Yeela Tomsis (Sup. Prof. Marc Gelkopf, Prof. Hanoch Yerushalmi)

yeelat@zefat.ac.il

Background

Yeela is a community mental health professional, specializing in post-partum post-traumatic stress disorder and crisis. Her dissertation Post-Traumatic Symptoms and the Crisis experience after First Birth – is the basis for an international article. Yeela is a lecturer at Zefat Academic College. She is also a leading member of “The Parenting Forum” at Haifa University, promoting the improvement of care for women and their families during pregnancy and the post-partum period and lectures internationally.

 Current Research

Yeela’s current research projects are focusing in post-partum PTSD and crisis. One study is evaluating the relations between post-partum PTSD, sense of control, pain levels, self-efficacy and subjective experience among women who had a cesarean section. The aim of the study is to compare women who had elective CS versus emergency CS. Another study aims to explore the relations of the medical staff’s care in the delivery room and the woman’s sense of control, subjective experience, post-partum PTSD, anxiety, crisis experience and depression. The main purpose of the study is to understand the factors that influence the woman’s distress during labor and delivery and try to prevent or reduce post-partum emotional disorders.

Interests

Post-partum PTSD, post-partum crisis

Recent Conferences

• The Israel parenting conference, 2016. The Crisis experience among first-time mothers: the relations with preparedness to parenthood and personal coping strategies. Haifa University, Israel.
• 30th World Congress on Advanced Nursing Practice, 2017. Different coping strategies influence the development of PTSD among first-time mothers. Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Macro Practice in social work, 2018. The prevention of Post-partum emotional distress: Research, practice and national policy. The prevention of Post-partum emotional distress: Research, practice and national policy
• Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2018. The Crisis experience among first-time mothers: the relations with preparedness to parenthood and personal coping strategies. Zurich, Switzerland.

  Publication List

Tomsis, Y. Gelkopf, M. Yerushalmi, H. & Zipori, Y. (2018). Different coping strategies influence the development of PTSD among first-time mothers. Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 31(10), 1304-1310.

Shapira, A.L. & Tomsis, Y. (2018). The ‘natural’ cesarean: an online survey of Israeli women’s attitudes. The Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. (in press).