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Tammie Ronen-Rosenbaum, Ph.D Curriculum Vitae
9Tel-AvivUniversity November 2012
Name:Tammie Ronen Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Faculty: Social Science
Dept. Social Work
Rank: Full Professor from March 2006
Position: Dean, The Gershon Gordon Faculty of Social Science
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Period of StudyUniversitySubjectDegreeDate of Award
1975-1978 Tel-Aviv Social Work B.A. July 1977
1979-1982 Tel-Aviv Educational M.A. July 1982
Counseling
1986-1989 Tel Aviv Social Work Ph.D. June 1989
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1990-1991TAUSocial Work Assistant (Dr.)
& Education
1992-1993TAUSocial Work Lecturer
& Education
1993-TAUSocial Work Fully in Social Work
1996- KentStateCenter for International &
University Intercultural Education,
Visiting Scholar
1996 - 2001TAUSocial Work Senior Lecturer (tenured)
2001 TAU Social Work Chair Ph.D students program
Since 2001 TAU Social Work Associate Professor
2001 University Social Work Guest lecturer
of British
Columbia
2001 – on TAU Social Work Chairman of “Ozma” the center for
the study and treatment of
aggressive behavior
Head of the Ph.D program
2004- 2008 TAU Social Work Head of the BobShapellSchool
of Social Work
2006 – on TAU Social Work Full Professor
2009 – on TAU Head, the RenataAdlerMemorialResearchCenter
For Child Welfare and Protection
2009 – on TAU Chair of the faculty committee for research
Students
2010 – on TAU Chair, The new MA program for child clinical
Studies
2012 – on TAU Dean, the Gershon Gordon Faculty of Social
Science
Teaching area:
Cognitive behavior therapy
Child therapy
Positive psychology
Supervision and practicum
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETING
1982The Annual Congress of Psychology. Jerusalem, Israel.
Paper: Training Pediatrics Nurses to Treat Enuresis.
1984The Annual Congress of Social Work. Tel Aviv, Israel
Paper: Self-control Training of Enuresis.
1985The Annual Congress of Social Work. Jerusalem, Israel.
Paper: To be a Behavioral Therapist and Stay Alive.
1987The National Convention of Social Work in Health Services. TelAviv, Israel.
Paper: Improving Children's Compliance Through self-control Training.
1988The Convention of Lecturers from Schools of Social Work. Jerusalem, Israel.
Paper: Self-control in Teaching.
1988Convention of Social Work with Children. Tel Aviv , Israel.
Paper: Using video Simulation for Treating Children.
1988The 3rd World Congress of Behavior Therapy. Edinborough, Scotland.
Poster: Developing of Self-control Model for Treatment.
1988 MoudsleyHospital, London, England. Workshop: Self-control for behavior
Problems.
1988 World Congress for Cognitive Therapy. Oxford, England
Paper: Cognitive Therapy in Enuresis.
Cognitive Therapy with Children. Tel-Aviv , Israel
Workshop: Education for self-control.
1990The 3rd National Convention of Social Work in Health Services. Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Paper: Self-control Model for Increasing Children's Ability to Cope with Medical Problem.
1990The Congress of the European Association of Behavior Therapy. Paris, France.
Poster: Developing Self-control Scale for Children.
Poster: Generalizing Treatment Outcomes.
Poster: Predicting Treatment Outcomes.
1990The 7th National Convention of the Israeli Association for Family Marriage & Education in Family Life. Haifa, Israel.
Paper: A College for Family Life Studies.
Workshop: Using Self-control Model for Family Therapy.
1991The Annual Congress of Social Work. Jerusalem, Israel.
Paper: A College for Family Life Studies as part of the social services.
1991The Second National Conference of Social Work with Groups. Beer-Sheba, Israel.
Paper: Using Parent's Groups as a Preventive Model.
1991International Symposium on Quality of Life After Open Heart Surgery. Antwerp, Belgium.
Symposium: Self-control for Improving Quality of Life.
1991The Six European Conference of the International Society for Research on Aggression. Jerusalem, Israel.
Paper: Decreasing Violence Among Children.
1991The 20th Anniversary Congress of The British Association for Behaviour
Therapy. University of Oxford, England.
Workshop: Self-control with Children and Adolescents.
Symposium: Cognitive Behavioural Social Work.
1991The 25th Annual Association of the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT).
New York, USA.
Poster: How did Israeli Children Cope with the Daily Threat of Scud Attacks.
Poster: Developing of the Children's Self-control Scale.
1992The World Congress for Cognitive Therapy. Toronto, Canada.
Workshop: Self-control and Learned Resourcefulness.
Symposium: Cognitive Therapy in Israel.
Poster: Imparting Self-Control in School Setting.
1992 Congress of the European Association of Behaviour Therapy. Coimbra,
Portugal.
Workshop: Self-control Training for Decreasing Violence.
Symposium: Children's Response to the Gulf War in Israel.
1993Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies.
London, England.
Workshop: Imagery as Self-control Technique.
Paper: Do children develop posttraumatic stress disorders?
Symposium: Children's response to war: PTSD or normal behaviour?
1994Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies.
Corfu, Greece.
Symposium: Cognitive therapy with children.
Symposium: Children and War.
Workshop: Cognitive model for supervision.
1995 World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Copenhagen
Denmark.
Symposium: Opening to experiences with children.
Symposium: Helping children to help themselves.
199625th Annual Convention 0f the Austrian Assosiation for Behavior & Cognitive Therapies. Semmering, Viena.
Key note address - Linking assessment treatment & evaluation in child cognitive therapy.
Workshop: Imagery training in cognitive therapy.
1997Congress of the European Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies. Venice, Italy.
Symposium: What really helps people change.
1998Symposium to the Irish Association for Behavioral Cognitive Psychtherapies. Cork, Ireland.
Workshop & Paper: Cognitive Devlopmental Therapy with Childrer.
1998Congress of the Swedish Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy. Stockholm, Sweden
Lecture: Cognitive therapy with adolescence.
Supervision in Cognitive Therapy
1999 Congress of the Greek Society of Psychotherapy, Athens, Greece
Key note address: Cognitive developmental therapy with children
A symposium on child and adolescence therapy, University of Tesalia, Volose, Greece
Key note address: Cognitive creative psychotherapy with children
1999 Congress of the 25th Anniversary of the Danish Association for
Behavior and Cognitive psychotherapies, Helsgne, Denmark
Key-note lecture: Opening to experiences as an important abilities for
children’s adjustment and coping
2000 Congress of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy,
Catania,
Workshop: Using Creative technique in Cognitive Therapy
Symposia: Supervision from the stand point of CBT
2000 World congress of Behavior and cognitive psychotherapies, Vancouver,
Canada
Workshop: Using creative psychotherapy with children and adolescence
World round: Demonstration of treatment of aggressive children
2001 EABCT congress in Istanboul, Turkey
Key note lecture: The role of therapeutic relationships
Symposia: The future of child cognitive therapy
Symposia: Milieu therapy
Symposia: Treating child and adolescence disorders
2001 The annual congress of SAKT (The Danish Association for Behavioral and
Cognitive Psychotherapy), Copenhagen
A paper: Supervision in Cognitive Psychotherapy
2003 The annual congress of SAKT ((The Danish Association for Behavioral
and Cognitive Psychotherapy), Copenhagen
Key note lecture and workshop: Cognitive Therapy with Children
2003 International Congress of Constructivism, Bari, Itali
A paper: Treating Anorexia
2003 A Symposia in Kupio University, Finland
Cognitive Constructivist Therapy with children
2003 Annual congress of the EABCT (European congress for Behavior
And Cognitive Psychotherapies, Prague
Key note lecture: Skills directed therapy
2003 Congress of the Association for Family Therapy, Denmark
Key note lecture: Cognitive Therapy with Children and Families
2004 Congress of Empowering Children and Adolescence, Tel-Aviv
Key note lecture: Self-control model for aggression
2004 Congress of the Swedish Association of Cognitive Therapy, Gothenbourg
Key note lecture: Skills Directed Therapy with Children
Congress of the Child Psychiatry Department, University of Kupio, Finland
Key note lecture: Creative Psychotherapy with children
2004 Congress of the Danish Association for Behavior and Cognitive Psychotherapy
(SAKT), Copenhagen:
Lecture: SDT (Skills Directed Therapy) with aggressive children
2004 The European Congress of Behavior and Cognitive Psychotherapies (EABCT),
Manchester
Symposia: Treating the child within the environment
Symposia: Creative Therapy with children
2003 The international Conference of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Gothenbourg,
Sweden
Invited address: SDT with children
Workshop: verbal and non verbal therapy with children
Symposia: Developing effective program for reducing aggression
2005 The European Association for Behavior and Cognitive Psychotherapies
(EABCT) , Saloniki, Greece
Symposia: The best treatment for children
Workshop: SDT with aggressive children
2007 The Kronngold lecture : Monash Univertsity, Melbourne, Australia
Lecture: Treating children in self-control for reducing aggression
2007 Cognitive behavioral conference of the Turky Association. Istanboul, Turkey.
Key Note lecture: SDT with children
Workshop: Treating children's aggression
2007 Seminar at the Krongold center for exceptional children, Monash university, Melbourne
Empowering children and adolescence: Imparting self-control skills for reducing
aggression
2007 The 10th conference of the British Association for Child Clinical Psychology, Nottingham,
England
Using metaphor and Imagery in therapy
Empowering children and adolescence
2008 Lecture and Workshop at the Center for Cognitive Therapy and the Association for
Behavior and Cognitive Therapy, Copenhagen, Denmark
Reducing aggression among adolescence
2008 Lisbon, Portugal: A conference of the constructivist Society. A lecture and a workshop on
using imagery and metaphors I ntherapy.
2009 Ringericke, NorwayAnnual Psychiatric conference of Psykiatrisk klinikk, Buskerud
Hospital, Lecture and workshop:Reducing aggression among children and adolescence
2009 Lecture: Reducing aggression among children. The First world congress of the
Association for Positive Psychology, Philadelphia: Reducing aggression among children
2009 Workshop: Applying self-control skills to reduce aggression
Aminut conference, University of Haifa
2010 Lecture: Applying positive psychology to reduce aggression among children
The World Congress of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Boston.
Symposium: Using metaphors with children
The World Congress of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Boston
2010 Lecture, workshops and symposium on applying positive psychology with aggression
National conference of education, Istanbul, Turkey
2010 Lecture and workshop: The Israeli Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies
2011 The world congress of cognitive psychotherapy, Istanboul, Turkey.
Key note Lecture: Aggression and positive psychology
Symposium: Positive emotion among children
Workshop: The positive power of imagery
2011, International conference on abused children, Haifa
2011 The Renata Adler Annual Symposia: Lecture: Music for Social Change
Symposium: Positive psychology with abused children
2012 Positive psychology in social work: Kiriat Ono, College of Psagot
2012 Increasing positive emotion among children, EABCT, Geneve . The European Association
For Behavior and Cognitive Therapies.
2012Facilitate positive in therapy, Child Developmental Conference, Athen, Greece
Key note: Facilitate positive emotion in children
Workshop: Positive psychology with children
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
1991A grant from the British Council for multi-cultural project in developing a computer program for treating enuresis.
1993A grant from the department of education of TelAvivMunicipality for studying children's aggression response.
1999 A 5,000 $ grant from the University Fund for a research on Intimacy and
family Relationships of deaf people
1998A 1 million $ grant from Ashalin (JDC) and the Pratt Foundation for establishing
-2004 and conducting a center for studying aggressive children (Ozma – A center for
empowering children),
2000 A 20,000$ grants from the Israel Foundations Trustees for research on
marital and Intimacy of deaf people . Senior Researcher
2000 An honorary member of the Danish Association for Behavior and Cognitive
Psychotherapies
2001 A 40,000$ grants from the Price Brodie initiative in Jafa for the
development and application of learning program for prevention of
aggressiveness. Senior Researcher
2002 A 40,000 dollars grant from the Price Brodie initiative for preventive
program in schools in Jaffa (To be strong) . Senior Researcher
2002 4,000 dollars grant from the Price Brodie initiative for developing self-
control skills among Arab Therapists. Senior Researcher
2003 A 4,000 $ grant from Shara Peleg foundation for a research on diabetic
children
2003 A 5.000 dollars grant from the university fund for studying rejection to
sensitivity and aggressiveness among children . Senior Researcher
2004 205,000 dollars grant from Ashalim and Hsochnot for applying self-control skills
to a boarding school and developing manual for treatment.
A joint project with Michael Rosenbaum, Senior Researcher.
2005 20,000 dollars grant from the national insurance (Bitoch leomi) for developing
program to treat aggressive children in boarding schools
2005 20,000 $ grant from the Ministry of education for assimilating the Ozma program
in 20 schools
2006 10,000 $ grants from Ashalim for assimilation of Ozma program in boarding
schools
2006 15,000 $ grants from the Ministry of education for applying Ozma program in 10
more schools
2007 1000 $ grants from Tel-Aviv university for excellency of grant proposal
2007 160,000 shekel from the Ministry of education
2008 60,000 shekel from the Ministry of education
2008-2010 45,000$ from the Pratt foundation for the project of reducing aggression among
adolescence
2011 15,000 shekel from the Peleg foundation for the project: Music for Social Change
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Since 1977Union of Social Workers.
Since 1986 The Israeli Association for Family and Marriage.
Since 1986The Israeli Association for Behavior Therapy.
Since 1986The European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Since 1991The American Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, USA.
Since 1992The National Council for the Child's Welfare, Israel.
Since 1993The International Association for Cognitive Therapy.
Since 1997The Advisory Board of the Society for Constructivism in the Human Sciences.
Since 2004 A senior "grandfather member" of the Academy for cognitive therapy, NY
STUDENTS SUPERVISED BY CANDIDATE
Ph.D Students
1998 - 2004 Rachel –Liat Hamama Variables effecting siblings response to pediatric cancer patient
2000 - 2004 Miriam Levinger Intimate relationship of deaf adults
1998 - 2005 Yuta Shechter The influences of boarding school on the family
1998 - 2005 Daniela Shvar Intimacy among children of aggressive parents (with Meir Teichman)
1998 – 2006 Ofra Aran Subjective well being of diabetic adolescence (with Michael
Rosenbaum)
2001-2007 Noemi Appel The link between prosocial value self-control
and aggression (with Michael Rosenbaum)
2002-2007 Nirit Weisbrod Rejection to sensitivity ,self- control and aggression
among children (with Michael Rosenbaum)
Still in process
2006 Anat Seeman Aggression and spcial support (with Michael Rosenbaum)
2006 Maya Zeevy Behavioral disorders among deaf children
2008 Keren Shachar Sport as a way for reducing aggression among children
(with Michael Rosenbaum)
2009 Nivin Hashan Flourhishing in marriage (with Michael Rosenbaum)
2011 Michel Sulkin Subjective well being of parents and children in foster care
2012 Sigalit Fish Subjective well being of patient in health settings (with
Michael Rosenbaum)
Post Doctorat candidate
2008-2010 Qutaiba Agabaria Aggression among Arab Palestinian in Israel
2010 – Dafna Regev Perception of students in special education
2011 Hod Orkibi Happiness among children and Adolescence
M.A. Students
1992Ziad Abo HamedSelf-control Among Arabic Adolescents in Israel
School of Education
1993Sarit SheinSelf-control, Anxiety and Coping of RegularSchool Children VS YoungSchool Children
School of Education
1996Rachel HamamaSibling of Pediatric Cancer Patient
School of Social Work (together with Rina Feigin)
1998Neomi AppelAdolecsense response to terror attack (together with GioraRahav)
2000 Ayala Mouldavsky Self-control and aggressiveness among school children
(together with Giora Rahav)
2001 Maya Treves Emotion and aggressiveness
2002 Rodina Amara Aggressiveness among Arabic children
2003 - Lihi Geva Subjective well being of couples who have difficulties in having children
(together with Michael Rosenbaum)
2004 Keren Sharabani Can we predict aggressive behavior?
2004 Anat Seeman The influence of the war with Iraq on children in Israel
2004 Ayelet Abraham: Quality of life of parents of handicapped children
(together with Rina Feigin)
2005 Keren Shachar Subjective well being of teachers in Miftan (special schools)
2007 Rachma Rubi The efficacy of Ozma program inschools
2008 Noa Ilani The link between rejection sensitivity, anxiety and self-control
and aggression behavior among adolescence
2008 Dikla Rotman The comparison of the efficacy of Ozma program
while being applied at the university by students, and
while being applied in schools by teachers
2009 Karin Vardi Self-control and social support amonmg aggressive children
2009 Adi Dewek The link between subjective well being and aggression among
children
2009 Ayla Mishali Self control and social support as resources helping adolescence in
Crisis to maintain their subjective well being
2010 Trousil Shirly Subjective well being of at-risk children
2010 Chalif Chen Self control, family support and happiness among children
2010 Mechozai Ruth Gender differences in self-control, social support and happiness
2010 Kaplan Felix Music as a way to help children at risk flourish
Still in process
2009 Amiad Horovitz Welfare of post hospitalized people
2010 Naama Asholin Subjective well being of adolescence who are active in sport
2010 Brandas Smadar Stress , self-control and subjective well being among adolescence
2010 Haimobitz Liat Subjective well being of sibling of children with developmental
Disorders
2010 Chanin Sakchi Subjective well being of Arab children who suffer from diabetics
2010 Sulkin Michelle Subjective well being of children in foster care as depend on the
subjective well being of their foster parents
National Intervention Projects
Founder and manager of the Ozma project: A program for imparting self-control skills to children and adolescence for reducing aggression.
The project started as a research intervention at the university and now has adopted by the Ministry of Education to be applied all over Israel,
Advisor and co-founder of the research program: Through sport: A program for reducing aggression through sport. The program is directed all over Israel.
Co-Partner of the program: Sulamot: Music for Social Change. A national joint project of the Israel Philharmonic, The Buchman Mehata School of Music and the Renata Adler Memorial research Center (which I chaired) under the presidency of Annett Boulag-
Rothchild (Swiss), for establishing Orchestra for children at risk for improving their happiness.
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