Zvi Eisikovits
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 240463 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Zvi Eisikovits |
| PRENOMES | Zvi |
| SOBRENOME | Eisikovits |
| ASSINATURA | EISIKOVITS Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3876-9870 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 287 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Transforming the Self
Freeing the self from ongoing intimate partner violence is only part of overcoming its harmful consequences. Changes in the experience of abused women and their phenomenological world following separation or divorce from the perpetrator is essential for the process of recovery. This study analyzed the metaphors used by abused women to describe their lifeworld in violence and the processes experienced after the divorce, including transformation an…
Constructing Professional Intervention with IPV Across Generations in a Faith-Based Society
The intersectionality between the social and personal dimensions influencing the construction of intimate partner violence in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is examined by studying attitudes toward professional intervention among community members coping with IPV. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among 38 information-rich participants coping with IPV, from three generations in the ultra-Orthodox community. Three themes emerged: "Don…
Alone with our interpretations”
The meaning of work among immigrants living in poverty in Israel
The global financial crisis has increased the number of working immigrants living in poverty around the world. This article presents and analyses the interaction of work, immigration and poverty among working immigrants in Israel. Methodologically, this study has combined hermeneutic phenomenological and social constructivist approaches and in so doing has aimed to describe the realities of immigrants living and working in poverty. Presenting bot…
Adult women survivors of intrafamilial child sexual abuse and their current relationship with the abuser
This article examines the adult perceptions of women survivors of intrafamilial child sexual abuse and their current relationship with the family member who abused them in their childhood. Twenty Jewish Israeli women were interviewed in depth between 2008 and 2009. Interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data analysis produced 2 interrelated continua with regard to the presence of the perpetrator in the women's life: a continuum o…
Prevalence of Child Maltreatment in Israel
The Social Construction of Roles in Intimate Partner Violence
Working Men Views of Poverty
Despite the alarming numbers of workers living in poverty in developed countries, work is still commonly seen as a way out of poverty. From a social constructivist perspective and based on qualitative research of the working poor in Israel, the article explores low-income Arab and Jewish working men's views of poverty. It addresses research topics such as the meaning of work, the perception of the workplace, and the experience of poverty and copi…
Free will in total institutions
Working Poor Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women and Men
The present article focuses on the interface between religion, work, and poverty as reflected in 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with ultra-Orthodox working-poor women and men in Israel. Based on a social constructivist theoretical framework, findings uncover the complex role of religion in the construction of the working poor. Religion demands a set of behaviors and belief systems that hinder the individual’s ability to break out of poverty, …
Living on the Edges
Pathways to Resilience Among Israeli Child Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Dimensions of Suffering among Old and Young Battered Women
Masculinity, Poverty and Work
This article explores the impact of poverty on working men in light of the great diversity of the working poor population. Grounded upon a social constructivist theoretical framework and a comparative qualitative study of the working poor in Israel, this article examines the construction of 'waged work' among low income, Israeli working men. To illuminate the complex intersection of masculinity, poverty and waged work with ethnic and cultural cat…
Battering Men and Their Male Therapists
Continuity and Discontinuity of Violent and Nonviolent Behavior
This article examines the perceptions of male adolescent immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union (FSU) and what accounts for their using or refraining from violence. A grounded theoretical classification of four groups relating to continuity and discontinuity of violent and nonviolent behavior is presented and reasons provided for these behaviors in the host country, compared with the country of origin. Each group is described and analy…
Life beyond the planned script
Israel is a transitional society with a range of fluctuating social phenomena. Second couplehood in old age, as a case in point, can be located in the ambiguous space between non-normative and normative. The aim of this article is to describe and discuss how couples navigate that space. Data were collected within the framework of a larger qualitative study on second couplehood in old age among 20 couples in Israel. Forty individual semi-structure…
Approaches to and Outcomes of Dyadic Interview Analysis
Qualitative studies on dyads have increased over the last two decades. However, emphasis has been on their thematic content, and very few methodological advances have occurred for conducting this type of research. For instance, literature exists about ways to collect dyadic data, but not how to analyze it. Our aim with this article is to discuss dyadic analysis using data from separate interviews, which is then analyzed on both individual and dya…
The design of a collaborative interface for narration to support reconciliation in a conflict
Between the Professional and the Private
This qualitative study examines the impact of working with intimate partner violence on therapists' marital relationships and gender identity. Data were collected by in-depth semistructured interviews with 14 experienced women social workers working in domestic violence treatment centers in Israel. Findings indicate that the boundaries between workers' private and professional lives are blurred and work experiences influence their intimate relati…
The place of persuasion in shared decision making
Growth in the Shadow of War
This study aimed to assess post-traumatic stress symptoms and vicarious traumatization (VT) versus post-traumatic growth (PTG) among Israeli practitioners who shared war-related reality with their clients during the Second Lebanon–Israel war (2006). In addition, the contribution of potency (one's personal resource) and the role of peri-traumatic dissociation (the emotional detachment activated during or immediately after a traumatic event) were e…
"Aging Out" of Violence
In this article, we explore how continuous intimate partner violence is experienced in old age and how age and violence interact and change throughout the life span. This is a qualitative study based on a phenomenological perspective focusing on the lived experiences of the elderly who have dwelled in domestic violence most of their lives. The sample consisted of 40 informants. In-depth, semistructured interviews were performed. Content analysis …
Physician as partner or salesman? Shared decision-making in real-time encounters
Between the Person and the Culture
The purpose of this article to present an in-depth analysis of the initial complaint to police as perceived by abused Israeli Arab women and their perpetrators. The research used in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 20 Israeli Arab men and women. Findings indicated that women and men in Arab society in Israel are both caught in a struggle between two opposing forces: One is directed towards preserving traditional cultur…
Approaches to and Outcomes of Dyadic Interview Analysis
Qualitative studies on dyads have increased over the last two decades. However, emphasis has been on their thematic content, and very few methodological advances have occurred for conducting this type of research. For instance, literature exists about ways to collect dyadic data, but not how to analyze it. Our aim with this article is to discuss dyadic analysis using data from separate interviews, which is then analyzed on both individual and dya…
Physician as partner or salesman? Shared decision-making in real-time encounters
Growth in the Shadow of War
This study aimed to assess post-traumatic stress symptoms and vicarious traumatization (VT) versus post-traumatic growth (PTG) among Israeli practitioners who shared war-related reality with their clients during the Second Lebanon–Israel war (2006). In addition, the contribution of potency (one's personal resource) and the role of peri-traumatic dissociation (the emotional detachment activated during or immediately after a traumatic event) were e…
Social Workers’ Perceptions of the Balance between the Psychological and the Social
Traditional conceptualizations view social work as intervening at the intersection between the person and the environment. This article uses data from 35 in‐depth interviews to describe and analyze social worker perceptions of the psycho‐social concept and to evaluate how these perceptions affect workers' practice orientations. Three types of social workers are identified: those who focus on the psychological aspect and neglect the social, those …
Choice and Empowerment for Battered Women Who Stay
This article examines the individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through a critical examination of the images of battered women who stay, constructed in the professional literature on various ecological levels, and a proposal of a constructivist model for empowering battered women who choose to stay that balances between their needs and rights. The model includes dimensions of ph…
Working Poor Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women and Men
The present article focuses on the interface between religion, work, and poverty as reflected in 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with ultra-Orthodox working-poor women and men in Israel. Based on a social constructivist theoretical framework, findings uncover the complex role of religion in the construction of the working poor. Religion demands a set of behaviors and belief systems that hinder the individual’s ability to break out of poverty, …
Life beyond the planned script
Israel is a transitional society with a range of fluctuating social phenomena. Second couplehood in old age, as a case in point, can be located in the ambiguous space between non-normative and normative. The aim of this article is to describe and discuss how couples navigate that space. Data were collected within the framework of a larger qualitative study on second couplehood in old age among 20 couples in Israel. Forty individual semi-structure…
The First Israeli National Survey on Domestic Violence
The aim of the survey reported in this article was to assess the frequency and severity of violence against women in Israel and to identify some major risk factors associated with that violence. During 2000 and 2001, a structured self-report questionnaire was administered to a stratified probability sample drawn from the general population in Israel including 2,544 households, of which 2,092 included only women respondents and 452 included both m…
What It Was Won't Be Anymore
This article presents a study of the experiences of 20 battered Israeli women in the process of reaching the turning point in their experience of abuse—the point at which they refused to live with violence and took active steps to stop it while living with the perpetrators. The process needs to be understood as a series of losses on the personal and interpersonal levels that, taken together, lead to a total change in the women's meaning systems
Children's experience of interparental violence
Talking Control
The purpose of this study was to present battered women's perceptions of violent events and their development, as reflected in the metaphors they use. The study was conceptualized in the phenomenological-constructivist tradition and used feminist theory to interpret the findings. It is based on 25 in-depth interviews with battered women, selected purposefully from a larger study, based on the richness and variation of metaphors encountered in the…
Between the Professional and the Private
This qualitative study examines the impact of working with intimate partner violence on therapists' marital relationships and gender identity. Data were collected by in-depth semistructured interviews with 14 experienced women social workers working in domestic violence treatment centers in Israel. Findings indicate that the boundaries between workers' private and professional lives are blurred and work experiences influence their intimate relati…
"Aging Out" of Violence
In this article, we explore how continuous intimate partner violence is experienced in old age and how age and violence interact and change throughout the life span. This is a qualitative study based on a phenomenological perspective focusing on the lived experiences of the elderly who have dwelled in domestic violence most of their lives. The sample consisted of 40 informants. In-depth, semistructured interviews were performed. Content analysis …
Talking Violent
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze battering men's intrapersonal and interpersonal worlds by studying the metaphors they use. The sample included 27 men who had physically abused their cohabiting partners at least once during the year preceding data collection. Data were collected using a semistructured qualitative interview guide. Content analysis yielded three major content categories for organizing the findings: (a) conflict…
Cognitive and interpersonal factors in woman abuse
To Love Violently
This research describes and analyzes the strategies for reconciling love and violence among battered women and their abusive partners. The data were chosen from a purposive sample of 14 couples, and the research was conducted in the phenomenological tradition. Two avenues of reconciling emerged from the findings: one that presents love and violence as mutually functional and the other that creates a complete split between the two. These findings …
Battering Men and Their Male Therapists
The Social Construction of Roles in Intimate Partner Violence
Dimensions of Suffering among Old and Young Battered Women
Masculinity, Poverty and Work
This article explores the impact of poverty on working men in light of the great diversity of the working poor population. Grounded upon a social constructivist theoretical framework and a comparative qualitative study of the working poor in Israel, this article examines the construction of 'waged work' among low income, Israeli working men. To illuminate the complex intersection of masculinity, poverty and waged work with ethnic and cultural cat…
Doing treatment
Collaborative Discourse
In addition to the institutionalization of violence against women as a social problem in Israel, there has been increased public and professional pressure on both police and social welfare services to collaborate in order to enhance effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of collaboration modalities by police and social work personnel. This study is based on data collected for a larger nationwide police evaluation stud…
A model for analysing societal responses to woman battering
This article presents a conceptual framework for analyzing societal responses to women battering in Israel. The model of policy analysis consisted of three specific dimensions namely: 1) descriptive-operational; 2) analytic interpretive; and 3) chronological. Allocation provision delivery and financing of interventions with the abused Israeli women and their families were conducted from 1986 to 1988 through telephone surveys. Data indicate that d…
Pathways to Resilience Among Israeli Child Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Overdrawing and Balancing Accounts
This article attempts to develop a theoretical model addressing the structure and dynamics of the repository, or “archive,” from which partners draw memories contributing to the escalation to violence in intimate relationships. Sampling and data analysis followed the principles of grounded theory. The findings indicate two kinds of memories are stored in the archive: one raw, the other molded. Only molded memories are in use during the process of…
Moral development and discipline encounter in delinquent and nondelinquent adolescents
Measuring Ecology in Social Work Supervision
This study measures the interaction between work and treatment environments in public welfare agencies and social work supervision. One hundred and twenty-four social work students enrolled in B.S.W. studies at two Israeli universities, who were doing field work in these agencies, were randomly sampled. The work and treatment environments were measured utilizing an adapted version of a scale developed by Rudolf H. Moos. The student's evaluation o…
Supervision in Ecological Context
The present study measured the interaction between the work and treatment environments and social work supervision in public welfare agencies in Israel. Moos' scales for measuring work and treatment environments, and Munson's instrument for measuring worker's evaluation of supervision were culturally adjusted and then used. Supervisory variables such as the worker's professional development and the supervisor's administrative skills were positive…
Men Who Batter Women
This article critically reviews the evidence pertaining to men who batter. The problem of conceptualizing definitional issues and current data on the scope and incidence of woman battering are discussed. Evidence on variables that have been related to or used to explain why men batter is outlined and critiqued. This article concludes by proposing a new theory-building and research agenda that will enhance current understandings of battering and o…
Doing competent residential child and youth care work
Economic considerations in supporting preventive services for troubled youth
Intervening with Men Who Batter
This article reviews the published research on intervention with men who batter. It analyzes the literature at five levels of intervention: individual, couple, men's group, institution, and culture. Intervention at each of these levels is then examined in terms of theoretical orientations, intervention techniques, and outcomes. We conclude that the current state of knowledge about intervention is inadequate and in need of theories, interventions,…
Cognitive and interpersonal factors in woman abuse
A model for analysing societal responses to woman battering
This article presents a conceptual framework for analyzing societal responses to women battering in Israel. The model of policy analysis consisted of three specific dimensions namely: 1) descriptive-operational; 2) analytic interpretive; and 3) chronological. Allocation provision delivery and financing of interventions with the abused Israeli women and their families were conducted from 1986 to 1988 through telephone surveys. Data indicate that d…
Woman battering in Israel
Interpersonal factors were examined in 60 couples who reported violence by male against female partner and in 60 couples who did not. Violent men reported lower partnership quality and less social support than did nonviolent men. Battered women reported lower partnership quality but more positive social support than did women with nonviolent partners. Level of violence was predicted by level of child-rearing conflict and the availability of socia…
Talking Violent
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze battering men's intrapersonal and interpersonal worlds by studying the metaphors they use. The sample included 27 men who had physically abused their cohabiting partners at least once during the year preceding data collection. Data were collected using a semistructured qualitative interview guide. Content analysis yielded three major content categories for organizing the findings: (a) conflict…
What It Was Won't Be Anymore
This article presents a study of the experiences of 20 battered Israeli women in the process of reaching the turning point in their experience of abuse—the point at which they refused to live with violence and took active steps to stop it while living with the perpetrators. The process needs to be understood as a series of losses on the personal and interpersonal levels that, taken together, lead to a total change in the women's meaning systems
Children's experience of interparental violence
Talking Control
The purpose of this study was to present battered women's perceptions of violent events and their development, as reflected in the metaphors they use. The study was conceptualized in the phenomenological-constructivist tradition and used feminist theory to interpret the findings. It is based on 25 in-depth interviews with battered women, selected purposefully from a larger study, based on the richness and variation of metaphors encountered in the…
Attitudes of Israeli Arab Social Workers Concerning Woman Battering
The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between attitudes towards intimate violence, knowledge about causality and preferred societal reaction to the phenomena among Israeli Arab social workers. One hundred thirty (130) Arab Israeli social workers were drawn randomly from the National Social Work registry and completed the “Attitudes of professionals towards intimate violence” questionnaire. SSA (Smallest Space Analysis) was perf…
Choice and Empowerment for Battered Women Who Stay
This article examines the individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through a critical examination of the images of battered women who stay, constructed in the professional literature on various ecological levels, and a proposal of a constructivist model for empowering battered women who choose to stay that balances between their needs and rights. The model includes dimensions of ph…
Overdrawing and Balancing Accounts
This article attempts to develop a theoretical model addressing the structure and dynamics of the repository, or “archive,” from which partners draw memories contributing to the escalation to violence in intimate relationships. Sampling and data analysis followed the principles of grounded theory. The findings indicate two kinds of memories are stored in the archive: one raw, the other molded. Only molded memories are in use during the process of…
Reconstructing Intimate Violence
The purpose of this article is to explore the structure and content of recollections of violent events among cohabiting partners. The authors used qualitative methodology to examine 48 in-depth interviews. Content analysis of the interviews yielded two parallel and interrelated continua: One represented the life circumstances (staying in spite of violence) impinging on the recollections; the other dealt with the content of the memories of violent…
To Love Violently
This research describes and analyzes the strategies for reconciling love and violence among battered women and their abusive partners. The data were chosen from a purposive sample of 14 couples, and the research was conducted in the phenomenological tradition. Two avenues of reconciling emerged from the findings: one that presents love and violence as mutually functional and the other that creates a complete split between the two. These findings …
Battered Women's Entrapment in Shame
The present study is part of larger research aimed at understanding the impact of the family of origin on battered women's lives, world views, and emotional setup in the context of dyadic life in violence. The sample constitutes 20 Jewish Israeli battered women. Every woman was interviewed in depth for 3 hr. This was done in 3 sessions. Shame was found to be prevalent in battered women's phenomenological biographies. This cuts across both the fam…
Reporting bad results
The purpose of this paper is to present and analyse the ethical dilemmas involved in presenting research findings that describe abused women's parenting practices in a negative light. The study was based on data collected by in‐depth interviews for the purpose of examining the turning point among 20 Israeli abused women who refused to live with violence and took active steps to stop it while staying with the perpetrator. Overall the analysis indi…
The First Israeli National Survey on Domestic Violence
The aim of the survey reported in this article was to assess the frequency and severity of violence against women in Israel and to identify some major risk factors associated with that violence. During 2000 and 2001, a structured self-report questionnaire was administered to a stratified probability sample drawn from the general population in Israel including 2,544 households, of which 2,092 included only women respondents and 452 included both m…
The Impact of Father-to-Mother Aggression on the Structure and Content of Adolescents’ Perceptions of Themselves and their Parents
This study examined the differential influence of the father’s level of aggression toward the mother on adolescents’ perceptions of their parents and of themselves and how these perceptions are interrelated. This study consisted of a probability sample of 1,014 Jewish Israeli youth between the ages of 13 and 18. The findings indicate that in cases in which there was no father-to-mother aggression, adolescents held a coherent image structure of th…
Towards the Development of a Conflict Escalation Model
Social Workers’ Perceptions of the Balance between the Psychological and the Social
Traditional conceptualizations view social work as intervening at the intersection between the person and the environment. This article uses data from 35 in‐depth interviews to describe and analyze social worker perceptions of the psycho‐social concept and to evaluate how these perceptions affect workers' practice orientations. Three types of social workers are identified: those who focus on the psychological aspect and neglect the social, those …
Psychology (57 obras) · Social Psychology (44 obras) · Medicine (35 obras) · Sociology (35 obras) · Social Psychology (33 obras) · Poison control (31 obras) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (30 obras) · Suicide prevention (25 obras) · Medical emergency (24 obras) · Developmental psychology (21 obras)