Ingrid Myksvoll Mongstad

Field of work

I am a trained social worker and have a master's degree in child welfare from the University of Bergen where I did a qualitative study of the users' experience of the parental guidance program Circle of Security. I have further education in child welfare guidance  from the University of Tromsø, as well as education in mindfulness from NTNU. I have 10 years of experience from working in municipal child welfare services, and 2 years of experience from preventive child welfare in schools, health centers and in public health. In the Child Welfare Service, I worked in particular with guidance of employees to contribute to quality in cases under the Child Welfare Act and to develop professionalism, prevent burnout and high turnover in the Child Welfare Service. 

Of courses and certification, I have certification in the parental guidance program Circle of Security - parenting International, as well as course certified in the interaction tool Care Index, the emotion regulation program "psychological first aid for children", the anger management program "break the legacy of violence" by ATV and certification in motivational interviewing. 

I have been employed in HVL in the 2020/2021 school year, and then employed since January 2023. 

Teaches 

• The Child Welfare Service's work with various types of neglect, including violence and abuse.
• Analysis and decision-making in the child welfare service
• Relief work in the child welfare service
• Difficult conversations with children, adolescents and adults.
• Support system for children and families
• Ethics and power in the child welfare service
• Burnout and secondary traumatisation in the child welfare service