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The Broader System Begins With The Workplace
Author(s) -
Furlong Mark,
Smith Jenny
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01012.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , constructive , creativity , sense of agency , project commissioning , service (business) , host (biology) , public relations , knowledge management , sociology , business , engineering ethics , publishing , engineering , computer science , psychology , political science , process (computing) , marketing , social psychology , social science , ecology , law , biology , operating system
Most practitioners trained in family therapy are employed in host agencies which are not family therapy services. In these environments an ongoing challenge is to find constructive ways to manage the contraints of the employing agency. Central to meeting this challenge is the practitioner's ability to make sense of the host agency's local conditions. This paper offers a framework for developing an explicit awareness of these local conditions. It is the authors' view that an advanced level of ‘local knowledge’ allows for more creativity in managing the inevitably challenging experience of practice in human service agencies.