ד"ר מאיה פניג קיסלר

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ד"ר מאיה פניג קיסלר
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Maya Fennig is a senior faculty member at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. Her research and teaching  lies in two independent yet inter-related areas of well-being. The first concerns the broad area of cross-cultural mental health, exploring how socio-cultural contexts shape individuals' mental health symptoms and behaviors. The second focuses on the psychosocial consequences of exposure to adversity and forced migration on children, youth and families. Maya was recently awarded the prestigious Azrieli Early Career Faculty Fellowship. As an Azrieli fellow, Maya will use interviews, focus groups, and innovative arts-based methods—storytelling, drawing, drama and spoken word—to ethnographically explore the ways in which liminality and protracted displacement unfold in the lives of war-affected refugee children residing in Italy and assesses how they shape their identity, belonging, rights, citizenship, mental health, well-being and imagined futures. The Azrieli-funded research project will be part of a multi-site, multi-year study (funded by SSHRC) which will allow Maya and her colleagues to explore liminality in diverse conditions—reception centers in Italy, urban communities in Israel, and refugee camps and makeshift squats in Greece.

Maya completed her PhD at McGill University's School of Social Work under the supervision and mentorship of Dr. Myriam Denov. In her dissertation, Maya conducted a critical ethnography in which she investigated Eritrean refugees' distinctive explanatory models of mental health — their own ideas or theories of what may have caused their predicament, the consequences of their psychological distress, and the type of care they believed they needed to recover. In Israel and Canada,  Maya has worked with non-governmental organizations to promote the health and rights of refugees, receiving several awards: the Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Fellowship, and the Vanier Canada Scholarship. Her work has been published in leading journals including Social Science and Medicine (SSM)-Mental Health, Transcultural Psychiatry, The Journal of Orthopsychiatry and The British Journal of Social Work. After residing in Montreal for almost a decade Maya has recently packed away her winter parka and moved back to Tel Aviv where she lives with her partner and two young daughters.

 

 

 

Research

Cross-Cultural Mental Health; Forced Migration/ Refugee Studies; Children and Youth; Cultural Adaptation of Interventions and Services; Interpretation

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED) 

  1. Fennig, M. (in press). Cross-culturally adapting the GHQ-12 for use with refugee populations: Opportunities, dilemmas, and challenges. Transcultural Psychiatry.
  2. Fennig, M. and Denov, M. (submitted). Living and resisting structural and symbolic violence: Understanding the wartime, flight, and “resettlement” realities of unaccompanied Eritrean girls and young women in Israel. Girlhood Studies.
  3. Fennig, M. and Denov, M. (2022). The impact of trauma and protracted displacement on the mental health of Eritrean refugees living in Israel: An exploratory study of coping strategies. Social Science and Medicine – Mental Health, Volume 2, 100102
  4. Fennig, M., & Denov, M. (2021). Interpreters working in mental health settings with refugees: An interdisciplinary scoping review. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry91(1), 50-65.
  5. Fennig, M. (2021). Beyond Voluntary Return: A critical ethnographic study of refugees who departed Israel ‘voluntarily’. International Social Work, 64(4), 526-538. 
  6. Fennig, M. (2021). Cultural adaptations of evidence-based mental health interventions for refugees: Implications for clinical social work. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(3), 964-981
  7. Denov, M., Fennig, M., Rabiau, M., and Shevell, M. (2019). Intergenerational Resilience in Families Impacted by War. Journal of Family Social Work, 22(1), 17-45.
  8. Fennig, M., & Denov, M. (2019). Regime of truth: Rethinking the dominance of the bio-medical model in mental health social work with refugee youth. The British Journal of Social Work49(2), 300-317.

EDITED BOOKS

  1. Denov, M., & Fennig, M. (Eds.). (in press). Research handbook on children and conflict. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  1. Fennig M., & Denov, M. (in press). "They have locked us in": The impact of liminality and protracted displacement on the mental health of Eritrean refugee youth living in Israel. In M. Denov & M. Fennig (Eds), Research handbook of children and conflict. Edward Elgar Publishing. 
  2. Fennig M., & Denov, M. (in press). "How do we make up for lost time?": Tackling current questions and realities of children during and following armed conflict. In M. Denov & M. Fennig (Eds), Research handbook of children and conflict. Edward Elgar Publishing. 
  3. Billota, N., Fennig, M., Denov, M., Bah A. & Marchand, I. (2023) Navigating participatory research with children affected by armed conflict: Conceptual, methodological and ethical concerns. In M. Denov, C. Mitchell  & M. Rabiau (Eds) Global Child: Children and Families Affected by War, Displacement, and Migration (pp. 109-132). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
  4. Denov, M., & Fennig, M.  (2020). The Rights and Realities of War-affected Refugee Children in Canada.  In T. Waldock (Ed.)  The Status of Children in Canada. Halifax: Canadian Scholars.
  5. Denov, M., Fennig, M., Rabiau, M., & Shevell, M.  (2019). Intergenerational resilience in families impacted by war displacement and migration: It ‘runs in the family’. In M. Denov & M. Shevell (Eds), Social work practice with war-affected children: The importance of family, art, culture and context. London: Routledge
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