Yochay Nadan, Ph.D.

The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 9190501
Israel

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The Barcai Institute of Narrative, Family and Couples Therapy
37 She’erit Yisrael Street
Tel Aviv 6816522
Israel

Phone: +972-(0)54-7944549
Email: yochay.nadan@mail.huji.ac.il
Web: https://en.sw.huji.ac.il/people/yochay-nadan

Yochay Nadan, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer (tenured) at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a social worker and a licensed Marital and Family Therapist and supervisor. He is affiliated with the Barcai Institute, a Narrative Family Therapy Center, located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Yochay applies a social constructionist approach in his research, teaching and clinical practice. In his current research project, he adopts a context-informed perspective to explore, challenge and deconstruct widely-held Western perspectives regarding constructs such as “risk,” “protection,” “vulnerability,” and “well-being” of children. Yochay has published extensively on this topic and is currently co-editing a volume titled Context-Informed Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection accepted into the Springer’s Child Maltreatment Series.

 In addition, for number of years Yochay has dealt with the construct of “cultural competence,” from a critical, anti-oppressive perspective. He has developed a constructivist conceptualization of the construct advocating for inclusion of dimensions of power relations, context and intersectionality. As a social work practitioner, Yochay has worked for several years as an intergroup dialogue facilitator among groups in conflict, especially Israeli Jews and Palestinians. He adheres to the Narrative-based approach to intergroup dialogue, and also published on this matter. As a family therapist, supervisor and trainer, he positions himself as a narrative, collaborative therapist. He has dealt with practices of Reflection and witnessing as means to develop rich stories for individuals, families and trainees.