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Overview

Asher Ben-Arieh is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with focused subfields including Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, Education, and Social Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Ben-Arieh has contributed to several publication venues, with notable frequent appearances in:

  • International Journal on Child Maltreatment Research Policy and Practice
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Child Indicators Research
  • Child Protection and Practice
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Children's participation: A new role for children in the field of child maltreatment," 2020, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Adherence to emotion norms is greater in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures," 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Research with Children: Lessons Learned from the International Survey of Children's Wellbeing," 2021, Child Indicators Research
  • "La historia del estudio Children's Worlds," 2020, Sociedad e Infancias
  • "Not What I Expected: Training Social Work Students in Community-Based Child Prevention of Child Maltreatment," 2020, International Journal on Child Maltreatment Research Policy and Practice

Ben-Arieh frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Hanita Kosher
  • Sagit Bruck
  • Carmit Katz
  • Daphna Gross-Manos
  • Maya Tamir

Best Publications

  • The Child Indicators Movement: Past, Present, and Future

    Asher Ben-Arieh

  • WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? CHILDREN'S ROLE IN MEASURING AND MONITORING THEIR WELL-BEING

    Asher Ben-Arieh

  • Multifaceted Concept of Child Well-Being

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Ferran Casas;Ivar Frønes;Jill E. Korbin

  • Handbook of Child Well-Being

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Ferran Casas;Ivar Frønes;Jill E. Korbin

  • Taxonomy for child well-being indicators : A framework for the analysis of the well-being of children

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Ivar Frønes

  • Beyond Welfare: Measuring and Monitoring the State of Children: New Trends and Domains

    Asher Ben-Arieh

  • Does the importance of parent and peer relationships for adolescents' life satisfaction vary across cultures?

    Beate Schwarz;Boris Mayer;Gisela Trommsdorff;Asher Ben-Arieh

  • The Characteristics of Children’s Subjective Well-Being

    Tamar Dinisman;Asher Ben-Arieh

  • From Child Welfare to Children Well-Being: The Child Indicators Perspective

    Asher Ben-Arieh

  • What children think about their rights and their well-being: A cross-national comparison.

    Hanita Kosher;Asher Ben-Arieh

  • Strong Communities for Children: results of a multi-year community-based initiative to protect children from harm

    James R. McDonell;Asher Ben-Arieh;Gary B. Melton

  • Beyond the numbers: How do we monitor the state of our children?

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Robert Goerge

  • Opinion, Dialogue, Review: Time for (More) Time-Use Studies: Studying the Daily Activities of Children

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Anat Ofir

  • The Rationale for Measuring and Monitoring Children’s Well-Being

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Natalie Hevener Kaufman;Arlene Bowers Andrews;Robert M. Goerge

  • Indicators of Children’s Well being: What should be Measured and Why?

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Ivar Frønes

  • Measuring and Monitoring Children's Well-Being across the World

    Arlene Bowers Andrews;Asher Ben-Arieh

  • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Its Relevance for Adolescents

    Martin D. Ruck;Daniel P. Keating;Elizabeth M. Saewyc;Felton Earls

  • The "geography" of child maltreatment in Israel: Findings from a national data set of cases reported to the social services.

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Indicators and Indices of Children's Well‐being: towards a more policy‐oriented perspective

    Asher Ben-Arieh

  • Children's participation: A new role for children in the field of child maltreatment.

    Hanita Kosher;Asher Ben-Arieh

  • From child welfare to child well-being : an international perspective on knowledge in the service of policy making

    Sheila B. Kamerman;Shelley Phipps;Asher Ben-Arieh

  • WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? CHILDREN'S ROLE IN MEASURING AND MONITORING THEIR

    Asher Ben-Arieh

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Lawrence Aber
J. Lawrence Aber New York University
Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia
Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ferran Casas
Ferran Casas University of Girona
Gary B. Melton
Gary B. Melton University of Colorado Denver
Jill E. Korbin
Jill E. Korbin Case Western Reserve University
Gail S. Goodman
Gail S. Goodman University of California, Davis
E. Scott Huebner
E. Scott Huebner University of South Carolina
Ariel Knafo
Ariel Knafo Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gisela Trommsdorff
Gisela Trommsdorff University of Konstanz
Daniel P. Keating
Daniel P. Keating University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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