**About the Editors**

**Orna Braun-Lewensohn** Orna Braun-Lewensohn is a Full Professor and the head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). She also serves as a faculty member at the "Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management" Program. She received her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussels in 2007. Her major research interests include mental health outcomes and coping during or following stressful events. The focus of her research is personal as well as communal coping resources in different cultural groups. Her theoretical perspective is the salutogenic model of Antonovsky and the coping theory of Lazarus and Folkman. She is considered an expert in this field. In recent years, she was funded by: Ministry of Science and Technology—The Integration of Academic Minority Women into the Israeli Workforce: Ultra-Orthodox and Bedouin Women; The Israel National Institute for Health—Barriers and catalysts for the use of mental health services in light of the mental health reform; Israeli Science Foundation (ISF)—Salutogenesis as a universal construct and to develop a sensitive research tool for understanding a sense of coherence among indigenous cultures; Israeli Democracy Institute - Between the 'out' and the 'in': Integration of Ultra-Orthodox academics in the Israeli job market; Joint Tevet; Ministry of Internal Security; Peres Center for Peace, among others. She publishes extensively in journals such as: Current Psychiatry Reports, Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, Community Mental Health Journal, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Positive Psychology, and Social Indicators Research.

**Claude-H ´el `ene Mayer** (Dr. habil., Ph.D., Ph.D.) is a Professor in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, an Adjunct Professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Pretoria, South Africa), a Ph.D. in Management (Rhodes University, South Africa), a doctorate (Georg-August University, Germany) in Political Sciences (socio-cultural anthropology and intercultural didactics), and a habilitation (European University Viadrina, Germany) in Psychology with a focus on work, organizational, and cultural psychology. She has published several monographs, text collections, accredited journal articles, and Special Issues on transcultural mental health, sense of coherence, shame, culture and health, transcultural conflict management and mediation, women in leadership in culturally diverse work contexts, constellation work, coaching, and psychobiography.

International Journal of *Environmental Research and Public Health*
