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Adva Eichengreen, Senior Lecturer

Adva Eichengreen
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The Open University of Israel Department of Education and Psychology 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107, Israel
Office:972-9-7781349 Email:advaei@openu.ac.il

Areas of Interest
  • Disability Studies
  • Deaf and hard-of-hearing, neurodiversity
  • Emotion development
  • Social development, social inclusion, perspective-taking
  • Mental health, self-injury, suicidality

Adva Eichengreen is a senior faculty member (assistant professor) at the Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University, and a clinical psychologist. Her research lies at the intersection of critical disability studies and the mental health and socio-emotional development of children with disabilities, particularly deaf and hard-of-hearing children. She also studies the social inclusion of children with diverse communication needs in mainstream classrooms. Her work combines qualitative and quantitative methods, including proximity-based wearable sensors.

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2014
Ph.D.  Clinical Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2006
M.A.  Clinical Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
Magna Cum Laude
2003
B.A.  Psychology and Philosophy, The  Hebrew University of Jerusalem    
Magna Cum Laude
2026
Senior faculty member (assistant professor), Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University.
2026
Member of The Young Scholars Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
2024-2026
Research associate, School of Developmental Diversity in Education, University of Haifa & Researcher at Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel.
2022-2026
Guest researcher, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Leiden University.
2021-2022
Postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Disability Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2018-2021
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Leiden University.
2017-2018
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Special Education and Educational Counselling, Tel Aviv University.

2022 – 2025 Expert clinical psychologist, the clinic for depression and suicidal behavior, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel.

2021-2022 Internship in clinical psychology at the E. Richard Feinberg Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Schneider Children's Medical Center.

2014-2016 Internship in clinical psychology at the unit for deaf and hard of hearing children and the unit for children from south Tel Aviv. Jaffa public center for mental health, Ministry of Health, Tel-Aviv.

2025
Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (NIHP). Together with Prof. Alan Apter. Schneider’s Children Medical Center of Israel.
2024
Research-Associate program for outstanding researchers, Planning & Budgeting  Committee ("VATAT"), Council for Higher Education & The University of Haifa.
2024
Versano research grant for young, outstanding researchers in conducting clinical studies; Schneider Children Medical Center of Israel. 
2018-2021
H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND LEaDing Fellows Postdoc Program.
2018
Research grant, The Center of Disability Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Together with Prof. Anat Zaidman-Zait.
2012
Research grant, Salinski Foundation, Sigmund Freud Center for Study and 
Research in Psychoanalysis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2012
Research grant, Neuberger Foundation.
2011
Research grant, Neuberger Foundation.
2010
Research grant, Israel Foundations Trustees.
2010
Research grant, National Insurance Institute of Israel.
2010
Research grant, Neuberger Foundation.
2009
Research grant, Israel Association of University Women.
2009
Research grant, Salinski Foundation, Sigmund Freud Center for Study and Research in Psychoanalysis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2008-2011
Scholarship, the Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Fellowship Program for excellent Ph.D. students involved in community leadership, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2005-2007
Scholarship for direct Ph.D. program, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2004
Rector Scholarship for academic excellence for M.A. students, the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew Univerity 
2001
Honors award for academic excellence, The Hebrew University.

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Libbi, C.A., Eichengreen, A., Buiskool, J., Götze, A., Schäfer, K., Stronks, H.C., Frijns, J.H.M., Rieffe, C. Students with cochlear implants’ experiences of built and social school environments. Accepted on 10/06/2026. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.

Libbi, C.A., Frijns, J.H.M., Stronks, H.C., Eichengreen, A., Koutamanis, A., & Rieffe, C. (2026). Affordances for deaf and hard of hearing students’ social participation in mainstream school environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103028

Ringer, N. & Eichengreen, A (2026). Correlations between appraisals, management strategies, and psychological stress among schoolchildren with ADHD – a pilot study. JCPP Advances, 6(3), e70106. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.70106

Eichengreen, A., Spigt, A., & Zaidman-Zait, A. (2025) Social inclusion of mainstreamed deaf or hard-of-hearing preadolescents and their perspectives on coping with communication barriers .European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2025.2537508. 

Eichengreen, A., Tsou Y.T., van Klaveren, L.M., Zaidman-Zait, A., & Koutamanis, A. (2024). Using wearable sensors to explore schoolyard interactions of mainstreamed deaf and hard-of-hearing preadolescents. Social Development, 33(4) e12755. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sode.12755. 

Eichengreen, A., van Rooijen, M., van Klaveren, L.M., Nasri, M., Tsou Y.T., Koutamanis, A., Baratchi, M., & Rieffe, C. (2023). The impact of loose-parts-play on schoolyard social participation of children with and without disabilities: A case study. Child: Care, Health & Development.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cch.13144. 

Eichengreen, A., Tsou Y.T., Nasri, M., van Klaveren, L.M., Li, B., Koutamanis, A., Baratchi, M., Blijd-Hoogewys, E., Kok, J., & Rieffe, C. (2023). Social connectedness at the playground before and after COVID-19 school closure. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2023.101562. 

Eichengreen, A., Broekhof, E., Tsou. Y. T., & Rieffe, C. (2022). Longitudinal effects of emotion awareness and regulation on mental health symptoms in adolescents with and without hearing loss. European Journal of Child & Adolescence Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-021-01900-9.

Tsou, Y. T., Li, B., Eichengreen, A., Frijns, J. H., & Rieffe, C. (2021). Emotions in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and Typically Hearing Children. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.‏ https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enab022. 

Eichengreen, A., Zaidman-Zait, A., Most, T., & Golik, G. (2021). Resilience from childhood to young adulthood: Retrospective perspectives of deaf and hard of hearing people who studied in regular schools. Psychology & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2021.1905161.

Eichengreen, A., & Zaidman-Zait, A. (2020). Relationships among deaf or hard-of-hearing siblings: Developing a sense of self. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 25(1), 43-54.  https://academic.oup.com/jdsde/article/25/1/43/5673275

Eichengreen, A., Broekhof, E., Güroğlu, B., & Rieffe, C. (2020). Fairness decisions in children and early adolescents with and without hearing loss. Social Development, 29(3) 888-902.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sode.12423. 

Eichengreen, A. & Hoofien, D. (2020). Late emotional effects of rehabilitation during childhood and their impact on coping with deafness in adulthood. Journal of Health Psychology, 25(4), 522-https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053177195. 

Rieffe, C., Broekhof, E., Eichengreen, A., Kouwenberg, M., Veiga, G., da Silva, B. M., van der Laan, A. & Frijns, J. H. (2018). Friendship and emotion control in pre-adolescents with or without hearing loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 23(3), 209-218.‏ https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/eny012. 

Eichengreen, A. & Hoofien, D. (2017). Psychometric analyses of new measures of false-self defense: Self-Relatedness and Environment-Directedness Scales. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 35(3), 379–391. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000399. 

Eichengreen, A., Hoofien, D. & Bachar, E. (2016). Empirically-based suggested insights into the concept of False-Self defense: Contributions from a study on normalization of children with disabilities. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA),64(1):107-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651156168. 

Eichengreen, A. & Hoofien, D. (2016). When research meets theory: Empirical conceptualization of the False Self and its connection to socio-critical approach through the case of hard-of-hearing people. Sihot – Dialogue, Israel Journal of Psychotherapy, 31(1): 28-40 (Hebrew). 

Eichengreen, A. & Hoofien, D. (2009). Developmental risk factors among hard-of-hearing people integrated in the hearing society – A psychodynamic perspective. Sihot – Dialogue, Israel Journal of Psychotherapy. 23(3): 255-268 (Hebrew).

Mor, S., Ziv, N., Kanter, E., Eichengreen, A., & Misrachi, N. (Eds.). (2016). Disability Studies: A Reader. Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute. Scientific editorial board: Ziv, N., Mor, S. & Eichengreen, A.  (Hebrew).

Halevi, Y., & Eichengreen, A. (2023). Mental-bodily issues in speech and hearing habilitation of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. In: R.G. Cinamon and T. Most (eds.) Living with Diversity: Research and Application in Work with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Population. Tel-Aviv: Mofet. (Hebrew).

Ketelaar, L., Lambie, J., Li, B., Eichengreen, A., Zaidman-Zait, A., & Rieffe, C.  Hearing loss and young children’s development of emotional competence: the role of parenting (2022). In A.C. Samson, D. Dukes, & E. Walle (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development. London: Oxford University Press, Ch 16 pp. 234-245.

Mor, S., Ziv, N., & Eichengreen, A. (2016).  Disability Studies in Hebrew – An academic field coming into being. Introduction to the reader. In: S. Mor, N. Ziv, A, Kanter, A. Eichengreen and N. Misrachi (Eds.). Disability Studies: A Reader. Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute, pp. 11-54. (Hebrew).

Eichengreen, A., Broyer, N., & Finkelstein, A. (2016). Seizing the elusive Social Model: Disability, cultural criticism, and personal experience. In: S. Mor, N. Ziv, A, Kanter, A. Eichengreen and N. Misrachi (Eds.) Disability Studies: A Reader. Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute, pp. 103-113. (Hebrew).

Eichengreen, A., Almog, N., & Broyer, N. (2016). The Disability Closet: Coming out, staying in, or deconstructing. In: S. Mor, N. Ziv, A, Kanter, A. Eichengreen and N. Misrachi (Eds.). Disability Studies: A Reader. Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute, pp. 299-311. (Hebrew).

Eichengreen, A., Ziv, N. & Mor, S. (2013). Making Conferences Accessible: A Guide. Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute. (Hebrew). 

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• Examining the effectiveness of a brief therapeutic intervention with adolescents who self-harm. Psychological and Counseling Services (Shefi)

• Experienced discrimination, internalized stigma and mental health symptoms in higher-education students with and without disabilities. Together with Dr. Joy Benatov.

• Experienced stigma and parent-child communication about stigma among children with Tourette syndrome. Together with Dr. Dana Feldman, Tourette Clinic, Scheider Children’s Medical Center.

• Promoting social inclusion of neurodivergent children in mainstream classes. Together with Prof. Bat-Sheva Hadad. 

• Development of an advanced theory-of-mind task in the context of unfamiliar communication preferences. Together with Prof. Hadad, Prof. Tami Katzir and Anat Zaafrani.

M.A. theses

• (present) M. Jabareen; University of Haifa (with Dr. Szpiro)
This thesis proposal has won a 2025 grant from the Shalem Foundation: “Play and Playfulness: Experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Parents in Joint Play with Their Hearing Children”. 

• (present) R. Shaaban (with Prof. Bat-Sheva Hadad)

• (present) G. Tzur (with Prof. Bat-Sheva Hadad)

• (2022) L. Paulissen; Leiden University (with Prof. Rieffe)

• (2022) L. Hoohenboom; Leiden University (with Prof. Rieffe)

• (2021) E. Oldenburg; Leiden University (with Prof. Rieffe)

• (2021) M. Veens; Leiden University (with Prof. Rieffe)

• (2020) W. Khaitech; Leiden University (with Prof. Rieffe)

• (2020) A. Spigt; Leiden University (with Prof. Veldhuijzen)

• (2020) F. Hempel; Leiden University (with Prof. Rieffe)

• (2019) B. van Zessen; M.A. Leiden University (with Prof. Rieffe)

• (2018) G. Golik; Tel Aviv University (with Prof. Zaidman-Zait and Prof. Most)

B.A. theses

• (2020) S. Cerit; Leiden University (with Prof. Rieffe)

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  • Open University Courses
    • (BA) Diversity in Education (10807)
    • (BA) Issues in Special Education (10139)
    • (MA) Technologies for People with Disabilities (14022)
  • 2023- 2024 MA program of Education for Children at Risk and Exclusion, Oranim College of Education.
    • Instruction at practical work (yearly workshops)
    • Disability Studies: social, emotional, and educational aspects

    2011-2017 MA  and BA, Special Education and Educational Counselling and the Unit for Teacher Education, Tel Aviv University. 
    • Rehabilitation and integration of children with disabilities: Psychodynamic and sociological perspectives 

    2014 Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
    • Clinic for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Co-teaching with Dr. Einat Elbin and Prof. Yoav Dotan.

    2014 MA Special Education, Teachers of Children with Complex Disabilities, David Yalin College, Jerusalem.
    • From childhood to adulthood in light of Disability Studies and Psychology