School of Social Work

Research interests:

Intimate violence, youth development, social work theory, phenomenology.

Education:

* Ph.D. College of Education and Center for Youth Development and

Research, 1975-1977, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

* M. S. W School of Social Work, 1987-1989, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis

* B.A History and Romance Languages, 1965- 1968, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

* Graduate Diploma Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminology, 1968-1970, The

Hebrew University

Academic Rank and Tenure in Institutions of Higher Education:

1992- Present	School of Social Work, University of Haifa.	Associate Professor
1993-1995	Department of Social Work, College of Education and Social Services, University of Vermont, Burlington.	Full Professor
1982-1992	School of Social Work, University of Haifa (Tenured).	Senior Lecturer
1977-1982	School of Social Work, University of Haifa (Tenure track).	Lecturer

Research and teaching positions at other universities:

1993-1995 Department of Social Work, College of Education and Social Services, University of Vermont, Burlington.

1988 Center for the Study of Youth Policy, Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public and International Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (intermittently).

Offices in University Academic Administration (selected)

1999	Chair, Doctoral Committee, School of Social Work, University of Haifa.
1999	Member, Executive Committee, School of Social Work, University of Haifa.
1995-Present	Director, Minerva Center for Youth Studies, University of Haifa.
1995-1997	Member, University Research Authority, University of Haifa
1995-1998	Chair, Research Committee, School of Social Work and Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Studies, University of Haifa.
1994-present	Member, Graduate School Committee, University of Haifa.
1985-1986	Member, Standing Committee (Vaadat Keva), School of Social Work, University of Haifa.
1982-1984	Director of Fieldwork Studies, School of Social Work, University of Haifa.
1979-1982	Member of Executive Committee, School of Social Work, University of Haifa.
1977-1980	Academic Director, Social Work in Rural Area Project, Tel- Chai College.

Selected Scholarly Activities Outside the University:

Membership in editorial boards:

Child & Youth Care Quartely

Violence Against Women

Social Work

Referee- National Science Foundation

German –Israeli Bi National Science Foundation

Grants:

1999-2000 Developing an instrument to predict intimate violence. Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, The Chief Scientist’s Office.

1999-2000 Evaluating intervention in intimate violence among welfare clients. Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, The Chief Scientist’s Office.

1999-2000 National survey on the characteristics, incidence and prevalence of Violence against Women and children and youth at risk. Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, The Chief Scientist’s Office (for expanding the survey in Haifa in a local replication).

1999-2001 Political socialization of children and youth in Israel, Germany and the Palestinian Authority: A comparative study. D.F.G .

1997-1999 Political socialization of children and youth in Israel, Germany and the Palestinian Authority: A comparative study. D.F.G.

1997-1998 An evaluation study of police work with perpetrators and victims of child abuse and women battering in Israel. Ministry of Internal Security, The Chief Scientist’s Office .

1995 A Longitudinal study of youths’ attitudes towards national issues in Israel. Minerva Foundation: Federal Republic of Germany & Max Plank Institute.

1992-1994 Work injuries among youth in Israel: An epidemiological analysis. The Committee on Work Safety & Social Health, The Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs.

1989-1991 The impact of violence on children - 1990. TW Grant Foundation, New York.

1990-1991 Violence in the family - men who batter.

8F. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

1988-1989 Violence in the family - men who batter. H. F. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

1987 An ecological analysis of spouse abuse: A review of the empirical evidence. H. F. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. .

1987-1989 Developing and teaching an inductive knowledge base and training directors of youth services. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (J.D.C.).

1986-1987 Violence in the family - an ecological analysis of men who batter. H. F. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

The moral development of delinquent youth. Ford Foundation, Israeli Trustees.

Publications:

Ph.D. Dissertation

Youth Committed to the State Department of Corrections of Minnesota for Offenses against Persons

Supervisors:

Dr. Gisela Konopka, Professor of Social Work and Director, Center for Youth Development and Research, The University of Minnesota

Dr. Clifford P. Hooker, Professor of Education and Law, The College of Education, Department of Educational Administration, The University of Minnesota.

Books:

Note: In all the publications listed below, the authorship order reflects the relative contribution.

Authored Books

Eisikovits, Z., & Buchbinder, E. (in press). Locked in a violent embrace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Edited Books

Edleson, J. L., & Eisikovits, Z. (Eds.)(1996). Future interventions with battered women and their families: Visions for policy, practice and research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Beker, J., & Eisikovits, Z. (Eds.) (1991). Knowledge utilization in child & youth care practice. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America.

Eisikovits, Z., & Beker, J. (Eds.) (1985). Residential group care in community context: Insights from the Israeli experience. New York: The Haworth Press. Also appeared as a theme issue of Child and Youth Services, 7 (3/4).

Edited journal issue:

*Eisikovits, Z., & Beker, J. (Eds.) (1985). Residential group care in community context: Insights from the Israeli experience. New York: The Haworth Press. Also appeared as a theme issue of Child and Youth Services, 7 (3/4) (167 pages).

Selected journal articles:

*Eisikovits, Z., Goldblatt, H., & Winstok, Z. (1999). Partner accounts of intimate violence: Towards a theoretical model. Families in Society, 80, 606-619.

*Eisikovits Z., & Buchbinder E. (1999). Talking control: Metaphors used by battered women. Violence against Women, 5, 845-868.

*Eisikovits, Z., Winstok, Z., & Enosh, G. (1998). Children’s experience of interparental violence: A heuristic model. Children and Youth Services Review, 6, 547-567.

*Eisikovits Z., Buchbinder E., & Mor, M. (1998). “What it was it won't be anymore”: Reaching the turning point in coping with intimate violence. Affilia, 13, 411-434.

*Eisikovits, Z., & Enosh, G. (1997). Awareness of guilt and shame in intimate violence. Violence and Victims, 12, 307-322.

*Lazar, A., & Eisikovits, Z. (1997). Social work students’ preference regarding supervisory styles and supervisor’s behavior. The Clinical Supervisor, 16 (1), 25-37.

*Buchbinder, E., Sherer, M., & Eisikovits, Z. (1997). Differences in reporting intimate violence among cohabiting men and women in Israel. Society and Welfare, 17, 145-166. (In Hebrew).

*Eisikovits Z., & Buchbinder, E. (1997). Talking violent: A phenomenological study of metaphors battering men use. Violence against Women, 3, 482-498.

*Eisikovits, Z. (1996). The aftermath of spousal violence: Strategies of bounding violent events. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 11, 459-474.

*Eisikovits, Z., & Buchbinder, E. (1996). Pathways to disenchantment: Battered women's views of social workers. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 11, 425-440.

*Eisikovits, Z., Guttmann, E., Sela-Amit, M., & Edleson, J. L. (1993). Women battering in Israel: The relative contributions of relationship adjustment, conflict and social support. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 63, 313-317.