Jesper Juul (family therapist)

Jesper Juul

Jesper Juul (born April 18, 1948(1948-04-18)) is a Danish family therapist and author and a renowned international authority on the family. In his book Your Competent Child (1995, in English 2001) he argues that today's families are at an exciting crossroads because the destructive values — obedience, physical and emotional violence, and conformity — that governed traditional hierarchical families are being transformed. The book has so far (2007) been translated into 13 languages and has in some countries like Sweden, Denmark and Norway become a classic for non authoritarian parenting.

Biography

Jesper Juul was born in Vordingborg, Denmark. He had several jobs before entering higher education at Marselisborg Seminarium 1966-1970 where he graduated as a teacher of history and religion. He then enrolled in studies of the history of ideas at the University of Aarhus. He financed his studies working at family resort Bøgholt in Viby J, and dropped out of studies to work full time with social treatment. At an internal course he became acquainted with U.S. psychiatrist Walter Kempler and they became friends, finally leading to him forming the Kempler Institute of Scandinavia in 1979 with Kempler as a director. A few years later Juul had to take over leadership of the institute and would hold this position until 2004.^[1]

In his first marriage 1971-1990 he has one son, Nicolai, and his second marriage in 1991 with Suzana, a woman from former Yugoslavia, has resulted in him working on a voluntary basis with refugees and war veterans in Bosnian and Croatian locations about three months a year, also providing leadership and organizational development for non-governmental organizations.^[1]

Bibliography (published in English)

• Juul, Jesper (2001). Your Competent Child - Towards New Basic Values for the Family. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, N.Y. ISBN 0374527903. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Biografi". Jesper Juul. http://www.jesperjuul.com/biografi_dk.asp. Retrieved 2007-12-02. 

External links

• Jesper Juul - official website
• Kempler Institute

Persondata
Name	Juul, Jesper
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1948-04-18
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death