Torbjörn Kalin

Lecturer Social Work
Department of Social work , School of Health and Welfare
Doctoral Student
Research School of Health and Welfare , School of Health and Welfare

Torbjörn Kalin is a PhD student in Welfare and Social sciences. He is also a lecturer at the Department of Social Work. Kalins research focus on the child welfare services. In his PhD project he examines, through a combination of different sources, the Swedish society’s ability to discover Children at Risk. He also examines the child welfare process.

Torbjörn Kalin has a clinical background as a social worker in the child welfare services. He also has been a research assistant and a Research and Development-leader in several research projects.

Article

Kalin, T., Persdotter, B., Ahlgren, T., Gerdner, A. (2022). How do child welfare referrals in Sweden match children's self-reporting of severe exposure? Child & Family Social Work, 27(2), 100-111. More information
Kalin, T., Ahlgren, T., Persdotter, B. (2022). Gender disparities in child welfare services' assessments of referrals. Findings from Sweden International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 134. More information
Hagborg, J., Kalin, T., Gerdner, A. (2022). The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) used with adolescents - methodological report from clinical and community samples Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 15, 1199-1213. More information
Ahlgren, T., Kalin, T., Gerdner, A. (2021). Self-rated child maltreatment, behavioural problems, and contacts with welfare and police authorities–longitudinal community data [Barns självrapporterade övergrepp, försummelse och beteendeproblem samt kontakter med anmälningsskyldiga verksamheter – baserat på en longitudinell befolkningsstudie] European Journal of Social Work, 24(4), 642-656. More information

Book chapter

Persdotter, B., Kalin, T. (2023). Att upptäcka och ge stöd till barn som riskerar att fara illa. In: T. Forkby, S. Enell & J. Thulin (Ed.), Prevention med barn och unga: teori och praktik för socialt och pedagogiskt arbete (pp. 197 -214). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB More information
Bengtsson, S., Kalin, T. (2021). Marknadsorienteringen och välfärdssystemens legitimitet. In: M. Dahlstedt, S. Gruber, M. Herz & P. Lalander (Ed.), Socialt arbete - rörelse, motstånd, förändring (pp. 165 -186). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB More information