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27
August 2018
with an addition on 14 October 2020
Marianne Haslev Skånland:
Some
professional child experts (2)
Kjell Olaf
Edvardsen, psychologist
Translations
from Norwegian are mine.
The network KIB does not appear to have given themselves an
official English title.
MHS
Psychologist Edvardsen is a member of KIB –
Kompetansenettverket Kvalitet i
Barnevern (The competence network
Quality in Child Protection).
In connection with an interview of this group in the
newspaper Dagbladet about, among other issues, a meeting
between them and Solveig Horne, the Minister for Children
and Equality at the time, we find the following:
"KIB-psykologene
følte at statsråden virkelig lyttet til hva de hadde å si
under møtet torsdag.
- Vi blir tatt på alvor og sett på
som noe annet enn en rabulistisk aktivistorganisasjon for
misfornøyde foreldre og forsvarere av det biologiske
prinsipp, sier psykolog Kjell Olaf Edvardsen."
(The KIB
psychologists felt that the Minister really listened to
what they had to say during the meeting on Thursday.
– We are taken seriously and
are considered as something other than an agitational
activist organisation for discontented parents and
defenders of the biological principle, says psychologist
Kjell Olaf Edvardsen.)
Ekspertnettverket KIB vil endre
barnevernet
Møtte ekspertene som slår alarm om
barnevernet: Horne er enig i
kritikken
(The expert
network KIB will change the CPS (Barnevernet)
Met the experts
who sound the alarm about Barnevernet: Horne agrees with
the criticism)
Dagbladet,
26 June 2017
Edvardsen's statement about parents and about the
biological principle speaks for itself.
Dagbladet
also had an article the previous month concerning the
establishment of KIB and their planning of meetings with
the Minister for children and with the Ombudsman for
children:
Ekspertnettverk vil bedre barnevernet
– Vi jobber ikke for barnas beste
ved å knuse foreldrene. De blir en
pariakaste
(Expert
network wants to improve the CPS (Barnevernet)
– We
do not work for children's best interest by smashing the
parents. They become a pariah caste)
Dagbladet,
5 May 2017
The article interviews Einar Salvesen, Ragnhild Pettersen,
Kari Killén and Kjell Olaf Edvardsen. About Edvardsen we
are told: "Kjell Olaf
Edvardsen er psykolog med 20 års erfaring som psykologisk
sakkyndig i flere fylkesnemnder."
(Kjell Olaf
Edvardsen is a psychologist with 20 years of experience as
an expert in several county boards.)
Edvardsen himself:
"Jeg
har jobbet som sakkyndig i tre ulike fylkesnemnder i 20 år.
I rundt 30 prosent av sakene, gikk jeg ut med en kvalmende
fornemmelse av at dette ikke ble helt riktig. Og som
psykologisk sakkyndig står du der som nemndas faglige
alibi, sier psykolog Kjell Olaf Edvardsen."
(I have worked
as an expert in three different county boards for 20 years.
In about 30 per cent of the cases I experienced at the
finish of the cases a nauseating feeling of this not being
quite right. And as a psychological expert you are the
board's child-professional alibi, says psychologist Kjell
Olaf Edvardsen.)
Relevant
questions are then: Why has psychologist Edvardsen acted in
such a way in a third of the cases as to give him a
nauseating feeling? Why has he continued in this way for 20
years? And why does he not see the situation as anything
worse than 'not quite right'?
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I have not heard of later opinions coming from him
expressing any modification of his views on his own
professional activities, nor on parents who value the
biological principle or on children's needs.
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Some professional child
experts
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August 2018 –
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