Vered Ben‐David
Biographic Data
| ID | 6087845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vered Ben‐David |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vered |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben‐David |
| SIGNATURE | BEN DAVID V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zefat Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8792-2053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Parenting Beyond Doing
Parenting research and policy increasingly emphasize visible practices, measurable outcomes, and parental effort as indicators of competence. Across welfare, education, and family intervention contexts, “good parenting” is often evaluated through intensive doing: monitoring, documenting, optimizing development, and managing risk. While these frameworks foreground parental responsibility, they frequently obscure the relational dimensions of care a…
Parenting Under Pressure
This study examined cross‐cultural differences and shared psychological processes in Israeli mothers' parenting experiences during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Jewish and Arab mothers were compared due to well‐documented differences in family structure, social support systems and exposure to structural stressors, offering a meaningful context for examining parental adaptation under crisis. The study focused on parental self‐efficacy (…
Mental Health Literacy Among General Practitioners in Israel
In recent years, general practitioners (GPs) have become more involved in treating people with mental disorders. This study examined the mental health literacy of GPs in Israel, based on Jorm’s conceptual framework. Twenty-one GPs participated in a semi-structured, in-depth interview. The data were analyzed thematically, guided by Jorm’s six mental health literacy dimensions. The GPs generally reported that they could identify symptoms of mental …
Non-offending fathers and children’s risk in severe child maltreatment cases
The Experience of Student-Mothers in an Israeli College
The study examined family indicators of 170 Israeli undergraduate college student-mothers. It found that parental self-efficacy, marital satisfaction, and social support predicted wellbeing. Parental self-efficacy had a significant effect on wellbeing only for respondents who reported a high level of social support. A high level of stress correlated with low levels of parental self-efficacy and marital satisfaction. The article discusses the find…
Association between child’s mental health and emotional maltreatment among children in out-of-home placement in Israel
This study examines the relative importance of emotional maltreatment to predicting a child’s mental health problem among 150 young children (age 0–7; M = 3.89, SD = 1.81) in foster care who were legally separated from their biological parents and freed for adoption by Israeli courts. 51.3% of the children were assessed with mental health problems. The study found that mental health was mostly associated with emotional maltreatment of the child. …
Ethnic group and social support contribution to posttraumatic growth after sudden spousal loss among Jewish, Muslim, and Druze widows in Israel
This study aimed to examine the contribution of ethnic group status and social support to posttraumatic growth (PTG) among widows after sudden spousal loss. Participants included 184 widows from three ethnic groups: 59 (32.3%) Jewish, 58 (31.7%) Muslim, and 66 (36%) Druze. Information was gathered via a demographic questionnaire, PTG Inventory, and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Analysis of covariance was used to test ethnic …
Does A Parent's Right to Parenting Matter in Termination of Parental Rights? An Analysis of Court Cases
The right to parenting refers to the biological parent's right to make decisions about the care and wellbeing of the child and is considered a fundamental constitutional right. But if the child faces imminent risk of harm, this right can be revoked. This study examines the right to parenting in child maltreatment cases where parental rights were terminated and the way this right was balanced against other rights and interests of the child and par…
Motherhood and Maternal Fitness of Mothers Whose Parental Rights Were Terminated in Israel
Resilience among adult survivors of childhood neglect
Family formation
Substance-abusing parents and their children in termination of parental rights cases in Israel
Examining the judicial voice from a non-legal perspective
Social constructions of reality and narratives of parental incapability in the process of adjudicating the adoption of minors in Israel
Compulsory adoption of a child constitutes the most extreme intervention of the state in family life. In Israel, this intervention relies mainly on the cause of parental incapability, which has not been clearly defined by the law and is left to the court's discretion. In this paper, the social construction of a reality paradigm and the narrative approach to the law are used as conceptual frameworks for analysing the concept of parental capability…
Voices in the Adjudication of Compulsory Adoption in Israel
Ambiguity in the definitions of “parental incapability” and “child's best interests” in the Israeli law of adoption allows for different “voices” to determine their meaning. With regard to compulsory adoption, findings from texts of the judicial discourse in Israel portray the voice of the professional expert as hegemonic and that of the biological parents as unheard, revealing the nature of the practices that lead to the deligitimization of the …
Judicial bias in adjudicating the adoption of minors in Israel
Resilience among adult survivors of childhood neglect
Judicial bias in adjudicating the adoption of minors in Israel
Family formation
Social constructions of reality and narratives of parental incapability in the process of adjudicating the adoption of minors in Israel
Compulsory adoption of a child constitutes the most extreme intervention of the state in family life. In Israel, this intervention relies mainly on the cause of parental incapability, which has not been clearly defined by the law and is left to the court's discretion. In this paper, the social construction of a reality paradigm and the narrative approach to the law are used as conceptual frameworks for analysing the concept of parental capability…
Voices in the Adjudication of Compulsory Adoption in Israel
Ambiguity in the definitions of “parental incapability” and “child's best interests” in the Israeli law of adoption allows for different “voices” to determine their meaning. With regard to compulsory adoption, findings from texts of the judicial discourse in Israel portray the voice of the professional expert as hegemonic and that of the biological parents as unheard, revealing the nature of the practices that lead to the deligitimization of the …
Social constructions of reality and narratives of parental incapability in the process of adjudicating the adoption of minors in Israel
Compulsory adoption of a child constitutes the most extreme intervention of the state in family life. In Israel, this intervention relies mainly on the cause of parental incapability, which has not been clearly defined by the law and is left to the court's discretion. In this paper, the social construction of a reality paradigm and the narrative approach to the law are used as conceptual frameworks for analysing the concept of parental capability…
Voices in the Adjudication of Compulsory Adoption in Israel
Ambiguity in the definitions of “parental incapability” and “child's best interests” in the Israeli law of adoption allows for different “voices” to determine their meaning. With regard to compulsory adoption, findings from texts of the judicial discourse in Israel portray the voice of the professional expert as hegemonic and that of the biological parents as unheard, revealing the nature of the practices that lead to the deligitimization of the …
Judicial bias in adjudicating the adoption of minors in Israel
Examining the judicial voice from a non-legal perspective
Family formation
Substance-abusing parents and their children in termination of parental rights cases in Israel
Resilience among adult survivors of childhood neglect
Does A Parent's Right to Parenting Matter in Termination of Parental Rights? An Analysis of Court Cases
The right to parenting refers to the biological parent's right to make decisions about the care and wellbeing of the child and is considered a fundamental constitutional right. But if the child faces imminent risk of harm, this right can be revoked. This study examines the right to parenting in child maltreatment cases where parental rights were terminated and the way this right was balanced against other rights and interests of the child and par…
Motherhood and Maternal Fitness of Mothers Whose Parental Rights Were Terminated in Israel
Non-offending fathers and children’s risk in severe child maltreatment cases
The Experience of Student-Mothers in an Israeli College
The study examined family indicators of 170 Israeli undergraduate college student-mothers. It found that parental self-efficacy, marital satisfaction, and social support predicted wellbeing. Parental self-efficacy had a significant effect on wellbeing only for respondents who reported a high level of social support. A high level of stress correlated with low levels of parental self-efficacy and marital satisfaction. The article discusses the find…
Association between child’s mental health and emotional maltreatment among children in out-of-home placement in Israel
This study examines the relative importance of emotional maltreatment to predicting a child’s mental health problem among 150 young children (age 0–7; M = 3.89, SD = 1.81) in foster care who were legally separated from their biological parents and freed for adoption by Israeli courts. 51.3% of the children were assessed with mental health problems. The study found that mental health was mostly associated with emotional maltreatment of the child. …
Ethnic group and social support contribution to posttraumatic growth after sudden spousal loss among Jewish, Muslim, and Druze widows in Israel
This study aimed to examine the contribution of ethnic group status and social support to posttraumatic growth (PTG) among widows after sudden spousal loss. Participants included 184 widows from three ethnic groups: 59 (32.3%) Jewish, 58 (31.7%) Muslim, and 66 (36%) Druze. Information was gathered via a demographic questionnaire, PTG Inventory, and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Analysis of covariance was used to test ethnic …
Mental Health Literacy Among General Practitioners in Israel
In recent years, general practitioners (GPs) have become more involved in treating people with mental disorders. This study examined the mental health literacy of GPs in Israel, based on Jorm’s conceptual framework. Twenty-one GPs participated in a semi-structured, in-depth interview. The data were analyzed thematically, guided by Jorm’s six mental health literacy dimensions. The GPs generally reported that they could identify symptoms of mental …
Parenting Beyond Doing
Parenting research and policy increasingly emphasize visible practices, measurable outcomes, and parental effort as indicators of competence. Across welfare, education, and family intervention contexts, “good parenting” is often evaluated through intensive doing: monitoring, documenting, optimizing development, and managing risk. While these frameworks foreground parental responsibility, they frequently obscure the relational dimensions of care a…
Parenting Under Pressure
This study examined cross‐cultural differences and shared psychological processes in Israeli mothers' parenting experiences during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Jewish and Arab mothers were compared due to well‐documented differences in family structure, social support systems and exposure to structural stressors, offering a meaningful context for examining parental adaptation under crisis. The study focused on parental self‐efficacy (…
Psychology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (8 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works)