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Jul 28, 2021 · In this paper, we set out the protocol for a scoping review to examine the literature on complexity theory in health and social care research.
- Aine Carroll, Aine Carroll, Diarmuid Stokes, Andrew Darley
- 2021
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Dec 29, 2015 · This is a commentary on Fish and Hardy’s paper on the application of complexity theory to social work practice and which raises some important questions about the relevance and ultimate efficacy of complexity theory within social work.
- Aaron Dominic George Pycroft, Mike Wolf-Branigin
- 2016
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.
Complexity-informed approaches have the potential to offer health and social care a new paradigm for understanding, designing, implementing and evaluating solutions, yet so far has failed to gain the traction anticipated some years ago.
- Aine Carroll, Aine Carroll, Diarmuid Stokes, Andrew Darley
- 2021
Dec 17, 2020 · The article proposes a theoretical framework grounded in complexity and chaos theories that explores the structure and non-linear causality of complex systems, their complex and non-linear dynamics and different conditions leading to adjustment, adaptation and learning.
- Penelopia Iancu, Isabel Lanteigne
- 2020
Jun 18, 2018 · Complexity theory provides the means to conceptualize the research problem as a complex adaptive system (CAS), focusing on the patterns of interactions between various system elements at different levels and times.
Bringing knowledge and understanding clients and their situation, so that clients’ together personal development and control of their circumstances is enhanced (Mayeroff, 1971; Social workers therefore need more than Noddings, 1984; Payne, 2008) practice theory to deal with complex situations.