Dr. Miri Kestler-Peleg
She is a social worker and senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, Ariel University, Israel. Her research focuses on gendered aspects of well-being and mental health, parenting under conditions of stress, and psychosocial processes during the transition to parenthood. She leads longitudinal, cross-sectional, and cross-cultural studies examining maternal self-efficacy, posttraumatic symptoms, intolerance of uncertainty, maternal guilt, and breastfeeding motivation within the framework of Self-Determination Theory. Her work integrates quantitative methodologies to investigate risk and resilience processes among mothers and families, with particular attention to motherhood as a gendered social and psychological experience. Alongside her academic work, she maintains a clinical practice providing individual psychotherapy and professional supervision for therapists. Dr. Kestler-Peleg has published in leading international journals and collaborates on cross-cultural projects in family and health psychology.
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