Introduction
Yoel Elizur, Ph.D., associate professor, is the director of the Clinical Child and Educational Psychology Program at The Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (http://education.huji.ac.il/yoel-elizur). Dr. Elizur, a clinical, educational, and medical psychologist, is a leading expert in the design, implementation, and research of family-focused care in public human services. Some of the specific areas he has contributed to include (a) the promotion of collaborative family-agency care for young children, adolescents, and young adults, (b) intervention design and research with parents and teachers of young children with conduct problems, and (c) work with stress-related issues of combat soldiers in Israel. In 2010, he was appointed to a 3-year term as chairperson of Israel’s Council of Psychologists and the Minister of Health’s consultant on policy and practice of psychology in Israel.
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Dr. Elizur was born and raised in Israel...
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Elizur, Y. (1996). Involvement, collaboration, and empowerment: A model for consultation with human-service agencies and the development of family-oriented care. Family Process, 35(2), 191–210.
Elizur, Y. (2012). Development and dissemination of collaborative family-oriented services: The case of community/day residential care in Israel. Family Process, 51(1), 140–156.
Elizur, J., & Minuchin, S. (1989). Institutionalizing madness: Families, therapy and society. New York: Basic Books.
Elizur, Y., & Perednik, R. S. (2003). Prevalence and description of selective mutism in immigrant and native families: A controlled study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42(12), 1451–1459.
Elizur, Y., & Somech, L. Y. (2018). Callous-unemotional traits and effortful control mediate the effect of parenting intervention on preschool conduct problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0412-z.
Somech, L. Y., & Elizur, Y. (2012). Promoting self-regulation and cooperation in pre-kindergarten children with conduct problems: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51(4), 412–422.
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Ariel, J. (2019). Elizur, Yoel. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1137-1
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