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  1. Indirect effects of PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms on the association between COVID-19 cases/symptoms and intimate partner violence perpetration in the United States.

    Article • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, October 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  2. Complexity of exposure to mass-casualty conflict and terror stress: A population study following a major civilian targeted event

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, July 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  3. The Interplay Between Emotion Regulation, Parental Burnout, and Psychological Distress During War: A Longitudinal Study

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, May 2026, Wiley

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  4. Associations over time between wartime deployment, parental burnout and child adjustment

    Article • Psychiatry Research, January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  5. The Effects of War on Teachers’ Burnout: The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation

    Article • Psychiatry Research, January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  6. Parental PTSD and Children’s Well-Being During Wartime: The Role of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation

    Article • International Journal on Child Maltreatment Research Policy and Practice, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  7. Trait and state emotion regulation and parental wellbeing during war

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, July 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  8. Silent Battles: The Impact of War on the Mental and Physical Health of Endometriosis Patients

    Article • March 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  9. The role of parental mentalizing on the link between parental depression and child emotion regulation

    Article • Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice, December 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  10. Teacher psychopathology, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction during COVID-19: Resilience and risk factors.

    Article • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, June 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  11. Transdiagnostic factors in the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the role of childhood abuse and neglect in establishing latent profiles of risk and resilience

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, May 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  12. Breaking the cycle: Mentalizing moderates and mediates the link between childhood sexual abuse and satisfaction with adult romantic relationships.

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, April 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  13. The role of self-compassion in the association between childhood maltreatment and marital quality: An actor–partner interdependence model.

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, March 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri, Osnat Zamir

  14. From trauma to intimacy: Examining the link between childhood maltreatment and adult sexual functioning – The mediating role of self-criticism

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, March 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  15. What helps the helpers? Resilience and risk factors for general and profession-specific mental health problems in psychotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2023, Frontiers

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  16. The emotional pathway to parenthood: Parental mentalizing mediates the association between alexithymia and parental emotion regulation in the transition to parenthood

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, December 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  17. Editorial: Pathways of risk, resilience, and recovery: impact of stress and trauma on women and girls

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, September 2023, Frontiers

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  18. What Helps the Helpers? Resilience and Risk Factors for General and Profession-Specific Mental Health Problems in Psychotherapists during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Preprint)

    Article • July 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  19. Psychological distress among teaching staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: A transdiagnostic perspective on profiles of risk and resilience

    Article • Teaching and Teacher Education, July 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  20. Telephone interpersonal counseling treatment for frequent attenders to primary care: Development and piloting

    Article • Psychotherapy Research, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  21. The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion Between Childhood Maltreatment and Satisfaction with Intimate Relationships

    Article • Mindfulness, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  22. The role of self-compassion and relation satisfaction in the association between child sexual abuse and sexual functioning

    Article • The Journal of Sexual Medicine, March 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  23. Identifying state self-criticism subscales within the Brief Symptoms Inventory: Analyses of data from Israeli young adults

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, March 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  24. Pathways of Risk, Resilience, and Recovery: Impact of Stress and Trauma on Women and Girls

    Article • January 2023, Frontiers

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  25. “I Know It’s Hard to Believe, But the Monster Who Abused Me is My Mother:” Experiences of Being Sexually Abused as a Child by a Female

    Article • Sexual Abuse, December 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  26. The multifaceted role of empathy in the transmission of postpartum depressive symptoms between parents

    Article • Family Process, September 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  27. Sex in the Shadow of Child Sexual Abuse: The Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Post-Traumatic Sexuality (PT-SEX) Scale

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  28. The Interplay Between Childhood Sexual Abuse, Self-Concept Clarity, and Dissociation: A Resilience-Based Perspective

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  29. Job burnout among Israeli healthcare workers during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: The role of emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress

    Article • PLOS One, March 2022, PLOS

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  30. Identifying State Self-Criticism Subscales Within the Brief Symptoms Inventory: Analyses of Data from Israeli Young Adults

    Article • March 2022, Center for Open Science

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  31. Lover, Mentor, or Exploiter: Retrospective Perspectives of the Older Person Following Sexual Relationships with Adults During Adolescence

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  32. Self-Compassion Moderates the Mediating Effect of Self-Criticism in the Link Between Childhood Maltreatment and Psychopathology

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  33. A profile analysis of COVID-19 stress-related reactions: The importance of early childhood abuse, psychopathology, and interpersonal relationships

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, December 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  34. #Me2PT: A qualitative analysis of a social media network campaign to raise awareness of the consequences of childhood sexual abuse

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, November 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  35. Consequences of Divorce‐Based Father Absence During Childhood for Young Adult Well‐Being and Romantic Relationships

    Article • Family Relations, November 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  36. Losing and regaining reflective functioning in the times of COVID-19: Clinical risks and opportunities from a mentalizing approach.

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, August 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  37. The Reflective Fostering Programme: background and development of a new approach

    Article • Adoption & Fostering, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dana Lassri, Prof Nick Midgley

  38. Undetected scars? Self-criticism, attachment, and romantic relationships among otherwise well-functioning childhood sexual abuse survivors.

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, January 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  39. Mentalisation-based therapy for parental conflict – parenting together; an intervention for parents in entrenched post-separation disputes

    Article • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  40. Parents’ experience of child contact within entrenched conflict families following separation and divorce: a qualitative study

    Article • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Nick Midgley, Prof. Dana Lassri

  41. Mentalization-based therapy for parents in entrenched conflict: A random allocation feasibility study.

    Article • Psychotherapy, December 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  42. The effect of childhood emotional maltreatment on romantic relationships in young adulthood: A double mediation model involving self-criticism and attachment.

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  43. Dissociative absorption: An empirically unique, clinically relevant, dissociative factor

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, November 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  44. Depression in Chronic Physical Illness

    Article • March 2014, Wiley

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  45. Self-Criticism Confers Vulnerability to Psychopathology in the Face of Perceived Stress Related to Missile Attacks: Three Longitudinal Studies

    Article • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  46. Self-Criticism Mediates the Link between Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Young Adults' Romantic Relationships

    Article • Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, March 2012, Guilford Publications

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  47. The interplay between personality, childhood emotional maltreatment, and romantic relationships in young adulthood

    Article • January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dana Lassri

  48. Child Neglect and the Family

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dana Lassri