Prof. Lea Kacen: CV – May 2012
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LEA KACEN
Curriculum Vitae
· Personal Details
Date and Place of Birth: / January 18, 1947, IsraelMilitary Service / 1965 – 1967 (Officer, Israel Air Force)
Contact Information
Work: / President, Levinsky College of Education
15 Shoshana Persits St. P.O.B. 48130
Tel Aviv 61481
Tel: 972-3-6902403
Fax: 972-3-6901654
Contact Information
Home: / Nahum Ha’navi 15/4 Tel – Aviv. 6350319.
Tel.: 972-3-6020663
Mobile:+972-50-540-7166, Fax: +972-3-6022347
· Education
Director certificate / 2010 / IDCTED Innovation Forum – / 2010 / IDC
Ph.D. / 1994 / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Social Work / Prof. Z. Ben-Sira Prof. A.P. Hare / Group Therapy for First-Time Myocardial Infarction Patients: Creating Primacy in the Group and Reducing Anxiety Levels
M.A.
(cum laude) / 1982 / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Social Work / Prof. Z. Ben-Sira / Group Discussions in the Outpatient Clinic: Effects on Heart Patient Anxiety
B.A. / 1970 / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Social Work
· Employment History
2009 - present / President / Levinsky College of Education, Tel-Aviv.2008 – 2009 / Head of the research program for educational college teachers / Mofet Institution
2008 March-June / Sabbatical: Visiting Scholar / Massy University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
2007 - present / Associate Professor / The Jack J. and Charlotte B. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1998 – 2007 / Senior Lecturer / The Jack J. and Charlotte B. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2002 – 2003 / Sabbatical: Visiting Scholar / School of Social Work
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
School of Social Work and The Faculty of Nursing, The University of Newcastle, Australia
1994 – 1998: / Senior Teacher (Tenured) / The Jack J. and Charlotte B. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1995 – 1996 / Sabbatical: Visiting Scholar / School of Social Work
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
1990 – 1994: / Senior Teacher / The Jack J. and Charlotte B. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1988 – 1990: / Teacher / The Jack J. and Charlotte B. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1982 – 1988: / Director, Field Work Division, SW position (Tenured) / The Jack J. and Charlotte B. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1970 – 1994 / Part-time Instructor and Student Supervisor / Hebrew University
Central School of Social Work
1974 – 1982 / Social Worker and Acting Social Services Director (Tenured) / Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel
1971 – 1973 / Social Worker (Tenured) / Nitzanim Youth Village, Ashkelon, Israel
Professional Activities
(a) Academic Administration
1) Spitzer Department of Social Work Committees, BGU
2008 – 2009 / Department Chair (leaving for the position of Levinsky College of Education presidency).2003 – 2008 / Chair of the Ph.D. Program
2000 – 2008 / Chair of the Spitzer-Salant Building Construction Committee
1999 – 2001 / Department Chair
1997 – 1999 / Chair of the Undergraduate Studies Program
1994 – 1995 / Chair of the Admissions Committee
1983 – 1994 / Director of the Field Work Studies Program
2) BGU Academic Committees
2011- present / Chair of the Israeli Council of Qualitative Research (ICQM).2008 – 2009 / BGU Senate Member
1996 – 2008 / Founding Director of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Research on People and Society (ICQR-PS), BGU- Israel
2006 – 2009 / Member, Discipline Committee for Academic Staff Members
2004 – 2008 / Member, Inter-senate Committee member (ISC). Representing BGU Senate.
2004 – 2008 / Senior Lecturers’ elected representative of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in BGU Senate;
2004 – 2009 / Board Member – Population in Conflict Research Center
1998 – 1999 / Senior Lecturers’ representative – BGU Senate.
1997– 1998 / Senior Lecturers’ representative – Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences Committee
1988 / Rector’s Committee for Advanced Teaching Facilities
3) Other Academic Committees in Israel
2000 / Israel Foundation Trustees Grants Committee1999 – 2001 / Israel National Council of Deans of Social Work Schools
1987, 1990 / International Curriculum Development Task Force
1985 – 1993 / Chair of the Israeli Inter-University Council of Field Work Coordinators at Schools of Social Work
1978 – 1980 / Beer-Sheva Site Coordinating Committee – Hebrew University School of Social Work
4) International Academic Committees
2007 - present / Board member of the Board of the Global Institute for Humanizing Care Contexts (HCC). University of Uta2005 – 2008 / Member of the directorate of the constitutional committee, The International Association of Qualitative Inquiry (IAQM), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
1998 – present / Board Member, International Institute for Qualitative Methodologies (IIQM), University of Alberta, Canada
1987 – 1995 / Director of the Israeli Chapter, American Association of Social Work with Groups (AASWG)
5) National and International Academic Conferences
*2008-2010 / Scientific committee of the Fourth National Inter-Disciplinary, Conference on Qualitative Methodologies, Israel, Feb. 17-18, 2010. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.* 2007-2008 / Scientific committee of the Group Therapy Scientific Congress on Exclusion, Belonging and Passion. Sapir College. July 13-14.
*2007-2008 / Chair, Third National Inter-Disciplinary, Conference on Qualitative Methodologies, Israel, Feb. 21-22, 2008. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2007 / Scientific committee of the conference on Prevention of Spousal Violence among Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 17.1.07
2004 – 2006 / Chair, Second National Inter-Disciplinary, Conference on Qualitative Methodologies, Israel, 5-6 June, Dan Panorama Hotel, Israel.
2006 / Scientific Committee, Cultural sensitive discourse with the Ethiopian community on Research and Treatment. June 26, 2006. Sapir Academic College.
2006 / Member, Scientific Committee, Conference on Research Ethic in Education, Mofet Institute, April 27.
2002 – 2005 / Member, Scientific Committee, Beer-Sheva Annual Congress on Child Welfare
2005 / Member, Annual National Conference of Ayelet – The Israel Association for Program Evaluation, Jezreel Valley College
2004 / Member, Scientific Committee of the Bi-Annual Conference of Schools of Social Work in Israel – Social Work in the Shadow of Trauma, University of Haifa
2004 / Chair, First Interdisciplinary National Conference on Qualitative Methodologies, Israel
1999 / Co-Chair, National Conference on Group Work and Group Therapy in Multicultural Societies
1996 – 1998 / Member, International Program Committee, Joint World Congress of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and the international Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), Jerusalem, July 5-9, 1998
1991 / Chair, First National Conference of Social Work with Groups
(b) Major Non-University Professional Functions
2006 – 2010 / Founder (together with Prof. Lieblich and Prof. Sabar-Ben-Yehoshua) of the Israeli Association for Qualitative Research.2006 – present / Member in the board of directors of the Non Profit Organization: MATAV (Home care taker)
1999 – 2009 / Initiator of the establishment of (in cooperation with the Beer-Sheva Rehabilitation Program Foundation) Maof Self-Help Organization, a nationwide group for blind and handicapped persons working as transcribers of recorded interviews for qualitative studies
2001– 2002 / Board Member, Israel National Council for the Child
1999 – 2001 / Co-Chair (with Asher Grinbaum, President of the Dead Sea Bromine Group), Intercommunity Strategic Committee – Partnership 2000: Beersheva–Bnei Shimon – Montreal, the Jewish Agency for Israel
1998 – 2000 / Chair, Steering Committee for the Promotion of Negev Women’s Status – Partnership 2000: Beersheva–Bnei Shimon – Montreal, the Jewish Agency for Israel
1997 – 1999 / Academic Committee, Association for Planning and Development of Services for At-Risk Children and Youth and Their Families, Ashalim, JDCIsrael
1995 – 2000 / Chair, research committee of the Domestic Violence Treatment and Prevention Center, Beersheva
1994 – 1995 / Member of the steering committee, Cohen House – for mentally challenged adults in Beersheva
1993 – 1995 / Member, Beer- Sheva Steering Committee for Children’s Facility Planning
1993 – 1996 / Chair, National Council of Social Workers in Israel –Minister of Labor and Social Affairs' nomination
1991 – 1996 / Member, Henrietta Szold Award Committee for Social Work Excellence
1986 – 1989 / Facilitator, Self-Help Group of the Negev Industrial Social Workers;
1985 – 1987 / Member Steering Committee, Juvenile Hostel, Beersheva
(b) Significant Professional Consulting
*2008 – 2009 / Consultant to Rupin Academic College: preparing the BSW program for the Higher Council of Education, (together with Dr. Dorit Segal-Engelchin).2007 / The Council of Higher Education: Evaluating a proposal for Social Work Program in Israel of a Jordanian College
2007 / The Council of Higher Education: Evaluating Tel-Hai College's program of second degree in Social Work
2006 - 2007 / The Council of Higher Education: Evaluating Tzfat College's program of Social Work
2006 - present / Expert in the inter-ministry committee for building a national domestic violence prevention program among immigrants from Ethiopia. Nomination of the Minster of absorption.
2000 – 2005 / Ministry of Social Affairs on prevention of spousal violence among immigrants from Ethiopia
2002 – 2003 / Consultant to Sapir Academic College: preparing the BSW program for the Higher Council of Education, (together with Dr. Orit Nuttman-Schwartz and Prof. Vered Slonim-Nevo).
2001 / Consulting to the Minister of Labor, Mr.Yitzhak Hazan and the Minister of Social Affairs, Mr. Shlomo Benizri on separation of the Ministry’s Southern and Jerusalem Regions. Recommendations issued by what was known as the Kacen Committee were subsequently implemented.
1993 – 1996 / Consulting to the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Ora Namir on social work professional matters, including enactment of the 1996 Social Work Law.
(d) Editorial Boards of Scientific and Professional Journals
1999 – present / Qualitative Health Research (QHR), Sage / Editorial Board2002 – present / International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM) http://www.ualberta.ca/~ijqm / Editor
2002 – 2004 / Society and Welfare (Hebrew) / Editorial Board
(e) Membership in Professional/Scientific Societies
2006 - present / Israeli Association for Qualitative Research2005 – present / International Association for Qualitative Inquiry (IAQ)
1983 – present / Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, USA
1995 – present / Israel Association for Canadian Studies
1970 – present / Israel Association of Social Workers
1991 – 2000 / Israel Group Therapy Association
1990 – 1995 / International Group Psychotherapy Association
· Educational Activities
(a) Courses Taught
Social Work Skill Laboratory / B.A. / BGUCulturally Sensitive Interviewing / B.A. / BGU
Qualitative Research Methods / M.A. / BGU
Advanced Qualitative Research Methods (interdisciplinary course) / Ph.D. / BGU
Qualitative Project and Intervention Evaluation / M.A. / BGU
Thesis Seminar / M.A., Ph.D / BGU
Social Work with Groups / B.A. / BGU, Hebrew University
Small Group Leadership Skills / B.A., M.A. / BGU, Hebrew University
Group Work Practicum / M.A. / BGU
Illness and Disabilities / M.A. / Hebrew University
Gender and Social Work / M.A. / BGU
(b) Research Students
Currently supervising 4 doctoral candidates (1 jointly supervised).
(For further details, see Additional Information section, below)
(1) Graduate students – completed M.A. thesis
1.
/*2012
/ Michal Eliezer / Life experience of Soldiers' wives2.
/*2009
/ Dorit Weshler / Life in the Shadow of an Intellectually Disabled Parent3.
/*2009
/ Hagit Grasia- Rodregaz / The meaning of purity customs for young religious mothers4.
/*2009
/ Yehonathan Pariente / Sexual harassment among orthodox religious adolescent in Israel5.
/*2008
/ Soffer Ruth / Foster Bedouin families6.
/*2008
/ Marcel Mor – Ronen / Life stories of young women who were at risk during adolescence7.
/*2008
/ Talia Magdassi / Treatment Decision process of Bi-Polar patients8.
/*2007
/ Bar Yuval Shani / Courting in Social Work9.
/2007
/ Limor Gadot(Jointly supervised with Dr. Orit Nutman-Schwartz) / Coping patterns of women who were repeatedly fired from work
10.
/2007
/ Tamar Dreyfus(Jointly supervised with Prof. Julie Cwikel – SW) / Breast cancer patients who come to clinics during the fourth stage of the disease
11.
/2006
/Yael Hershkovitz (currently a faculty Ph.D. fellow under my supervision).
/ Why Now? Women’s decisions to divorce12.
/2005
/Merav Rabinovich (currently a Kreitman Ph.D. Fellow under my supervision)
/ Involuntary “Child” or “Adult”: Discourse Analysis of Psychoanalytical and Cognitive Therapeutic Events13.
/2004
/Nirit Bar
/“Hearing the Voice You Have Not Been Taught to Listen to”: Lesbians Coping with Homophobia and Stereotypes in a Heterosexual Society
14.
/2003
/Rivka Rosenberg
/Perception of Success in Rehabilitation of Schizophrenic Patients
15.
/2002
/ Nuzha El Huzeil – ElAssad (Currently a Kreitman Ph.D. Fellow under my supervision) /Coping Methods of Bedouin Women Experiencing Domestic Stress
15.
/2001
/Nahum Glusschnaider
/Characteristics of People Aged 40-50 Who Do Not Leave Failed Kibbutzim
(2) Graduate Students – completed Ph.D. thesis
1. / *May 2012 / Merav Rabinovich / Theoretical Integration as a Platform for Integrationin Psychotherapy Practice:
The Case of Transference, Classical Conditioning and Overgeneralization / Prof. Kacen
(Article thesis)
2. / *June 2011 / David Kamir / Ethnography of Community High Schools: Case Study / With the Late Prof. David Gordon
Under Review
3. / *Nov. 2010 / Galit Carmeli / Parents' experience of their children's divorce / Jointly supervised with: Prof Solly Dreman (Behavioral Sciences)
4. / *Dec. 2010 / Erela Galin-Zur / Parenthood of divorced men / Jointly supervised with Prof Solly Dreman (Behavioral Sciences)
5. / *Nov. 2009 / Nuzha El-Asad El-Huzeil / Bedouin women’s identity – three generations / Prof. Kacen
(Kreitman fellow)
6. / *May 2009 / Miriam Becker / Being the daughter of a woman with Alzheimer Syndrome: Burnout and power, meaning and reciprocal relationships / Jointly supervised with Prof. Ayala Malach-Pines (business)
7. / *April 2008 / Eithan Shahar
Summa Cum Laude / From Cochin, India
Toward Moshav Nevatim, Southern of Israel: A Story of Multigenerational Perspective of Adaptation / Prof. Kacen
8. / Sep. 2007 / Einav Segev / Identity development among young Israeli women after a backpacking trip / Jointly supervised with Dr. Hanoch Flum (Education)
9. / May 2006 / June Hare
Summa Cum Laude / Life stories of women who experienced heart attacks / Jointly supervised with Prof. Cwikel (SW).
10.