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Publications

 

All papers are available upon request by mail: ornabl@bgu.ac.il

 

Books

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Editorship of collective volumes

  • Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Helene-Mayers, C. (Eds.) (2020) Salutogenesis and Coping: Ways to Overcome Stress and Conflicts. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18); https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186667

  • Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Helene-Mayers, C., Daphna-Tekoa, S.(Eds.) (2022) Women in various spheres in society: Challenges and opportunities. Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychology for Clinical Settings, Gender, Sex and Sexualities

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Refereed chapters in collective volumes

  1. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Celestin-Westreich, S., Celestin, L. P., Verté, D. & Ponjaert-Kristoffersen, I. (2010). Prevalence of post traumatic stress emotional and behavioral problems among Israeli adolescents facing ongoing terrorism. In: P. Heidenreich and I. Prüter (Eds). Handbook of Stress: Causes, effects and control (pp.323-346). New York: Nova Science Publishers. (Cross publication).

  2. Idan, O., Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Sagy, S. (2013). Qualitative, sense of coherence-based assessment of working conditions in a psychiatric in-patient to guide salutogenic interventions. In: Bauer, G. & Jenny, G. (Eds.).  "Salutogenic organizations and change: The concepts behind organizational health intervention research" (pp.55-74). Springer.

  3. Sagy, S., Eriksson, M. & Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2015). Salutogenesis: The  Psychology of Sense of Coherence. In: Joseph, S. (Ed.). Positive Psychology in Practice, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers

  4. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Idan, O., Lindstrom, B. & Margalit, M. (2017). Sense of coherence during adolescence. In: Mitelmark, M. (Ed). Handbook of salutogenesis. (Chapter 14, pp. 133-136). Springer, NY, USA.

  5. Idan, O., Braun-Lewensohn, O., Lindstrom, B. & Margalit, M. (2017). Sense of Coherence (SOC): Childhood and Families. In: Mitelmark, M. (Ed). Handbook of salutogenesis. (Chapter 13, pp. 127-132). Springer, NY, USA.

  6. Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2016). Mobra was born when he was 13. In Hélène Mayer, C. & Wolting, S. (Eds.). Purple Jacaranda. Narrations on transcultural identity development (pp. 73-80). Waxman, German 

  7. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Huss, E., Al-Said, H., Ganayeim, H. (2018). Bedouin adolescents: Are their coping resources stable over time? In Moore, K.A. & Buchwald, P. (Eds.) (2018). Stress and Anxiety. Theories and Realities (pp. 97-105). Berlin: Logos.

  8. Ganayim, H., Braun-Lewensohn, O., Huss, E., (2019). Using arts to coproduce knowledge with service users and to enhance salutogenic coping of marginalized Bedouin youth in Israel. In: Huss, E. & Bos, E. (Eds.). Arts in social work practice: Theory and practice: International perspective (pp.181-189). Rutledge, Taylor & Francis Group: London and New York.

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Refereed articles

  1. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Celestin-Westreich, S, Verleye, G., Verte, D., Celestin L.PC. & Ponjaert-Kristoffersen, IC. (2009). Coping styles as moderating the relationships between terrorist attacks and well being outcomes. Journal of Adolescence, 32, 585-599. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.06.003.  

  2. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Celestin-Westreich, S., Celestin, L. P., Verte, D. & Ponjaert-Kristoffersen, I. (2009). Adolescents’ mental health outcomes according to different types of exposure to ongoing terror attacks. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 6, 850-862. doi: 10.1007/s10964-008-9305-8.

  3. Sagy, S. & Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2009). Adolescents under rocket fire: When are coping resources significant in reducing emotional distress? Global Health Promotion, 16, 4, 5-15.

  4. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Sagy, S. & Roth, G. (2010). Coping strategies among adolescents: Israeli Jews and Arabs facing missile attacks. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 23, 1, 35-51. doi: 10.1080/10615800802647601.

  5. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Celestin-Westreich, S., Celestin, L. P., Verté, D. & Ponjaert-Kristoffersen, IC. (2010). Prevalence of post traumatic stress emotional and behavioral problems among Israeli adolescents facing ongoing terrorism. International Journal of Psychology Research,5, (1-2), 117-144.

  6. Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2010).  תסמינים רגשיים והתנהגותיים ודפוסי התמודדות בקרב בני נוער .ישראלי במהלך האינתיפדה השניה Mental health, behavioral problems and coping strategies among Israeli adolescents during the Second Intifada. Mifgash: Journal of Social-Education Work, 31, 136-154 (Hebrew). 

  7. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Sagy, S. (2010). תגובות לחץ ומשאבי התמודדות בקרב מתבגרים יהודים ובדואים בעת ירי טילים ובעת רגיעה Stress reactions and coping resources among Jewish and Bedouin adolescents during 'Oferet Yetzuka' and six months later. Mifgash: Journal of Social-Education Work, 31, 13-31 (Hebrew).

  8. Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Sagy, S. (2010). Sense of coherence, hope and values among adolescents under missile attacks: A longitudinal study. International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 15 (3), 247-260.

  9. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Sagy, S. & Roth G (2011). Brief report: Adolescents under missile attacks: Sense of coherence as a mediator between exposure and stress related reactions. Journal of Adolescence, 34, 195-197. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.01.006.  

  10. Braun-Lewensohn, O., & Sagy, S. (2011). Coping resources as explanatory factors of stress reactions: Comparing Jewish and Arab adolescents. Community Mental Health Journal, 47, 300-310. DOI: 10.1007/s10597-010-9314-4. 

  11. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Sagy, S. & Roth, G. (2011). Coping strategies as mediators of the relationships between sense of coherence and stress reactions: Israeli adolescents under missile attacks. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 24(3), 327-341. DOI:10.1080/10615806.2010.494329.  

  12. Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Sagy, S. (2011). Salutogenesis and culture. Personal and community sense of coherence in different cultural groups. International Review of Psychiatry, 23,(6), 533-541. DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2011.637905 

  13. Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2012). Coping strategies as mediators of the relationships between objective and subjective exposure to ongoing missile attacks and stress reactions. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 5,(4), 315-326. DOI:10.1080/19361521.2012.719596 

  14. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Sagy, S., Sabato, H. & Galili, R. (2013). Sense of coherence and sense of community as coping resources of religious adolescents before and after the disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 50(2), 110-116.

  15. Peled, D., Sagy, S. & Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2013). Community perception as coping resource among adolescents living under rockets fire: A salutogenic approach. Journal of Community Positive Practices, 4, 681-702.

  16. García-Moya, I., Moreno, C. & Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2013). Neighborhood influences on sense of coherence in adolescence. Journal of Primary Prevention, 34(5), 371-379. DOI:10.1007/s10935-013-0320-5.

  17. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Sagy, S. & Al Said, H. (2013). Stress reactions and coping strategies among Bedouin Arab adolescents exposed to demolition of houses. Stress & Health.DOI:10.1002/smi.2519

  18. Sagy, SPI. & Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2014). תגובות למצבי לחץ ומשאבי התמודדות בקרב מתבגרים .תחת אש: השוואה בין מצב לחץ כרוני לאקוטי Coping resources and stress reactions among adolescents under rocket fire: A comparison between acute and chronic stress situations. Megamot. (Hebrew)

  19. Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Sagy, S. (2014). Community resiliency and Sense of Coherence as protective factors in explaining stress reactions during missiles attacks: Comparing cities and rural communities. Community Mental Health Journal, 50(2), 229-234. DOI: 10.1007/s10597-013-9623-5

  20. Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2014). Coping resources and stress reactions among three cultural groups one year after a natural disaster. Clinical Social Work Journal, (42), 366-374. DOI: 10.1007/s10615-013-0463-0

  21. Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Musseri-Rubin, M. (2014). Personal and communal resilience in community exposed to missile attacks: Does intensity of exposure matter? The Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(2), 175-182. doi.10.1080/17439760.2013.873946  

  22. Daoud, N., Braun-Lewensohn, O., Eriksson, M. & Sagy, S. (2014). Sense of coherence and depressive symptoms among low income Bedouin women in the Negev Israel Journal of Mental Health, 23(6), 307-311.

  23. Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2015). Inclusion in Israel: Coping resources and job satisfaction as explanatory factors of stress in two cultural groups. Journal of Research in Special Education Needs, 15(1), 12-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-3802.2012.01241.x 

  24. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Abu-Kaf, S. & Sagy, S. (2015). Attitudes towards war and peace and their relations with anxiety reactions among adolescents living in a conflictual area. Journal of Youth Studies, 18(1), 68-79. DOI:10.1080/13676261.2014.933193 

  25. Litvak-Hirch, T. & Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Lazar, A. (2015). Does home attachment contribute to strengthen sense of coherence in times of war? Perspectives of Jewish Israeli mothers. Women & Health, 55(4), 467-483. DOI:10.1080/03630242.2015.1022688

  26. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Alziadneh, S., & Eisha, H. (2015). Coping resources and extra-curricular activity as explanatory factors of exposure to violence: Comparing Jewish and Arab youth in Israel. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 36(3), 167-176. DOI: 10.1007/s10935-015-0385-4

  27. Lazar, A., Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Litvak-Hirch, T. (2015). Positive weighing of the other's collective narrative among Jewish and Bedouin- Palestinian teachers in Israel and its correlates. International Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12152

  28. Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Kitain, B. (2015). The 'parent circle' peace education program: Does it make any change? Journal of Religion and Health. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-015-0029-2

  29. Abu-Kaf, S., Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2015). Paths to depression among two different cultural contexts: Comparing Bedouin Arab and Jewish students. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/002202211557573

  30. Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2015). Coping and social support in children exposed to mass trauma. Current Psychiatry Reports, 7(6). DOI: 10.1007/s11920-015-0576-y  [Review paper]

  31. Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2015). Managing stress in schools: Jewish and Arab teachers coping with special education children in their regular classes. International Journal on Disability and Human Development. doi:10.1515/ijdhd-2014-0031

  32. Litvak Hirsch, T. Lazar, A., & Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2015). It wasn't easy but we made it: The role of sense of coherence in surviving and adapting to new life as expressed by women holocaust survivors. Journal of Loss and Trauma.doi:10.1080/15325024.2015.1108787

  33. Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2015). Sense of coherence, values, youth involvement, civic efficacy, and hope: Adolescents during social protest. Social Indicator Research. doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1049-8

  34. Alffasi, Y., Braun-Lewensohn, O., Krumer-Nevo, M. & Sagy, S. (2016). Community sense of coherence among adolescents as related to their involvement in risk behaviors. Journal of Community Psychology, 44(1), 22-37.

  35. Gliko, Is, Braun-Lewensohn, O.PI (2016). התמודדות מורים עם תלמידים משולבים בחינוך הממלכתי, הממלכתי דתי והחרדי – השוואה באמצעות סקירת ספרות.  Teachers’ coping with special education children in different sectors – secular, religious, and ultra orthodox: A comparison through literature review. מניתוק לשילוב, 19, 203-228. Minituk Leshiluv, 19, 203-228 (Hebrew).

  36. Elfassi, Y.PI, Braun-Lewensohn, O.PI  (2017).  "קירור" נקודות חמות בראי התיאוריה החברתית-אקולוגית: מקרה בוחן בעשרה יישובים בדרום. “Cooling” hot spots – analyzing based on the social-ecological theory: Case study based on ten communities in southern Israel. קרימינולוגיה ישראלית. Israeli Criminology (Hebrew).

  37. Kalagy, T.PD, Braun-Lewensohn, O.PI (In press). משמרנות מתגוננת לשמרנות מתמודדת: אסטרטגיות תרבות של חרדים אקדמאיים במרחב התעסוקתי. From defensive conservatism to a conservatism of adaptation: acculturation  strategies of ultra-Orthodox academics in the  workplace. כתב העת לחקר החברה החרדית, 4, 28-54    (Hebrew).

  38. Kalagy, T.,PD Braun-Lewensohn, O.,PI Abu-Kaf, S.PI (2017). Youth from fundamentalist societies:  What are their attitudes towards war and peace and their relations with anxiety reactions? Journal of Religion and Health.56(3), 1064-1080  doi:10.1007/s10943-017-0358-4

  39. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Abu-Kaf, S., & Kalagy, T.D (2017). Are 'sense of coherence' and 'hope' related constructs? Examining these concepts in three cultural groups in Israel. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences.54(2), 17-24

  40. Braun-Lewensohn, O. & Bar, R. (2017). Coping and quality of life among military wives following military operation. Psychiatry Research, 254, 90-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.04.037

  41. Sewasew, D. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Kassa, E. (2017). The contribution of guardian care and peer support for psychological resilience among orphaned adolescents in Ethiopia. Contemporary Social Science. DOI:10.1080/21582041.2017.1384048 (Sewasew & Braun-Lewensohn share first authorship)

  42. Abu-Kaf, S., Braun-Lewensohn, O., Kalagy, T. (2017). Youth in the midst of escalated political violence: Sense of coherence and hope among Jewish and Bedouin Arab adolescents. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. DOI 10.1186/s13034-017-0178-z

  43. Kalagy, T., Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2018). Agency of preservation or change: Ultra-Orthodox educated women in the field of employment. Community, Work & Family.  DOI 10.1080/13668803.2018.1428175.

  44. Al-Said, H., Braun-Lewensohn, O., Sagy, S. (2018). Sense of coherence, hope and home demolition are differently associated with anger and anxiety among Bedouin-Arab adolescents in recognized and unrecognized villages. Anxiety, Stress & Coping. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2018.1454070.

  45. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Al-Said, H. (2018). Syrian adolescent refugees: How do they cope during their stay in refugees camps? Frontiers in Psychology, 9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01258

  46. Huss, E., Braun-Lewensohn, O., Ganaim, H. (2018). Using arts based research to overcome the mismatch between Western and Indigenous forms of coping of Bedouin youth. International Journal of Psychology, 53, S2, 64-71. DOI:10.1002/ijop.12547. 

  47. Caduri, A., & Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2019). The relationship between the characteristics of the individual, family and community and bullying victimization on the school bus in ecological perspective. הקשר בין מאפייני הפרט, המשפחה והקהילה לקורבנוּת לבריונות בהסעות בתי ספר בראייה אקולוגית . Mifgash: Journal of Social-Education Work. (Hebrew)

  48. Al-Said, H., Braun-Lewensohn, O., Huss, E. (2019). Shifts in Traditional Methods of Coping Among Elderly Bedouin Men. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,16,4. doi:10.3390/ijerph16010004.

  49. Abu-Kaf., S. & Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2019). Coping Resources and Stress Reactions Among Bedouin Arab Adolescents During Three Military Operations. Psychiatry Research, 273, 559-566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.01.088

  50. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Abu-Kaf, S., Al-Said, Huss. (2019). Analysis of the differential relationship between the perception of one’s life and coping resources among three generations of Bedouin women. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,16,4.

  51. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Kalagy, T. (2019). Between the inside and the outside world: Coping of Ultra-Orthodox individuals with their work environment after academic studies. Community Mental Health. DOI: 10.1007/s10597-019-00392-x  

  52. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Abu-Kaf, S., Al-Said (2019). Women in refugee camps: Which coping resources help them to adapt? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16, (20), 3990; doi:10.3390/ijerph16203990.

  53. Kalagy, T., Malchi, A., Braun-Lewensohn, O., (2020). Do professional communities enhance the personal and professional well-being of minority women? The case of Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel. International Review of Psychiatry.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2020.1803219

  54. Braun-Lewensohn, O., & Mayer, C. H. (2020). Salutogenesis and Coping: Ways to Overcome Stress and Conflict. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 6667; doi:10.3390/ijerph17186667

  55. Abu-Kaf., S., Al-Said, H. & Braun-Lewensohn, O (2021). Community coherence and acculturation strategies among refugee adolescents: How do they explain mental-health symptoms? Comprehensive Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2021.152227

  56. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Abu-Kaf, S., Kalagy, T. (2021). Hope and Resilience During a Pandemic Among Three Cultural Groups in Israel: The Second Wave of Covid-19. Frontiers Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637349

  57. Gliko, I., Braun-Lewensohn, O., (2022). How do teachers from different sectors in the Israeli society cope with special-needs children who are integrated in their regular classes. כיצד מתמודדים מורים בחינוך הרגיל המלמדים במגזרים שונים בחברה הישראלית עם תלמידי החינוך המיוחד המשולבים בכיתותיהם. מפגש לעבודה חינוכית סוציאלית Mifgash​

  58. Braun-Lewensohn, O., Abu-Kaf, S., Kalagy, T. (2021). What factors explain anger and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?: The case of Israeli society. World Journal of Psychiatry. DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v11.i10.0000

  59. Kalagy, T., Abu-Kaf, S., Braun-Lewensohn, O.(2021). Effective Ways to Encourage Health-Care Practices Among Cultural Minorities in Israel During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(18), 9563; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189563

  60. Kalagy, T., Abu-Kaf, S., Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2022). Diversity Climate, Salutogenic Theory and the Occupational Health of College-Educated Women from Conservative Communities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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