אלפנדרי רוית, ד”ר

דרגה ותפקיד: מרצה
כתובת דוא״ל: ralfandar@staff.haifa.ac.il
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חדר: בניין הפקולטה למדעי הרווחה והבריאות, קומה 5, חדר 509.
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אלפנדרי רוית

Background

Higher Education

a.     Undergraduate and Graduate Studies

Period of Study

Name of Institution and Department

Degree

10/1997 – 6/2000

Tel Aviv University, School of Psychological Sciences and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv, Israel

BA, Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology

Magna cum Laude

10/2003 – 6/2006

University of Haifa, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, School of Social Work, Haifa, Israel

MA, Social Work

Summa cum Laude

9/2009 – 8/2015

London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Social Policy, London, UK

PhD, Social Policy

b.     Post-Doctoral Studies

Period of Study

Name of Institution and Department/Lab

Name of Host

2/2019 – 2/2020

University of Haifa,  School of Social Work

Prof. Guy Enosh

11/2020 – 6/2021

University of Haifa, School of Business Administration

Prof. Shay Tzafrir

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Future Research Plans

A core principle of my scholarly work is to develop action as much as knowledge. My professional experience engaging with individuals who slipped through the safety net of the state’s welfare system elicited a deep commitment to generate evidence that can facilitate early help and effective social programming. A basic question that recently directs my empirical work is: “How can technology help professionals make better decisions?” As a step forward, I started leading a comprehensive research project, designed for several years and funded by grants aimed to improve health care professionals’ capacity to identify and manage suspected child physical abuse cases through the development of an AI-driven digital clinical decision support system that will integrate and bridge the welfare and health care systems.

Of the many things that my empirical research has emphasized is that the provision of social interventions can be done in better or worse ways, but they cannot be taken off the shelf. Failure by policymakers and practitioners to acknowledge broad contextual factors increases the risk of exposing individuals to ineffective or potentially harmful interventions. Therefore, I constantly strive to apply a cross-country perspective to my scientific inquiry. My position as a leading member in several active European research networks provides me with considerable ongoing opportunities for joint international research.

Research

Risk assessment and decision making in child protection

My research covers cardinal professional skills and reasoning, including engaging effectively with service users, identifying future risk, and deciding when and how to intervene. It incorporates four levels of analysis—individual, group, organizational, and policy—and seeks to identify the interconnections between them.

Children’s participation in child maltreatment research and practice

Considering children as active agents in society entitled to decision-making power over their lives, my research focuses on increasing opportunities for meaningful, ethical, and effective participation of children in research and practice around child maltreatment.

Client aggression toward employees in social services industries

Paradoxically, social services providers become targets of aggression by the same people they are trying to help. My research examines key aspects of workplace aggression, including antecedents, outcomes, and coping strategies.

Publications

A. Scientific Books (Refereed)

a. Edited Books and Special Journal Issues
  1. *Roth, M., Alfandari, R., & G. Crous. (Eds.). (2023). Participatory research on child maltreatment with children and adult survivors: Concepts, ethics, and methods. Emerald Press. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781804555262
    Open access at: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781804555262
B. Articles in Refereed Journals
  1. Alfandari, R. (2009). The effects of environmental factors on aggressive behaviour among adolescents. Violence, 2, 13–39. (In Hebrew)
  1. Alfandari, R. (2016). Evaluation of a national reform in the Israeli child protection system designed to improve children’s participation in decision making. Child and Family Social Work, 22, 54–62. [IF2016 = 1.394; R2016 = Social Work: 12/42 (Q2); Recipient of ESPAnet ISRAEL award]

 

  1. Alfandari, R. (2016). Evaluation of a national reform in the Israeli child protection system designed to improve children’s participation in decision-making. Social Security, 99, 13–30. (In Hebrew) [V]
  1. Alfandari, R. (2016). Partnership with parents in child protection: A systems approach to evaluate reformative developments in Israel. British Journal of Social Work, 47, 1061–1077. [IF2016 = 1.103; R2016 = Social work: 17/42 (Q2)]
  1. Alfandari, R. (2017). Systemic barriers to effective utilisation of decision-making tools in child protection practice. Child Abuse & Neglect, 67, 207–215. [IF2017 = 2.899; R2017 = Social work: 3/42 (Q1)]
  1. Alfandari, R. (2018). Systemic barriers to effective utilisation of decision-making tools in child protection practice. Society & Welfare, 38, 707–727. (In Hebrew) [V]
  1. Alfandari, R. (2019). Multi-professional work in child protection decision-making: An Israeli case study. Children and Youth Services Review, 98, 51–57. [IF2019 = 1.521; R2019 = Social Work: 11/44 (Q1)]
  1. Alfandari, R. (2019). Legal advocacy for parents in child protection: Not a question of if but a question of how? British Journal of Social Work, 49, 1601–1618. [IF2019 = 1.435; R2019 = Social Work: 13/44 (Q2)]
  1. Alfandari, R. (2019). Approaching the study of client-professional cyberbullying from a systems perspective. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 48, 60–64. [IF2019 = 2.893; R2019 = Psychology, Multidisciplinary: 27/138 (Q1)]
  1. Nouman, H., Alfandari, R., Enosh, G., Dolev, L., & Daskal-Weichhendler H. (2020). Mandatory reporting between legal requirements and personal interpretations: Community healthcare professionals’ reporting of child maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 101, 104–261. [IF2020 = 3.928; R2020 = Social Work: 2/44 (Q1)]
  1. Nouman, H., & Alfandari, R. (2020). Identifying children suspected for maltreatment: The assessment process taken by healthcare professional working in community healthcare services. Children & Youth Services Review, 113, 104964, 1-8. [IF2020 = 2.393; R2020 = Social Work: 9/44 (Q1)]
  1. Enosh, G., Alfandari, R., Nouman, H., Dolev, L., & Dascal-Weichhendler H. (2020). Assessing, consulting, reporting: Heuristics in professional decision-making regarding suspected child maltreatment in community healthcare services. Child Maltreatment, 26(3), 291–301. [IF2020 = 3.051; R2020 = Social Work: 6/44 (Q1)]
  1. Alfandari, R., Enosh, G., & Rechnitzer, H. (2020). To split or include? Child sexual abuse mandate reporting in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community. Children & Youth Services Review, 120, 105759, 1-8. [IF2020 = 2.393; R2020 = Social Work: 9/44 (Q1)]
  1. Alfandari, R., Massarwa, Z., & Enosh, G. (2021). Applying Intersectionality theory to understand Arab art-therapists’ experience in child maltreatment mandatory reporting. Health & Social Care in the Community, 29(6), 1747–1755. (First and second authors contributed equally to the manuscript)[IF2021=2.395; R2021 =Social work:12/44 (Q2)]
  1. Alfandari, R., & Taylor, B. J. (2021). Systematic bibliographic database searching for literature reviews: Case study on child protection decision making. British Journal of Social Work, 52(1), 518–535. [IF2021 = 2.352; R2021 = Social Work: 13/44 (Q2)]
  1. Sicora, A., Taylor, B. J., Alfandari, R., Enosh, G., Killick, C., Lyons, O., Mullineux, J., Rölver, M., & Whittaker, A. (2021). Using intuition in social work decision making. European Journal of Social Work, 25(4), 772–787. [IF2021 = 1.764; R2021 = Social Work: 28/44 (Q3)]
  1. Alfandari, R., & Taylor, B. J. (2021) Processes of multi-professional child protection decision making in hospital setting: Systematic narrative review. Trauma Violence & Abuse, 24(1), 295–312. [IF2021 = 6.595; R2021 = Social Work: 1/44 (Q1)]
  1. *Alfandari, R., & Taylor, B. J. (2021). Community-based multi-professional child protection decision making: Systematic narrative review. Child Abuse & Neglect, 123, 105432, 1-17. [IF2021 = 4.863; R2021 = Social Work: 2/44 (Q1)]
  1. *Alfandari, R., Taylor, B. J., Enosh, G., Killick, C., McCafferty, P., Przepers., Rölver, M., & Whittaker, A. (2022). Group decision-making theories for child and family social work. European Journal of Social Work, 26(2), 204-217. [IF2022 = 1.5; R2022 = Social Work: 35/44 (Q4)]
  1. *Alfandari, R., Enosh, G., Tzafrir, S. S., & Regehr, C. (2022). Understanding health outcomes following workplace aggression: A social exchange perspective. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6), 3995–4005. [IF2022 = 2.4; R2022 = Social Work: 12/44 (Q2)]
  1. *Alfandari, R., Enosh, G., Nouman, H., Dolev, L., & Dascal-Weichhendler, H. (2022). Judgements of physicians, nurses, and social workers regarding suspected Child maltreatment in community health care services. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6), 4782–4792. [IF2022=2.4; R2022 =Social work:12/44 (Q2)]
  1. *Alfandari, R., Taylor, B. J., Baginsky, M., Campbell, J., Helm, D., Killick, C., McCafferty, P., Mullineux, J., Shears, J., Sicora, A., & Whittaker, A. (2022). Making sense of risk: Social work at the interface of care and control. Health Risk & Society: special issue on social work at boundaries, 25(1-2), 75-92. [IF2022 = 2.1; R2022 = Social Sciences, Biomedical: 24/45 (Q3)]
  1. *Nurmatov, U. B., Cowley, L. E., Rodrigues, L. B., Naughton, A., DeBelle, G., Alfandari, R., Lamela, D., Otterman, G., Jud, A., Dinapogias, S., Laajasalo, T., Soldino, V., Kemp, A., Stancheva, V., Vaughan, R., Christian, C., Drabarek, K., Hurt, L., & COST Action CA19106 Team. (2023). Consensus building on definitions and types of child maltreatment to improve recording and surveillance in Europe: Protocol for a multi-sectoral, European electronic Delphi study. BMJ Open, 13(12), e076517, 1-8. https://doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076517
    [IF2023= 2.4; R2023 = Medicine, general & Internal: 81/329 (Q1)]
  1. *Alfandari, R., Whittaker, A., Helm, D., Killick, C., Gautschi, J., Rölver, M., Taylor, B., Nirmalarajan, N.Y., Suarez, H., Middel, F., Agu, L., Bolin, A., Raudava, V., Lamponen, T., & DARSIG. (2024). The future is here: Digital technologies in social work practice. European Social Work Research, 2(1), 88-92. https://doi.org/10.1332/27551768Y2024D000000006
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  2. *Turney, D., Alfandari, R., Taylor, B.J., Helm, D., Ghanem, C., Killick, C., Lyons, O., O’Leary, D., Ebsen., F., & Bertotti, T. (2024). Threshold decisions in social work: Using theory to support practice. British Journal of Social Work, 54, 2996 -3013. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae073
    [IF2023 = 1.8; R2023 = Social Work: 19/92 (Q1)]
  1. *Alfandari, R., Taylor, B. J., & Scott, R. (2024). Risk Factors for Violence in Adult Heterosexual Non-Casual Relationships: An Overview of Reviews. Trauma Violence & Abuse. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380241306065
    [IF2023 = 5.4; R2023 = Social Work: 1/92 (Q1)]
  1. *Lamela, D., Nurmatov, U., Alfandari, R., Crous, G., Aksoy, B., Bulut, E., Carvalho, H., Cirik, V.A., Söderlind,, Sofuoglu, Z., Ulukol, B., Jud, A., Otterman, G., Roth, M., Korhonen, L., & COST Action network 19106. (2024). A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe. Child Abuse & Neglect, Special issue: Children’s right to participation in the context of child abuse and neglect. 107229. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107229
    [IF2023 = 3.4; R2023 = Social Work: 3/92 (Q1)]
  1. *Cowley, E. L., Lamela, D., Drabarek, K., Bettencourt Rodrigues, L., Ntinapogias, A., Naughton, A., Debelle, G., Alfandari, R., Jud, A., Otterman, G., Laajasalo, T., Christian, W.C., Stancheva, V., Caenazzo, L., Soldino, V., Vaughan, R., Kemp, M.A., Nurmatov,, & Hurt, L. (2025). Defining child maltreatment for research and surveillance: An international, multi-sectoral, Delphi consensus study in 34 countries. Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 50, 101196. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101196
    [IF2023 = 13.6; R2023 = Health, Care Sciences & Services: 1/174 (Q1)]

C. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed)

  1. Alfandari, R. (2019). Systemic barriers to effective implementation of child protection reform in Israel. In U. Klammer, S. Leiber, & S. Leitner (Eds.), Social work and the making of social policy (pp. 155–167). Policy Press.
  1. *Alfandari, R., Przeperski, J., & Taylor, J. B. (2023). Interprofessional decision making. In B. J. Taylor, J. D. Fluke, J. C. Graham, E. Keddell, C. Killick, A. Shlonsky & A. Whittaker (Eds.), The Sage handbook of decision making, assessment and risk in social work (pp.176-184). Sage. ISBN 9781529790191
  1. *Alfandari, R., Crous, G., & Fuentes-Pelaez, N. (2023). Children’s participation in research on violence affecting them: A European overview. In M. Roth, R. Alfandari, & G. Crous (Eds.), Participatory research on child maltreatment with children and adult survivors: Concepts, ethics, and methods (27-49). Emerald Press. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781804555262

            Open access at:            https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781804555262

  1. *Alfandari, R., & Reichenberg, S. (Accepted 17.2.25). Balancing protective legislation and children’s rights. In P. McCafferty, E. Mercardo Garcia, D. Hayes & G. Marshall (Eds.), Children’s rights in social work practice. Theory, Protection, Participation and Provision.