Hedan Duan , Bo Tian , Diane T. Levine , Himanshu Kaul
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Abstract
Resilience in child protection professional teams (CPP) involves complex interactions at the individual, team and organizational levels. Understanding these multiscale, multimodal dynamics is critical to improving the resilience of CPP teams under enormous stress due to factors such as high work demands, pandemics, and geopolitical events, etc. While resilience has been considered a systemic phenomenon, the dynamic interactions between the individual, team, and organization; how they inform resilience; and how they adapt in the face of adversity remains to be adequately formalized. This paper explores the study of the complex dynamics of team resilience in the context of CPP and how agent-based modelling (ABM) can be used to systematically investigate resilience. Specifically, we explore the attributes of ABM that make it ideal to capturing resilience, outline the steps the uninitiated can take to adopt ABM, and showcase investigations that have used ABM in the childcare and resilience context. This review highlights the potential of ABM in modelling the multifaceted nature of team resilience, predicting outcomes and developing strategies that are critical to long-term success and well-being in dynamic and challenging environments.
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Official Publication of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal, provides an international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment; the scope extends further to all those aspects of life which either favor or hinder child development. While contributions will primarily be from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, law enforcement, legislature, education, and anthropology, the Journal encourages the concerned lay individual and child-oriented advocate organizations to contribute.