ד"ר מירב ידוב

Segev, E., Hochman, Y., Jedwab, M. and Balkanyi-Nehora, M. (2025), The Implications of Wartime Evacuation for Israeli Families With Young Children: A Social Worker's Perspective. Child & Family Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13317

Jedwab, M., Allassad Alhuzail, A & Abo Saleh Khawaled, A. (2025). Decision-Making in Child Welfare Among Arab Child Protection Officers in Israel: The Cultural Context. Child & Family Social Work, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.70036.

Allassad Alhuzail, N., Jedwab, M., Abo Saleh Khawaled, A. (2025). Being a part of the community and working within it: Arab child protection officers in Israel and their unique challenges. The British Journal of Social Work, 55, 5, Pages 2118–2137, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaf036

Allassad Alhuzail, N & Jedwab, M. (2024). The complex role of Child Protection Officers in Arab society in Israel: Focus on power, state connections and absence of indigenous knowledge, The British Journal of Social Work,

Xu, Y., He, N., Lu, W., & Jedwab, M. (2023). Secondary traumatic stress and burnout among
child welfare social workers in southern China: Focusing on resilience and social support. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 1-15.

Xu, Y., Jedwab, M., Soto-Ramirez, N., & Weist, M. (2022). The use of mental health services among children in kinship care: An application of Andersen's behavioral model of health services use. Journal of Public Child Welfare.

Xu, Y., Jedwab, M., Lee, K., & Levkoff, S. (2022). The negative effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on behavioral problems of children in kinship care: The protective role of kinship caregivers’ mental health. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.

Xu, Y., Jedwab, M., Wu., Q., Levkoff, S., & Ling., X. (2021). Risk and protective factors associated with grandparent kinship caregivers’ psychological distress in COVID-19: Kinship license status as a moderator. Child & Family Social Work.

Xu, Y., Jedwab, M., Soto-Ramírez, N., Levkoff, S., & Wu, Q. (2021). Material hardship and child neglect risk amidst COVID-19 in grandparent headed families: The role of financial assistance. Child Abuse & Neglect, 121, 105258.

Wu. Q., Xu, Y., & Jedwab, M. (2021). Custodial grandparent’s job loss during the covid-19 pandemic and its relationship with parenting stress and mental health. Journal of Applied Gerontology.

Xu, Y., Wu. Q., Jedwab, M., & Levkoff, S. (2020). Understanding the relationships between parenting stress and mental health with grandparent kinship caregivers’ risky parenting behaviors in the time of COVID-19. Journal of Family Violence.

Xu, Y., Wu, Q., Levkoff., S.E. & Jedwab, M. (2020). Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents’ mental health. Child Abuse & Neglect, 104700.

Jedwab, M., Xu, Y., & Shaw, T. V. (2020). Kinship care first? Factors associated with placement moves in out-of-home care. Children and Youth Services Review, 115, 105104.

Jedwab, M., Chatterjee, A. & Shaw, T.V. (2019). A review of foster home policies and regulations in the United States designed to support foster homes families. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1-22.

Jedwab, M., & Xu, Y, Keyser, D., & Shaw, T.V. (2019). Children and youth in out of home care: What .can predict a change in placement? Child Abuse & Neglect, 93, 55-65.

Kobulsky, J., & Kepple, J. N., & Jedwab, M. (2018). Abuse characteristics and the concordance of child protection services (CPS) determination and adolescent self-reports of abuse. Child Maltreatment, 23, 269-280.

Jedwab, M., Chatterjee, A, & Shaw, T.V. (2018). Caseworkers’ views and experiences with successful reunification. Children and Youth Services Review, 86, 56-63.

Jedwab, M., Harrington, D., & Dubowitz, H. (2017). Predictors of substantiated re-reports in a sample of children with initial unsubstantiated reports. Child Abuse & Neglect, 69, 232-241.

Jedwab, M., & Benbenishty, R. (2017). Israeli pediatricians' attitudes and experience of reporting child maltreatment and related training needs. Child Abuse Review, 26, 439-450.

Jedwab, M. & Shaw, T. V. (2017). Predictors of reentry into the foster care system: Comparison of children with and without previous reentry experience. Children and Youth Services Review, 82, 177-184.

Jedwab, M. (2016). Usage of knowledge sources in child protection decisions. Society & Welfare, 36, 69-90.

Jedwab, M., Benbenishty, R., Chen, W., Glasser, S., Siegal, G., & Lerner-Geva. (2015). Child protection decisions to substantiate hospital child protection teams’ reports of suspected maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 40, 132-141

Benbenishty, R., Jedwab, M., Chen, W., Glasser, S., Slutzky, H., Siegal, G., Lavi-Sahar, Z., & Lerner-Geva, L. (2014). Predicting the decisions of hospital-based child protection teams to report to child protective services, police and community welfare services. Child Abuse & Neglect, 38, 11-24.

Ben-Yehuda, Y., Attar-Schwartz, S., Ziv, A., Jedwab, M., & Benbenishty, R. (2010). Child abuse and neglect: Reporting by health professionals and their need for training. Israel Medical Association Journal- IMAJ, 12, 596-602.