ד"ר אביטל לאופר

Anwar Khatib, Avital Laufer & Michal Finkelstein (2022) Family resilience, social support, and family coherence among Jewish, Muslim, and Druze widows who lost their spouses to sudden death, Death Studies

Avital Laufer, Maria Böttche, Marco Walg, Anwar Khatib, Carmel Maoz-Dotan, Hiam Hassan, Michal Finkelstein, Salutogenic and pathogenic factors among young adult refugees in Germany: An exploratory study, Journal of Refugee Studies, 2022;, feab110,

Esther Isman & Avital Laufer (2022) Following the amendment of the special education law in Israel: perception of the educational setting and parental mental health and stress, International Journal of Inclusive Education

Michal Finklestein, Shira Pagorek-Eshel & Avital Laufer (2022) Adolescents’ individual resilience and its association with security threats, anxiety and family resilience, Journal of Family Studies, 28:3, 1023-1039

Avital Laufer & Mally Shechory Bitton (2021) Gender differences in the reaction to COVID-19, Women & Health, 61:8, 800-810

Kaidesh, N., Ben-Shlomo, I., Laufer, A., Finklestein, M. (2021). Stress Factors and Mental Health among Israeli Medical Students in Six- and FourYear Programs. Israel Journal of Psychiatry.

Laufer, A., & Bitton, M. S. (2021). Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown. Journal of Family Issues, 0(0).

Laufer, A., & Izman, E. (2021). Posttraumatic growth (PTG) among parents of children with special needs. Journal of Loss and Trauma.

Michal Finklestein, Avital Laufer, Resilience, Growth, and Posttraumatic Symptoms among Social Workers Who Are “Doubly Exposed”, Social Work Research, 2021

Shechory Bitton, M., & Laufer, A. (2021) Fear of the unknown: Does fear of terrorism differ from the fear of contracting COVID-19? Frontiers in Psychology.

Finklestein, M., Pagorek-Eshel, S., & Laufer, A. (2020). Adolescents’ individual-resilience and its association with security threats, anxiety and family resilience. Journal of Family Studies.

Laufer, A., & Shechory Bitton, M. (2020). Are security tensions associated with parental assessment of current and past child behavior? Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 1582–1588.

Shechory Bitton, M., & Laufer, A. (2020). Mental health and coping in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic: The Israeli case. Frontiers in Psychology.

Yael Lahav, Naomi Price, Laura Crompton, Avital Laufer & Zahava Solomon (2019) Sexual Satisfaction in Spouses of Ex-POWs: The Role of PTSD Symptoms and Self-Differentiation, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 45:8, 755-766

Mally Shechory Bitton, Avital Laufer, Children's emotional and behavioral problems in the shadow of terrorism: The case of Israel, Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 86, 2018,
Pages 302-307

Shechory Bitton, M, Laufer, A. PTSD and PTG among Israeli mothers: Opposite facets of exposure to terrorism. Stress and Health. 2017; 33: 676– 683.