CURRICULUM VITAE

 Carol van Nijnatten was educated as a developmental psychologist at Utrecht University. For some years he worked at a child welfare agency in Amsterdam and Utrecht and returned to his former university at the end of the seventies. In 1986 he finished his PhD thesis ‘Mother Justice and her Children. The development of the psycho-juridical complex in child welfare’, which was also published in Germany as ‘Die Wahrheitsmaschine’ (Forum Verlag Godesberg, 1991). From 2004 to 2009 he was professor of social work at Radboud University Nijmegen. Currently, he is professor of social studies in child welfare at Utrecht University

            Several of his books were published in Dutch about psychodynamic development, children’s rights, case management in child welfare, authority and development, and children of detained parents. This last issue was the subject of the book ‘Detention and Development. Perspectives of children of prisoners’ that was published in 1998 (Forum Verlag Godesberg). Articles of Carol van Nijnatten were published in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Work Practice, Research on Language and Social Interaction, and others. He is member of the DANASWAC network of researchers in discourses and narratives in social work and counseling.

Carol is stepfather of two grown up children and lives together with his partner.

(Personal Data)

name: Carolus, Henricus, Cornelis, Johannes van Nijnatten

date of birth: July 22  1951

place of birth: Eindhoven

adress: Mauritsstraat 92, 3583 HV Utrecht

telephone: 030 - 251 8032

email: c.h.c.j.vannijnatten@uu.nl

Education

1999: basic and senior qualification education and senior qualification research Utrecht University

1986 : PhD (prof. dr. J.D. Ingleby & prof. mr. C. Kelk)

1976 : doctorate psychology (main course developmental psychology; side courses clinical psychology and methods

1970: high school

Work experience

2007 – now  lecturer masters social work Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen

2004 – 2009 Board Founcation Selfconfrontation and Valuation Theory

2004 - 2009 professor social work Radboud Universiteit Utrecht

2004 - 2005  lecturer kinder en jeugdpsychiatrie Boerhave Leiden

1994 - 2002  chairman Foundation Friends of the  Schönberg Kwartet

1993 - 2012 Board of child welfare agency 'De Rading' 

1992 - now  chairman Foundation Handdrukken Nan Platvoet

1991 - now  associate professor Interdisciplinary Social Sciences University of Utrecht

1991 - 1996 voluntary family guardian

1988 - 1990 chairman Board of Children’s Rights Agency

1981 - 1990  associate professor Developmental Psychology University Utrecht

1979 - 1986   assistant professor Developmental Psychology University Utrecht

1973 – 1981  chairman and coördinator of Advise Agency of Child Welfare Conflicts

1970 - 1973  male nurse in residential facility for people with an intellectual disability