Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice

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 p...