Social Work and Its Complexity in Aotearoa New Zealand: The Need for the Infusion of Indigenous Practice Frameworks

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Author(s): Shahul Hameed (Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, New Zealand)and Anthony Raman (NTEC Tertiary Education Group, New Zealand)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on Chaos and Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Şefika Şule Erçetin (Hacettepe University, Turkey)and Hüseyin Bağcı (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0148-0.ch008

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Sociology / Theoretical Studies

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The Social workers need to call on a broad range of sources of bodies of knowledge and respond to the complexity and its chaotic nature of situations arising in social work profession. There appears to be dire need to consider the use of (a) the theoretical knowledge into practice by being more caring and supportive with the aim of (b) disentangling the various elements of a complex system and enhancing the resilience both of the people involved and the social and organizational systems that they are inter-twined with people lives. The current acknowledgement of the bi-cultural framework by the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) is no doubt a positive move towards infusing indigenous practice frame work into dealing with the chaotic nature and complexity of the social work profession in New Zealand but still remains to be seen in actual social work practice .The purpose of this chapter is to attempt to explore the potential of infusing Indigenous bodies of knowledge into practice against the background of the complexity nature of the social work profession in a developed world like New Zealand.

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