Ephrat Huss, PhD
April 2010
CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Ephrat Huss
Place and Date of Birth: Israel, 1960
Marital Status: Married, three children
Citizenship and Identity Card Number: Israel, 056422587
Permanent Address: Hadas 19a Omer
Home Telephone Number: 972-8-6900695
Office Address and Phone: 972-8-6428136
Email Address: ehuss@bgu.ac.il
EDUCATION
B.A.
1993-1996 Hebrew University, Education and Hebrew Literature
M.A.
1997-1999 Hebrew University, Interdisciplinary Program in
Education and Social Work, Specialization in Early Childhood (with
distinction)
Ph.D.
2007 Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University. Subject of
Doctorate Thesis: Art as Self Expression within Impoverished
Bedouin Women's Empowerment Groups Supervisor: Professor Julie
Cwikel.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2007-2010
Lecturer Position at Jack J. and Charlotte B. Spitzer Department of
Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,
84105, Israel.
2006
Lecturer, Half Position, Arts Therapy Program, David Yellin
College, Jerusalem.
2003-2006
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University.
2002-2006
Adjacent Lecturer, Art Therapy Program, Senior Supervisor for MA
Research Theses, Lesley University, Natanya.
2000-2006
Southern Region Project Supervisor for Intercultural Early
Childhood Supervision Program, Hebrew University.
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
a. Positions in Academic Administration and Membership in Academic
Committees
2010
Heading Conference "Arts and Social Change" together with Yahat, art
therapists association, BGU Social work department, and Beer Sheba
municipality
2010 Initiating Gallery for Community art within social work department
2010
Member of Research Group "Utilizing Anthropological Knowledge",
Van Leer Institute
2009-2010
Collaboration with European Graduate School on joint program
implementation
2009-2010
Collaboration with Hunter College on Social Action conference and
research
2008-9
Academic Advisory Committee for the National Conference for
Women's Mental Health
2008
Academic Advisory Committee for the National Conference of Group
Methods
2008
Academic Advisory Committee for the National Conference of
Qualitative Research Methods
2007
Visiting Scholar for Post-Doctoral Research: Centre for Community
and Health Studies, Hertfordshire University, England. (PostDoctoral research position for half a year, spread over two threemonth summers). Supervisor: Professor Helen Payne.
2007
Exhibition of Social Work Students Art "Creative Heart Therapy"
Experiences of Community, Family, Childhood and the Body: Social
Work Department Ben-Gurion University.
2006-2008
Member of the Academic Committee and Representative of the
Qualitative Research of the Arts, in the Scientific Committee of the
National Conference for Qualitative Research.
2006
Academic Advisory Committee for the National Conference on
Qualitative Research Methods
2006-2008
Member of the Committee for Qualitative Research Ben-Gurion
University.
2004-2008
Initiator and Leader of National Arts Based Research Study Group,
Ben-Gurion Center for Qualitative Research.
2007 -
Chairperson and Director of the M.A. Art Therapy Program,
Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University.
2007 -
Art Therapy Graduate Program Curriculum Development, Department
of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University.
2007
Academic Committee of the Israeli Conference of Group Processes.
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2005-2007
Academic advisor to all MA Theses Courses, Lesley University,
Natanya Extension.
2007
Initiator of Exhibition of Social Work Students Art "Creative HeArt
Therapy" Experiences of Community, Family, Childhood and the
Body: Social Work Department Ben-Gurion University.
b. Professional Functions outside Universities
2010 Initiate workshops for secondary trauma for doctors and social workers in
Soroka Hospital and in Psychiatric Hospital
2009
Volunteer Once Monthly Supervision for Group for Ex-Students of
Creative Tools for Social Work MA Specialization
2008-2009
Volunteer Supervision for the "Isha-Beshela" Staff of Therapists for
the Feminist Therapy Center at Ben-Gurion University
2007
Collaboration with Student Psychological Services on Art Therapy
Groups for Students at Ben-Gurion
2007
Collaboration with the Women's Forum at Ben-Gurion University,
Imitating Group Support Through Movement and Art Enrichment
Workshops
2007
Volunteer Supervisor and Advisor for Maslan, Center for Rape Crises
Intervention Volunteer Work: Supervision for "Em-Leem" Mothers to
Mothers Volunteers
2002-2007
Supervision of Art Therapists, in Groups and Individually, Private
Practice
2006
Workshop using Arts as Conflict Resolution for Arab- Jewish Team of
Social Workers Working on Or-Shalom, Boarding Houses for Welfare
Children in Rahat
1995-2006
Member of Yahat, the Association for Israeli Art Therapists
2006
Member of Assessment Committee for Association of Art Therapists
(Yahat).
c. Member of Editorial Board
201 Reviewer for Clinical Social Work
2010
Reviewer for Gender and Education
2009
Reviewer for articles in Qualitative inquiry in Education
2009
Reviewer for articles in Arts in Psychotherapy
2010
Member of International Advisory Panel for the Journal of Body,
Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
a. Courses taught (graduate)
2009-2010
Qualitative and Arts based Research methods, MA Ben-Gurion
University
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2009-2010
Theoretical aspects of Arts Therapy, MA Ben-Gurion University
2009-2010
Creative tools for Social workers, with different populations. MA BenGurion University
2009-2010
Arts based studio, MA Ben-Gurion University
2008-2009
A Theoretical Introduction to Creative Tools in Social Work, MA BenGurion University
2007-2009
Arts as a Tool within Conflict Resolution, MA Ben-Gurion University
2007
Qualitative Research Methods for Nurses, MA Nursing Faculty
2007
Academic Advisor to All MA Theses Courses, Lesley University
2007
Dynamic Group for Dance Therapists, David Yellin Art Therapy.
2002-2006
Qualitative Research Methods and Thesis Supervision, Lesley
University
2003-2009
Creative Techniques for Social Workers Within Individual
Interventions, Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University
2003-2009
Practicum in Arts Based Interventions for Social Workers, Department
of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University
2006
Introduction to Family Therapy for Arts Therapists, David Yellin
College, Jerusalem
2006
Different Theoretical Approaches to Interventions with Children,
David Yellin College, Jerusalem
2006
Evaluation Strategies within Interventions with Children and Families.
David Yellin College, Jerusalem
b. Research students
MA Theses;
Student Noah Barkai: Use of creative tools in social activism (Co
supervision with Dr Roni Kaufman)
MA Theses Student: Najla Masri : Experiences of teenage marriage within the Arab
community(Co supervision with Dr Dorit Engelsman)
MA Theses; Student: Avril Sabony. Children's perceptions of food insecurity as
expressed through drawings. (Co-supervision with Dr. Roni Kaufman).
Received degree, 2007
MA Theses; Student: Avital Kaufman. Children's experiences of the forced
evacuation from Gush-Katif as expressed through Art. (Co-supervision
with Dr. Nuttman Shwartz). Received degree, 2008.
MA Theses; Student: Marina Yurevsky. Using art and bibliotherapy as a tool to tell
adopted children their story
MA Theses; Student: Janna Perezhow. AT patients experience of their illness in terms
of quality of life
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MA Theses; Student: Samaach Abu-Alheiga. A comparison of Bedouin children's
experience of living in recognized versus unrecognized settlements
through drawings
MA Theses; Student: Hadar Rabin. Neurological implications of Art for relaxation
(Co-supervision with Prof. Yoella Meyer Bereby, Psychology)
MA Theses; Student: Ruti Shema Kohen. ADHD: diagnoses according to the
experience of those diagnosed
MA Theses; Student: Janet Alhozayel. Attitudes towards retardation within the
Bedouin community
MA Theses; Student: Tali Bar-Moshe. Evaluation of Art as a tool for welfare clients
in deep and ongoing stress
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
a. Refereed articles
1. Huss, E., & Cwikel J. (2005). Researching creations: Applying arts-based
research to Bedouin Women's drawings. International Journal of Qualitative
Methods, 4 (4): 1-16.
2. Huss, E. (2007). Symbolic Spaces: Marginalized Bedouin women's art as self
expression. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 47 (3): 306-319.
3. Huss E., & Cwikel, J. (2007). Houses, swimming pools, and thin blonde
women: Arts based research through a critical lens with impoverished Bedouin
women in Israel. Qualitative Inquiry, 13 (7): 960-988.
4. Huss E. (2008). Shifting Spaces and Lack of Spaces: Impoverished Bedouin
women's experience of cultural transition through arts-based research. Visual
Anthropology, 21 (1) 58-71.
5. Huss, E., Dafna-Tekoa S., & Cwikel, J. (2008). "Hidden Treasures" from Israeli
women's writing groups: Exploring an integrative, feminist therapy. Women
and Therapy 32 (1): 1-18.
6. Huss, E., & Cwikel J. (2008). Embodied drawings as expressions of distress
among impoverished single Bedouin mothers. Archives of Women's Mental
Health, 11 (2): 137-147.
7. Huss, E., & Cwikel J. (2008). "It's hard to be the child of a fish and a butterfly":
Creative Genograms: Bridging objective and subjective experiences. Arts in
Psychotherapy, 35 (2): 171-180
8. Huss, E. (2009). A case study of Bedouin women's art in social work: A model of social
arts intervention with 'traditional' women negotiating Western cultures. Social Work
Education, 28 (6): 598-616 [Special Edition: Cultures in Transition].
9. Huss, E. (2009). "A coat of many colors": Towards an integrative multilayered model
of art therapy. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 36 (3): 154-160.
10. Sarid, O., & Huss, E. (2010). Trauma and acute stress disorder: A comparison between
cognitive behavioral intervention and art therapy. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 37 (1):
8-12.
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11. Huss, E., &, Sarid O., & Cwikel J.. Using Art as a Self-Regulating Tool in a War
Situation: A Model for Social Workers. Health and Social Work.(In Press)
12. Huss, E. (Accepted). The impact of belly dancing and drawing of the dancing
experience on women's body image. Dance and psychotherapy.
13. Huss, E. (Accepted). Fabric and Thread as an expression of Cultural and
Gendered Identity for Bedouin Women in Israel: Implications for art therapy,
Inscape.
14. Nuttman-Shwarze, D. & Huss, E & Altman A . (2010). The Experience of Forced Relocation as
Expressed in Children's drawings" Clinical Social Work Journal.(in press)
15. Nuttman-Swartz O. & Huss, E,& Altman A(2010)Forced relocation and it’s
impact on latency aged children Mifgash journal for education and social work.
Vol. 31 p 161-181June 2010 (Hebrew)
b. Chapters in collective volumes
1. Huss, E. (2004). To Smell the Wind: Using Drawing in the Training of Bedouin
Early Childhood Professionals by a Jewish Teacher. In: Speiser Marcow, V., &
Powel, M. C. (eds.) The Arts, Education, and Social Change: Little Signs of Hope,
New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 75-87.
2. Huss, E. (2010). Bedouin women’s embroidery as female empowerment. In: Moon
C. (ed.) Materials and Media in Art Therapy, London: Routledge.
3. Huss, E. (2010), A social-critical reading of indigenous women's art: The use of
visual data to 'show,' rather than 'tell,' of the intersection of different layers of
oppression. In: Levine, S., & Levine, E. (eds.) Arts and Social change, Jessica
Kingsley publishers.(In Press)
4. Huss, E. (2010) Qualitative Critical Arts Based Research: Using Art as a Speech
Act for Bedouin Women. In Kacen L., & Nevo M. (eds.) Qualitative Research in
Israel [in Hebrew]. Ben Gurion Press.
5. Cwikel, J. & Ephrat Huss, E.. Three-dimensional representations of social work
students' identity: a mixed-method analysis in a multi-cultural population. In:
International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice,
vol. 2, Ethnicity and Race. ( Elinor L. Brown & Pamela Gibbons, eds.) (in press)
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
a. Invited Plenary Lectures at Conferences/Meetings
1. Huss, E. Art: The Forgotten Intelligence, Music, colors, and Movement.
Conference in Memory of Benny Delphine, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2004.
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b. Presentation of Papers at Conferences/Meetings
1. Huss, E. Art Therapy within a Multidisciplinary Team: Intimacy, Competition and
‘Where is the Child?’ Conference of the Association of Israeli Art Therapists, Ramat
Efal, Israel, 1996.
2. Huss, E. Creating Research, Researching Creations. 5th International Congress of
Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005.
3. Huss, E. Invited lecture and workshop. Multi-cultural art therapy: Issues and
Dilemmas. Chicago Art Institute. The Department of Art Therapy. Chicago, USA,
2005.
4. Huss, E. From Somatic Expression to Symbolic Expression` Interdisciplinary
Conference on The body as a Site for Suffering, Pleasure, and Sickness, Ben-Gurion
University, Israel, 2006.
5. Huss, E. Narratives of Duality: Art as a Speech Act for Impoverished Bedouin
Women, The National Anthropological Conference, Ashdod, Israel, 2006.
6. Huss, E. Houses, Cars, and Thin Blonde Women. National Qualitative Research
Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2006.
7. Huss, E. From Somatic Expression to Symbolic Expression` Interdisciplinary
Conference on The body as a Site for Suffering, Pleasure, and Sickness, Ben-Gurion
University, Israel, 2006.
8. Huss, E. Narratives of Duality: Art as a Speech Act for Impoverished Bedouin
Women, The National Anthropological Conference, Ashdod, Israel, 2006.
9. Huss, E. Houses, Cars, and Thin Blonde Women. National Qualitative Research
Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2006.
10. Huss, E. Expressive Art as Communication with Impoverished Bedouin Women,
Imagine: Creative Approaches to Dealing with Conflict in Groups: International
Conference, Tel-Aviv, 2007.
11. Huss, E. Media and Materials from an Intercultural viewpoint - Art and Therapy.
Invention and Innovation: American Art Therapy Association International
Conference: Cleveland Ohio, USA, 2008.
12. Huss, E. Arts as a Speech Act from the Margins: Vital Signs Real Life Methods
ESRC National Center for Research methods International Conference. Manchester
University, England, 2008.
13. Huss, E., & Kaufman R. A black hole or social injustice? Using art in community
interventions for social change. First Israeli conference for supervision in social
work. Tel Hai, 2009.
14. Huss, E. Arts in conflict resolution. International Conference on Crises as
Opportunity. Organizational and Professional Responses to Disaster. Arts and self care: International conference. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,
Israel, 2009.
15. Huss, E. Embodied drawings of distress among Bedouin women suffering from
psycho somatic symptoms. International conference of Critical Health Psychology:
ISPHO9. Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009.
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16. Huss, E. Creative genograms with families of psychiatric patients:. National
conference: "Meital" models and tools for working with families of psychiatric
patients. Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2009.
17. Huss, E. A culturally sensitive understanding of art therapy and conflict
negotiation. International Conference on Arts and Trauma. Lesley University, Israel,
2009.
18. Huss, E. Art as self-care for professional caretakers in times of crises such as war.
International Art Therapy Conference: The Internationalization of the Creative Arts in
Therapy. Lasalle Collage of the Arts, Singapore, 2010.
c. Presentations at informal international seminars and workshops
1. Huss, E. Workshop on the Use of Creative Interventions with Children. National
Conference for Social Workers, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 1999.
2. Huss, E. Workshop on Arts Based Research. National Interdisciplinary Conference
on Qualitative Research Methods, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2003.
3. Huss, E. Workshop on arts based research National Qualitative Research
Conference Tel Aviv, Israel, 2006.
4. Huss, E. Workshop on arts and conflict. NYU University Art therapy program.
New York, 2009.
RESEARCH GRANTS
2005-2006 P.I. Scholarship of the Bedouin Research Center in Ben-Gurion
University (Implementing research into empowerment models for
marginalized Bedouin women (10,000 dollars).
2006
P.I. Whitman fund research scholarship (2,000 dollars)
2009
Brandies University HBI award and grant for feminist research (5,000
dollars)
PRESENT ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
a. Research in progress
Books and articles to be published
1. Cwikel, J., & Huss, E. A new tool for multi-cultural social work education– the
creative identity puzzle - a mixed method analysis submitted to Journal of Social
Work Education.
2. Huss, E. Transitional Spaces: Bedouin Women Negotiating Westernized
Childcare Practice. An Arts Based Study submitted to Gender, Space and Culture.
3. Book proposal: Kacen L., & Huss, E. (eds.): Things we see and things we say:
Social methodologies for researching the visual: A Handbook. Submitted to
Routledge and to Jessica Kingsley.
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4. Huss, E., & Sarid, O. Using imagery in Treating. ASD: A Comparative Tale of
Two Patients with Acute Stress Disorder". Submitted to Journal of Aggression,
Maltreatment & Trauma.
5. Huss E., & Kaufman, R. Food Insecurity perceptions of social work students
before and after interventions in the field. Submitted to Journal of Social Work
Education.
Research grants submitted
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Gustavo, M., Avriel-Avni, N., Korin, C., & Huss, E. (2009-10). A comparison of
the experience of Bedouin children in townships vs. unrecognized settlements.
Handed in research grant with colleges to M.O.P (local authority research grants).

Huss, E. (2010). The efficacy of an assessment tool for normative populations
exposed to war and combat. Handed in ISF research grant.

Cwikel, J. Sarid, O. Huss E.(2010) : Using art as a self-regulating tool for
care-giving professionals or semi-professionalsHanded in Guggenhiem
Peace Grant.

Huss E, Amos O( 2010) Creating fulfillment at work for people with disabilities.
Keren Shalom Handed in research grant .
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Received teaching distinction from Ben-Gurion student teaching survey, 2009-2010.
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SYNOPSIS OF RESEARCH
My overall area of research, is the interface between arts based research methods and
interventions within social work. This has been developed into: a. Methodological
implications; b. Clinical interventions; and c. Theoretical directions.
A. Methodological implications
Firstly, I have researched the potential of arts based research as an indigenous and
feminists methodology for accessing the experiences of marginalized non western
women. Outcomes from my research are that the arts are especially suited to capturing
the multifaceted levels of impoverished, marginalized and non western client's
experience. This is developed in the following (see CV, Scientific Publication,
reference no. 4, published in Qualitative Research in Israel; reference no. 13,
published in Qualitative Inquiry; reference no. 18, published in International Journal
of Qualitative Methods; reference no. 15, published in Visual Anthropology. See also
reference in section b - Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice).
For this research direction I received a grant from the Center for Bedouin Studies
(see, research grants section). Additionally, I founded a national art based research
group of Based on this group research Together with my colleague Prof Kacen, and
Dr. Einav Segev, we are editing a book on the work of this group, called From theory
to practice and back again (see Present Activities section, part a). The book is in
progress.
B. Clinical interventions
I have researched the use of arts as an interventional method within clinical practice.
This direction includes the use of art to express indirect patterns of resistance and as
and away to encourage strengths based understandings of clients recourses, creativity,
and. Self definition of problems, as well as the arts as a method of developing critical
consciousness (see Scientific Publication, reference no. 3, published in arts,
education, and social change; reference no. 5, published in Arab Women: Sites of
Resistance, and in the following journals: Gender and Education - reference no. 6;
Social Work Education – reference no. 7; and Women and Therapy: A feminist
quarterly - reference no. 12. This research direction received a Whitman research
award (see Research Grants).
An additional direction, written with Professor Cwikel, was about the relationship
between self expression and somatic symptoms for marginalized women (reference
no. 11, published in Archives of women's mental health) This research received a
Brandies University HBI award and grant for feminist research.
An additional clinical implication researched, is the use of the arts as an intercultural
tool with clients from diverse backgrounds: This was studied among Bedouin Muslim
women, as well as Sephardic Jewish women. The arts enabled a shared understanding
of different social realities, as well as a way to integrate opposing and hybrid cultural
identities (see reference no. 1, published in Media and Materials: Expanding Visual
Language in contemporary art therapy and reference no. 6, published in Gender and
Education; reference no. 8, published in Dance and Psychotherapy; and reference no.
12 published in Women and Therapy: A Feminist Quarterly).
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C. Theoretical directions
The interface between social work and the arts has not yet been researched in terms of
its theoretical implications to social work theory: The following articles have
attempted this, and include the use of a social critical analysis of clients’ art, as well
as practice directions for integrating phenomenological and socially contextualized
data about clients and about social workers (see reference no. 9 and no. 10, published
in Arts in Psychotherapy; reference no. 7, published in Social Work Education; and a
paper submitted to Archives for Psychiatric Nursing - see Present Activities section,
part b).
My research plans in the future are to continue to develop the methodological,
clinical, and theoretical directions of this innovative area. On the level of arts based
research, I have submitted a research grant with colleagues to local authority funding
sources, a comparison of the experience of Bedouin children in townships vs.
unrecognized settlements (see Present Activities section, part a). On the level of
theory, I have submitted a book proposal to Routledge on this subject called Towards
a Social Theory of Art therapy (see Present Activities section, part a). On the clinical
level, I aim to continue to undertake evidence based, evaluative research concerning
the effectiveness of arts interventions: and I have submitted an ISF research grant
named a study of the inclusion of creative interventions within social work: Typology
and theoretical implication (see Present Activities section, part a).
At present I am developing with colleagues, a collaborative research project aiming to
understand the impact of art on social work students, and of social action on artists,
that integrates radical social work and the arts- aiming to continue integrating the arts
within social work on a theoretical, clinical, and methodological level.
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