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Dr. Sarit Steinmetz

Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology Ph.D., State University of New York (SUNY)

Research and Teaching Expertise

Clinical Psychology

As a lecturer in the master's degree programs in adult clinical psychology and child clinical psychology, and as an intern instructor in the psychology school's clinic, I focus on the various effects of the environment on children's development in general, and on the development of anxiety and behavior problems in particular. basing our work on a combination of theoretical knowledge, research and clinical experience, I focuswith the students and intersns on parent-child relationships, and the ways in which these relationships can be a source of resilience, or alternatively a source of vulnerability. In addition, from working with the families and the children, we observe the ever-changing link between the dynamics at home and the child's ability to respond to the developmental challenges required of them personally (self-image, for example) and socially. FInally, when it seems that there is an unclear inner world that leads to certain disruptions in treatment and/or human life, I teach the students and guide the interns in the use of structured diagnostic tools (such as the Wechsler test) and projective ones (Rorschach, TAT, and HTP) with the goal of deepening our understanding of the patient's inner world, as well as their strengths, resources and distresses, in order to more refine the goals of the treatment, and the clinical work with the specific individual.
Guttmann-Steinmetz, S., Shoshani, A., Farhan, K., Aliman, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2012). Living in the crossfire: Effects of exposure to political violence on Palestinian and Israeli mothers and children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36(1), 71–78.

Gadow, K. D., Guttmann-Steinmetz, S., Rieffe, C., & DeVincent, C. J. (2012). Depression symptoms in boys with autism spectrum disorder and comparison samples. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(7), 1353–1363.

Omer, H., Steinmetz, S. G., Carthy, T., & von Schlippe, A. (2013). The anchoring function: Parental authority and the parent‐child bond. Family Process, 52(2), 193–206.

Shoshani, A., & Steinmetz, S. (2014). Positive psychology at school: A school-based intervention to promote adolescents’ mental health and well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Subjective Well-Being, 15(6), 1289–1311.

Neria, Y., Guttmann-Steinmetz, S., Koenen, K., Levinovsky, L., Zakin, G., Dekel, R. (2001). do attachment and hardiness relate to eachother and to mental-health in real-life stress. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 18, 844-858.

Guttmann-Steinmetz, S., & Crowell, J.A. (2006). Attachment and Externalizing Disorders: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 440-451.

Guttmann-Steinmetz S., Gadow, K. D., & DeVincent, C. (2009). Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorder Behaviors in Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder with and without Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Versus Several Comparison Samples Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 976-985.

Guttmann-Steinmetz, S., DeVincent, C., Gadow, K., & Crowell, J.A. Anxiety Symptoms in Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or Chronic Multiple Tic Disorder and Community Controls. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, In Press.

Shoshani, A., Steinmetz, S., & Kanat-Maymon, Y. (2016). Effects of the Maytiv positive psychology school program on early adolescents' well-being, engagement, and achievement. Journal of School Psychology, 57, 73–92.
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