Prof. Michal Shamai (Ph.D., University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration) is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work. Her research focuses on the impact of potential traumatic events on micro and mezzo systems, including families, community and helpers. Prof. Shamai has extensive experience in research and psychosocial interventions with victims of war and terror and individuals living in poverty. She has published extensively in this field and is author of Systemic Intervention in Situations of Collective and National Trauma and Therapeutic Interventions with Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope. She was recognized for her outstanding contribution by the Association for Israeli Social Workers, and in June 2016, will receive an award from the American Family Therapy Academy for her distinguished contribution to family therapy.