Prevention of Maladjustment to Life Course Transitions

Moshe Israelashvili, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University in Israel. His studies focus on prevention of maladjustment, coping skills and resilience promotion. He published over 100 papers and chapters, and co-edited several books, including: The Cambridge Handbook of International Prevention Science (2017, Cambridge University Press; with John L. Romano), Education in the Arab Society in Israel (2020, Mofet; with Fadia Nasser Abu-Alhija) and Youth Without Family to Lean On (2022, Routledge; with Shula Mozes). In recent years he received the International Collaborative Prevention Research Award from the Society for Prevention Research (SPR), the Lifetime Achievement Award in Prevention from the Prevention Section of the Society of Counseling Psychology (APA-Div. 17), and the Lifetime Career Award from the International Stress, Trauma, Anxiety and Resilience Society (STAR).

• Part I: Introduction.- 1. The need to prevent maladjustment to life course transitions.- 2. Adjustment to Transitions: Definitions of Terms.- Part II: Adjustment to Transitions.- 3. Theories of adjustment to transitions.- 4. Reconsidering Stage Theories of Adjustment.- 5. Adjustment to Transitions: Common Components.- 6. The Transitional Stress and Adjustment (TSA) Model.- 7. Preliminary Explorations of the TSA Model’s Validity.- Part III: Prevention of Maladjustment: Family Context.- 8. The Transition to Parenthood: From Adjustment to Personal Growth.- 9. Adjustment to Divorce.- PART IV: Prevention of Maladjustment: Educational Context.- 10. The Transition to Secondary School: A Definition and Conceptualization of Adjustment During Adolescence.- 11. College Adjustment and Maladjustment.- PART V: Prevention of Maladjustment: Army Context.- 12. Adjustment Following Separation: Prevention of Child Maladjustment Following Parental Deployment to War.- 13. Veteran Transitionto Civilian Life: Leveraging the Strengths of Military Culture.- PART VI: Prevention of Maladjustment: Civilian Context.- 14. Adjustment to Immigration.- 15. Inclusion: Environmental Efforts to Prevent Maladjustment in the Service of Human Growth.- PART VII: Prospective Challenges.- 16. Prevention of Maladjustment: Paving a Way Forward.