Dr. Maya Benish-Weisman is researcher and a Senior Lecturer at The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in the Psychology Depratment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She was a Senior Lecture in Counseling and Human Development Department at the University of Haifa and was the head of the Educational Counseling program. Her research focuses on values and social behavior among adolescents, the relations between values trajectories and youth adjustment and the psychological effect of immigration especially on ethnic identity.

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