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Rami Benbenishty is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research primarily spans clinical psychology, social psychology, education, sociology and political science, and general health professions, with notable publication records in these areas.

The scholar's main topics of research include:

  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Education Discipline and Inequality
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Frequent publication venues for Benbenishty include:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • International Journal of Psychology
  • Child & Family Social Work
  • Journal of School Violence
  • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Examples of recent papers and their publication details are as follows:

  • COVID-Related Functional Difficulties and Concerns Among University Students During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Binational Perspective, 2020, Journal of Community Health
  • A Call for the Conceptual Integration of Opportunity Structures Within School Safety Research, 2021, School Psychology Review
  • "We Need to Address the Trauma": School Social Workers' Views About Student and Staff Mental Health During COVID-19, 2022, School Mental Health
  • Practice in a Pandemic: School Social Workers' Adaptations and Experiences During the 2020 COVID-19 School Disruptions, 2021, Families in Society The Journal of Contemporary Social Services
  • Role of school-climate in school-based violence among homeless and nonhomeless students: Individual- and school-level analysis, 2020, Child Abuse & Neglect

Benbenishty's frequent co-authors include:

  • Ron Avi Astor
  • Miriam Schiff
  • Ruth Pat-Horenczyk
  • Anat Zeira
  • K. Watson

The research contributions of Rami Benbenishty are situated mainly within psychological and social scientific frameworks, addressing critical issues related to mental health, educational environments, child welfare, and the psychosocial impacts of COVID-19. Their collaborative work with multiple scholars reflects a multidisciplinary engagement across the social sciences and clinical psychology fields.

Best Publications

  • School Violence in Context: Culture, Neighborhood, Family, School, and Gender

    Rami Benbenishty;Ron Avi Astor

  • A Research Synthesis of the Associations between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement.

    Ruth Berkowitz;Hadass Moore;Ron Avi Astor;Rami Benbenishty

  • The contributions of community, family, and school variables to student victimization.

    Mona Khoury-Kassabri;Rami Benbenishty;Ron Avi Astor;Anat Zeira

  • Assessment of PTSD: validation of the revised PTSD Inventory.

    Solomon Z;Benbenishty R;Neria Y;Abramowitz M

  • School Violence in Israel: Findings of a National Survey

    Anat Zeira;Ron Avi Astor;Rami Benbenishty

  • From front line to home front: a study of secondary traumatization.

    Zahava Solomon;Mark Waysman;B A Gaby Levy;Batia Fried

  • School Violence and Theoretically Atypical Schools: The Principal’s Centrality in Orchestrating Safe Schools

    Ron Avi Astor;Rami Benbenishty;Jose Nuñez Estrada

  • School Climate, Observed Risky Behaviors, and Victimization as Predictors of High School Students’ Fear and Judgments of School Violence as a Problem

    Ron Avi Astor;Rami Benbenishty;Anat Zeira;Amiram Vinokur

  • School Safety Interventions: Best Practices and Programs

    Ron Avi Astor;Heather Ann Meyer;Rami Benbenishty;Roxana Marachi

  • Decision making in child protection: An international comparative study on maltreatment substantiation, risk assessment and interventions recommendations, and the role of professionals’ child welfare attitudes

    Rami Benbenishty;Bilha Davidson-Arad;Monica Lopez Lopez;John Devaney

  • The role of workers' attitudes and parent and child wishes in child protection workers' assessments and recommendation regarding removal and reunification

    Bilhah Arad-Davidzon;Rami Benbenishty

  • The Children of Military Service Members Challenges, Supports, and Future Educational Research

    Kris M. Tunac De Pedro;Ron Avi Astor;Rami Benbenishty;Jose Estrada

  • The role of proximity, immediacy, and expectancy in frontline treatment of combat stress reaction among Israelis in the Lebanon War.

    Solomon Z;Benbenishty R

  • Testing the Causal Links Between School Climate, School Violence, and School Academic Performance A Cross-Lagged Panel Autoregressive Model

    Rami Benbenishty;Ron Avi Astor;Ilan Roziner;Stephani L. Wrabel

  • Locus of control and combat‐related post‐traumatic stress disorder: The intervening role of battle intensity, threat appraisal and coping

    Zahava Solomon;Mario Mikulincer;Rami Benbenishty

  • Perceptions of Teachers’ Support, Safety, and Absence From School Because of Fear Among Victims, Bullies, and Bully-Victims

    Ruth Berkowitz;Rami Benbenishty

  • Middle Eastern Adolescents' Perpetration of School Violence Against Peers and Teachers A Cross-Cultural and Ecological Analysis

    Mona Khoury-Kassabri;Ron Avi Astor;Rami Benbenishty

  • Well-being and suicidal ideation of secondary school students from military families

    Julie A. Cederbaum;Tamika D. Gilreath;Rami Benbenishty;Ron Avi Astor

  • Exposure to Terrorism and Israeli Youths’ Cigarette, Alcohol, and Cannabis Use

    Miriam Schiff;Hillah Haim Zweig;Rami Benbenishty;Deborah S. Hasin

  • Children's reports of emotional, physical and sexual maltreatment by educational staff in Israel

    Rami Benbenishty;Anat Zeira;Ron Avi Astor

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Avi Astor
Ron Avi Astor University of California, Los Angeles
Zahava Solomon
Zahava Solomon Tel Aviv University
Mario Mikulincer
Mario Mikulincer Reichman University
Daphna Oyserman
Daphna Oyserman University of Southern California
Amiram D. Vinokur
Amiram D. Vinokur University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eric Rice
Eric Rice University of Southern California
Rachel Dekel
Rachel Dekel Bar-Ilan University
Deborah S. Hasin
Deborah S. Hasin Columbia University
Jennifer B. Unger
Jennifer B. Unger University of Southern California
Jennifer Greif Green
Jennifer Greif Green Boston University

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