Past research

Helping Children Cope With Trauma: Individual, Family, and Community Perspectives. Edited by Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, Danny Brom, and Juliet M. Vogel (Routledge, 2013).

Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery. Edited by Danny Brom, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, Julian Ford (Routledge, 2008).

The Trauma of Terrorism: Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care: An International Handbook. Edited by Yael Danieli, Danny Brom, Joe Sills (Routledge, 2005).

Coping with Trauma: Theory, Prevention and Treatment. By Rolf J. Kleber and Danny Brom, with Peter B. Defares (Routledge, 2003).

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Articles in Journals (Partial)

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Achituv, M., Asulin-Peretz, L., Kaminer, H., Kaplanski, N., & Rozenblatt, O. & Brom, D. (2016). Mothers and young children under fire: Comparing exposure to ongoing terror with exposure to time-limited war. Megamot 50(2), 29-54 (in Hebrew).

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Saltzman, L. Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Perry, S.., Ziv, Y., Ginat-Frolich, R., & Stemmer, S. M. (2015, in press). Stability and Transitions in Posttraumatic Growth Trajectories among Cancer Survivors: LCA and LTA Analyses. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, practice and policy.

Hamama-Raz, Y., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Perry, S. Ziv, Y., Bar-Levav, R., Stemmer, S.M. (online first publication, October 2015). The Role of Cognitive Emotional Regulation in Coping with Breast Cancer; Long-term Outcome of a Group Intervention Study. Integrative Cancer Therapies. DOI: 10.1177/1534735415607318.

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Perry, S., Hamama-Raz, Y., Ziv, Y., Schramm-Yavin, S., Stemmer, S.M. (2015). Posttraumatic Growth in Breast Cancer Survivors: Constructive and Illusory Processes. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 28, 214-222. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22014. June 2015, 28, 214–222

Pat-Horenczyk. R., Cohen S., Ziv, Y., Achituv, M., Asulin-Peretz, L., Blanchard, T., Schiff, M. & Brom, D. (2015). Emotion regulation in mothers and young children faced with trauma. Infant Mental Health Journal, 36(2), 1-12. Article first published online: 30 APR 2015. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21515

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Sim Wei Shi, C., Schramm-Yavin, S., Bar-Halpern, M. & Tan, Li Jen (2015). BEAR – Building Emotion and Affect Regulation (BEAR): Preliminary evidence from an open trial in children’s residential group homes in Singapore. Journal: Child & Youth Care Forum, 44, 175–190. (DOI:10.1007/s10566-014-9276-8).

Schiff, M., and Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2014).  Perceived need for psychosocial services in the context of political violence: Psychological distress among Israeli mothers with young children.  Clinical Social Work Journal, 42, 346-356. (DOI:10.1007/s10615-013-0471-0).

Cohen, E., Pat-Horenczyk, R., & Haar-Shamir, D. (2014). Making room for play:  An innovative intervention for toddlers and families under rocket fire.  Clinical Social Work Journal, 42 (4), 336-345.‏ (DOI: 10.1007/s10615-013-0439-0).

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Kenan, A.M., Achituv, M. & Bachar, E. (2014).  Protective factors based model for screening for posttraumatic distress in adolescents. Child and Youth Care Forum, 43(3), 339-351. (DOI: 10.1007/s10566-013-9241-y).

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Ziv, Y., Asulin-Peretz, L., Achituv, M., Cohen, S. & Brom, D. (2013).  Relational trauma in times of political violence: Continuous traumatic stress vs. past trauma.  Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 19(2), 125-137. (DOI:10.1037/a0032488).

Baum, N., Brom, D., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Rahabi, S., Wardi, J., & Weltmann, A. (2013). Transitioning from the battlefield to home: An innovative program for soldiers. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 22(6), 644-659.

Cohen, E., Pat-Horenczyk, R., & Haar-Shamir, D. (2013). Making room for play: An empirically-informed intervention for toddlers and families under rocket fire. Journal of Clinical Social Work. DOI 10.1007/s10615-013-0439-0

Kletter, H., Rialon, R. A., Laor, N., Brom, D., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Shaheen, M., Hamiel, D, Chemtob, C., Weems, C. F., Feinstein, C., Lieberman, A., Reicherter, D., Song, S., & Carrion, V. G. (2013). Helping children exposed to war and violence: Perspectives from an international work group on interventions for youth and families. Child & Youth Care Forum, X, 80-90.

Baum, N., Lopes Cardozo, B., Pat-Horenzcyk, R., Ziv, Y., Blanton, C., Reza, A., Weltman, A. Brom, D. (2013). Training teachers to build resilience in children in the aftermath of war: A cluster randomized trial. Child and Youth Care Forum.

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Achituv, M., Kagan-Rubenstein, A., Khodabakhsh, A., Brom, D. & Chemtob, C.M. (2012). Growing up under fire: Building resilience in young children and parents exposed to ongoing missile attacks. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 5(4), 303-314.

Schiff, M., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Benbenishty, R., Brom, D., Baum, N., & Astor, R.A. (2012). High school students’ posttraumatic symptoms, substance abuse and involvement in violence in the aftermath of war. Social Science & Medicine, 75, 1321-1328.

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Peled, O., Achituv, M., Brom, D. Rozenblatt, O., Faierman, Z., Kaplansky, N., Yossef, D., Lahad, M. & Chemtob, C.M. (2012). Can there be a “rosy” future for the “Color Red” children? A program for building resilience for toddlers exposed to ongoing terrorism in Sderot. Society and Social Welfare, 32 (2), 237-259. (in Hebrew).

Hamama-Raz, Y., Perry, S., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Bar-Levav, R., Stemmer, S. (2012). Factors affecting participation in group intervention in patients after adjuvant treatment for early-study breast cancer. Acta Oncologica, 51, 208-214.

Burton, C., Yan, O.H., Bonanno, G.A., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Chan, S.E. & Ho, S. (2012).Coping flexibility and complicated grief: A comparison of American and Chinese samples. Depression and Anxiety, 29(1), 16-22.

Chemtob, C., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Madan, A., Pitman, S.R., Wang, Y., Doppelt, O., Dugan Burns, K., Abramovitz, R. & Brom, D. (2011). Israeli adolescents with ongoing exposure to terrorism: Suicidal ideation, posttraumatic stress disorder, and functional impairment. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 24(6), 756–759.

Brom, D., Pat-Horenczyk, R. & Baum, N.L. (2011). The influence of war and terrorism on posttraumaticdistress among Israeli children. International Psychiatry, 8 (4), 81-83

Hobfoll, S. E., Canetti, D., Hall, B. J., Brom, D., Palmieri, P. A., Johnson, R. J., Pat-Horenczyk, R., & Galea, S. (2011). Are community studies of psychological trauma’s impact accurate? A study among Jews and Palestinians. Psychological Assessment, 23(3), 599-605.

Bonanno, G.A., & Pat-Horenczyk, R. & J. Noll. (2011). Coping flexibility and potential trauma: The perceived ability to cope with trauma (PACT) scale. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, practice and policy, 3(2), 117-129.

Schiff, M., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Benbenishty, R., Brom, D., Baum, N., & Astor, R.A. (2010). Seeking help: Do adolescents know when they need help? Jewish and Arab youths report on their posttraumatic distress in the aftermath of war. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23(5), 657-660.

Schiff, M., Pat-Horenczyk, R. & Peled , O. (2010). The role of social support for Israeli adolescents continually exposed to terrorism: Protective or compensatory factors? Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 3 (2), 95-108.

Pat-Horenczyk, R & Gill, R., (2009). Review of the international conference on trauma in early childhood. Psychoactualia, October, 25-29. (in Hebrew).

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Qasrawi, R., Lesack, R., Haj-Yahia, M. M., Peled, O., Shaheen, M., Berger, R., Brom, D., Garber, R. & Abdeen, Z. (2009). Posttraumatic symptoms, functional impairment and coping among adolescents on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A cross-cultural approach. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 58 (4), 688-708.

Baum, N., Reidler, E., Rotter, B, Brom, D. (2009) Building resilience in schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 2 (1).

Baum, N., Rotter, B. & Reidler, E.(2009) Building resilience for holocaust educators. Prism, 1:1, 81-88.

Berger, R. Pat-Horenczyk, R. & Gelkopf, M. A (2007) School-based intervention for the prevention and treatment of elementary students’ terror-related distress in Israel: A randomized control trial, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20 (4), 541-551.

Brody, D and Baum, N. (2007) Israel kindergarten teachers cope with terror and war: Two implicit models of resilience. Curriculum Inquiry, 37, 9-33.

Pat-Horenczyk, R., and Brom, D. (2007). The multiple faces of post traumatic growth. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 56 (3), 379-385.

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Abramovitz, R., Peled,O., Brom, D, Daie, A. & Chemtob, C.M. (2007). Adolescent exposure to recurrent terrorism in Israel: posttraumatic distress and functional impairment. Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77 (1), 76-85.

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Peled, O., Miron, T., Villa, Y., Brom, D. & Chemtob, C.M. (2007) Risk-taking behaviors among Israeli adolescents exposed to recurrent terrorism. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164 (1), 66-72.

Wang, Y., Nomura, Y., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Doppelt, O., Abramovitz, R., Brom, D. & Chemtob, M.C. (2006). Direct terrorism exposure, TV exposure to terrorism, and exposure to non-terrorism trauma and their differential associations with emotional and behavioral problems in young children. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences,1094, 363-368.

Pat-Horenczyk R., Schiff M. & Doppelt O. (2006). Maintaining routine despite ongoing exposure to terrorism: A healthy strategy for adolescents? Journal of Adolescent Health, 39 (2), 199-205.

Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2004). Post-traumatic distress in adolescents exposed to ongoing terror: Findings from a school-based screening project in the Jerusalem Area. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 9, (No. 3/4), 335-247. Co-published simultaneously as a chapter in: In: Y. Daniely, D. Brom & J Sills (Eds). The Trauma of Terrorism: Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care, An International Handbook. Haworth Press, pp. 335-347.

Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2004). Tomorrow it could be me: Terror in Jerusalem. Panim, A Quatrterly for Society, Culture and Education, 28, 79-85.

Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2004). On the second bi-national conference on treating traumatized children. Psycho-actualia: A Quatrterly of the Israeli Psychological Association, July, 14-17.

Chapters

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Yeh, V., Cohen, S. & Schramm, S. (in press). The impact of exposure to violence on aggression in children and adolescents: What can be learned from the trauma and resilience perspective. In: R. Pat-Horenczyk, D. Brom, & J. Vogel (Eds.) (in press, expected in 2013). Helping Children Cope with Trauma: Individual, Family and Community Perspectives. Routledge.

Baum, N. L., Ginat, R., & Silverman, P. (in press). Childhood bereavement and traumatic loss. In Pat-Horenczyk, R., Brom, D., Chemtob, C., & Vogel, J. (Eds.) (in press, expected in 2013). Helping children cope with trauma: Individual family and and community perspectives.

Brom, D., Baum, N.L., Pat-Horenczyk , R. (in press) Systems of care for traumatized children: The example of a School-based Intervention model. In: H.S. Wallach, M.P. Safir & A. Rizzo (Eds.) Future Directions in PTSD: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment. New York: Springer

Brom, D. & Pat-Horenczyk, R., (2012). Ethical considerations in the treatment of post-traumatic distress. Chapter in: E. Vermetten, R.J. Kleber, O. van der Hart. Handbook of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (pp. 737-752). Utrecht: De Tijdstroom (in Dutch).

Avi Astor, R., Benbenishty, R., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Brom, D., Baum, N., Schiff, M., & De Pedro, K. (2012). The Influence of the Second Lebanese War on Israeli Students in Urban School Settings: Findings of the Nahariya District-Wide Screening Prototype. In: Gallagher, K.S., Brewer, D., Goodyear, R., & Bensimon., E. Picus, L. (Eds.) International handbook of research in urban education. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Pat-Horenczyk, R. Khodabakhsh, A., van Heemstra, J., & Brom, D. (2011). Youth, Violence and Immigration: The Trauma Perspective. In: G.M. Ruggiero, S. Sassaroli, Y. Latzer, & S. Suchday. Perspectives on immigration and terrorism (pp 42-50). NATO Emerging Security Challenges Devision.

Pat-Horenczyk, R., Brom, D., Baum. N., Benbenishty, R., Schiff, M. & Astor, R. A. (2011). A city-wide school-based model for addressing the needs of children exposed to terrorism and war. In: V. Ardino (Ed.) Post-traumatic syndromes in children and adolescents Wiley/Blackwell Press.

Pat-Horenczyk R., Rabinowitz, R., Rice, A., & Tucker-Levin, A., (2009). The search for risk and protective factors in childhood PTSD: From variables to processes. In: D. Brom, R. Pat-Horenczyk and J. Ford (Eds.) Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery, Routledge, pp. 51-71.

Pat-Horenczyk R., Ford, J., & Brom, D., (2009). Toward a developing science and practice of childhood traumatic stress: In: D. Brom, R. Pat-Horenczyk and J. Ford (Eds.). Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery, Routledge. pp. 269-276.

Pat-Horenczyk R., Rabinowitz, R., Rice, A., & Tucker-Levin, A. (2009). The search for risk and protective factors in childhood PTSD: From variables to processes. In: D. Brom, R. Pat-Horenczyk and J. Ford (Eds.) (pp.51-71). Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery, Routledge.

Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2008). Entry on: Child Development. Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma (pp. 112-119). New York, NY: Wiley & Sons.

Pat-Horenczyk R., Ford, J, & Brom, D., (2009). Toward a developing science and practice of childhood traumatic stress: Concluding comments. In: D. Brom, R. Pat-Horenczyk and J. Ford (Eds.) (2008). Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery, Routledge.

Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2006). Terror in Jerusalem: Coping with “Emergency Routine” in Daily Life for adolescents, adults and helpers. In: J. Kuriansky (Ed). Terror in the Promised Land: Inside the Anguish of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Press.

Rachamin,L., Gilboa-Shechtman, E., Ben-Moshe, R., Pat-Horenczyk, R., Galili-Weistub, E., Benharash, F. & Apter A. (2005). Guidelines for early interventions for acute trauma in children and adolescents. In: E. Zomer and A. Bleich (Eds). Early interventions after disasters and terrorism: The Israeli experience, Ramot, Tel-Aviv University Press (in Hebrew), pp.303-333.

Pat-Horenczyk, R., & Doppelt, O. (2005). Screening posttraumatic distress among Israeli adolescents exposed to ongoing terrorism. In: E. Somer and A. Bleich (Eds). Mental health in terror’s shadow: The Israeli experience. Ramot, Tel-Aviv University Press (in Hebrew), pp. 55-76.

Pat-Horenczyk, R. (2005). Post-traumatic distress in adolescents exposed to ongoing terror: Findings from a school-based screening project in the Jerusalem Area. In: Y. Daniely, D. Brom & J Sills (Eds). The Trauma of Terrorism: Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care, An International Handbook. Haworth Press, pp. 335-347. Co-published as a paper in Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 9, (No. 3/4), 335-247.

Baum, Naomi L. (2005) Building resilience in the preschool classroom: A psychoeducational response to expsure to terror. In E. Somer and A. Bleich (Eds) Israel Responds to Terrorism. Tel Aviv: Ramot (published in Hebrew).

Baum, N. (2004) Building Resilience: A School Based Intervention for Children Exposed to ongoing Trauma and Stress. In Y.Danieli, D. Brom, and J. Sills (Eds.) The Trauma of Terrorism: An International handbook of Shared Knowledge and Shared Care. Haworth Press.