Aisling Gillen, John Canavan, Carmel Devaney, Caroline McGregor

Systems Complexity in Child Protection and Welfare (eBook, PDF)

Policy, Leadership, Practice and Evaluation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines systems complexity theory and specifically, system and dynamic characteristics of complexity, with a key focus on self/organisation/emergence/adaptation; path-dependence; and bifurcation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040266205
• Artikelnr.: 72241326

Autorenporträt

Aisling Gillen is a Visiting Research Fellow in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway and former Service Director with Ireland's Child Protection Agency.

John Canavan is Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and Personal Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway.

Carmel Devaney is Associate Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, Lecturer and Head of Discipline of Applied Social Science in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway.

Caroline McGregor is Senior Research Fellow in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and Personal Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: Understanding and responding to complexity in Child
Protection and Welfare practice, services, and systems. 2.The Global
Challenges of Child Protection that contribute to complexity. 3.Systems
Complexity Theory- Concepts and Characteristics. 4.Systems Complexity
Theory and Policymaking. 5.Systems complexity theory and practice, service,
and system leadership. 6.Informing practice through the application of
complexity theory and a complexity 'lens'. 7.Applying complexity-theory
thinking to practice, service and system evaluation in complex child
protection and welfare (CPW) work. 8.Towards a Systems Complexity
Framework: for Child Protection and Welfare: Key learnings and future
considerations.