Sven Hessle, born 1941, is a Swedish
Authorized Psychologist
Authorization or authorisation (see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), spelling differences), in information security, computer security and identity management, IAM (Identity and Access Managemen ...
, and Professor of Social work at
Stockholm University
Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...
.
His research concerns the study of poverty and children and their families in an international perspective as well as International social work in general.
He has published alone, co-edited or contributed in some 35 books, most of them in Swedish.
Some of them translated to other languages: Danish, English, Finnish, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Vietnamese.
He is founder of and the Editor-in-Chief of the ''
International Journal of Social Welfare''.
He was given the
Katherine Kendall Award from IASSW in August 2006, for his distinguished contributions in the international social work education. 2014 he received The Harald Swedner Award from ICSD (The International Consortium for Social Development) for exceptional international contributions for social development
He is Professor of honour at
Beijing Normal University
Beijing Normal University (BNU) () is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the B ...
and
Guizhou Minzu University in China.
He is a senior advisor for different organisations including
UNICEF
UNICEF ( ), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing Humanitarianism, humanitarian and Development a ...
, Sida, and Norad.
Works
"The Alexander Case - A confiscated child" ''Svenska Dagbladet'', July 3, 1984
"Child Welfare in Sweden - an overview"*
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References
External links
*http://www.socarb.su.se
*http://www.socarb.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=11252&a=52036
*http://www.socarb.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=10255
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Swedish psychologists
1941 births
Living people
Academic staff of Stockholm University