviors over acknowledging the positive dimensions of everyday sexuality. It is now crucial to integrate everyday sexuality into social work practice, research, and education, while also addressing human rights and diverse gender identities. In the field of sexuality education research, there is a growing demand for the creation of healthy sexuality intervention programs groun…
He Can Be Whatever He Wants to Be!?’
Parents of children with disabilities (PCD) often struggle with a complex feelings comprised of joy and despair. On the one hand, they try to accept their child's disability; on the other hand, they fear that this acceptance may lower their aspirations for their child. They wonder if they should continue to dream of their child achieving like other children. This study explores how parents' aspirations are expressed in their daily lives. Using ph…
Between Loneliness and Togetherness
Disability as a transitional state in the lived experiences of undergraduate students navigating disabilities in academic arenas
What is it like to be(come) a social worker?” professional-identity formation from final-year social work students’ perspectives – photovoice-based study
In applied professions achieving a professional identity is a key educational goal during the transition from student to professional. To facilitate this transition within academic teaching, it is essential to establish dedicated reflective spaces using creative methods. The study investigated the perspectives of final-year social work students on their professional identity formation as near-future social workers, using the photovoice methodolog…
On the Way to Be(Coming) a Social Worker
In the field of social work research and practice, considerable focus has been placed on the preparedness of students as they transition from being students to becoming professionals. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the processes that occur during the final academic year of their training—a critical transition period that requires a deeper examination. Using a qualitative approach, the study examined the phenomenological perspect…
What helped the helpers? Health care social workers’ phenomenological perspective regarding coping resources in the contexts of shared traumatic reality
described through the subthemes of independence/stability, as well as pride. These findings highlight the ways in which coping resources helped the HCSWs contain and manage the home-work conflict, which takes on a critical meaning during times of national-global crisis. Therefore, HCSWs and the organizations that employ them need to recognize and institutionalize the various manifestations of these coping resources, some of which have been descri…
The lived experience of parents of children with disabilities as service users
The study sought to examine the content and processes that characterize the lived experiences of parents of children with disabilities as service users. The study employed a qualitative approach, utilizing the photovoice methodology to explore formative experiences derived from participants' lived experiences. A total of 24 participants were interviewed; 19 were parents of children with autism and five were parents of children with other disabili…
Defying loneliness
This study investigates the perceptions and interpretations of loneliness-related issues among older adults enrolled in an online photovoice group intervention program. It specifically examines their engagement with group activities conducted through the Zoom platform and the diverse experiences they acquired through their involvement in the group. In a qualitative-phenomenological study involving 22 older adult participants, data were collected …
The Witnesses, the Mediators, and the Treatment Plan Promoters
Background: Wilderness therapy (WT) has become a popular method of intervention with youth residing in residential facilities (RFs), and an important part of their treatment plan. Thus, the dual positioning and role of RF staff members - who both accompany participants on the WT journey and, at the same time, participate in their on-site, daily therapeutic processes - becomes pivotal in therapy programs for this population. Purpose: To examine th…
Field instructors and professional identity
This cross-sectional study tested a model in which professional identity explains the factors affecting social work field instructors’ job satisfaction. The sample included 405 Israeli instructors with a wide range of professional and organizational backgrounds. Data were gathered using an online questionnaire and were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results demonstrated the direct effects of organizational and academic support o…
“Here I’m Black, there I’m White”
International social work brings about an intercultural encounter between guests and hosts from the North and the South, a division associated with power relations. This type of encounter creates a unique learning space for international social work students. In light of the transformative learning theory, the study examined the retrospective perspective of Israeli social workers regarding their intercultural encounter when visiting India and Eth…
Research from an active-involved critical stance
In the field of critical research, there is significant interest about the extent and forms of the researcher's proactive engagement with marginalized and excluded communities being researched. However, it is not always clear what makes this involvement part of the research, or how much it serves as a moral position located in the process of building relationships with the community being researched. Based on a retrospective and reflexive observa…
Real-Time Lived-Experiences of Social Work Educators Following the Outbreak of the Coronavirus Crisis
The present study, based on a joint photovoice inquiry by 9 social work educators, set out to examine their real-time lived experiences in the face of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. The study was based on a series of group sessions during which 29 photovoice were collected. These served as the basis for a group dialogue about the lecturers' lived experiences of the Coronavirus crisis. The findings of the study point to four main narratives: a)…
Social-work students’ perspectives on their learning process following the implementation of community based participatory research in a community practice course
This paper presents the phenomenological perspective of social work students on their learning process following the implementation of community based participatory research (CBPR) in the context of a social work community practice course. CBPR was implemented in the framework of a partnership between the communities of the Gaza Envelope Region in southern Israel, and the school of social work at the college in the region. Throughout the academic…
It’s Not Just Me, It’s Us, Together
Mentoring is one of the unique forms of rehabilitation used to engage with women in the sex trade. The role creates personal and professional challenges; one concerns the mentors themselves dealing with a past in the sex trade, embodying within it a sign of social disgrace. Echoing the concept of the "wounded healer," the present study examines how mentors who are sex trade survivors perceive their role in supporting the rehabilitation of women i…
Teaching Note—Creative Place Making
The article describes a Creative Place Making (CPM) academic course, devised as a platform for an interdisciplinary collaboration between students in the fields of art studies and social work. After presenting a brief background on interdisciplinary education and CPM, the article discusses the course work model and its implementation within a community setting, together with four main areas of learning identified in the course evaluation. The art…
Photo-voices from the classroom
Studies have demonstrated the need for innovative and creative teaching methodologies in the field of social work education; some have pointed to the photovoice model of qualitative research in the social work classroom as a model that embodies these criteria. This paper presents implementations of the photovoice model used in three different courses for social work students: 1) International Social Work; 2) Community Work; 3) Orientation to Soci…
Sexuality and intimate relationships in everyday life –young people’s perspectives in Israel
This article reports on findings from a phenomenological study of young people’s perspectives on issues of sex, sexuality, and intimate relationships. The study utilised photovoice methodology to collect data from 15 young people aged 16–18 years. Analysis of 84 photovoice scenarios identified four narratives embodying participants’ perspectives on sexuality and intimate relationships: (1) authenticity versus social expectations within relationsh…
Beyond the Risk Discourse
Drawing our future
This paper outlines a rationale and a methodology for an art-based community-visioning model to facilitate visioning of the community's future by young people from marginalized communities. The model presented was implemented among young people from the Mountain Jewish Community in Israel. It was found that the use of personal drawings made it possible to simultaneously identify and communicate personal narratives, and thereby develop a shared co…
A qualitative study of equine‐assisted therapy for Israeli military and police veterans with PTSD —impact on self‐regulation , bonding and hope
Equine-assisted therapy (EAT) is an increasingly popular form of treatment for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who, for one reason or another, find psychotherapy and other traditional treatment approaches unsuitable or unhelpful. However, the concomitant growth of research in the field is yet to engage with key factors relating to EAT; specifically, there are few studies considering the phenomenological perspective of …
Real-Time Lived Experience of Social Work Students in Their Field Training during the Coronavirus Crisis
The present paper is based on a photovoice study conducted with sixteen undergraduate social work students in their third year of study, examining their real-time lived experience of their fieldwork training in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The findings of the study, based on an analysis of sixty-six photovoices, indicate four main narratives encapsulating the students’ real-time lived experiences: (i) the c…
Beyond the Risk Discourse
Real-Time Lived Experience of Social Work Students in Their Field Training during the Coronavirus Crisis
The present paper is based on a photovoice study conducted with sixteen undergraduate social work students in their third year of study, examining their real-time lived experience of their fieldwork training in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The findings of the study, based on an analysis of sixty-six photovoices, indicate four main narratives encapsulating the students’ real-time lived experiences: (i) the c…
Between Loneliness and Togetherness
Drawing our future
This paper outlines a rationale and a methodology for an art-based community-visioning model to facilitate visioning of the community's future by young people from marginalized communities. The model presented was implemented among young people from the Mountain Jewish Community in Israel. It was found that the use of personal drawings made it possible to simultaneously identify and communicate personal narratives, and thereby develop a shared co…
A qualitative study of equine‐assisted therapy for Israeli military and police veterans with PTSD —impact on self‐regulation , bonding and hope
Equine-assisted therapy (EAT) is an increasingly popular form of treatment for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who, for one reason or another, find psychotherapy and other traditional treatment approaches unsuitable or unhelpful. However, the concomitant growth of research in the field is yet to engage with key factors relating to EAT; specifically, there are few studies considering the phenomenological perspective of …
The Mentor’s Role From the Perspective of Marginalized Young Women Becoming Mentors
This paper examines the perspective of marginalized young women, training to become mentors for marginalized girls, with respect to the role of the mentor. Taking a critical feminist perspective, this article gives expression to the research participants’ unique knowledge, based on life experience as marginalized girls and their lived experiences. Based on a photovoice research project with 13 participants, all marginalized young women, the findi…
The implementation of photovoice as a tool for documenting the learning experiences of social work students on international field placement
Illustrating the adaptation of new and creative methods in international social work education, this article will present a working model for the use of photovoice methodology as part of a daily training seminar during an international field placement for Israeli students. The article will present a protocol for the use of a photovoice-based work model, with 3 applied examples from seminars held during 3 weeks of field placement in India and Ethi…
Photovoice as a creative coping tool with the Covid-19 crisis in practical training seminar for social work students
The Coronavirus-19 crisis has led university professors, social workers, students and social service consumers to shift to online methods of communication and teaching. In this novel, shared reality, the present paper introduces a new initiative based on implemented photovoice methodology as a tool for documenting BSW students' professional daily lives. This tool was used at a practical training seminar for 16 third year students at the School of…
Predictors of job burnout among fieldwork supervisors of social work students
In the helping professions, professional burnout is widely acknowledged to play a key role in work retention and turnover. However, although the literature on fieldwork education in social work engages with the importance of continuity and commitment regarding the role of fieldwork supervisor, the effects of job burnout are under-researched. Furthermore, there is also a gap in the literature with respect to the internal factors that contextualize…
Between Despair and Hope
This study examines social workers perceptions of their profession and of supervision of social work students. We gathered from 403 social workers metaphors related to the profession and supervision. We found that most of the metaphors concerning the profession revealed a positive view of it, though criticism was also expressed. The metaphors concerning supervision revealed a view that was even more positive than that of the profession itself. Bu…
Integrating Micro and Macro Practice
Policy advocacy is a professional competency in the Council of Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Therefore, preparing social work students to engage in political arenas is an integral part of social work education. This study presents an evaluation of the policy advocacy course using a pre/posttest research design (N = 154), and examines the theoretical link between the course and the change in student…
The Mentor’s Role From the Perspective of Marginalized Young Women Becoming Mentors
This paper examines the perspective of marginalized young women, training to become mentors for marginalized girls, with respect to the role of the mentor. Taking a critical feminist perspective, this article gives expression to the research participants’ unique knowledge, based on life experience as marginalized girls and their lived experiences. Based on a photovoice research project with 13 participants, all marginalized young women, the findi…
Teaching Note—Creative Place Making
The article describes a Creative Place Making (CPM) academic course, devised as a platform for an interdisciplinary collaboration between students in the fields of art studies and social work. After presenting a brief background on interdisciplinary education and CPM, the article discusses the course work model and its implementation within a community setting, together with four main areas of learning identified in the course evaluation. The art…
Photo-voices from the classroom
Studies have demonstrated the need for innovative and creative teaching methodologies in the field of social work education; some have pointed to the photovoice model of qualitative research in the social work classroom as a model that embodies these criteria. This paper presents implementations of the photovoice model used in three different courses for social work students: 1) International Social Work; 2) Community Work; 3) Orientation to Soci…
Sexuality and intimate relationships in everyday life –young people’s perspectives in Israel
This article reports on findings from a phenomenological study of young people’s perspectives on issues of sex, sexuality, and intimate relationships. The study utilised photovoice methodology to collect data from 15 young people aged 16–18 years. Analysis of 84 photovoice scenarios identified four narratives embodying participants’ perspectives on sexuality and intimate relationships: (1) authenticity versus social expectations within relationsh…
Beyond the Risk Discourse
Drawing our future
This paper outlines a rationale and a methodology for an art-based community-visioning model to facilitate visioning of the community's future by young people from marginalized communities. The model presented was implemented among young people from the Mountain Jewish Community in Israel. It was found that the use of personal drawings made it possible to simultaneously identify and communicate personal narratives, and thereby develop a shared co…
A qualitative study of equine‐assisted therapy for Israeli military and police veterans with PTSD —impact on self‐regulation , bonding and hope
Equine-assisted therapy (EAT) is an increasingly popular form of treatment for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who, for one reason or another, find psychotherapy and other traditional treatment approaches unsuitable or unhelpful. However, the concomitant growth of research in the field is yet to engage with key factors relating to EAT; specifically, there are few studies considering the phenomenological perspective of …
Real-Time Lived Experience of Social Work Students in Their Field Training during the Coronavirus Crisis
The present paper is based on a photovoice study conducted with sixteen undergraduate social work students in their third year of study, examining their real-time lived experience of their fieldwork training in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The findings of the study, based on an analysis of sixty-six photovoices, indicate four main narratives encapsulating the students’ real-time lived experiences: (i) the c…
Real-Time Lived-Experiences of Social Work Educators Following the Outbreak of the Coronavirus Crisis
The present study, based on a joint photovoice inquiry by 9 social work educators, set out to examine their real-time lived experiences in the face of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. The study was based on a series of group sessions during which 29 photovoice were collected. These served as the basis for a group dialogue about the lecturers' lived experiences of the Coronavirus crisis. The findings of the study point to four main narratives: a)…
Social-work students’ perspectives on their learning process following the implementation of community based participatory research in a community practice course
This paper presents the phenomenological perspective of social work students on their learning process following the implementation of community based participatory research (CBPR) in the context of a social work community practice course. CBPR was implemented in the framework of a partnership between the communities of the Gaza Envelope Region in southern Israel, and the school of social work at the college in the region. Throughout the academic…
It’s Not Just Me, It’s Us, Together
Mentoring is one of the unique forms of rehabilitation used to engage with women in the sex trade. The role creates personal and professional challenges; one concerns the mentors themselves dealing with a past in the sex trade, embodying within it a sign of social disgrace. Echoing the concept of the "wounded healer," the present study examines how mentors who are sex trade survivors perceive their role in supporting the rehabilitation of women i…
The Witnesses, the Mediators, and the Treatment Plan Promoters
Background: Wilderness therapy (WT) has become a popular method of intervention with youth residing in residential facilities (RFs), and an important part of their treatment plan. Thus, the dual positioning and role of RF staff members - who both accompany participants on the WT journey and, at the same time, participate in their on-site, daily therapeutic processes - becomes pivotal in therapy programs for this population. Purpose: To examine th…
Field instructors and professional identity
This cross-sectional study tested a model in which professional identity explains the factors affecting social work field instructors’ job satisfaction. The sample included 405 Israeli instructors with a wide range of professional and organizational backgrounds. Data were gathered using an online questionnaire and were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results demonstrated the direct effects of organizational and academic support o…
“Here I’m Black, there I’m White”
International social work brings about an intercultural encounter between guests and hosts from the North and the South, a division associated with power relations. This type of encounter creates a unique learning space for international social work students. In light of the transformative learning theory, the study examined the retrospective perspective of Israeli social workers regarding their intercultural encounter when visiting India and Eth…
Research from an active-involved critical stance
In the field of critical research, there is significant interest about the extent and forms of the researcher's proactive engagement with marginalized and excluded communities being researched. However, it is not always clear what makes this involvement part of the research, or how much it serves as a moral position located in the process of building relationships with the community being researched. Based on a retrospective and reflexive observa…
Using the Photovoice Working Model for Healthy Sexuality in Everyday Sexuality-Based Social Work Interventions with Adolescents
Background Social work has traditionally prioritized addressing risk behaviors over acknowledging the positive dimensions of everyday sexuality. It is now crucial to integrate everyday sexuality into social work practice, research, and education, while also addressing human rights and diverse gender identities. In the field of sexuality education research, there is a growing demand for the creation of healthy sexuality intervention programs groun…
He Can Be Whatever He Wants to Be!?’
Parents of children with disabilities (PCD) often struggle with a complex feelings comprised of joy and despair. On the one hand, they try to accept their child's disability; on the other hand, they fear that this acceptance may lower their aspirations for their child. They wonder if they should continue to dream of their child achieving like other children. This study explores how parents' aspirations are expressed in their daily lives. Using ph…
Between Loneliness and Togetherness
Disability as a transitional state in the lived experiences of undergraduate students navigating disabilities in academic arenas
What is it like to be(come) a social worker?” professional-identity formation from final-year social work students’ perspectives – photovoice-based study
In applied professions achieving a professional identity is a key educational goal during the transition from student to professional. To facilitate this transition within academic teaching, it is essential to establish dedicated reflective spaces using creative methods. The study investigated the perspectives of final-year social work students on their professional identity formation as near-future social workers, using the photovoice methodolog…
Psychology (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Photovoice (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Social Work (16 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (15 works) · Pedagogy (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (11 works) · Medicine (8 works)