Karin Zetterqvist Nelson

My research interests concern the historical development of Swedish child psychology and child psychiatry. Previously I’ve studied the growth of child psychiatric activities in Sweden, particularly focusing on treatment ideologies and child views. Currently I'm involved in an international research project studying attachment theory and how it has been disseminated and received in different European nation-states after WWII. Another research project of mine concerns how child psychiatric knowledge is communicated and interpreted in media 1968-2008. The main result of the project is presented in a doctoral dissertation (Peter Skagius).

Educational qualifications and interests

For ten years, I taught first and second-cycle Clinical Psychology at Linköping University. I supervised approximately twenty master's theses. For a period of four years I taught a course on relational social work on the Social Work programme. I also developed and assumed responsibility for a first-cycle course on sexuality and identity.

I have been a supervisor and examiner for the children's international master's programme, as well as coordinator for its introductory course (7.5 credits) and a course entitled Children's Health and Development in a Global World (7.5 credits).

I have taught third-cycle courses on the theoretical basis of child and childhood research while developing and implementing a number of doctoral courses: Children, Childhood and Health (7.5 credits), Discursive Psychology – Power, Positioning and the Creation of Subjectivity (7.5 credits), Qualitative Methods for Research on Clinical Psychology (7.5 credits), and a discursive course on theory and practice: Reading course for doctoral students on the theme of children (7.5 credits).