MIRI COHEN,  Ph.D.

Faculty of Social welfare and Health Sciences
Head of The Department of Gerontology,
School of Social Work
University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, 31905, Israel

Phone Number: 972-4-8240815.
Eshkol Building, 6th Floor, Room 1014.
email: cohenm@research.haifa.ac.il
 

RESEARCH AREAS

Mind-body relationships: the interrelations between psycho-social factors, physiological factors and health.
Stress, coping and health in the old age.
Coping with cancer and chronic illness: the individual and the family.
Effect of psycho-social interventions on promotion of health and well-being among healthy and sick individuals.
Elder abuse
Health behaviors
 

EDUCATION

Ph. D. Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 2000. 
M.A. in Social Work, Haifa University , Haifa, Israel, 1988.
B.A. in Social Work Hebrew University , Jerusalem, 1973.

ACADEMIC POSITION, UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA

Head , The Department of Gerontology, Faculty of Social welfare and Health Sciences

Senior lecturer, School of Social Work, Faculty of Social welfare and Health Sciences
 

POSITIONS OUTSIDE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA

Vice director, Social Work Service, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.

Board member of the Psycho-Oncology Society.

Member in psychosocial research committee, Israeli Cancer Associations.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Published Books, Articles and reviews in

International Journal of Cancer ; Psychosomatic Medicine ; Journal of Psychophysiology ; Behavioral Medicine  ; Social Work in Health Care ; Social Work in Health Care ; Journal of Aging and health ; Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings ; Health Social Work ; Supportive Care in Cancer ; Stress, Anxiety and Coping ; Preventive Medicine ; Psycho-Oncology.

 

 

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Last Updated 9/5/2007