Nina works as a senior consultant at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark, where she teaches and supervises her colleagues in family collaboration, narrative therapy, and family therapy. As of March 2022, Nina is also the chairperson of the Danish Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Nina established The Family Therapy unit in 2009, the first unit to combine Narrative Therapy and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This unit’s team members developed and implemented a guide for their treatment, which they named Collaborative Family Therapy.
Through her research and work Nina has shown how this approach truly empowers families being treated at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
Nina was awarded the child and adolescent trainees honouree prize for advancing teaching environment in Denmark in 2018 and 2022.
Read more on http://www.ninatejsjorring.dk/en/welcome-nina-tejs-jorring/
Find Nina’s book: https://www.routledge.com/Narrative-Psychiatry-and-Family-Collaborations/JORRING-Alexander-Epston/p/book/9780367774844
Find her articles: https://www.ninatejsjorring.dk/en/articles/
Contact: kontakt@ninatejsjorring.dk
New book describes how narrative family therapy helps parents and children struggling with complex psychiatric problems
A note from The Diary Healer editor, June Alexander: I wish Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations had been around when I was a child, struggling with anorexia nervosa. A premise for this treatment approach is that when a child struggles with a psychiatric illness, their family struggles, too. Therefore, the whole family deserves help together. Unfortunately, mine..