Liat Tikotzky is a professor at the Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel. Dr. Tikotzky is a licensed clinical psychologist, with specific training and expertise in infant, child, and parent sleep. Her research focuses generally on the relationships between parenting and sleep.

 

Dr. Tikotzky’s research has focused on the longitudinal relationships between sleep-related cognitions in parents and the development of infant sleep patterns, as well as on the role of fathers’ involvement in caregiving and infant sleep development. Currently, Dr. Tikotzky is the principal investigator of a longitudinal study funded by the Israel Science Foundation examining the links between parental sleep disturbances, parental functioning and parent-infant relationships. She is also conducting studies investigating the development of infant sleep by different sleep assessment methods (i.e., actigraphy, sleep diaries and questionnaires).  

 

e-mail: liatti@bgu.ac.il

Avel Horwitz is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University. He received his B.A from Tel-Aviv University and his M.A. in clinical psychology from Ben-Gurion University. His research examines the relationship between fathers' involvement in infant care, coparenting and infant sleep.

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e-mail: avel.horwitz@gmail.com

Yael Porat-Zaiger is a PhD student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion Unversity. She received her B.A in psychology from BGU and her M.A in clinical psychology from Haifa University. She is interested in the relations between sleep patterns, temperament and self-regulation in infants and preschoolers.

e-mail: yael.porath@gmail.com

Alona Molcho-Haimovich is a PhD. student in the Psychology department of Ben-Gurion University. She received her M.A in Special Education from BIU. For the past 20 years Alona worked as a behavioral analyst and parent counselor specializing in Autism. Her research focuses on investigating the effectiveness of behavioral interventions when dealing with sleep disturbances in children with ASD.

e-mail: alonamh@gmail.com

Amit Samet is a PhD student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University. She received her B.A in psychology and brain and cognition science and her M.A in clinical psychology from BGU. She is interested in behavioral sleep interventions for infants with sleeping problems and parental factors that impact treatment outcomes.

e-mail: amitsamet114@gmail.com

Ofek Matzliach received her B.A in Psychology from Ben-Gurion University and is currently an M.A student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University. Her research examines the relationship between parental bedtime involvement and infant sleep.  

e-mail: ofekma@post.bgu.ac.il

Yotam Schori received his B.A in Behavioral Sciences from Ben-Gurion University and is currently an M.A student in clinical psychology at Ben Gurion University. He focuses on investigating the associations between sleep and physiological linkage among couples.

e-mail: schoriyo@post.bgu.ac.il

Adva Assulin received her B.A in Psychology from Ariel University and is currently an M.A student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University. Her research examines the relationship between

maternal distress, coparenting and infant sleep.

e-mail: advasulin1@gmail.com

Malka Leviton received her B.A in Psychology from Hebrew University and is currently an M.A student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University. Her research examines the role of parental guilt in sleep interventions for infants.

e-mail: malka.leviton@gmail.com

Avigail Langer received her BSc in Psychobiology from Ben-Gurion University and is currently an M.A. student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University. Her research examines the role of parental cognitions related to infant sleep, in the treatment of infant insomnia.

e-mail: langerav@post.bgu.ac.il

Maayan Farhana received her B.Sc in Psychology and Life sciences from Ben-Gurion University and is currently an M.A student in developmental Psychology at Ben-Gurion University. Her research examines the role of marital satisfaction and coparenting in the effectiveness of infant insomnia treatment

e-mail: carmelma@post.bgu.ac.il

 

Ella Volkovich, Ph.D.

 

Hamutal Ben-Zion, Ph.D.

Dar Ran-Peled, Ph.D.

Omer Finkelstein, Ph.D.

Dana Sinai, M.A.

Yasmin Bauminger, M.A.

Hila Oren, M.A.

Roni Schneider, M.A.

Gili Shrieber, M.A.

Avigail Palgi-Hecker, M.A.

Mor Bar, M.A.

Dana Elberg, M.A.

Shir Mayan, M.A.

Yosef Fertouk, M.A.

Uriel Harel Schuman, M.A.

Noam Oz, M.A.

Yael Rothschild, M.A.

Ruth Agroskin-Gusarov, M.A.

Shani Zeldman, M.A.

Gal Ferder, M.A.