I am Professor at and former Director of the School of Social Work at Bar-Ilan University. I have conducted multiple research studies around the globe (South America, Australia, Nepal, India, Canada, Israel, and the U.S.) on community practice topics ranging from trauma to citizen participation to domestic violence. I have recently conducted one of the few longitudinal studies of women who lived in a battered women's shelter. I have also developed a program for community development and community organizations. I am presently a consultant to Israel's Minister of Welfare. I was Chairman of the Council of the Directors of University-based Schools of Social Work in Israel and am currently the Head of the Ph.D. Program at the School of Social Work in Bar-Ilan University.

Specialization in the field of community work:

• Special populations: Research of psychosocial factors and development of models for prevention and rehabilitation.
• Community development.
•  Community activists.
• Special populations:  Leadeship Development (Ultra Orthodox, Battered Women).
• Community aspects and trauma.
•  Processes of change and privatization in kibbutz society and the role of the social worker in this context.
• Interrelationship of the immigrant and his/her human ecological environment and systems.
• Development of the theory of empowerment in research and practice.
• The human and the social environment.
•  Social work with paraprofessionals.
• Effectiveness.

Specialization in the field of social worker supervision:

• Development of theories of adult learning.
• Empowerment of workers.
• Secondary traumatization and supervision.
• Special elements (secret, pregnancy etc.)  and supervision
• Development of the professional training system in universities.
• Supervisor-supervisee relations: administrative, psychological and educational aspects.