Mental Health and Palestinian Citizens in Israel (ePub)

Marwan Dwairy is Professor at Oranim Academic College, Israel. He is author of From psycho-analysis to culture-analysis.

Haneen Elias is Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Ruppin Academic Center, Israel.

Anat Fleischman is Director of Addiction Treatment Services and Dual Diagnosis Unit at Yaffo Community Mental Health Center, Israel, and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry of Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Paula Garber-Epstein is a clinical social worker and Lecturer at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Nabil Geraisy is Deputy District Psychiatrist, Northern District, Ministry of Health, Israel.

As'ad Ghanem is Professor in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Sfaa Ghnadre-Naser is a clinical psychologist and Lecturer at Oranim-Academic College of Education, Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel.

Nehama Goldberger is Coordinator in the Health Statistics Unit, Health Information Division, Ministry of Health, Israel.

Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia is Gordon Brown Chair and Professor of Social Work, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is author of Violence against women in the Palestinian society.

Ziona Haklai is Director of the Health Information Division, Ministry of Health, Israel.

Giora Kaplan is Director of Research on Psychosocial Aspects of Health Unit at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer, Israel.

Lital Keinan-Boker is Deputy Director of the Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Israel. She is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at University of Haifa, Israel.

Rabia Khalaila is Associate Professor of Nursing and Gerontology and Head of the Department of Nursing at Zefat Academic College, Israel.

Anwar Khatib is a clinical social worker and Lecturer of Department of Community Mental Health at the University of Haifa and Department of Social Work of Zefat Academic College, Israel.

Ibrahim Khatib is a doctoral candidate of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Mona Khoury-Kassabri is Professor in the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Itzhak Levav is Affiliated Professor in the Department of Community Mental Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is editor of Psychiatric and behavioral disorders in Israel: From epidemiology to mental health action, and editor (with Jutta Lindert) of Violence and mental health: Its manifold faces.

Ido Lurie is a psychiatrist and Director of the Kfar Saba Adult Psychiatric Clinic/ Shalvata Mental Health Center of the Clalit Health Service Fund, Israel. He is also Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry of the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Adel Manna is a historian and Senior Research Fellow at the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, Israel. He is author of Nakba and Survival.

Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld is Senior Research Fellow of the Feinberg Child Study Center at the Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.

Mahmoud Mi'ari is Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Birzeit University, Palestine. He is editor of Arab Teaching Curricula in Israel.

Ora Nakash is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the School for Social Work at Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA, and Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.

Ahmad Natour is Associate Professor in the Law School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is also a judge in the Sharia' Court System and President of the High Sharia' Court of Appeals of the Country.

Nazeh Natur is Dean of Students and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Baqa, Israel.

David Roe is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Community Mental Health at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is author (with Patrick W. Corrigan and Hector W. H. Tsang) of Challenging the stigma of mental illness: Lessons for advocates and therapists, andauthor (with Abraham Rudnick) of Serious mental lllness: Person-centered approaches.

Samir Zoabi is Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Tel Hai College, Israel. He is also director of counseling for elderly people in the greater Nazareth region of the National Insurance Institute, Israel.