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Cox, Pat and Stevens, Irene |
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Complexity theory: |
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developing new understandings of child protection in field settings and in residential child care / |
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Irene Stevens and Pat Cox |
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Complexity theory: |
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developing new understandings of child protection in field settings and in residential child care / |
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Oxford, UK, |
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Oxford University Press, |
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October, 2008. |
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1320- 1336 p. |
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Monthly |
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October, 2008. |
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Volume 38, Number 7 |
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The protection of children, whether living at home or in residential care, is a core endeavor of residential and field social work with children. Yet, despite broad support from politicians, policy makers and the majority of the public for this work, child protection practice and practitioners are frequently criticized for perceived or actual failures to protect. Successive inquires produce reports with similar recommendations, yet children continue to be abused and harmed, sometimes fatally. Clearly, better understandings and more effective protective practices need to be developed. Current research in the area of complexity theory is encouraging the development of concepts and applications which are powerful aids to understanding the issues that child protection practitioners experience daily. Child protection is not simple because of the multiplicity of factors that result in children being at risk. Complexity theory provides a framework for understanding the processes involved but without the problems of reductionism. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to explore the potential contribution of complexity theory and concepts that have relevance to the protection of children in both filed and residential childcare practice. It is argued that complexity theory offers new and helpful ways to conceptualize and work with the processes which underpin keeping children safe. |
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Complexity theory |
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