05322nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-38677-0 DE-He213 20251030110832.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231114s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031386770 978-3-031-38677-0 10.1007/978-3-031-38677-0 doi HV40-69.2 JKSN bicssc SOC025000 bisacsh JKSN thema McDermott, Fiona. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 67167 Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice [electronic resource] / by Fiona McDermott, Kerry Brydon, Alex Haynes, Felicity Moon. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXIII, 210 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Part 1. Complex practice in a complex world -- 1. Introduction: social work in a changing context -- 2. The strengths and limitations of social work -- 3. Becoming a complexity thinker: towards an epistemology of social work practice -- 4. Thinking complexity and acting pragmatically -- Part 2. Thinking complexity in practice -- 5. Early doing and thinking complexity: the Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative -- 6. Thinking complexity across fields of practice: children and older people -- 7. Thinking complexity in management -- 8. Thinking complexity in community development -- 9. Thinking complexity in hospital social work practice -- Part 3. Thinking complexity in Policy, Research and Education -- 10. Thinking complexity in public policy -- 11. Thinking complexity in research -- 12. Thinking complexity in social work education and professional practice -- 13. Next steps: what do we know about thinking complexity and acting pragmatically in social work?. This textbook provides a grounding in complexity theory, demonstrating how it can influence and shape social work interventions in policy, management, and practice, as well as forming an epistemological and methodological basis for research. It provides a contemporary theoretical basis for social work practice, equipping social workers to work in a 21st-Century world. The authors argue that the history of social work demonstrates the profession's engagement with the social and structural problems of each era since its emergence 150 years ago. However, in the 21st Century, such things as globalisation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change have highlighted that existing theories and practice models are insufficient to the task of working with the complicatedness of contemporary life in a fast-changing world. Distilling the central tenets of Complexity Theory and the notion of complex adaptive systems in partnership with pragmatism, the book provides practice perspectives and guidelines which build on social work's enduring commitment to understanding the person-in-context. The recognition that social workers require conceptual and theoretical agility to work across micro, meso and macro 'levels' remains central, but the argument is made that their focus and practice must primarily be at the meso level. The authorship of combined academic and practice expertise enables such perspectives to be brought to life through the theoretical and practical analysis of conceptual and 'real-world' challenges. The book consists of 13 chapters organized in three sections: Part I: Complex Practice in a Complex World Part II: Thinking Complexity in Practice Part III: Thinking Complexity in Public Policy, Research and Education Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice encourages social workers to 'think complexity' and 'act pragmatically'. It is intended for final-year social work students; academics and researchers working in a range of disciplines, primarily in the social work field but also in the areas of sociology, psychology and anthropology; and practitioners in policy, research, management and practice settings. . Social service. Social service Research. 62475 Community development. 58514 Theory and Method in Social Work. 67168 Social Work. 62482 Social Work Research. 67169 Social Work and Community Development. 67170 Brydon, Kerry. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 67171 Haynes, Alex. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 67172 Moon, Felicity. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 67173 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031386763 Printed edition: 9783031386787 Printed edition: 9783031386794 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38677-0 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 56544 56544