שרה דעאס עיראקי

Sara Daass Iraqi (Sup. Prof David Roe & Dr Michal Mashiach)

saradaass@walla.co.il

 

 

Background

Sara is an occupational therapist, holds a bachelor and master’s degree in occupational therapy from Tel Aviv University. Since then she has been working in psychiatric rehabilitation. Her main work is done among Arab people with severe mental illness. Nowadays she works a Director of Development in the School for Mental Health Rehabilitation and Lecturer at Ono Academic College, Dept. of Education. In addition, Sara is a supervisor in mental health rehabilitation.

  

Current Research

Illness Management and Recovery in Arab society: Investigation of the Process of Culture Adaptation, Implementation and the effect in Rehabilitation and Recovery of people with severe mental illness.

Interests

Psychiatric Rehabilitation, IMR- Illness Management and Recovery, Arab People with Severe Mental Illness, Culture Adaptation of evidence based practice, Caregivers.

Recent Conferences

Daass Iraqi, S., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2020).  The place of Shared Decision Making in the application of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) among Arabs in Israel. The Shared Decision Making 2020 and Beyond, Online Conference. University of Hertfordshire, England.

Daass Iraqi, S. (2019). Panel: Where did we start and where are we today? What did we achieve since Dr. Deegan first published her article about recovery in 1988 and what is the future of recovery?. Israel Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (ISPRA) 10th anniversary: The Future of Recovery in Mental Health. Tel Aviv University.

Daass Iraqi, S., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2019). Impact of a culturally adapted Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) intervention on Arabs with serious mental illness. 2nd International Public Mental Health (PMH) Conference. Jerusalem.

Daass Iraqi, S., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2019).  Implementing a culturally adapted Arabic version of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) among Palestinians in Israel. ENMESH Conference. Lisbon.

 Daass Iraqi, S., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2019). Impact of a culturally adapted Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) intervention on Arabs with serious mental illness. ENMESH Conference. Lisbon.

  Daass Iraqi, S., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2019). Illness Management and Recovery in Arab society. 2nd Conference of Mind, Body and Society. Istanbul.

 Daass Iraqi, S., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2017). Studying culture adaptation, implementation and outcome of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) among Palestinian Arabs in Israel.  1st International Congress of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center.

Daass Iraqi, S. (2017). Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) in Arab Society. Coping with multicultural complexity. University of Haifa.

Daass Iraqi, S. (2014). IMR in Arab society: adaptations and dilemmas from the field.  IMR Conference: A Decade of Achievements in Israel.

Daass Iraqi, S. (2012). People with severe mental illness in Arab community in Israel. ISPRA Conference 2012.

Publications

  • Daass-Iraqi, S., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2019). Cultural adaptation of evidence-based treatment in mental health to Arab society: Illness management and recovery as a test case. Society and Welfare. 4, pp. 645-655 (Hebrew).
  • Daass-Iraqi, S., Mashiach–Eizenberg, M., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2020). Impact of a culturally adapted version of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) on Israeli Arabs with Serious Mental Illness. Psychiatric Services https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900424
  • Daass-Iraqi, S., Garber-Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2020). Cultural adaptation of the Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) intervention among Israeli Arabs. Psychiatric Services (in press).
  • Daass-Iraqi, S., Garber- Epstein, P. & Roe, D. (2020). Facilitators and barriers in the implementation of a culturally adapted Arabic version of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) among Arabs in Israel (in review).
  • Daass-Iraqi, S., (2020). Recovery in Arab society: On my journey in the mental health world. Israeli Journal of Occupational Therapy (Hebrew).