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11 Systems TheoryBRUCE D. FRIEDMAN AND KAREN NEUMAN ALLEN3 Biopsychosocial asse ssm ent and the develop-ment of appropriate intervention strategies fora part icular client require consideration of the indi -vidu al in relation to a larger social context. Toaccomplish this, we use principles and conceptsderived from Systems Theory . Systems Theory is away of elaborati ng i ncreasingly c ompl ex systemsacross a continuum that e nco mpas ses the per son-in-environment (Anderson, Carter, & Lowe, 1999). Systems Theory also enables us to understand thecomp onents and dynamics of client Systems in orderto interpret problems and develop balance d inter-vention strategies, with the goal of enhancing t he goodness of fit between individuals and theirenvironments. Systems Theory does not specify par-ticula r theoretical f ram eworks for understandingproblems, and it does not direc t the so cial worker tospecific interventi on st rategi es.

tions of the group and thus fail to fulfill expected roles. To a social worker, anomie describes situations where there is a severe disruption in the goodness Systems Theory 5 outcome inputs output Collateral system ... pher, economist, and sociologist interested in articu -

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