Acculturation Stress, academic stress, coping and adjustment among students from different cultural backgrounds in Israel.

Idioms of distress: Depression and somatization among Bedouin and Jewish students.

Personality vulnerabilities in Late Adolescence and young adulthoods.

Coping resources among Bedouin Arab adolescents during political violence periods.

Medical clowning in the cross-cultural context

Self-disclosure, social media use, and mental health issues

1. Abu-Kaf, S. & Priel, B. (2008)." Dependent and self-critical vulnerabilities to depression in two different cultural contexts". “Personality and Individual Differences”, 44, 689-700. (This article was chosen as a recommended for reading by the PID).
2. Abu-Kaf, S. & Priel, B. (2012) " Vulnerabilities to Depression and Sense of Coherence among Bedouin Arab and Jewish Students: A Test of a Mediation Model". “International Journal of Psychology and Counseling”, 4(3), 31-40.
3. Abu-Kaf, S., Braun-Lewensohn, O., & Priel, B. " Coping strategies and social support as mediators of the relationship between self-criticism and depression: Bedouin Arab and Jewish students under academic stress. "Journal of cross-cultural psychology". “Under review”.
4. Braun-Lewensohn, O, Abu-Kaf, S., Sagy, S. "Attitudes towards war and peace and their relations with anxiety reactions among adolescents living in a conflictual area". " Youth & Society". “Under review”.

Articles in Preparation

1. Abu-Kaf, S. & Braun-Lewensohn, O. " Coping resources as explanatory factors of stress reactions during missile attacks: comparing Jewish and Bedouin Arab adolescents in Israel.
2. Abu-Kaf, S. & Kleinman, A.” Emotional Distress among Bedouin Arab Females: Circumstances, Factors, and a Proposed intervention program.
3. Abu-Kaf, S. “ Is Dependency a vulnerability factor among Bedouin Arab society?”
4. Abu-Kaf, S., Shahar, G. Kleinman, A, Priel, B. Depression and somatization among Bedouin Arab and Jewish students.

Sarah Abu-Kaf is currently lecturer in cross-cultural psychology in Conflict Management and Resolution Program in BGU. She earned her MA in Clinical Psychology and PhD at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev.
She spent her post- doc studies in the Medical Anthropology program at Harvard University.
She specializes in areas of personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy in different Cultural Contexts.
By working at the edges between theory and practice as well as Western and non-Western cultural contexts, she hopes to make significant contribution to both understanding mental health problems and the development of culturally competent interventions.