Get empowered to renew your purpose and belief in social work and make effective change.

Put relationships at the centre of change with this definitive introduction to systemic social work: a holistic, reflexive and relational approach that redefines how social workers understand and engage with complex systems.

Systemic social work considers the realities of working directly with families and communities living with immense challenges. By viewing your role differently within the systems that too often fail to serve these families, you can affect the system, reconstruct narratives and make the work better.

This book equips you with a guiding framework for implementing the systemic approach creatively in your own practice. It grounds the reader in the core concepts of the systemic approach, illustrated with reflexive exercises, examples from direct practice and adaptations for crisis scenarios.