Jacob Cilius Vinsten Christiansen

Assistant professor and head of family therapy studies
UCL, Erhvervsakademi og Professionshøjskole
Niels Bohrs Allé 1, 5230 0dense C
Denmark

Tel: +45 28491175
Email: jchu@ucl.dk
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-cilius-vinsten-christiansen-7ab8996a/

Jacob Cilius Vinsten Christiansen is a Danish assistant professor, head of Family Therapy Studies in Odense, Denmark, and Family Therapist as a private practitioner and associated with a Boarding school in Ringe, Denmark.

Jacob is an educated socialworker and holds a Masters degree in Systemic family Therapy and Practice from VID in Oslo, Norway. Jacob is currently writing his dissertation for the doctorate in Advanced practice and research: systemic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre in London, UK. He is in the editorial board on the Nordic journal of family therapy: Focus on the Family. Jacobs special interests in the field of family therapy are vulnerable adolescents, diagnoses and how the therapeutic field intersects with the work of teachers and pedagogues. These are also the fields that Jacob especially teaches and is doing his coming dissertation around.

Together with Norwegian Professor Lennart Lorås, Jacob has edited the book “Conversations in relational work”, and he has written and co written some of the chapters of the book. Also in cooperation with Professor Lennart Lorås, Jacob has published the book “Look out- reflections on relations” in Norwegian. A paper, also written together with Professor Lennart Lorås concerning the use of CMM in conversations with young adolescents; Adolescents Frustration Behaviour in Child Welfare Institutions: A Qualitative Study, has been published in the journal Contemporary Family Therapy.