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Golan Shahar is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a total of 58 publications in psychology and 24 in medicine. More specifically, their work has focused on several subfields, including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

The scientist's research topics reflect a concentration on psychotherapy techniques and applications, COVID-19 and mental health, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additionally, their work addresses psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, cancer survivorship and care, and family support in illness.

Frequent co-authors of Golan Shahar include David Greenberg, Elmar Brähler, Manfred E. Beutel, Hadar Shalev, and Itamar Grotto, each contributing to multiple collaborative publications.

Publication venues where Shahar has frequently published include the International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Shahar are:

  • "COVID-19-Related Economic Anxiety Is As High as Health Anxiety: Findings from the USA, the UK, and Israel," 2020, International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
  • "Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel," 2021, British Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • "Prenatal maternal sleep and trajectories of postpartum depression and anxiety symptoms," 2020, Journal of Sleep Research
  • "Suicidality in Chronic Illness: An Overview of Cognitive-Affective and Interpersonal Factors," 2020, Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
  • "Calling for an immediate release of captive children in Gaza," 2023, The Lancet

Golan Shahar has also contributed to book publications, including a work titled "Complex depression: The role of personality dynamics and social ecology," published by the American Psychological Association in 2023.

Best Publications

  • To Parcel or Not to Parcel: Exploring the Question, Weighing the Merits

    Todd D. Little;William A. Cunningham;Golan Shahar;Keith F. Widaman

  • Preschool and child care expulsion and suspension: Rates and predictors in one state.

    Walter S. Gilliam;Golan Shahar

  • Longitudinal associations between depression, anxiety, pain, and pain-related disability in chronic pain patients.

    Sheera F. Lerman;Zvia Rudich;Silviu Brill;Hadar Shalev

  • Resilience in homeless youth: the key role of self-esteem.

    Sean A Kidd;Golan Shahar

  • Supportive Relationships and Sexual Risk Behavior in Adolescence: An Ecological-Transactional Approach

    Christopher C. Henrich;Kathryn A. Brookmeyer;Lydia A. Shrier;Golan Shahar

  • Sleep and the transition to adolescence: a longitudinal study.

    Avi Sadeh;Ronald E. Dahl;Golan Shahar;Shiran Rosenblat-Stein

  • Supported socialization for people with psychiatric disabilities: Lessons from a randomized controlled trial

    Larry Davidson;Golan Shahar;David A. Stayner;Matthew J. Chinman

  • Interpersonal relatedness, self-definition, and their motivational orientation during adolescence: a theoretical and empirical integration.

    Golan Shahar;Christopher C. Henrich;Sidney J. Blatt;Richard Ryan

  • Depressive symptoms erode self-esteem in severe mental illness: a three-wave, cross-lagged study

    Golan Shahar;Larry Davidson

  • The social context of adolescent suicide attempts: interactive effects of parent, peer, and school social relations.

    Sean Kidd;Christopher C. Henrich;Kathryn A. Brookmeyer;Larry Davidson

  • Dependency, self-criticism, social context and distress: comparing moderating and mediating models

    Beatriz Priel;Golan Shahar

  • Strategic self-presentation on Facebook

    Liad Bareket-Bojmel;Simone Moran;Golan Shahar

  • Psychoanalysis--with whom, for what, and how? Comparisons with psychotherapy.

    Sidney J. Blatt;Golan Shahar

  • PERFECTIONISM IMPEDES SOCIAL RELATIONS AND RESPONSE TO BRIEF TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION

    Golan Shahar;Sidney J. Blatt;David C. Zuroff;Janice L. Krupnick

  • Personality, interpersonal behavior, and depression: co-existence of stress-specific moderating and mediating effects

    Golan Shahar;Thomas E Joiner;David C Zuroff;Sidney J Blatt

  • Weapon violence in adolescence: parent and school connectedness as protective factors.

    Christopher C. Henrich;Kathryn A. Brookmeyer;Golan Shahar

  • Play, pleasure, and other positive life events: "non-specific" factors in recovery from mental illness?

    Larry Davidson;Golan Shahar;Martha Staeheli Lawless;David Sells

  • Active vulnerability, adolescent distress, and the mediating/suppressing role of life events

    Golan Shahar;Beatriz Priel

  • Role of perfectionism and personality disorder features in response to brief treatment for depression.

    Golan Shahar;Sidney J. Blatt;David C. Zuroff;Paul A. Pilkonis

  • Reciprocal relations between depressive symptoms and self-criticism (but not dependency) among early adolescent girls (but not boys)

    Golan Shahar;Sidney J. Blatt;David C. Zuroff;Gabriel P. Kuperminc

  • COVID-19-Related Economic Anxiety Is As High as Health Anxiety: Findings from the USA, the UK, and Israel.

    Liad Bareket-Bojmel;Golan Shahar;Malka Margalit;Malka Margalit

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry Davidson
Larry Davidson Yale University
Christopher C. Henrich
Christopher C. Henrich University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt Yale University
Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Nachshon Meiran
Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
David C. Zuroff
David C. Zuroff McGill University
Eva Gilboa-Schechtman
Eva Gilboa-Schechtman Bar-Ilan University
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
Malka Margalit
Malka Margalit Tel Aviv University

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