Anat Zeira
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2745558 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anat Zeira |
| PRENOMES | Anat |
| SOBRENOME | Zeira |
| ASSINATURA | ZEIRA A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6406-8301 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 218 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Criminal convictions of care leavers of youth villages in Israel
Shaping parenting a decade after leaving care
Handcuffed Parenthood’
Parents of children who were removed from home are generally under‐researched, and there is a shortage of knowledge concerning their perceptions and experiences, particularly in complex contexts. Using a context‐informed perspective and intersectionality theory, this study aims to better understand the experiences of parents regarding their children's removal from home due to maltreatment, as well as their coping strategies, particularly against …
Committed but constrained
Unveiling the role of residential care in care leavers’ personal development and life outcomes
In the current quantitative study, we explored the perceived contribution of residential care (PCRC) to multiple life domains and the factors associated with these perceptions from three main stages in Israelis' care leavers' lives: precare, in care, and postcare. Drawing on a representative sample of 2,295 care leavers' retrospective reports, integrated with their longitudinal administrative records, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis a…
Predicting Educational Attainments and Enrollment to Higher Education
Economic self‐sufficiency and the employment outcomes of care leavers
Gaining employment and reaching a stable and self‐sufficient livelihood are essential life tasks, especially for young people ageing out of public care. This longitudinal study followed alumni of welfare and educational residential care settings in Israel for 10 years after leaving care. Here, we describe care leavers' employment and economic self‐sufficiency outcomes and examine differences over time in their experiences. They were interviewed a…
Life satisfaction among alumni of youth villages in Israel
Empirical evidence on life satisfaction of care leavers is scant and often based on small and nonrepresentative samples. Based on the life course perspective, this study explored the role of objective and subjective factors in explaining life satisfaction among care leavers, both general and domain-specific (work-financial-housing, social relationships-emotional state). The sample was randomly drawn from the whole population of eight graduating b…
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood
The transition period from care to independent living is a vulnerable time for care leavers who may experience increased mental health problems. This study explored risk and protective factors contributing to and predicting their psychological distress as emerging adults. The study is based on an extensive set of longitudinal administrative records combined with structured phone interviews among a representative sample of 2295 alumni of education…
Evaluating SafeCare® in Israel
SafeCare® is a home‐based intervention programme targeting parents of children up to 5 years old and is designed to reduce and even prevent child abuse and neglect. Here, we present an evaluation of a pilot trial of SafeCare® in Israel, examining family's outcomes. We examined parents' behavioural changes resulting from the three main modules of SafeCare®: the Health, Safety, and Parent‐Child/Infant Interaction. We also studied the unplanned effe…
Aspirations toward higher education
This longitudinal study tests a model that predicts aspirations toward higher education (AtHE) among alumni of public care in Israel based on their personal resources (self-esteem, readiness for independent living, and perceptions of their future), the support they receive from their mothers and peers, and their perception of the impact of military service. Using hierarchical regression analyses, we tested the incremental contribution of these va…
Predictors of life satisfaction among care leavers
Between being unique and being like everyone else
Out-of-Home Care for Children at-Risk in Israel and in Spain
This article compares the out-of-home care (OOHC) systems for children at-risk in Spain and Israel. Both countries share a strong tradition of placing children at-risk mainly in large residential care settings rather than familial solutions, and both face the challenge of the deinstitutionalization of care, including the tendency to substitute family-based solutions for institutional care. This article follows the historical development and curre…
SafeCare in Israel
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Transition from Care to Adulthood
This paper focuses on care leavers’ experiences of their transition from care to adulthood. Using a social pedagogical perspective, we explore continuity and discontinuity in their life course as central aspects of support in the transition process. Using biographical narratives of three young people with different paths of transition from public care, we argue that a successful transition to independent living involves a complex interplay of con…
Alumni of National Civic Service
This article describes the perspectives of alumni of National Civic Service (NCS) in Israel on its impact at the individual level. We compared 250 young women who were identified as youth at risk with 295 mainstream volunteers. Overall, the two groups show similar outcomes that are typical to this developmental stage of life. Yet youth at risk experience more difficulties. While NCS aims at increasing equality between groups, it seems that it is …
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
The International Work Group for Therapeutic Residential Care convened an International Summit on ‘Pathways to Evidence-Based Practice’ at Loughborough University (GBR), Centre for Child and Fami...
Field Education
During their studies, social work students tend to think highly of their field education, but little is known about how they perceive it retrospectively after graduation. This question is relevant in view of the continuing debate on the nature and costs of field education. This, together with the advance of evidence-based social work practice, raises questions about the optimum balance between learning in the field and in the classroom. The two-y…
Children in Educational Residential Care
This article reports preliminary findings from a national cohort study in Israel on the educational outcomes of 82,342 Jewish citizens born in 1981. We compare the educational outcomes of 2002 alumni of youth villages and their peers in the general population with respect to differences among cultural subgroups. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics generated the database by combining different official data files based on a personal identific…
The subjective well-being of young people aging out of care
Care Leavers in Israel
The present study examines the adjustment of youth leaving residential treatment in Israel in three core areas: military service, accommodation, and financial status. A sample of 277 adolescents (aged 17–18 years old) in educational and welfare residential placements were interviewed a few months before leaving care, and 236 of them were interviewed 1 year after. It was hypothesized that optimism, higher perceived sense of readiness to leave care…
Putting Context Into a Cultural Perspective
In this study, we examined what contextual factors influence adolescents' judgments and reasoning about spousal retribution. Adolescents were drawn from Central and Northern Israel and consisted of 2,324 Arab and Jewish students (Grades 7-11). The study was set up in a 2 (Arab/Jewish respondent) × 2 (spousal retribution scenarios) factorial design. Our findings suggest that societal and cultural norms may be more powerful contextual variables tha…
An international classification system for child welfare programs
Readiness for independent living of adolescents in youth villages in Israel
The Contributions of Community, Family, and School Variables to Student Victimization
An ecological perspective was used to predict school violence from a number of variables describing the students and their families based on nationally representative sample of 10,400 students in grades 7–11 in 162 schools across Israel. Self‐administered anonymous questionnaires that included a scale for reporting victimization by serious and moderate physical violence, threats, and verbal–social victimization were filled out during class. Hiera…
Unraveling “Tacit Knowledge”
Many scholars have claimed that social work practice relies on tacit knowledge. However, tacit knowledge or “practice wisdom” cannot be critically examined in and of itself. In this article, we hope to make explicit the interventions and outcomes resulting from social workers' tacit knowledge. We used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to map interventions in relation to outcomes. Data for the study were derived from a sample o…
Care Leavers in Israel
The present study examines the adjustment of youth leaving residential treatment in Israel in three core areas: military service, accommodation, and financial status. A sample of 277 adolescents (aged 17–18 years old) in educational and welfare residential placements were interviewed a few months before leaving care, and 236 of them were interviewed 1 year after. It was hypothesized that optimism, higher perceived sense of readiness to leave care…
Perceptions of violence and fear of school attendance among junior high school students in Israel
This article examines an exploratory model of how variables in school settings affect school victimization and the consequences of victimization for junior high school students. The dependent variables are fear of attending school and the students' assessment of the severity of school violence. The model presents the ways in which school context and victimization affect these variables, examining separately male and female students and Jewish, an…
The subjective well-being of young people aging out of care
Predictors of life satisfaction among care leavers
Children in Educational Residential Care
This article reports preliminary findings from a national cohort study in Israel on the educational outcomes of 82,342 Jewish citizens born in 1981. We compare the educational outcomes of 2002 alumni of youth villages and their peers in the general population with respect to differences among cultural subgroups. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics generated the database by combining different official data files based on a personal identific…
Readiness for independent living of adolescents in youth villages in Israel
The self-image of adolescents and its relationship to their perceptions of the future
English The relationship between the self-image of 1196 Israeli adolescents and their perceptions of the future was examined. A positive correlation was found between most of the OSIQ sub-scales and the perceptions of the future. Analysis revealed gender and age differences and also suggested an additional validation of the OSIQ. French Cette recherche examine la relation entre l’image de soi de 1196 adolescents israéliens et leur perception de l…
Arab and Jewish elementary school students' perceptions of fear and school violence
This inquiry explores variables that predict elementary school stsudents' fear of attending school due to school violence and their overall judgments of school violence as a problem. Using a nationally representative sample (Israel) of 5,472 elementary-school-aged children, this study tested the hypotheses that: (a) young students' personal fear of attending school due to violence, and (b) students' assessment of a school violence problem, are be…
Evidence-based social work practice with children and families
This paper summarizes, from a cross-national perspective, some commonly used models of evidence-based practice and relates them to social work practice with children and families. We first identify concepts and dimensions central to an analysis of the outcomes of social work practice. We then present and discuss key components of social work practice that any evidence-based model must take into account. Finally, we provide some examples of strate…
Policy Digest
School Violence in Israel
The authors report preliminary findings of a national survey on school violence in Israel. The national representative sample was stratified on school type--elementary, middle, and high schools--and ethnicity--Jewish and Arab students. A total of 15,916 students from 603 classes and 232 schools participated in the study, resulting in a 91 percent response rate. Findings revealed high rates of violence in all areas and among all age groups, but re…
Alumni of National Civic Service
This article describes the perspectives of alumni of National Civic Service (NCS) in Israel on its impact at the individual level. We compared 250 young women who were identified as youth at risk with 295 mainstream volunteers. Overall, the two groups show similar outcomes that are typical to this developmental stage of life. Yet youth at risk experience more difficulties. While NCS aims at increasing equality between groups, it seems that it is …
Testing Group Supervision in Fieldwork Training for Social Work Students
This study monitors group supervision for students’ field training in a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work (BSW) program and compares it with the experience of the students receiving the traditional individual supervision. The experimental group supervision model is implemented in two consecutive years. Students’ experiences are compared at three points in time: before pilot study began; at the end of the 1st year of the pilot study; and at the end…
Economic self‐sufficiency and the employment outcomes of care leavers
Gaining employment and reaching a stable and self‐sufficient livelihood are essential life tasks, especially for young people ageing out of public care. This longitudinal study followed alumni of welfare and educational residential care settings in Israel for 10 years after leaving care. Here, we describe care leavers' employment and economic self‐sufficiency outcomes and examine differences over time in their experiences. They were interviewed a…
Putting Context Into a Cultural Perspective
In this study, we examined what contextual factors influence adolescents' judgments and reasoning about spousal retribution. Adolescents were drawn from Central and Northern Israel and consisted of 2,324 Arab and Jewish students (Grades 7-11). The study was set up in a 2 (Arab/Jewish respondent) × 2 (spousal retribution scenarios) factorial design. Our findings suggest that societal and cultural norms may be more powerful contextual variables tha…
An international classification system for child welfare programs
Alumni of educational residential settings in Israel
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood
The transition period from care to independent living is a vulnerable time for care leavers who may experience increased mental health problems. This study explored risk and protective factors contributing to and predicting their psychological distress as emerging adults. The study is based on an extensive set of longitudinal administrative records combined with structured phone interviews among a representative sample of 2295 alumni of education…
Aspirations toward higher education
This longitudinal study tests a model that predicts aspirations toward higher education (AtHE) among alumni of public care in Israel based on their personal resources (self-esteem, readiness for independent living, and perceptions of their future), the support they receive from their mothers and peers, and their perception of the impact of military service. Using hierarchical regression analyses, we tested the incremental contribution of these va…
The Contribution of Individual, Social Support and Institutional Characteristics to Perceived Readiness to Leave Care in Israel
This study explores the readiness to leave care of adolescents in their final year of out-of-home placement. The associations of three ecological levels—individual, social support and institutional characteristics—with readiness to leave care were examined. The results were obtained from a self-administered survey by 272 adolescents in twenty-six residential settings in Israel. Readiness to leave care was explained mostly by individual characteri…
Handcuffed Parenthood’
Parents of children who were removed from home are generally under‐researched, and there is a shortage of knowledge concerning their perceptions and experiences, particularly in complex contexts. Using a context‐informed perspective and intersectionality theory, this study aims to better understand the experiences of parents regarding their children's removal from home due to maltreatment, as well as their coping strategies, particularly against …
SafeCare in Israel
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Transition from Care to Adulthood
This paper focuses on care leavers’ experiences of their transition from care to adulthood. Using a social pedagogical perspective, we explore continuity and discontinuity in their life course as central aspects of support in the transition process. Using biographical narratives of three young people with different paths of transition from public care, we argue that a successful transition to independent living involves a complex interplay of con…
Intermediate outcomes pursued by practitioners
Intermediate outcomes are an important class of outcomes that usually are pursued in the process of treatment. They consist of the necessary preconditions, or the facilitators, for successful attainment of the desired treatment goals—the ultimate outcomes. But empirical research on interventions and treatment effectiveness has paid little attention to the role of intermediate outcomes in the success of treatment, and the intermediate outcomes nes…
Unraveling “Tacit Knowledge”
Many scholars have claimed that social work practice relies on tacit knowledge. However, tacit knowledge or “practice wisdom” cannot be critically examined in and of itself. In this article, we hope to make explicit the interventions and outcomes resulting from social workers' tacit knowledge. We used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to map interventions in relation to outcomes. Data for the study were derived from a sample o…
Perceptions of violence and fear of school attendance among junior high school students in Israel
This article examines an exploratory model of how variables in school settings affect school victimization and the consequences of victimization for junior high school students. The dependent variables are fear of attending school and the students' assessment of the severity of school violence. The model presents the ways in which school context and victimization affect these variables, examining separately male and female students and Jewish, an…
School Violence in Israel
The authors report preliminary findings of a national survey on school violence in Israel. The national representative sample was stratified on school type--elementary, middle, and high schools--and ethnicity--Jewish and Arab students. A total of 15,916 students from 603 classes and 232 schools participated in the study, resulting in a 91 percent response rate. Findings revealed high rates of violence in all areas and among all age groups, but re…
Policy Digest
The Contributions of Community, Family, and School Variables to Student Victimization
An ecological perspective was used to predict school violence from a number of variables describing the students and their families based on nationally representative sample of 10,400 students in grades 7–11 in 162 schools across Israel. Self‐administered anonymous questionnaires that included a scale for reporting victimization by serious and moderate physical violence, threats, and verbal–social victimization were filled out during class. Hiera…
The self-image of adolescents and its relationship to their perceptions of the future
English The relationship between the self-image of 1196 Israeli adolescents and their perceptions of the future was examined. A positive correlation was found between most of the OSIQ sub-scales and the perceptions of the future. Analysis revealed gender and age differences and also suggested an additional validation of the OSIQ. French Cette recherche examine la relation entre l’image de soi de 1196 adolescents israéliens et leur perception de l…
Arab and Jewish elementary school students' perceptions of fear and school violence
This inquiry explores variables that predict elementary school stsudents' fear of attending school due to school violence and their overall judgments of school violence as a problem. Using a nationally representative sample (Israel) of 5,472 elementary-school-aged children, this study tested the hypotheses that: (a) young students' personal fear of attending school due to violence, and (b) students' assessment of a school violence problem, are be…
Evidence-based social work practice with children and families
This paper summarizes, from a cross-national perspective, some commonly used models of evidence-based practice and relates them to social work practice with children and families. We first identify concepts and dimensions central to an analysis of the outcomes of social work practice. We then present and discuss key components of social work practice that any evidence-based model must take into account. Finally, we provide some examples of strate…
Improving outcomes for children and young people in care
Testing Group Supervision in Fieldwork Training for Social Work Students
This study monitors group supervision for students’ field training in a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work (BSW) program and compares it with the experience of the students receiving the traditional individual supervision. The experimental group supervision model is implemented in two consecutive years. Students’ experiences are compared at three points in time: before pilot study began; at the end of the 1st year of the pilot study; and at the end…
Alumni of educational residential settings in Israel
Special Issue
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the recognition of social work as an academic discipline in Israel. The country’s first academic school of social work was established at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1958 in cooperation with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Ministry of Welfare. As part of Israel’s first university, that prides itself on its research accomplishments, faculty members were among the first soci…
Putting Context Into a Cultural Perspective
In this study, we examined what contextual factors influence adolescents' judgments and reasoning about spousal retribution. Adolescents were drawn from Central and Northern Israel and consisted of 2,324 Arab and Jewish students (Grades 7-11). The study was set up in a 2 (Arab/Jewish respondent) × 2 (spousal retribution scenarios) factorial design. Our findings suggest that societal and cultural norms may be more powerful contextual variables tha…
An international classification system for child welfare programs
Readiness for independent living of adolescents in youth villages in Israel
The Contribution of Individual, Social Support and Institutional Characteristics to Perceived Readiness to Leave Care in Israel
This study explores the readiness to leave care of adolescents in their final year of out-of-home placement. The associations of three ecological levels—individual, social support and institutional characteristics—with readiness to leave care were examined. The results were obtained from a self-administered survey by 272 adolescents in twenty-six residential settings in Israel. Readiness to leave care was explained mostly by individual characteri…
Children in Educational Residential Care
This article reports preliminary findings from a national cohort study in Israel on the educational outcomes of 82,342 Jewish citizens born in 1981. We compare the educational outcomes of 2002 alumni of youth villages and their peers in the general population with respect to differences among cultural subgroups. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics generated the database by combining different official data files based on a personal identific…
The subjective well-being of young people aging out of care
Care Leavers in Israel
The present study examines the adjustment of youth leaving residential treatment in Israel in three core areas: military service, accommodation, and financial status. A sample of 277 adolescents (aged 17–18 years old) in educational and welfare residential placements were interviewed a few months before leaving care, and 236 of them were interviewed 1 year after. It was hypothesized that optimism, higher perceived sense of readiness to leave care…
Field Education
During their studies, social work students tend to think highly of their field education, but little is known about how they perceive it retrospectively after graduation. This question is relevant in view of the continuing debate on the nature and costs of field education. This, together with the advance of evidence-based social work practice, raises questions about the optimum balance between learning in the field and in the classroom. The two-y…
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
The International Work Group for Therapeutic Residential Care convened an International Summit on ‘Pathways to Evidence-Based Practice’ at Loughborough University (GBR), Centre for Child and Fami...
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Transition from Care to Adulthood
This paper focuses on care leavers’ experiences of their transition from care to adulthood. Using a social pedagogical perspective, we explore continuity and discontinuity in their life course as central aspects of support in the transition process. Using biographical narratives of three young people with different paths of transition from public care, we argue that a successful transition to independent living involves a complex interplay of con…
Alumni of National Civic Service
This article describes the perspectives of alumni of National Civic Service (NCS) in Israel on its impact at the individual level. We compared 250 young women who were identified as youth at risk with 295 mainstream volunteers. Overall, the two groups show similar outcomes that are typical to this developmental stage of life. Yet youth at risk experience more difficulties. While NCS aims at increasing equality between groups, it seems that it is …
Out-of-Home Care for Children at-Risk in Israel and in Spain
This article compares the out-of-home care (OOHC) systems for children at-risk in Spain and Israel. Both countries share a strong tradition of placing children at-risk mainly in large residential care settings rather than familial solutions, and both face the challenge of the deinstitutionalization of care, including the tendency to substitute family-based solutions for institutional care. This article follows the historical development and curre…
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