Systems Thinking Analysis: Domestic Violence and Sustainability

This essay explores the application of systems thinking to the complex issue of domestic violence, framed as a 'wicked problem' characterized by interconnected factors and a lack of straightforward solutions. The paper begins by defining systems thinking and contrasting it with traditional analysis, emphasizing its focus on relationships between components. It then discusses the relevance of this approach to sustainability challenges, highlighting the need to consider broader perspectives and interdependencies. The essay then examines domestic violence, outlining its various forms and societal impacts, particularly within the Australian context, and asserts that the systems thinking approach is useful in managing such problems. The paper proposes a systems thinking approach to address domestic violence, emphasizing the need for social well-being professionals to integrate complexity, improve communication, and focus on long-term behavioral changes. The essay also stresses the importance of collaboration among various stakeholders, including legal authorities, social groups, and educational institutions, to effectively combat domestic violence. The essay concludes by asserting the potential of systems thinking to provide a comprehensive understanding of the issue and develop more efficient strategies for effective intervention and prevention.

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A Systems Thinking Approach to the Sustainability Issue Regarding Domestic Violence
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Introduction
Systems can be considered as the sets of partitioned parts connected with each other to
work towards a shared objective. The heftiness issue is expanding at a quick pace in offspring of
America and other European nations. Corpulence is considered as an insidious issue on the
grounds that there is no distinct answer for this issue. A few scientists have likewise presumed
that framework believing is an exceptionally tedious process and it is difficult to get it. The
current paper would fundamentally talk about the contention whether the systems thinking
strategy can prove to be valuable in building up an answer for supportability or sustainability
challenges. The paper will also bolster the contention which supports the claims that framework
believing is helpful in managing the underhanded issue. The specific thinking approach centers
around the individual parts and the interconnected relationship between the parts to deliver a
solution to the issues. The paper will likewise examine the appropriateness of systems thinking
in managing the issue regarding domestic violence. After critically analyzing the real sense and
the scopes of the systems thinking strategy, the current paper will apply the technique in
evaluating how can it lead to potential solution to such issues.
The Systems Thinking Approach
The system thinking technique or strategy is exceptionally helpful in managing the issues
of supportability or sustainability since this strategy evaluates various critical aspects from a
naturally visible broader perspective as opposed to looking at a shorter dimension (Van Dyk and
Pretorius, 2014). These days, the system or framework thinking has been utilized by different
academicians and professionals. Be that as it may, there is a noteworthy contrast in the
customary speculation approach and framework thinking approach. Conventional investigation

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approach concentrates on the aspects that are being considered while framework thinking
approach searches for an interconnected relationship between the distinctive constituents of the
framework (Arnold and Wade, 2015). One cannot deny the fact that the entire world is moving
towards being industrialized and globalized. In such scenario of globalization, the world needs to
confront a few complexities in the upcoming years. In this regard, the system or framework
thinking would eventually help in managing the mind boggling issues. And moreover, the
framework test would prove to be a fundamental utilization of the system or framework thinking
technique.
The critical aspects of system analysis comprise of reason, components, and capacities.
The initial segment is framework testing; it depicts the reason for which the aspect of system or
framework thinking has been embraced (Leischow and Milstein, 2006). The next aspect takes a
shot at various components of framework considering. At long last, there is have to see the
interrelationship between various components. An individual might state that techniques and data
innovation have rolled out a transformational improvement to the manageable society. Creative
strategies and innovation have given computational answers for the most complex issues of the
world (Jonker and Karapetrovic, 2004). Supportability challenges should be unraveled in an
alternate way. A framework approach is useful in finding an interrelationship between
innovation, human conduct, and natural effects. In current society, there is a move from
computational deduction to framework considering. Computational speculation includes the
utilization of programming and calculations to discover the arrangement every intricate issue.
There is one confinement or impediment with the systems believing that the experts endeavor to
take care of the considerable number of issues with the assistance of calculations (Jonker and

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Karapetrovic, 2004). There are sure issues which can't be comprehended through calculations.
For those issues complex framework thinking has been developed.
The system thinking strategy center around the process through which one constituent of
the framework will connect with one other constituent of the framework. The idea of framework
thinking influences it to empower to take care of the mind boggling issue confronted by the
general public. It can be taken as an instance that the systems thinking technique is extremely
helpful in managing the issue which include interrelationship between various performers to take
care of the mind boggling issues, repeating issues which have not been unraveled even after the
past endeavors (Monat and Gannon, 2015). Manageability challenges are likewise called the
versatile difficulties since effectively settled conventions and methods are not efficient to be
connected to such circumstance. There is an absence of bound together strategy or way to deal
with manage most underhanded supportability challenges. In this regard, the systems thinking
technique might prove to be helpful in changing the past mental models to manage the issues of
supportability since it contains process, a domestic violence and set of aptitudes (Monat and
Gannon, 2015).
Domestic violence
Domestic violence has been chosen as the wicked problem as the problem has now been
perceived as one of the most critical worldwide wellbeing and societal issues. Generally,
domestic violence has been conceptualized in the form of incorporating various diverse types of
mischief and violence including physical, sexual, passionate, verbal, mental and money related
manhandle (Smith, 2017). In any case, more as of late, there has been a more prominent
acknowledgment of the inborn unpredictability that underlies domestic violence. The potentially

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identified outcomes of encountering domestic violence are broad and domestic violence is not
characterized by sexual orientation, age, social class or ethnic gathering (Guterman, 2004). The
effect of domestic violence on the lives and soundness of those influenced is currently all around
recorded inside the writing, and this incorporates expanded mortality and horribleness – both
physical and mental sick well-being, influencing both the short and longer-term well-being and
prosperity of the casualty or survivor (Rose et al., 2011). Domestic violence additionally applies
an inconvenient effect on the well-being and prosperity of more extended relatives that even
include youngsters (Holt et al., 2008). Close by an expanding accentuation on the part of
societally helping experts as far as successful help and administration of domestic violence, there
has been a developing collection of research which has concentrated on a portion of the key
difficulties related with domestic violence inside societal conditions all the more by and large.
For instance, look into has been led to investigate the issues identified with the exact account of
the occurrence and predominance of domestic violence in particular situations (Boyle et al.,
2006), the distinguishing proof and powerful help of instruction, preparing and bolster needs of
all the more proficiently sorted out and prepared experts (Leppakoski et al., 2014), the
obstructions and empowering agents to the compelling recognizable proof and administration of
domestic violence over a scope of settings, the effect of domestic violence on the wellbeing and
prosperity of survivors and the encounters of domestic violence survivors inside societal
frameworks.
Within the Australian context, the issue of domestic violence is boundless over all
societies, ages and financial gatherings and the larger part of the individuals who encounter these
types of savagery are ladies (Patty, 2016). The latest information on individual wellbeing found
that numerous men and ladies involvement with slightest one experience with viciousness in

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their lifetimes. The ABS overview evaluated that a considerably huge number of both male and
female individuals encounter some type of domestic violence since the adolescence period
(Parliament of Australia, 2014). Men are much more inclined to encounter physical and domestic
violence on account of an outsider. Be that as it may, the dominant part of ladies experienced
physical savagery by somebody known to them, for the most part, a cozy accomplice or closely
related individual.
A Systems Thinking Approach for Domestic violence
The system thinking technique might give approaches to manage the many-sided quality
of domestic violence issue and it will be a fresh start for the social insurance and societally
assisting professionals. The framework approach has been extremely helpful in managing with
different societal issues, for example, psychological well-being, and substance abuse. The
technique has a splendid history in the recent years. Such a technique evaluates the issues from a
more extensive point of view to discover the interrelated connection amongst various levels. The
approach likewise considers the significance of conditions and situations under which a
particular choice and the effect of those conditions amid the utilization stage. While managing
underhanded issues under framework approach even a little change in one component can have a
major effect on alternate components. In managing with domestic violence issue, the main
undertaking of the social well-being professionals is to coordinate limit with intricacy. Numerous
experts keep away from the exchange with the victims over the domestic violence issue since
they have an expansive stack of such victims, less learning about the practices utilized for the
domestic violence issue and least assets. The professionals are required to transform the
approach while managing the domestic violence issue.

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Domestic violence is an intricate issue and the social well-being professionals need the
data regarding the most potential solutions and procedures to manage this issue. They have to
guide the victims in a successful and enhanced way. These experts can lessen the
unpredictability of the domestic violence issue by concentrating on the causes and procedure as
opposed to result. The professionals related to management of such issue need to enhance their
correspondence with the victims and the abusers (if possible) on the grounds that numerous
victims stay ignorant about the avoidance systems, the process of reporting, and the methods to
deal with the problem either legally or socially. The professionals can get to the hazard,
contemplate the present conduct of victims and abusers, persuade them for an adjustment in
conduct, set objectives and help them in fighting against the boundaries. The fundamental goal of
the systems thinking technique is to make an air which empowers correspondence, input, and
change. A social education group comprising of specialists can assume the liability to build the
mindfulness about the reasons and outcomes of domestic violence in the psyches of individuals.
The professional experts associated with the management of this issue should concentrate
on long haul behavioral change in both victims and abusers. Just the execution of strategies is not
imperative but rather the assessment of those approaches is likewise vital. The systems thinking
technique might likewise assist different partners and chiefs with thinking about the eventual fate
of different methodologies base and potential expenses related with them in view of considering
the possibility that situations. The systems progression displaying has additionally helped a few
countries in managing the issue of domestic violence and sexual abuse. The systems thinking
contends that an individual will not be able to put the whole duty of domestic violence reduction
on the shoulders of the family members. The legal authorities and the professionally engaged
organizations additionally need to comprehend the issue of domestic violence in a more critical

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manner. Additionally, families, educational institutes, social groups, and communities all need to
meet up to cooperate to dispose of the domestic violence issue.
Conclusion
The current paper has thoroughly discussed the components, scopes, and potential
implementations of the systems approach in addressing and solving different problems especially
the sustainability issues. It has been observed that rather than focusing merely on the results of
an issue, the systems approach attempts to concentrate on assessing the backgrounds, potential
reasons, drivers, and engaged factors in order to develop a comprehensive understanding so that
more efficient strategies can be developed. In this regard, domestic violence has been chosen as
the wicked problem as it has been identified as one of the most crucial and problematic societal
issues. As per the premise of the formulated discussion and evaluation, one might say that the
systems thinking strategy is particularly helpful in managing sustainability challenges and
especially those which are related to domestic violence. The customary technique utilized for
managing the issue of domestic violence might not lead to successful outcomes under different
circumstances. The issue is developing persistently at a quick pace. The legal authorities and the
social well-being experts need to invest more time, conduct more extensive research, extend the
levels of interaction with the victims and the abusers (if possible), and push to create different
goals for the application of systems thinking strategy in managing the issue of domestic violence
under different circumstances and engaging diverse factors.

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